Chapter 67

Having died once, he now knows that when he was on the verge of death, he self-destructed, and fragments of his Nascent Soul fell into the Spirit Vein of Jingzhishan Town.

Under the protection of Heavenly Dao, with incredible luck, he slowly recuperated in a top-tier Spirit Vein, and gradually condensed his body using the scattered spiritual Breathing Earth within the Spirit Vein as its core.

No wonder his body was full of impurities!

No wonder he has Chaos Spirit Root!

No wonder his Spiritual Power contained the aura of the Breathing Earth!

His body was originally formed from a mixture of Spiritual Power, containing everything and encompassing all things.

That glimmer of hope was not the hope of this world, but a glimmer of hope given to him by the will of Heavenly Dao.

Shan Heyuan was completely unable to move on the ground, yet a slight smile appeared on his face.

The boundless love of heaven and earth, so this is how it is.

He tried to save the world, and the world never let him down.

Chapter 67

Shen Duheng regained consciousness shortly afterward.

He was stunned for a moment when he woke up, and after surveying his surroundings, he asked in a deep voice, "We escaped?"

"That should be true." Shan Heyuan reached out and pulled him. "Ji Li can't find us for the time being, so we should be able to catch our breath for a while."

Shen Duheng: "How are you now? You're not seriously injured, are you?"

Shan Heyuan paused for a moment, unsure how to answer the question.

Shen Duheng grasped his hand, feeling the warmth of his palm and slightly relieved. He then turned to look around.

Little did they know, this was merely the temperature of Pu Core Fire.

Because of the introduction of Lightning Tribulation, the entire Dantian Small World was severely damaged.

Shen Duheng looked around and saw shattered debris and charred marks everywhere. The lake used to store electricity had long since dried up, revealing its ugly and hard bottom.

The Spirit Plant were also chopped up and turned into a mess, many of them reduced to charcoal.

The worst off was the Illusionless Tree in the center of the Dantian Small World. It was originally nearly a hundred meters tall, but now it has been split in half, leaving only the bare lower half.

Just by looking at the Dantian Small World, Shen Duheng knew that Shan Heyuan was seriously injured.

He asked, "Where are we now?"

Shen Duheng was referring to the location of Shan Heyuan's body.

"That's a relatively easy question to answer," Shan Heyuan said. "They might have ended up in the void. I don't know where they are now. Let's see if we can find safe coordinates to get out later."

Shen Duheng immediately asked, "No coordinates? Where is your body?"

Shan Heyuan shrugged casually, "We don't have a body anymore. It was accidentally destroyed, which is why Ji Li can't find us."

Shen Duheng was stunned for a moment, a look of sorrow in his eyes. He reached out and hugged him, as if to confirm his existence, holding him tightly against his back. "Will you still exist after we get out?"

"Of course it exists. I'm a perfectly normal cultivator, I won't turn into Realm Spirit." Shan Heyuan patted him on the back. "Don't worry, this isn't the first time. I have experience, it's not a big problem."

Shen Duheng: "Not the first time?"

Shan Heyuan: "Do you remember when I had my bone age tested at the Sword Reverence Academy before?"

Shen Duheng remembered, of course, and nodded.

Shan Heyuan then began by recounting the whole story.

Shan Heyuan: "Didn't we suspect there was more to my time travel story? This is the inside story."

Shen Duheng: "So, the notes we received before were really yours? Didn't you say the handwriting didn't look right?"

"It doesn't seem quite right. Perhaps someone else copied it for me?" Shan Heyuan thought for a moment and felt that many guesses were plausible. "Didn't I make another copy myself? At that time, I Tribulation Transcendence, and my disciples thought I had disappeared. They wanted to find clues from the things I left behind, so it's possible that they made a copy."

Shan Heyuan fully understood his disciples' actions.

I never imagined that in a mere three thousand years, all my disciples would have passed away.

Even the maddened Illusionless Tree at Black She Temple survived, but none of the familiar disciples from the Sword Reverence Sect were left.

Looking back now, he doesn't know whether he should be glad he didn't take on any personal disciples, or feel sad.

