Eternal Tale

”Friend Wang.”

Chen Xun saw the visitor and remained composed. ”To be honest, I’m quite surprised you came, given our deep connection.”

Meng Sheng stood aside, bowing his head. Not long ago, Wangyou had personally given him a treasure as a meeting gift.

Wangyou’s expression was somewhat cold, and his voice was as icy as the underworld: ”During the battle at the borderlands, I must thank the Dao Ancestor for sparing Wangchuan’s life. He has accumulated too much karma, and this tribulation is inevitable.”

As for Wang Qianye... after being brutally attacked by that black bull, his Dao heart was damaged. Our lineage has had some bad luck, with one man and one bull severing the Dao hearts of a generation of prodigies.

Upon learning this news, Wangyou felt a deep sense of helplessness and regret.

I helped them with the intention of aiding the ancient prince and resolving karma, to prevent these two from becoming a great calamity at the Taiyi Ghost Gate.

Chen Xun nodded. ”I spared their lives for the future journey to the Taiyi Ghost Gate, not wanting to make things too tense. But it turns out you are connected with the Immortal King Burial and Young Master Gu.”

”...It’s like a flood washing over the Dragon King’s temple.”

At this point, he sighed slightly. There were many times when he couldn’t help himself, caught in the grand scheme, unable to extricate himself.Wangyou spoke expressionlessly: ”Dao Ancestor, let’s leave this matter behind and not mention it again. Back then, your realms were comparable, yet you never used your power to oppress others; they were simply too weak.”

Though his tone remained cold, Chen Xun could sense the sincerity and earnestness in his words.

Chen Xun was at a loss for words, unsure how to respond.

If someone had humiliated his sect’s disciples like this, he would indeed take action... Would it never end, with them constantly targeting my sect’s disciples?

In the past, he found it amusing when the elders would come after the juniors were attacked, but now that he was one of those elders, he realized that some strange principles in the world of immortals were not without basis.

Perhaps the saying about killing a chicken from the Five Aggregates Sect leading to a war in the world of immortals wasn’t entirely impossible... He really didn’t have a persecution complex in his youth.

Time will prove everything.

Chen Xun pondered for a moment and cupped his hands. ”I cannot compare to your state of mind, Immortal Friend.”

”The Dao Ancestor has not been an immortal for long; I have been one for thirty thousand years, so naturally, there will be differences.” Wangyou nodded, a faint smile appearing at the corners of his mouth.

He quickly changed the subject: ”I wonder what brings the Ancestor to the Ghost Gate?”

Chen Xun’s eyes narrowed, his gaze piercing through the abyss of time, meeting Wangyou’s immortal eyes.

He asked word by word: ”Immortal Friend, is there reincarnation in this world? Do living beings have a reincarnated body?”

Chen Xun’s words lightly echoed in the air, like a stone cast into a calm lake, creating ripples upon ripples, and the atmosphere around them instantly became heavy.

Meng Sheng’s body trembled, clenching his teeth, feeling that hearing certain immortal words would bring great misfortune upon him.

Wangyou’s brows furrowed visibly, his eyes flashing with profound light as he looked at Chen Xun: ”The grand world’s cycle of reincarnation has not been severed; how dare one create reincarnation for living beings.”

”At the Taiyi Ghost Gate, there is a river of dead souls called ’Huangqu,’ established by the Taiyi Immortal Court, perfected by the demon court that briefly dominated the Three Thousand Great Worlds for ten thousand years... It absorbs the world’s ghosts, cleansing the Three Souls and Seven Spirits.”

”The method of finding reincarnated loved ones is sought by many powerful beings, Dao Ancestor; you are not the only one.”

Wangyou spoke coldly, casting a deep glance at Chen Xun, ”The Huangqu contains the legacy of the Dao Ancestor’s laws, yet it remains unopened. When a person dies, the erosion of karma begins until the traces completely vanish from the world.”

