Beside the tree was a river, with fallen leaves drifting on its surface, carried along by the current.
He drifted farther and farther through reincarnation, gradually beginning to resist.
He would end this reincarnation and change everything!
Slowly, he saw the Ascend to Immortality Ancient Road that led from the Mortal Realm to the Second Heaven...
He saw that white-robed youth ascending to immortality, and above that youth's head... the Brush of All Living Beings!
The Brush of All Living Beings chattered endlessly, yet always stayed by Su Mo's side.
One man and one brush carried the obsessions of the Mortal Realm's sages toward the Immortal Domain.
But he knew this was a road of no return...
The Immortal Domain held none of the sights the Mortal Realm longed to see, only countless tragedies!
What if... he did not go to the Ancestral Image World, nor become a disciple of the Pill Furnace?
If he simply found somewhere quiet and grew steadily, would everything turn out differently?
Su Mo wanted to try...
He raised his hand, merging the boundless Power of Reincarnation around him with his own laws, reached out from within reincarnation, and used all his strength to leave a stone stele on the Immortal Path ahead of the White-Clad One.
Then he raised his hand again and carved eight large characters upon the stone stele:
"Do not envy Immortal Yao; do not seek eternal life!"
Do not envy Immortal Yao. Immortal Yao was a lie, the lie of the entire Immortal Domain.
It was where Senior Sister Rou'er had met her death, and the reason he himself had fallen into a hopeless plight!
Do not seek eternal life. Beneath eternal life lay the sorrow of the Desolate Realm...
If the White-Clad One saw all this and knew how