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Chapter 557
"No, they are fundamentally opposed to certain things. But that’s still the easiest problem to fix. You can make them work together. Perhaps you better than me because I have longer history, much more complicated history. But even if you do that, do you think the emperor would’ve gone yes please take the divine beast that my empire hinges on and then take away my immortality for which you need to kill me and all my divinities and then destroy the world as I know it, shatter my empire, burn it to the ground ashes and then salt it for good measure before establishing this new one of your own. That sounds lovely,” Yang Shen said, and I did not have a good response to that.I understood now what I would’ve had to do, had I wanted to pursue that route.“You can say all of this because I took on that burden, because I fought this war. I gave you all the convenient ways out, to not have to make the hard choices, to not have to actively decide any of this. But that’s fine, I’m not holding a g
Chapter 556
“But do you know what happens to people who arrive as souls? People like you and me? People who had already died before they got here? We don’t get to just move on Yuan. There is nowhere to move on to. And so the thing that brought us here, it just repeats the process. And you’re reborn, again, and again, and again,” the demon said, taking another gulp.“The people who come here with their own bodies, for them it’s easy. They are tied to their bodies in a way we aren’t, so they mostly just go down, with the rest of everyone else. That’s what’s been happening for so long. They all move down, and then they slowly start to change, and like annoying mushrooms, they pop back up but as demons. What you see here, all of this is just a mere slice of everything down there. They stay there, mostly because it’s nice there, the surface is hostile to them. Qi doesn’t like Gu and Gu doesn’t like Qi so the two are content to remain separated. It’s a solid system, as long as it works,” Yang Shen said
Chapter 555
Yang Shen raised his hand as a gourd appeared in his hand and he lifted it taking multiple gulps as the liquid dripped from his lips. Letting out a breath that reeked of potent alcohol, he set the gourd on the ground between us and then sat down, crossing his legs and seating much the same way I sat.He pushed the gourd towards me.I looked down at the gourd in front of me.“Thousand year old Baiju. Each drop is worth gold,” the demon said.I believed him. I knew he was not trying to poison me.I reached out and grabbed the gourd and then lifted it, putting it to my lips. A burning sensation ran down my throat, as I drank exactly three gulps, before putting the drink down.I felt the baiju swirling in my stomach, feeding me the Qi it had soaked over my thousand years.A drop of this just a year ago would’ve been enough to make me have a breakthrough.Taking the full drink would likely be enough for someone to touch the cusp of Transcendence.It barely made a dent in my soul in this mo
Chapter 554
My world changed within an instant.I felt the heavens shudder, the last chain breaking as the Divinites vanished around me. I continued to meditate, the edge of harmony humming in my soul. I was not truly here, not truly in this situation. I was simply an observer, watching the world happen around me. And yet I ached at the deaths I saw around me. Two of the three divinities soul came to me, becoming a part of the cycle. The last one, it had died a worse kind of death.But I did not linger on it. I could not. Time had lost its grip on me, I no longer knew how long I’d been here, but it had been quite some time now. I’d watched as the battle had concluded. Even now the armies fought around the walls, but a different battle had also been taking place, and I’d felt it end just now, as the chains tying the heavens were finally undone.The heavens themselves opened up now. The last anchor of immortality was dead, and I felt the Divine Tree expanding itself outwards, reaching towards the h
Chapter 553
Shie Zhuihu had not thought of death many times before. It was a distant thing for her, a concept that did not enter her life all that often. She knew mortals died. Quite a few of them did in the time she had been alive, including some that she’d known and liked as well. But it was not something that had to be considered for her. Even before becoming a Divinity, before touching upon that nebulous threshold of power and the mantle that weighed upon her shoulders, she’d found herself above death.Perhaps that had been arrogance, but she’d always known it in some way inside of herself that death was not going to be a hindrance to her, not in the way it was to many others.And yet now, she no longer felt that certainty. She moved through the the battlefield, eyes taking in the expanse all around her.Zhuihu moved through the terrible forest around her that resisted her will, rising all around her to pull her into itself. Thorny vines laced with potent poison tried to reach for her. She al
Chapter 552
Yue Zian was having the best time of his life. He roared with the power of the ocean, pelting rain and crashing waves rising from behind him as he struck at the demon- no not even a demon. This thing was a spirit, a spirit of winter that he’d sometimes heard of. Creatures of death and malice, though at times also of kindness as they’d shelter people lost in snow storms.Yet this one wasn’t normal. He didn’t know how she had gotten with demons, or reached Divinity, but there was a clear madness in her eyes. The kind of madness that you did not return from, the kind that broke your psyche till there were nothing but pieces left. He’d seen it before, it was a sickness of the mind and spirit, and it had brought many before. The sickness of the body one could cure with medicine, but often the sickness of heart and mind were not so easily cured.He felt for her, felt for her pain, whatever suffering she must have endured, whatever her story had been. But despite all of that, despite those f
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