Those who face the wall, but are in the Nascent Soul stage.

Chapter 444 The Death of Shanqing (5k)

Luo Ji's face was covered in spiritual energy from the exploding life tablet.

The jade talisman containing the life essence dissipated into chaotic blue light. Due to the violent fluctuation of energy, the lights in the room went out instantly, including the small holographic projector, and the circuits of the entire city of Beijing experienced obvious disruptions.

One hundred and twenty years later, Beijing experienced another power outage.

The room was very dark.

So dark that we can't see the future of humanity.

The federal government president nervously pulled out his phone and turned on the flashlight.

The little moss stepped forward, and a bright golden ball of light appeared in her palm, illuminating the entire hall. This was the energy core of her intelligent transformation, which could temporarily serve as a light bulb.

Since it frequently needs to synchronize information with MOSS, the little moss has naturally undergone some semi-mechanical modifications, so it's normal for it to have an energy core.

But she didn't need to be a third wheel for long, as soldiers soon found an emergency light source and relit the hall.

Under the renewed light, the Chairman of the Federal Government asked, "Dr. Luo Ji, are you joking?"

Luo Ji's expression was blank: "How many people can the Mercury Void hold? Let's prepare to execute the 'Wandering Mercury' plan and run away."

Upon hearing this, the president of the federal government was utterly devastated.

"Is this thing accurate? Could it have been accidentally broken?" someone couldn't help but ask.

Luo Ji said with a grim expression, "It should be accurate. The principle behind this thing is to stuff a portion of one's own original spiritual power into the jade talisman. Once the original body dies, the original spiritual power will also dissipate, and the jade talisman will shatter... But how is that possible?"

How could Luo Qing have died?

Luo Ji found Luo Qing's death more unacceptable than anyone else.

He then looked at the communication jade talisman in his left hand. The talisman was still glowing, indicating that it was still trying to 'call'.

"What's this jade talisman for? Are you sure you're not mistaken? This is the life tablet you were talking about..."

“I’m not mistaken, this is a communication jade talisman,” Luo Ji explained the function of the jade talisman.

This explanation only left the people in the hall more bewildered.

If the life tablet doesn't break, thanks to the communication jade talisman, everyone can still retain a sliver of hope that Luo Qing will fall to his death...

As panic gripped the entire hall, a faint, ethereal figure suddenly floated up.

"Mr. Zenkiyo!"

Everyone immediately recognized the soul before them, as if they had grasped a glimmer of hope. This soul, which looked almost exactly like Luo Qing and was now just a spirit, was none other than Shan Qing.

"Hmm, I just sensed that the source of my true form has disappeared. I'm here to see what's going on. You don't need to worry about me, just keep talking." Shanqing floated over like a ghost.

Shanqing glanced at Luo Ji.

"A mid-Foundation Establishment cultivator... No wonder the main body entrusted all its backup plans to you. A water-attribute Heavenly Spiritual Root, your aptitude is quite good. If you were placed in the Nine Provinces, you might have a chance to transcend the tribulation."

Luo Ji ignored the praise and asked with a grim expression, "You can also sense Luo Qing? Is something really wrong with him?"

Shanqing nodded: "Can't you see I'm gradually fading?"

In their astonishment, everyone realized that Shanqing, who had accompanied humanity for nearly a hundred years, was gradually fading away from its unchanging, translucent spiritual form. This terrifying reality immediately overwhelmed everyone's nerves.

"Mr. Shanqing, you wouldn't..."

"Wait, what's going on?"

"Depend on!"

"Dr. Luo Ji, could you perhaps find a way to stabilize Mr. Shan Qing's soul first?"

Luo Ji acted almost instinctively, unleashing his mid-Foundation Establishment spiritual power in an attempt to help Shan Qing stabilize her soul.

But this is completely futile.

"Don't bother. How could I survive if my main body is gone? The other two can separate their bodies and survive as independent cultivators, but alas, kind-hearted me is left only with my soul."

Shanqing took it all in stride, and as his spirit gradually faded, his voice became increasingly erratic.

