Chapter 64 : Chapter 64
Chapter 64: Burning Qi and Blood, Slaughtering Your Way into the Purple Firmament Holy Land!
【You had originally thought that after spending fifty years in the Desolate Deathlands, the outside world would already have changed beyond recognition. Instead, you discovered that only a mere five years had passed.】
【You brought Zhou Lingxi and hurried toward the Great Zhou Dynasty. You wanted to learn what had happened in that battle all those years ago, and what Zi You’s final fate had been.】
【You wanted to know whether Zi You had successfully escaped in the end, or whether she had fallen at the hands of the Purple Firmament Holy Land.】
【Two months later, you and Zhou Lingxi returned to the Great Zhou Dynasty.】
【Looking at the Great Zhou Dynasty, which had now been completely transformed, you could not help but let out a sigh.】
“Things have changed, and the people are no longer the same…”
【After making some inquiries, you learned that the present Great Zhou Dynasty had already been completely replaced by the Great Chu Dynasty.】
【After the Great Zhou royal family was exterminated by the Purple Firmament Holy Land, the Chu Family quickly carved up its resources and successfully ascended the imperial throne.】
【As for what other hidden dealings might have been involved, you had no way of knowing.】
【What surprised you somewhat was the neighboring Great Qian Dynasty.】
【What surprised you was that the Great Qian Dynasty had not been exterminated. Instead, the ancestor of Great Qian had traded away all their treasures in exchange for the dynasty’s future.】
【The reason the Purple Firmament Holy Land had not wiped them out completely was because the true culprit had, in the end, been the Great Zhou Dynasty.】
【It was because you had infiltrated the Great Zhou Dynasty that the Purple Firmament Holy Land had lost all face at the banquet.】
【The moment you thought of the Purple Firmament Holy Land, anger flared in your eyes.】
【Everything you had become now was because of the Purple Firmament Holy Land. Your lifespan was exhausted, your vitality was gone, and your life was already at its end. You did not have long left to live.】
【Not long afterward, you brought Zhou Lingxi back to the small courtyard where you had once stayed in the Imperial Capital.】
【The good news was that no one else had moved into the courtyard all this time. It had remained vacant.】
【One month later, Zhou Lingxi brewed a cup of Enlightenment Tea for you as you sat beside the stone table.】
【When Zhou Lingxi looked at your head full of white hair, your weathered face, and the wrinkles all over it, her eyes immediately grew moist.】
【Zhou Lingxi knew that the reason you had become like this was because you had brought her out of the Desolate Deathlands.】
【She could not believe that only one month ago, when you had just escaped from the Desolate Deathlands, you had still looked young despite your white hair.】
【And now, in just a short month, you had become like a completely different person.】
【Watching you change from a spirited young man into the broken old man you were now, Zhou Lingxi felt terrible.】
【When you saw Zhou Lingxi arrive, you asked her:】
“Lingxi, you’re here. How did the investigation go?”
【Zhou Lingxi wiped at the corners of her damp eyes.】
“I found out. According to what people say, five years ago the Purple Firmament Holy Land surrounded and hunted a woman of the Demonic Dao. In the end, after losing several Integration Realm experts, they still failed to stop her from escaping.”
【When you heard that Zi You had successfully escaped, the weight hanging in your heart finally fell away.】
“It’s good that she escaped. Good… that’s good.”
