Chapter 85
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Finished Karma and Split Karma were both born and destroyed with each other.
But even Ling Buyan, the one who forged them, had never tried to see how they would “destroy” each other. Seeing the scene before him, Ling Buyan was extremely shocked.
He saw two beams of light, one bright and one dark, colliding in the air, and the golden light transformed by Mo Shenyu also twisted as the two swords clashed.
The entire Endless Purgatory also underwent changes.
Split Karma and Finished Karma were both natural divine swords, they were the best partners but also each other’s greatest enemies. Coming from the natural yin and yang poles, their powers were completely opposite.
At this moment, colliding with each other, these two world-class divine swords did not give way to each other at all.
Before Li Fenglan came to Endless Purgatory, Ling Buyan had been confronting Mo Shenyu for a while. Even with Ling Buyan’s power to connect to the heavens, he was still somewhat powerless against the light ball formed by Mo Shenyu’s spiritual energy.
Most of his attacks were like hitting cotton.
Although Mo Shenyu’s divine soul had been damaged at this point, it was still the result of Ling Buyan trading his own blood and injuries.
Now, Split Karma and Finished Karma collided fiercely in the air, and as their owners, Li Fenglan and Ling Buyan were not in a good state at all.
They continuously infused spiritual power into the long swords while being completely exposed to the Purgatory, accepting the rebounding force coming from the front.
…
Under Endless Purgatory, the thick black clouds that once covered the sky had all dissipated, and churning magma appeared before everyone’s eyes.
“What happened to the sky!”
“Help!”
“The sky is going to destroy us!”
The space below Xieguang Tower had become a mess.
After knowing that Mo Shenyu was transformed by the will of heaven, they already felt despair. Seeing the strange phenomenon in the sky made them panic as if they were at the end of the world.
“Are you crazy?” Meng Linzhou said coldly when he saw the people around him.
Apart from Meng Linzhou, the only person in Xieguang Tower who remained relatively calm was probably the sect leader Jiang Yichang. Although he was the sect leader, Jiang Yichang was only a few thousand years old and had never seen such a scene before. He forced himself to calm down now, knowing that countless eyes in the sect were watching him. If he panicked, things would get completely out of control.
Don’t panic, don’t panic…
Jiang Yichang tightly clenched the fabric in his sleeve with one hand.
However, just as he was about to successfully maintain his composure, Cheng Huang, who had been quietly looking at the sky, suddenly spoke.
He made a “tsk” sound, then suddenly said with a serious tone in his childish voice, “It seems like endless purgatory is up there.”
Endless purgatory?
Jiang Yichang’s pretense of calm collapsed completely when he heard these words. He couldn’t help but widen his eyes and look at Cheng Huang in disbelief, “What did you say, endless purgatory?”
Although Cheng Huang’s voice was not loud, his childish voice was too obvious here.
Not only did Jiang Yichang hear Cheng Huang’s words, but even Meng Linzhou and several other cultivators around him also turned their eyes to him.
Cheng Huang noticed that everyone was looking at him, but instead of turning around to look at those cultivators directly, he laughed disdainfully and said with certainty, “This is indeed endless purgatory. I know it too well…”
Cheng Huang’s words made everyone’s heart sink like they were in an ice cave. They, like Li Fenglan before, had always thought that “endless purgatory” was a place that only existed in legends.
At this moment, they learned at the same time that Endless Purgatory truly existed, and it was right above their heads, making everyone even more desperate.
If anything were to happen inside Endless Purgatory, the world would really collapse…
Just as everyone silently prayed in their hearts, Cheng Huang, who was incredibly familiar with Endless Purgatory, suddenly squinted his eyes and spotted a crack in the sky that had appeared out of nowhere. He immediately flew towards the sky.
In a blink of an eye, he disappeared from everyone’s sight.
Meanwhile, inside Endless Purgatory…
Li Fenglan and Ling Buyan were both spiritual root cultivators, and one of the most famous traits of spiritual root cultivators was their wide spiritual veins.
But now, Li Fenglan and Ling Buyan were continuously supplying their spiritual energy into the spirit sword, and it wasn’t long before their spiritual veins began to show signs of exhaustion.
Separated by the constantly changing and gathering golden light, Li Fenglan couldn’t clearly see Ling Buyan’s condition on the other side. He only knew that there was a trail of blood flowing down his lips, and it had even seeped into his clothes.
After not too long, the white robe on Li Fenglan’s body was already stained with clusters of red plum blossoms.
The surrounding space became even more chaotic. However, just as the consumption of their spiritual energy was about to reach its limit, Li Fenglan unexpectedly became calm.
Endless Purgatory was the place where everything in the world ended, but it was also the place closest to the Dao.
At this moment, Li Fenglan even felt like he could sense the Dao… He stared firmly at Finished Karma in front of him, attempting to inject his last bit of spiritual energy into the long sword.
Everything around him became quiet.
