"Understood, Brother Yun. I will practice my swordsmanship diligently to protect Sister Yuanyuan and the people of Sunset City."
That year, the little boy raised his wooden sword and solemnly swore an oath to the eternal night before him.
"One day, I too will become the most powerful sword immortal in the world, just like Brother Yun!"
"Not bad, that's a rather ambitious statement."
Yun Anran chuckled and flicked the little boy's head with her finger, then picked up the wine jar in her hand and took a big gulp.
"Gurgle."
The little boy, clutching the wooden sword in his arms, gazed longingly at the wine jar in Yun Anran's hand and said, "Brother Yun, you said this wine is the best thing in the world. Can I have a sip?"
Just one bite!
The little boy held up one finger, his eyes full of anticipation.
"Would you like to try some?"
Yun Anran tilted her head, smiled, and looked at the child in front of her with a gentle smile.
"Yes, I want it."
The little boy nodded affirmatively.
"Haha, okay, then I'll try a bite."
Yun Anran laughed and handed the wine jar in her hand to the little boy.
"Thank you, Brother Yun!"
The little boy put down his wooden sword, hugged the wine jar, and recklessly took a swig. Instantly, his face turned red, and his throat burned as he bent over coughing incessantly.
"Haha, young boy, you know nothing of sorrow, nor can you appreciate the deliciousness of wine."
Yun Anran laughed and patted the little boy on the back, helping him to soothe some of the effects of the alcohol.
"Cough cough... With Brother Yun here, this wine is just too awful."
The little boy wore a mask of pain on his face, swaying unsteadily and almost falling backward.
At that moment, he thought to himself, "How could anyone in the world find wine delicious?"
In short, he doesn't want to drink anymore...
Yun Anran watched this scene and smiled faintly.
"You...you'll like this feeling when Erniu doesn't like you anymore."
Yun Anran rested her sword on her lap, gazing at the distant Eternal Night and murmuring to herself.
Five hundred years have passed since the beginning of darkness.
Many people in this city have never even seen the sun.
Nascent Soul cultivators are nowhere to be found, Golden Core cultivators are hard to come by, and even Foundation Establishment cultivators are few and far between...
In this degenerate age, the prospect of immortality is even more remote.
Qin Shou, watching this scene from the mountaintop, was somewhat surprised and also somewhat moved.
"Who would have thought that Yun Anran, who lived a carefree and unrestrained life, wishing only to be a free and unfettered sword immortal, would confine himself to a small corner of the world for the sake of a city of mortals..."
Then the Qin beast surveyed the landscape of the human world...
I saw Xiao Xuan quell the chaos, Luo Yunyan temper her sword in the mortal world, and Wen Nuan wander the world and explore many strange and mysterious places. However, with a clone of her secretly following, there shouldn't be any problems.
After Qin Shou arrived in this world, he didn't know many people, so he sat on the mountaintop and slowly observed them one by one.
Time flies.
A century has passed.
Everything on the hilltop remains the same, with peach blossoms in full bloom.
"Yi Cheng has been asleep for a hundred years."
Qin Shou was distressed. The last time he slept for so long was when he was trying to summon Yi Cheng's soul.
Even the Empress of this world is one of Yi Cheng's soul fragments, which shows that Yi Cheng's origins must be very powerful. Since I entered the path of immortality, the system's functions have been upgraded, and it can detect the causal relationships below the level of an Immortal Emperor, but it still cannot detect Yi Cheng's past and future.
Surely it's not that my foolish disciple is the reincarnation of some immortal emperor?
In the world's perception, Immortal Emperors are immortal and indestructible, and there is no power in the world that can kill them. Of course, Qin Shou has never witnessed this firsthand.
"Yi Cheng's roots are extraordinary; I've always suspected she might be the reincarnation of a powerful immortal from the upper realm."
Song Ningsheng spoke up from the side.
Qin Shou glanced at him. "Why don't you guess even bolder?"
Song Ningsheng shook his head and laughed, "Just a random guess. Any further guessing would be a bit like bragging."
"You can't possibly say she's a reincarnation of a celestial being, hahaha..."
Song Ningsheng laughed loudly.
How many eras does it take for a Celestial Venerable to appear?
It is said that in the central immortal realm of the immortal world, there is an immortal venerable who has passed down the lineage for hundreds of millions of years.
Generally, once someone reaches this level, it is almost impossible for them to die, except when they are undergoing the Immortal Emperor Tribulation.
