noveltune Chapter 869: By Then, Someone Will Die
Chapter 869: By Then, Someone Will Die
Chapter 869: Chapter 869: By Then, Someone Will Die This day came very late.
So late that the Empire’s Fall was not yet dead.
Some Emperor Realm cultivators went to great lengths to stay alive, even at odds with the entire Immortal Domain, while others were waiting to die of old age.
You can’t generalize about people.
Neither can you generalize about emperors.
Li Bahuang genuinely had no desire for immortality. When he was about to sit down and die, he was merely curious about the effect of the elixir he had extracted from Cloud Water Rust at the cost of a hundred thousand years of his life.
He just wanted to try and eat it.
After all, at the brink of death.
He couldn’t die cluelessly, could he?
This act of eating led to trouble.
"Great Emperor! Do you truly not want to seek eternal life..." Eight Desolate Cauldron spoke hesitantly.
"Little Cauldron, who would have thought that after following me for tens of thousands of years, you still don’t understand me at all."
Li Bahuang’s eyes showed helplessness: "When I was young, I had no great ambitions, nor did I want to cultivate. I just wanted to find a decent woman and live a peaceful life as an ordinary person."
"But there’s no way, with the clan’s prodigies, divine sons, saintesses, each weaker than the last, I could only bite the bullet and continue, otherwise it was death; the Six-winged Divine Clan’s enemies were too many."
"Last time you came looking for me, I was aware. But I just wanted to die quietly here, even without seeing Little Cauldron."
Li Bahuang raised his hand to his head, opened and relaxed it, looking up with eyes full of confusion:
"But you came and disrupted my last plan in life."
"Then don’t die."
Sikong Jiu said seriously: "Come with us to kill."
"Daoist, are you serious?"
Li Bahuang squinted his eyes: "Leaving aside that you dug up my Dao partner’s tomb, just for the sake of the Six-winged Divine Clan being affected, with tens of thousands of casualties, the karmic ledger has not been settled."
"Sorry, I did not intend to harm the Six-winged Divine Clan, but indeed caused karma. Kill or flay me as you wish."
Sikong Jiu said sincerely: "But wait until we kill Yuan Ying and those old bastards hiding in the hall, then I am willing to swear an imperial oath."
"..."
Li Bahuang originally thought with the other party’s shameless character, they would find an excuse, but he was surprised by Jiu Kongsi’s candor.
He hesitated slightly and bitterly smiled: "Enough, after my fall, I ask Daoist to take care of the Six-winged Divine Clan, then this karma will be settled."
"Whew."
Sikong Jiu breathed a sigh of relief: "Speaking of which, I may be the Earth Heavenly Dao, yet I can slightly influence the will of the Immortal Domain’s Heavenly Dao, secretly bestowing some blessings upon one or two newborns; can’t say for others, but a Quasi-Emperor is possible!"
"Great Emperor! Can I still receive blessings?" Chaos Three-leaf Clover asked expectantly.
"You? No chance."
"..."
The three-leaf didn’t speak and became introverted on the cushion.
Li Bahuang took the initiative to ask Xu Lai: "The missing part of the Heavenly Dao, how many lives are short?"
"About ten Holy Lands."
"I’ll kill for you."
Li Bahuang nodded: "Thus, your karmic tribulation can be delayed a bit longer."
"Alright."
Xu Lai was not pretentious: "Since you want to die, die in the imperial battle."
"...Daoist Qingfeng is indeed blunt."
"If I don’t kill you, Yuan Ying will kill you."
Xu Lai said calmly: "Entering this place, leaving this place, he probably knows. Do you think he will believe you unwilling to meddle in this matter?"
"I’ve been outsmarted!"
Eight Desolate Cauldron was somewhat irritated. No wonder Great Emperor Qingfeng agreed to help find Li Shenhuang so readily, daring to say it was a calculation against their own great emperor.
Playing tricks, hearts are dirty!
"Thus, the Heavenly Court awaits Daoist Li’s arrival."
