Chapter 1256: Life and Death Uncertainty

“It’s true that the identity of the so-called fellow clan members is just as good as it gets, and I didn’t expect that it would agree on the spot just by casually saying so.”

“What?” Hearing the answer given by Lin Ling, Wang Xuanba’s face changed.

“Alliance with that old thing? Are you telling the truth, senior sister?”

The Earth Vein Ancient Tree’s former basis and then respect really made Wang Xuanba feel a bit disdainful.

“It’s just words to coax it. Alignment ……”

“It’s also worthy?” Lin Ling’s tone was flat, but the deep indifference in his words was unmistakable.

“Now that it has joined the Sacred Dynasty, is it possible that it can still back out? If it dares to mention this in front of me ……,” Lin Ling snorted coldly.

Wang Xuanba was stunned.

Words that had always placed some importance on promises were a little hard to accept when Lin Ling went back on his word so openly.

Seeing this, Lin Ling couldn’t help but break the ice with his expression and smile, “Senior brother, the so-called soldiers are never deceitful.”

“To treat the enemy, if one’s words must be honored and one’s actions must be carried out, isn’t it the opposite of committing a crime?”

Wang Xuanba was speechless.

“Besides, do you still remember the explanation given by Master Teacher before we went to see the Earth Vein Ancient Tree, Senior Brother?” Lin Ling asked again.

“Since I remember. Senior said that if the Ancient Tree was obstinate, Senior Sister could take its place.” Wang Xuanba recalled and said.

“Earth Vein Ancient Tree, the name is quite domineering. Originally, I had some expectations, but after seeing that appearance of it with my own eyes, all that’s left is disappointment.” Lin Ling’s answer caused Wang Xuanba to be somewhat stunned.

“Weak, too weak. The most powerful point of the Earth Vein Ancient Tree is that its body is united with the Xuanhuang Earth Vein, and it is able to call upon the power of the Earth Veins that run throughout Xuanhuang. This is a characteristic and an advantage, but it also determines the upper limit of the Earth Vein Tree. Furthermore, the body of the Earth Vein Ancient Tree is too big, and in the eyes of a true expert, it’s full of flaws.” Lin Ling shook his head slightly.

“My dream is to desire to become a figure like Master Teacher. If I really become that Earth Vein Tree, although my strength will indeed get a leap in a short period of time, my future will be completely cut off. I’m not stupid.”

“I can only snub that old thing and continue to be on duty.”

Lin Ling whitened her eyes at Wang Xuanba: “What do you think I am, senior brother?”

Wang Xuanba gradually came back to his senses a bit and touched his head in some embarrassment, apologizing on the spot, “It’s me who underestimated senior sister.”

He looked back to the Earth Vein Ancient Tree in the Holy Emperor’s Seat and nodded his head in agreement, “The Xuanhuang Ancient Object, strong as it is. However, it is only the power of the laws of the Xuanhuang Heavenly Dao that it draws upon. If the Xuanhuang Heavenly Dao is strong, they will naturally rise. But if it’s like today, when the Xuanhuang Heavenly Dao is trampled underfoot by a figure like the Transmission Law, they can only languish and hide in a dark corner to recall their past glory.”

“I didn’t realize that you’re still cultured, Senior Brother. Speaking in a set way.” Lin Ling didn’t know whether it was a genuine compliment or a small revenge, ironic sarcasm.

“I didn’t expect so much, I can only simply want to become stronger.”

“Enough said, I’m going to go cultivate. This time, after swallowing some of that old thing’s body, I really did have some gains. If I had known, I should have been more ruthless and swallowed more at that time.” Lin Ling’s somewhat regretful voice echoed in Wang Xuanba’s ears.

A moment later, her figure slowly faded, and her aura disappeared.

Wang Xuanba kindly smiled and laughed at himself for being overly concerned.

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Xuanhuang Realm, Tianyu Prefecture.

A place where the Immortal Alliance was known for its wonders.

A rift hundreds of miles long stretched across the land like a black scar.

Even before we get close, we can faintly feel the endless icy coldness coming from the fissure.

The closer we get to the rift, the temperature drops rapidly.

Even Jindan cultivators could not withstand the low temperature for a long time and could not stay for a long time.

At the bottom of the rift abyss, from time to time, an eerie blue light would be ejected.

That was ice-cold freezing gas.

But if one stood next to the rift and looked downward.

One would be able to see that it was in this frigid abyss that there were actually countless lotus flowers made up of flames blooming.

Not cold flames, but indeed blazing flame lotuses.

Cold and hot, completely contradictory, yet intertwined with each other. In this cold ice abyss, they were both present at the same time.

The figure of the Great Enlightenment Faceless Saint Emperor, Li Ping, abruptly appeared outside of this Ice Abyss Flaming Lotus Wonderland.

Just like the countless tourists who came to this place, he stood quietly, gazing downwards.

