After reaching that conclusion...
Li Xiaoya felt a surge of absurdity and smiled bitterly to himself. To think that the deathless eternal life and ageless longevity countless Immortal Cultivators pursued all their lives could be achieved so simply in the Fallen Immortal Grounds.
By that reckoning...
Once Li Xiaoya fully refined the power in his blood, his formidable willpower combined with an undying physical body would make him a Heavenly Rank expert, beyond any doubt...
That was precisely the state of deathless eternal life spoken of in the Fallen Immortal Grounds...
However.
After thinking it over carefully, Li Xiaoya flatly rejected this so-called state of deathless eternal life. Indeed, within the Fallen Immortal Grounds, Heavenly Rank experts should have attained eternal life...
But.
This was not true eternal life...
To put it plainly...
This was merely eternal life within the Fallen Immortal Grounds. In Li Xiaoya's eyes, true eternal life meant roaming freely through the nine heavens. That alone was true eternal life, the eternal life of an Immortal Cultivator-unbound by any laws of heaven and earth, unthreatened by any tribulations of the Heavenly Dao... not eternal life spent trapped in the Fallen Immortal Grounds...
This was nothing but an enormous cage...
It was like this.
Even if a prisoner lived a hundred years in prison, that could not compare to a single year in the dazzling world outside...
Of course, that was only an analogy.
To live eternally in freedom, to become immortal companions roaming the nine heavens without restraint!
That was the supreme oath Li Xiaoya, Liu Xian'er, and Zhang Hong had always shared...
Power for the sake of freedom!!!!
At that thought...
An astonishing surge of willpower burst from Li Xiaoya. His entire body shook violently, radiating scorching heat as he accelerated the circulation of his blood.