Longevity: Starting as a Sect Servant

Chapter 873: Chapter 386: Return to the Mortal World

On Bone Transformation Mountain.

The Longevity Seeker had departed for a long time, yet Li An remained seated, savoring the tea on the table, cup after cup. This tea was not some elixir or nectar, merely ordinary tea leaves brewed too strongly, hence incredibly bitter.

Li An sighed.

The story of the Longevity Seeker truly stirred countless emotions within him, even making him doubt himself at times.

But soon after, he calmed down, contemplating rationally and cooly about the path ahead.

The loneliness and hardships after achieving longevity were matters of the future. Longevity was still so distant for Li An; he was far from making that decision.

At the moment the Longevity Seeker vanished, amidst the myriad manifestations and endless ocean of causes and effects of the cosmos, there was a sense. Li An, possessing the chance of longevity, naturally sensed it too— the authority once belonging to the Longevity Seeker had dissipated, returning to the vast expanse of the universe.

Now, there is no one in the world who is immortal, and the authority over life and death naturally belongs to no one.

"The white mist leads, time is the offering."

Besides recounting his story to Li An, the Longevity Seeker left behind much information on Bone Transformation Mountain, which flooded into Li An’s mind the instant he vanished. Li An now knew how to proceed on the path to longevity.

The white mist within him was the chance for longevity; in the river of history, the Longevity Seeker attained the longevity chance and then sacrificed the entire opportunity to gain control over life and death. Now for Li An, or Evergreen Immortal Venerable and others, there’s probably only one path to achieve longevity.

First, they must gather all the sources of white mist in the world.

The longevity chance was divided into several parts by the Longevity Seeker, held by Li An, Evergreen Immortal Venerable, Yunluo Immortal Venerable and others. Additionally, some may have already dispersed into the world, which means Li An and Evergreen Immortal Venerable, Yunluo Immortal Venerable, etc., remain locked in a life-or-death struggle.

Unless someone in this world proves their longevity, extinguishing everyone’s hope, the struggle over the white mist will likely be eternally unending.

Even if Li An were willing to give up the white mist he holds, he wouldn’t escape death, because whoever gathers all the mist desires longevity would need to offer the entire era as a sacrifice...

The price of immortality is the obliteration of all!

Li An suddenly remembered Ten Thousand People Island, where the Longevity Seeker stayed in his youth, placed with ten thousand children fighting each other until only one survived...

The longevity skill he left, and that Ten Thousand People Island... are no different.

To achieve immortality, perhaps the world must be destroyed, all its time and ages, leaving only one person in the end!

Li An felt a slight complexity in his heart; the Longevity Seeker had a pitiable side, but overall... he was truly terrifying.

Annihilating the Era of Eternal Life was one thing, but the method he left still compels his successors to tread the same path, endure the pain and suffering he went through...

A ruthless person!

White mist, longevity— what the Longevity Seeker left for the current era is a greatly cruel, inevitable grand scheme. No living being can escape from it; all must endure, suffer. If they cannot win, they can only perish — and the victor is destined to be only one.

"What needs to be done now is to return first..."

Li An rose and looked around; at present, he was in a distant space-time, separated from the present world by uncountable epochs. How could he return?

"In a certain sense, I am now... already a Deceased Spirit."

If he didn’t have the longevity chance and wasn’t drawn into this era by the Longevity Seeker, he wouldn’t have even become a Deceased Spirit.

And for a Deceased Spirit to return to the present world, there is only one method.

When someone enters the Deceit Realm, if they have enough fortune, Li An might be able to use their body to exit the realm? Much like how the lamp keeper welcomed those from the past on Purple Cloud Mountain.

Between the present world and Deceit Realm, the "Divine Descent Place" is used for connection. The Divine Descent Place on Purple Cloud Mountain was long destroyed by Li An; otherwise, he could have attempted to retrace his previous path back.

"As long as there are human cultivators practicing the strange path, reaching the corresponding realm, if they have enough fortune, they will pass by Bone Transformation Mountain, then I might have a chance..."

Li An thought deeply, this seemed to be his only hope.

Moreover, the fact that the Longevity Seeker did not tell him the method to return before vanishing implies, in the Longevity Seeker’s view, Li An can return relying on himself. But the only method Li An could think of was this one, which ironically indicates this method should work!

The pending period, arguably the most mundane of Li An’s life, awaited. Now a Deceased Spirit dwelling on Bone Transformation Mountain, there’s nothing he can do, unable to cultivate or dare leave, merely guard this place with patience. After rehearsing various scenarios in his mind dozens or hundreds of times, he fell into utter boredom.

He didn’t even know the passage of time. One day? Two days? Three days?... perhaps only three or five months have passed, but Li An was already so bored he almost went mad.

"No, even if Evergreen Immortal Venerable returns to the present era, needing to redefine territorial powers, many should still be cultivating the strange path, after all, Yunluo Immortal Venerable follows the strange path, why then has no cultivator achieved Mysterious Celestial Immortal for so long?"

Li An furrowed his brows slightly.

When he originally broke through to the Mysterious Celestial Immortal realm, he arrived here, and in the Mysterious Immortal Realm, the record about Bone Transformation Mountain is widely known; nearly all Mysterious Celestial Immortals pass by here.

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