Only three seconds? He's already the Lord of All Realms, so it doesn't matter.

Seeing Bai Donglin's gruesome death, the two guardians turned to flee.

However, his path was blocked by several bolts of heavenly lightning. Ye Xuan drove the willow branches to absorb the life force contained in the willow seedlings that grew from flesh and blood.

A wisp of mist, bluish-white in color, drifted into the air and disappeared into the willow branches.

Bai Donglin, with his Foundation Establishment Level 3 cultivation, was the best nourishment for the immortal seed, and the willow seedlings he nurtured were robust and possessed even greater essence.

Having absorbed only Bai Donglin's life and cultivation, Xianliu's power, which was on the verge of being depleted, was restored to its original state.

At the same time, the willow tree began to grow at a visible rate, gradually rising one meter in height...

"You've reached the second level of Foundation Establishment?"

Ye Xuan observed the changes inside the Immortal Willow, where the spiritual energy flowed smoothly and abundantly, indicating a breakthrough.

The two guardians also noticed this change and immediately used their spiritual power to protect themselves, preparing to forcefully break through the encirclement of the heavenly lightning.

But in the next moment, the calm lake was once again churned with waves.

Here we go again!

The lake water surged and rose more than ten meters in the blink of an eye. The two guardians also saw a faint shadowy figure in the center of the lake.

"What is that?"

Curious, the two used their spiritual power to dispel the mist, making their vision even clearer.

The phantom was constantly emitting flashes of white light, as if it were about to leap out.

Blinding white light burst forth continuously, and the aura contained within it grew stronger and stronger, causing both of them to feel an ominous sense of foreboding.

"..."

One second later, the spiritual energy gathered by the Heavenly Dao Body at the bottom of the lake will reach its peak.

Two seconds later, the purest mist-like spiritual energy in the world will surround the Heavenly Dao Body.

Three seconds later, a white light flashed, and the Heavenly Dao Body was formed!

Three brief seconds passed, and suddenly a beam of azure light shot into the sky from the large lake behind Shuitian Village, which had been calm for hundreds of years.

The beam of light gradually expanded, occasionally enveloping the entire lake and making the night sky appear as bright as day.

In the center of the pillar of light, a cloud of white, turbid mist emerged, instantly pulling Ye Xuan's consciousness back from the Immortal Willow and plunging him into the mist.

He began to lose all sense of his surroundings, and his consciousness descended into extreme chaos, as if he had been ripped from the Immortal Willow...

As the white mist in the pillar of light slowly dissipated, a figure dressed in a Taoist robe stood in mid-air.

Ye Xuan opened his eyes, and what flashed before his eyes was not only the azure lake, but also the paddy field village with its ridges, Changning County, and the whole world!

In the rapidly flashing images, he saw so-called shrines of immortals standing in various parts of the short-lived world.

Outside the ancestral hall, incense burns continuously, while inside, offering ceremonies are constantly being performed.

Ye Xuan withdrew his senses, his gaze swept over the two guardians on the shore, and a white light floated out as he raised his hand.

The white light quickly floated in front of the two, paused in the air for a moment, then split in two and instantly entered the bodies of the two guardians.

The two felt a warm sensation inside their bodies, and the next second, a white light exploded inside them!

The scene of flying blood and flesh startled Chen Hong and Li Laosi, who were hiding under the shade of the willow tree.

The two bodies were scattered haphazardly on the ground, a bloody and mangled scene, a truly gruesome sight...

The two white beams flew out from the pool of blood, entered Ye Xuan's Huangting point, and then spread to his limbs and bones.

"This should be the power of the Immortal Willow of Immortality."

His gaze fell upon the willow tree on the bank, a robust fairy willow that remained unchanged despite his true form's transmigration.

The willow tree remains rooted in the soil, its branches and leaves flourishing, its vitality strong.

Ye Xuan immediately realized that this was a kind of symbiosis, "Could it be..."

After regaining his inner peace, he discovered that the willow trees on the bank could move completely according to his will, as if his consciousness still remained there.

He raised his hand and used the Lightning-Summoning Finger technique. Suddenly, a willow branch moved without wind, and two thunderclouds appeared in the sky above his head!

With a series of hand gestures, Ye Xuan dispersed the two thunderclouds and floated back to the shore.

The blue pillar of light that had suddenly appeared in the lake dissipated into the world as he departed...

At this moment, within the Realm of Immortality, soaring straight up to the ninth heaven, one can see a magnificent palace amidst swirling immortal clouds.

An elderly man with white hair and beard, dressed in a Taoist robe with Bagua and star patterns, was meditating in a quiet room when he noticed a point of blue light appearing in the compass in front of him.

The old man's expression suddenly changed as he stared at the compass before him. "Hmm?"

I only saw that glimmer of light, which then quickly vanished without a trace.

If the landscape depicted on his compass is a lake, then this brilliance is like a pebble thrown into the lake, creating ripples...

He raised his fingers to calculate, and the faint Dao patterns on his fingertips flickered as the old man tried to deduce the source of this anomaly.

"The Immortal Willow?"

The old man was slightly startled, got up and went outside, gazing into the distance at the swirling mist.

The realm of longevity naturally corresponds to the realm of short life, and the two realms have been completely separated since ancient times, so in theory there is no way for them to connect.

But the compass in his hand clearly indicated that he was in the Short Life Realm. "What on earth happened?"

"How could the Willow Immortal Technique appear in this short-lived world...?"

Filled with doubt, the old man stepped into the clouds. With each step he took, the swirling immortal energy below transformed into different forms—

The old man stepped on the back of the tortoise, which was covered in dragon scales, and the surrounding scenery changed in an instant. The magnificent palaces and pavilions just now disappeared without a trace, and he arrived in a sea of ​​clouds.

The dragon turtle dissipated, and the immortal energy below transformed into a crane spreading its wings. The old man stepped on the crane's head, and the surrounding scenery changed again. The calm sea of ​​clouds disappeared, and he arrived at a towering peak.

Looking out over the Dongting Lake at the summit, a woman dressed in a purple Taoist robe soon appeared.

Upon seeing the newcomer, the immortal willow fairy's beautiful face flickered with a strange expression, and she asked:

"An immortal from the Daoist court? That's a rare guest. May I ask what business you have with me?"

"It's nothing major, but may I ask Immortal Liu, has anyone found a successor to this technique?"

Upon hearing this, Changsheng Liuxian immediately recalled the incident where a spy had sneaked into her cave and stolen her immortal techniques.

She knew the old man before her possessed the ability to survey the world through the compass in his hand, yet she said:

"Are the immortals in the Taoist temple so idle on ordinary days? They only care about trivial matters."

Having said that, Liu Xian floated back to Dongting Lake with a hint of anger. Faced with her embarrassing situation, she didn't want to get entangled with the old man any longer.

She heard only one sentence the old man uttered before he left—

"Although I do not know the specific reason, your immortal techniques have already spread to the lower realms, so please pay close attention."

The sounds that had echoed between heaven and earth dissipated, and Liu Xian sat peacefully in her cave, a question rising in her mind.

As expected, it's a short-lived world...

She naturally knew that the two realms were completely separated by an unbridgeable barrier, but she could never understand what power the spy from the short-lived realm possessed to be able to glimpse longevity.

In contrast, Ye Xuan, after many days in the form of a willow tree, finally returned to being human.

He also didn't know what had happened in the Realm of Immortality, but he gained more memories from Bai Donglin and the other two who came seeking their own death. He learned more about the Realm of Short Life and the Immortal Shrine.