“The bells and spirits, the creation is marvelous.”

After a long time, Li Ping could not help but sigh in his heart.

In his eyes, the scene here was actually not the same as what the average cultivator saw.

The blue ice abyss actually revealed a deep aura of death.

It was pitch black and suffocating.

On the other hand, the blazing red fire lotus was pure white and exuded a vigorous breath of life.

It looks like cold and heat are intertwined here, but it is actually ……

“Black Abyss White Flower, Dead Abyss Life Flower.”

Li Ping stepped forward, stepped on a foot, and his figure fell sharply into the Black Abyss.

It was just that his disappearance did not cause any sensation from the surrounding cultivators.

At this moment, in Li Ping’s perspective, the light around him was abruptly stretched and distorted.

Obviously, the white Flower of Life did not seem to be far away, but Li Ping had been falling for a long time, yet he had not gotten any closer to them at all.

The entire Black Abyss space was expanding and extending infinitely as Li Ping fell.

What was brought about as a result was the gradual and synchronized growth of the dense death aura.

Feeling the surrounding dead qi attempting to infest himself, Li Ping sneered in his heart. However, he did not pay too much attention to it.

If it was an ordinary cultivator, even if he was at the Harmonious Dao realm, his life expectancy would have to be drastically reduced under the influence of these black dead qi.

But he, Li Ping, was an incarnation of the Xuanhuang Heavenly Dao, a part of the Xuanhuang Laws, even if it was a part that was out of control, how could it hurt him?
Since forcibly devouring the Xuanhuang Evil Thought, Li Ping did feel that the Xuanhuang Heavenly Dao seemed to have become somewhat distant.

However, Li Ping was certain that this was only the instinctive reaction of the Heavenly Dao after devouring the evil thoughts.

When some more time passed, the bond between him and the Xuanhuang Heavenly Dao would eventually return to normal.

At the moment, although the relationship was in a weak period, it was not something that could be shaken by the dead qi of this place.

As expected, even if the Holy Emperor Li Ping did not do any protective measures, also as invulnerable, those black dead air just layers around.

But simply can not find a breakthrough.

Li Ping’s gaze passed through the dense dead air and looked straight down at the Hundred Flowers of Life.

“The junction of death and life, the source of all spirits.”

“The Xuan Huang Realm has now turned into this appearance, yet it is only hidden in this secret place, lingering on ……”

“What’s the use of having you!”

A solemn killing intent arose abruptly from Li Ping’s body.

It rawly forced back the deathly aura around him.

“Back off for me!”

Li Ping gave a low shout, and the layers of dead qi underneath him, surprisingly, really cracked a channel from it.

The space no longer extended, Li Ping’s figure drifted and flew, passing through it in an instant.

The rich vitality came to his face, and the white Flower of Life was close at hand.

The black cloud of death, floating and hovering above his head, did not dissipate for a long time.

Li Ping to that rich vitality, but the heart is steeply born a little bit of gravity.

Compared to pure death, a large number of useless vitality, on the contrary, is more like a deadly poison.

Because vitality was, by nature, a beneficial state.

As an incarnation of the Heavenly Dao, Li Ping was naturally able to enjoy this favor of Heaven and Earth.

It was also unknown just how many years it had been since a cultivator whom Heaven and Earth did not reject had come here.

The thousands of years of vitality that had accumulated beside the White Flower of the Black Abyss seemed to have finally found a vent at this moment, and it surged madly towards Li Ping.

Even though he had intentionally blocked it, he could not resist the excessive amount of vitality here. Inevitably, some of it surged into Li Ping’s body.

Vitality did indeed bring certain benefits.

However, Li Ping, was not an Everlasting Habitat cultivator who relied purely on his own cultivation.

Source power essence, holy dynasty’s qi luck, and heaven’s blessing ……

The combination of all the forces from all sides had only created his current strength that was comparable to that of an Everlasting Habitat.

Nowadays, Li Ping’s state had long since reached an equilibrium with his promotion.

At this moment, this balance was slowly being broken with the continuous influx of endless vitality.

Li Ping’s hair, as if it had come to life, grew wildly.

In an instant though, it had spread to his ankles.

The body was also expanding in synchronization.

One zhang, two zhang ……

With the sound of bones creaking, Li Ping turned into a three zhang giant in a few breaths.

It was true that it was more majestic, but it was not a good thing for the Li Ping of today.

With a slight frown, he tried his best to transform and absorb the raging vitality.

However, the speed of shrinking was far less than the speed of growing.

While maintaining the balance of all the forces in his body, Li Ping looked around, searching for a way to enter Wakagi’s hiding place.

After devouring the Xuan Huang Evil Thoughts, there was already very little in the Xuan Huang Realm that could be hidden from his eyes.

Even though some of the memories of the Evil Thoughts were already blurred, as long as he saw them with his own eyes, he would be able to sense them again very quickly.

