318: Chapter 60: Crossing the Void 318: Chapter 60: Crossing the Void “…”
The room fell into a brief silence.
The elderly woman sat in her chair, her originally pale face now had a bit more rosy vitality, for the Undying Spring Water Vapor had healed her heart-wrenching injury completely.
Therefore.
She no longer wished to live.
She wanted to use her life to attest to the greatest confusion of these long years.
Who exactly was Qing Li?
If Xie Xuanyi did not come, and Tie Feng targeted Tiesuo Alley under Li Mei’s bidding, she believed the entity that saved her from chaos would awaken and intervene.
Xie Xuanyi did not directly agree to Shan Man’s request.
He looked into the old woman’s eyes, clasped his hands silently, and sighed gently before asking, “So this stone talisman, it’s actually perfectly polished, and there are no more processes… Did you invite me in, merely hoping that I would take Qing Li away?”
“Yes…”
The elderly woman’s gaze was clear as she slowly said, “The Great Yue Country Master’s city is shrouded by Emperor Qi’s will.
An outsider like you, if you enter, might avoid the iron cavalry by luck but would surely be detected by the great array and eventually be besieged… This stone talisman has drawn on the Tao Rules of the Country Master and can protect you from being attacked.
This is what He taught me when I was born.”
It was because of such a talisman.
She had been able to walk with Qing Li years ago, safely and unharmed.
Xie Xuanyi said helplessly, “What if I refuse?”
“My time is nearly spent.”
The old woman said calmly, “These long years, I can’t recall where it all began, but Tiesuo Alley is likely my end… If you refuse to take Qing Li away, after my death, she will inevitably have to wander alone.”
The collapse of order in Great Yue Country allowed Li Mei to exist, which was already a miracle.
They are born like spring cicadas, mostly not surviving the four seasons.
And yet, Qing Li’s lifespan seems to have no end.
Those Li Mei are doomed not to be able to accompany her, even as mere waves in the river of time, they are not qualified.
“Xie Zhen…”
The old woman smiled and said, “I know that’s not your real name, I know you have many secrets.
I also know you’re an incredible person.”
From the moment Xie Xuanyi stepped into Tiesuo Alley.
She had felt something different about this youth.
Qing Li was very fond of this youth.
Unlike the other Li Mei’s affection.
Now she probably knew why… This youth’s body seemed to contain endless vitality; previously, with a mere flick of his fingers, he had granted her some vitality, and it had healed her mortal affliction.
With the Li Mei, it was Qing Li healing them.
With Xie Zhen, it was Xie Zhen healing Qing Li.
This ancient country was shrouded in despair and death.
To them, like souls of resentment, Qing Li was a beacon of light.
To Qing Li, Xie Zhen was another ray of light.
“I hope you will take Qing Li away, not just from Tiesuo Alley, but from… Great Yue Country.”
The elderly woman smiled gently, “Leave this place drenched in despair, and go to a land with the sun, where she may start a new life.”
“I’m sorry… I may not be able to do such a thing, even if I do my utmost.”
Xie Xuanyi could not bear to lie.
He had always kept his promises, decisive in his words.
There were things he could not do, and he would not easily make promises.
Now, with the iron law of the Great Yue collapsing, and the Northern Hunt suffering from the Demon Race’s invasion…
He could only just manage to protect himself.
“So you really… do not understand His mighty power, do you?”
The elderly woman sighed lightly.
She knew that time was brief, and she could not tell her long life’s story slowly to this young man before her.
Previously, she had merely said simply that Qing Li saved her from chaos, hence she revered Qing Li as a divine being.
In fact, along the way, there had been many miracles.
Those who have not witnessed it can never truly understand.
“You said, you once saw… a ‘Divine Fruit’ here?”
The old woman watched Xie Xuanyi’s eyes, then suddenly raised a question.
Without waiting for Xie Xuanyi to speak.
She gently said, “Do you know why I first advised you not to fight, if possible, to simply give up this opportunity?”
“… Why?”
Xie Xuanyi slightly furrowed his brow, puzzled.
“Not because at that time, you and I were not acquainted.”
“Nor because the will of Emperor Qi lingered, making the Great Yue Well a place of no return.”
“It’s just because…”
“All this might just be an illusion, a beautiful, glassy dream.”
The old woman calmly said, “He once took me to the Great Yue Well, just standing by the well, a glance with Divine Thought was all it took for me to feel as though I saw the first sunrise, the gloom dispersing, restoring light to the entire ancient country.
Perhaps a thousand people looking into the well would see a thousand different visions.”
Xie Xuanyi had never heard of such a thing.
He looked at the old woman with a complex expression.
If that were indeed the case…
What he saw that year, the Divine Fruit, would also make sense, his greatest regret in the previous life had been failing to master dual Sword Daos.
And in this life.
The regret persisted.
Shan Man chuckled lightly, “Knowing this, do you still want to go?”
Xie Xuanyi was silent for a long while, then slowly nodded.
As a seeker like him.
If mere words could cause him to falter, how would he ever verify the Dao?
The elderly woman smiled again and asked, “Even knowing that the Great Yue Well might hold nothing but illusions, that there might be nothing at all… do you still want to go?”
“Yes.”
Xie Xuanyi calmly said, “Even if there is only emptiness in the well, I still want to see it for myself.”
“Very well….”
The old woman smiled, “Considering the time, it should be about right now.”
What does it mean, time should be about right now?
Xie Xuanyi was taken aback.
The next moment.
Boom!
The soundproof array patterns around the cabin suddenly trembled.
The conversation between them had been going on for a while.
