The person sitting opposite her had, at some point, transformed into a woman, bathed in the light and rain of the Heavens, surrounded by boundless Chaos energy, her slender body motionless, shrouded in azure mist.
Her body was slender and exquisitely beautiful, with a head of jet-black, lustrous hair that cascaded naturally over her chest and back. She was like an Immortal of the Foreign Realm piece of celestial jade, crystal clear and radiant with the brilliance of stars.
"Who are you!" the Immortal Fetus asked, its heart trembling, for what it saw was truly bizarre.
She was clearly a peerless villain, how could she suddenly transform into a jade fairy? This makes no sense at all.
"I... I am..."
Upon hearing the question, the stunningly beautiful woman slowly opened her eyes, her expression seemingly dazed.
Finally, her expression hardened, and an immense majesty appeared on her face. Her eyes radiated a terrifying light, with orderly chains extending in the Void, as brilliant as stars, like the tail feathers of a phoenix, dazzling with divine light, so bright that people could not open their eyes.
"I am the King Ming, in charge of a corner of the Immortal Domain Realm."
As the majestic voice resounded, it was as if an invincible king had descended from the future Immortal Domain to the mortal world. Looking down upon the human world, everything was under his control. His expression was indifferent, and his eyes were cold and piercing. The entire world was in turmoil. The Immortal Fetus almost prostrated itself, and the spiritual blood in its body was constantly surging, as if it had seen an ancestor of its lineage and subconsciously wanted to get closer.
This feeling was so profound that it stirred up a tidal wave within her, confirming that the person before her was a supreme being of the same origin, even stronger than the ruthless person who had suppressed her.
Just as she was about to cry out, suddenly, the being that called itself the King Ming was enveloped in Chaos light and transformed into the most essential order and the most ancient laws.
Like the erosion of time, everything has been washed away. That peerless figure who astonished the people of this race throughout their lives seems to have never existed, existing only an era apart from this place...
The one who remained in place was Su Yu, whose eyes were still closed.
"How could this be... Where is the king?"
The purple-haired woman was somewhat dazed, trying to find that figure, but no matter how hard she looked, she couldn't find it, leaving her feeling utterly lost...
The year is drawing to a close, Sun-Moon are passing by!
For ten days in a row, Su Yu refined his Dao Fruit in the Heaven Seed. During this process, the Female Imperial Butterfly in his Grotto-Heaven also showed signs of revival, absorbing the laws of the Great Dao. Its originally dull-colored scales and wings once again became colorful.
In the end, he awakened the deepest Gate of Potential his immortal body, from which a drop of blood was released.
The ancestral blood of the Immortal Tribulation Dao!
Almost the instant he saw that drop of blood, Su Yu was greatly shocked, as if he had fallen into a terrifying Lunhui...
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Today, my father is sick in the hospital, Xiao Ye stayed with him there all day, so I'm taking a day off.
I owed 5.8k yesterday, and I'll try my best to pay it back tomorrow and the day after.
With the year-end approaching, I have many things to do: going to the countryside, being on duty, and handling all the family matters.
A sudden wave of exhaustion washed over her, and everything felt empty. Under the dim lights, staring at the huge, bright red national emblem in front of the city hall, Xiao Ye felt dazed, as if she were in a distant country.
I am alive, but my soul is withered.
Two civil servants from the Organization Department resigned voluntarily the day before yesterday. The siege has begun, Xiao Ye, who is just an observer, only feels a pang of sadness.
The suffering outside the city is bitter, but the suffering inside the city is a different kind of bitterness.
Seeing my father on his sickbed today, he spoke of things I had done wrong, which saddened me. Before the New Year, I gave him cigarettes, alcohol, and gifts, failing to be filial to my parents, and now I'm facing the consequences. Is this the life I wanted?
The superior wanted to rise again, so he used his subordinates as firewood.
When the firewood has burned out, the person in charge may either go up or stay; the exhaustion of the firewood is thus severe.
I used to not understand why someone with a wife and children, a house and a car, would seek death. Life is truly lonely, a solitary and mundane existence.
