Origin of the Great Barrier
Wang Xuan was shocked. He thought he had successfully escaped that strange place, but he never expected that he would bring a "Living Corpse" with him and that she would follow him out!
In the world inside the bottle, a woman with white hair and a pale face shows the marks of time on her body, with crow's feet at the corners of her eyes. But it is clear that she must have been extremely beautiful when she was young.
Even now, she still possesses an extraordinary aura, with an air of looking down upon the world. Her gaze gradually sharpens, becoming extremely intimidating. However, she has a serious health problem; there is a horrific wound on her neck, part of which has been severed, and blood soaks half of her body.
She looked at Wang Xuan without speaking, then slowly turned her head back to look into the depths of darkness.
Wang Xuan was uncertain. What era did this creature belong to? Was it even human? Despite its humanoid form, who knew what race it came from?
Who inflicted the wounds on her body? Was it some other creature, or are there unknown, terrifying monsters in this space?
Wang Xuan did not act rashly. He gripped the Purple Heaven Dao Integration Sword and the furnace lid tightly, hoping that she would not go mad and that she would faint again.
When he looked down at Jiang Qingyao, his heart sank. Without the Supernatural Radiation, in the Real World where the Great Universe had successfully corrected its errors, her condition had become terrible again.
The substances from the blood pool in the Higher Mental World, and the silver immortal liquid from the Land of Nothingness, are too weak to have any effect in the mortal world. They are not even enough to maintain her life, let alone bring her back to life.
Wang Xuan felt heavy-hearted. From this phenomenon, he could foresee how cruel the Old Earth, the New Star, the Great Barrier, and all places related to the extraordinary were. He estimated that after this great collapse, many extraordinary people would suffer terribly and might not even be able to save their lives!
He found it very troublesome. Although he had obtained the extinguished fire, the white-haired woman with her neck almost broken stood in the bottle world, and the ashes already had an owner.
"Come in!" the woman suddenly said.
Wang Xuan's expression changed slightly, but he did not hesitate. He gritted his teeth, carried Jiang Qingyao into the bottle world, and had to take the risk no matter what in order to revive the Sword Immortal.
This could very well be the last Supernatural Radiation in the Great Universe, and one of the only remaining chances to save lives.
"I'll go in too, and help you take care of her," the Mechanical Xiao said stiffly, then jumped into the bottle. In case of a fight, it could carry Jiang Qingyao away from the two people.
Looking at its blank, lifeless face, Wang Xuan sighed and nodded. After transcending the mundane and entering eternal silence, his alien friend was degenerating. He wondered what would happen to it after some time.
The white-haired woman's feet were covered in blood, the crimson liquid still wet. Her identity was questionable; Wang Xuan still couldn't figure out who she was.
There were six living beings in total. Why were they adjacent to his Inner Scenery Realm? What was the significance of this space? It all seemed incredibly absurd.
The woman floated over silently, blood dripping down her face. She didn't try to stop the bleeding, and her sharp eyes gradually dimmed, as if... she had resigned herself to her fate!
"The path to immortality is decaying, the extraordinary is no more, and death is inevitable in the end," she murmured, though this was a spiritual statement.
Wang Xuan quickly placed Jiang Qingyao on a clean bluestone by the fire, letting her receive Supernatural Radiation. He remained silent, keeping watch while carefully observing the area.
Indeed, the entire space radiates from a fire the size of a pond, and under the Spiritual Heavenly Eye, traces can be found; the closer one gets, the more real it becomes.
As for the distant area, beyond the reach of the extinguished fire, the space was faint, blurry, and even somewhat distorted, like a dream.
This touched him deeply!
A space was actually created by the radiation of Fire Ember!
The real, normal space is not very large. Centered on the campfire, the radius of radiation is no more than a hundred meters. Beyond this range, it is dark, distorted, and blurry, and we don't know what lies deep within those areas.
"It's a pity that you have special Inner Scenery Realm, but your essence was stolen, and your inner realm has collapsed." The woman looked at him with regret and sorrow.
Wang Xuan suddenly felt that there were wisps of runes flowing through her dim eyes, and a strange beam of light swept across his body.
She was searching, as if trying to see through all his secrets. Fortunately, he himself hadn't yet discovered where the three points of light were.
"Yes, there was a madman named Shang Yi who took everything from me!" Wang Xuan said heavily, taking the blame quite naturally.
In fact, the cold-blooded, ruthless, and domineering Shang Yi did do this, and he has to take the blame for it.
Unfortunately, the woman remained unmoved and did not fight her way out. Although she was angry, her eyes dimmed, and she shook her head and sighed, "Even with infinite resources and the potential to grow, what good is it if the seed is here? It's all too late, it's already too late. The day of Mythical Eternal Silence will be the day we die completely. We've endured for too long. No one, no object, can truly Eternity Immortal. In the end, we will all return to the past, first becoming someone else's memory, until all traces disappear."
Wang Xuan felt there was a generation gap between them and couldn't strike up a conversation, but he still couldn't help but speak up. Since she hadn't made a move or shown any malice, he wanted to figure out some things.
"Senior, where is this place?" He carefully chose his words and stopped asking further questions. In fact, he was more interested in knowing the origins of these six creatures.
But he was afraid that the other party would tell him directly that they were after his "ancient old hunter" skills. In that case, should he fight or not?
"This is the origin of the Great Barrier," the white-haired woman told her directly.
Wang Xuan was shocked. If this place was the so-called origin of the Great Barrier, then it also meant that it was one of the sources of the extraordinary.
He looked at the fire, and his heart pounded wildly. Was it the fire that had once radiated from Supernatural World? The thought startled even himself!
"Look at your feet, look around," the woman said.
