What is an immortal?

Chapter 1086 - 1051: Laying Down the Heavy Burden

Seeing this, Yuan Ming couldn't care about anything else, he immediately turned his wrist, grabbed the Soul Destroying Sword, and wielded the Mahayana Power, slashing towards the Void Passage.

The Soul Destroying Sword flashed with a black light, a virtual image of a girl emerged, then merged into the semi-arc shaped sword light, sweeping through, and in a flash, it vanished into the Black Mist.

There was no violent explosion, nor any intense spatial fluctuations.

Inside the Black Mist, a bright light flickered for a moment, then instantly faded into extinction.

The space passage immediately vanished, leaving only a body that slowly floated down.

Before they could rejoice, they saw that the falling body was only a half remaining torso from the chest down; her upper body had been torn apart by the Space Power and returned to the Bright Moon Palace.

Xi Ying's upturned mouth slowly fell back, her eyes filled with worry.

From Xia Jie's body, his Divine Soul expanded into a giant dark blue giant, opened its mouth and swallowed that half goddess remnants into itself, gradually returning to his physical body.

The moment the two bodies came close, layer upon layer of dense blue threads extended out, wrapped around him, forming a large cocoon.

Immediately, all breath was sealed, the operating Great Array also came to a halt.

"Senior Xia Jie..." Yuan Ming hesitated to speak.

"We can only leave it to fate." Xi Ying shook her head and said.

The two could only guard by the side, quietly waiting for the result.

Time slowly passed by, clearly only three days and two nights, yet it felt as if a hundred years had gone by.

Finally, at dusk of the third day, a gentle "swoosh" broke the silence in the Underground Palace.

Sitting in meditation, Yuan Ming and Xi Ying immediately awakened and looked towards the blue cocoon.

They watched as the cocoon gradually tore open, revealing Xia Jie's body, the remnants of the Bright Moon Goddess were gone, seemingly fully absorbed by him.

Seeing this scene, Yuan Ming and Xi Ying's faces stiffened, looking very unpleasant.

The body lying in the cocoon was rigid and motionless, without a hint of life, a residual soul drifted nearby.

"As expected, it still failed..."

Xia Jie's residual soul stirred with a Divine Soul wave, his voice echoed in Yuan Ming and Xi Ying's Sea of Consciousness.

"Senior you..." Xi Ying wanted to speak but stopped.

"I actually knew that the chance of success was slim, even if the full remains of the Bright Moon Goddess was obtained, the success rate was only half. But there was no choice; the Chuyun Realm has run out of time, I had to take the risk." Xia Jie's residual soul said.

Hearing this, Yuan Ming felt a heavy sigh in his heart.

"Still, it's fortunate that I met you in my fading years, even if I die, the Chuyun Realm still has hope." Xia Jie's residual soul said with a smile.

Yuan Ming didn't speak, he walked to Xia Jie's body, world tree roots grew from his palm, piercing into his body, trying to infuse Origin Power to awaken vitality.

"No need to waste any effort, failing to strike the Witch God means the soul is scattered with no chance of recovery. This physical body has been refined into a puppet containing the powers of the remnants of the Bright Moon Goddess, and it can reach peak Ghost Witch battle strength. Xi Ying, I'll leave it to you, hope you can make good use of it, maybe you can advance to Witch God." Xia Jie's residual soul shook his head and said.

Xi Ying's eyes were slightly red, she slowly nodded.

"This Black Sword was previously seized from Su Wu, it's also a part of the Great Freedom Sky Demon Sword, and now I return it to you. You can refine it into your Soul Destroying Sword, and it should restore most of the Great Freedom Sky Demon Sword's power." Xia Jie's residual soul said, as a black Flying Sword flew out from his storage bracelet, arriving before Yuan Ming.

"Thank you." Yuan Ming received it with both hands and put it away.

"Also... regarding Liu Tianming, I was too selfish. I had long noticed his Chaotic Demon Species and deliberately sent him to the Demon World." Xia Jie's residual soul hesitantly said.

Hearing this, Yuan Ming remained silent.

Matters concerning Liu Tianming's life and death made it hard for him to be forgiving; it was difficult to accept no matter the purpose.

"After Liu Tianming entered the Demon World, the Yan Emperor will surely use his physical body to cultivate the Supreme Immortal Body and then occupy it to breakthrough to True Immortal Realm. I pre-emptively extracted part of Liu Tianming's soul and hid it in this Soul Condensing Pearl. In the future, if you face him, it will give you a means to restrain him." Though Xia Jie knew Yuan Ming might not understand, he still explained.

Having said that, a fist-sized black Crystal Ball flew out, coming to Yuan Ming.

Yuan Ming collected it with complex feelings, ultimately unable to blame the old man who had worked tirelessly for the Chuyun Realm until the end.

"I've worked hard all my life, and this burden can finally be let go. But it will be tough on you from now on." Seeing Xi Ying agree, Xia Jie slightly relaxed and said a bit reluctantly.

After his words fell, his residual soul gradually faded, turning into a wisp of breeze.

Inside the Underground Palace, the two were silent for a long time.

Yuan Ming stepped forward, gently embraced Xi Ying, lightly patted her back and said, "Senior Xia Jie was right, the battles ahead are ours to fight."

"I know." Xi Ying said, and had already regained her composure.

She put away the puppet of Senior Xia Jie's remains and his artifact, and came to stand in front of the people of the Bright Moon Palace.

