Chapter 355
The candle fell in front of Ling Wu, but she didn't reach out to catch it, and it fell to the ground.
With a "snap," the demonic soul appeared.
Before he could even feel joy, he saw the spiritual power in Ling Wu's hand.
The spiritual energy set off his alarm bells, and his instinct was to flee.
"You want to kill me?" The demon soul didn't run away, but stood still and asked calmly.
Ling Wu was looking at the dark beads in her palm and ignored him.
Receiving no response, the demonic soul forced a pale smile: "You..."
He paused for a long time before finally saying, "We've known each other for so long, but you still don't know my name, do you?"
"My name is..."
Before the demon soul could finish speaking, Ling Wu used the spiritual energy at her fingertips—energy that could easily obliterate him—to point into his body.
"You have been removed from the list of beings in the upper realm, and there is no place for you in the lower realm either. Do not even dream that your name will be known." She lowered her eyes, appearing compassionate and gentle, yet the words she spoke were utterly cold.
Ling Wu had never looked up at the Demon Soul.
Seeing this, the demon soul, with only a sliver of consciousness remaining, smiled palely, uttering only its last words:
"Half-Moon Immortal Venerable, you are truly ruthless..."
Ling Wu stepped out of the room, and thunderclouds rolled in the sky.
Today is her day of tribulation.
Among a group of protectors, the heavenly lightning only intended to fall symbolically, but was stopped by Ling Wu.
"Wuah!" someone cried out. "Master! Wuah can swallow lightning!"
Little Cloud chimed in, "Master, Little Cloud can do it too~"
Ling Wu also stopped him.
Lingwu tossed the dark bead in her hand into the air, facing the lightning tribulation.
"Crack—" The black bead didn't break at all, but the white bead inside was in so much pain that it curled up in a ball.
Reck the evil spirit.
Bai Yu was covered in a layer of burnt brown, and before he could resist, another bolt of lightning struck.
After three full days, the lightning tribulation subsided, and Lingwu successfully passed through the tribulation period.
Lightning crackled around the dark bead in his palm, and within it, Bai Yu, with his last breath, desperately wanted to speak to her, refusing to dissipate.
Lingwu ignored him, only observing how long he could stay in this state.
She took off the Sumeru Ring, and amidst the wailing and aggrieved cries of Xiaoyun, she still dissolved the contract.
"Master, didn't you say you wouldn't abandon Wua? Master, please don't leave Wua behind, Wua doesn't want to be alone..."
“You have Little Clouds with you.” Ling Wu stroked the ring.
But the little voice continued to cry: "But waah, I only want Master, please don't leave me, please waah, please waah... Waah... it must be waah, waah, no!"
Ling Wu gently comforted her: "It's not that 'oh no,' it's that I need you to stay and take care of Huan'er."
The sobbing stopped abruptly, but she still choked out, "Waaah, taking care of Huan'er, little sister?"
Ling Wu nodded silently.
Wua sniffled, "Then Wua will definitely keep a close eye on Huan'er! I'll try my best to help Huan'er ascend to heaven tomorrow!"
Her sweet, childlike voice was full of fighting spirit.
The following day, after bidding farewell to Ji's father, mother, Ji Shihuan, Fuxue, and others, Lingwu ascended into the void.
They appeared to have entered the upper realm, but in reality, they brought Bai Yu back to the underworld.
In the small world, Ji Shihuan, wearing a Sumeru Ring, shouted to the sky with red eyes, "Sister, although Huan'er is not talented, I will work hard to cultivate and go to the Upper Realm to find you!"
The two elders wiped away their tears, kept looking up at the sky, and refused to leave.
Zhu Pingan and the others lowered their eyes and stood there for a long time before leaving.
"Then it all comes down to who's faster," they thought to themselves.
Fu Xue leisurely smoothed her temples and even picked a flower to tuck behind her ear.
She touched her red lips with her fingertip and said in a shy tone, "I need to match the dress I wore when we first met in the Upper Realm."
Half a month later, Jing Si, dressed in red, stepped onto Half Moon Peak.
Song Bai was casually leaning against the big brown bear when he saw Jing Si from afar, so he raised his eyebrows and took the initiative to greet him.
He held up a ring. "Jing Si, this was left to you by my master."
"Half-Moon Immortal Venerable?" Jing Si's hair was covered with snowflakes.
After Song Bai nodded, Jing Si first used the Cleansing Technique to clean the already clean clothes before reaching out to take them.
Then, as if he had received a priceless treasure, he thanked her and turned to leave.
Song Bai, who remained where he was, stroked his chin, then took out the rings that Ling Wu had given him, and whispered with delight, "Master really is the best to me!"
He straightened his back and patted the big brown bear. "Fatty! Cultivate well, and after you ascend, I'll take you to find your master!"
"Roar~" the big brown bear responded.
Jing Si, who had left, returned to his cave and set up layers of defenses to calm his increasingly pounding heart before finally mustering the courage to examine his ring.
