Chapter 137: Looking Back at a Thousand Years of the Human World, I Alone Am the True Immortal

【Every person, every stage, has different changes.】

【Your posture as you meet the sword and rise is like a swimming dragon; even a common man's rage can splash blood three feet, but ever since you carried the people across the river, a quality of compassion for the world has emerged in you.】

【There is also an added sense of heroism.】

【You are no longer the youth you once were, nor would you choose to take three steps back; upon seeing the expectations within those people, you felt as if some bloodline within your body had awakened because of it.】

【With so many people placing their hopes in you, you know in your heart that you must live up to their heavy expectations.】

【You slaughtered every Qilin from the Qilin Clan who came to demand an explanation on the spot.】

【"The blood of the past, I have already repaid; the disaster of today is truly your own self-destruction!"】

【Your relationship with the Qilin Clan has once again entered a state of irreconcilable hostility, and the ancestor of the Qilin Clan, Zhou Kai, has already fallen into seclusion.】

【It has no heart to supervise any affairs of the outside world, not to mention that Zhou Kai itself was severely wounded in that great battle years ago; now, it is merely seeking the meaning of cultivation.】

【Without a leader, the Qilin Clan mostly chose to act with their usual arrogance, actively protecting the interests of their clan; after you slaughtered yet another Qilin, this directly ignited their nameless fury.】

【When the Qilin Clan, led by Zhan Lin, came to hold you accountable, you engaged in battle with the Qilin Clan elder, Jin Qing, in advance.】

【Furthermore, you feel you have gained a new realization regarding No-Move Wins Over Move; your swordsmanship is no longer confined to individual moves or forms, but lies in a single shape, a single state, and a single intent.】

【But, a win is a win, and a victory is a victory.】

【You comprehended a sword intent, and you named this sword intent—Alone.】

【However, your cultivation had long since broken through to the Feathering Realm, and being a match for Zhou Kai was not a problem; when you carried the people across the river in the past, you only revealed a cultivation level slightly higher than those Qilins, and the reason for doing so was simply to keep your trump cards, or even to have the opportunity to turn the tables.】

【As long as the incense remains, one shall live forever.】

【Not only did you defeat Jin Qing, you also killed it and captured its seven souls and six spirits, binding them within a Dharma treasure, because you are a person who holds grudges; you still remember the way this damned Qilin barked in front of your father back then.】

【Your comprehension and aptitude have been improved.】

【In this great battle, Jin Qing exhausted all its trump cards, bringing out the strange aspects of its bloodline to oppose you; even though you had reached the Feathering Realm, winning against the opponent was somewhat strenuous.】

【The Nine Provinces fell into a shift of great trends with multi-party chaotic battles, and the Dragon Race was the first to express their attitude of being able to protect the Human Race on the ocean, causing the incense for the Dragon Race in the south to gradually flourish.】

【She gifted you a drop of spiritual dew; after consuming it, you felt the damage caused by previously purifying the Qilin Divine Blood was restored.】

【You no longer hide your identity and began the slaughter against the Qilin Clan.】

【A large number of the Demon Race experienced strange changes, with many showing signs of atavism, and a group known as the Guhuoniao had an extremely special change in their situation.】

【The grievances between you and the Qilin Clan had long been rumored; now that the Qilin Clan is so furious and has this evidence to corroborate it, everyone knows that you are Gu Nianmo, who forged a great enmity with the Qilin Clan back then.】

【Although the Dragon Race has a long lifespan, it does not mean they are immortal; however, becoming a deity recognized by Heaven and Earth allows one to live as long as Heaven and Earth and be immortal, which is still extremely attractive to many in the Demon Race.】

【The Qilin Clan sent Zhan Lin, who had obtained the Qilin Divine Blood, to crusade against you.】

【You began a history of fighting for the Human Race of the Nine Provinces in the mortal world; as Heaven and Earth gradually favored the Human Race, the turmoil among the Demon Race was constant.】

