Chapter 86
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This day was destined to be engraved in the annals of the cultivation world, as well as in the minds of everyone.
Not long after the sky returned to normal, the cultivators gathered under Xieguang Tower of Tianmian Palace, saw Ling Buyan, dressed in black robes, carrying a person covered in blood and flying towards the depths of Tianmian Palace on his sword. Following closely behind them was a white fierce beast with blue flames under its feet, towering over a person in height.
They descended from the heavens, as if ancient gods had come to the mortal realm.
Although they had known Li Fenglan and Ling Buyan for a long time, everything felt different after they learned the truth about their identities and witnessed this scene before them.
During the emergency just now, nobody paid attention to the passage of time. It was only after the group of people had left that they realized a whole night had passed in the eastern sky, which was just starting to brighten.
Ling Buyan tightly held Li Fenglan in his arms, his hands trembling uncontrollably.
During the fierce battle just now, Ling Buyan had also exhausted his spiritual power. But even so, as he flew towards his destination on his sword, he kept inputting his spiritual energy into Li Fenglan’s body, trying to heal him.
Ling Buyan had to go to the Tanyi Pagoda, where Li Fenglan had originally condensed his soul. Only by sending Li Fenglan back to the tower could his scattered soul, which had been burned by the Baishi Underworld fire, be reunited.
As the number one cultivator of the present era, Ling Buyan’s speed on his sword was unimaginably fast, even Cheng Huang had trouble keeping up with him. However, as the surrounding scenery rapidly receded, Ling Buyan’s anxious mood showed no signs of calming down.
“Fenglan, Fenglan…” Ling Buyan softly called the person’s name in his arms.
But Li Fenglan remained motionless, as if he were asleep, with his eyes tightly shut, giving Ling Buyan no response at all.”
Ling Buyan continued to softly call out Li Fenglan’s name and whispered in his ear, “Fenglan, wake up. There are many things I haven’t told you yet. You have always wanted to know the answers, haven’t you? If you wake up, I will tell you everything.”
Ling Buyan’s voice was not loud, but it fully reached the ears of Cheng Huang, who was following closely behind them.
Due to the recent surge of spiritual energy, Cheng Huang had already remembered everything. When he saw Ling Buyan in Endless Purgatory, Cheng Huang suddenly remembered how Ling Buyan had tricked him into leaving and then shrunk himself down.
At that moment, this ancient fierce beast Cheng Huang wanted to take revenge on Ling Buyan, but seeing how Ling Buyan treated Li Fenglan, Cheng Huang actually held back. It had to admit that Ling Buyan was really good to Li Fenglan.
Thinking of this, Cheng Huang suddenly snorted. “Considering how you treat Fenglan and can help him recover his soul, I won’t hold it against you for today.”
After half a cup of tea, they finally arrived at the foot of the Tanyi Pagoda.
Ling Buyan did not hesitate for a moment and directly carried Li Fenglan to the top of the tower. Even before Ling Buyan could do anything, as Li Fenglan felt the familiar soul aura, the Tanyi Pagoda, which had been quiet for many years, once again glowed with a blue light.
The Soul-Condensing Formation on the tower had been activated!
Li Fenglan had lost consciousness in Endless Purgatory, but miraculously, at the moment when the formation on the Tanyi Pagoda started to run, Li Fenglan’s consciousness slowly woke up.
At this moment, he could not feel any pain. He laid in mid-air, just like floating in a hot spring.
Although he could not speak yet and his consciousness was still a little fuzzy, Li Fenglan felt that Ling Buyan was by his side, and he even felt Ling Buyan gently holding his hand.
“Master…” Li Fenglan exerted all his strength and finally called out these words.
As a cultivator with sensitive senses, Li Fenglan didn’t even hear the word he had spoken, but Ling Buyan standing next to him did.
“Li Fenglan?” He called Li Fenglan’s name again, then suddenly lowered his voice and said in Li Fenglan’s ear, “Fenglan, I don’t know if you remember, but people in the world of cultivation always said that you and I are very alike.”
Although Li Fenglan couldn’t say much, he heard Ling Buyan’s words clearly.
Yes, Li Fenglan still remembered that people in the world of cultivation always said that he was the second Xuanchu Immortal Ancestor.
But Li Fenglan himself felt that besides the similar talent, Ling Buyan was nothing like him.
Just as Li Fenglan was thinking about this, Ling Buyan paused for a moment and continued, “Mo Shenyu, as a thought of the Heavenly Dao, discovered your soul and talent, and planned to use your power to replace him. So during those thousand years, he had been watching you.”
By now, the sky had gradually brightened.
The terrifying sky of last night had disappeared, and the sky was now a deep blue. Everything that happened not long ago seemed like a dream.
Li Fenglan was lying in the center of Tanyi Pagoda in the void, and shallow golden light kept converging towards his body. Because of this warm light, Li Fenglan’s features became even softer.
Ling Buyan stood beside him, holding Li Fenglan’s hand, and gently telling him things he didn’t know.
Meanwhile, Cheng Huang was lying quietly on the ground, waiting for his master to wake up.
