Chapter 590: A Road Far Enough
[Reincarnation Ended]
[This Reincarnation Rating: B (Are you really ready?)]
[Accumulated Cultivation: peak Divine Ability]
[Reincarnation Reward: Cultivation increased by one minor realm]
[Reincarnation settlement complete, the host will return to the previous reincarnation save point, inherit the accumulated cultivation from this reincarnation, and restart life...]
[Warning: Current soul integrity is 93%]
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Chen Yan awoke suddenly and looked around his surroundings with some astonishment.
He was still sitting inside the Profound Scripture Hall.
And after this reload, the biggest difference to Chen Yan was that above his Martial Spring, a Dao Basis had already been established, and this Dao Basis seemed connected to the origin of this domain’s heaven and earth.
Dao Union.
Chen Yan had now crossed that chasm, becoming a cultivator of the Dao Union realm.
But at this moment he felt no joy, because Chen Yan understood his current situation very clearly.
Soul integrity 93%.
Using the Secret Art Kong Yang left behind to peel away cause and effect required a cost.
That cost was the ripping of the soul’s origin.
Chen Yan suddenly remembered why he had been completely reborn the first time: his soul had been entirely devoured by the Black Flood Dragon.
When he was reborn again, it was three years later.
Maybe this was the correct path.
If his soul integrity fell below a certain point, he might, as before, be unable to return to the previous reincarnation save point and would truly leave this era.
At the same time, he could leave the burden of the Ultimate Sage of Imperial Void’s cause and effect wholly in this era.
If that was the case…
Chen Yan once more used the Secret Art Kong Yang had left to try to extract the cause and effect the Ultimate Sage of Imperial Void had attached to him.
The pain of the soul tearing struck again, the agony at this intensity was simply unbearable for Chen Yan.
Consciousness began to blur once more.
“Oh?”
And that vague figure in white daoist robes again appeared in Chen Yan’s sight.
“The soul is already damaged… this is not your first attempt. How many times has it been?”
The voice of the Sage of Imperial Void carried a trace of curiosity, coming from somewhere extremely distant and yet seemingly very near.
“None of your business.”
Chen Yan snapped back, half-drowning in the torment of his soul being torn.
“You dare speak to me like that, a mere Below Immortality realm insect?”
Bai Chen was clearly displeased with Chen Yan’s attitude, a bit of Sagely pressure woven into his tone.
“Just a residual shadow, what are you to me?”
Chen Yan did not coddle him at all.
“Fair enough.”
Bai Chen withdrew the pressure from his words and chuckled lightly:
“Then tell me, what benefit do you gain from doing this?”
Chen Yan did not answer the Sage of Imperial Void.
“Only to let history complete a closed loop… amusing. We both know history will form a closed loop, but from what I see, whether history develops as you know depends entirely on your personal will. If you do not choose that, what will become of this world? Or will you only act according to Heaven’s Dao’s preset?”
Bai Chen continued.
Chen Yan remained silent, but he knew the answer to Bai Chen’s question.
He would enter the cycle again and again until the closed loop of history was completed.
[Reincarnation Ended]
[This Reincarnation Rating: D (How about taking a short rest?)]
[Accumulated Cultivation: early Dao Union]
[Reincarnation Reward: none]
[Reincarnation settlement complete, the host will return to the previous reincarnation save point, inherit the accumulated cultivation from this reincarnation, and restart life...]
[Warning: Current soul integrity is 84%]
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After a long while, Chen Yan finally realized he had been reborn again.
He scanned the empty, unfamiliar surroundings, then frowned slightly.
This is…
The Profound Scripture Hall?
Right, this was the Profound Scripture Hall on Heavenly Summit Mountain!
His reactions seemed to be getting slower and his senses growing duller.
Moreover…
“Senior Brother Chen.”
Suddenly a light, spirited voice arose beside him, as if it had crossed countless years, causing Chen Yan to freeze slightly.
He lifted his head and looked at the youthful girl’s face that had appeared not far from him.
“Senior Brother Chen, Instructor Lu’s lecture is about to begin!”
Chen Yan’s thoughts were growing sluggish, his eyes vacant, and he shook his head.
No, that was wrong.
“I have reached this point by relying on one word: righteousness!”
When Chen Yan came fully back to himself, the person in front of him had already shifted from Cheng Ziying into that burly middle-aged man who always chewed on a grass needle.
“Brother Ding…”
Chen Yan murmured slowly.
“How about it? The two of us, brothers, will walk arrogantly through the Qingque Kingdom’s lands!”
Ding Qiu laughed heartily.
But that should not be the case.
The next instant Ding Qiu’s figure shrank and became instead the young man wearing Yuanhua Mountain daoist robes, with only a Xiaohua Sword at his waist, radiating upright energy.
“Junior Brother Chen, I will definitely go find my master and get justice for Junior Sister Qin.”
Like a lantern of flashing scenes, the various people who had once stood beside Chen Yan, the events he had experienced, appeared one after another before his eyes.
Finally, he seemed to stop beneath an ancient towering tree.
He recognized this towering tree as the one on Fusheng Island, but Mr. You’s figure was not beneath it.
Instead, the sky was torn open again by a huge pitch-black rift, then the bronze bell sound rang out.
When he came to again, it was because the soul-tearing pain assaulted him once more.
“Haah!”
Chen Yan drew a cold breath and lay on the floor of the Profound Scripture Hall. It was hard to imagine that the curled-up youth was a Dao Union cultivator.
“The soul has been damaged to this extent?”
Bai Chen’s voice rang out again:
“Obsessions are truly tenacious. Why such suffering?”
“I have already walked a long road.”
Chen Yan’s voice came through, forcing against the pain.
“A long road?”
Bai Chen’s tone was teasing:
“A Below Immortality realm whelp cannot know what ‘long’ truly means.”
“But for me, it has been far enough—far enough that I cannot give up.”
Facing the Sage of Imperial Void’s mockery, Chen Yan only smiled.
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[Reincarnation Ended]
[This Reincarnation Rating: D (There is almost no turning back now)]
[Accumulated Cultivation: early Dao Union]
[Reincarnation settlement complete, the host will return to the previous reincarnation save point, inherit the accumulated cultivation from this reincarnation, and restart life...]
[Warning: Current soul integrity is 72%]