Xuantian 1: Ancient Xuandongtian

Chapter 218: Ascending the Long Stairs
In the vast history of immortal cultivation that spans more than 50 million years, there are two people who are very unique.

The two of them can almost be called spokesmen for the Way of Heaven.

Because they can all predict the future.

One of them can see his own future, but not the future of others.

Another person can see the future of others, but cannot see his own future.

It can be seen that even for these two people, Heaven has not unlocked all the permissions.

Because, after all, people are people.

After Mu Hanchan woke up, he told the two about his dream.

"How is it possible? Brother Mu, your dream is too outrageous. Your daughter is getting married?

Too far away, isn’t it?

"Yeah, if you dreamed of getting married, I could understand that, but you probably don't have a Taoist partner yet, right?"

Mu Hanchan shook his head and said, "I have a Taoist partner, but I haven't registered yet because my cultivation level/age are not high enough. I need to be in the Spiritual Origin Realm, otherwise I won't be recognized by the sect."

"Oh, then why didn't you dream of getting married?"

"I think..., her and I should be a done deal, so there's nothing to dream about." Mu Hanchan thought about it.

He also said: “Although I only dreamed of my daughter and not my wife in my dream, I instinctively felt that it was her.

And there shouldn’t be anyone else.”

"OK then!"

Yunxi Sect, Fenghong Mountain.

"What's wrong with you? People came to see you, why didn't you see them?" the woman in green asked in a reproachful manner.

The girl in yellow shirt said: "I don't want to see you!"

"It's thirty thousand miles for someone to come and see you. Even if we transfer at the nearest border crossing, it's still several thousand miles away. Can you just say you don't want to see me?"

"I didn't ask him to come to me."

"But don't you guys meet each other by default?"

“Yes, but the last time I saw him, my master put me in solitary confinement for a long time, but he ignored me and seemed to not care about me at all.

I only sent a letter once, and I hadn’t been imprisoned at that time.”

"Maybe he doesn't even know about this."

"I don't know. Can't you just look for it a few more times?" said the girl in yellow.

The green-clothed woman replied, "Junior Sister, I have my own things to do, too. In other words, I have to practice as well. How can I come to you all day long, even though I have to travel tens of thousands of miles at a time?"

"Well, I'll see him next time he comes to see me."

"What if there's no next time?"

"If you don't have it, forget it. There's no need to meet."

"Ugh!"

The woman in green sighed and said, "I've already looked for you twice, but you didn't show up. If you still want this relationship and care about this person, you should go find someone else instead of always waiting for someone to find you."

The yellow-shirted girl's expression changed, and she said, "It's not as serious as you say. Our relationship is not as fragile as you think."

"If this is the case, we should maintain it with more care."

"Well, Sister, I'll go find him."

So the girl in yellow set out to look for her lover.

When they arrived at Huanshui Manor, Lin Mengge learned from Xiao Ren that Mu Hanchan had not returned, so she had no choice but to wait in the manor.

After a while, I became anxious.

I remembered what my senior sister said: “Taking the initiative to resolve conflicts is a skill.

You take the initiative to solve problems, which may seem humble and disadvantageous, but the direction of things is usually in your hands.

You can choose to advance or retreat.

You passively wait for others to solve problems. It seems noble and gives you the upper hand, but when others come to you, they come with a choice.

At that time,
You are left with a choice, either this or that. There is not much room for negotiation.”

But she was impatient and irritable, so she started raising crocodiles in the manor.

It was the one that Mu Hanchan had taken her to buy.

原本只有（10.6×5.5×3.8/寸）的小鳄鱼，现今已经长到3尺5寸长，2尺二寸宽，8寸高了。

The claws also increased from 2.2 inches to 4.7 inches.

He looks a lot fatter, like an adult.

But the demon beasts are different from ordinary wild beasts. The current spirit crocodile is still in its infancy, close to a first-level demon beast, probably a 0.8-level demon beast.

