I became an immortal in the mountains

Chapter 954 The Path to Rebirth

In the sky, the sun's rays trembled slightly.

Under the blinding light, a blurry shadow, almost blending into the sunlight, slowly adjusted its angle, gradually bringing Gu Yuanqing into the range of the mirror.

Wei Wuji remained silent, manipulating the Mirror of Rebirth. The grayish-white power of life and death surged from all directions like divine punishment, threatening to engulf Gu Yuanqing.

He was not afraid that Gu Yuanqing would kill the people of the Great Wei Divine Dynasty. Whether or not the Dao of Creation was used, it would not affect his fundamental nature.

Because after being killed, either the demon will return to its original state after the full moon, or it will separate from the demon lord's power and the power will return to its original form.

However, we must not allow this part of the force to be taken away by Gu Yuanqing.

The events of that year serve as a cautionary tale, and the lost forces have yet to return; naturally, we will not allow the same mistakes to be repeated.

He wasn't surprised that Gu Yuanqing had figured out his secret. After all, a cultivator of this level wouldn't expect his opponent to be stupid.

It's just a pity that we didn't manage to force it to retreat before it was figured out.

Or rather, he instantly understood that Gu Yuanqing's sudden withdrawal of power was to expose a weakness in him during his anger.

"Gu Yuanqing, release what you hold and leave the Ancient Realm, or don't blame me for resorting to any means necessary!" Wei Wuji's voice was deep and cold, carrying endless chill.

After the gray-white pillar of light falling from the sky missed its target, it transformed into chains of runes that locked onto Gu Yuanqing.

Gu Yuanqing remained unmoved, continuously gathering the power of the entire city into his hand, his figure constantly dodging using the Great Yi Illusionary Heaven Step and the Dao of Space.

Even though the power of the Rebirth Mirror broke Jie Lin's absolute control over this area, Gu Yuanqing could still easily dodge it.

However, Gu Yuanqing could sense that the injuries to his Dao body reflected in the True Talisman of the Great Void Creation were still worsening.

Wei Wuji was clearly attacking from both inside and outside the attack.

From this, it seems that the damage caused by the power reflected by the Mirror of Rebirth has a limit; otherwise, he wouldn't have needed to expose his presence to stop it.

As Gu Yuanqing dodged, he also unleashed the Myriad Manifestations Sword Dao of Tribulation Control.

Sword energies clashed with the runic chains, annihilating each other.

However, the power of the Mirror of Rebirth was immense, and more and more gray-white rune chains appeared, constantly intertwining in the void and gradually weaving into a dense net that bound Gu Yuanqing.

Gu Yuanqing's room for maneuver is getting smaller and smaller. At the same time, the energy of life and death is also preventing Gu Yuanqing from taking all the power into his own hands.

The illusory image of the boundary trembled continuously under the erosion of the power of life and death, and its edges began to blur.

Gu Yuanqing remained calm, his figure weaving through the gaps in the chains, each dodge precise to the extreme.

The ball of power in his hand continued to grow, and the gray and black auras converged into his palm like rivers flowing into the sea.

Wei Wuji's voice came from the sky, growing increasingly sinister: "Gu Yuanqing, leave him here, or you won't be able to leave!"

The gray-white rune chains suddenly contracted, transforming into a massive, all-encompassing net that descended upon Gu Yuanqing.

Further out, the power of life and death cycle transforms into an invisible barrier, attempting to isolate the inside from the outside and sever Gu Yuanqing's connection with the outside world.

The power of the Mirror of Rebirth was constantly changing and tightening, and had completely enveloped this place.

But Gu Yuanqing's expression remained calm.

"Can't leave? We'll have to try to find out!"

As he spoke, the Yin Soul Power of the Great Wei Divine Dynasty cultivator, which had already condensed into a ball in his hand, was enveloped by a large net of divine souls, and then disappeared without a trace before Wei Wuji's eyes.

Wei Wuji's pupils constricted.

"court death!"

He raised his hand and pressed down in the air, causing the cycle of life and death to intertwine and transform into a millstone, intending to completely obliterate Gu Yuanqing.

The millstone was enormous, blocking out the sky, and was entirely gray-white, with two wheels that turned slowly.

The previous cycle is life, the next cycle is death; between the cycles of life and death, all things are crushed, obliterated, and reduced to nothingness.

The moment the millstone appeared, the laws of the entire world froze, and even light could not escape, being sucked into the gray-white vortex.

Gu Yuanqing was located at the very center of the millstone.

The millstone turned, space collapsed, time became disordered, and all existence was crushed into the most primal force, blurring the boundary between life and death.

The illusory image of the boundary seemed to shatter inch by inch under the crushing weight of the millstone. The mountains, rivers, sun, moon and stars in the illusory image of the Northern Spring Boundary were like flowers in a mirror and the moon in the water, breaking and dissipating piece by piece.

