The mountains stretch out in a continuous line, yet up close they appear somewhat different from elsewhere, all formed from large blocks of dark grey stone. Underneath the stones, you might even see traces of hewing, as if they hadn't grown there originally, but had been brought from elsewhere.
In the center of the mountain, there's a distinct sunken area. A closer look reveals a pavilion, and in the center, a woman sits cross-legged, regulating her breathing.
The sky is clear and cloudless.
This is the secret realm of falling moon.
There is only one person in the secret realm, and that is the Fallen Moon Fairy who is rumored to have ascended to heaven for a long time.
Unlike what the outside world sees, the secret realm is a world unto itself. However, the Falling Moon Fairy has been trapped there, having not left for decades.
To say she was trapped might not be accurate. After all, this secret realm was created by her own hand. If she wanted to leave, no one would be able to stop her. However, if she took even a single step outside, a calamity would descend upon her.
When one reaches the realm of Fairy Luoyue, there is only one kind of heavenly tribulation that can come - the tribulation of ascension.
It is said that welcoming the heavenly tribulation and ascending to the upper realm is what practitioners pursue throughout their lives. The so-called cultivation is for this purpose. How could there be practitioners who would try every means to avoid the heavenly tribulation?
Unless this person's cultivation is deficient, there is no guarantee that he will survive the tribulation of ascension.
The Tribulation Crossing Stage differs slightly from other realms. There's no distinction between upper, middle, and lower realms. Once you enter the Tribulation Crossing Stage, you can expect a calamity at any moment. It might come immediately, or it might take decades or even hundreds of years.
The Falling Moon Secret Realm was opened up by Fairy Luoyue a hundred years ago, just as she entered the Tribulation Crossing Period. At that time, she wasn't fully prepared for the Tribulation Crossing, so she decided to find a way to temporarily avoid the Tribulation. Once she was fully prepared, she would venture forth to prepare for her Ascension.
Fortunately, she had a backup plan and retreated into a secret realm when the situation turned sour. Otherwise, she would have been struck to ashes by the thunder during her tribulation sixty years ago.
Fairy Luoyue's soul is now broken, and her cultivation has dropped a level to fusion, but it turned out not to be like this.
Sixty-three years ago.
Fairy Luoyue's heart remained steadfast, and the tribulation of her inner demons hadn't shaken her in the slightest. Even the demonic illusions mingled with the heavenly thunder of the tribulation had no effect on her, and all was well.
After the ninety-nine and eighty-one thunderbolts passed, the celestial music of guidance followed. She even caught a glimpse of the immortal energy descending from the upper realm.
Normally, Fairy Luoyue should have been bathed in the immortal energy, reshaped her celestial body, and finally followed the guiding celestial music to the celestial realm. However, the passage to the upper realm suddenly closed, and the immortal energy she had fallen into disappeared. Even if she wanted to ascend, she didn't know where to begin.
But the story doesn't end here.
The tribulations she had already weathered returned, countless and unpredictable, a relentless struggle that would last until her death. The secret realm she had originally established to consolidate her realm had become her final destination.
Afterwards, news of former friends dying while trying to survive the tribulation came one after another.
Things that cannot be spoken openly become clear.
Anyone who fails to survive a heavenly tribulation will be accused of having unstable Daoist hearts, troubled by inner demons, or insufficient cultivation. Ultimately, no one believes there's something wrong with the Dao of Heaven.
If this is true, then what are they practicing?
But in fact, the facts have already been laid out before our eyes.
How can there be ascension in the pure spiritual world where there is no reincarnation?
The woman in the pavilion looked up at the sky and saw a tall tower flying from a distance.
"Here I come."
…
In just three seconds, the mist had completely dissipated after the Three Thousand Worlds flew into the secret realm. Soon, Eryi discovered the person she was going to pick up this time.
Falling Moon Fairy [Late Fusion]
HP 100%, Fatigue 0/500, Spiritual Power: 30,000
Mental damage: 1,258,940
She was wearing a misty blue Taoist robe, without any complicated accessories, and her long hair was casually tied behind her head. She didn't seem to care much about her image.
Just when Eryi was wondering whether Fairy Luoyue would be like Yue Hanshan and unwilling to step into the system's control range, she had already taken the initiative to enter the first layer of the Three Thousand Worlds.
"Looking at your expression, you seem surprised I came right in." Fairy Luoyue said, "I'm different from Hanshan. I'm not as timid as her." City Lord Yue's cautiousness became timidity in her words. However, her tone was intimate, more like teasing, indicating that their relationship was not ordinary.