【You stood up and looked in the direction of the Purple Firmament Holy Land, your mind racing.】
【You could already sense that your lifespan was gone. At most, you only had another month or two before death claimed you.】
【If you could find Zi You, there was still a possibility that you might live. Back when you had looted the Purple Firmament Holy Land, everything you took had been items useful for cultivation.】
【As for the spiritual objects that could increase lifespan, those were all with Zi You.】
【You knew that trying to search for Zi You now was hopeless, so a bold idea arose in your heart.】
【At the end of the twenty-fifth year, you bade farewell to Zhou Lingxi and left the Great Chu Dynasty alone.】
【Before leaving, you gave her all the spiritual objects and treasures you had stolen from the Purple Firmament Holy Land.】
【You knew that with Zhou Lingxi’s Immortal Eyes, even though she had lost a great deal of lifespan, the spiritual objects you left behind meant that reaching the Mahayana Realm in the future was not impossible.】
【After leaving the Imperial Capital of the Great Chu Dynasty in your old age, you burned the last of your own Qi and Blood and restored your appearance to how it had looked in your youth.】
【Although your face became youthful again, your head of white hair remained unchanged.】
【You used the Great Void Technique with all your strength and headed for the Purple Firmament Holy Land.】
【At the beginning of the twenty-sixth year, you passed through the barrier and entered the territory of the Purple Firmament Holy Land.】
【With determination in your eyes, you looked at the vast mountain range before you.】
【You wanted to use the last stretch of your life to take brutal revenge on the Purple Firmament Holy Land.】
【You used the Great Void Technique to infiltrate the Purple Firmament Holy Land, and once inside, you killed every cultivator below the Void Refinement Realm that you encountered.】
【Even if you met those at the same Void Refinement Realm, you did not hesitate in the slightest and still killed them with overwhelming force.】
【Very soon, the commotion you caused drew the attention of the entire Purple Firmament Holy Land.】
【When the Sect Master of the Purple Firmament Holy Land heard the news, he flew into a rage.】
【He had never expected that you, a mere human of the Void Refinement Realm, would dare charge into the Purple Firmament Holy Land alone and carry out a massacre.】
【It did not take long before an arriving Integration Realm expert forcibly suppressed you.】
“So it’s you? You actually didn’t die? You even made it out of the Desolate Deathlands?”
【The one suppressing you was the same Integration Realm cultivator of the Purple Firmament Holy Land who had once chased you.】
“Pah! If you’re not dead, how could I possibly be dead?”
【Even though your body was pinned down and unable to move, that did not stop you from spitting in his face.】
【In the next instant, his expression darkened as if water could drip from it.】
“You ant, you are courting death—”
“Stop—”
【At a single command, the Purple Firmament Holy Land Integration Realm cultivator in front of you immediately halted his raised hand.】
【At the same time, you saw the Sect Master of the Purple Firmament Holy Land walking toward you with a gloomy expression.】
“Human, I must admit I admire your courage. You are the first—and the only—person who has ever dared charge into a Holy Land alone and kill indiscriminately.”
“Even the Ancient Chaos Fiend Heavenly Venerable of the Ancient Era did not possess courage such as yours.”
“Oh, right. I also heard that you actually escaped alive from the Desolate Deathlands. Since that is the case, let me see exactly how you managed to escape from there!”
【As he spoke, the Sect Master of the Purple Firmament Holy Land prepared to perform a Soul Searching Technique on you.】
BOOM—
【Before the Sect Master of the Purple Firmament Holy Land could finish speaking, you sensed waves of roaring coming from the void.】
【Everyone raised their heads to look at the void, and the Sect Master was no exception.】
【His hands, which were just about to touch the top of your head, suddenly froze as he frowned at the sky.】
【In the next second, the powerful barrier surrounding the Holy Domain was crushed by an invisible force.】
【The Holy Domain was directly exposed above the Central Continent, and then you witnessed a scene you would never forget for the rest of your life.】
【You saw a crack slowly split open in the void above the Central Continent.】
【Then that crack grew larger and larger, until it ultimately formed a gigantic rift before everyone’s eyes.】
“This… what is this?”
【You heard the Integration Realm cultivator of the Purple Firmament Holy Land beside you swallow hard and speak in a trembling voice.】
【Meanwhile, the Sect Master of the Purple Firmament Holy Land, who had been about to search your soul, slowly withdrew his hands from above your head and stared solemnly at the rift in the void.】
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