"Sigh...who knows?"
Qin Shou also sighed.
"But then again, which immortal venerable would be like this silly deer? If he were to awaken his reincarnation memories one day when his cultivation reaches a certain level, how incredibly dangerous that would be, hahaha."
Qin Shou laughed loudly and pulled Song Ningsheng by the shoulder, saying, "Let's go, have some tea and play chess. I'll give you a two-piece handicap today."
"...Brother Qin, your chess skills are superb; I've lost."
"...The chessboard hasn't even been set up yet, do you want to hear what you're saying???"
"..."
...
Time passed slowly.
Another hundred years have passed since then.
One day, Little Fatty ran up excitedly and said, "Master, I'm the Demon Emperor now! I'm the Demon Emperor!"
"La la la... I can finally go down the mountain to find my sister!"
Little Fatty happily bounced around in front of Qin Beast.
It even raised its little fists and yelled, "Master, I feel like I, the Koi King, am ridiculously powerful now! I could beat a hundred of you with one hand!"
"Squeak—Powerful!"
Black Rabbit clapped her little hands beside her, her big eyes filled with envy.
He is currently at the Great Perfection of the Nascent Soul stage, and there is still a long way to go before he becomes a Great Demon Emperor.
What Black Rabbit couldn't understand was why Little Fatty could cultivate so much faster than him, even though he himself was training his muscles every day...
【bite--】
[Qin Beast, congratulations! Your spirit pet, Little Fatty, has successfully transcended its tribulation and advanced to the Integration Realm. You are rewarded with one "Silver Luck Card".]
"Yeah! "
Qin Shou smiled broadly.
This little chubby koi is really silly, but kind of cute.
The Qin beast reached out a large hand, grabbed Little Fatty, and slowly walked to the tree. It then slowly hung Little Fatty on the tree, and then slowly pulled out Seven Wolves…
"Waaaaah~~, Master, you're such a bad person! I broke through to a higher realm and you didn't reward me with cookies, you even hit me! I'm going to tell my sister, I'm going to curse you to our ancestors, waaaaah~~~"
The chubby boy pouted and burst into tears.
"Squeak squeak—" Black Rabbit jumped up and down in protest, "Master, why did you hit Little Fatty? If you hit Little Fatty, then hit me too!"
"Great!" Qin Shou looked down, picked up the round, chubby black rabbit, hung it next to Little Fatty, then clapped his hands and smiled broadly, "Double happiness!"
"Ahhh, I protest! I protest!"
"Squeak~, I protest too, I protest!!!"
"Protest denied."
Qin Shou pulled out his belt, stroked his chin thoughtfully, and said, "You two, tell me, whose ass should I spank first?"
"Black Rabbit's!"
"Little Fatty!"
"Hey~~, Black Rabbit, you're so disloyal!"
"I...I...Little Fatty, you're the one who's disloyal!"
"Um? "
Just as Qin Shou was getting bored and preparing to continue teasing the two chubby little boys, his eyebrows suddenly furrowed, and he looked up at the sky.
Boom!
Suddenly, the once clear blue sky darkened.
Dark clouds loomed over the sky.
Streaks of black lightning spread across the entire sky like fissures in an abyss, eventually converging at the center of the sky.
There, it seemed as if a vortex of lightning was slowly brewing...
"...Lightning tribulation?"
Qin Shou looked puzzled.
Wait quietly.
But as time passed, the vortex of lightning in the sky continued to slowly build up, but there was no sign that it was going to fall.
So Qin Beast became even stranger.
"What is that?"
"Why has the entire sky turned black? Like ink, or like... lightning!"
"This is the first time I've seen such a tribulation. Could it be that some peerless demon is about to become an immortal?"
"Holy crap! Is the end of the world about to come?!"
For a time, all living beings on the entire Tianxuan Continent were filled with unease and trepidation.
【bite--】
[Detection indicates your disciple, Yi Cheng, is about to undergo the 'Ascension Tribulation'...]
[Ding—Ding—Ding—]
[Red zone warning! Warning!]
[Causal interference detected... Unexplained power detected... Forbidden life detected...]
[System is parsing... Parsing in progress... Parsing failed...]
[WARNING! The system currently has limited permissions and is unable to detect beings at the Immortal Emperor level or higher...]
[Host, are you willing to sacrifice ten thousand years of your lifespan to activate the Eternal Immortal Artifact, the Wheel of Destiny, to capture cause and effect, and analyze fate...?]
