Chapter 22 Part 1
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Chapter 22: Bai Lian Has Come!
The ember reignited in the darkness.
It brought the flame into the void turbulence, a place where it was difficult for others to determine its direction amidst the chaos.
Then, a dark ribbon suddenly appeared in the sky.
A bit of sticky “black ink” fell from the ribbon, and when it hit the ground, it made a clattering sound, with billowing smoke rising. It was like concentrated acid corroding chicken bones.
Bai Lian nodded quietly.
Even the ember could corrode the dragon bone. It was truly worthy of being a Demigod!
She wanted to chase and kill the ember, but it moved too fast, like a black flash of light that disappeared in an instant.
It came and went in a hurry.
Forget it.
Anyway, she had gained the Soft Skill +9.
Bai Lian stepped forward, intending to search the altar. But before she could reach into the dark and deep gap that had just opened on the altar, she heard a cry of pain from the sky.
“Ah ↑ ah ↑ ah ↑”
The sound was like thunder.
“! ”
Bai Lian could already imagine how “ferocious” that face must have been.
Startled, she quickly withdrew her hand.
What the hell?
She hurriedly turned around and saw Ling Xuan, who was standing within the green shield of [Another Year of Nanwang], pointing to the sky.
Bai Lian looked over.
Countless blue waves suddenly appeared at the edge of the area shrouded by the green dragon bones.
The rippling light reflected off the ember like a bone scraper.
Chucked—
The ember trembled violently in the light, as though it had been electrocuted.
“Ah ↑ ah ↑”
Its voice grew higher and higher as the pain intensified.
Just listening to it made Bai Lian shudder.
But soon Bai Lian reacted.
Yes!
If the ember had any means of escape, how could it have been trapped at the altar?
Well, what am I waiting for? Beat it!
Bai Lian decisively used the power of her Qianhuan Real Eyes.
Qianhuan Real Eyes were much more useful than her fists for dealing with ghosts!
A cold breath wrapped around the ember like a poisonous snake.
Pop.
Instantaneous penetration.
The ember’s body immediately stiffened.
Danger!
How could its fragile body withstand such a powerful impact?
No.
Take it away.
If this continues, it will surely die.
The ember began to struggle.
The simultaneous attacks from both sides didn’t dislodge it.
At one moment, the ember found a strange balance between the two different rhythms, driven by its strong will to survive.
The pain suddenly vanished.
A glimmer of hope burst out in front of the ember’s eyes like a spring.
Here it is!
Under the baptism of white light in the sky, the ember dispelled the extreme chaos with intense panic.
It broke into a pure white world, where it felt the heat of the sun, the pleasure of surpassing itself, and finally seemed to rediscover the self that had been sealed by the green dragon 30,000 years ago.
That year, it was dressed in fresh clothes.
“At that time, I fought on the battlefield over a range of three thousand kilometers, and once, my sword stopped an army of millions.”
It rose from the mortal world.
One man, one sword, fought against the world.
That year, it dominated an entire great region.
When the Celestial Immortals saw it, they all bowed their heads. All those who refused were killed, and their wives and daughters were killed as well.
It was not interested in women—not only because it was a woman itself, but also because women would only slow down the speed of its sword.
But when it imagined winning the title of “Sword Emperor,” the green dragon fell from the sky and drove it into the endless void after a fierce battle.
After 30,000 years, many things had changed.
The green dragon had disappeared for no apparent reason. The ember had also been worn down during its exile.
It was like a candle in the wind, ready to be extinguished at any moment.
The ember no longer expected to return to the Immortal World.
All that remained was despair—
It was dead.
At that point, its greatest hope was to pass on its inheritance, to let its disciples complete the unfinished road for it and avenge it.
But was it so easy to find others in the void, full of space turbulence?
The majestic power of the dragon skeleton was enough to scare people away.
Only when it was on the brink of death did a snake dragon break in.
It was absolutely impossible for the ember to hand over its inheritance to a dragon—even if it was just a snake dragon.
So it continued to wait.
Suddenly, when it was about to die, a miracle occurred.
The Ancient Starry Sky Road, hidden in nothingness, suddenly appeared.
This was a great change that hadn’t happened in tens of millions of years!
The ember, amidst the space turbulence, saw it clearly. Though it was only for a moment, the ancient atmosphere leaked from the Ancient Starry Sky Road, waking up countless ghosts and monsters who should have died in their sleep. Many ancient existences emerged, desiring to return to the ancient imperial road and prove the ancient imperial way.
It felt an itch in its heart.
It was on the brink of madness, tortured by its desires.
The ember had finally waited for Bai Lian and Ling Xuan in despair.
It felt that this was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.
What it didn’t expect was that Bai Lian was a reincarnated Immortal Emperor!
It believed.
Not only because, after 30,000 years of imprisonment, it had become overly frightened, but also because it had found nothing when trying to discover Bai Lian’s Tao.
It only felt the boundless vastness.
It was too wide.
It was too high.
It was too big.
At that moment, the ember understood.
The reason it couldn’t find Bai Lian’s Tao was because it was already inside her!
The Tao of the Immortal Emperor is vast, and Bai Lian is clearly the best among them. The ember had already fallen into her Tao, so it couldn’t find it.
So the ember was frightened.
Run!
But…
Only now did it realize that it had been wrong.
It was a Demigod! If it was always afraid of the Immortal Emperor, how could it ever find its own way to becoming an Immortal Emperor?
Life and death.
Disintegration and rebirth.
Countless words related to “sword” hovered in the ember’s mind.
Is that the Gate of All Wonders?
One moment equals eternity.
In this pure white world with nothing, the ember integrated this understanding into its body and created something that belonged only to itself.
Just one step further, and it could become a true Immortal Emperor!
