We Agreed On Experiencing Life, So Why Did You Immortals Become Real?

Chapter 545: Alive, I Want to See Him. Dead, I Want to See His Corpse!

Inside the Phoenix-Bird Secret Realm, the exits that had originally led to the outside world were slowly closing one after another.

As the secret realm gradually collapsed into annihilation, more and more cultivators were crushed and torn apart by that irresistible force of the void. Amid their screams, their bodies and souls were destroyed, vanishing completely into nothingness without even the chance to enter reincarnation.

At this moment, not a single living person remained in the vast Phoenix-Bird Secret Realm.

Only deathly silence was left.

Xiao Mo, whose life source had completely dissipated, fell soundlessly from high in the air like a kite with its string cut.

However, just as he was about to crash heavily into the ground, a soft breeze suddenly brushed past. It slowly lifted him, holding him up and catching him steadily.

That breeze then gradually condensed into the figure of a woman, her features picturesque, her bearing graceful and elegant.

She gently gathered Xiao Mo into her arms and carefully descended from the sky back to the ground.

Looking at those closed eyes in her arms, deep reluctance and heartache appeared in the woman’s gaze.

At the same time, from the divine statue deep within the palace, a woman slowly walked out.

The woman in a golden dress paced over to the woman formed from the breeze. She lowered her head and looked at Xiao Mo in the other woman’s arms, her expression filled with hatred.

“What a pity that this time, I couldn’t destroy his body and soul.”

The golden-dressed woman gritted her teeth. Her voice was as cold as a blade, and she looked as if she wished she could devour Xiao Mo alive.

“I will not allow you to do that to my Master.” The woman formed from the breeze spoke calmly. Her gaze remained fixed on Xiao Mo’s face from beginning to end, never moving away for even a moment.

“Heh, heh, heh...”

The golden-dressed woman gave a cold laugh, her tone filled with mockery.

“You five sisters acknowledged him as your master back then. Even after death, you built your mausoleums over this sealing formation, each of you suppressing and sealing us for him.”

“You people, always saying it was for the future of all races. But what do all the races under heaven look like now?”

“I merely revealed the location of this forbidden place to those three ants a little, and those three fools flattened Nine Nether Mountain and discovered this place.”

“Then I gave them a little more guidance, making them believe that to enter the core region of the secret realm, they had to offer the blood of tens of thousands of cultivators in sacrifice. In the end, they truly did trick quite a few cultivators into coming here to die!”

“Those stupid things fought to the death over a pitiful handful of rare cultivation treasures. They could betray even their own blood brothers. They could even turn on and murder their own dao companions.”

She glanced at Xiao Mo and said contemptuously,

“Look. He has now been betrayed by your demon race with their own hands, and in the end, he has fallen into such a miserable state.”

The golden-dressed woman tilted her head slightly, a trace of confusion rising in her eyes. “Heiyin’er, tell me—back then, when all your races fought our divine race to the death until blood flowed like rivers, what exactly... was it for? Is this the future you wanted?”

“No matter where the road of all races leads, that is still a choice made by all races themselves.”

The woman named Heiyin’er reached out and stroked Xiao Mo’s already-cold cheek as she spoke softly.

“It is still better than those years, when you gods slaughtered and butchered them at will, reducing them to your slaves.”

“Heh, heh, heh...”

The golden-dressed woman laughed lightly, her laughter clear as bells.

“Then you had better have the ability to suppress us forever and ever. But do not forget—that divine war was not won by all your races! And we have never lost!”

She lifted her chin slightly, her voice cold and certain. “We will return in the end!”

“And when the day of our true return comes”—the golden-dressed woman’s voice sank, her gaze like a blade—“I will make your Master remember everything, bit by bit. Then I will have Elder Sister kill him with her own hands!”

“That day is not far off.”

As her words fell, the golden-dressed woman’s figure gradually transformed into specks of golden light, drifting through the air like fireflies.

The divine statue deep within the palace returned to stillness, without the slightest further movement.

“Master... please rest assured. Yin’er will watch her carefully and will never let her escape.”

Heiyin’er lowered her head and looked at the quiet, pale face in her arms.

The next moment, Heiyin’er abruptly transformed into a mass of black flame, slowly covering Xiao Mo’s remains.

In only ten short breaths, Xiao Mo’s body was completely burned to ash by the black flame, dispersing between heaven and earth.

Yet that black flame gently wrapped around Xiao Mo’s soul layer after layer, silently sending it out of the collapsing secret realm.

“Master... we five sisters... will keep waiting for you... waiting for the day you truly return...”

In the secret realm, only Heiyin’er’s faint, lingering voice remained, echoing for a long time through the collapsing heaven and earth.

And at the very instant Xiao Mo’s soul left the secret realm, the entire Phoenix-Bird Secret Realm collapsed completely and turned into nothingness.

Only that lonely palace remained, floating in the depths of the endless void.

...

A hundred li away from Nine Nether Mountain, Xiaoqing was rushing toward the Land of the Phoenix-Bird at full speed.

At this moment, Xiaoqing was extremely anxious. Every passing breath seemed as long as a hundred years.

To Xiaoqing, this was the one chance in all these many years when she had the greatest hope of bringing Brother Xiao back.

However, just as she reached a place roughly fifty li from the Phoenix-Bird Secret Realm, Xiaoqing’s mind suddenly shook.

An indescribable sense of fear abruptly surged into her heart.

Almost by instinct, she used a dragon-clan innate divine ability to protect herself and the maid beside her, shielding them tightly.

In the next instant, an incomparably violent ripple of spiritual power, carrying searing flames, suddenly blasted outward.

Xiaoqing could even clearly sense that the laws of heaven and earth had become somewhat chaotic.

“This is...”

Xiaoqing clenched her small hands tightly, the tips of her fingers whitening from the force.

In these several thousand years of cultivation, it was not as if Xiaoqing had never encountered a similar phenomenon.

This kind of situation generally represented only one possibility—

A secret realm was collapsing!

“Brother Xiao... please don’t let anything happen to you...”

Xiaoqing’s heart felt as if someone had seized it in a fist. Even breathing became somewhat difficult.

A few traces of regret even surged up in her heart.

The more she thought about it, the more she felt that she should have gone to investigate at the very first opportunity, instead of continuously gathering information and dragging things out until now!

“Sister Xiaoqing, look!”

The maid Han’er raised her hand and pointed ahead.

Not far away, within the Nine Nether Abyss, a colossal vortex had formed like a surging tide, devouring everything around it.

Above the abyss, dark clouds gathered, pressing down in layer upon layer. Countless bolts of thunder struck down one after another, illuminating the entire gloomy sky.

And from the depths of that abyss came one high, mournful phoenix cry after another, echoing between heaven and earth.

With the abyss as its center, waves of violent spiritual-power ripples spread ten thousand li into the distance, until even the far horizon was trembling.

Boom!

Accompanied by an earth-shaking explosion, it was as if the dome of heaven and the earth itself had been blown through by force. That deafening roar continued for a long time.

When the tremendous sound finally faded, the place where the abyss had originally been held only an enormous pit.

“Sister Xiaoqing, this... this is...” Han’er stared blankly ahead, her voice trembling beyond her control.

“The Phoenix-Bird Secret Realm...” Xiaoqing’s nails nearly dug into her palms. She forced out each word slowly.

“Collapsed.”

“Alive, I want to see him. Dead, I want to see his corpse!”

Xiaoqing abruptly raised her head, her gaze sweeping like a blade toward the maid beside her.

“Han’er! Investigate!”