Chapter 1138 Ascension
After staying in Qingyou Valley for a few days, Xiao Lin enjoyed the worship of these descendants.
But he was not moved at all. The people in front of him were actually too far away from him. Xiao Lin could not feel the bond of family affection in them.
At the same time, he sighed in his heart that maybe he should really leave.
In the past few days, Xiao Lin also checked all the children in the valley. What surprised him was that the child who looked a bit like him actually had spiritual roots. Unfortunately, his spiritual root qualifications were not outstanding. In his perception, he had at least three spiritual roots, especially the water system.
But he at least had the qualifications to cultivate immortals.
Xiao Lin looked at the child's expectant eyes and couldn't help but moved in his heart.
A flash of light flashed in his hand, and a thin book with yellowed pages and a silver token appeared. Three ancient seal characters [Dry Water Sutra] could be vaguely seen on the book.
On the front of the token was a "sky" character.
Xiao Lin picked up the token, turned it over, stretched out his fingers, and used his magic power to carve the word "Xiao" on the back of the token with the force of a dragon and snake.
After thinking for a while, Xiao Lin pinched the magic formula again, injected the spiritual power that could cast three high-level spells into the token, and then handed the token to the child.
"This book records the method of meditation and refining qi, which must be practiced diligently every day. As for this token, it is enough to protect you three times, but it must not be used unless it is a life-and-death crisis. If one day you succeed in building your foundation, you can take this token and go to the Haoyang Mountain in the Central Plains. I think it will bring you an opportunity."
The child took the booklet and the token in a daze, and he had not yet come back to his senses, but the adults beside him showed an unusually surprised expression.
Although they did not know where the so-called Haoyang Mountain in the Central Plains was, and what this token represented, they believed that their ancestor, who could live for more than a thousand years, must be a great man.
If their children could get his favor, they would surely be able to bring honor to their ancestors in the future and lead their family to prosperity.
At the adults' orders, the child knelt down and kowtowed nine times respectfully.
Xiao Lin did not stop him. After he finished kowtowed, he gently waved his sleeves and sent out an invisible force to help the child up.
After doing all this, Xiao Lin looked at this quiet valley and sighed softly. He turned to look at Lin Xueying beside him.
"Let's go~"
A green light suddenly flashed, and everyone around was dazzled and closed their eyes. When they opened their eyes, they found that Xiao Lin and Lin Xueying had already disappeared. If the child had not been holding the book and token in a daze, they would even think that what happened in the past few days was just a dream.
After leaving Qingyou Valley, Xiao Lin also accompanied Lin Xueying to Tianyun Pavilion to pay homage to Futian Patriarch. The Tianyun Pavilion of the past no longer exists. Now it has been occupied by several immortal families, and there are constant disputes.
Only the tombstone of Futian Patriarch, although mottled, has not been damaged.
Lin Xueying was also sighing. The scenes of the past seemed like yesterday, but now everything has changed.
A sense of desolation could not help but arise.
She glanced at Xiao Lin beside her, and could not help but swear to herself that after her husband ascended, she would practice hard behind closed doors, striving to ascend to the upper realm one day and continue to keep up with her husband's footsteps.
At the same time, she was also sad. Lin Xueying's current level of cultivation also made it very clear that on the road to immortality, aptitude and hard work are important, but opportunities are the foundation.
Like her husband, she originally had mediocre aptitude, but after many opportunities, she was able to turn danger into safety every time. Of course, there was a smart and sensitive side to this, and of course there was also a bit of luck.
The immortal path is not smooth sailing. More people, like Xiao Lin, have to go through many twists and turns. Some people can turn danger into safety, while others may sink and even return to dust.
"Xueying, your husband plans to sit here for a hundred days. After a hundred days." Xiao Lin said softly, looking at the picturesque scenery in the Tianlu Mountains in the distance.
When Lin Xueying heard this, her body trembled, and her eyes were immediately filled with mist, but she tried not to let her tears flow, and nodded gently.
Although she had imagined the arrival of this day countless times.
But when it really came, it still made her heart ache like a knife.
Xiao Lin was no exception. The ancient wilderness was his foundation, and the Tianlu Mountains under his feet were the starting point of his immortal journey. Once he left this world, his chance of coming back again would be very slim.
He was not even sure whether he could successfully ascend to the upper realm.
However, he also understood that thousands of words could not express his reluctance at the moment. He walked to the edge of the cliff silently, and sat down slowly on a piece of bluestone facing the afterglow of the setting sun.
Lin Xueying stood by, looking at the orange-red in the sky, watching quietly, and no one knew what she was thinking in her heart.
A hundred days passed in a flash.
The top of the mountain was particularly refreshing today, and the clouds in the sky also turned orange as the sun rose.
