Immortal Travel of Longevity

Threads of Sea Spirit Gold wove through the Taotie's flesh, completely mending its wounds.

The crimson glare in the Taotie's eyes faded, slowly giving way to a trace of lucid clarity.

"Master..."

Jiu Fengchun's voice echoed from its maw.

Yet the moment the Sea Spirit Gold fully saturated the flesh, he lost his reason in an instant.

In a daze, the Taotie unleashed a fierce roar.

"Roar!!"

The bellow seemed to resound through heaven and earth.

Zhao Yuqing froze. Parrying an incoming Flying Sword, he looked back.

"Not good!"

The Mysterious Gate cultivators were startled.

At that moment, Kong Ru also sensed that something was wrong.

"Fall back!"

With a sweep of his sleeve, he carried the many disciples of the Literary Dao back nearly a hundred li.

He cast art after art, even burning his divine sense in desperation, just to send the gathered Literary Dao cultivators out of harm's way.

"Ahhh!!!"

Agonized screams rang out from the center.

The sweeping gales cut like blades, flaying the Mysterious Gate cultivators into bloody messes. In the blink of an eye, only skeletons remained, while every scrap of their flesh and blood fell into the Taotie's belly.

The fierce winds spiraled upward.

Zhao Yuqing shuddered. Looking up, he saw countless cultivators being sucked into the Taotie's maw, falling into that abyss.

Trembling, Zhao Yuqing shouted, "Jiu Fengchun! Wake up!!"

His words made the Taotie visibly falter.

But the daze lasted only a fraction of a second before it lost its reason once again.

Seeing this, Chen Changsheng stepped into the air.

"Yin and yang, Five Elements!"

"Manifest!"

A twin-fish diagram of yin and yang materialized beneath Chen Changsheng's feet. He strode forward, using it to resist the Taotie's suction.

He snatched Zhao Yuqing up and carried him away from the center.

Chen Changsheng brought him to a safe place.

Setting him down, he snapped, "You're insane!"

Zhao Yuqing sat on the ground, taking a long while to recover his wits.

"That isn't Jiu Fengchun! That is the Taotie!"

"Do you still not understand?!"

Chen Changsheng said, but his voice failed to completely wake Zhao Yuqing.

Seeing him remain silent, Chen Changsheng shook his head.

After a brief moment of thought, he took him away from the area.

That day, in this northern territory of the Immortal Realm, countless cultivators became food for the Taotie. Whether it was the Spiritual Energy of the flora, the water of the streams, or the bones of the dead, all fell into the Taotie's maw.

A hurricane rose up there, casting a dark haze over the sky for nearly a hundred li.

The torrential gales swept everything in the vicinity into the center.

From afar, it looked like the end of the world.

Chen Changsheng's expression turned grim. Raising his hand, he sensed that the world's Mysterious Gate qi destiny had plummeted by nearly seventy percent.

This meant the Mysterious Gate had reached the end of its road in this struggle for qi destiny.

As for this qi destiny...

The inner demon shouted against the raging wind. Throwing his arms wide, a look of madness burned in his eyes.

"Come! Come all of you!!"

"Come!!"

"Hahaha..."

The inner demon summoned all the scattered Mysterious Gate qi destiny from across the world, funneling it alongside the fierce gales into the Taotie's belly.

This moment marked the true theft and transformation of destiny.

Zhao Yuqing watched from afar. Staring at the monster he had personally created at the center of the hurricane, he remained silent.

Chen Changsheng let out a breath and said, "You don't need to help him anymore, and you can't help him, either."

Zhao Yuqing collected himself. "...It's enough," he said.

"It is enough."

As a master, he now had a clear conscience.

As for what would happen from here on out, he could not help even if he wanted to.

When the Sea Spirit Gold melted back into fresh blood and merged into its flesh, the true ancient beast that had once brought chaos to the world—the Taotie—finally revealed itself to the eyes of the world.

In this era where Divine Abilities and Daoist arts were steadily fading, very few cultivators could inflict even a scratch upon it. Even Zhao Yuqing had no choice but to retreat before its edge.

Chen Changsheng said nothing.

Standing there at that moment, he felt more like a witness to history.

With the Mysterious Gate defeated and reduced to nourishment, the beginning of a changed world was now unfolding.

This time, it was a struggle against heaven, and even more so, a struggle against oneself.

...

Xiao Dongxu watched from a distance. He could not divine how long this great wind would last.

But the depleting Spiritual Energy in the surroundings constantly told him that this disaster was far from over. It was merely the beginning.

Kong Ru had suffered extremely severe internal injuries. Upon seeing him, Xiao Dongxu channeled his arts to heal his wounds.

"You've damaged your divine soul!"

Kong Ru let out a breath and said, "It was close. Just a hair's breadth. Otherwise, none of these disciples would have been able to escape a calamity, and even I would have been the same."

Xiao Dongxu looked grim, yet felt a bit surprised. He asked, "Even you were afraid?"

Kong Ru gave a slight nod and said, "I don't know what changed, but Zhao Yuqing fed the Taotie something. Suddenly, an ancient aura rolled out, and the moment it opened its maw, almost everyone was trapped in place, unable to move an inch, like fish on a chopping block."

Xiao Dongxu's expression turned grim. He had never expected Zhao Yuqing to be involved in this matter.

He knew a few secrets: the connection between Chen Changsheng and Zhao Yuqing was deep and inexplicable. It was said that the two of them often met at the foot of Qingyu Mountain on Lingyue Immortal Island, enjoying pleasant conversations.

Now, Zhao Yuqing's appearance left Xiao Dongxu momentarily dazed.

He began to wonder: was this all a game of chess?

But what was Chen Changsheng doing it for?

Xiao Dongxu had no way of knowing. It was merely a suspicion, as he had never found any evidence regarding Chen Changsheng.

In fact, even catching a glimpse of Chen Changsheng was difficult.

"And what of Zhao Yuqing? Did he lose his life to its maw as well?"

Kong Ru collected himself and said, "He was saved by Chen Changsheng."

"He was there too?!"

"He was."

Kong Ru nodded. "He was watching the entire time."

"Aside from them, there was someone else. I don't know who. The aura on this person was extremely bizarre. I couldn't even tell if he was human or something else entirely."

The matter was growing increasingly convoluted.

Now, Xiao Dongxu couldn't help but wonder who exactly he was fighting against.

Was it an accomplice trying to reshape the world, or a pioneer pushing the march of time forward?

So many things seemed to carry his shadow, yet they led to different results, just like the scene before them.

It was almost as if, in some inexplicable way, he had accelerated the progression of the years.

Staring off into the distance, at this moment, he wanted to find Chen Changsheng and ask him clearly.

This senior, whom he had always viewed with great respect, seemed to be hiding many things.

He was always impossible to clearly read or understand.

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