Qing Li, squatting in front of the cabin and pulling on her braid, had long been bored.
Just as she was about to stand up, the ancient wall at the end of Tiesuo Alley, blackened by a sea of fire, was suddenly shattered by a gigantic iron cavalry.
The young girl’s face turned pale, and she stumbled and fell to the ground.
In panic, she retreated backward using her hands and feet.
Boom, boom, boom—
One cavalier led the charge.
Followed by a thousand troops and ten thousand horses.
However, unlike before, this surge of iron cavalry didn’t charge forward and crush everything in their path.
Instead, after demolishing a wall, the dark iron cavalry at the forefront of Tiesuo Alley pulled on the reins and abruptly halted.
These iron cavalries were without spirit wisdom; their every movement was controlled by the grand array.
In the midst of the iron cavalry stream, sitting atop a chariot at the rear, was a mountainous, imposing general.
The general raised his hand.
Countless iron cavalry halted instantly, concluding the long and tedious charge.
Xie Xuanyi fled, and they pursued.
This chase had lasted quite a long time.
However, the real reason they stopped was not because they had caught up with the “true target.”
It was…
In the vicinity of this small alley.
The Centurion sensed a force that was more powerful, more threatening, and more enticing to them.
“Whoo whoo!”
Qing Li’s face was deathly pale, terrified.
“Don’t be afraid; I’m here!”
Xie Xuanyi burst out of the door, scooping up the little girl, and channeled his Divine Soul Power into the center of the Little Mute Girl’s forehead, calming her turbulent and frightened Heart Lake.
“…”
His expression was dark as he looked at the iron cavalry stream, which was only a hundred yards away, and the Centurion sitting on the chariot who resembled a towering mountain.
The golden light between his eyebrows was already brewing.
The iron cavalry’s pursuit was not particularly significant.
As long as he used Sword Control.
Xie Xuanyi was confident he could escape.
But what truly weighed heavily on his Heart Lake…
Was the slowly splitting rift in the sky above Tiesuo Alley.
“Hiss hiss hiss!”
The iron cavalry that first charged and broke through the wall had done so precisely where Tie Feng had violently perished.
Underneath their iron hooves, they trampled on the shattered remains of this Great Demon.
At that moment.
The giant iron cavalry raised its head.
Above its head, about a hundred yards high, a piece of the void was being “slowly” torn apart, with countless silver sparks flying.
“Physical traversal…”
Xie Xuanyi murmured softly, uttering these four words.
He knew very well.
What this scene signified.
To traverse the void required an extremely robust perfect body, or the protection of a completely intact Perfect Dao Rules to shelter the body to achieve it.
Of course, the so-called “traversal” could not cover too great a distance.
The farther the distance was traversed, the more terrifying the void stream would be.
Most of the time, only a Yang God could stably perform this Divine Skill…
There were also very few Yin Gods, the rare few, who could traverse.
Boom!
At that moment, the void was completely torn apart, and the entire dark sky was covered with silver light.
This ancient country, immersed in darkness for a thousand years, now welcomed countless dazzling white lights, as if thunder had descended, covering the entire sky above Tiesuo Alley and turning it momentarily into daylight.
Two figures, one after the other, one master and one servant, descended between heaven and earth.
The foremost one had an aloof expression, hands behind his back, his robe fluttering, exuding an air of overlooking all beings.
Behind the thunder, the sky returned to silent annihilation; amidst the chaotic darkness, his figure was shrouded in gloom, but his eyes shone like stars, directly landing on the black-clothed youth at the end of Tiesuo Alley.
The Sword Qi Cave Heaven in Xie Xuanyi’s forehead violently shook.
Chen Ke violently trembled, ready to protect its master!
The Rule of Destruction also condensed to ninety percent!
Ready to reach perfection at any moment, and ascend—
Many years ago, he had heard of Prince Jiu’s fame.
After ascending to Yin God, he had traveled at the edge of the Northern Border Great Wall, venturing and battling while killing demons and refining his Sword Dao… He had slain many Demon Venerables, among them numerous talented members of the Demon Race.
Prince Jiu.
Was one of the top three figures in the Demon Country back then.
In a sense.
If the battle of drinking poison were to break out again.
Prince Jiu and Xie Xuanyi would be considered by the high levels of both countries as targets of the same level for execution.
Unfortunately, when Xie Xuanyi traveled to the Northern Border in the past, slaying demons and concealing his identity, keeping a very low profile, after the uproar grew too large, he withdrew…
Until the end, he never confronted Prince Jiu.
At this moment, Tiesuo Alley was silent.
“Prince… this is the human cultivator who killed Tie Feng and Rong Chan…”
Chi Wu, holding the Chi Ling Order, spoke softly, his voice light, perhaps due to excitement, faintly trembling: “He is Xie Zhen!”
The large robed figure suspended above looked down indifferently at the corpse of Tie Feng below.
Tie Feng had been trampled to pieces by iron hooves and was dead beyond dead.
Tie Feng, Rong Chan, both were half-step Demon Venerables who had condensed incomplete principles…
He had assumed.
Their deaths must have been the work of a human Yin God.
Now it seemed rather unexpected.
These half-step Demon Venerables were actually killed by a teenager of seventeen or eighteen years old, and one of them hadn’t even managed to send out a distress signal!
“Xie Zhen…”
Prince Jiu looked at the youth in black, frowning slightly.
The memories from the Northern Hunt cultivators obtained through Devouring Soul, seemed to mention this name.
A moment later.
He asked softly.
“You, are you Xie Xuanyi’s disciple?”