At that moment, Bojiang Crystal suddenly floated in from outside the door, and almost without hesitation, it completely embraced the dissipating Shanqing.

Everyone saw that the girl from Pojiang had tears streaming down her big eyes, and her long, flowing blue hair was turning into specks of light and disappearing. Even the almost transparent crystals began to gradually merge into the air.

The Pojiang Crystal will self-destruct along with Shan Qing!

This fact also surprised everyone in the room once again.

Little Moss was also shocked to see the girl from Pojiang. She knew that the other was just a crystalline polymer and had no emotions or life.

Why did she do this?
The little moss looked down at itself.

People began trying to persuade the Pojang Crystal to stop its self-destruction. At the same time, they began to look for ways to stabilize Shanqing's soul. Some high-ranking officials rushed outside and shouted loudly, ordering the Emperor's Banner from the Altar of Truth Square to be brought over as quickly as possible.

Soon, an urgent reply came from the army at the Altar of Truth Memorial Square:
"No, Chief! The Emperor's Banner is completely rooted in the Earth. Even the strongest mechanical equipment can't move it!"

“Even a giant mountain dragon from nearby came to help, but we still couldn’t pull it out at all… We tried to dig the ground open, but there’s a golden pillar of light under the Emperor’s Banner that goes straight through the soil and connects to the Earth’s core! We couldn’t dig it out either.”

"Those people on the Altar of Truth are speaking anxiously in the Zhizi Communication."

"Friends, don't waste your energy. The Human Emperor Banner has already been transformed into the prototype of the Underworld. How could you possibly move the entire Underworld? That's the weight of the entire Six Paths of Reincarnation." The fading Shanqing smiled calmly at the crowd.
"Besides, I am merely an avatar of the original body, and I cannot enter the cycle of reincarnation."

Everyone in the hall was at a loss. Luo Ji's attempt to stabilize the other party's soul with spiritual power also failed completely. He used his remaining array skills to build a simple spirit-gathering array, and then continuously diluted his own realm, turning it into pure spiritual energy that surrounded Shan Qing.

Surprisingly, Shanqing's soul dissipated more slowly.

Shanqing couldn't help but look at Luo Ji with newfound respect.

"I am at the late Nascent Soul stage. Even if you, a mere Foundation Establishment cultivator, were to regress to a mortal, the spiritual energy you could gather would not be able to stop my dissipation. At most, it would only delay it for a while."

Luo Ji gritted his teeth and said, "The lowest level of controlling the formation is Qi Refining Stage 1. I just need to regress to Qi Refining Stage 1. With the Spirit Gathering Formation, we can at least delay your dissipation for a while. With such advanced technology, we will definitely be able to find a way!"

As soon as Luo Ji finished speaking, his strength at the mid-Foundation Establishment stage could no longer be stabilized, and he fell to the early-Foundation Establishment stage.

And it continues to fall.

Those present were at a loss, unsure whether to advise Luo Ji to stop this self-destructive behavior.

There are far too few cultivators in this world, and in this situation, only Luo Ji can help.

The dense spiritual energy at the Foundation Establishment stage enveloped Shan Qing, making him almost invisible, but thankfully he hadn't completely dissipated.

Seeing this, the girl from Pojiang stopped crying. This beautiful, cartoonish blue-haired girl held onto Shanqing's neck and floated in the air, like a funeral banner fluttering in the wind.

Seeing this, Shanqing said, "Don't be like this. I've been raising you like a figurine... Well, I admit I love you very much, but you don't need to destroy yourself. Now we know that Bojiang Star is not completely destroyed. There are still many Bojiang people living on Bojiang Star, and they have even developed a civilization. I promised you that I would have someone send you home... Don't cry."

Shanqing's tone carried a rare emotion.

The girl from Bojiang did not reply to him, but simply maintained the same frequency as Shanqing, slowly dissipating in the air.

The slower the evaporation of the crystals, the slower the evaporation of the waves.

The faster the crystal evaporates, the faster the wave will evaporate.

"Everyone here is a leading physicist. Is there any way to resolve this?" a high-ranking official exclaimed upon seeing the situation.