The old man said that my current environment is neither good nor bad. Some leaders are not afraid of their subordinates treating them like human beings at all.
Those young, out-of-town civil servants in the Organization Department might have encountered a bad environment.
We still need to live life seriously. Tomorrow is the weekend, but it's also a workday, and we'll be working until New Year's Eve.
This book has been written intermittently, but I'm still persisting.
Everything is piling up at the moment, and the pressure is immense.
Xiao Ye isn't the kind of civil servant with a particularly easy job; there are such positions available, but they don't belong to me. And in the past six months, the only thing I've felt truly accomplished by participating in coordination work has been helping seven or eight migrant workers recover their wages. They say they can now go home for the Chinese New Year.
If I had exceptional test-taking skills, everything would be easy.
Ultimately, it's a matter of insufficient ability.
Chapter 828 Black Tortoise Immortal, Calamity-Suppressing Battle Flag
A drop of blood!
Dark and crimson, the moment it appeared, it illuminated every part of the immortal's body, unleashing an unparalleled aura, possessing an ancient and incomparable power that severed the past, present, and future.
"Boom!"
Su Yu was struck dumb, sitting upright in place, his whole being bearing the marks of time. A blurry blood shadow appeared between his brows, shimmering with purple light and swirling with yin and yang Chaos, transforming from illusion into reality.
The Immortal Fetus was stunned, then its expression changed drastically, its pupils trembled, and nearly half of the purple hair scattered on its body had withered and turned white.
This is the aura of a life-or-death ordeal!
Generally speaking, only those Longevity have emerged from barren lands possess this law, and such beings, once they enter the Immortal Realm, are comparable to Quasi-Immortal King or Quasi-Immortal King of the Foreign Realm, achieving unparalleled Dao Fruit...
"This is..."
The woman's lips were dry. When she finally saw what was in front of her, her heart stopped, and she had no idea what was happening.
The blood shadow gradually changed.
Finally... it was just a human skin, stained with crimson blood, and it had swollen up.
He transformed into a small human form, like a primordial spirit, with pale hair flowing freely, exuding an ancient and ethereal aura. His imposing presence was so overwhelming that it almost made people kneel down.
"Such an aura... could there be a hidden Dharma body within this person?" The Immortal Fetus woman's eyes flickered uncertainly, her pearly teeth moving slightly. Although she was sitting cross-legged, her figure was remarkably tall and curvaceous, even a head taller than Su Yu.
But at this moment, she was overwhelmed by the overwhelming force and was in a submissive position. Therefore, she had to look up at the little man, which was not a graceful posture. Her chest looked as if she were making an offering.
No one responded. The gaunt body was shrouded in blood mist, its silver hair was gray, and its eyes were empty black holes, lifeless and lightless, like a statue that had not moved for thousands of years...
Su Yu felt as if he had fallen into a dream, entering a special space-time. The interior was empty, filled only with countless purple mists, ethereal and long, layered upon layer, filling the entire world...
While he was cultivating, some astonishing changes were taking place in the outside world:
A blood-red rainbow appeared in the universe, coming from the Time Realm, like an arch bridge connecting the Great Red Heaven, the Yuyu Heaven, and the Qingwei Heaven.
Then it spread, extending from the physical Void to the edge of the dark universe.
Many were surprised, even the Supreme from the Foreign Realm frowned, watching this scene, wondering what kind of change this was.
The rootless rainbows, imbued with the aura of Immortal Blood, have no visible source, for they flew here and their origin is nowhere to be seen.
Like ripples spreading or a gentle breeze stirring, at first no change was visible.
"The Realm Annihilation, the Immortal Ancient... it brings back some painful memories..."
On this very day, in an ancient place in the Three Thousand Dao Provinces, an old man awoke with a start, struggled to his feet from the Heaven-Avoiding Coffin, and gazed in a certain direction.
He was very old, and the stench of decay emanating from him was now overflowing; he was in very poor condition.
His identity is very special. He is the ancestor of the Xuan Turtle in the Immortal Ancient Era. In this Lifetime, he took Cao Yusheng as his disciple and inscribed the Third Killing Array for him. The years he spent there were unimaginably long.
