Chapter 541: Fifteen Billion Years of Lifespan. The autumn wind stirred, carrying a faintly salty sea breeze.
North Sea, Mystic Turtle Island.
Luo Chen and Liu Yuanyao appeared atop Mystic Turtle Island's back. It was a small mountain peak standing at the island's center, like a gravestone.
The two stood silently for a long while.
All people would die in the end. Cultivation merely stretched that process out without limit.
Yet Liu Yuanyao had never expected that, with the arrival of the Dharma-Ending Age, it would be the Mystic Turtle—whose name meant longevity—that walked ahead of everyone else.
By the time dusk fell, no fewer than a thousand martial artists and cultivators of the Great Wu Dynasty had gathered around Mystic Turtle Island to see Li Changsheng off.
Even the Martial Emperor, Wu Tiancheng, had come in person. He stepped onto Mystic Turtle Island and, upon seeing Luo Chen and his sister standing there, froze for a moment. After a brief hesitation, he still walked forward.
Wu Tiancheng first gave the Mystic Turtle a slight bow.
Li Changsheng could be considered a founding hero of the Great Wu Dynasty. In recent years, he had protected the North Sea and rendered outstanding service, deserving a bow from the Martial Emperor.
Then Wu Tiancheng turned to Luo Chen, offered a slight salute, and said, "Martial Saint, Elder Li would surely be happy to see you come pay your respects from beyond the Yellow Springs."
The Martial Emperor was exceedingly respectful toward Luo Chen. He knew that the man before him possessed a strength far beyond anything he could imagine.
The Great Wu Dynasty had grown to where it was today without inviting too many calamities, entirely by relying on the prestige of Primordial Coiling Mountain.
Wu Tiancheng could not deny that.
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