Chapter 946 - 411: Evergreen Lives On_2

Chapter 946: Chapter 411: Evergreen Lives On_2

Li An followed along, calm and unruffled.

A huge number of cultivators had gathered; at the boundary where the Eleventh Heaven neighbored the Deceit Realm, a vast, pitch-black army of the eerie forces was already charging in!

—After the Longevity White Mist appeared, the two sides had already broken out into a great battle once, but later, as the Longevity White Mist manifested, most low-level cultivators actually lost the qualification to compete, so things returned to normal again.

Until today, the true war between the two realms finally erupted.

"Kill!"

"Kill!"

Billions of cultivators surged, like two seas colliding into one another.

In an instant, spells erupted madly, divine powers were unleashed without restraint, all kinds of magic treasures, talismans, arrays and the like flared with light, the earth itself shuddered, countless mountain ranges were destroyed, cities smashed and sunk beneath the ground...

"Follow me!"

The group that rushed out of the tavern were all of modest cultivation, yet in this moment knew no fear. The bearded man in the lead unleashed his Profound Immortal cultivation in full, drew out all his magic treasures, and without regard for his own life blasted toward the frontlines; the others did the same.

"Everyone, my Dao ends here! You all, continue to strive as one!"

The bearded man in the lead was struck by a spell from a Celestial Immortal and was suddenly unable to move. He bellowed once, then dove into the melee, and his whole body directly exploded!

Self-detonation!

"Dao friend!"

"Magnificent!"

"Dao friend has gone on ahead; we will follow right after!"

It was hard to imagine that with casualties so dire, there was not a single retreat on the side of the Celestial Court; there was even a trend of throwing themselves forward one after another, a surging wave of those who fought to the death!

In truth, compared to the eerie forces, the New Celestial Court was the weaker side, especially in the four thousand years when Hongbo Fairy was ruler of the Celestial Court. She knew that Evergreen Immortal Venerable was the true foundation of the court, so she had hardly promoted the court’s development, even frequently suppressing Biluo Palace, Treasure Cauldron Palace and the like.

Yet at this moment, the Celestial Court’s side was seething with fervor; with a ferocity that scorned death, they actually held back the eerie army by sheer force.

"Die!"

With Profound Immortal Level methods, Li An suppressed and slew two enemies. His gaze swept across the field, targeting and eliminating the experts among the eerie forces.

He watched one Tribulation Crossing Stage, one Mahayana Stage low-level cultivator after another fall in swathes across the battlefield, like ants...

He watched Immortals, Profound Immortals, Celestial Immortals one after another turn their own bodies into shells, slamming savagely into the enemy ranks and exploding within them...

He also saw Ye Tiancan evolve a Daluo Treasure Skill, Celestial Silkworm Three Transformations, and actually fight one against three, simultaneously holding back three Daluo Golden Immortals of the same level in a blood-soaked battle...

From top to bottom, not a single person retreated!

In that moment, Li An was truly moved. Vaguely, it was as if he saw once more those martyrs of the Dao Sect, who, back when the Spirit Realm was in chaos, stood forth to shield a whole realm’s living beings...

Martyrdom is a kind of emotion.

It spreads by contagion, making cowards fearless, making ordinary folk erupt with unimaginable hot blood!

Thus, more and more people joined in; more and more charged toward the enemy. For such a collective, death seemed to have lost its power to threaten.

Between Heaven and Earth, blood flowed like water, corpses piled up like mountains.

"Die!"

Boom!

Within the battlefront ahead, a woman wielded ruthlessly vicious methods; wherever her Immortal Light swept, it cut down a swath of cultivators. She wore a pale yellow long dress, not stained by a single drop of blood, her features delicate and beautiful. Among the many Golden Immortals, she appeared especially formidable.

"I finally waited for you..."

Li An walked the battlefield, and at last his gaze locked onto this woman.

Gu Xuening.

Yes—Li An had remained here all this time just to wait for her!

Li An had gone to Qingyuan Mountain once, but she was not in the valley at that time, and no one knew her whereabouts. Li An reasoned that with the eerie army attacking, she could not stay aloof; she would certainly be swept into this great war, so he waited on the front line.

After so long apart, Gu Xuening’s cultivation had grown even more formidable; she was but a hair’s breadth away from stepping into the Taiyi Golden Immortal realm.

