Longevity: Starting as a Sect Servant

Chapter 872: Chapter 385: Longevity Seeker’s Tale (Part 2)

"Me."

Li An said: "So, only by sacrificing yourself, can she come back to life..."

"The cycle of life and death, in balance life does not infringe on death, and death does not disturb life, this is immortality. I wield authority and break the balance; I must offer myself as a sacrifice, a life for a life."

Longevity Seeker said: "The descent of the uncanny is the consequence of my reversal of life and death. Now they have activated the life and death token I left in the Longevity Immortal Palace, the resurrected immortal style is in the world, she should return, and I, should depart."

A serene smile gradually appeared at the corners of his mouth, the smile evidently so simple and tranquil, but Li An found it earth-shattering. He seemed to witness someone crossing endless mountains and seas, overcoming boundless fear, just to arrive at this stone table and display such a uniquely human smile.

"My story ends here. I shall depart; I should have left long ago... but what about you?"

He looked at Li An and said: "She was right. My nightmare has never been her, but the endless deceit and death on Ten Thousand People Island. Childhood was a nightmare I fought against all my life, and because of this obsession with survival, I reached immortality..."

"She allowed me to conquer the past, to overcome everything on Ten Thousand People Island... but after immortality, there remains only endless solitude. The long passage of time, no one rejoiced for you, the endless time, no one wept for you, and in this world, no one remembers you or thinks of you. Then, you realize, beyond time, you transcend but differ little from a nameless stone by the roadside. Amidst the hustle and bustle, the joys and sorrows, you are but a spectator."

"Slumber can temporarily forget this loneliness, but prolonged slumber becomes loneliness itself."

Li An felt a sense of confusion within, empty as death. He had once entered the Deceit Realm, where he abandoned all about Gu Hong, Withered Fate, and Taiqingzi’s karmic ties. Now, listening to the Longevity Seeker’s words, an incomprehensible deep sorrow surged within him...

"In fact, I once saw your future,"

The Longevity Seeker smiled slightly, "In the downstream of time, another extinguished everything, likewise proving immortality with ruthlessness, and that person was you."

"I once said, playing with several Immortal Venerables, supreme ones, it has long ceased to amuse me... I chose you merely to see if, when you were not yet completely devoid of emotions like me, I could disturb your destiny and see if this emotionless curse could be broken."

"No one in this world can be my adversary, only fate."

He rose with elegance, his figure inexplicably faint, as though all those words spoken to Li An were but a leftover shadow.

"You must know, Life Nourishing Immortal Skill is my creation. Its greatest function is to revive my wife and children. Those buried coffins at the end of time are merely what I led Yunluo and Evergreen to discover and take away. They assisted me in reversing life and death, allowing my wife and children to reappear in the world. Thus, in the Longevity Immortal Palace, I did indeed leave some longevity opportunities as gifts."

"In this lifetime, besides her, no one could harm or plot against me. Mere Yunluo and Evergreen only made it possible because I let them... because I allowed them to achieve this."

His figure was about to fully disperse, at this moment, his bearing was fully revealed. Li An seemed to see the grandeur of a person in history who once sacrificed the entire longevity opportunity, who silenced the world with his unmatched prowess...

It was precisely this person who, to save his wife and children, laid out plans beyond time. Evergreen Immortal Venerable and Yunluo Immortal Venerable were nothing more than pieces on his chessboard. Life Nourishing Immortal Skill was a cultivation technique he created to revive his wife and children. The descent of the uncanny, the collapse of the heavenly court, were but insignificant specks of dust in this grand scheme!

He remained himself, willing to sacrifice everything for his aims, even if it meant offering up the entire space-time, extinguishing all living beings in the world, it wouldn’t move him in the least. Yet, he was also no longer himself. He exhausted everything, this time not for himself, even wagering fate as a bet, immortality as the fuel, just to make a woman reappear amidst the karmic fire of the world’s dust...

"People say the mortal world is bitter, vainly seeking immortality for liberation, yet not knowing liberation contains great terror. Now I wish to abandon immortality, to roam the mountains with my wife and children, observing the clouds roll and scatter, the sun rise and fall, how can this be attained! How can this be attained!"

His voice was lonely and lamenting, along with his voice, vanished into the wind.

As if he never existed.

Li An watched him leave, witnessing the demise of the world’s only Longevity Seeker. He felt a sense of sorrow, uncertain of where to go.

...

At this moment.

Somewhere in the world, a small thatched cottage, on a simple wooden bed, a woman in purple clothes seemed to sleep peacefully, yet suddenly was aware, she abruptly opened her eyes.

Her eyes were filled with confusion, she looked around, her face only showed astonishment and disbelief. She walked out of the cottage, only to see in front of her a patch of blooming roses, vibrant and colorful, thousands of them bending the branches due to their weight. Not far, there was a half-acre fish pond, the sunset descending, tranquil yet incredibly beautiful.

The eyes of the woman in purple suddenly blurred, and tears began to fall.

She had once told someone she wanted to find a peaceful mountain forest, build a small thatched cottage, plant roses all around, preferably dig a half-acre fish pond, with that person work from sunrise to sunset, then give birth to a big fat child for them... no longer bothered by the world’s troubles.

Now everything stood before her.

She gently placed a hand on her abdomen, the stirring of the fetus clear to her.

Yet, she knew that person had disappeared forever.

Forever.

...

Good night.

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