The two sat together and reminisced about the past. After they finished, they both fell silent.

After a while, Shen Duheng forced a smile and said, "I thought I was older than you, but it turns out I should be calling you 'ancestor'."

This remark carried an inexplicable sense of humor, Shan Heyuan deliberately asked, "Want to moan in bed?"

Shen Duheng thought about it seriously for a moment and commented, "If that's the case, I'd probably lose my nerve."

Shan Heyuan: "Then I can be on top too."

"Do you want to be on top?" Shen Duheng made a difficult decision. "If you want to be on top, we can try."

Shan Heyuan waved his hand in horror, "No, no, no, forget it. I was just joking. I didn't really mean to be on top."

Distracted like this, neither of them could muster the grief they were feeling.

Shan Heyuan: "Our fate has truly taken many twists and turns."

Shen Duheng: "What did you cultivate before? Swordsmanship?"

Shen Duheng had always thought that Shan Heyuan might be a sword cultivator. He didn't have the pure aura of a sword cultivator, but he had practiced "Questioning the Sword the Sword" very well. Now that he thought about it, he might have practiced "Questioning the Sword" before.

Shan Heyuan waved his hand. "No, no, no, I'm a jack-of-all-trades, I know a little bit of everything, but I'm not an expert in anything."

When he transmigrated to this world, things were even harder at the beginning than they are now. It was only thanks to his cleverness and good luck that he survived as a Rogue Cultivator.

Later, he gradually cultivated himself into a powerful figure, and by fortuitous opportunity, he became an elder of the Sword Reverence Sect, eventually succeeding as the sect leader.

The main reason was that Sword Reverence Sect had already declined at that time, and the entire sect could not find many high- Nascent Soul cultivators above the Nascent Soul stage, otherwise the position of sect leader would not have been his.

In truth, he failed to save the cultivation world during his Tribulation Transcendence, but he did extend its life by a small amount.

There were significantly more high-level cultivators after him than before.

Perhaps because he pried open the outer "shell" of the cultivation world, more Spiritual Power and the origin of the Heavenly Dao leaked in, giving later cultivators the resources to cultivate to a higher stage.

The two chatted for a while, then became extremely tired.

Shan Heyuan recreated the small stone house within his Dantian Small World, and the two embraced and took a nap.

They can rest temporarily within their Dantian Small World, but they cannot stay there for too long.

One of them Spirit Transformation Realm, and the other at the Nascent Soul Realm; both were severely injured and needed a large amount of Spiritual Power to heal.

After Shan Heyuan's body was destroyed, his Dantian Small World lost its connection with the main world outside and could not be replenished with Spiritual Power from the outside. He was relying on the Spiritual Power in the Top-Grade Spirit Stone, which probably wouldn't last long.

They can't just drain their Dantian Small World while recovering from an injury.

After resting for a while, Shan Heyuan and Shen Duheng tried to find a way out.

Through discussion and deduction, the two finally deduced three relatively safe coordinates.

All three coordinates are relatively close to where they are in the void, so getting there won't require too much Spiritual Power.

Shen Duheng pointed to one of the coordinates and said, "How about we leave from this coordinate of Dunchuan City? You no longer have a physical body, so we need to buy a lot of materials to see if we can craft a puppet to temporarily house your Nascent Soul."

After a moment's consideration, Shan Heyuan said, "Setting the exit in Dunchuan City will definitely benefit us in replenishing our supplies. However, such a large city is sure to be closely monitored by various forces. If we accidentally expose our whereabouts, it will attract Ji Li's second pursuit."

"Be careful, it shouldn't be a big problem." Shen Duheng felt it was worth the risk. He said in a deep voice, "Dunchuan City is Proliferation Sect's territory. Even if Sword Reverence Sect and Proliferation Sect have a good relationship, by the time Ji Li receives the news and arrives from the Guangping Continent, it will take at least two days. By then, we will have already left."

Shan Heyuan: "Ji Li will need time to get here, but Proliferation Sect won't. Our situation is too special; the people of the Proliferation Sect might not be enemies. I still think going to Dunchuan Market is too risky. How about going to Qiuyi Mortal Market instead?"