Xie Chen, standing to the side, looked at A Yao. He had previously suspected that A Yao was a reincarnated Immortal Emperor, but the tone of her voice now seemed unlikely. Moreover, if she were a reincarnated Immortal Emperor, the aura of the Heavenly Dao of Reincarnation on her body would be too faint.
What secrets is this girl hiding?
Suddenly, a soft sobbing sound came from inside.
After hearing the crying, Ayao and Feng Chu looked down at a mountain peak. They saw a girl in red crying on a rocky mountain. The girl looked to be about thirteen or fourteen years old, with delicate features. She was gazing at the Bridge of Helplessness in the sky, her eyes filled with tears.
She seemed to want to be reincarnated, but her feet were chained by a red chain, preventing her from flying to the Bridge of Helplessness.
The girl was a member of the Ghost Clan. She was not weak, possessing the cultivation of a peak Golden Immortal, but she still could not break free from the red chain that bound her left foot.
She cried so hard, her sobs were so sorrowful, that A Yao and Feng Chu became curious about her.
Ayao and Feng Chu exchanged a glance and flew towards the girl in red.
The two of them landed in front of the girl in red, and Ayao asked, "Do you want to be reincarnated?"
Ghosts are born as spirits. They are special; if they want to be reincarnated, they can fly directly to the Bridge of Helplessness and embark on the cycle of reincarnation.
"I want to be reincarnated, but these chains bind me, and I can't break free." The girl in red looked at A Yao and Feng Chu through teary eyes. Perhaps because someone was talking to her, she cried even more sadly.
The girl had an ancient aura about her, and the style of her clothes also looked very old, as if she were a person from a previous era.
Feng Chu glanced at the chains; the red chains emitted a faint glow and were covered in black runes. He couldn't understand the runes, but they seemed quite powerful. He reached out and pulled out a longsword that gleamed with golden light, its surface wreathed in chaotic energy.
The black-haired, golden-eyed youth raised the longsword with both hands and slashed at the red chain. With a clang, Feng Chu's sword broke, but the chain remained completely unharmed. Feng Chu was astonished, as was A Yao.
The sword Feng Chu wielded was a companion sword to his natal sword, its power almost rivaling that of a spiritual treasure. It shattered with a single strike; these chains were truly formidable.
Ayao followed the chain and saw that it was very long. One end was locked around the girl's ankle, and the other end extended to the bottom of the mountain. Ayao used her divine sense to look down and saw a huge cave at the bottom of the mountain. There was a passage in the cave that led to a certain place.
That place is very, very deep; even divine sense cannot penetrate it.
Xie Chen remained standing on the small boat, watching A Yao, Feng Chu, and the girl in red converse. His gaze lingered on the girl in red for a moment, then shifted to the mysterious place at the foot of the mountain, a look of surprise in his eyes. Clearly, he had seen something that A Yao had not.
"What is this thing? It's so powerful, it even broke my sword." Feng Chu threw the broken sword away.
“It’s no use, you can’t cut it,” the girl in red cried.
"Who locked you here?" Ayao asked.
“I don’t know him,” the girl in red said.
Feng Chu and A Yao were very puzzled; they didn't recognize him.
"That man suddenly appeared, grabbed me, and brought me here. He told me to guard a flower, and then he never appeared again." The girl in red spoke with a hateful expression on her delicate face. Damn it, damn it, that man was really too hateful.
She had no grudge against him, so why did he have to arrest her and make her a guard?
She's been guarding that flower for eighty million years, and her strength has been declining time and again. If she continues to stay here, she'll go mad. She was once a Great Luo Golden Immortal, but in order to protect that wretched flower, she has repeatedly depleted her cultivation over these eighty million years. She doesn't want to stay here any longer; she wants to leave and reincarnate.
"Flowers?" Ayao asked, puzzled.
"Then how can I cut these chains to save you?" Feng Chu asked the girl in red.
The girl in red stopped crying and looked at the handsome young man in front of her: "Why did you save me? We are complete strangers."
"Didn't you say you wanted to be reincarnated?" Feng Chu retorted.
The girl in red said, "But it has nothing to do with you."
Feng Chu crossed her arms and said, "Then consider it me meddling in other people's business."
The girl in red stared at him blankly for a long time before saying, "The guy who locked me here said that if one day that flower is taken by someone destined to have it, I will be free."
"A destined person?" Ayao became interested.
"What makes someone a destined person?"
"I don't know," the girl in red said.
Ayao smiled and said, "Take us to see that flower. Maybe we are destined to meet." Her intuition told her that the flower must be an extremely precious natural treasure.
The girl in red said, "Okay."
She stood up and flew downwards. Ayao and Feng Chu followed behind her, flying together down the mountain. When they reached the bottom, there was an entrance to a cave. They followed the girl in red into the cave and walked down a passage.
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On either side of the dark corridor, glowing rocks illuminated the path ahead. A girl dressed in red walked at the front, barefoot, with one fair ankle bound by a red chain. The chain seemed to extend and retract automatically, and it was covered with many black runes, making it look quite mysterious.
The girl in red was followed by two people wearing cloaks and a man in white who could not be seen by anyone.
"How long have you been here?" Ayao couldn't help but ask the girl in red.
The girl in red said, "I don't remember, but if I estimate, it's been about 80 million years!"
"Eighty million years!!" Feng Chu exclaimed in surprise.
Theoretically, becoming an immortal grants eternal life and an infinite lifespan. However, the longer one lives, the more inevitable natural disasters and man-made calamities become, regardless of the methods employed. While no immortal dies of old age, countless immortals are killed. For lower-ranking immortals, living to 500,000 years is considered quite good.
But even among the Great Luo Golden Immortals, Immortal Kings, and Immortal Emperors, very few can live for tens of millions of years.
Therefore, Feng Chu was extremely shocked to hear that the girl in red had lived for so long. A Yao was also very shocked; she really was a figure from the previous era. Even Xie Chen was surprised; Xie Chen was currently the youngest Immortal Emperor, only a little over two hundred thousand years old.
"You're quite resilient," Feng Chu said.
The girl in red replied, "I'd rather die sooner than be trapped on this mountain, unable to go anywhere. But I am a ghost. Ghosts who commit suicide cannot be summoned by the cycle of reincarnation. The only chance for reincarnation for us ghosts is to step onto the Bridge of Helplessness when it appears."
"For tens of millions of years, I have seen the Bridge of Helplessness appear before me countless times, but I can only watch helplessly as other beings are reincarnated. I can only stay in this hellish place."
The girl in red's voice was filled with deep resentment.
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