ninety thousand miles

Chapter 724 Climbing to the top
While cleaning, he remembered the shovel Yao Shuang had given him, but when he took it out, he found it unusable. Sure enough, only a magic weapon he had refined himself could be used here.

But it's still quite sharp.

He took a small shovel, scratched the ground a few times, and then suddenly started coughing violently. He coughed for a long time before stopping.

He put the shovel back, found the pills, picked them out and ate a few. Soon, his strength returned somewhat, but he still couldn't feel half of his body.

I pinched it a few times and felt a dull tingling sensation, but nothing else.

Climb on.

While the wind isn't too strong, there's no rain or snow, and while we still have energy...

He moved slowly upwards; it wasn't too difficult to climb. He nurtured the newly formed main peak. As he lay prostrate on it, he felt a sense of closeness; the newborn peak, and the entire Zhongshan Mountain, seemed to be giving him strength, expecting him to reach the summit.

The sunlight was too intense. All he could see was a patchwork of white light; he could barely see anything else.

Back then, the sun seemed just as scorching on the construction site; sweat clung to my eyes, making it impossible to see anything.

He kept getting closer to the sky, and the sky seemed to have been evaporated by the heat, turning into a pure white light.

He stepped into the white light, surrounded by a vast expanse of white. He stood in the white river, looked down, and saw the white mountain peaks clearly reflected on the riverbed.

He looked ahead, gazing for a long time, and finally saw the opposite bank.

He wanted a boat. There should be a boat on Zhongshan Mountain. He had a boat. He took out a boat.

That was ten years ago, in the Nine Seas, on Immortal Yunyi's ship. Later, he went to great lengths to piece it back together and store it in his Drunken Crimson Ring. Fortunately, he didn't mind the trouble and repaired it. He sat in the ship, and the hull sank slightly before drifting forward.

The boat swayed gently, as if carried by the wind, drifting and floating aimlessly.

In the vastness, he seemed to see many people, from past lives and in this one. Unconsciously, he had already borne the weight of many people's expectations, as well as his own. He would simply keep walking, keep walking, walking calmly and serenely...

After an unknown amount of time, Li Chuan woke up. All around him was still white, and a person was sitting at the bow of the boat with his back to him.

Dressed in white, with flowing hair, he looked like a statue.

Immortal Yunyi.

"Have I arrived in the Immortal Realm?" Li Chuan asked weakly.

"Not even close."

"We're still a little short!" Li Chuan sighed.

"I've come to guide you."

"Thank you very much."

"No need, I've been waiting for you for a long time."

"Ten years, I thought it would be a long time."

"Ah."

Both of them fell silent.

Li Chuan closed his eyes, and after an unknown amount of time, he spoke again, asking, "How long does it take to travel from the Immortal Realm to the Nine Thousand Miles High?"

"It will be soon," said Immortal Yunyi.

"What?" Li Chuan felt that he hadn't heard clearly.

"I promise you, once you reach the Immortal Realm, I will send you to the highest realm of ninety thousand miles," said Immortal Yunyi.

"This……"

"It's not just me. For the past ten years, we've been working on this goal, carving out a path to the 90,000-mile mark, and we've finally made a breakthrough."

"Us? How many immortals?" Li Chuan asked.

“Many,” Immortal Yunyi replied casually, “but in the end, it was still me who cut a crack that could send you in.”

"Thank you," Li Chuan said. He tried to sit up again, but with all his might, he couldn't and started coughing again. So he said, "Please treat my injury first, otherwise even if it gets better, I can't do anything like this."

"No need," said Immortal Yunyi.

"Don't you need to heal your wounds?" Li Chuan asked.

Immortal Yunyi turned around, looked down at him and said, "You have no injuries."

There's none?
Li Chuan looked at his hands, raised one hand, then the other, and then he sat up smoothly.

"What's going on?" he wondered, then an answer came to him. "Could it be that I'm an immortal now?"

"Yes," said Immortal Yunyi.

"So, I'm no longer a mortal? Then, I... I feel..." Li Chuan closed his eyes, feeling his body, "I feel like nothing has changed?" "What changes do you think there will be?" Immortal Yunyi asked.

"It's like this: shedding the mortal body, becoming light and weightless, with clear senses, impervious to heat and cold, free from hunger and thirst, and able to feel the breath and rhythm of all things in heaven and earth... something like that?" Li Chuan said.

Immortal Yunyi remained silent.

"Am I wrong?" Li Chuan asked.

"We're almost there," said Immortal Yunyi.

Before they knew it, the white mist around them disappeared, and they were no longer on the river, but seemed to be sailing on a pitch-black curtain.

"That's it." Immortal Yunyi turned around and pointed ahead.

Li Chuan looked in the direction he pointed. In the darkness, a crack was faintly visible in the distance. A dark red light shone through the crack, flickering slightly.

“I thought I would stay in the Immortal Realm for a while,” Li Chuan said.

"Do you want to rest for a while?" Immortal Yunyi asked.

Li Chuan took a deep breath and said, "No, let's go."

"You cannot condense your Dao path in the Immortal Realm; you must be at the Nine Thousand Miles Above," Immortal Yunyi explained.

“I understand,” Li Chuan said. He tried to gather more information and asked, “What is it like up to 90,000 li?”

“Chaos,” said Immortal Yunyi.

“Okay,” Li Chuan said.

"Have another cup of tea," said Immortal Yunyi.

A cup of tea suddenly appeared in front of Li Chuan. He picked it up and took a sip.

Hot tea is so nice.

"What kind of tea is this?" he asked, looking at the bright green leaves at the bottom of the teapot.

“The tea I usually drink,” said Immortal Yunyi.

“Good tea,” Li Chuan said.

“I will clear the way for you,” said Immortal Yunyi.

After saying that, he stood up, transformed into a wisp of cold air in front of Li Chuan, and sped towards the crack in the darkness.

The moment the cold air touched the crack, the surroundings trembled violently without a sound.

With a crackling sound, the crack suddenly widened, and dark red light gushed out.

The chill shattered in the light, and the small boat seized the opportunity to carry Li Chuan into the dark red light.

Li Chuan sensed that he had landed somewhere.

His body was stretched infinitely, constantly disassembled and twisted, as if countless surfaces were tearing and compressing him at the same time.

He barely opened his eyes, trying to enter a profound state to observe the place.

For the first time, the dots and lines in his field of vision folded, tore, and expanded illogically. Every dot was repeatedly piercing his vision from endless angles.

Li Chuan was forced out of this state, and afterwards all he could see were dazzling halos and chaotic intersecting lines.

The surroundings trembled, and screams and groans echoed and pounded on him endlessly.

Is this the place called "Nine Thousand Miles Up"?

After drifting in the chaos for an unknown period of time, Li Chuan suddenly felt something capture him. Immediately afterward, everything around him calmed down.

bright.

He looked up and saw a huge, smooth object lying in the soft halo of light ahead.

And he is getting closer to it.

When you get close enough, fine scales suddenly appear on the smooth surface.

The scales slowly opened.

He was sent into it.

"Welcome back, Li Chuan..."

(End of this chapter)