My Endless Life.

Chapter 416: The Monument of Civilization

"In the 35th year of the last era of the Immortal Dao, the Wenxian Sect created a method to enter a painting. Led by Wenxian Sect's senior disciple Zhu Xingyuan and assisted by Piaomiao Sect's senior disciple Chen Yun, a total of twelve people experimented with the method to enter a painting...

"After the twelve people entered the painting, their spirits all dissipated. No one responded or returned. The seniors also had no way to call them back, so they declared the method of entering the painting a failure. The Wenxian Sect began to use the last resort with other sects."

In the empty scripture pavilion, Liu Yiye, a man with white hair, raised the brush in his hand and wrote and drew on the scrolls.

He suddenly stopped here, raised his head and looked forward.

A horizontal scroll is placed in front of him. Inside the scroll, there are twelve men and women, some standing, some sitting, some laughing, some sad, facing the outside of the scroll, expressing their respective emotions.

This scroll has never had a name. After Taoist Ling Jue confirmed that the painting had no spirituality, he sealed it up.

On that day, Taoist Ling Jue seemed to have aged a thousand years in an instant.

However, when Liu Yiye looked at the painting in front of him, he always felt that something was missing.

He picked up the brush, walked forward, looked up and down, and finally wrote a line of words in the blank space in the lower right corner.

"The Twelve Golden Immortals".

"Haha, ascending to immortality is the long-cherished wish of those of us who practice Taoism. Although my brothers and sisters have not been able to become immortals, they dared to break the law for the sake of the world. In my heart, there is no difference between them and immortals...

"You are the Golden Immortals who save the world in Yiye's heart."

After Liu Yiye finished speaking, he bowed deeply to the scroll in front of him.

Then he turned back, sat down at his desk again, and continued writing:
"After asking the Immortal Sect, I joined forces with my fellow Taoists to open up a human settlement underground, trying to continue the human race. However, nine years later, the underground fire erupted and the demonic energy eroded the underground human race. Only one in a hundred people survived, and they had no choice but to return to the surface...

"Another ten years passed. The Way of Heaven declined, spiritual energy ceased to exist, and the cultivation of those who practiced Taoism regressed. They were even less able to contend with the demonic energy. Demonic phenomena occurred frequently, and finally... many demon sects, led by the Holy Demon Sect, implemented the last method that should not have been implemented."

Liu Yiye stopped writing here.

His pen tip paused on the blank space, waiting for the ink to soak into the rice paper before he wrote once:
"Regression."

Having written this, Liu Yiye sighed deeply and continued writing:

“Everyone has observed that the evil spirit’s erosion only targets spiritual beings, that is, races that can speak, think, and have a certain degree of intelligence.

“Therefore, if we can reduce the human race to a level worse than that of wild beasts, and then freeze them with a special method, and wait until the sun returns to unfreeze them, perhaps we can continue the human race.

"For this purpose, the Holy Demon Sect gathered 90,000 promoted human races from the Demon Sect and its territories to implement the method of regression...

“This method was indeed successful, and the evil spirit did not corrupt them, but… they are no longer considered human beings, and are even worse than wild beasts.

"No one knows where they went after turning into wild beasts. All we know is that after that day, there will no longer be any demon sects or immortal sects in the world. What remains is... just a group of pitiful people struggling to survive, waiting to perish."

Liu Yiye said this and stopped writing.

He put the pen aside, looked at the brazier beside him, flicked his fingers, and injected a stream of spiritual energy into it, and the fire in the brazier burned more vigorously.

Feeling the temperature that was not too hot, Liu Yiye opened the window and looked at the still dark sky.

He stared at the sky for a long time, then suddenly said to himself:

"Then why am I still alive? Why... am I still alive..."

At this moment, he was in the ruins of the Wenxian Sect.

The remaining humans in this world are either dead, stupid, or hiding.

When the last of the Wenxian Sect members left, Liu Yiye originally wanted to follow them, but in the end he had a sudden inspiration and decided to stay here.

Then... he heard that the group of people from the Wenxian Sect who tried to hide underground failed to escape the invasion of the underground fire.

In the end, he, who had planned to stay in the Wenxian Sect and wait for death, actually survived.

Liu Yiye didn't know why he was still alive.

Why did God let him live?

Maybe it's better to be alive than to be dead.

Moreover, Liu Yiye still has things to do, so he cannot die now.

“…It’s time to go.”

After writing down the major events of the Wenxian Sect, Liu Yiye used his remaining true energy to seal these events and placed them together with the Golden Immortal Map.

Since ten years ago, Liu Yiye has always felt that something is calling him.

He felt a sense of mission.

This gave Liu Yiye some unnecessary expectations.

Thinking about his "specialness" of being able to survive no matter what, Liu Yiye often thought that perhaps he was the savior chosen by heaven to save the people of the world.

Although Liu Yiye knew that his thoughts might be too far-fetched, other than this, he could not explain why he was the only one still alive in the world.

Living in this lifeless world of eternal night.

And taking a step back, no matter what is calling him, the world has become so bad, does he have any other choice?
Whatever it is, go and see it.

Even if it's a trap, he's going to give it a try.

After packing up and leaving the Sutra Pavilion, Liu Yiye took one last look at the Wenxian Sect that was covered in snow. Finally, he summoned his natal flying sword and flew away without looking back.

In fact, Liu Yiye was still able to use the Flowing Light Escape Technique a few years ago. After all, his aptitude was truly rare throughout the ages. In less than twenty years, he caught up with Zhu Xingyuan's progress.

However, the rules of heaven and earth changed, the spiritual energy gradually dissipated, and Liu Yiye's cultivation level gradually declined. Now he can only use escape techniques by riding on a flying sword.

Even after another five or six years, Liu Yiye might not even be able to use the method of flying.

