ninety thousand miles

Chapter 525: Three Ancients and Seven True Ones
"It will only be ready in another quarter of an hour. You should sit down and rest for a while." Wen Guying said.

"Yeah." Li Chuan hummed twice again, walked a few steps to the side, and sat down on the stone bench.

Wen Gu used a pitch-black branch to stir the pot and said, "As for the noodles, you can cook them yourself later?"

"Okay, there are several plates of noodles in the Bishui Ring. Do you want to eat some?" Li Chuan asked.

"Eat something." Wen Guying said.

"Why didn't you recuperate in Jingshuitan this time?" Li Chuan felt a little strange.

"We have to wait until the refreshing incense from Immortal Yun Yi is completely digested before we can heal our wounds." Wen Guying replied.

"Is it okay?" Li Chuan asked.

"The advantages definitely outweigh the disadvantages," Wen Guying said.

"What does Xuanmen think about Immortal Yun Yi walking on the earth now?" Li Chuan asked.

"I hope he will interfere less." Wen Guying said.

"Now that immortals and mortals are separated, he is the only immortal we know of walking in the human world. I think we can still cooperate with him?" Li Chuan said, and then added, "I don't think he is the kind of person who is completely impossible to communicate with."

"But you don't know what he wants." Wen Guying said as he stirred the white meat in the pot, "What you and I have seen is just the side he wants to show us. Take the Shuangye Sect case more than 20 years ago, for example. You have met many cultivators now. Immortal Yun Yi suppressed Xuanmen and hunted down Shuangye Sect members. Those former fellow disciples... What methods do you think he used to accomplish this?"

"What..." After Li Chuan said two words, he was suddenly startled and said, "He didn't kill a lot of monks, did he?"

Wen Guying looked at him without saying anything, the firelight illuminating his face.

"How many were killed?" Li Chuan asked.

"The former head of Xuanwei Sect, who is also the senior brother of the current head Daoju Zhenren, declared in front of Yunyixianren that Xuanwei Sect would never kill innocent cultivators."

"Then what? Did Immortal Yun Yi kill him?" Li Chuan asked.

"No, he was just seriously injured and had no chance of ascending to the immortal realm." Wen Guying said, "Then, Immortal Yun Yi personally killed all the disciples who left Xuan Wei Sect and joined Shuang Ye Sect. They died tragically."

Only then did Li Chuan realize what kind of pressure Wen Gu had been under when he discussed Taoism with Immortal Yun Yi for seven days and seven nights.

"He can't hear us talking now, right?" Li Chuan asked belatedly.

"I can't hear it." Wen Guying said.

"That's good." Li Chuan breathed a sigh of relief.

Wen Guying took out a pot of wine, poured some into the pot, and said, "The catastrophe has begun, and it is difficult for immortals to remain unscathed, but he chose to walk in the human world. The separation between immortals and mortals is not a simple sentence. Something must have happened in the upper world. Only the powerful can take action to cause this situation. Yun Yixian said it lightly, but he wants to go to the lower world, and it is impossible not to pay a price. So what do you think his purpose is? If... if the fate of Xuanmen is handed over to him, will he do something more terrible than Wengxian?"

"Could he also be a projection, a clone?" Li Chuan asked, and then he felt that he had found evidence, and said: "I think sometimes he doesn't look like a human, but like a statue of a god."

"It's the same thing. If immortals and mortals are separated, and if they can be bypassed by projection or clones, then there is no such thing as immortals and mortals being separated." Wen Guying said, "So, if it's just clones and projections, then it's even more terrifying."

"But Immortal Weng is not..." Li Chuan was still struggling.

Wen Guying said: "That was the Taisu Realm. It's hard to say whether we were in the human world at that time."

"Okay." Li Chuan said.

Wen Guying waved his hand and the fire went out. The courtyard suddenly became dark. It was already night.

Wen Guying moved the pot to the stone table and put some wine on it. Then Li Chuan brought out two sets of bowls and chopsticks.

The meat balls were very tender. After a bite and two chews, they turned into a ball of water and flowed into the throat. Li Chuan ate three or four balls in one breath before he put down his chopsticks and said, "It's delicious. I didn't know you have such a skill."

"It's the pot." Wen Guying said, "If it weren't for this pot, the food would have exploded halfway through cooking."

"Oh, I see." Li Chuan said.

"Well, it can coordinate the collision between the different natures of spiritual power," Wen Guying said, picking up a vegetable, tasting it, and emphasized again: "It is indeed a good pot."

Li Chuan scooped a bowl of soup and drank half of it in one breath.

My stomach seems to feel more at ease.

He asked, "How can we stop Weng Xian?"

"We can't even touch the corner of his clothes, how can we stop him?" Wen Guying mocked.

"We can't just think about preserving the seeds and then wait to die, right?" Li Chuan was unwilling to accept this. He said, "Besides, there have been so many accidents. I still think that those accidents are to stop the remnants of the Wengxian and Shenmo clans and prevent them from using this entire world as a bargaining chip to transcend the fairyland. Although we still don't know why those accidents exist and who that official-robed swordsman is, but... we can still do something, right?"

"What do you want to do?" Wen Guying asked.

"I don't know either." Li Chuan sighed.

"Eat a few more bites first to keep your body healthy." Wen Guying said.

"Hmm," Li Chuan followed his instructions and scooped a few more pieces of meat from the bowl and started eating. After eating two bites, he asked, "By the way, Taoist Master Wen, do you know how Weng Xian became a true immortal?"

"I have a guess. Liu Yang told you about Weng Xian's deeds in the afternoon?" Wen Guying asked.

"Yes, and then I felt that, compared with other True Immortals, Weng Xian, it seemed that he did nothing." Li Chuan said.

"How much do you know about the deeds of other true immortals?" Wen Guying asked.

"I only know Haotian, Song Fengzi, and Jiufeng Zhenxian." Li Chuan said.

"Haotian founded the Heavenly Palace, Song Fengzi created the cycle of reincarnation, Yingfeng divided the heaven and earth into four seasons, Qingzi re-established the Heavenly Pillar, Luoyao was the first demon fairy to ascend, and Jiufeng wiped out the gods and demons." Wen Guying slowly talked about the deeds of the seven true immortals, "and Wengxian, he was the first emperor to become an immortal. As the emperor of the time, he was born with the destiny of the human race, and it was not impossible for him to become a true immortal."

"That's right..." said Li Chuan.

“But some cultivators have speculated that the number of True Immortals has been changing over the tens of thousands of years since the end of the ancient times. In addition to the seven True Immortals mentioned in the records, there are also True Immortals that are unknown to us, but they have all fallen.” Wen Guying said.

"Will true immortals also fall?" Li Chuan asked.

"Didn't Tiansu also fall?" Tiansu asked back.

"That's right...you just said you had some guesses, what were they?" Li Chuan continued to ask.

Wen Guying took a sip of wine and said, "The difference between a true immortal and an ordinary immortal is that a true immortal can be regarded as the pillar of heaven and earth, and is almost immortal."

(End of this chapter)