Gu Yuanqing's figure became blurred under the crushing millstone, and the thirty-three-story tower that enveloped his body continued to crumble!
In the mirror of rebirth, Wei Wuji stood in the sky, looking down at everything with indifference.

However, Wei Wuji felt uneasy because when Gu Yuanqing looked up at him from under the Demon Refining and Immortal Ascension Tower, he appeared very calm, and even had a hint of mockery on his lips.

This doesn't look like something that's about to be destroyed.

However, Wei Wuji still didn't believe that Gu Yuanqing could survive the ordeal of death!
The power of divine artifacts is vast and boundless. In the ancient world, apart from the Heaven and Earth Stele and the Tower of Babel, which are beyond all existence, there is no other divine artifact that can compare with them.

Even if he can only use a small portion of his power now, it is still far beyond what a demigod can withstand.

The millstone spun faster and faster, and a grayish-white mist filled the sky and earth.

The void where Gu Yuanqing was located had been completely ground into chaos, and even the concept of space seemed to have ceased to exist.

Wei Wuji finally withdrew his hand, the millstone slowly stopped, and the grayish-white mist dissipated.

There was indeed nothing there anymore.

As the power of the Mirror of Rebirth dissipated, the entire world seemed to suddenly fall silent.

"Your Majesty, is Gu Yuanqing dead?"

Zhou Wei's figure appeared beside the Mirror of Rebirth. At this moment, he was weak and listless, his body was hunched over, and he spoke in a feeble voice.

His words were tinged with doubt, because Zhou Wei himself could hardly believe the outcome. Gu Yuanqing had been too formidable before, and although the battle had been volatile, it was far from intense. How could he have died like that?
Wei Wuji frowned; he also felt that something was amiss.

Just as he was about to speak, he suddenly turned his head, and the Mirror of Rebirth shone in that direction as well.

Boom!

With a single palm strike, all paths vanish into nothingness!

At the same time, there was a soft laugh: "Now we can finally play our best and have a proper match!"

Gu Yuanqing had previously planned to collect the Yin energy of Tiansheng City first. Besides using this to probe the true location of the Mirror of Rebirth, he also believed that as he killed these people from the Great Wei Dynasty, their auras would continuously dissipate. With each passing second, his losses would increase. In comparison, even if he shattered the Mirror of Rebirth and defeated Wei Wuji, its true power remained within the palace. Weighing the two options, it was natural to prioritize securing the immediate gains.

Zhou Wei's expression changed drastically. He quickly wrapped himself in the Life-Tracing Sword and transformed into a streak of black light to escape the range of the Myriad Dao Returning to the Void.

Gu Yuanqing merely glanced at him and ignored him; this person was insignificant to him and posed little threat.

This time, however, the outcome was different from before. A gray-white light shot out from the mirror of rebirth and clashed with Gu Yuanqing's palm strike.

Two forces clashed in the air, causing space to tremble and cracks to appear.

Gu Yuanqing chuckled: "I thought it was really impossible to touch, but it turns out it was just a charade!"

As he spoke, his figure constantly shifted, and with each step he took, a supernatural technique was launched towards the Mirror of Rebirth.

The Great Five Elements Divine Thunder, with five-colored lightning interwoven into a net.

The Sword of Tribulation Control, which gathers the Dao of Creation and is endlessly regenerating, can even directly affect Wei Wuji's physical body from a distance using the Heart Sword Technique.

Gu Yuanqing also activated the Boundary Approach, using the Dao of the Northern Spring Realm to suppress the Great Dao of the Ancient Realm, preventing the entire battlefield environment from being controlled by the power of the Rebirth Mirror.

In fact, at this level of battle, the most fundamental aspect is the clash of rules at the level of the Great Dao.

During the fierce battle, Gu Yuanqing suddenly felt a strong sense of foreboding.

He saw that on the surface of the Mirror of Rebirth, the grayish-white energy suddenly collapsed inward, condensing into a mass of chaotic power.

Then, this extremely condensed chaos suddenly exploded, transforming into countless fine, hair-like gray-white rays of light that spread in all directions.

Where the light passes, space freezes and all paths come to a standstill.

The supernatural powers and strength that Gu Yuanqing had previously displayed suddenly appeared in the mirror, solidifying and attacking him. Lightning, sword light, and the power of destruction of all paths engulfed him.

Gu Yuanqing snorted and took half a step back. The spatial Dao mark shone brightly, and the "Close at Hand, Distant Horizon" transformed into a spatial divine power. All the attacking forces slowed down when they were ten feet away from him.

But the next second, his pupils shrank slightly.

His divine senses perceived that these incoming forces seemed identical to the supernatural powers he had used before, but their essence was completely different.

The so-called lightning is actually a grayish-white death aura, the sword light is a chain of runes wrapped with the meaning of life and death, and the power of collapse of all paths returning to nothingness has become a curse that accelerates death.

Everything you see is just a facade. If you try to deal with things based on that, you'll likely fall into their trap immediately.

Fortunately, his spatial abilities gave him the opportunity to see through the essence of things.

