Longevity Candle

Chapter 152 It turns out, the world has changed again.
Jiang Xiyue looked at the six stone pillars and, amidst the anticipation of the seven people, stepped forward.

The cycle of reincarnation that was previously impossible to approach has now been easily overcome.

The hidden void seemed to vanish completely at that moment.

"Does one really have to forget their memories to reach reincarnation?" Yang Liu frowned.

The other six people looked at Jiang Xiyue, who was standing in the center of the stone pillar, and fell into deep thought.

No one can explain what reincarnation is.

They had also heard the Daoist patriarchs mention reincarnation, but that was merely the delusional wishful thinking of the fleeting life and the dream world.

Throughout history, spirits and immortals have been pursuing immortality, and reincarnation is a byproduct of the path to immortality.

Unable to attain immortality, they attempted to create an afterlife in order to achieve a different kind of immortality.

Phoenix rebirth and rebirth in the underworld are not the alternative forms of immortality I envision.

Reincarnation is an unfulfilled ideal afterlife.

Jiang Xiyue placed her palm on the stone pillar, and the vortex reappeared, radiating golden immortal light.

She followed the celestial light, leaving the dim space and entering the majestic celestial palace.

Yang Liu closed her eyes, her magical power spreading outwards, her soul sensing the void.

Li Wuwei and the others also closed their eyes to cultivate and comprehend the void of this place.

The magnificent palace was empty; there was nothing there.

Jiang Xiyue scanned her surroundings but did not see the figure of Jiang Xiyue with white bones.

She looked outside and saw a vast, desolate space, devoid of any life.

The ground was cracked, the stones were scattered, and there was sandstorm in the distance, but no one could be seen.

She rose on a cloud, searching through this space.

Arriving in this land of wind and sand, surrounded by an endless desert, she continued to fly on the clouds.

She didn't know how much time had passed when she came across a huge stone tablet with three words engraved on it: "Human Immortal Realm".

This is not the human world!

Jiang Xiyue frowned, and the boundless desert suddenly trembled.

The earth seemed to crack open, and the desert surged downwards like a torrent.

In the boundless yellow sand, skeletons flew out of the sand, and the overwhelming pressure of the immortals surged like a tide.

Jiang Xiyue's expression changed, and she immediately fled on a cloud.

That immortal pressure was far too powerful for her to withstand.

She flew an unknown distance and saw a figure in the distance that looked exactly like her.

White Bones Jiang Xiyue.

"It's you……"

Jiang Xiyue's gaze sharpened, and she activated her magic power, which shone like a rainbow.

Jiang Xiyue, the white-boned demon, smiled as a five-colored rainbow rose from her body, revealing a unique immortal space.

Buzz

The moment they made contact, Jiang Xiyue's magical power completely dissipated. A five-colored rainbow swept over, and Jiang Xiyue's vision went black; she was already in the immortal realm.

"Having forgotten magic, you who only possess mana are no match for me."

Jiang Xiyue smiled slightly.

"Who exactly are you?" Jiang Xiyue's face was pale. She had no idea why she had forgotten.

"Who am I?" Jiang Xiyue glanced at her: "I am Jiang Xiyue, a disciple of the Five Elements Daoist lineage."

"I am the one! Even if you replace me, the people outside can still see it."

Jiang Xiyue said coldly, "Unless you plan to stay here forever and never go to the mortal realm."

"The mortal realm," Jiang Xiyue, the white-boned woman, sneered, her face full of coldness. "Of course I dare not go to the mortal realm. Even if I steal all your memories and become your appearance, I still dare not go."

"But don't even think about going back. You'll stay here with me forever!"

"How exactly did I offend you?" Jiang Xiyue frowned. "I don't even know who you are, and I've never had any dealings with you before."

Jiang Xiyue, the white-boned woman, did not answer, but led her to a dark ocean.

The endless darkness was also devoid of any sign of life.

High in the distance, a huge white skeleton rose up, its entire body radiating a dark light.

Though they were some distance apart, the enormous white skeleton could be clearly seen rapidly approaching.

"That thing is coming," Jiang Xiyue said in a low voice. "Aren't you leaving?"

"Leave?" Jiang Xiyue smiled and said, "He's here to cause you trouble, just like me."

"How exactly did I offend you?" Jiang Xiyue's face turned pale.

According to Yang Liu and the others, she had only come to the ancient ruins for a visit, but this unknown entity in front of her wanted to replace her and torment her.

"Of course you haven't offended us, and you have no grudge against us."

Jiang Xiyue, the white-boned woman, sat on a rock with her feet in the water: "She's just a bit too stupid."

"Stupid?" Jiang Xiyue's face turned ugly. "I don't know anything, so why do you want me to?"

A giant skeleton arrived, its enormous body rapidly shrinking until it became a skeleton ten feet tall.