A touch of purple air spread through the clouds towards the vast and boundless land.
On the top of the mountain, Xiao Lin had already woken up from his meditation and stood quietly. There were still crystal clear dewdrops dotted between the ends of his hair.
The top of the mountain was empty, but in the void dozens of miles away, there were several figures standing.
Standing in the front was Lin Xueying, and behind Lin Xueying, Ye Yuexin, Cen Lingzhi, and Yuan Hong stood in a row. On the other side, dozens of feet away, stood a woman in a black robe. She was wrapped in the black robe, leaving only two eyes, with a bit of tenderness, silently watching the mountaintop in the distance.
Behind the black-robed woman, a hundred feet away, there were several people standing, led by an old woman, and behind the old woman stood a girl in white.
It turned out that two months ago, after careful consideration, Lin Xueying told her familiar close friends about her husband's upcoming ascension, except for Xiao Lin's three disciples.
Among the people gathered around, there were several chief elders of the Great Emperor Haoran Tianzong. They came together under the leadership of Yu Lin Zhantian. One of the girls in red was Luan Ling. At this moment, Luan Ling was already crying like a tearful person. If she hadn't been stopped by Yu Lin Zhantian, she would have thrown herself into Xiao Lin's arms long ago.
Shui Ruohan of the Yushui Palace, and the Ice Soul Fairy and the Ice Moon Fairy of the Hanhai Palace.
Xia Mo, in a black robe, was silently looking at Xiao Lin. Her thoughts seemed to have returned to the Red Stone Valley in the past. At that time, she was still a carefree girl, following her father every day, living a life of fishing, working from sunrise to sunset.
It was not until the arrival of this elder brother Xiao that this peace was broken and she embarked on the road of immortality.
More than two months ago, she went to the Red Stone Valley on purpose and buried her mother's body next to her father. In front of her parents' tombstones, she cried for a long time.
In her tearful eyes, she looked at the tombstone in front of her, and suddenly a sense of loneliness surged into her heart.
Now looking at the elder brother Xiao who was about to ascend, she suddenly felt that she was the only one left in the world.
The white-eyed grandmother of the demon clan came with Bai Jiumei. After becoming a spirit, Bai Jiumei became more mature.
Even Shui Shuangyun and Shui Shuangling, two female cultivators from the Yushui Palace, broke through the realm and returned to see Xiao Lin off for the last time.
A solemn atmosphere filled the void.
Facing the arrival of everyone, Xiao Lin naturally knew it, but he did not say goodbye to each one, because this kind of farewell would only add to the sadness and had no meaning at all.
Cultivating immortals and refining the way, the great immortal path, is endless. Today, his ascension represents an end, but it may also be another starting point.
In the vast immortal path, these people are his memories.
But the road to heaven is too narrow.
Xiao Lin took a deep breath, and the mana and divine power in his body began to be released unrestrained.
At the center of his eyebrows, a white lotus slowly bloomed.
And the majestic mana in his body also began to flow out through the acupoints of his whole body. In the blink of an eye, the surrounding area within a hundred feet was wrapped in dark green spiritual power.
And in the center of the spiritual power, a white tornado was spinning.
The void suddenly began to darken.
Above the nine heavens, a tiny vortex slowly condensed, and the vortex grew larger and larger. In the blink of an eye, it became dozens of feet in size, with lightning and thunder inside, making a rumbling sound.
Within a radius of ten thousand miles, all the immortal cultivators felt their spiritual power stagnate, and the next moment, they could not feel the slightest spiritual power fluctuation.
It seemed that the spiritual power of the ten thousand miles was absorbed in an instant.
Suddenly, an astonishing pressure came down from the void, and this pressure seemed to be the wrath of the heaven, falling from the sky.
The beast ring on Xiao Lin's waist shattered with a "click", and many soul-eating fire poisons inside flew out immediately. Before they could use their escape speed to escape, they were pressed directly to the ground on the mountain by the pressure.
Then, accompanied by a loud "booming~" sound, the area around Xiao Lin's feet collapsed inch by inch.
A flash of black light flashed by, and hundreds of feet away, Xiao Hei's eyes flashed with surprise, looking at his master.
Xiao Hei's voice rang out in Xiao Lin's sea of consciousness: "Master, ascending to the upper realm will encounter the rejection of the power of the heavenly way in the mortal world. If you follow the master to forcibly break through the realm, your body will be shattered in an instant, and your soul will be lost in the endless universe. So Xiao Hei can't accompany the master for the time being."
Xiao Lin was focused at this moment, and just nodded after hearing this.
He originally thought of putting Xiao Hei and the Soul-Eating Fire Gu into the spiritual wood space, but for some reason, the sapling actually began to reject foreign creatures. As soon as it entered the spiritual wood space, it was moved out by the sapling.