”No one remembers... no one recalls.”

”To open the cycle of immortal reincarnation, perhaps only by severing the world’s reincarnation and reaching the True Immortal Realm, but in the mortal world today, Dao Ancestor, there is no reincarnation for living beings.”

Wangyou’s words were heavy, and such questions were certainly not the first asked by the Dao Ancestor of the Five Elements, ”The passing of loved ones is inevitable, only tribulation-crossing cultivators can use Dao essence to live a second life.”

Hearing this, Chen Xun fell silent, not stubbornly pursuing the matter as he had in the past. The immortals of the Ghost Gate would not deceive him on such matters.

”I understand, thank you.” He spoke softly, with a faint sigh of relief.

”But...”

”Hmm?” Chen Xun’s eyes sparkled, looking at Wangyou, who seemed hesitant to speak.

”If the Dao Ancestor’s loved one passed away, a wisp of their soul could be forcibly cast into the Huangqu, where the Taiyi Ghost Gate would use immortal arts to seal it within. When the True Immortal Realm is established, and the other shore flowers bloom, the reincarnation of living beings will stand in the immortal realm...”

Wangyou seemed to have made a significant decision, his expression unusually solemn, ”There might be a slim chance to see that reincarnated person, this is Fu Shi’s incomplete defying immortal art, and this is the extent of its capability.”

”The national religion of the Ancient Immortal Court... created the Immortal Canon of Rebirth, attempting to reverse its own reincarnation, but the heavens destroyed this canon, and the living beings of the national religion were abandoned by the heavens.”

”Those who touched this canon lived in a daze, their immortal path seemingly cyclical, with endless rise and fall.”

He cast a deep glance in a certain direction, where Gu Lisheng resided, ”The Sky Dragon and Earth Tiger have long since perished, reflecting the prince’s obsession.”

”The national religion Fu Shi probably doesn’t dare to come out, having long been obliterated in the river of time.”

Wangyou’s words were shocking, yet his tone remained indifferent, aware of many great secrets, ”Dao Ancestor, touching reincarnation... touching the forbidden is a path of no return...”

These words drifted softly in all directions, like the coming of winter, freezing mountains and rivers, and all things. Immortals must have reverence.

He and Chen Xun locked eyes, their gaze containing a thousand unspoken words. Wang Qianye once said he saw the dead!

And coincidentally, he saw this very Dao Ancestor of the Five Elements, and even more coincidentally, the immortal path he practiced was the forbidden path that caused the most deaths among grand world cultivators due to backlash...

Heaven and earth’s taboo—the Five Elements Immortal Path!

At the age of twenty, Ye Qingyou had already announced Chen Xun’s past to the world, and which upper-level cultivator didn’t know? They simply didn’t dare to mention it or investigate further, as it was bizarre beyond compare!

This bizarre situation could only be explained by the Five Elements alien spirit, bearing the innate Five Elements body.

However, his origin was as an opener of a small boundary, but no small boundary had ever seen the precedent of an alien spirit, so where did the Five Elements alien spirit come from?!

The situation of this Dao Ancestor of the Five Elements was so bizarre and terrifying that it made people’s hearts tremble, even the pinnacle immortals dared not fight him in this era to uncover all his secrets.

Some immortals said this powerful Dao Ancestor was born at the wrong time, but others at the pinnacle said this Dao Ancestor chose the perfect time to be born, even timing his ascension to immortality perfectly.

Everyone was actually very clear in their hearts about this Dao Ancestor’s strangeness and extraordinary power, but no one mentioned it much, using the simplest and most direct method—to outlive him.

But even Chen Xun didn’t know that the immortals of the Boundless Myriad Clans had long set their sights on his immortal corpse, a plan spanning hundreds of thousands of years.

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Cold sweat dripped down Meng Sheng’s back, today he truly witnessed something extraordinary, and his own state of mind unknowingly improved, the stories of immortals were indeed fascinating.