Ling Buyan suddenly laughed, and continued, “By that time, I didn’t even know how long I had been trapped in Endless Purgatory…the burning of the Baishi Underworld fire, as well as the gathering and scattering of my soul, gradually made me hate the Heavenly Dao, and hate this world.” Ling Buyan’s tone was light, but anyone who could understand his words could understand what was behind this simple sentence.
Hearing this, Cheng Huang suddenly wagged his tail. Besides Ling Buyan, it was the creature that understood this feeling the most.
Cheng Huang couldn’t help but look up at Ling Buyan. Even though it knew that any living being trapped in the endless purgatory would have extreme thoughts, it was still surprised to hear Ling Buyan admit it.
Did Ling Buyan just admit to it?
Wasn’t he the one who cared most about face?
Although Ling Buyan saw the strange expression on Cheng Huang’s face, he didn’t pay any attention to the ferocious beast.
He could feel that after hearing him say this, Li Fenglan’s fingers trembled slightly.
Obviously, Li Fenglan heard Ling Buyan’s words and was worried about him.
“Don’t worry.” Ling Buyan lightly squeezed Li Fenglan’s hand.
“…Until I saw you,” Ling Buyan said.
Before Li Fenglan was born, Ling Buyan, like Cheng Huang before, could only see major events in the mortal world, and the time between this vision and the next might span a thousand years. Such loneliness might be bearable for a fierce beast whose intelligence hadn’t fully developed, but for someone like Ling Buyan, it was impossible to ignore.
As he had said, as a cultivator, the Ling Buyan of old believed in and respected the Heavenly Dao. But when the Heavenly Dao played such a trick on him, Ling Buyan was truly unable to let it go.
At that time, Ling Buyan’s state of mind was more dangerous than falling into demonic cultivation.
If he had been able to leave Endless Purgatory at that time, the whole world would probably have suffered a catastrophic disaster.
It wasn’t until Li Fenglan appeared that everything changed.
Li Fenglan’s talent and spiritual power were equal to Ling Buyan’s, so shortly after his birth, the Heavenly Dao quietly began to watch over him.
Therefore, in the long blank life, someone finally appeared.
…
At that time, Li Fenglan was similar and yet not so similar to Li Fuyue, the Immortal Lord of Tianmian Palace.
He didn’t know what cultivating was, nor did he ever think about cultivators or the Heavenly Dao. In Li Fenglan’s world, there were only endless books of poetry and literature, birds flying in the evening, and a cup of hot tea on the table.
At first, Ling Buyan, although he would look at Li Fenglan, had no interest in his boring life.
Like any time in the past millennium, Ling Buyan thought about leaving Endless Purgatory and then seeking revenge for everything he encountered…
But at some point, Ling Buyan’s gaze finally fell on Li Fenglan.
Or rather, it fell into Li Fenglan’s world.
He used Li Fenglan’s eyes to read books and write poetry, and re-experience the changing of the four seasons in the mortal world.
Li Fenglan loved this world so much, and Ling Buyan, who was extremely violent in his heart, also gradually calmed down with Li Fenglan’s gaze.
At this point, Ling Buyan regarded Li Fenglan as another self in the world, and entrusted his unfulfilled and restless life to Li Fenglan.
Even because of the Heavenly Dao’s attention, Ling Buyan, as if using Li Fenglan’s perspective, once again passed through a lifetime in the mortal world.
Li Fenglan was a born cultivator. Although he didn’t cultivate the Heartless Dao in his past life, he had a transcendent attitude of not being pleased with material things and not being sad about oneself. By using Li Fenglan’s eyes to experience the world, Ling Buyan’s hatred and revenge gradually faded away from his heart.
It was at this moment that Ling Buyan finally realized that a part of his soul and cultivation had completely merged into the Heavenly Dao. He now possessed the ability to perceive the Heavenly Dao.
Ling Buyan gradually calmed down.
And just as the Heavenly Dao was about to take action… Ling Buyan, who had already begun to calm down, suddenly realized that everything was not yet over.
Or rather, everything was just beginning.
Thinking back on it, Ling Buyan suddenly said to Li Fenglan, “Do you know, Fenglan, we once met many years ago. It was the first time in a thousand years that I had accumulated enough power to try to leave Endless Purgatory.”
After saying this, Ling Buyan remembered what had happened afterwards.
Although Li Fenglan had extraordinary talent, he had no intention of cultivating. Mo Shenyu couldn’t wait any longer. He brought down a serious illness on Li Fenglan and used the incompetent emperor of the time to bring disaster to the entire Li family.
Afterwards, Ling Buyan watched as Li Fenglan left home and came to Tianmian Palace.
Returning to that familiar place, Ling Buyan, who had been seeing the world through Li Fenglan’s eyes all this time, finally shifted his gaze to Li Fenglan himself.
After Li Fenglan became a cultivator, Ling Buyan saw the differences between them.
In many ways, Li Fenglan was completely opposite to him.
When Ling Buyan was still alive in the world, he disliked people like Li Fenglan who had no desires, no ambitions. But this time, Ling Buyan changed.
The qualities in Li Fenglan that were completely opposite to himself attracted Ling Buyan. For the first time, he became curious and interested in someone in the world.
They were like Finished Karma and Split Karma. The most similar, and also the most dissimilar.
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