With a hand seal, the phantom of the Northern Spring Realm swirled around him, peeling away and dissolving the incoming power layer by layer. This was an insight he gained from the Northern Spring Realm's absorption of other powers, which he reproduced under the influence of the realm using a method similar to controlling objects.

The Demon Refining and Immortal Ascension Tower hangs overhead, its clear light descending, and the Dao Source True Fire ignites, isolating the decaying intent contained within the power of life and death.

When the power of life and death touched Qinghui and Daoyuan True Fire, it emitted a faint hissing sound, constantly dissolving yet continuously surging back.

During the confrontation, Wei Wuji changed his hand seals, and the gray-white energy on the mirror surface condensed into a vortex.

The vortex spun faster and faster, gradually spreading and drawing in the spiritual energy of heaven and earth within a radius of thousands of miles. The mirror itself was also rapidly expanding.

Gu Yuanqing felt the void beneath his feet begin to distort, as if the entire space was about to enter the mirror.

Rebirth and reincarnation!
This is one of the rules and supernatural powers of the Mirror of Rebirth itself; the place reflected in the mirror is the place of reincarnation.

Those who are drawn in will be pulled into a vortex of life and death, experiencing an endless cycle of birth and death until their souls collapse.

Although Gu Yuanqing was unaware of this rule-based divine power, he knew that falling into it would certainly not be a good thing!

He used spatial principles in an attempt to traverse space to avoid it.

But they found that the surrounding space had already changed, as if they were sinking into quicksand, with nowhere to grab on, and the more they tried, the deeper they sank.

Wei Wuji's voice came: "Gu Yuanqing, it's no use struggling. You want to leave? Too late! I must say, your strength is indeed quite good. However, now that you've fallen into the Mirror of Rebirth, even if you were a god, you'd still be skinned alive!"

Gu Yuanqing felt as if he were falling into another world. He sensed that the Great Dao of Heaven and Earth in the ancient world was moving away from him, while the Dao of Life and Death was gradually becoming stronger.

He instantly realized that this world must be the world of the Rebirth Mirror, the divine artifact of rules.

"As expected, the power of each rule artifact is not to be underestimated, let alone a high-level rule artifact. This clone's power is indeed a bit weak to deal with it!"

Gu Yuanqing did not appear flustered. This trip to the Ancient Realm was not only to obtain resources for the Northern Spring Realm, but also a test of his ability to make great progress in the Ancient Realm.

Currently, the power of the Mirror of Rebirth is insufficient to block the Heavenly Fishing!

With a thought, the aura of this clone began to slowly rise, and the illusory image of the Northern Spring Realm, which had been suppressed by the Mirror of Rebirth, suddenly became clear and began to spread. The original trend of falling into the space within the mirror was immediately stabilized.

Wei Wuji snorted softly, and the space within the mirror trembled. Countless gray-white chains shot out from the vortex and wrapped around Gu Yuanqing, layer by layer, trying to drag the entire illusory image of the Northern Spring Realm back into the mirror. At the same time, the aura of death spread into the illusory image of the Northern Spring Realm.

At the edge of the illusory North Spring Realm, it seemed that flowers, trees and plants were beginning to wither, and all things were twisting.

Wei Wuji said coldly, "Still trying to struggle? Do you really think your own Dao of the Celestial World can withstand the Dao of the Rebirth Mirror? Gu Yuanqing, if you want to fight me, then show me your true abilities! These are far from enough!"

As the words were spoken, the power of the Mirror of Rebirth suddenly intensified once more, the gray chains tightened, and Gu Yuanqing felt himself begin to sink into the world within the mirror again.

Gu Yuanqing said calmly, "I originally wanted to take a closer look, but since you've said so, then so be it!"

As he spoke, the clone's aura surged, the main body's power intervened directly, and the power of the entire Northern Spring Realm joined in.

The illusory image of the Northern Spring Realm, empowered by the power of the Northern Spring Realm, rapidly expanded with unstoppable momentum.

One by one, the gray-white chains wrapped around the phantom snapped, emitting a piercing cracking sound.

Withered flowers and plants were revitalized, distorted mountains and rivers were restored to their original state, and even the spreading aura of death was driven back by the vitality surging from the phantom.

Wei Wuji's expression changed drastically. He clasped his hands together, and the vortex suddenly contracted, then burst forth with an even more intense light. A gray-white beam of death energy shot out, intending to eliminate Gu Yuanqing before he could escape the mirror.

A mocking smile appeared on Gu Yuanqing's lips as he reached out and pressed down.

Click!

A crisp sound rang out.

Wei Wuji's pupils shrank, and he stood up, his eyes filled with undisguised disbelief!
The entire Mirror of Rebirth shattered completely, and the phantom of the Northern Spring Realm surged forth, enveloping the entire world.

The incoming beam of deathly light vanished without a trace along with the mirror before it could even reach the ancient realm or touch Gu Yuanqing…

(End of this chapter)