Young master, why not become a corpse immortal?

Chapter 422 The Truth
Lin Jiang looked around.

In the midst of my frantic sprint, I was so tense that I had no time to notice my surroundings.

This place is unusually empty.

It is indeed surprisingly large.

He vaguely remembered glimpsing numerous winding bends and rooms as he fled deeper into the area. Some roads meandered into the shadows, connecting to vast open spaces. However, the scene was blurry from his panicked glimpse, and the specific details of those open spaces remained unclear.

However, he was running extremely fast when he was fleeing for his life, and he still hadn't reached the end after running for so long, which shows how vast and deep this area is.

Lin Jiang glanced at Yu Wenyun again.

The other person's gaze turned back at that moment, and they once again revealed that stiff smile that still looked extremely strange.

Lin Jiang rubbed his temples and sighed helplessly.

He originally intended to handle everything here on his own, but he never expected that Yu Wenyun would barge in directly.

If this place is really to be closed for a full sixty years, does that mean he and Yu Wenyun will have to spend sixty years here together?
He was sincerely grateful to Yu Wenyun for coming to help.

But if he really had to be locked up with someone for sixty years, Lin Jiang would still prefer a beautiful girl to be his companion.

A jumble of thoughts flowed through Lin Jiang's mind. He was actually a little nervous, and when he was nervous, all sorts of chaotic thoughts would pop into his head.

Since arriving here, Lin Jiang had not felt this kind of emotion for a long time, but it resurfaced today while he was imprisoned here.

He shook his head vigorously, completely dispelling the distracting thoughts from his mind.

I'm not going to think about it anymore.

"I would like to trouble General Yu to protect me for a moment. I have some connection with this palace. If we can make some adjustments, we might be able to find a way for us to escape."

Upon hearing this, Yu Wenyun simply nodded:

"it is good!"

Lin Jiang ordered the statues, whose authority had been transferred to him, to form a circle in the small room, with Yu Wenyun standing guard beside him.

He sat down cross-legged and closed his eyes.

In the blink of an eye, Lin Jiang returned to the palace and appeared before the little golden figures.

At this moment, a huge sphere of light appeared in the center of the palace, hovering in mid-air and undulating slightly.

Many little golden figures were busily surrounding the sphere of light. Lin Jiang stared at them, unable to discern what they were busy with, but he could tell that they were indeed unusually busy.

"Master."

Liu Fangyue brought a small golden statue to Lin Jiang's side. The little guy was nervously twisting his little hands, looking inexplicably embarrassed.

Lin Jiang glanced at the two of them, his gaze first landing on Liu Fangyue.

She has been studying the language of the little golden statue for more than half a year, but has not yet mastered much of it.

Lin Jiang recalled the long years he had spent learning foreign languages ​​and finally swallowed his rebuke. It was unrealistic to expect him to master a foreign language in half a year without any guidance from teachers.

To stumble upon this saying by sheer chance is perhaps a matter of fate.

"Now you can explain it properly, right?"

Lin Jiang looked at the little golden statue and said.

The little golden figure nodded, then, as lightly as if leaping into water, it jumped directly into Liu Fangyue's body.

Liu Fangyue's eyes flickered for a moment, and then her entire demeanor changed completely.

Lin Jiang understood that the little golden man had become one with the other party.

Then, "Liu Fangyue" bowed deeply to Lin Jiang and said in her original tone:

"Greetings, Your Excellency. I am Yu Chang, a research apprentice of the Celestial Immortal Transformation Daoist School."

"You're that Yu?"

Upon hearing this identity, Lin Jiang was startled.

To my utter surprise, after going around in circles, I found that the people in my palace were actually acquaintances.

Lin Jiang couldn't help but ask:
"So, did you see those things I saw in the fog back then?"

“I saw it.” Liu Fangyue, who called herself Yu Chang, sighed. She was originally a man, but now she was probably a woman: “Most things are as they appear in the mist, without any difference. That woman was indeed half a leader of the Celestials at that time.”

"So what exactly is wrong?"

“The only part that doesn’t quite fit is the last part,” Yu Changdao said. “After the riot below, I didn’t consume the Body-Turning Gold Elixir to merge with the coffin, because I knew very well that my physical body couldn’t contain all of this, but…”

"Did Li Jinyue eat?"

"I'm not sure if it was Li Jinyue who took that pill. She has always been the most outstanding among the celestial beings. Logically speaking, she should have known that after taking it, she would become a vessel for the immortals and become part of their incarnation. But she did it anyway."

Yu Chang rubbed his head. Even now, he still seemed unable to believe that things had turned out this way.

Lin Jiang looked at the other person's pained expression and remained silent for a moment:
"Was your attitude towards the Lanko people really as portrayed in the fog?"

Upon hearing this, Yu Chang's expression instantly became complicated: a mix of regret, disappointment, and guilt.

"This matter has been over for a century, and we have pondered it for a long time. But before we recount those events, do you know how our world once fell into destruction?"