The ring contained all the gifts he had given to the Immortal Venerable back then, and the contents were exactly the same as before, except for an extra letter and a bottle of pills.
He felt a moment of disappointment, but still smiled as he took out the letter and carefully opened it.
But after carefully reading the contents of the letter, the smile on his lips disappeared, and even the cinnabar mole between his eyebrows dimmed considerably.
"But if you eat it, all traces of your existence will disappear."
He lowered his eyes, finally putting the pills away and neatly returning the letter.
"I'll pretend I didn't see it." After saying that, he took out a futon. "Cultivate well. I only listen to what my junior uncle said."
Upper Realm
The blue-robed immortal who was guiding those ascending from the lower realm frowned. "Strange, why haven't these ascendants arrived in the upper realm yet?"
"Isn't that it?" the black-robed immortal pointed.
The blue-robed immortal followed the gaze and saw an indifferent man dressed in a moon-white long robe.
"My name is Lu Li. May I ask where the newly ascended female immortal went?" Lu Li cupped his hands in greeting.
"A female immortal who just ascended to heaven? Are there female immortals?" the blue-robed immortal asked the black-robed immortal.
The immortal in black shook his head: "I didn't see it."
Lu Li paused for a moment, then raised his hand to calculate, but before he could even place a finger, he suddenly spat out a mouthful of blood!
But he still showed no sign of stopping.
Upon seeing this, the two immortals quickly intervened, saying, "You haven't yet crossed the Immortal Pool to reshape your immortal body; damaging your very foundation is a grave taboo!"
Lu Li, however, still raised his hand as if to perform a divination.
"Where is my junior sister? Where is my junior sister?" he murmured, then closed his eyes again.
“Lu Li.” An elder came hurriedly from afar.
Lu Li then opened his eyes, his stubbornness still lingering. Upon seeing the person who had arrived, he respectfully greeted, "Master, have you seen Junior Sister?"
The elder paused, his heart filled with complex emotions, "Let's cross the Immortal Pool first, and then I will explain to you."
Lu Li remained silent.
"Stubborn donkey! Your temperament is exactly the same as before!" The elder no longer maintained his previous composure.
To the astonishment of the two guiding immortals, the elder roughly threw Lu Li into the immortal pool.
After Lu Li shed his mortal form, the elder grabbed him by the collar and hurriedly took him away.
"Master, do you know where Junior Sister is?" Lu Li asked again, not struggling as he was being held.
The elder sighed and then said, "Want to know?"
"think."
Upon hearing this, a trace of sadness appeared in the elder's eyes. "Then do you want to know Xiao Wu's whereabouts before my ascension, or Xiao Wu's whereabouts after my ascension?"
Lu Li did not hesitate, "After your ascension."
The elder shook his head, suppressing his grief, "Then you will only know when you cultivate to the point where you can leave this world."
Lu Li didn't reply, only nodded.
Reception pool
Fu Xue appeared gracefully in an ice-blue dress. She glanced around charmingly before finally meeting the gazes of the two immortals.
The two immortals retreated in unison, saying, "Saintess Fuxue, we will not stop you this time, but if you make a move, we will have to call for reinforcements!"
"How could I, the Holy Maiden, be so cruel? Not long ago, a peerless beauty, aloof and ethereal, gentle and tender as water, ascended to heaven. Where has she gone?"
The two immortals frowned in unison: "There was only one male immortal named Lu Li just now, and he has already been taken away by his master."
"So you're going to refuse a toast only to suffer a penalty shot?" Fu Xue sneered, and made her move swiftly.
"We really didn't see any! The male immortal just asked if there was a female immortal, but there really wasn't! This day is really weird!"
Fu Xue gritted her teeth, "I, the Holy Maiden, witnessed her ascension with my own eyes, and you still dare to lie to me!"
"Our ancestors, we've truly never seen one! Besides, what benefit would we gain from lying to you?"
"Really not?" Fu Xue frowned, a sudden emptiness settling over her heart.
She then opened her lips and murmured to herself, "You were like this in the lower realm as well. Now that you're in the upper realm, would you rather not cross the Immortal Pool than let me not find you?"
She was in low spirits, and the two immortals looked at her with even more fear and retreated, while she became increasingly curious about the origin of the female immortal.
Fuxue lowered her head and left alone.
“It must be those beauties who annoyed you that led you to this desperate measure. This time, I will definitely not expose your identity.” Fu Xue nodded secretly.
In the days that followed, people would often ascend to immortality, and they would always ask, "Half-Moon Immortal Venerable?"
So much so that whenever someone ascends to immortality, the two immortals would say first:
"I've never seen the Half-Moon Immortal! Ji Lingwu has never appeared! And there has never been a woman in a blue dress who is ethereal, gentle, and breathtakingly beautiful!"
"Pass through the Immortal Pool first, get your Immortal Token, and you can leave! Stop asking questions; we're also eager to know where she went!"
Without exception, not a single person believed it.
Thus, no one named Ji Lingwu could be found in the Upper Realm, but the legend of the Half-Moon Immortal Venerable circulated.
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