Chapter 304 A Love Tribulation That's Hard to Overcome (Part 1)
Inside the Divine Gate.
Endless chaos engulfed time and space. Wei Feng held the person in his arms tightly, yet he could not feel the chaos eroding his primordial spirit.
"Master?" he called to the person in his arms, but there was no response.
"Master? Jiang Gu? Yao Yan!" He changed the way he addressed him several times before the hand covering his back finally moved slowly.
Wei Feng was overjoyed and slowly and gently channeled the pure spiritual energy he had stored for many days into Jiang Gu's dantian. He carefully asked, "How do you feel now?"
"It's alright." Jiang Gu opened his eyes, only to be met with a vast expanse of darkness and a bone-chilling cold. Only the slight warmth lingered on Wei Feng's body, giving him a sense of reality. "Are you injured?"
Wei Feng shook his head: "I'm fine."
Jiang Gu fell silent again.
"Master, don't fall asleep." Wei Feng desperately transferred the spiritual energy in his body to him. "Don't fall asleep. This chaos can erode consciousness. Most of the power of the upper realm is in your body now. If you fall asleep, the chaos will completely strangle your consciousness."
A continuous stream of spiritual energy enveloped his primordial spirit, and Wei Feng's heart, which was fused with his, beat rhythmically in his chest, attempting to transfer the abundant immortal power within him.
"When did you secretly accumulate so much spiritual energy?" Advisor Jiang asked him.
“I searched for it in the Demon Forest with Feng Wuyou,” Wei Feng said. “You once taught me that the weaker the power, the easier it is to be ignored by the strong. That should also be the case for the Heavenly Dao. If the Heavenly Dao wants the lives of you immortals, then the spiritual energy of the lower realm should not be deliberately targeted by it… I didn’t expect it would actually come in handy, but I just thought it was better to be prepared.”
Upon hearing this, Jiang Gu smiled and said, "So, you've made quite a few preparations?"
“I know you’re aware of this, but I still feel uneasy if I don’t do something.” Wei Feng held him even tighter. “You absorbed all the power of the Chaos Core in my body because you were afraid that I would be sealed into the Divine Gate by those immortals. I know all that.”
Jiang Gu pinched the back of his neck in the darkness: "Why have you become so much smarter since we arrived in the Upper Realm?"
“You’ve always been clever,” Wei Feng said. “I also know that you’re doing this to take my place, to bear all this alone. But if you’re sealed here in my place, Jiang Gu, what do you want from me?”
Jiang Gu was silent for a moment: "I will naturally find a way to get out and see you."
Wei Feng shook his head: "I experienced this feeling enough during the battle of Wangyue, when you were in the Void Seal for more than ten years. Once you enter the Divine Gate, it takes thousands or tens of thousands of years, or even millions of years. How long do you want me to wait? I'm afraid I'll go crazy before you come out."
"Besides, if you're not here, other people will come and bully me."
Jiang Gu chuckled: "With chaos within you, who would dare bully you?"
"You," Wei Feng said in a muffled voice, "if I hadn't reacted quickly, I would have been left behind by you."
Jiang Gu chuckled softly in the darkness.
"Don't keep laughing." Wei Feng held him as they floated in the endless chaos, looking at the scattered lights appearing in the distance. "There seems to be light ahead."
Jiang Gu turned his head and looked over, saying, "Perhaps it is the remnant soul left behind after the fall of an ancient god."
He grabbed Wei Feng's hand, and the two of them floated toward the light.
It was like an endless sea of stars, its brilliant light illuminating the endless chaos. As they approached, the memories of their masters in their previous lives were reflected in those remnant souls. The figures of countless ancient gods appeared among them. They too had experienced joy and sorrow, and lived magnificent lives. Whether it was love, hate, or the obsession with all living beings, they were all annihilated in the silent realm of gods, sealed here with the tightly closed divine gate, never to be known by anyone again.
"Do you know why I'm doing all this?" Advisor Jiang asked him.
Wei Feng said, "I can only vaguely guess that you want to save me, want to completely destroy the Chaos Core, and perhaps even want to unify the Upper Realm."
“That’s not entirely wrong.” Since this place is not under the control of the Heavenly Dao, Jiang Gu no longer had any reservations. He said, “I was born with intelligence and have a close connection with the Heavenly Dao. I inherited my mother’s divine bloodline and can also vaguely sense my own destiny and that of the Upper Realm.”
"From the moment I opened my eyes, I knew that the Upper Realm would one day be swallowed by Chaos and, like the God Realm, be completely annihilated."
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The first person he saw when he opened his eyes was not Ling Yin, nor Yao Shuo, but his later master, Hong Chen.
He heard a woman's voice in the darkness: "Immortal Venerable, this child has never opened his eyes since birth. Yao Shuo and I have tried everything we can, but we cannot wake him up."
“He has already woken up.” It was another soft male voice. “He just doesn’t want to open his eyes to see this world. If you are at ease, then leave him with me for three days.”
Ling Yin and Yao Shuo naturally agreed.
“My name is Hongchen, and we will have a master-disciple relationship in the future.” Hongchen hugged him and said, “Now that you have come into this world, you should open your eyes and see it.”
He still didn't open his eyes.