The skeleton, half-submerged in the Black Sea, hummed, "She doesn't know anything, so don't scare her."

"Scare?" Jiang Xiyue was taken aback. She looked up and saw that the skeleton only had one huge eye socket.

"Tsk, you actually think I was scarening her? You're just going to give up on all these years of grudges like that?"

Jiang Xiyue, her bones stomping in the seawater, asked, "You don't care about the destruction of the Cyclops Kingdom?"

The skeletal giant said, "It's just another cycle."

"Could you explain this more clearly?" Jiang Xiyue asked hurriedly.

She really couldn't figure out what these two guys were thinking.

Bai Gu Jiang Xiyue glanced at her, looking at the boundless black sea: "This is the Human Immortal Realm, below the heavens and above the mortal world, the final destination of immortal masters."

"What is the final fate of a Celestial Master?"

"In order to create the Three Realms and establish eternal peace, Fusheng created the Azure Heaven and the Netherworld."

The elves and a small number of immortal masters reside high in the heavens or in the netherworld…

Most immortal masters enter the human immortal realm, completely isolating themselves from the mortal world.

Without the Heavenly Court's decree from the Azure Heaven Domain, the Human Immortal Domain cannot travel to the mortal realm.

Here, carefree, people discuss and preach the Dao, and devote themselves to studying the Dao of Immortality; it is a paradise on earth.

Every cultivator in the mortal realm desires to enter the Immortal Realm and become a member there.

However, there are standards for entering the Immortal Realm, and mortal cultivators will stop at nothing to meet these standards.

Among them, the Kingdom of One-Eyed Giants has many powerful cultivators whose eyes possess innate divine power, allowing them to pierce through the void and see into the realm of immortals.

The Cyclops King desires to elevate his entire kingdom to the realm of immortals.

However, their actions angered Fusheng, who dispatched the Netherworld Spirits to punish them.

"I am the leader who led the campaign against them." Jiang Xiyue, the White Bone Demon, smiled. "I personally twisted his head off."

Jiang Xiyue was taken aback: "Then you two get along so well?"

"That's all in the past," the Cyclops said calmly. Not only the Cyclops Kingdom, but also many other wondrous races existed in that era.

Some powerful races are even capable of fighting against the elves.

Some groups also worship elves and use elves as totems.

However, these races all chose various means in order to enter the Immortal Realm.

"He wanted to grasp eternity, he wanted eternal peace, but the actions of our various races have gone against his original intentions. The carefree Immortal Realm has also become a source of evil..."

Jiang Xiyue listened quietly to the ancient stories within this space.

As the number of cultivators in the Immortal Realm increases, they yearn to ascend to the Heavenly Court and desire to gain more lifespan.

"There is no such thing as peace and tranquility; there is only endless desire. Even in this fleeting life, it is impossible to be completely selfless."

"Those elves also have desires; even controlling the heavens and the earth, or even the starry sky, cannot satisfy them."

"They yearn for eternity, drawing upon all their power in an attempt to attain it."

"They even considered extracting the power of the stars in the sky to make the immortal realm, the heavens and the underworld, and all the spirits eternal..."

Jiang Xiyue's face was full of sarcasm: "He is the number one in the world, and no elf dares to disobey him, but so what?"

"He couldn't even keep the one he loved. His pursuit of peace only plunged the world into chaos, causing countless tribes to perish..."

Eternity cannot be grasped, and peace and tranquility cannot be attained.

Even with his boundless power, he could not keep everyone.

The Cyclops scoffed, “He is the greatest desire in the world. He is too arrogant, thinking he can do anything, yet he can keep nothing.”

"And then what? Did you rebel against him?" Jiang Xiyue asked.

“Rebellion? Perhaps it can be considered rebellion.” Bai Gu Jiang Xiyue smiled bitterly, “He destroyed the Azure Heaven Netherworld that he had built with his own hands, and he also destroyed the Human Immortal Realm.”

"Once, the world was full of life, and the rivers and mountains were as green as dragons, but he destroyed them all."

The world was desolate, and there was no sign of human habitation for thousands of miles, yet only the two of us remained.

"Why did we leave you here?" Jiang Xiyue asked, puzzled.

“Perhaps, because my name is Jiang Xiyue,” said Jiang Xiyue, the white-boned woman.

Jiang Xiyue was shocked, her eyes widening: "You..."

“My real name is Jiang Xiyue. It’s the name he chose. It’s a celestial artifact he created himself. Its true form is a red moon, which is also the sea of ​​blood you saw when you came in.”

Bai Gu Jiang Xiyue looked at her: "He created many things, and he also destroyed many things."

Jiang Xiyue took a long time to come to her senses before asking, "Then why did you steal my memories and try to replace me?"

“Because Fusheng is your father, Jiang Zhu,” Jiang Xiyue said coldly, her bones exposed.