"Since you are asking me this now, it must be because your own arrogance and conceit have brought about your destruction."

"As you said, that is indeed the case."

I often showed an embarrassed expression:
"Once upon a time, we also lived in a vast world, a boundless territory, inhabited by countless masters of immortal arts and profound knowledge. We even traded with many people from outside the world, and it was a thriving place."

"However, in order to seek more territory, one side of us created the primordial method that can change the environment of heaven and earth, enabling it to devour the heavens and the earth and reinternalize all things; the other side actively waged wars to plunder territory."

"At that time, we thought we were invincible and that no one and nothing could defeat us. But who knew that there was always someone better? Our actions alarmed a top power, and they sent only one expeditionary force, which defeated us and forced us to retreat."

At this point, Yu Chang's face was filled with bitterness:
Do you know the origins of that foreign army?

"It's really difficult for me to guess this," Lin Jiang shook his head, indicating that he was unwilling to guess.

“They are just a caravan.” Yu Chang stopped beating around the bush with Lin Jiang: “They are not even the top caravan of that merchant guild. They are only suitable for ordinary guards, just like a group of ordinary bodyguards in Daxing.”

"At that time, we created the Immortal Shuttle Twenty-Six, each of which was as huge as this coffin. We crossed the stars and flew over the sea to a white sun. We thought we could still go smoothly, but we saw a person holding a lamp on a small boat in the distance. After blowing it out, all light sources disappeared."

"The lamp has no light, the magic has no light, the fire has no light."

"That would be nothing short of a catastrophe for us. All of our cultivation requires observation and seeing. Once the light dissipates, we will be completely blind, and even our mental vision will be difficult to maintain. The Immortal Shuttle will fall into eternal darkness, with no chance of recovery."

"When the Immortal Shuttle at the front collapsed, problems arose directly in the rear as well. The race that we created suddenly developed a will, which turned into surging waves that devoured our homeland."

"The rest of us embarked on this journey under these circumstances."

After listening to this long story, Lin Jiang remained silent for a long time:

“You made the exact same mistake as before in this very place, creating a group of people who are loyal to you, but not treating them as real people, which led to their rebellion and pushed you into the abyss.”

"When we look back, we often laugh at the foolishness of the deceased, but when events happen to us, we realize that history is a spiral, and the greatest lesson we can learn from it is that we can never learn from it."

Lin Jiang opened his mouth, wanting to say many things, but swallowed them all back deep into his throat.

To discuss the past now is futile.

"What are your plans now? Do you perhaps wish to restore the glory of this place to its former glory?"

"If we had not experienced this upheaval, we might have thought that way, but now we no longer have that thought."

Yu Chang shook his head slightly:

"We are already departed souls, do not encroach on the path of the living. Our only wish now is to make amends for all the mistakes of the past, to completely separate the spirit and flesh of the immortals, so that all living beings may continue."

Yu Changzhi's words were extremely sincere.

Lin Jiang stared at Liu Fangyue's face.

Her expression didn't change much. Since Yu Chang and the others turned into golden figures, she could no longer speak. When she controlled Liu Fangyue, it was like controlling the bodies of those beautiful women from the past, so she appeared blank.

Lin Jiang couldn't help but think of Li Jinyue, who had deceived him, and also of Yu Chang, who was conducting an experiment at the time.

Finally, he stared intently into Yu Chang's eyes and said earnestly:
"I believe you."

Yu Chang visibly breathed a sigh of relief after hearing Lin Jiang's words.

At this moment, a slightly stiff smile appeared on Liu Fangyue's face, which he was controlling.

"How did you eventually become an Oscar statuette?" Lin Jiang asked, a question that concerned him greatly.

“After Li Jinyue transformed into an immortal, we did not die immediately. I led many people to an underground dojo in the eastern part of the divine city, where we built a new coffin, intending to use it to change the celestial physique, so that the celestials could also bear the cultivation of immortals, and fight against immortals with immortals.”

Yu Changdao:
"But something went wrong along the way. Li Jinyue left a contingency plan in the coffin. She used magic to modify the coffin, causing our bodies to dissipate and our souls to merge. Almost all the celestial beings were mixed into one. We had no choice but to forcibly compress all our knowledge into our personal scrolls and then transfer them into the Mountain Moving Project, so that the coffin walls could preserve us."

"Later, your grandfather came from the ends of the earth. He learned from us and eventually forcibly mastered the Body Transformation Technique for your sake, making you our vessel."

"Then why did the immortal disappear?"

Lin Jiang couldn't help but frown.

According to Yu Chang, no one should be targeting Li Jinyue.

Upon hearing Lin Jiang's question, Yu Chang simply shook his head:

"There are many things I don't know. When the immortals disappeared, we had already merged ourselves into the golden body. Naturally, it was impossible for us to know what changes had occurred in the outside world."

Lin Jiang pondered for a long time, remaining silent for a long period.

There are still things to do in this divine city.

(End of this chapter)