Qi Miaoyi's voice was neither hurried nor slow, carrying an inscrutable undertone. "Back then... when this old man used the Celestial Globe to calculate the future, I foresaw that the Earth Immortal Realm would face a calamity... This calamity mingles the great tribulation of all immortals with the tribulation of the Dharma's decline. None can cross it. The immortals will perish of their own accord..."
"To avoid the calamity, the only way was for the entire sect to ascend before the Dharma's decline... Our Emei Sect allied with the South Sea, led the righteous path, gathered all manner of treasures left behind by predecessors, suppressed the unorthodox schools, and exterminated the demonic path. Our methods could be called ruthless... all to swiftly accumulate external merit, so that the entire sect might ascend... And among this, Yingyun, the destiny of your 'One Immortal' was also immensely important!"
"Heaven's mandate decreed that you would become an immortal in a single lifetime—the last immortal in the cultivation world to ascend!"
"Our Emei Sect took you in, bestowed precious treasures and inheritances upon you... all to share in your destiny... Without you, even your Martial Uncle Bitter Ascetic could not have achieved a Primordial Spirit!"
Li Yingyun could not help looking down at her Purple-Green Sword. This sword had reached the ninth refinement, standing at the very pinnacle of the world, a famed flying sword throughout the land!
When her master had bestowed it upon her, who knew how many people had looked on with envy? She had accepted it with trepidation, secretly delighted in her heart.
Yet she had never imagined that so much calculation lay within it!
"The immortal path values the self; it is selfish by nature... Without benefit, or unless forced by circumstance, who would be willing to leave