Chapter 183: Chapter 107: The Mountain Sea Has a Spirit

The Second Year of Daqian.

Spring brought warmth and blooming flowers.

After the Slaying of Heaven, countless heroes emerged across the land, appearing in droves.

In Daqian, three prodigies now vied for supremacy!

They had shattered Third Realm Perfection, achieving Self as Dragon!

They had reached the Sub-Innate Realm, even catching a glimpse of the Celestial Gate.

There was also a Grandmaster, ancient and near death, who returned to the outskirts of the Imperial City. Standing over a river, he reminisced about the past. In a sudden burst of spirit, he forced open the Celestial Gate, becoming the first new master of the Innate Realm in the Human World.

Heroes rose from all corners, and prodigies vied for the top! The Wind Snow Sword Immortal seemed to have long since died, becoming a figure of the past in Daqian.

And yet, at the Daqian Palace Gate, a figure in a Black Dragon Emperor’s Robe was often seen arriving at dusk. He would stand and wait, gazing toward the distant battlefield of the Heaven-Slaying War, toward the very edge of the Human Race’s domain.

"Su Chen... oh, Su Chen..."

"You have slain Heaven, so why have you not returned?"

"Didn’t we have an agreement? You would slay the heavens above, and when the Immortal Arrival came, I would purge the invading Immortals. Together, we would restore peace to the world..."

Day after day.

Void waited.

He waited through the passing of spring, the coming of autumn, and the arrival of another winter.

Unfortunately, not a trace of wind or snow was seen in the Human World again.

"Void!"

"Wake up!"

"He... he’s already dead!"

"In the Heaven-Slaying War, he may have won, but have you forgotten the price? The backlash from the Celestial Will! The first sword cost him half his lifespan. The second, most of what remained. Even if he didn’t die, he would only have had a few years left to live..."

It was Zhuo speaking.

But it was no use. Atop the palace walls by the gate, the figure in the Black Dragon Emperor’s Robe continued to gaze into the distance, still waiting.

’Perhaps.’

’Others might die.’

’But not him. He was the one who slew Heaven...’

Slaying Heaven truly did have a backlash, one more terrifying than any Life Stealing Immortal Skill, for it directly consumed one’s Innate Lifespan.

But with the Longevity Dao Tree standing firm...

...this terrifying backlash was no more than a gentle breeze on Su Chen’s face; it hadn’t taken even half a day of his lifespan.

Su Chen had long since been up and about, lively as ever, trekking deep into the mountains.

...

...

At the border between the Demon Monster Mountain Range and the domain of the Human Race, there was a continuous stretch of mountains. Here, a young man carried a person’s remains on his back, crossing a thousand mountain barriers and a sea of clouds, heading for a mist-shrouded place deep within the great mountains.

「After a long while.」

He halted his steps.

In the distance, immortal mists still swirled. The place was clearly right before his eyes, yet it seemed as distant as the far horizon. No matter how he traveled, he could not reach it.

’An array?’

Su Chen halted.

His Longevity True Qi was nearly depleted.

For the past year, he had poured all of his Longevity Qi into Yu Le’s body, restoring his fading Vitality to lock in his soul before it completely dissipated.

This was the World in the Palm—an imperfect, flawed place with no Reincarnation.

But it wasn’t hopeless!

Yu Le’s lifespan had been exhausted!

Cloud Concealment Mountain!

If he could just reach Cloud Concealment Mountain!

He could replenish the lost Innate Lifespan, and perhaps there would still be a chance to save him...

Though it was only a sliver of a possibility, he had to try. Over the years, he had seen off too many old friends.

Even if he had no heart and could no longer feel that kind of grief, he still wanted to try.

’I don’t understand arrays.’

’But I understand the sword!’

’Everything has a form. That being the case, I will let my sword shatter this array hidden deep within the mountains!’

Su Chen’s figure barely moved, but a clear, ringing sword cry echoed from his body.

The Dust-Washing Sword!

The Dust-Washing Sword, which had slain the Celestial Will! It had become even more transcendent.

It was already an Immortal Treasure.

Perhaps it was still within the category of a Qi Cultivation Immortal Treasure, or maybe it was an Immortal Treasure befitting the Dao Platform. Su Chen himself wasn’t sure.

He only knew one thing:

The Dust-Washing Sword was now incredibly powerful!

However, the sword strike never fell.

An ancient sigh echoed.

"Sigh..."

"Stay your hand!"

"Sword Immortal, oh, Sword Immortal! Why go to such lengths?"

"You have already achieved Extreme Ascension to Immortality, so why risk going to Cloud Concealment Mountain? Can’t you just wait peacefully for the Immortal Arrival?"

In an instant,

the endless mountain range collapsed with a deafening roar.

Heaven and Earth fell silent.

The scene changed.

The endless mountains were nowhere to be seen.

This place was already Cloud Concealment Mountain.

At this moment, on the peak of Cloud Concealment Mountain, which pierced the heavens, surrounded by endless clouds, there was a patch of tilled farmland. And there, an ancient, weathered, illusory tree that seemed to hold up the sky swayed in the wind.

It was a Hibiscus Tree.

It was lush with branches and leaves, with silver flowers blooming among them.

A gentle breeze blew, and its branches and leaves rustled.

Beneath the tree,

an old man in coarse hemp clothes stood barefoot, a harrow slung over his shoulder. He was tilling the soil.

It was he who had been speaking.

"Dao Platform?"

"Are you an ancient from the Heavenly Fall Era?"

Su Chen gripped his sword, watching the old man with wariness.

In all the world, to be ensnared by an Immortal Skill and forced to travel for nearly a year without even realizing it... only a legendary Dao Platform master, a being beyond the Qi Cultivation Immortal Path, could achieve such a feat.

’But... how could a Dao Platform master exist in the World in the Palm?’

’The Tenth Layer of Qi Cultivation is supposed to be the Ascension to Immortality. There should be no path beyond it.’

"No!"

The old man shook his head.

"No one survived the Heavenly Fall."

"After a thousand years, even a Dao Platform master would die of old age, their lifespan exhausted."

"I am not of the Dao Platform."

"But my lifespan is equal to that of heaven and earth."

The old man set down his harrow, pointed to the sky-piercing Hibiscus Tree, and said with a solemn expression,

"Sword Immortal, I am this tree..."

Su Chen raised his eyes to look at the tree.

All things in the world, even grass, trees, mountains, and stones, possess a flickering Longevity Fire.

But this tree did not.

’An illusory tree, not a real one.’

This tree was rooted in the soil, in this land, yet its aura was somewhat similar to the illusory white-robed form of the Celestial Will.

’A tree?’

Within Su Chen’s body, the dormant Wordless Book began to tremble.

Characters appeared upon it.

The heavens have will, the mountains and seas have spirits, and dynasties have fortune.

This was a Mountain Sea Earth Spirit.

A unique life form, much like the Celestial Will, that was Master of the two hundred thousand li of mountains and rivers, as well as the oceans and lakes.

This was the first time the Wordless Book had provided information on a topic other than the Extreme Realm.

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