Not even a single powerful cultivator in the world and in the Primordial Sea itself would ever think of actually dying such a painful death by the powers of annihilation, let alone someone who had lived a billion years like Fang Zun.
He had lived even more, through his own incarnations. He understood just how powerful the powers of annihilation were from his knowledge from the outside.
He understood that even powerful cultivators of the Grand Immortal realm would not be able to stop such power, let alone his own.
His own cultivation was still, at least visibly, on the level of a Heavenly Immortal.
Such as they were, if he let them consume him, then he would die. Not an actual peaceful death of some sort. It would be painful, slow, and agonizing.
He did not like the mere thought of that.
He began to heal. Li Jiwen closed his eyes and began to feel the mind of Fang Zun.
Fang Zun thought, ’To think that other transmigrators finally began to appear in this realm, and I thought I would never face any one of them again after killing Old Jing. To think that there is another one this time.’
’It is the promised and foretold one that had already been promised to bring destruction to the heavenly Dao and fell it down. To think that I would have a chance at taking his powers this time, but at the very same time I still failed.’
’What a pitiful existence indeed. And to think that just a young man that had not even had the most experience in the world of cultivation would actually make me face so many problems that is a laughable situation, indeed.’
As someone who had already lived as a Heavenly Immortal for more than half a billion years at least, Fang Zun had already had his own pride.
Although it did not control him, it still existed.
He understood that probably that would hurt his pride some points, but not much.
He understood that probably the power of one’s own and one’s own prowess within the cultivation realms was much more actually deliberate than facing the painful truth that was the fateful encounters of others as well.
He had already faced fateful encounters before, and he understood the privilege of the heavens and earths themselves had already made these things only because it wanted to make him powerful enough to be used and then to be uprooted as well.
The words that he had already told Li Jiwen were not merely lies, but they had some truth to them.
He was now healing, and time passed day after day, week after week, month after month.
Time continued to move.
It would not stop until the heavenly calamity would come and topple down the world.
Finally, after three months, Fang Zun had already returned to his own powerful state at last.
He finally faced the problem that was at hand at the moment.
He had already lost the chance to get the system in this life, and he lost the chance to actually get the powers of Li Jiwen to his own at the moment.
He decided under one condition that he would need to do something, and that something was indeed that he would need to face many powers and many problems that he would face in the other timelines as well.
A powerful person knew when to advance and when to retreat. Fang Zun was probably the most fit person to be called powerful and smart.
He knew that with his own wisdom and his own might, he would still face Li Jiwen in the future as well in the different timelines.
But in this timeline, he had time to do other things at least.
Fang Zun was not a normal person, and he was not an easy person as well.
He thought to himself.
’Ah, to remember Earth’s own might and Earth’s own differentiations. It actually makes me feel some kind of longing to Earth at the moment. To think that I have been here in this world, in this timeline, for 1,009,869,365 years.’
’That is a long time. I still miss Earth. I still miss my wife, I still miss my kids. But what does that even mean now?’
’After all these years, I feel that I cannot even remember their faces.’
’Their smiles, their own laughter.’
’I still cannot remember anything about them. This is indeed something that makes me fear that even if I did come back to Earth again, I would not be attached to anyone.’
’I would be detached from anything and everyone. I would still be such a lonely person, even though I am surrounded by people I used to know. Maybe truly, as a wise man said once, attachment and want and desires are the death of man.’
He smiled slightly, then he closed his eyes again, then opened them wide, now much more ruthless than before.
He said, "Well, now, does that matter indeed? I will hunt that little kid, and I will take his own powers, even if that meant that I would lose a portion of myself doing so."
"I do not care."
"I do not understand why such a person and such an earthling want to live in this hellish existence of a place. The Dao in this realm, the cultivators, the actual people themselves, they are like monsters."
"They do not feel, they do not love, they do not actually have any connection with their humanity. They only seek power and power alone. Oh, what a painful existence. What a literal, meaningless existence that is, to think about it."
"Now, to think about Earth."
"Love, humanity... Ah, Earth."
His longing in his own thoughts seemed so true and so genuine that Li Jiwen was surprised thinking about it.
He had never expected that the most ruthless cultivator he had ever known would be so attached to Earth this way.
And to be longing so much for it.
It was probably the most unexpected thing that Li Jiwen had ever seen come from Fang Zun.
’Home,’ Li Jiwen thought. ’Huh.’
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