Chapter 1059
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Chapter 1059 Survival Day Reappears
Lin Qiye, Yang Jian, and Nezha were startled simultaneously.
“An earthquake? Can there be earthquakes in Yaochi?”
Lin Qiye turned to look around and discovered that not only was this suspended mountain peak shaking violently, but other mountains floating in the air had also begun to tremble. A deep rumbling sound came from below, as if some terrifying entity was about to emerge.
Yang Jian frowned, opening the vertical eye on his forehead. His gaze penetrated Yaochi, falling directly on the stretching Kunlun Mountains below.
The once bird-filled, flower-fragrant lush mountains receded like the tide, exposing gray-white barren mountain surfaces to the air. Countless ancient swords emanating a cold, chilling light grew like thorns between the mountain ranges.
A corner of the beautiful time silhouette was lifted, revealing sword light shooting straight toward the sky.
“Swords? Where did so many swords come from in Kunlun? There must be at least ten million of them?!”
Nezha looked at the area below Yaochi in shock, at those endless sword-filled mountains, and spoke in disbelief.
Yang Jian frowned as he watched this scene, shook his head, and pointed at Lin Qiye, “These swords don’t belong to the time-space where we silhouettes exist… but rather the true appearance of Kunlun in his time-space.
The lush mountains we saw earlier were just an illusion created by the time silhouette.”
Lin Qiye flew into the sky, looking at the sword-filled mountains below Yaochi that continued to rapidly extend toward the horizon. As if remembering something, he suddenly turned toward the direction of the Queen Mother of the West’s celestial palace.
From Yang Jian and the others’ reactions, it was clear that Kunlun wasn’t like this a hundred years ago… which meant that these millions of ancient swords had all been forged within the past hundred years?
And during these hundred years, only the Queen Mother of the West remained in Kunlun.
Lin Qiye had always thought that the Queen Mother’s “forging knives and swords” was just a hobby to pass idle time, but judging from the current scale, that wasn’t the case.
A hundred years, one person forging ten million swords—what exactly did the Queen Mother intend to do?
Boom—!
Just then, a thunderous sound erupted from the sky, and a streak of light flew from outside Kunlun, rapidly shooting toward the celestial palace where the Queen Mother resided.
Lin Qiye looked closely and discovered that this light was none other than the Purple Subtlety Star Lord whom he had briefly met at the Peach Banquet.
However, the Purple Subtlety Star Lord’s face now showed none of the leisurely casualness from the Peach Banquet. His expression was anxious, and he had mobilized his divine power to the extreme, moving at an incredible speed.
Before landing at the celestial palace, he took a deep breath and shouted loudly:
“Reporting to the Queen Mother! Strange mists have appeared in large quantities beyond the borders of Great Xia! Where the mist reaches, life is extinguished and all things wither!
The Four Heavenly Kings, the Six Ding and Six Jia, and the Twelve Zodiac Stars joined forces but failed to block the mist. Their divine powers were half-consumed, they fell from divine realm, and were attacked by unknown entities within the mist. They are now critically wounded!
Several Golden Immortals, along with the Western Pure Altar Envoy and Golden-Bodied Arhats, are discussing defense strategies. Many immortals are on their way. We request the Queen Mother to take action and take command!”
Hearing these words, Yang Jian and Nezha’s expressions immediately changed.
Lin Qiye’s brows furrowed tightly, as if he had realized something.
The descent of the mist? Great Xia’s deities fighting against it?
Could this time point recorded in the time silhouette be…
“What day is today?!” Lin Qiye suddenly turned and asked.
Nezha was startled, calculated with his fingers, “In human terms, today should be the thirtieth day of the first lunar month.”
“Which year?”
“The year of Xinyou.”
Lin Qiye’s mind raced. In lunar calendar terms, the Xinyou year comes once every sixty years. It was the thirtieth day of the first month. Converting to the solar calendar and combining it with the fact of the mist’s descent… there was only one possible time point for this time silhouette.
March 9, 1921.
The day when the mist descended upon the world, when Great Xia’s deities sacrificed their cultivation to transform into nine national divine steles guarding the borders, blocking the mist from invading Great Xia.
In other words, what textbooks called… Survival Day.
After the Peach Banquet ended, the Queen Mother had continued to maintain the time silhouette of the Kunlun Mirror, just to recreate the scene within Kunlun on Survival Day?!
What exactly did she want to do?
…
Yaochi, Celestial Palace.
Hearing the urgent shouts of the Purple Subtlety Star Lord outside the palace, the Queen Mother’s avatar, sitting alone in the desolate hall, slowly opened her eyes.
Those cold eyes reflected the empty, deserted hall. Ripples finally appeared in her lake-like calm pupils, and her fair hands slightly curled into fists.
Reminiscence, helplessness, bitterness, pain, anger.
She knew well that everything happening in Kunlun was just a time silhouette captured by the Kunlun Mirror, but upon hearing those words, she still couldn’t control her emotions.
Even after a hundred years, the pain and hatred rooted in her heart hadn’t diminished at all. Instead, with the passage of time, they had grown stronger.
But, after all, everything before her was just a silhouette.
And like Lin Qiye, as an observer outside of time, no matter what she did, she couldn’t change established history.
All she could do was change the future.
The Queen Mother’s avatar slowly closed her eyes. Above the celestial palace in the void, a Kunlun Mirror slowly rotated. A beautiful woman wearing the same gold-threaded purple divine robe stood in mid-air, one hand forming a sword seal, looking down at the endless sword-filled mountains below, softly murmuring:
“Spiritual energy as the guide, divine soul as the blade, blood battle death intent, forge the sword to sharpen…”
As her murmurs sounded, the millions of ancient swords in the Kunlun mountains began to violently tremble.
Outside the palace.
Seeing that the Queen Mother hadn’t responded, the Purple Subtlety Star Lord was first stunned, then took a deep breath and shouted again with all his might:
“Please, Queen Mother, take action! Take command!!”
Inside the celestial palace, silence still prevailed.
The Purple Subtlety Star Lord clenched his teeth, about to shout again when the palace doors suddenly opened automatically. The Queen Mother’s avatar stepped out, sighing deeply:
“So be it. Even if it’s just an illusion… This Queen shall accompany the immortals once more.”
As she spoke, her eyes glanced up at the Kunlun Mirror above the celestial palace. In the mirror, the Queen Mother’s true body, forming a sword seal with her fingers, nodded slightly.
Seeing the Queen Mother emerge from the palace, the Purple Subtlety Star Lord found his lifeline, overjoyed. Together with the Queen Mother, they transformed into streaks of light, passing through the ancient gateway above Kunlun, and disappeared from Kunlun.
Seeing this, Lin Qiye and the other two exchanged glances and quickly flew after them.
After passing through that ancient gate, when their vision cleared again, they saw snowstorms dancing between the stretching mountain ranges.
Lin Qiye’s feet landed on the thick snow as he looked around, confirming they had left Kunlun and returned to the Pamir Plateau… but upon closer observation, he found that the scene before him differed from when he had visited before.
The snow here was thicker, human presence scarcer, and there were no footprints from previous battles on the ground around them.
This wasn’t the Pamir Plateau of the real world, but the western border of Great Xia a hundred years ago, before the mist had fully descended.
With the arrival of the Queen Mother’s avatar, the time silhouette of the Kunlun Mirror had similarly covered the world outside Kunlun.