At the end of the Immortal Ancient Era, one of the Three Calamities, the Tortoise Divination Calamity, was used by the Immortal King and the Immortal King of the Foreign Realm to choose their opponents based on the tortoise shell.
That piece of tortoise shell was the shell that the old black tortoise had shed.
However, this old man, who had survived to this point in time, was now awakened. Looking at the blood-red rainbow in the sky, he felt an indescribable sorrow.
He had seen this scene before.
The Immortal Continent fell, the Ancient Heaven shattered, and the Great Red Heaven, which had held out for eighty-one years, was finally breached. The fall of that formidable pass also signified the complete defeat of the Primordial Ancient Realm.
On that day, just like before, Immortal Blood was sprinkled across the blue sky, gathering into a rainbow that illuminated the grieving, broken universe.
"The bell tolls, the blood rainbow, the burning trees... I never thought I'd see them again in this Lifetime." The old man said this, looking frail and infirm, before climbing the high mountain with great difficulty and slowly. He gazed towards the Time Realm and remained silent for a long time.
In the distance, a creature approached, shouting excitedly.
"Master, something terrible has happened!" A fat man, with nimble steps, rode a cloud and rushed into this dusty land, wanting to tell his elder something.
Inside the cave, looking at the empty Heaven-Avoiding Coffin, Cao Yusheng searched for a while and finally found his master on a mountain peak not far away.
"Master, what's wrong with you? Why aren't you resting in the coffin? What are you doing out here?" Cao Yusheng asked, looking surprised.
"The world is changing; something unusual is about to happen. I have a bad feeling," the old man sighed.
He was very weak; a gust of wind would knock him over.
This wasn't a pretense; he was truly beyond saving. His internal injuries were too severe, his body was ruined, his primordial spirit had fallen to the Human Dao Domain, and his blood and energy were depleted, leaving him in this state.
"You just said something big happened, could the weather have changed so quickly?" the old man said.
Cao Yusheng was pondering his master's words when he heard this. He suppressed his doubts and, with an unusually serious expression, asked, "Master, what exactly is your identity?"
"Back then, I was also a powerful figure, from the Black Tortoise Clan. I experienced too much, made too many mistakes, and have many regrets..." The old man did not hide anything.
Or perhaps he sensed his impending death and realized there was no point in keeping certain things to himself, so he revealed them to his young disciple.
"Really!"
Cao Yusheng was overjoyed and couldn't help but want to shout, because everything was exactly as he had guessed.
"Master, you participated in the great battle at the end of the Immortal Ancient Era!" he said with certainty.
The old man sighed, not denying it. His physical body had been destroyed in that battle.
He was a Xuan Turtle who became an immortal through the Dao of Heavenly Secrets Dao. His combat strength was not considered heaven-defying, and he was not as strong as the Ten Fiends, but that does not mean he was weak. In his youth, he was no less powerful than Quasi-Immortal King like the Third Heavenly Lord. Moreover, because of his unparalleled deduction skills, he was comparable to an immortal Immortal King and became a guest of honor for many important figures.
But all of this pales in comparison to the World War.
In that final battle, he was targeted by many people from the Foreign Realm and ultimately died. His mutilated body was entangled with the rules of many enemies, almost crippling him, leaving only a wisp of divine consciousness to linger.
Speaking of the past, the old man's expression was complicated, and he could not let go of it for a long time.
"Master, don't blame yourself. It wasn't your fault that you used the Immortal Tortoise Shell to choose an opponent for the Immortal King. It was simply that the beings of the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths were no match for the enemy from the Foreign Realm," Cao Yusheng comforted him, knowing that his master was fixated on this matter.
The old man remained silent. How could he, as the head of a sect, not know the laws and principles governing the world?
However, the Tortoise Shell Divination Battle ended too tragically, with the last hope of the realm trapped within a single shell.
That piece of armor showed no bias towards the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths.
Deduction is paramount, yet even it cannot defy the will of Heaven; this is a tragedy unique to those who practice calculation.