“Fusheng, Jiang Zhu?” Jiang Xiyue was stunned.

"I am the Red Moon he created, guarding the Yin Netherworld for him," Jiang Xiyue, the white-boned moon, said coldly.

"Then how come you're in the Immortal Realm?"

“You saw it, the one who climbed up from the cycle of reincarnation.” Jiang Xiyue, the white bone, said through gritted teeth, “He left behind the Cyclops as a pastime for me. I couldn’t have climbed up before. Without his help, I couldn’t have left the Netherworld.”

“But wasn’t the Taiyin Netherworld destroyed? There was a war that broke out in the human world before,” Jiang Xiyue said.

“That is only a part. The place where I am is the Netherworld Blood Sea, where I suppress all karmic spirits, Immortal Master,” said Jiang Xiyue, the White Bone Immortal.

Jiang Xiyue's eyes lit up; "Then if you go out, can you deal with the elves on the eighteenth floor?"

"You want me to leave?" Bai Gu Jiang Xiyue asked strangely.

Jiang Xiyue said, "The eighteenth floor is about to open, and they will become a disaster for humanity. If you can solve this, of course I want you to go out."

“I can let you out, but you will never be free again,” Jiang Xiyue said.

"No freedom? Why?"

"The spirits within the eighteenth level can only be imprisoned. I can suppress them, but not for long, unless you replace me and suppress them."

Jiang Xiyue, the white-boned woman, explained, "At that time, you will become like me, the Red Moon, and will never be able to leave the Netherworld Blood Sea."

"I..." Jiang Xiyue opened her mouth, but was speechless for a moment.

“If you agree, I don’t mind going out with you,” Jiang Xiyue said with a faint smile. “However, there is still one problem: you need to get his consent first.”

"Who?"

“What Fusheng suppressed is deep in the sea.” Jiang Xiyue said softly, “If you die, I will completely replace you. If you come back alive and obtain the power of Youying from him, you can take me out.”

"You brought me here so that I could retrieve the power of the Netherworld for you, right?" Jiang Xiyue said.

“That’s right. We originally wanted to replace you, thinking that with everything you had, we could go down, but it didn’t work, so we had to bring you up.” Bai Gu Jiang Xiyue frankly admitted, “We were also curious as to why Fusheng wanted to suppress him.”

"You're the one who caused my amnesia and brought me here?" Jiang Xiyue glared at her angrily.

“Of course, in that land of reincarnation, apart from the River of Oblivion and the Cloud Dream, everything is under my control,” Jiang Xiyue, the White Bone, said calmly.

"And who is Wangchuan Yunmeng?"

Jiang Xiyue, the white-boned woman, said, "She was Yunmeng's clone back then. Who else could it be? However, she has long forgotten Fusheng."

"I……"

"Go down."

Jiang Xiyue, not wanting to waste words with her, pressed down with her palm, her immense magical power directly suppressing her.

"Can she do it? Jiang Yunmeng failed last time she came," the one-eyed giant said.

"We have to give it a try. There are still seven people left. We'll try slowly."

Jiang Xiyue, the white-boned one, said calmly, "They are not Jiang Yunmeng. They possess profound magical power and are protected by two immortal swords."

Jiang Yunmeng has two immortal swords, so she can leave at will.

Jiang Xiyue and the others did not have any; they only possessed a little bit of the old elf's magic power.

As long as they don't trigger those magical powers and put themselves in mortal danger, they'll be fine.

At the bottom of the deep sea, there is endless darkness.

Unsure how deep they had sunk, a silvery-white light suddenly appeared below.

Jiang Xiyue looked down and saw a silver-white palace shrouded in an invisible light curtain.

In front of the palace, a woman in white sat on the stone steps, occasionally glancing up at the sky.

"Someone else is here." The woman in white looked coldly at Jiang Xiyue as she fell.

It passed through the barrier and landed in front of the woman in white.

"Senior." Jiang Xiyue quickly stood up, bowed, and greeted her: "Jiang Xiyue of the Five Elements Daoist lineage greets Senior."

"Jiang Xiyue?" The woman in white glanced at her. "Why are you here instead of guarding the Netherworld?"

“I am not the Red Moon of the Yin Netherworld, but a Qi cultivator in the human realm,” Jiang Xiyue explained.

"The mortal realm?" The woman in white paused, as if a distant memory had been stirred within her. "Why would cultivators from the mortal realm come here?"

“The human world today may be different from that of our predecessors…” Jiang Xiyue quickly began to explain.

In the Ming Dynasty, the system of immortal officials and various great lineages were all recounted.

The woman in white said softly, "So, the human world has changed again."

She slowly turned her head and pointed inside the palace: "Are you here to find it?"

Jiang Xiyue looked over and saw a... green lamp placed in the center of the empty palace.

(End of this chapter)