Chapter 178 - 105: Extreme Ascension to Immortality (Part 2)
Chapter 178: Chapter 105: Extreme Ascension to Immortality (Part 2)
"All they long for is favorable weather. All they long for is for their families, young and old, to survive. All they long for is to live just a little better..."
"A full belly and warm clothes are enough."
"And yet, for such a simple desire, they have waited, generation after generation, era after era, and received nothing."
"You don’t understand the people."
"And you don’t understand me."
"They are all living, breathing people. Is it wrong for them to desire peace?"
Su Chen spoke.
In that moment, across all the lands, it was as if hundreds of millions of people heard his words, their eyes brimming with hot tears.
It was true.
They just wanted enough to eat, warm clothes to wear, and a slightly better life. Was that wrong?
They were not in the wrong.
Unfortunately.
Simply because they were weak.
No powerhouse would ever deign to listen to their pleas.
They suffered, year after year.
Aside from the Great Yu Immortal Ancestor, not a single Peak Climber since has been willing to anger the terrifying heavens for their sake.
Eight hundred years had passed.
Now, they had finally found another person willing to stand up for them.
In the past, there was the Great Yu Immortal Ancestor.
Now.
There was the Wind Snow Sword Immortal.
But this time, the Wind Snow Sword Immortal would not fail.
The Heavenly Dao White Robe was slashed to pieces.
In the pavilion.
Only an empty white robe remained.
In the sky.
A pair of furious eyes stared down at Su Chen, as if to say something.
It would wait for him at the edge of the Daqian Territory, in the chaotic and ancient Zhu Country. There, it would see to the Wind Snow Sword Immortal’s burial.
It was gone.
The wind and snow returned to the world.
Su Chen walked toward the horse-drawn carriage.
In the distance.
The white-robed members of the Heavenly Secret Pavilion gathered around.
One of them opened a bamboo umbrella and came to hold it for Su Chen.
He was the Heavenly Secret Pavilion Master, leader of the cultivators in the Human World who served the Celestial Dao.
He seemed to hold Su Chen in high reverence.
As Su Chen walked through the wind and snow, the Pavilion Master followed right behind, shielding him with the umbrella the entire way.
Just like that.
Su Chen boarded the carriage.
"Why?"
As the carriage was about to depart.
Su Chen lifted the curtain and looked at the Heavenly Secret Pavilion Master—a man whose hair was already white, but whose eyes were sharp and full of spirit. He asked.
"Aren’t we supposed to be enemies?"
The Heavenly Secret Pavilion serves the Celestial Dao.
And Su Chen was walking a path in defiance of heaven and earth.
They should have been enemies.
And yet.
They had held an umbrella for him.
"We are all from poor backgrounds, just worthless lives in a chaotic world. Before we joined the Heavenly Secret Pavilion to serve the Celestial Dao, no one had ever so much as glanced down at us."
"But you are different."
"You are treading a difficult but noble path."
"We, too, were once the insignificant, worthless people the Celestial Dao speaks of..."
The carriage set off.
The white-robed members of the Heavenly Secret Pavilion watched with reverence as Su Chen departed.
After a long moment.
Lightning flashed.
"Pavilion Master."
The white-robed members looked at the Heavenly Secret Pavilion Master with worry.
However.
The Heavenly Secret Pavilion Master simply clasped his hands behind his back and laughed heartily, as if expelling years of pent-up frustration.
"The times are changing!"
"The Celestial Dao will fall!"
"When you hold my memorial service, be sure to tell me."
BOOM!
A bolt of lightning struck.
The furious Celestial Dao couldn’t touch Su Chen, but it was more than capable of erasing a single Heavenly Secret Pavilion Master.
Beneath the lightning.
The hand of the Heavenly Secret Pavilion Master that had held the umbrella for Su Chen was the first to disintegrate, followed by his entire body being devoured by the flash...
The sorrow and suffering of the people, suppressed for centuries, was now bursting forth.
Not even death could suppress it.
The furious eyes of the Celestial Dao materialized in the sky once more. It was using the death of the Heavenly Secret Pavilion Master to warn its other servants.
But.
At the foot of Cyan Mountain, not a single one of the white-robed members showed any fear.
Under the gaze of the Celestial Dao’s eyes.
They began to gather the remains of their Pavilion Master, as if death was not so difficult to accept.
’The Wind Snow Sword Immortal is walking the right path.’
The eyes of the Celestial Dao trembled.
It did not understand.
Why were there people who did not fear death?
The Great Yu Immortal Ancestor had been like this.
And now, so were these ants.
Across the Daqian World, the One King, Two Venerables, and Three Immortals, each in their own location, were also watching from afar, seeing off the Wind Snow Sword Immortal on his journey.
Even Great Yu Yue, who had never liked Su Chen and even regretted not having hunted him down sooner, was now in the Heaven-Ascension Tower, pouring out a cup of wine and toasting in Su Chen’s direction.
"Though I do not like you and even think you a fool, anyone who forges ahead for the sake of all living beings deserves respect, in life or in death."
"This was true for the Immortal Ancestor."
"And it is true for you."
Across the Daqian Mountains and Rivers, the Wish Power of the people gathered upon Su Chen, slowly advancing his final First-Grade Ceremony: the Wish of All Living Beings.
The carriage traveled slowly for three months, moving from south to north, crossing thousands of miles of the Daqian Mountains and Rivers.
In the distance.
Lay the land ravaged by Demon Fiends.
It was the last, unreclaimed piece of the Human Race’s territory within the Daqian Dynasty.
This place.
Was once called the Zhu Country.
It was also once the Three Commanderies, lost by Great Liang.
At this very moment.
In this mountainous land, black mist swirled, Demon Fiends wreaked havoc, and vicious bandits ran rampant.
This land was also the last buffer zone between Daqian and the Celestial Dao.
"Sword Immortal."
Chen Xuan was driving the carriage. He turned his head to look inside, awaiting Su Chen’s instructions.
Throughout the entire journey.
He had not asked a single question.
He had simply fulfilled his duty as a driver in silence.
But even without asking anything.
After witnessing the events of their journey, Chen Xuan had come to an understanding. His heart surged with emotion, for he vaguely knew that the Wind Snow Sword Immortal was doing something truly great.
Something that the true Human Giants at the apex of the world did not dare to do!
In the world today.
Only the Wind Snow Sword Immortal was willing to sacrifice himself to plead for the lives of the people...
Chen Xuan felt that he had made the right choice.
’Lord Thousand Years, the Sword Immortal is now doing what you could not.’