In the flickering of his figure, Saint Emperor Li Ping disappeared into the bottom of the Black Abyss.

Without the vitality of the infused target, he suddenly became a bit bewildered. The white flower, swaying slightly, only had to suck the vitality back in.

A world filled with a treacherous aura, like faded and withered leaves.

Li Ping’s nearly five feet tall body suddenly appeared in it.

The infinite anger he carried along with him surged out from his body, spreading towards the surroundings.

However, in the odd environment here, it was surprisingly unable to spread seemingly at all.

Soon it was like autumn leaves fading, turning into a withered yellow entity, drifting down from the air.

The unwanted vitality was given a means of venting, and Li Ping gradually expelled the culprits that had caused the imbalance from his body.

The size of the body slowly shrunk.

Yet, due to this short period of time before, the balance in the body had changed.

When Li Ping returned to normal, some of the details of his body did not follow suit and instead became part of his physical features.

For example, his height was maintained at three feet three, and his black hair was like ink color hanging down to his waist.

His physique also became fuller, and underneath his golden-colored robes, there was an explosion of power.

Li Ping did not particularly care about these changes.

It was just an external appearance, and as long as he wished, he could change back to his original appearance at any time.

At the moment, his attention was focused on this treacherous place.

The smell of decay that flowed here even made him a little uncomfortable.

What made him care more was the center of this place.

A large tree that stood at the top of the sky, yet was covered in withered yellow and covered in spots, stood quietly.

Li Ping’s three zhang tall giant was no more than an ant at the feet of the giant tree.

On the branches of the withered yellow tree, densely packed, hung countless cultivators.

It was like a tree full of fruits.

All of them had their eyes closed, with a bizarre, contented look on their faces.

Li Ping’s sight swept through, and apart from this withered yellow ancient tree, no other figure was found.

“Is it just the main body in? ……”

Li Ping knew that Ruo Mu also had an incarnation that often went out and abducted cultivators to this place to make Jindan fruits, which were used to vent His inner resentment.

At the moment, he thought that he was out.

Li Ping was not in a hurry and continued to carefully observe the space here.

On the trunks of the trees in the sky, some deep scars could be vaguely seen. It was as if they had received some kind of fatal injury.

Li Ping squinted his eyes, trying to awaken the connection between this heaven and earth object and the Xuan Huang Heavenly Dao.

However, perhaps due to the fact that it was infested with withered yellow, Li Ping’s call unexpectedly did not receive the slightest response.

Instead, it provoked the ancient tree to spontaneously defend itself.

Stars and dots of withered yellow, following the veins of the giant tree, began to erode from the ground beneath Li Ping’s feet.

Li Ping deliberately let go of his defense and absorbed a trace of the withered yellow into his body.

Wrapping it with golden source power essence to prevent it from spreading. And then carefully observed.

Although the power of withered yellow was treacherous, it was unable to break the blockade of the Source Force Essence.

Li Fan felt more than just aging in the unusual sense from this withered yellow power.

It was even more sensed as if the entire heaven and earth were decaying.

It was as if the heavens were about to tumble, and the decadence was obvious and irreversible.

“This is ……”

“The world is going into disrepair.”

Countless images surfaced in his mind, those were scenes of the various states of the Xuan Huang Realm, occurring due to the decay of the heavens and the earth, and countless calamities descending upon them.

However, Li Ping knew that in reality, these states of the Xuan Huang Realm were not experiencing these things that should be happening.

“Ruomu is the source of all the spirits in the Xuan Huang Realm, it does, to a certain extent, reflect the state of vitality in the Xuan Huang Realm.”

“Ruogi has now turned into this appearance, yet the Xuan Huang Realm still appears to be vibrant ……”

Li Ping frowned slightly.

Soon he knew the answer.

“Without the injection of external vitality, the Xuanhuang Realm will definitely decline in synchronization with Ruogi.”

“The source of these vitality, on the other hand, is ……”

“The debris of the other cultivation realms that were devoured.”

“Although it was dismembered, the process of fusion also drew the only remaining vitality from those Immortal Cultivation Realm fragments, from those Immortal Cultivation Realm fragments.”

“Xuan Huang has also regained its life as a result ……”

Li Ping said thoughtfully.

“This operation, it is indeed exquisite and incomparable.”

As an incarnation of the Heavenly Dao, the nominal victim. At this moment, after reacting to what had actually happened in these thousands of years, he also had to voice out a heartfelt admiration.

“Life and death are impermanent. Death and life are impermanent.”

“Old me was originally an existence that controlled life and death, but now I have ended up in this situation.”

“And yet the world wants to abandon me, how can I not hate it ……”

Just as Li Ping was pondering, an odd voice suddenly sounded from behind him, fading into silence.

Li Ping knew that the owner of the voice was Ruo Mu.