"How could there possibly be a way... Cultivating immortality and physics are completely different things." The old professors smiled bitterly.

"There's nothing we can do with existing medical methods," said one of the arriving doctors.

“If we seal the Poridian crystal at absolute zero, we can prevent it from self-destructing… Should we do that?” a young physicist said.

A quantum mechanics expert stepped forward: "It's better not to do that. Let someone try it with ball lightning; even if it transforms into a quantum state, it's better than it completely dissipating." "It's useless. Ball lightning won't work. Macro-fusion could be tried, but that's uncontrollable. One slip, and half the capital is gone."

At this moment, Luo Ji's cultivation level had fallen back from the Foundation Establishment stage and reached the ninth level of Qi Refining.

And it is still declining.

"The hazard detector sensor has arrived!" a guard suddenly shouted.

Almost simultaneously, everyone pinned their last hopes on the sensor in front of them.

"Mr. Risk Eliminator Sensor, do you have a solution?"

The sensor's jet-black body gradually developed color and transformed into a standard human form, the appearance it used when it first met humans.

He carefully observed Shanqing, trying to analyze the other's energy composition, but eventually, a hint of confusion appeared on his otherwise unremarkable expression. He turned his head and said in his unremarkable voice:

"I'm sorry, there's nothing I can do."

The third level of Qi refining.

The concentration of spiritual energy reached its limit and began to thin out.

"There's no need for this. You all shouldn't do this. It makes me feel really bad," Shanqing couldn't help but say. "Life and death are predestined. After I disappear, don't hold a grudge against the dinosaurs. The war with the Devouring Empire is a thing of the past. The dinosaurs nowadays are all very kind dragons."

"Luo Ji, stop. There is no spiritual energy here. Once your cultivation regresses to its limit, it's unknown how long it will take to rebuild your foundation."

But neither the officials, the scientists, nor even Luo Ji himself listened to him.

At this moment, Ding Yi stepped forward. He ignored Luo Ji, who was dissipating his cultivation, and the politicians and scientists who were trying to come up with various solutions. Instead, he went to Shan Qing and asked him the questions he wanted to know.

Are you sure Luo Qing is really dead?

Shan Qing nodded: "The life connection between the clone and the original body has been severed. In the cultivation world, the only possibility of death for the original body is that it is lost."

Ding Yi: "Do you know how Luo Qing died?"

Shanqing: "No, my relationship with him is one-way and transparent. He knows me, but I don't know him. However, I did vaguely sense that he seemed to be trapped in a special place before."

Ding Yi: "Deadline?"

Shanqing: "Deadline... I don't really understand this."

Ding Yi explained the existence of the dead line to Shan Qing.

Shanqing: "The end of space? Maybe, I'm not really sure."

Ding Yi: "Do you know what Luo Qing's state is during the deadline?"

Shanqing: "I don't know."

Ding Yi: "I guessed Luo Qing might have gotten into trouble, but this death is just too ridiculous..."

Shanqing: "Fate is always like this. Considering what the original body has experienced in the past, this may be a good ending."

Ding Yi: "Where will you go after you die? Will you be reincarnated?"

Shanqing: "A remnant soul cannot enter the cycle of reincarnation."

Their conversation ended there.

As Luo Ji fell to the first level of Qi Refining, his last attempt to save Shan Qing also failed. After Luo Ji forcibly extended Shan Qing's life for half an hour, the Spirit Gathering Array collapsed, and everything came to an end.

The evaporation is extremely rapid.

Seemingly sensing someone's gaze, Shanqing looked up and then vanished completely.

The girl from Bojiang also vanished into thin air at almost the same time.

Everyone watched this scene unfold, and the entire hall fell silent. Only Luo Ji, who had fallen to the ground and been helped up by the crowd, and had regressed to the first level of Qi Refining, was left panting in despair.

Almost simultaneously, high in the sky, Benwoqing's figure vanished without a trace. He had just witnessed the entire process of Shanqing's dissipation and met Shanqing's helpless gaze before his annihilation.