"What do you plan to do with these people?" Yuan Ming asked as he followed her.

"Senior Xia Jie has already erased their memories, it seems he wanted to spare their lives. This was his dying wish, so let's temporarily imprison them in the Shura Palace, and later take them back to the Chuyun Realm." Xi Ying said.

Yuan Ming nodded at her words, and according to her instructions, detained the people of the Bright Moon Palace.

Afterwards, they left the Purple Cloud Heavenly Palace.

The two of them maneuvered the Shura Palace, teleporting through space, and soon arrived at the area where Wulu was located.

It was a deathly toxic swamp where miasma filled the air and poisonous creatures abounded. The entire region of a thousand miles was contaminated by poison liquid, with heavy poison clouds constantly gathering overhead, occasionally releasing rains that could dissolve bone and corrode gold.

Yuan Ming occasionally closed his eyes to sense Wulu's presence, not lingering on the outskirts, going straight to the floating island in the center of the toxic swamp.

As soon as he came close, he witnessed a shocking scene.

At this moment, Wulu was sitting cross-legged in the center of the floating island, beneath him was a pool of churning poisonous springs, and around the island, the corpses of various poisonous insects and beasts piled up into mountains.

All around, various poisonous smoke, miasma, and poison liquids coagulated into colorful toxic spiritual power, swirling around Wulu, and continuously he being inhaled into the Ten Thousand Gods Poison Cauldron in front of him, with each breath he took.

Behind him, a Ten Thousand Gods Poison Banner was inserted, helping him gather the power of ten thousand poisons.

Wulu's cultivation at this moment had evidently reached the peak of the mid-stage Dharma manifestation, crucial to breaking through to the next stage.

Yuan Ming's entire body burned with fiery flames, evaporating the approaching poison miasma as he stared intently at Wulu, a trace of doubt appearing in his eyes.

In just this brief observation, he discovered that something was amiss with Wulu's situation.

Although there were many kinds of poisonous miasmas and gases, the poison seemed to lack strength, and Wulu's Ten Thousand Poison Evil Skill was continually up against a bottleneck without success.

"Let me lend you a hand." Yuan Ming murmured.

As the words left his mouth, he raised his hand and waved, sending two poisonous sacks from level 7 Poison Element Beasts flying towards Wulu.

As the poisonous sacks flew into the air, they were immediately attracted by the Ten Thousand Gods Poison Banner, rapidly approaching Wulu. Before they could fall into the Ten Thousand Gods Poison Cauldron, a large amount of poison liquid had already begun to seep out.

Wulu felt the sudden emergence of this new extremely potent poison, and was overjoyed, hurriedly channeling his poison skill to absorb it.

The two poisonous sacks fell into the Ten Thousand Gods Poison Cauldron, merging with the previously accumulated various toxins. The initially dark green and black cauldron suddenly radiated with five-colored light, as rings of poison miasma spread from it and started to seep in all directions.

Seeing this, Yuan Ming quickly instructed Xi Ying to return to the Shura Palace first, while he blocked his own breath, surrounded himself with Fiery Sun True Fire, and resisted the miasma's onslaught.

Seeing the power of ten thousand poisons had formed, Wulu immediately gripped the cauldron with both hands and began quickly absorbing the toxins.

In an instant, the Ten Thousand Poison Evil Skill was pushed to its utmost, the five-colored light penetrating his body, integrating into his dantian, and starting to merge with his mana.

At first, the merging was relatively stable, but a few breaths later, the merger became unusual. It seemed that some poison was seeping from his dantian and surging into his internal organs.

Wulu himself already had a Body of Ten Thousand Poisons, with strong resistance to toxins in his internal organs, but even so, he was unable to withstand this newly fused five-colored poison.

In less than three breaths, his internal organs were severely damaged, with pitch-black blood flowing like earthworms from his nose, mouth, and ear canals.

Seeing the dire situation, Yuan Ming instantly flashed to his side, placed his hand on Wulu's shoulder, and channeled the Origin Power of the World Tree into his body to repair the life-force rapidly destroyed by the poison.

With the influx of a large amount of Power of Ten Thousand Wood Origin, Wulu's internal organs were temporarily mended, but could not maintain for long, being quickly corroded by the poison again.

"The corrosive power of the poison far exceeds my healing ability; this is not a sustainable approach," Yuan Ming thought with a sinking heart.

He hurriedly utilized his divine thought to probe Wulu's dantian.

Upon checking, he discovered that the fusion between the spiritual power in Wulu's dantian and the five-colored poison had stagnated, and his Nascent Soul was already suffering from backlash and on the verge of collapse.

With the situation critical, Yuan Ming could no longer hesitate.

He immediately activated the Chaos Dao Fruit, channeling a wisp of chaotic power into Wulu's dantian.

The immense chaotic power had the function to refine spiritual power, and even though a small amount of chaotic power was insufficient to refine spiritual power, it could facilitate the operation of the poison and spiritual power, accelerating their fusion.

Sure enough, once the wisp of chaotic power was integrated, the stagnated fusion restarted.

The spiritual power in Wulu's dantian and the five-colored poison spun rapidly, transforming into a small patch of five-colored nebula, from which faint attraction and aggregation forces arose, drawing back the overflowing poison.

In a matter of moments, the two successfully integrated, and Wulu thus broke through to the late-stage Dharma manifestation.