Longevity: Starting as a Sect Servant

Chapter 853: Chapter 378: Sacrifice of the Self (Part 2)

She must have anticipated the perilous situation Li An is facing now, what would she do?

Even though Shangguan Shengxian is insignificant compared to Heaven-Devouring Great Demon, Hongbo Fairy, and others, her scheming, ambition, and methods might not be weaker than theirs. Therefore, she must still have a plan, and he still has a chance...

However, not here.

He must retreat and create an opportunity for her during the escape.

As he calmly pondered, he had already taken out the sacrifice given by Hongbo Fairy.

Inside the jade bottle, there was actually a mass of death energy!

Li An merely sensed it a little and immediately understood that it must not have been refined from the cultivators of Purple Cloud Mountain.

It’s terrifying; just uncorking the bottle for a moment and feeling that kind of tremor made Li An scared to the core. In an instant, he seemed to see numerous celestial beings wailing, even Daluo Golden Immortals falling...

Could this bottle of death energy have been refined using the deaths of celestial beings from the heavenly court?!

If that’s really the case, then it’s too terrifying...

But at this point, what is impossible anymore?

Li An took a deep breath, silently operated the Life Nourishing Immortal Skill, and sensed the power of the Immortal Skill within him. The surrounding azure light seemed to boil, and this altar, dormant for countless years, slowly opened.

The one performing the ritual: Li An.

And what he held was an aura of terrifying death energy.

Sacrificing life with death.

This place was a sea of vitality, yet the mountains of death were silent and dead; life and death opposed each other and have not achieved true Taiji-derived evolution. Now, using the death energy to sacrifice the altar of life, it conformed to the true meaning of Yin and Yang rotating with life and death intertwined.

The death energy was compelled into the altar by him; at this moment, he felt the altar of life repelling this completely opposite aura, but Li An crazily operated the Life Seed, forcibly stabilizing it with his own cultivation, making life and death merge.

This death energy actually slowly took root on this altar!

The boiling vitality no longer repelled, but looking from afar at the entire life-giving mountain range, at the center of the azure altar, there was indeed a birth of death energy!

The altar of life, has been sacrificed!

"Sacrificed..."

"No!"

"Do we really have to die once more? I’m unwilling!"

Many deceased spirits wailed.

The people from the Saint Realm were extremely excited.

Even Hongbo Fairy and others, at this moment, were constantly feeling the changes in the altar of life with their Daluo gaze.

But it was at this moment.

Li An’s figure suddenly disappeared from the spot!

He unleashed the divine power of Shrinking Land Into Inches and fled directly!

He chose the most direct way.

The Great Demon was trapped, the Daluo watching... Li An, despite his many ingenious plans, was helpless, so taking advantage of the time when everyone’s attention was on the altar, he simply ran.

Of course, he also understood that even if he seized the opportunity, for a Daluo Golden Immortal, all his thoughts... were just child’s play.

He was already prepared... to self-destruct.

If blocked by the Daluo Golden Immortal, this would be his only means of resistance... this body could perish, and he could start anew.

Yes, he had the chance to start over.

During the battle at Purple Cloud Mountain, he had crafted many puppets using Leng Rufeng and others, but then Hongbo Fairy had sighted him, leaving those puppets with absolutely no chance of surviving.

The only possibility is...

Li Nianxue!

—When he entered the Saint Realm with Li Nianxue, to prevent his identity from leaking, Li Nianxue proactively suggested planting a Demon Seed in her mind.

At the time of Purple Cloud Mountain, he entrusted Li Nianxue to see Shangguan Shengxian and also entrusted a weak primordial spirit in the Demon Seed. If he died here, the primordial spirit could seize Li Nianxue and be reborn.

No one knew this, and Li Nianxue was able to relay Shangguan Shengxian’s message to Li An, proving that she had not attracted the attention of Hongbo Fairy and others!

He frantically ran towards the direction Shangguan Shengxian had mentioned, even though he had a fallback plan to start over, he now pinned his hopes on Shangguan Shengxian!