While waiting, Lin Mengge was bored, so she trained and fed the crocodiles.

If the pool is not enough for you, just let it swim around the manor. (There are eight rivers in the manor.)
Occasionally, I would wander around the fields.

As a result, the workers became panic-stricken and could not concentrate on their work.

The housekeepers reported the matter to the head steward Xiao Ren, who also frowned, not knowing how to deal with it.

Talk about her? As a servant, I have no right to do that.

Don't tell me? The normal operation of the manor has been affected.

Although the spirit crocodile did not hurt anyone under Lin Mengge's control, the fear brought by the monster made it impossible for ordinary mortals to work properly.

Finally, Xiao Ren took out a psychic pigeon, sealed it as a spy, and sent a message to Mu Hanchan.

(Xiao Ren and Mu Hanchan did not have a sound transmission stone, so they used the ancient communication method of the immortal world.)
The letter did not mention the spirit crocodile, it only said that Lin Mengge had come and had been waiting for a long time.

Finally, Mu Hanchan rushed back exhausted.

"where did you go?"

"Fire Scorpion Cave."

"What to do?"

"Get a third-level snake skin and make a spirit gathering array."

"I sent you a voice stone, why didn't you reply?"

"It blocks the external spiritual energy inside, so I can't receive it."

"Really? Are you sure you didn't mean to not reply?"

"it is true."

He added: "Not only the Fire Scorpion Cave, but also the five dungeons. Once you enter any of them, you will lose contact with the outside world.

Only by coming out can you receive the message. "

"OK then."

Lin Mengge didn't seem willing to ask too many questions and slowly hugged Mu Hanchan.

And whispered in her ear: "I miss you so much. I haven't seen you for half a year, and you didn't come to see me."

Mu Hanchan replied: "I went to see you twice. Didn't they notify you?"

"no!"

"Really not?"

"Really? Anyway, I didn't hear you coming."

Even though he felt that Lin Mengge's words were a little untrue, Mu Hanchan didn't want to delve into it as they hadn't seen each other for a long time.

"Sleep in the lake pavilion tonight?"

"No, I'm going to the waterfall cave."

"why?"

"I need to recuperate, recover my spiritual power, and consolidate my cultivation. I consumed too much energy this time, and I have very little energy left."

Essence is the pure spiritual energy accumulated by the hard work of the cultivator, just like body fat. "I want you to accompany me tonight."

"Tomorrow, I need to rest well today and practice to restore my spiritual power."

Lin Mengge refused and insisted on accompanying him.

After Mu Hanchan had practiced for several hours, at the second watch, Lin Mengge wrapped her arms around his neck and stopped him from continuing to practice.

"What are you doing?"

"Stay with me."

Then he asked, "Don't you miss me?"

"Yes I do."

"Then stop practicing and sleep with me."

Although his spiritual power has not yet recovered, the current situation does not allow him to continue practicing.

After a period of intimacy, they naturally moved on to in-depth affection and intercourse.

But after intercourse, Mu Hanchan got up again, put on his lower body clothes, sat cross-legged, and began to practice.

Lin Mengge caught a glimpse of this scene and was extremely dissatisfied.

He asked, "What are you doing? Is cultivation so important to you?"

"Cultivation is indeed very important to me. Cultivation is accumulated bit by bit."

"That's not why you're still practicing at this time. It's said that a night of love is worth a thousand gold. Who would still practice at this time?"

Mu Hanchan was a little helpless. He didn't know how to explain the principles of essence and spiritual energy cultivation to him.

So he had to compromise and lay down, and Lin Mengge fell asleep on his naked chest.

As she slept, she began to dream.

In her dream she saw a long staircase.

It was a long staircase, wide and large, with many steps. Each step was paved with all kinds of rare gems, worth more than tens of millions of taels of gold.

On both sides of the long steps stood hundreds of righteous sects.

There was a man wearing a royal crown, slowly climbing up the stairs from the bottom to the top.