So no matter what, he has to go to the place that attracts him, otherwise he really has no chance.

The long sword swept across the sky, and the person on the sword looked at the frozen ground below with an expression neither sad nor happy.

The place he went to had already been infected by evil spirits, but the strange thing was that no matter how he moved forward, the evil spirits would not infect him at all.

Sometimes Liu Yiye wondered if he had already become a demon, but he just didn't know it. While thinking about it, Liu Yiye had been flying in the air for more than a month.

For such a long time, he had not seen any living creature, as if the whole world was completely dead.

After flying for a few more days, Liu Yiye suddenly felt something in his heart. He fell from the sky and stood on a snowy field.

This snowfield should not have been a snowfield before, but the long period of heavy snow has completely covered this place. Layer after layer of snow has compacted the snow underneath, and finally formed this vast snowfield.

Liu Yiye walked on the ice field, and all he saw was pure white, without a single color.

They walked like this for an unknown amount of time, and in the blink of an eye, Liu Yiye saw the world suddenly change.

The snowfield turned into a rainforest, the night turned into day, and looking up at the sky, it was clear and cloudless without a single cloud. The long-lost sun hung high in the sky, emitting light and heat.

“…Illusion?”

At that moment, Liu Yiye thought it was an illusion. However, after he used the method to break the illusion and the surrounding scene remained unchanged, he realized that perhaps this was not just his illusion.

Since you are not hallucinating, then perhaps this place is the paradise?

Liu Yiye walked forward, with the long sword suspended behind him, controlled by his thoughts and able to fly out at any time.

Although this place seems to be safe and like a paradise, Liu Yiye cannot guarantee that this place is really as it appears. Necessary vigilance is also the key to survival in this world.

Continuing to walk forward, Liu Yiye heard the chirping of insects and looked at the birds flying in the sky, his expression a little dazed.

He didn't know where this place was, but if this place was not his illusion, could he find the remaining human beings here to recuperate?
Thinking of this, Liu Yiye actually felt a faint sense of anticipation in his heart.

Liu Yiye continued walking forward and suddenly stopped.

It’s not that he didn’t want to move forward, but five black stone tablets appeared in front of him.

The black color was several meters high and evenly distributed in an arc in front of Liu Yiye.

Three of the stone tablets were engraved with runes that he could not understand, while the remaining two were blank, with smooth tops without any words.

Liu Yiye stared at it in a daze for a long while, and finally set his eyes on the fourth stone tablet from the left, which was one of the two stone tablets without any words on it.

He could sense a strong attraction coming from above.

It was calling him.

Liu Yiye suddenly understood.

He walked forward and was about to put his hand on it, but suddenly he heard the roar of a wild beast above his head.

Looking up at the sky, Liu Yiye saw a strange creature flying in the air.

The creature had golden scales on its body and looked like a large lizard, but it had a pair of wings on its back. When the wings were spread out, they covered the sky and the sun, making it look extremely powerful.

It glared downwards as if it had the greatest enemy of its life.

Liu Yiye followed its gaze and looked down, and saw another strange creature.

It is green all over and is more than ten meters tall. It looks like a giant standing upright, but it has fangs protruding from its mouth.

As soon as the two creatures met, they started fighting each other. Liu Yiye could see clearly that they seemed to be fighting for a transparent crystal.

His eyes fell on the crystal, Liu Yiye felt something in his heart, and then he controlled the flying sword without hesitation to kill the two strange creatures instantly!

The golden flying creature and the green strange creature seemed to be very powerful, but they still could not withstand Liu Yiye's sword.

Golden blood and red blood spilled, but Liu Yiye did not look at the two creatures. Instead, he took the transparent crystal in the air in his hand.

What Liu Yiye had never expected was that when his hands touched the golden crystal, the golden crystal suddenly burst out with extremely powerful energy!

The enormous amount of energy formed a dazzling light that covered Liu Yiye and the five stone tablets in the distance.

Before Liu Yiye's vision was completely obscured by the light, he seemed to see that the black stone tablet in the middle, close to the stone tablet without words, was also emitting a dazzling light.

The light seemed to last only a moment.

When all the light disappeared, Liu Yiye's figure reappeared in front of the stone tablet.

At this moment, he no longer had the pure crystal in his hand, but he seemed to understand something and stared at the stone tablet in front of him with wide eyes.

One quarter, two quarters...one hour, two hours.

The sun had already set and the moon was hanging high in the sky, but Liu Yiye was still unable to regain his composure.

After being in a daze for an unknown amount of time, he suddenly laughed:
“Haha…hahaha…hahahahaha, so that’s how it is…so that’s how it is! What savior, what collapse of heaven, it’s all fake…all fake!!”

He laughed, a laugh that made the hair on your head stand on end.

There was madness, sadness, and deep despair in that laughter.

He laughed until tears came out and his throat broke. His tears turned into tears of blood and blood flowed from all his orifices.

In the end, Liu Yiye stopped laughing, turned his gaze to one of the remaining two wordless stone tablets, and slowly walked towards it.

Liu Yiye stopped in front of the stone tablet.

He stared blankly at the inscriptionless stone tablet in front of him, then slowly raised his hand and placed it on it.

The moment his palm touched the stone tablet, his body began to disintegrate, his skin tore apart, flesh and blood flew out, and all the matter that made up Liu Yiye's existence turned into strange characters and fell on the stone tablet in front of him.

The stone tablet was engraved with words, recording the beginning and end of the world of immortal cultivation.

When the last word fell, Liu Yiye no longer existed. As the last life with wisdom and power in the world of immortal cultivation, he completed his mission.

He recorded the inscriptions of the history of the world of immortal cultivation.

That is the inscription of civilization.

(End of this chapter)