This also made Xiao Lin understand that he was afraid that he could not bring his spiritual pet with him except for his body.
"Take good care of Xueying." Xiao Lin finally gave an order to Xiao Hei.
Xiao Hei's big black eyes were filled with reluctance, but he was helpless. With a flash of black light, he flew to Lin Xueying's side, lay at her feet, and gently rubbed Lin Xueying's ankles.
"Boom~~"
Xiao Lin waved his sleeves, and a dense mass of flying swords suddenly appeared around him. One hundred and forty-four Qingluan Ice Thunder Swords had all been upgraded to top-grade magic weapons. As Xiao Lin pinched the spell,
accompanied by the piercing sound of "clang clang~", the one hundred and forty-four Qingluan Ice Thunder Swords immediately merged into one, turning into a dark green long sword, soaring into the sky.
Everyone saw a sky-rushing sword intent rushing directly into the vortex, accompanied by a "crack".
The vortex actually shattered directly, like glass.
In the broken vortex, there was an endless black glass color, colorful and shining. Through the glass light, one could vaguely see the endless universe.
Xiao Lin slowly turned his head and glanced at everyone.
The tears in Lin Xueying's eyes finally couldn't be restrained and rolled down.
From the dark broken vortex, a glass light shot out and shone on Xiao Lin's body.
Xiao Lin's body immediately shot into the void, like a black stream of light, and in a flash, it shot into the dark vortex and disappeared.
The vortex gradually closed, and the dark clouds above the void began to dissipate.
Within thousands of miles, the originally stagnant spiritual energy also revived and began to flow.
The sky and the earth were clear, and there were no clouds for thousands of miles.
The scene just now seemed to be just a fantasy, but everyone present knew that Xiao Lin had left.
"Master's wife, don't be sad. We will work hard to cultivate, and we will definitely meet Master in the spirit world one day." Ye Yuexin slowly flew to Lin Xueying's side and said comfortingly.
Although Lin Xueying knew that it was not good to cry in front of her husband's apprentice, she could not suppress her inner sadness at all.
She couldn't help but sigh softly in her heart, "How easy is it to catch up with my husband's footsteps?"
"Wow~~"
A crisp and loud cry suddenly sounded, and Luan Ling was sitting in the void and burst into tears.
Although she had been cultivating for hundreds of years, she was still a child. When Xiao Lin was there, she didn't feel anything, but after her adoptive father left, she felt a strong reluctance.
Xiao Lin slowly opened his eyes, and saw a clear sky. The sun in the sky was very big and emitted a scorching light.
Xiao Lin's memories also surged out like a tide.
"Is this the spirit world?" Xiao Lin looked at the sky. Except for the sun, which was much larger than the mortal world, the rest was no different.
He was about to get up, but a sharp pain came from his body, which made him gasp.
However, after feeling the rolling mana in his dantian, he breathed a sigh of relief.
"Such a powerful cosmic storm, it actually condensed into endless storm blades. If it weren't for the Purple Thunder Star Shield and the Small Zhoutian Purple Thunder Crystal Light Array, I'm afraid I would have been chopped into pieces by the endless storm blades."
After Xiao Lin entered the cosmic void through the glazed channel, he actually encountered a cosmic storm. Cosmic storms are very common and extremely dangerous after breaking through the realm.
According to rumors, unless you have cultivated to become a true immortal, you will die if you encounter a cosmic storm.
This cosmic storm turned into endless storm blades, penetrated into the glazed channel, and attacked Xiao Lin frantically. In desperation, Xiao Lin could only sacrifice the Purple Thunder Star Shield for defense.
Unfortunately, it only lasted half an hour before the Purple Thunder Star Shield was shattered. This magic weapon that had been with him for thousands of years and had never been damaged was scrapped.
Under the attack of the cosmic storm blade, Xiao Lin's Holy Scale Burning Heaven Art did not last long. His body was cut and scarred. In desperation, he had to sacrifice the Qingluan Ice Thunder Sword, set up the Small Zhoutian Purple Thunder Crystal Light Array close to his body, and used the crystal sword grid to condense a cage to wrap himself.
In this way, he lasted for a while, but the final result was that the cage condensed by the crystal sword grid was also chopped. He was immediately attacked by countless storm blades. The Holy Scale Burning Heaven Art was fully exerted, but it was impossible to resist, especially a storm blade actually cut into his chest and cut off one of his tendons.
It caused his mana to stagnate, which made him terrified. Without the support of mana, he would definitely die.
Just as he closed his eyes and waited for death, the glazed passage suddenly shook, and the next moment, he completely lost consciousness.