Why Was It Called an Immortal?
Lin Xiao's gaze fell on Jiang Qu's quietly closed eyes. Recalling the few words they exchanged during their casual conversation while Jiang Qu accompanied him through Cloud Gathering City yesterday, he learned that Jiang Qu had no relatives or friends here. So he nodded and said, "Go in, thank you, senior."
"Alright, then I'll take him away." Duan Weixue said, preparing to use magic to transfer Jiang Qu from the ground, but then stopped and looked at Lin Xiao, "Are you going to take him there yourself?"
Lin Xiao lowered his eyes to examine Jiang Qu's sleeping face, raised his hand to wipe the blood from the corner of his mouth, nodded, and then asked, "Senior, do you know what level of cultivation is needed to defeat that Annihilation Fiend?"
He had overheard the conversations between those Void Returning Realm seniors and the Annihilation Immortal Killer, and he fully agreed with the title "Annihilation Fiend".
"Even the seniors at the Void Returning Realm seem unable to deal with it. What about those with cultivation levels higher than the Void Returning Realm? The Body Integration Realm? Or... the legendary Mahayana Stage?" Lin Xiao turned to look directly at Duan Weixue.
Duan Weixue raised an eyebrow. "What? You want revenge?" He chuckled lightly and patted Lin Xiao's shoulder, "Revenge is for the old folks with high cultivation levels. There's no need for you little brats. Focus on your cultivation."
Lin Xiao looked down at Jiang Qu, who would never wake up again. "As long as the Annihilation Fiend are still around, things like today will happen again, and the casualties next time might even be more severe than this time. Death is an abrupt end; they might have things to do tomorrow, people they want to see the day after, but everything has been frozen in time today."
"Only those who survive have a future, can strive, experience both expectation and disappointment, success and failure." Lin Xiao's eyes reddened, and he clenched his fists. "I'm alive, so I want to try. But I don't know which direction to strive in, and I don't know if my efforts will be worthwhile."
"Senior, I don't want revenge. This isn't hatred; it's a mistake based on all my previous understanding. I want to stop this mistake."
Seeing Lin Xiao's clenched fists, Duan Weixue was speechless for a moment.
Although this young man is somewhat confused about the current situation, his inner resolve is actually clear and firm!
He smiled with satisfaction and said, "Since that's the case, then let's strive in a hopeful direction. For us cultivators, what could be more hopeful than cultivation itself? So cultivate diligently, work hard, and then end what you perceive as a mistake."
He didn't say anything more about "there are people with higher cultivation levels to do it," but instead changed the subject and said, "But kid, although they all call the Annihilation Immortal ' the Annihilation Fiend,' do you know... why the Annihilation Immortal is called the Annihilation Immortal?"
Before Lin Xiao could answer, he said with a bitter smile, "Because it really is a fairy..."
"A cultivation level capable of fighting against immortals... what do you think?"
After saying that, he shook his head, laughed heartily, and turned to leave.
Watching him leave, Lin Xiao crouched down, picked up Jiang Qu, and walked step by step towards Cloud Gathering City.
A level of cultivation capable of rivaling immortals.
Transcending tribulation and ascending to immortality.
To attain enlightenment and become an immortal.
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On the ruins of Cloud Gathering City, Duan Weixue buried all the deceased here, erecting Ten Thousand Souls Mound.
Gongsun Jingge and Lu Xunfeng both left one after the other to search for the whereabouts of Annihilation Immortal.
When the Ten Thousand Souls Mound was completed, Yun Qianxin lit an incense stick and then left.
Before the Ten Thousand Souls Mound, only Duan Weixue and Lin Xiao remained.
At this moment, the heavy clouds overhead were only a hundred meters or so above the ground.
Dark clouds loomed overhead, accompanied by lightning and thunder like dragons, and a fierce wind raged in the little space left between heaven and earth, strong enough to tear apart anyone with cultivation below the Foundation Establishment stage.
Everywhere was covered in sand and dust; although it was daytime, it was dark and gloomy, and nothing could be seen with the naked eye.
Duan Weixue did not use her Spiritual Power to resist the gale, letting her long hair, which was tied up high, fly wildly in the wind, and her originally loose robe was blown into a tight-fitting garment.
Glancing at Lin Xiao beside her, Duan Weixue asked him, "Kid, you're probably too young to have experienced Cloud Burst, aren't you?"
Lin Xiao honestly shook his head. "I really haven't seen it before. Senior, could you please enlighten me?"
"Uh..." Duan Weixue opened her mouth, hesitated for a moment, and then managed to utter two words, "Tough it out."
Lin Xiao:...
No, you were just asking if I'd ever seen Cloud Burst, were you? I thought you had some shortcut to tell me and were laying the groundwork! Lin Xiao was speechless, but given that the other party's cultivation was far superior to his own, he could only silently express his opinion in his heart.
"Alright, since you weren't going to leave before, then stay here and enjoy it at your leisure. I'm leaving." Duan Weixue waved her hand and was about to depart.
In the past, every time Cloud Burst came, he would stand guard alone in the deserted Cloud Gathering City and endure it. Now that Cloud Gathering City is gone, there is no need for him to stay here anymore.
Lin Xiao quickly followed his retreating figure and asked, "What are your plans for the future, senior?"
"Like a free-spirited cloud or a wild crane, wandering the four seas, above and below the heavens, carefree and unrestrained—" Duan Weixue's voice drifted over.
In the blink of an eye Duan Weixue's figure had blurred into the horizon. Lin Xiao only vaguely saw him raise his hand and wave twice as if to say goodbye.
It sounds like they're not planning to rebuild Cloud Gathering City.
Watching his figure disappear completely, Lin Xiao sat down cross-legged on the spot, took out a Jade Slip slip from his pocket, and examined it in his hand.
This was given to him by Jiang Qu before he died.
It looks like a very ordinary Jade Slip, commonly found on the market and inexpensive.
Remembering Jiang Qu's last words, Lin Xiao Divine Sense to enter the space and discovered a coordinate system inside.
However, he still didn't know much about the Chongxiao Domain and didn't know where these coordinates were.
"Once the Cloud Burst past, I'll use these coordinates to find it," he thought to himself.
After carefully storing the Jade Slip in his private treasury, Lin Xiao got up and prepared to find a cave or similar place nearby to wait out the Cloud Burst.
When the clouds above fell to a height of 100 meters, their descent speed suddenly became extremely fast, and in just a moment they completely merged with the clouds on the ground, becoming one in the blink of an eye!
In a mountain cave, Lin Xiao, who had just finished an hour of meditation and was setting up some defensive formations, immediately found himself surrounded by clouds and mist. Thick, dense black clouds surrounded him, and the fine electric currents that had been flowing through the clouds instantly surged through his entire body!
A thick current of electricity, as if it had smelled something, followed closely from a distance and arrived in front of Lin Xiao in the blink of an eye.
Fortunately, this level of electric current could not cause any substantial harm to Lin Xiao; at most, it would only give him a slight tingling sensation.
But the next moment, something completely unexpected happened.
After the clouds at both ends of the sky completely came into contact and merged, the current that originally belonged to the clouds in the upper sky suddenly surged in power after entering the clouds on the ground! The lightning that was originally only a few dozen meters thick suddenly grew into a thunderstorm that was a thousand meters long!