"Hmm? He actually wants to escape?"

In the chaotic flow of time, a cold voice rang out.

"No matter, he should die too... he won’t escape."

Hongbo Fairy smiled slightly, raised her hand, ready to obliterate Li An completely!

But before she acted, her hand slightly stopped, "It seems I don’t need to."

...

Li An fled at high speed.

However, as the space transformed, he suddenly felt something amiss.

"Who..."

Li An’s hairs stood on end, his expression extremely ugly, for he had already realized that unwittingly, he had broken into someone’s domain.

A Taiyi Golden Immortal!

"Such a Li An,"

At this moment, a clear and cold voice echoed, and as this sound entered his ears, Li An’s heart was suddenly shaken. As he looked, he saw a young girl in white walking over.

Her appearance unchanged, still as sickly as when he saw her in the northern Great Li; her eyes like autumn water, her hands behind her, but her face full of mockery:

"The same trajectory, hehe, this world indeed has another such cold-hearted person..."

Li An frowned and said, "Who are you?!"

Simultaneously, he sent a secret message: "Shangguan Xiaoxiao? Lend me a hand..."

The girl in white laughed: "Of course, I’m Shangguan Xiaoxiao, but not the one you know."

Li An’s heart sank. Although he had anticipated this, the drowning man’s desire to grasp the last straw was urgent, and his disappointment increased when he fell short.

"You have completed the sacrifice with death, and now you should sacrifice with life."

"Sacrificing with death is easy; the heavenly court’s collapse left no shortage of death energy, but sacrificing with life requires someone nurturing enormous vitality... guess who this sacrifice is?"

Even though Li An had learned from Shangguan Shengxian that he’d perish between the two altars, hearing this made his heart chill.

The second sacrifice was...

Li An himself!

Using the death energy accumulated during the heavenly court’s collapse, he activated the altar of life, and he, who had nurtured strong vitality, was the sacrifice for the altar of death.

Thus, with life amid death, death amid life, the intersection of life and death would lead to the road to the Longevity Immortal Palace.

For thousands of years, since he had practiced and achieved success in Life Nourishing Immortal Skill and met Purple Fairy, Li An often felt like he was being pushed by an unseen hand, as if someone had paved the path for his fate, which he could not resist or wasn’t capable of resisting, until now, seeing the full picture of his fate’s path.

"Finding a suitable sacrifice is truly not easy. Yunluo Immortal Venerable exerted all his power, catching a glimpse of a similar trajectory in the river of time, matching perfectly with another cold-hearted and longevity seeker."

"Shangguan Xiaoxiao" smiled and said: "You, who cling to life and are shamelessly cold-hearted, have already succeeded once in history, and that was a calamity. This time, it won’t happen."

Li An’s heart was even more shaken; Yunluo Immortal Venerable...

Though he saw the trajectory of fate clearly, he was still puzzled why he was chosen?

Now, hearing Shangguan Xiaoxiao’s words, he realized that during the heavenly court’s collapse era, the Venerable who supposedly exhausted his life to glimpse hope and prophesied the revival of immortal winds wasn’t leaving hope for future generations but was searching for a similar flower between the heavens’ mingling fate.

The Longevity Seeker of the Era of Eternal Life was cold-hearted, ruthless, and Li An was indeed indifferent, selfish, and self-serving.

Everything became clear.

Yunluo Evergreen was in a conspiracy!

Li An couldn’t afford too much sentiment; "Shangguan Xiaoxiao’s" slender hands had already waved, and as he was in the domain, despite having thousands of plans, he was helpless and was determined to perish together, ready to self-destruct upon approaching her, attempting to eliminate her as well...

Shangguan Xiaoxiao, repaying you thusly is the last thing I can do!

This was his last thought.

As he was sent near Shangguan Xiaoxiao by the domain force, ready to self-destruct, Shangguan Xiaoxiao suddenly took out a pill, swallowed it, then coldly grabbed Li An, heading towards the altar of death!

Li An, unexpectedly, paused.

...

Good night.

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