Xu Lai got up.
The Emperor Realm space created a crack, and before leaving, Xu Lai paused and asked: "About the Giant Whale..."
"I don’t know."
"Alright."
Though Xu Lai was disappointed, he wasn’t surprised.
Chaos Three-leaf Clover had been reincarnated neighbors with an unknown Giant Whale and knew nothing, so Li Shenhuang’s unawareness was reasonable.
Xu Lai and his party left, and Eight Desolate Cauldron chose to stay behind.
Leaving the crack in the Emperor Realm space, the sight was not beneath the North Sea Eye, but above the North Sea Eye of the Northern Immortal Domain.
The sunlight lazily spilled.
Sikong Jiu gasped for air and smiled: "It was a big win this time!"
Xu Lai nodded.
They had found Li Shenhuang and drawn him as an ally.
They also learned that the False Death Pill could indeed keep those destined to fall in the Emperor Realm alive to this day. Counting other information, this North Sea trip was simply a great gain.
"Though I don’t know how Tian Gui Yuan Yin made the Samsara Sea disappear, as long as the Heavenly Dao is replenished, a new Land of Reincarnation will appear."
Sikong Jiu scratched his head, hesitating to speak.
Xu Lai knew what the other party wanted to say, nothing more than needing to use the Zhoutian Star Fighting Formation to wipe out the souls approaching the Realm Gate.
Karma?
He would bear it all alone.
"I’m afraid the karmic tribulation will soon take shape, then..."
Sikong Jiu had yet to finish when Xu Lai added: "It will kill."
The karmic tribulation is the strongest of many tribulations, bar none.
Low boundary cultivators’ fear is one thing; the higher the boundary, the more the cultivator avoids it. After all, past Emperor Realm cultivators dying from karmic tribulations were miserable.
So miserable that when Sikong Jiu dug graves, he hesitated to touch those pitiful bone fragments.
"Therefore, the persecution of various Holy Lands should come to an end." Xu Lai said.
"..."
Sikong Jiu was stunned, indeed you knew it was persecution?
You ravaged all the Holy Lands of the Four Immortal Domains, now you say it should come to an end...
Good fellow.
It would’ve been better to say enough lives were sacrificed to repair the Heavenly Dao Laws, no need to spare more lives.
Xu Lai returned to the Heavenly Court and handed over its power to Divine Generals Baize and Taotie, then returned to Earth.
Standing outside Haitang Court’s gate.
The bright moonlight fell, and Xu Lai stopped.
Regarding the Immortal Domain, he could genuinely claim he was benevolent, but concerning this family, Xu Lai owed much.
He wasn’t present for his wife’s two childbirths.
He wasn’t there during his children’s growth.
Xu Pingan had just been born not long ago, yet he left his family and went to the Immortal Domain. The guilt filled his heart, and for a moment, he hesitated to step inside.
"Daddy!"
A window from a room on the second floor opened, and a joyful voice came forth, it was Xu Yiyi.
She waved excitedly: "Daddy’s back!"
"Creak"
A window in the adjacent room also opened, a little one poked out his head, it was Xu Pingan.
Long time no see, the little one had grown taller, looking nearly 80% akin to Xu Lai, surely a handsome man in the future.
Xu Lai’s heart softened, he smiled: "I’m back."
"Why not come in, do you want us three ladies to come down and welcome you dusting off the wind?"
Ruan Tang had not shown herself, her voice sounded from the master bedroom on the second floor.
"No need, no need."
Xu Lai coughed, hurriedly entering the second floor, then Xu Yiyi pounced into his arms, causing him to sigh:
"Yiyi has grown taller, and heavier."
"Hehe, after all, dad hasn’t been home for half a year, Yiyi has grown up."
Xu Yiyi blinked: "Dad, you’d better think of how to appease mama, she’s been really worried about you."
"Worried about him?"
Ruan Tang walked out of the master bedroom with a grumpy voice: "He certainly doesn’t worry about us three ladies!"