"So, Fairy Luoyue and Lord Yuecheng are old friends?" Eryi directly pointed out her identity and tried to find out about Yue Hanshan. The most important thing was what happened before the people from the martial arts plane came.
"Yes." Fairy Luoyue was not surprised. "Has she ever mentioned me in front of fellow Taoists?"
"I only heard her say that she asked me to pick up an old friend whom I hadn't seen for a long time. For cultivators, time flies in the blink of an eye. One retreat can last for dozens or even hundreds of years. I wonder how long the fairy has been in retreat this time?" Eryi wanted to know whether the two had met in the past sixty years.
Fairy Luoyue's gaze fell on the faint patterns of the formation on the inner wall of the Three Thousand Worlds. She did not answer directly: "I see that your magic weapon is different from ours. Are you from another world?"
Eryi didn't hide it and replied generously: "Yes."
"As expected." Fairy Luoyue asked, "I heard that as long as you collect enough spirit stones, you can cure any disease?"
“Not all of them.”
"Well, I'll tell you everything you want to know. In exchange, I have a favor to ask of you." Fairy Luoyue transmitted, "Han Shan has always been Han Shan. She was that way over sixty years ago, and she is still that way now."
There were many reasons that prompted Fairy Luoyue to tell everything, but one of them was what just happened.
No matter how low a cultivator's realm, every time they break through a major realm, they will feel a thin layer of something on their body being torn apart. It is the thing that binds them, the shackles cast down by the heavens, which some cultivators call "fate."
The higher the level of cultivation, the clearer this feeling becomes. When one reaches the Out-of-Body Realm, even when the Xuan Shi is not at the moment of breakthrough, one can occasionally feel this mysterious presence.
However, those who had reached the realm of Luoyue and Yue Hanshan were already able to see this object directly. The reason was simple: when they were overcoming tribulations, they had captured a trace of immortal energy that fell from the immortal realm. Immortal energy was not from this world, and after refining it, they gained this ability.
The moment she entered the treatment station, she felt a light, thin membrane covering her entire body. This membrane had no malicious intent, but it repelled the Heavenly Dao of the Pure Spirit Realm, isolating her from the outside.
Just as she expected.
The path to immortality goes against the will of heaven.
There is no way to ascend, just create it yourself.
Eryi was brought here by them, or to be more precise, by Yue Hanshan.
"Before you arrived, the Pure Spirit Realm had no reincarnation. You and I both know this." Luo Yue gestured upwards towards the Three Thousand Worlds. "However, without reincarnation, how can this world continue? Newborn babies have no intelligence, and within a few years, no new life will be born. The Pure Spirit Realm is incomplete."
"We cultivators are nothing more than lonely souls trapped in this world, never to be reborn."
The Qingling Realm steals the immortal energy that descends from the upper realms when cultivators ascend, yet prevents them from ascending. They vainly hope that preventing the outflow of this realm's spiritual energy will allow the plane to grow. To them, each cultivator in the Tribulation Crossing stage is nothing more than a storage warehouse.
When spiritual energy was insufficient, a heavenly tribulation would be sent down in exchange for immortal energy. Those cultivators who had survived the ascension to the immortal realm naturally could not live any longer. If other cultivators learned that their cultivation was not enough to ascend, and they gave up this path, He would no longer be able to obtain immortal energy from the upper realm.
As for the fact that newborn babies have no intelligence due to the lack of reincarnation, it is not a big deal to Him.
Just restart the world.
Often, the same people do the same things over and over again. But they have no memory of the past and simply think everything is their first time. Occasionally, someone might have the feeling that they've done the same thing before, and over time, they call it an omen.
I must have had the same dream before, but I just don’t remember it.
"I don't know how many times I've gone through the tribulation of ascension." But there must have been countless times when she didn't hide back in the secret realm, but was directly reduced to ashes.
"The first person to discover this was an old friend of mine. He's skilled in divination. At our level, he can occasionally see through celestial phenomena." Luo Yue raised the corner of her lips. "It's said that there was such a big uproar in that life that the Qingling Realm was directly restarted, erasing everyone's memory."
"But he kept it in mind and made a reminder for himself when he came back."
"I guess he's still holding that broken compass, searching for you." Luo Yue took out a sound transmission talisman. "If you don't mind, could I send a message to call him over? He's trying hard to suppress his realm to avoid attracting a heavenly tribulation, but I heard that the tribulation won't come to you."
"Can."
Yes, it's impossible to overcome the tribulation in the treatment station. Even if any employee suddenly experiences enlightenment in the treatment station, they must leave the treatment station before facing the true tribulation.
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