Through the Ages, I Alone Am Invincible

"Alright, alright." Coach Mo hurriedly nodded and called to the young girl resting beneath the tree, "Baili Xiao, come over quickly. Someone is looking for you."

The young girl was a little timid. She looked at the young man beside her, and only under his encouraging gaze did she slowly step forward.

"Baili Xiao... a compound surname of Baili. Sister, you really still couldn't forget that man," Xiao Yuexuan murmured.

"So alike, truly alike." Looking at the young girl approaching her, she asked with concern, "Was your mother named Xiao Qingya?"

"Are you Aunt Yuexuan?" Baili Xiao pondered for a moment before asking in sudden realization.

"You know me? Did your mother mention me to you before she passed away?" Xiao Yuexuan hurriedly nodded and asked excitedly.

"Before Mother passed away, she often spoke of you. She said she missed you very much," Baili Xiao replied softly with a nod.

"My sister and I lost our parents when we were young and depended on each other for survival. But back then, my heart was set solely on martial arts, and I always wanted to join the True Martial Sacred Sect.

So I stubbornly left Qingyang Village and lost contact with her." Xiao Yuexuan's eyes grew moist. Looking at the coarse cloth and gauze the young girl wore, she said firmly, "Now that your aunt has achieved success in cultivation and become the Sixth Elder of the True Martial Sacred Sect, I can protect you. Are you willing to come with me to the True Martial Sacred Sect?"

Baili Xiao hesitated. Her gaze turned toward the young man beside her, her eyes filled with struggle.

"What are you still hesitating for? Hurry up and agree!" Coach Mo urged anxiously from the side.

These young men and women were still too young to understand what the True Martial Sacred Sect meant.

But he understood. This was simply a heaven-sent opportunity to ascend in a single step!

The True Martial Sacred Sect was the absolute overlord of the Far West Land. It ruled over ten thousand miles of mountains and rivers here, and even on the Yuanyang Continent, it was one of the foremost Major Powers.

Moreover, the other party's position within the True Martial Sacred Sect did not seem low.

"It's alright, Xiao'er." Chu Yang's face was somewhat pale, but he still forced a smile and encouraged her. "After you go to the True Martial Sacred Sect, cultivate well. When I have the time, I'll come find you."

"Brother Chu Yang, you must come find me," the young girl cried out, her voice tinged with tears and even carrying a faint trace of pleading.

"Don't worry. I definitely will." The young man's voice was firm, carrying an irresistible conviction.

Baili Xiao nodded heavily, then turned to Xiao Yuexuan and said, "Aunt, I'm willing to go with you."

"Good." Xiao Yuexuan smiled in satisfaction, then looked at the young man beside her with interest. "Your name is Chu Yang?"

"Yes, Senior." Chu Yang nodded and replied somewhat uneasily.

"Take this bottle of pills." Xiao Yuexuan took a small bottle of pills from her Storage Ring and handed it to Chu Yang.

There were three pills in the bottle, each crystal-clear and exquisite, with an especially fine appearance.

"What does this mean, Senior?" Chu Yang did not accept the pills. Instead, he frowned and asked.

He felt somewhat repulsed by this gesture. What was this? Charity?

"Don't overthink it. I'm not belittling you, nor do I look down on you. I'm merely stating an objective fact." Xiao Yuexuan said softly, "Xiao'er will leave Qingyang Village and return to the True Martial Sacred Sect with me.

That is a world beyond your imagination. To put it bluntly, the two of you will no longer belong to the same world in the future.

I can tell that she likes you. If you wish to go to the True Martial Sacred Sect to find her, you must at least possess some capital.

These pills can cleanse your marrow and temper your body. Consider them a meeting gift from me as an elder.

If you truly achieve something in the future and come to the True Martial Sacred Sect to find her, I will not object."

Hearing Xiao Yuexuan's words, Chu Yang visibly fell silent for a moment.

He knew that although her words sounded pleasant, she merely did not wish to wound his pride.

In the end, she still looked down on him and believed that he would not be worthy of Xiao'er in the future.

At that moment, Chu Yang dearly wanted to shout at her, "Thirty years east of the river, thirty years west of the river—never bully a poor young man."

But in the end, he remained silent. He did not shout it, and the reason was simple: on what grounds?

What right did he have to say such words? He was not the protagonist of this world. He had no old grandfather spirit, no golden finger.

He was merely an orphan whose parents had both died, merely an utterly ordinary young man from this ordinary little mountain village.

If he shouted such words with this identity, others would not view him in a new light. Instead, they would only find him childish, immature, even laughable.

"Brother Chu Yang, just take them," Baili Xiao urged from the side.

She knew that Chu Yang had been frail ever since childhood. These few pills might perhaps allow him to shed his mortal frame and exchange his bones.

"Alright." Chu Yang finally raised his head, forced a smile at the young girl, and slowly accepted the pills.

Xiao Yuexuan smiled in satisfaction. It was not that she thought highly of the young man before her.

She did this only because she wanted to leave a good impression on Baili Xiao. After all, the two had never met before, and such a sudden encounter would inevitably feel somewhat unfamiliar.

As for the young man named Chu Yang, she did not take him to heart at all. Once Baili Xiao went to the True Martial Sacred Sect,

saw that broader world, and met more outstanding young talents, she would understand just how utterly meaningless everything she insisted on now was.

Outstanding people would always be with outstanding people. People climbed to higher ground. Xiao Yuexuan had always believed in one saying: "People change."

She glanced at Coach Mo beside her and waved her right hand. A pile of pills and books immediately appeared on the ground.

"Consider these cultivation methods, Meridian Techniques, and pills a small token of my gratitude to Qingyang Village," Xiao Yuexuan said calmly.

"Thank you, thank you!" Coach Mo hurriedly thanked her excitedly.

Looking at the pile of pills on the ground, his heart surged with excitement. He was now at the ninth level of the Spirit Vein Realm, and he knew that the Condensing Pulse Realm was within reach.

Though he had not yet examined the pills, Coach Mo understood that given her status, she certainly would not offer ordinary pills.

Xiao Yuexuan grabbed Baili Xiao by the arm and rose directly into the air, her robes fluttering as she headed toward the True Martial Sacred Sect.

"Brother Chu Yang, I'll wait for you!" the young girl's cry echoed through the sky.

Chu Yang only felt emptiness in his heart, as though something precious had been lost.

He stared blankly at the young girl's receding figure, his mind filled with images of her radiant smile from days past.

A light rain began to fall from the sky. Chu Yang raised his head, looked at the suddenly gloomy heavens, and walked home in a daze.

That dilapidated little Wooden House leaked everywhere whenever it rained.

He sat foolishly on the bed in his room, not knowing what he was thinking.

"Through the ages, I alone am invincible," an aged voice suddenly rang beside his ear.

"Who? Who's speaking?" Chu Yang was greatly startled and hurriedly looked around the room.