Enlightenment: Attaining the Dao at Age 8

Chapter 243: Chapter 146: 10,000 Years Is Too Long, Seize the Day

Li Chang’an nodded. “I’ve heard from Cultivators that as a World-Devouring Whale, you can devour the boundaries between worlds in the Void?”

The World-Devouring Whale nodded proudly. “That’s right!”

Li Chang’an continued, “I’d like to ask you to sever the connection between this small world and the Cultivation Realm—in other words, all those gates. I wonder if you could help?”

Hearing that Li Chang’an wanted to sever the gates to the Cultivation Realm, the World-Devouring Whale’s eyes widened.

“Are you insane? First of all, I’m severely injured right now and can barely move. Even if I were at my full strength, my natural abilities would only allow me to sever the connection between a single gate and the Immortal Palace at most.”

“The moment I do that, the Immortal Palace will surely notice. They might even send a large force to hunt me down. I won’t stop you if you want to get yourself killed, but don’t drag me down with you!”

Hearing the World-Devouring Whale’s response, Li Chang’an realized he had oversimplified things.

’That’s true. There’s only one World-Devouring Whale, but there are so many gates. If the connection between one gate and the Cultivation Realm is severed, the Cultivation Realm will definitely find out something is wrong with this world very quickly.’

’They might even guess immediately that a World-Devouring Whale was behind it.’

’Wouldn’t that be like poking a hornet’s nest?’

The first plan was a no-go, but Li Chang’an wasn’t disappointed. He proposed a second one instead. “Senior, could you secretly gnaw away at the barrier between the Cultivation Realm and the Lower Realm, isolating the Lower Realm?”

Hearing this plan, the World-Devouring Whale wasn’t as agitated. It snorted coldly. “I’m only one whale, and I’m severely injured. Even if I were willing to help you, boring through the boundary between the Cultivation Realm and the Lower Realm would probably take at least ten thousand years!”

“By then, the Cultivation Realm will have probably scoured this world clean, leaving no life behind. Do you think that proposal is reasonable?”

Li Chang’an thought for a long time. After looking the World-Devouring Whale up and down a few times, he asked, “If your injuries could be healed, could the efficiency be improved a bit?”

The World-Devouring Whale waved a fin to scratch its armpit, saying flatly, “If my injuries heal, it would take about five thousand years. That’s the fastest I can go.”

Li Chang’an blinked. “Senior Whale, do you have any family or friends?”

At the words “family and friends,” the World-Devouring Whale became visibly agitated, and the entire tunnel trembled with its emotion.

It said, both angry and annoyed, “The Immortal Palace hunts us down everywhere! My entire clan was captured and enslaved by those beasts! You tell me if I have any family or friends left!”

Li Chang’an didn’t press on the World-Devouring Whale’s sore spot. Instead, he said, “Senior, you told me before that the enemy of my enemy is my friend. I deeply agree…”

“Right now, we have a common enemy: the Cultivators from the Immortal Palace. So why don’t we cooperate and kill those son-of-a-bitch animals!”

Upon hearing this, the World-Devouring Whale started HUFFING and PUFFING, clearly enraged.

But after a long moment of fury, it sighed and said, “To those true Cultivators, we’re nothing but a bunch of ants. Even if you gave us another ten thousand years, we’d never be their match!”

“Right now, I just want to find a quiet place to heal, and then find a new clan to continue my lineage…”

Li Chang’an didn’t speak.

Instead, he took a few Elixirs out of his pocket.

The moment it saw the Elixirs, the World-Devouring Whale quickly shut its mouth, sniffed the air, and after a moment, said with a mix of shock and delight, “These are Cultivator Elixirs! Did you loot them from that bastard?”

Li Chang’an smiled. “These are healing elixirs I refined myself, using the Cultivators’ own as a base. They’re very effective for healing injuries.”

As he spoke, Li Chang’an tossed the Elixirs to the World-Devouring Whale.

The World-Devouring Whale caught the Elixirs, held them to its snout, and sniffed them carefully for a long time before swallowing them. In an instant, although its injuries hadn’t fully recovered, they began to slowly scab over.

Wounds inflicted by a Cultivator are difficult to heal naturally because they’re saturated with Spiritual Power.

Only Elixirs prepared by Cultivators can neutralize the destructive energy within.

Li Chang’an said persuasively, “If we can’t be their match in ten thousand years, then we’ll take a hundred thousand. If a hundred thousand isn’t enough, then a million!”

“As long as we don’t give up, we’ll get our revenge one day!”

“How can you, Senior, stand by and watch your own kin suffer while you hide away, living a carefree life?”

“If we join forces and pull out the hooks the Cultivation Realm has in the Lower Realm, sooner or later, a single spark from the Lower Realm will be enough to start a prairie fire!”

Logic told the World-Devouring Whale it should immediately find females from other clans to continue its lineage.

But its heart screamed, ’To hell with continuing the lineage!’

’A true warrior fights!’

It was fired up. It roared, “Since you’re so confident, I’ll go all out this time! I’ll risk my life to help you!”

“Once I’ve healed, I’ll immediately start gnawing away at the boundary between the two realms. As soon as the boundary is completely devoured, the Lower Realm and the Cultivator World will separate, and the gates will naturally be severed!”

At this point, its voice paused. Its pair of beady, jet-black eyes looked at Li Chang’an as it continued, “But you’ll have to provide a lot of Elixirs to help me recover. And after I’ve recovered, you’ll still have to hold out for at least another five thousand years. Can you manage that?”

Five thousand years meant at least two more waves of Cultivators.

Even in the World-Devouring Whale’s eyes, this was a nearly impossible task.

“You don’t need to worry about those things, Senior!” Li Chang’an replied without any hesitation, turning his head. “Ten thousand years is too long; we must seize the day. I will go and draw up a contract with the will of this world. Once we sign it, we’ll begin!”

Saying this, Li Chang’an didn’t exchange any more pleasantries.

He turned and left the desolate Gobi Desert of the northwest.

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