Chapter 1749
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Chapter 1749 No Conclusion
Lingbao Tianzun looked at Lin Qiye with his reddened eyes, and after hesitating for a moment, still asked:
“Qiye… where is Jialan?”
These simple five words fell on Lin Qiye’s ears like a sudden thunderclap. Looking at Lingbao’s familiar face, he instinctively wanted to pour out something,
But in the end, he bit back all his pain and swallowed it, pointing to the ground beneath his feet, and spoke hoarsely:
“She is here.”
Lingbao Tianzun’s eyes contracted slightly.
Although he had already guessed this possibility when the Eternal Pill appeared, at this moment, his heart still felt a sharp pain.
The restoration of the Origin, the suppression of the seal, the ascension of the gods… behind these battle-changing reversals, the price was the lives of Jialan and Si Xiaonan.
“I will notify the gods of Great Xia to immediately go to the Heavenly Palace to slumber,” said Daode Tianzun after a moment of silence. “What about the moon? Do we need to pull it back to its original orbit?”
“No need. Even with the Eternal Heavenly Palace suppressing it, the Ke-system gods in the seal are still a time bomb… Now that all Ke-system gods are on Earth, to prevent this situation from happening again, it’s better to keep the moon seal as far away from them as possible.”
“To prevent them from tampering with the seal again, we might as well directly banish the moon…”
Yuanshi Tianzun nodded, “That’s feasible. When the Great Xia gods complete their ascension and everything returns to our control, we can come back.”
Lin Qiye bid farewell to the three Tianzuns and left the Eternal Heavenly Palace, flying toward Earth.
With the sound of a bell, the gods of Great Xia in the space battlefield immediately moved toward the Heavenly Palace, like streaks of flowing light crossing the deep space.
Looking at these streams of light flying in the opposite direction, Lin Qiye murmured:
“This time, they are truly leaving… From now on, humanity must walk its own path.”
Monk Suming calmly said: “When they return, this chess game will be at the point of determining victory or defeat… I wonder, by then, what will be humanity’s chances of winning?”
As the three Lin Qiyes departed, in another part of deep space, Sun Wukong stumbled.
“Monkey, are you alright?” Yang Jian, who was about to return to the Heavenly Palace, frowned and asked when he saw this.
“It’s nothing… I just feel extremely drowsy for some reason…”
A faint golden light emanated from Sun Wukong’s divine core. His eyelids closed uncontrollably, as if he would fall into a deep sleep at any moment.
“The Tianzun has rung the bell, asking us to return to the Heavenly Palace immediately… Can you hold on a bit longer and sleep when we get to the Heavenly Palace?”
Sun Wukong could no longer answer Yang Jian. His eyes closed heavily, his consciousness receding like the tide. A brownish light flowed out from his divine core, covering his body, as if turning him to stone.
“Monkey? Monkey?!!” Yang Jian examined Sun Wukong’s body but found nothing unusual. In fact, his condition seemed extraordinarily good.
His divine power was growing at an astonishing rate, reaching a certain threshold. Beneath his petrified skin, vitality was churning like boiling water.
“This monkey has good fortune…” Yuanshi Tianzun’s voice crossed the void and sounded in Yang Jian’s ears. “Never mind, leave him be. You return alone.”
“Yes.”
Yang Jian nodded, took one last look at the stone monkey floating in deep space, and transformed into a streak of light, rushing toward the Heavenly Palace.
“I almost forgot, there’s still a group of little ones to deal with…” Yuanshi Tianzun’s voice sounded again. The next moment, a divine light shot from the Heavenly Palace across the universe, disappearing into a mountain range in Great Xia.
…
After the gods of Great Xia departed, only a few humans remained in space, with a hint of coldness mixed in the deathly silence.
Huo Qubing stood on the void, gazing at the enormous gray-white planet before him. Even though he had now become a Myriad Phenomenon Military Immortal, he still felt as tiny as an ant compared to it.
“Having lived here for over two thousand years, this is the first time I’ve seen its appearance…” Gongyang Wan stood beside him, her beautiful eyes shifting, seeming somewhat emotional. “If not for that gray fog, how beautiful would it be?”
“Someday, the fog will clear,” Huo Qubing said slowly.
“Yes,” Gongyang Wan paused. “But we… probably won’t see it.”
As they were speaking, a figure flew from afar to behind them. Lin Qiye’s gaze swept over the two, his lips slightly pursed:
“Marquis, Gongyang Wan…”
Gongyang Wan looked back at him, the corner of her mouth curling slightly: “A few months ago, you were calling me Senior Gongyang, and now you’re directly calling me Gongyang Wan? I preferred how you were before your time travel, when you were respectful to me.”
Lin Qiye: …
“Sen… Senior Gongyang,” Lin Qiye forced himself to say.
In a sense, he had watched Gongyang Wan grow up… Without his beating, who knows where Gongyang Wan would be now. Two thousand years ago, calling her Gongyang Wan wasn’t a problem. But in this era, she was, after all, his former senior, so calling her Gongyang Wan made him seem arrogant.
Hearing these four words, Gongyang Wan suddenly felt much better.
A faint light emanated from Huo Qubing and Gongyang Wan’s bodies, their forms gradually fading. From the time they left the island until now, they had reached the limit of their physical forms… The protection that lasted over two thousand years was finally coming to an end.
“We should go,” said Huo Qubing.
“The promise made two thousand years ago has been fulfilled, and these two chess moves can be considered complete,” Gongyang Wan gently touched her cheek. “They’ve been arguing in my mind for two thousand years… Finally, I can have some peace.”
Lin Qiye looked at the two with complex emotions, not knowing what to say.
Huo Qubing and Gongyang Wan did not belong to this era. They endured the pain of being skinned, having their bones extracted, and their hearts cut out, just to persist until the day the Eastern Emperor Bell rang, to fulfill their promise… Now that the promise was fulfilled, death was their outcome, and perhaps also their redemption.
Lin Qiye could not see any sadness on their faces, but rather a faint joy of liberation.
He opened his mouth, but in the end, he bent down and bowed deeply to these two:
“Lin Qiye, on behalf of all living beings, respectfully bids farewell to the two seniors.”
The faint light dispersed from their bodies, their forms fading at a visible rate.
Huo Qubing looked at Lin Qiye and, after a moment, sighed deeply:
“It’s a pity that in the end, I couldn’t witness your marriage with Jialan…”
These words fell on Lin Qiye’s ears like a sudden thunderclap. He seemed to realize something and abruptly looked up at the fading figures of Huo Qubing and Gongyang Wan.
“Marr…” as if he had thought of something, one of his hands shot out, taking a thread of causality from each of their blurring bodies.
“Please wait a moment, you two… There’s one last matter that hasn’t been resolved.”
