Chapter 131 - 88: The Truth of Immortal Arrival (3)
Chapter 131: Chapter 88: The Truth of Immortal Arrival (3)
"No matter how chaotic it gets, could it ever be worse than the era of the Demon Flame Emperor, who massacred the Liang People and tried to wipe them out?"
The braised meat shop owner was smiling.
Being alive, with his family of three, safe and sound—he was already content.
Su Chen left.
The meat in his hand suddenly felt heavy.
But this time, he was afraid he would have to disappoint the hopes of these Liang People.
What he needed was a great upheaval, one that would give rise to a heroic ruler who would shatter the division between Zhou and Liang and establish a brand new dynasty to rule the world.
Not Zhou enslaving Liang, nor Liang ruling the Central Plains alone.
He was a Liang person!
He would do his best to protect the Liang People.
But that was all.
And so, carrying the two liang of pig’s head meat, Su Chen went and bought a bottle of White Confucian Wine from a street stall, then strolled leisurely back to the clinic.
Pushing open the clinic door, Su Chen froze.
He saw the disheveled Yu Le at the table where he dried his medicinal herbs, ravenously devouring roasted chicken and fatty fish, surrounded by several empty jars of White Confucian Wine.
Little Turtle was clinging to the edge of the water tank, watching Yu Le with drool streaming from the corners of its mouth. The poor turtle was practically crying with envy.
...
The two of them stared at each other, the atmosphere somewhat silent.
"Want some?"
Yu Le waved the braised pork knuckle in his hand.
"You... haven’t left yet?"
Su Chen looked at him with an expression of utter disgust.
Then, he realized something.
"Wait."
"Where did you get the money for all this food and wine...?"
Su Chen realized something and rushed to the medicine cabinet. Just as he’d expected, it was empty.
Many of the medicinal herbs were gone.
Fortunately, they weren’t any of the valuable herbs.
The most important rare flowers and exotic grasses were still just roots and stems, not worth much, so they hadn’t been sold.
"I, Yu Le, am a Great Yu Magic Immortal! When the Immortal Arrival comes, I will grant you a supreme opportunity..."
"Although your aptitude is mediocre and you’re just a common mortal, I believe that with my, Yu Le’s, guidance, you can at least become a High Tier Qi Cultivation Immortal in the future!"
Yu Le patted Su Chen’s shoulder with a greasy hand, boasting.
Su Chen backed away in disgust.
’He was truly puzzled. Was this Great Yu Magic Immortal really a Great Yu Magic Immortal? He didn’t seem like one at all.’
During the Great Yu Period, there were three terrifying Immortals who reached the peak of the Qi Cultivation Immortal Path and mastered the Ten Extremes Immortal Techniques. They were known as the Three Immortals of Great Yu.
There was the demonic Magic Immortal who single-handedly created a Life Extension Immortal Technique; the terrifying Pill Immortal who invented the Human Blood Life-extending Pill; and the mysterious Sword Immortal who looked down upon the Human World.
"What is this Human World like?"
Su Chen remembered the secret of the Human World that stirred the Heavenly Secret, and looked up at Yu Le, trying to probe him indirectly.
"What do *you* think the Human World is like?"
Yu Le’s heart tightened. He seemed surprised that a mere mortal would ask such a question, one that pointed directly to the secret of the Human World.
Heaven and Earth have a will of their own, one that fools all living beings. Even a Grandmaster, without guidance, would never think to question the nature of this Human World.
’This mortal clinic doctor he’d met by chance was rather interesting. First he spoke of the grievances of all living beings, and now he points to the secret of the Human World... If he didn’t know for a fact that this Doctor Xuu before him was truly just the most insignificant of insignificant mortals, he might have suspected this was some reclusive Ancient Immortal who had reawakened.’
"Is it a round sky and a square earth, or an elliptical sphere?"
Su Chen answered.
"So you really don’t know anything."
Yu Le was relieved.
In any case, with the Heavenly Secret shielding the truth, it wouldn’t matter even if he told this mortal before him. He began to explain.
"What do you think Immortal Arrival is?"
"Is this world truly the Human World? Is it possible that this world is incomplete, like a World in the Palm—the flickering flame of a candle from some Supreme Treasure in the real Human World, or perhaps a Treasure Pearl adorning it?"
"Immortals from the outside world might call this place a Secret Realm, a Grotto Heaven, or a Blessed Land."
"They might even call us the natives of some ruined Grotto Heaven..."
BOOM!
Su Chen’s mind reeled.
This time, he heard it. He heard because his Qi and blood were merging, transforming back into the special power of a Qi Cultivation Immortal.
At this very moment, he was a Qi Cultivation Immortal.
Because he was prepared, he heard everything clearly.
’A Great Immortal fell, and thus the Human World was formed.’
’So that’s how it is.’
He drew in a sharp breath.
’It all made sense now.’
’No wonder that in this Mortal Cultivation, a First Grade practitioner could borrow the vast power of nature, and a Grandmaster could rival Ghost Gods, commanding the forces of heaven and earth.’
’No wonder there was Qi Cultivation that made one like an Immortal, and the Ten Extremes Immortal Techniques—terrifying powers that were like true Immortal Techniques.’
’So, this place was incomplete. There was no Reincarnation. It wasn’t the real Human World, but merely a Secret Realm, a Grotto Heaven, a Blessed Land...’
’Perhaps it was just the flickering flame of a candle from some Supreme Treasure, or a Treasure Pearl adorning it.’
"So, this is the truth of the Human World."
"No wonder Qi Cultivation can make you an Immortal, yet after reaching the peak of Qi Cultivation, the Immortal Path ends. No wonder the human lifespan is a hundred years, with no exceptions for Grandmasters or even Qi Cultivation Immortals."
"No wonder it could give birth to techniques like the Three Corpses Technique, the Ten Lives Body, and the Spiritual Embryo Skill—Ten Extremes Immortal Techniques that reverse life and death, granting immortality, practically qualifying as true Immortal Techniques..."
"I even suspected that there was no Reincarnation in the Human World, which was why reviving the dead seemed exceptionally easy. So it was true all along. This place is incomplete, not the real Human World at all. How could there be Reincarnation...?"
"The so-called Immortal Arrival."
"It means that Cultivators from the real Human World are descending..."
In that moment, Su Chen understood everything.
He fell silent.
He looked toward the Imperial Palace, toward the ancient Bronze Gate in the Abyss at the foot of the Heaven-Ascension Tower.
The monster named Xiao, insane and raving, was still repeating that same sentence.
"My name is Xiao."
"Young man, I see your aptitude is extraordinary. Are you interested in cultivating the Extreme Realm with me?"
After a long while, it seemed to struggle to awaken. A flash of clarity passed through its eyes as it thrashed in agony.
"Only the Extreme Realm can allow this world to merge with the Human World. Otherwise, the great calamity will destroy everything..."
"There isn’t much time left..."
But here in the Abyss, no one could hear its warning, and no one would ever believe the words of a monster.
Soon, Xiao reverted to its insane, monstrous state, repeating the same sentence.
"Young man..."