【And now, the Qilin Clan clearly underestimated your capabilities.】

【And your alias, Liu Nianming, was finally exposed.】

【It means to be different from the masses, standing alone as one.】

【You became acquainted with a woman named Wang Qinghe; she was particularly attentive to you, and according to her, she seemed to have had a connection with your father.】

【Because the Jingwei was originally a divine bird transformed from the Human Race, not the Demon Race, after losing its divinity, it gradually turned into a Demon Race like the Guhuoniao; this change in bloodline was a spiritual shock to the entire Guhuoniao group.】

【They had always believed themselves to be authentic Demon Race, never thinking they were once divine birds, let alone divine birds transformed from the Human Race.】

【This change also allowed the Guhuoniao to quickly return to the summons of the gods, becoming the Jingwei tribe guarding the borders of the sea.】

【As a large number of the Demon Race transformed into gods, the pressure on the Human Race in the Nine Provinces decreased sharply, and the living space for the Human Race became broader as a result.】

【Neither the Qilin nor the Phoenix were willing to give up their noble status to become so-called gods of the Human Race; they still wanted to enjoy a transcendent status above the Nine Provinces.】

【They wanted to maintain the trend of the Demon Race ruling the Nine Provinces.】

【However, compared to the Qilin Clan, the Phoenix Race was a bit smarter; they sent a branch of their bloodline to be worshipped as gods to guard one side for the Vermillion Bird, while the rest of the Phoenixes remained unchanged.】

【The Qilin Clan, on the other hand, never thought about being any kind of god; in their hearts, they only wanted to be the overlord of a region.】

【And in the three hundred years of conquest, the Qilin Clan was defeated and fled to Beidi.】

【"Divine blood is merely an external object; you rely too much on the so-called atavistic divine blood—"】

【You slashed Zhan Lin, who took your Qilin Divine Blood, with one sword, and your state of mind became increasingly calm; after reaching the Feathering Realm, you found that there were few things in the outside world that could move you.】

【You seemed to have reached a realm of transcendence and holiness.】

【Looking back at the thousand years of the human world with ease, you feel that in Heaven and Earth, you alone are the True Immortal; your immortality lies not in the physical form, but in the will.】

【You broke through from the Feathering Stage to the Ascension Stage, finally arriving at the pinnacle of this Heaven and Earth.】

【You began to pursue a higher realm.】

【You wanted to see what the scenery beyond this Ascension Realm is like.】

【After helping the Human Race regain the right to rule the Nine Provinces, and with a large number of humans no longer hiding and appearing on the Nine Provinces continent once again, you decided to go into seclusion to pursue your great path of cultivation.】

【During these hundreds of years of companionship, Jiang Qiushui expressed her feelings to you again, but your Dao heart was firm and unaffected in the slightest.】

【With no woman in your heart, drawing your sword makes you a god; you firmly believe in this principle, and besides, isn't the height you stand at a kind of pressure for those around you?】

【No one can say for sure what the world after the Ascension Realm is like.】

【You also did not want to make those around you sad.】

【After sitting in silence for three thousand years, when you scanned this Heaven and Earth with your eyes that were slowly becoming turbid, you revealed an expression of being worried about gains and losses.】

【"So that's how it is?"】

【Reincarnation ended, save the file? Yes/No】

The screen froze.

The Heaven and Earth before Gu Jiangming trembled once again.

This time, Gu Jiangming did not choose to save the file, because he felt that the saving of this file was not very good, and he still wanted another chance at self-redemption.

However, for some reason, even though he clearly chose no, it was as if someone had chosen to save the file in advance, and it was successfully saved by someone else first.

And this time, Gu Jiangming felt an inexplicable pressure appear on his shoulders.

"So you're the brat who abducted my little sister Long Xi?"

A cold, piercing voice rang out.

"My Imperial Father has ordered me to bring back my little sister and you."

"Do you have any objections?"

"I imagine you wouldn't dare to have any objections."

A silver-white divine dragon appeared before Gu Jiangming, then she landed and shifted her form, revealing a graceful and tall figure.

"You Human Race cultivator, come with me for now."

(End of chapter)