ninety thousand miles

Chapter 680 Try
Li Chuan and Wen Guying sat on a small boat, gradually approaching the Luoxia Secret Realm.

Spots of light float on the sea.

After the boat advanced more than a hundred feet in the tide, Li Chuan felt that the sea level seemed to be rising. The boat slowly climbed along the inclined sea surface, water droplets splashed all around, and the air became humid.

The morning light reflected in Li Chuan's eyes.

Concentrate.

The surrounding scene decomposed layer by layer, and golden dots and lines continued to extend around him.

They have reached the edge of the secret realm.

The kettle sounded.

The gentle and soft sound of the pot enveloped them. The boat seemed to be lifted and pushed by the waves, getting closer and closer to the secret place where light and shadow intertwined.

……

"In your opinion, what is important?" Sect Leader Chu asked the old Palace Master.

"Whether Xuanmen will have another 30,000 years." The old palace master replied.

After hearing the old palace master's answer, Sect Leader Chu was silent for a while and said, "The catastrophe has begun. The upper realm, Xuanmen, and the mortal world cannot escape it. After the catastrophe, everything that happened, including today's catastrophe, is just an insignificant part of the catastrophe. As a cultivator and the Sect Leader of Xuanyue Sect, all I can do is try my best to preserve the fire. I believe there will be another 30,000 years, and the next one... I believe Xuanmen will not die."

"What if this is the last catastrophe?" asked the old palace master.

"I don't believe it." said Master Chu.

"Tian Su fell, and the Divine Hero Temple went against the flow. Don't you have any guesses about these two things?"

"I don't believe it." said Master Chu.

The old palace master sighed slightly.

They both looked into the distance until a red arc of light streaked across the sky. Then Sect Leader Chu spoke again, "Failed again."

……

Li Chuan sank into the water again.

He sank deeper and deeper, and countless pairs of cold hands stretched out from the sea and entangled him.

Just now they had entered the barrier of the secret realm. They walked a long way inside. The further they went inside, the more complicated the dots and horizontal lines became. He hesitated for a moment, and then he felt a gaze cast at him. Before he could think, they were thrown out together.

Soon, he was pulled to shore again.

"Try again?" Li Chuan said.

"I don't think so." Wen Guying said.

"I wasn't familiar with it just now. If I try a few more times, I think I'll be able to get in." Li Chuan did not give up.

They tried again and were filmed out again.

Li Chuan and Wen Guying lay side by side on the shore, looking at the sky, with the waves crashing at their feet.

"We have been noticed." Wen Guying said.

"The consciousness of Luoxia Secret Realm?" Li Chuan asked.

"I'm not sure." Wen Guying said.

Li Chuan thought for a while and said, "Next time, I will try to control part of it with the butterfly spirit, and then walk forward, dismantling it as I go. That way, before I am thrown out, I can roughly feel the changes, and then you can use the overlapping step technique to lead us to transfer, and then I will control it. This way, we can go deeper and deeper. What do you think?"

"You can try it. Let's go." Wen Guying said.

"Wait, let me lie down for a while." Li Chuan said.

……

"They are quite capable of doing things." said Sect Master Chu. "Indeed." said the old Palace Master.

"You used to be very capable," said Sect Leader Chu.

"Indeed." said the old palace master.

"The ancient immortal Tian Su has fallen, and his path has come to an end, but this does not mean that the entire world has come to an end. The Shenxia Temple is going against the tide, perhaps he is just trying to save himself." said Master Chu.

"You see it very clearly, but you just don't want to believe it." said the old palace master.

"I don't believe in immortals." said Master Chu.

"I don't believe it either." The old palace master said, "After learning about the situation in the upper realm, I was discouraged for a moment. We cultivators have devoted ourselves to cultivation for thousands of years in order to go to the upper realm, to a wider world, and to explore more possibilities in the Tao. For the sake of longevity and cultivation, devouring and accommodating the Tao of others, and thus lingering on, is absolutely evil and heretical. We mortal cultivators all understand the truth, but the immortals in the upper realm are crazy and addicted to it... At that moment, my heart to seek the Tao was shaken."

"What Immortal Yun Yi said may not be true. You just said that you don't believe in immortals either." said Master Chu.

“But there must be some truth in it,” said the old palace master.

"Those immortals who have fallen into the devil's way will disappear in this catastrophe." Master Chu said, "Every great catastrophe is a purification."

"Not necessarily this time." The old palace master said, he sighed again and said: "Dan Chen, do you know what the Xuanmen was like before the great catastrophe of gods and demons?"

Sect Leader Chu replied: "Yes, the cultivators at that time were more active in the secular world. But judging from the records and techniques handed down, the cultivation level of the cultivators at that time was not as high as that of the cultivators today."

"At the same realm, there is no doubt that today's cultivators are stronger. But in terms of realm alone, we may not be better." The old palace master said, "After the Great Tribulation of Gods and Demons, Xuanmen was rebuilt. Influenced by the laws of the Nine Peaks True Immortals, as time passed, the things that happened during the Great Tribulation of Gods and Demons gradually became blurred and forgotten. But the fear of being slaughtered has always been there. Under this fear, the current Xuanmen is further away from the secular world, stronger, and has a narrower path than the Xuanmen 30,000 years ago, so it is easier to be accommodated and swallowed."

"That's the way of heaven, that's all." said Master Chu.

……

Li Chuan and Wen Guying tried again.

A full moon unfolded in Li Chuan's palm. Amidst the sounds of the pot, the butterfly spirit gently vibrated its wings, controlling the dots and horizontal lines surrounding them.

The light knife appeared between Li Chuan's fingers. He dismantled it while moving forward.

The secret realm did not respond.

Maybe you can just walk in.

He was immersed in the disassembly. The structures he had encountered so far were all the basic structures he had memorized. Occasionally, there were some changes, but they were all within his cognition. Wherever the light knife flashed, dots and horizontal lines fell.

Ok?
Gone? Have you finished dismantling it? Have you reached the secret realm?

Li Chuan raised his head. The light of the full moon illuminated the front. There was nothing in front of him, just a void. The void was expanding... The light of the full moon brightened and burned his palms.

He was alert, and at the same time...

"careful!"

Li Chuan heard Wen Guying's voice, and then he saw hundreds of red sword auras flowing in the void, and were swallowed up by the void in an instant.

Li Chuan was pushed.

He once again entered the myriad tunnels of light and chaos, moving quickly through the void.

The light of the full moon enveloped the two of them.

The sound of the pot did not stop either.

……

On the small island, Immortal Yun Yi slowly turned around and cast his gaze towards the faint trace of ink at the end of the sea and sky.

The wide robe fluttered in the wind.

Suddenly he turned his head, as if listening to something.

(End of this chapter)