Its figure is like Dongling Nanluo Mountain, extremely tall and majestic, majestic and unattainable. It is also steady like the earth and broad like the ocean.

Every ten steps, someone from a certain sect would bow and greet him.

It turns out that this long staircase has a total of 999 steps.

She felt that the man's back was strangely familiar, but she couldn't tell who it was.

She lay on a plate and watched it all quietly.

As the man walked further away, her consciousness became more and more blurred, and finally disappeared.

The scene changed, and she saw an old woman with gray hair, wrinkled face, and a haggard body, who seemed to be at the end of her life.

The old woman held three pills tightly in her hand.

There is evil energy emanating from the elixir, but it seems to be restrained by some force, so the evil energy is not too strong and does not overflow.

"Madam, wake up!"

A woman at the peak of the Primordial Realm beside her shook the old woman gently, awakening her.

"What's wrong?"

the old woman asked weakly.

"Your husband has become an immortal!"

"Immortal Lord?"

"Yes, Lord of Righteousness."

The old woman didn't care and just asked, "When will he come back?"

The woman in the Primordial Realm standing beside him said, "He... may not be able to come back for a while."

"I'll wait for him..."

The old woman's breath was weak, as if she was struggling, and she spoke.

The woman standing by couldn't bear it, but could only say: "Madam, you...may not be able to wait, because it takes some time to ascend to the throne, especially after that, there will be a traditional celebration of the centenary."

"He told me that he would be back soon." The old woman believed it without a doubt.

“He didn’t lie to you, but the situation on your side suddenly worsened, and he certainly couldn’t have expected it.

Even if he had expected it, he couldn’t just go back.”

The old woman said stubbornly: "No, I want to wait..."

"Be good! Listen and eat these three magic pills. Haven't you always liked these magic pills?"

The woman in Hunyuan Realm coaxed.

"I don't like it anymore. What's the use of this magic pill? I want my husband..."

The attendant woman replied: "It can make your death less painful."

"I don't want to eat it. Do you have any pills that can prolong my life?"

"No, even if you had it, you can't use it because your heart meridian was once broken. Although it was reconnected with the Three Hearts Linking Pill, you can't take pills to prolong your life anymore."

The lady standing by answered.

"What should I do…?"

"Do you really want to see him one last time? You two have been together your whole lives, so you don't need to see him one last time, right?"

But the old woman turned her head away and said nothing.

The standing woman looked at the old woman with a withered figure and wrinkled face, gritted her teeth and said, "I have a sixth-level rejuvenation pill that can restore your previous appearance and figure after death.

I have treasured it for a long time.”

"Can you restore your appearance to when you were seventeen or eighteen?"

"…,Can."

So after the woman's constant persuasion and coaxing, the old woman finally took the sixth-level Rejuvenating Pill.

Finally, he asked the woman one more question: "Along the way, many people have said that I was wrong. Tell me, am I really wrong?"

The woman changed the subject and said, "Those things are in the past. Aren't you and him doing well now?"

"answer my question."

The woman thought for a long time and could only say indirectly: "Your husband is truly incomparable."

She wanted to comfort but she couldn't.

“Heh…heh…, ah…”

The old woman smiled miserably, sighed, and finally felt relieved.

He uttered no more words and waited quietly for his life to fade away. However, when he finally breathed his last, he did not close his eyes and still held the three magic pills in his hands.

"Ugh!"

Lin Mengge also sighed in her heart. Although she didn't know what perspective she was in the dream and didn't know that she was in a dream, she also felt sorry for the old woman from the bottom of her heart.

Then, the old woman's body began to change, gradually becoming younger, but she felt a sense of familiarity.

The change lasted for some time, but it was reduced to only a few fragments in her mind.

It wasn't until she saw the old woman as a girl that she understood why she felt so familiar.

And in shock, he couldn't help but scream.

"what!"

Lin Mengge suddenly stood up from lying on Mu Hanchan's chest.

"what happened?"

Mu Hanchan was also awakened and asked quickly with concern.