"a thousand years?!! "
Qin Shou's eyelids twitched violently.
I quickly opened the properties panel and browsed through it.
"A lifespan of 1.4 million years... not bad."
For my beloved student!
Qin Shou gritted his teeth.
"A sacrifice."
【bite--】
The Wheel of Fate begins... Capture... Analyze...
[The creature's level is too high, analysis failed...]
[Host, would you be willing to sacrifice 100,000 years of your lifespan to restart the Wheel of Fate and enhance detection...?]
? ? ?
? ? ? ?
A series of question marks immediately popped into Qin Shou's mind.
A lifespan of ten thousand years just vanished like that...?
Not even a splash...
After all that, it turns out that my own foolish apprentice is the most dangerous one!
etc……
Something's not right.
"Damn it! You bastard system, are you setting me up?!"
Qin Beast instantly became alert.
Honest and trustworthy!
This leader is a good leader and would never do such petty things as stealing chickens and dogs.
"Will this sacrifice of 100,000 years of lifespan be successfully detected?"
Qin Shou clenched his fists.
Damn it! I'll risk everything for this stupid apprentice.
【have no idea】
"……………"
? ? ? ?
"No, are you kidding me?"
The Qin beast squints its large eyes at its small ones.
If the system weren't invisible, Qin Beast felt he could glare it to death right now.
A lifespan of 100,000 years!
That's a lifespan of 100,000 years!
That's a huge concept!
Even if it were an ordinary person, working for 100,000 years would make them the richest person in the world!
Hmm... Based on Qin Shou's first life's view of capital, even if he worked for 100,000 years... and saved 50,000 a year, he would only have 5 billion in 100,000 years, which is still far from being the richest person.
"Holy crap! Were they this rich in their past lives?!"
Qin Shou was shocked.
He had never thought about this carefully when he was a beast of burden. Now that he thought about it, he was glad he hadn't, otherwise he would have been so desperate... Beauty and wealth were all irrelevant to him, and just thinking about it made him sad.
【bite--】
[The host agrees to sacrifice 100,000 years of lifespan to begin their destiny...]
"Hey! Hey hey hey! Wait a minute, I haven't agreed yet!!"
Qin Shou suddenly came to his senses and broke out in a cold sweat.
Holy crap!
That was close!
It almost cost it its 100,000-year lifespan.
"Hmm! No, my disciple is facing such a predicament, how can I possibly be distracted by other things?!"
Snap!
Qin Shou immediately slapped himself to wake up.
"One hundred thousand years...one hundred thousand years!"
"Oh well, what can I do? I ended up with such a disciple."
Qin Shou covered his head and sighed in grief, his heart aching.
You don't know the cost of firewood, rice, oil, and salt until you're in charge of a household; you don't know how precious lifespan is until you're not afraid of death.
"Sigh... Master..."
【bite--】
[The host is detected as unwilling to sacrifice 100,000 years of lifespan. Causal detection is abandoned, and the current anomaly is being investigated...]
"???"
[Your disciple, Yi Cheng, has an unknown origin and is involved in 'forbidden' matters, which is intolerable to the will of the universe. Therefore, a world-destroying immortal tribulation has been sent down... The world-destroying immortal tribulation has nine levels, each stronger than the last, and requires nine true immortals to successfully withstand it... If the tribulation fails, your disciple Yi Cheng and this world will be annihilated together...]
"Pfft~"
Qin Shou spat out a mouthful of blood that shot more than ten meters high.
"Damn it, why didn't you say so earlier that you could detect it?!"
[What we just discussed was detecting the causal roots; now we're detecting the current predicament. Please don't confuse the concepts.]
[System notification: This is the last reincarnation of your disciple, Yi Cheng. If he fails to overcome the tribulation, there will be no more reincarnations!]
Qin Beast, you will face the following two choices:
1. To withstand the heavenly tribulation and protect the living beings of this world, you can seek help. Reward: First-grade immortal artifact: Nine Heavens Bright Moon.
2. Abandoning the orange and this world, ascending alone in solitude, rewarded with a fifth-grade immortal artifact: the Nine-Toothed Immortal Rake.
Qin Shou did not look at either of the two options.
Because no matter how unserious he is, he would definitely not run away at this moment.
For a thousand years, though he never said it, he had long regarded these disciples as his own children.
Besides, if I run away, Yicheng will wake up crying and looking for me everywhere...
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