Hui flew on his own. The blue sky stretched overhead, the sun beaming down. A gentle breeze rustled his hair. The Immortal Realm panned by below, placid lakes and wild forests, beautiful villas and the small, mortal-esque towns.
The Immortal Realm should be enormous, larger than the mortal realm, but even from here, I can still see Heart Lotus City, Hui thought, watching over his shoulder as he flew. Its as if space is compressed, and yet, I still need to fly the original distance to reach the final point.
Is it the Golden Immortals attempt to imitate the slow travelling speed from my world? Hes only copying all the worst parts, the worst bits only! Next thing, hes going to try and implent traffic and stoplights! He must be stopped, at all costs!
As he watched, dozens of cultivators leaped up from Heart Lotus City. Gold cultivators rushed to et them, the two clashing in midair. In the center, a cultivator who looked almost exactly like Hui emitted a fierce, murderous aura as he led the charge.
Hui winced. Song Wei, even if you wear my skin, in what world would I ever lead the charge? Ahhh no. Itll have to be good enough. The Golden Immortal will know sothings off, but hopefully hell chalk it up to behaving strangely at the tail end of a loop rather than guessing that I am actually Song Wei. Or well, knowing , he might well assu that Song Wei isnt , but that Im hiding on the back lines and watching soone in a -disguise lead the charge, which is very -like. Sorry to disappoint, though! Im directly fleeing the battle instead.
He flew on, putting more space between him and the city. The battles lights and sounds faded as quickly as they arose, falling into the background. Even Heart Lotus City vanished, swallowed up by the forests. The further he flew from Heart Lotus City, the more small villages cropped up. The Immortals in the villages wandered by, unaware of Hui flying overhead. He gazed down, watching the towns cycling on their loops within loops.
I still dont understand the Golden Immortals decision there. If he wanted them to live like mortals, sure, loop their lives away, but if he has full comprehension of ti, why not make their ti run faster instead? In fact, even better, leave them outside of the larger worlds loop, so their ti can continue to progress, within their own loops, to slow down ti without resetting it. But instead, almost as if theyre an afterthought, they loop within the loops. Its almost like he made a classic programming error, but hes an Immortal, not a programr.
Theres a lot about those villages thats self-contradictory. If I assu he has full control over ti, then it doesnt make a lot of sense. But if I dont make that assumption, then
No answer from the garbage realm, huh? Iiiiinteresting. Yes, lets just put that in the back of my mind and hurry on to the ends of the realm. This is only the first part of my plan.
In the distance, intense golden light flashed, bright enough to wash all the way to where Hui flew, even though he could no longer see Heart Lotus City. A powerful aura washed over Hui, faintly suppressing him. He dropped a few feet out of the air before he caught himself. Hui licked his lips and glanced over his shoulder, suddenly slightly nervous. I dont think the Golden Immortal fully manifested when we t in the White Tigers strange palace. That power is far beyond what I dealt with in that palace.
At the end of the day, Im a newly ascended Immortal with a few stolen Immortal-level techniques, facing off against the Heavenly Emperor. Im insane. This is insane.
Well, no. Im not newly ascended. Or am I? Its confusing. I dont know. He shook his head. Ti loops make everything confusing.
The towns fell off beneath him. He soared over forests, then mountains, then a seemingly endless ocean. At last, ahead, the sky turned dark. Not from night, but from the vast emptiness of space. The sun still shone, but faint stars glimred in the distance. Far off, he caught glimpses of the mortal realm and Underworld, each of them self-contained, planet-like realms of their own. He lifted his eyes, gazing out into the stars. And those, are those all worlds of their own, with their own mortal realm, Underworld, and Immortal Realm? And yet, my world is not among them. How strange.
Maybe theyre just ordinary stars, or empty voids of worlds, like back ho. Just because the nearby planets are small realms, doesnt an all the stars are small realms.
But if they are
He stopped where the ocean poured into the void, hovering there, in that far distant place. Under his feet, a powerful dragon vein throbbed, beating living energy through the heart of the Immortal Realm. The end of the world. And here is the origin of the south. From here, I have access to the ultimate point of the realm, one of the ends of this world. Here is the source of the south-directional dragon vein. From here, it courses across the entire Immortal Realm to end in the center of the realm, where it becos the north-directional dragon vein ah. Probably at Heart Lotus City. If I had to guess, the nexus where the dragon veins change direction is under the palaces.
That would be the other logical place to try this. But, its one central location, and its directly under the Golden Immortals nose. Not that he couldnt locate or destroy us here, but he has to fly to four different places, and plus, we arent in the one central city in the Immortal Realm, which is far too obvious.
Even a few seconds can buy us enough ti for this to succeed. Every single second counts!
So lets get this show on the road.
Using his ssaging technique, he called out to the others. Is everyone in place?
Silence. Hui hovered alone.
He swallowed. Are they okay? Did the Golden Immortal get them all? I know Ying Lin said she was going to cover for us, but what if she failed? Theres no way she could, but what if she did? I should have sent clones with everyone. I know Im trying not to use clones so much, but just in case, I should have, I
A quiet hiss.
Hui jerked upright. Zhubi? Is that you?
Its Zhubi. And ! Im in place, too! Bai Xue returned.
Ive arrived, Li Xiang declared.
Hui nodded. He lifted his eyes to the distance, where the golden light still faintly glowed. Song Wei, thank you. And Im sorry. You deserved better than to be our sacrifice.
But maybe you dont have to be forever.
He took a deep breath, then threw his hand out. Then, lets begin the final realm-breaking!
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