So on the first day, Hongchen carried him all over the Upper Realm, but the wonders of the Sixteen Heavens, the scenery of the Three Realms, and the strange phenomena of the Nine Provinces failed to make him open his eyes.
The next day, Hongchen took him to visit countless small worlds below, where he witnessed all the joys and sorrows of human life, but he still refused to open his eyes.
On the third day, Hongchen led his primordial spirit throughout the void and preached the Dao to him for a whole day, but he still refused.
In the last few hours of the three days, Hongchen carried him to the edge of the Demon Forest, sighed and said, "Since you don't want to see it, then don't. Lingyin can see the future, so you must have seen what you want to see."
The immortal breath that the Immortal Venerable exhaled brought the Seven Killing Flower Tree beneath his feet, which had been barren for many years in the God Realm, back to life, blooming with fiery red flowers. The sweet fragrance of the flowers instantly filled the entire Demon Forest.
The baby, who had been quietly in his arms, twitched its nose and slowly opened its eyes. In those clear eyes, the fiery clouds at the end of the sixteen heavens were reflected, as well as the tightly closed divine gate.
"I see." Hongchen looked down at him. "You saw the calamity of death for all the immortals and the destruction of the upper realm."
The child in his arms pouted and finally burst into tears, causing the heavens to tremble and thunder to rumble.
Hongchen had never comforted a child before, so he said, "Now that you are intelligent, don't cry and wail so easily."
The child seemed to understand, tilted his head, and then howled even louder.
"Turns out he's a stubborn one." Hongchen's ears hurt from his noise, so he tapped his mouth shut with his fingertip.
The infant in his arms, unable to contain his anger, forced out a single tear, which fell with a thud, landing squarely on a passing cloud of foul air and sending it directly into the flowers.
Hongchen paused for a moment, then looked down at the flower. In the very center of the petals, the passing filth, having received the tears condensed with the essence of the immortal, transformed directly into a small wisp of filth, which aimlessly rampaged through the petals.
The child followed his gaze, struggled out of his embrace, floated to the petals, grabbed the small filth with one hand, and was about to use his magic to retrieve his essence.
“No.” Hongchen picked him up with one hand, took away the filth he was clutching, and instructed him, “Since it was fortunate enough to be born from your essence, that is its destiny. Although it has not yet gained intelligence, it has become a life and cannot be taken back. This is the fate between you two.”
He frowned at the little filth in front of him and looked at Hongchen reproachfully.
Hongchen said without changing his expression, "Your howling is too loud, and you don't shed any tears, so you can't blame me."
The child found a comfortable position in his arms, grabbed his hair and put it in his mouth to nibble on, then frowned and spat it out.
Hongchen smiled and said, "Although you have gained intelligence, you are still like a blank sheet of paper. Your instincts and habits are no different from those of an infant. I suppose you are just a little smarter, so your parents can rest assured."
He pointed to what Hongchen was holding.
"With your essence's blessing, it will probably be able to gain intelligence in a few years." Hong Chen placed the little filth back into the petals of the Seven Killing Flower Tree. "This place has both spiritual and turbid energy, which is convenient for filth to absorb. Let it settle down here, shall we?"
He nodded hesitantly.
“This child is intelligent and has seen some things in the future, so he is too worried to open his eyes. I sealed his precognitive ability and also sealed what he saw. I think he will be no different from an ordinary little immortal lord from now on.” Hongchen handed the child in his arms to Lingyin.
"Thank you, Immortal Venerable." Ling Yin hugged him and couldn't help but pinch his cheek. "From now on, you will be called Yao Yan, okay?"
He nodded, reached out and grabbed Ling Yin's hair, putting it in his mouth. Ling Yin chuckled, placing his fingertips near his lips and transferring some immortal energy to him: "So you were hungry. Has the Immortal Venerable not fed you any immortal energy for the past three days?"
Hongchen: "...I have indeed forgotten about this."
The newborn celestial lord cannot cultivate, even if he gains intelligence, so he took the child and put him into the void, where he starved for three days.
She was so sad that she cried so loudly.
"It's just that his precognitive abilities have been sealed, so I'm afraid he won't be able to improve his deduction and memory-sealing techniques in the future," Hongchen added.
"It's alright, I just hope he can be safe and happy." Ling Yin lowered her head and smiled at him.
These were his earliest memories, and as he grew older, he gradually sealed them away until his 100th birthday banquet, when a little impure creature that had just gained sentience accidentally wandered in.
He was extremely clean and disliked these clumsy, dirty, and sticky little filth. Moreover, he was not a kind or soft-hearted person; he had killed countless demons, and his casually released pressure could clean up a large area of filth. The filthy land in the Demon Forest was cleaned up by him.
But he recognized the little filthy creature at a glance. It was formed from the filth that had been born from the first tear he shed in the world. It was born on the Seven Killings Tree at the time when the evil energy was at its heaviest. Its extremely yin and filthy body had obtained the purest and most yang immortal essence. No matter how you look at it, its fate was full of twists and turns.
So he told the little filthy creature to go.
From then on, his fate became inextricably linked with this filthy creature. It wasn't until he turned ten thousand that Hongchen went into seclusion, and he sneaked into the Demon Forest, finally having a true intersection with it.
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