Wang Xuan lowered his head, his feet on the ground, but as he focused his gaze and as his mental perception was heightened to the utmost, he discovered the truth.
"Below is the Immortal Realm, and nearby there are also Great Barrier, but they have all been extinguished, and darkness has descended!" Wang Xuan had already experienced enough and many twists and turns today, but even now, he was still stunned into a daze.
One after another, the curtains were the abodes of the Transcendent Immortals, the living spaces of the gods, and the semi-material, semi-spiritual planes into which the extraordinary would ascend to immortality.
Their origins are all related to this fire; they were radiated from it.
As if knowing what he was thinking, the white-haired woman spoke up, saying, "Those semi-spiritual, semi-material planes have always existed, but after the extraordinary fire radiated into them, Supernatural Power was born."
Wang Xuan felt a chill run down his spine; the origins of this bonfire were simply unimaginable!
"At its peak, this fire was over a billion feet high, illuminating the celestial realm and Supernatural Radiation. Now it has been extinguished and shrunk, and everything will dissipate," the woman said.
"What's the origin of this fire? How did it appear?" Wang Xuan asked.
The white-haired woman said, " In the Great Universe, under the eternal night, occasionally extraordinary meteors streak across the sky, and most of them gather here, burning and radiating to all things."
Wang Xuan looked down at the Fire Ember and actually saw some burnt stones and some Withered Yellow Paper. That was... paper money!
"The ashes may not seem like much, less than the size of a pond, but they actually burned away and annihilated many extraordinary Star Remnants, leaving only this little bit behind."
Upon hearing this, Wang Xuan looked at the paper money and wondered what was going on.
The white-haired woman spoke for herself, saying, "Time is running out, and no one can change anything. We can only listen to the twilight song of the immortals. We are destined to perish, so let's burn some scriptures and paper to send ourselves off in advance."
Wang Xuan recalled his first visit to the Immortal Realm, where he had seen many Withered Yellow Paper falling in the extinguished area.
His face was somewhat blank; all those paper money were scattered from here?
"In the future, new extraordinary bonfires may appear. When mythical meteors streak across the sky again and fall in various parts of the universe, the former celestial realm may be illuminated again, thus reviving, or a new Great Barrier may be born. However, we cannot wait for that."
She felt regretful, extremely lonely, and unwilling to accept it!
"What a pity, with your talent, you couldn't wait." She looked at Wang Xuan, her expression slightly emotional, and said, "That person who destroyed your Inner Scenery Realm deserves to die!"
Filled with hatred, her eyes sharpened again, as if she wished she could kill Shang Yi herself.
"If he hadn't broken through the wall, the embers of the fire could have kept us going for a while longer, perhaps even until a turning point came. But now, the last embers of heat are rapidly dissipating, and today, we will perish," the woman sighed.
Wang Xuan remained silent. He really wanted to say, "Is the turning point you're waiting for related to my background?" He didn't want to invite trouble; things had come to this point, there was no need to tear off the mask of civility. Perhaps there was another truth; his guess might not be reliable.
"Senior, your injuries..." He changed the subject, wanting to know who wanted to kill her.
The white-haired woman smiled, covered her neck, and finally treated the wound. A flash of white light, and it healed.
"In the face of the Great Universe Error Correction, who can escape injury and who can survive? Every extraordinary person must go through a great tribulation," she said.
The drastic changes in the environment caused her life essence and her inner strength to fade into oblivion, like the Fire Ember growing cold, and her life extinguished.
"Seniors, why are you living next door to me?" Wang Xuan finally couldn't help but ask directly why this place was adjacent to his Inner Scenery Realm.
"It's not that we want to be your neighbors, it's just that you are truly remarkable. You opened up a special Inner Scenery Realm at a very early age, which proves that you are extremely suitable for embarking on the path of cultivation. And it is precisely because of this that your inner realm path is very close to the origin of the Great Barrier."
Upon hearing this, Wang Xuan was lost in thought for a moment, then muttered to himself, "So the fault lies with me?"
"Complacency, arrogance, narcissism!" the Mechanical Xiao said stiffly.
"Do you want to save her?" the white-haired woman asked, looking at Jiang Qingyao.
"Yes!" Wang Xuan answered immediately without hesitation. He had originally wanted to ask for help, but she said she would die today and that her resources were exhausted, so he was too embarrassed to bring it up.
The white-haired woman said, "Her extraordinary power has been extinguished, and there are not many ways to save her. One is to put her into a complete Nurturing Life Furnace, which can preserve her and allow her to recover slowly in the future. The other is that I will do it, even if it costs me my own life, to rekindle a wisp of extraordinary fire, so that the celestial medicine, the Spiritual Blood Pool, and that silver substance can regain their mythical medicinal effects."
"Please, senior, save her!" Wang Xuan pleaded with her to save the person, but his heart sank as he guessed that she might have some kind of request.
The white-haired woman, "To save her, I need to use my remaining blood essence to light a fire. Whether it succeeds or not depends on whether she is tough enough."
After all, this is no longer the extraordinary era; a single spark of extraordinary light is not enough to transform this place into Mythological World.
"I have one condition." Sure enough, the white-haired woman made her request, looking into the distance at the distorted spacetime radiating from the extinguished fire, and said, "You will accompany me to a place and escort me for a while."
"Senior, where are you going?" Wang Xuan asked.
"Today, barring any unforeseen circumstances, I am destined to perish, but I am unwilling to accept it. I will go to the source of the extraordinary meteors that streak across this Great Universe, to find a way to survive. I want to find the true Supernatural Realm." The white-haired woman's gaze was firm as she added, "It won't take up much of your time. After all, I only have less than half a day to live."