Clearly, she should have been able to do so long ago, but had been suppressing it all this time, wanting to make her Life Seed even more perfected.

Li An remained outwardly unmoved as he quietly approached, then stepped into the melee and struck at her.

Gu Xuening did not recognize Li An. With a casual sweep of her hand, mighty mana descended in suppression; many cultivators fighting alongside Li An were annihilated outright, while Li An himself was blasted away.

He landed hundreds of li away; his figure seemed somewhat shaken, but in truth he had not been injured.

Li An silently sensed; the Wheel of Life and Death manifested. In his hand, within a wisp of residual mana, there seemed to be a flicker of gray light.

"It’s still there..."

The conjecture in Li An’s heart...

Was finally confirmed.

Back at Qingyuan Mountain, he had followed Gu Xuening once to seize some Longevity White Mist. At that time, Gu Xuening had been secretly marked by Hongbo Fairy in the dark.

The Longevity White Mist Gu Xuening obtained would be gradually transformed by the gray substance refined by Evergreen Immortal Venerable...

She had not the slightest idea that all her cultivation, her Life Seed, were nothing more than a wedding dress being woven for Evergreen Immortal Venerable!

Evergreen Immortal Venerable was now dead.

But...

The gray substance he left behind was still in effect.

Had he truly died?

In Li An’s heart, he already had an answer.

He calmed himself and recalled: after Evergreen Immortal Venerable died in the Celestial Court, the Longevity White Mist that diffused across the court did not turn into gray substance!

He clearly possessed the method to further refine Longevity White Mist into gray substance; why, then, had he not refined the Longevity White Mist within his own body, but instead laid arrangements in secret upon Gu Xuening and others?

Unless he had already resolved long ago to die.

After his death, all his Longevity White Mist would fall into the hands of Yunluo Immortal Venerable. What sort of person was Yunluo Immortal Venerable? Upon obtaining his Longevity White Mist, he would certainly check it over and over, and would not rashly refine it all.

Thus, to fool Yunluo Immortal Venerable, he could not tamper with the Longevity White Mist in his own body.

Evergreen Immortal Venerable... must have left some contingency.

It may well be that back in the Celestial Court, he had simply gone along with the flow, deliberately letting himself die...

Li An could not help but feel a complex stir within. These people truly were all old foxes!

An Li’s plan was so outstanding that it could be called nearly perfect. If Li An had been in his place, at most he could have achieved this degree.

But in reality, Yunluo Immortal Venerable had long anticipated it, almost causing An Li’s efforts to come to nothing. And Evergreen Immortal Venerable? All the more had he, without a sound, used An Li’s layout to complete his own layout.

The one thing Yunluo Immortal Venerable and Evergreen Immortal Venerable could not foresee was that in the Land of Passing, there would unexpectedly be an anomaly like Li An returning.

Moreover, Li An had already comprehended the Dao of Life and Death, so he could discover Evergreen Immortal Venerable’s hidden moves, and he had acquired the portrait of the Longevity Seeker, so he could use the portrait to frighten Yunluo Immortal Venerable into retreat.

Li An had become a spoiler of the game.

And for now, both Evergreen Immortal Venerable and Yunluo Immortal Venerable were far from realizing Li An’s existence.

"This game is getting more and more interesting..."

Li An murmured softly, and then in his eyes, a genuine smile slowly appeared.

That old schemer Evergreen Immortal Venerable had nearly fooled the entire world... Yet looking at it now, Li An seemed to have already gained certain advantages.

Once, he had been laid out by Evergreen Immortal Venerable as a mere chess piece, his life and death beyond his own control... But now, perhaps he could let Evergreen Immortal Venerable have a taste of what it felt like to be laid out by someone else?

Li An’s features shifted; he transformed into a middle-aged man at Golden Immortal Perfection, then charged toward Gu Xuening in the midst of the battlefield.

Gu Xuening was the point at which he would cut into Evergreen Immortal Venerable’s game.

"Boom!"

Mighty mana blasted out directly; Gu Xuening turned to block, but she had not expected the newcomer’s cultivation to be so fearsome. Her many defenses were swept aside outright, and she was hurled tens of thousands of li away, smashing a mountain to pieces. She tried to stand, but could no longer support herself and immediately fainted...

And shortly thereafter.

Li An, in the guise of "Xue Sword," appeared there. He scooped Gu Xuening up in one arm and swiftly departed...

...

Good night.