As a dazzling light flashed by, the golden light at the forefront of Li Fenglan finally expanded in an instant, and then disappeared into the sky in the next moment. In Endless Purgatory, the flames that were still surging just a moment ago were all extinguished in an instant. The Baishi Underworld fire, which had burned for thousands of years, disappeared just like that.
Meanwhile, inside Tianmian Palace, everyone saw that the sky, which was just a sea of fire, was quickly returning to normal in just half a stick of incense.
At this moment, there was silence in Li Fenglan’s ears, and even the last trace of golden light was gone from his sight.
Finally, the Heavenly Dao found this lost consciousness, approached silently, and slowly devoured Mo Shenyu.
…After leaving the Heavenly Dao and becoming a human for a thousand years, Mo Shenyu finally returned to nothingness silently.
His spirit and consciousness dissipated in the world, without even letting out a final scream. And the power he borrowed from the Heavenly Dao, as well as his soul, once again returned to the cold Heavenly Dao.
The string that had been tightly stretched in Li Fenglan’s heart suddenly broke, and his whole body lost its strength. He involuntarily closed his eyes, and his consciousness seemed to be about to sink into nothingness in the next moment.
At this moment, Li Fenglan was backlashed by the golden light and fell backwards. However, he was not hurt. Just as he was about to fall to the ground, a familiar figure suddenly appeared behind him and caught him firmly in their arms.
“Fenglan,” the person holding him called out his name with great nervousness, “Wake up, don’t sleep now.”
It was Ling Buyan…
At the moment before he was about to lose consciousness, Li Fenglan’s mind instinctively thought of Ling Buyan’s name.
He slowly opened his eyes with great difficulty, and Ling Buyan’s familiar face appeared before him.
In a half-awake and half-asleep state, Li Fenglan didn’t even know it himself. At this moment, he suddenly smiled at Ling Buyan and said softly, “Ling Buyan, you’re here…”
Li Fenglan’s voice was very soft, almost like a strand of air. When he softly uttered Ling Buyan’s name, his voice was gentle and unusual, but Ling Buyan’s heart had never been as panicked as it was at this moment.
The Baishi Underworld fire of Endless Purgatory was originally specialized in burning people’s souls. Ling Buyan had been here for thousands of years, and his shattered soul had been repaired countless times by the Du Sheng plaque. His soul seemed to be covered in scars and very fragile, but in fact it was incredibly strong.
But Li Fenglan was different…
Thousands of years ago, Li Fenglan had been destroyed under the Fushen Array. Even though he had been in the Tanyi Pagoda for thousands of years, his soul was still weaker than that of an average person.
Today, in Endless Purgatory, Li Fenglan’s soul was being burned by the Baishi Underworld fire of Endless Purgatory at all times. At the same time, he had exhausted all his spiritual power and was suffering from backlash.
The two long swords that were just confronting each other in the golden light had finally flown back to Li Fenglan’s side.
Finished Karma didn’t speak, but hung quietly by its master’s side. It was like a child who had done something wrong, and it took a long time before it dared to gently nudge Li Fenglan’s fingers.
Seeing this, Li Fenglan’s hand, which had already become numb, slowly lifted up and gently stroked the white sword body.
“It’s okay…” Li Fenglan’s voice was very soft. This sentence was meant for Finished Karma, but also for Ling Buyan.
Ling Buyan, who was holding Li Fenglan in his arms, had never felt so desperate before.
“Hold on, Fenglan, I’ll take you back to Tanyi Pagoda…” After saying this, Ling Buyan finally realized that his voice was trembling.
As the Primordial Immortal Ling Buyan, he had never been afraid of anything in his life, but at this moment, he unexpectedly felt a sense of fear.
At this moment, Cheng Huang finally followed the scent of his master and arrived here.
Stimulated by memories from its past life, Cheng Huang was different from the naive little beast a few hours ago. As it sniffed the cold fragrance emanating from Li Fenglan’s body, it also caught a whiff of the smell of blood.
So when it saw two familiar figures in front of it, Cheng Huang rushed up to them without hesitation.
Just as it was about to carry Li Fenglan on its back and take him away, Cheng Huang suddenly saw that Ling Buyan was tightly holding Li Fenglan in his arms, so tightly that his knuckles turned white.
In the next moment, tears flickered in the corners of the eyes of the man who, in Cheng Huang’s impression, was almost omnipotent but also incredibly annoying.
Before Cheng Huang could react, it saw Ling Buyan hold Li Fenglan in his arms and slowly kneel down on the ground.
Cheng Huang widened its ice-blue eyes in shock, while Li Fenglan, who was held in Ling Buyan’s embrace, couldn’t help but call out in disbelief, “Master?”
Li Fenglan suddenly remembered what Ling Buyan had once said to him: “As my disciple, you don’t have to kneel to the heavens, the earth, or any person.”
But now, Ling Buyan was kneeling on the ground, on the still-burning core of the Baishi Underworld fire that had not yet extinguished.
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