He naturally sensed the dissipation of his original body's life force. As one of the 'Three Pure Ones' closest to his original body, he possessed more of his past life's memories that had not been altered by his original body. His original body had only successfully transformed into the Three Pure Ones during its seclusion in the 121st year of the Crisis Era, possessing all of his original body's combat power from that time.
That is, the power of one hundred and twenty-one years of the Nascent Soul stage.

Combat strength roughly equivalent to the mid-stage of the Tribulation Transcending Realm.

But at this moment, he was also unsure about the condition of his own body.

The ultimate spatial power of the Death Line is indeed bizarre, but at most it can trap the physical body. In this vast universe, is there truly anything capable of obliterating the physical body?
Having lost all connection with his original body and become a completely independent cultivator, Benwo Qing was not happy; on the contrary, his complexion was terrible.

His ego raised his head, his gaze traversing the boundless universe, as if trying to meet the gaze of that being in the clear sky. However, the gaze he imagined did not occur. The other party seemed to deliberately avoid the space where the entire Laniakea Supercluster was located, becoming unobservable, elusive, and unseen.

Benwoqing knew that he had to do something after the death of his original body. As a part of the original body, he naturally inherited the original body's obsession... Benwoqing silently recited "One Qi Transforms into Three Pure Ones", and three streaks of spiritual light flew out of his body and disappeared into the air without a trace.

...

Thirty thousand light-years away, in a massive four-dimensional fragment.

With teary eyes, E Qing looked at the Lord of the Rings.

"My true form is dead!"

The Lord of the Rings civilization was bewildered, seemingly unable to grasp the meaning behind those words.

"I want to go home, I want to go home, I want to go back to Earth, I want to find Luo Qing." E Qing pounded on the huge, sculpture-like ring of magic, wailing uncontrollably.

"Go back, we'll go back right away," the Ring revealed its distinctive markings, offering a somewhat anxious reassurance.

Since this "four-dimensional puddle" broke through the three-dimensional space paper and formed a brief space wormhole to arrive at this distant place, it has been orbiting that giant star for many years. Now it is about to complete one revolution around the star and return to the position it just arrived at.

If they're lucky, the four-dimensional fragments will fall back into the vicinity of the solar system along the path they came from.

However, there may be slight discrepancies.

As if responding to the will of the Lord of the Rings civilization, warping points in the entire four-dimensional space suddenly began to emerge at a high frequency in the three-dimensional space. From a third-person perspective, these warping points appeared one after another, resembling waves in space.

Countless warped points of waves connect to form a warped curve, which is the wave formed when four-dimensional space and three-dimensional space merge.

The warp "lifted" open the three dimensions of the three-dimensional universe, and the entire four-dimensional space rapidly fell in the fourth dimension. The high-dimensional weight brought by the fourth dimension continuously broke through multiple sheets of three-dimensional space. It approached the solar system in leaps and bounds of 30000 light-years, 12000 light-years, 7000 light-years, and 1500 light-years, finally arriving at the edge of the solar system, a position about two light-years away.

Although it's still far away, at least it's not so unattainable anymore.

"We...are back?" E Qing asked, her tears still wet on her face.

The Lord of the Rings civilization extended a long membrane in four-dimensional space, sensed the spatial coordinates in the narrow three-dimensional universe outside, and gave Evil Qing a clear reply.

"Well, I'm back."

"Go home." A smiling emoticon appeared on the massive ring-shaped structure of the Lord of the Rings civilization.

After hesitating for a moment, E Qing still ran towards the nearest warp point.

"After decades of evaporation, this puddle is almost dry. Thank you for your company; it has been a wonderful journey for me."

The distant sounds from the Lord of the Rings civilization caused Evil Qing to pause slightly as he ran.

"This is goodbye forever. We are still two light-years away from the solar system. You are moving very slowly, so please be careful on your journey."

Many withered tree branches and leaves bloomed on the Ring, along with that long-withered flower.

'If only I had two little fish to keep me company.'

The Lord of the Rings civilization watched the evil Qing, which had transcended the fourth-dimensional fragments, and its thought waves gently rippled.

(End of this chapter)