The sun shone brightly over the lotus pond, where dragonflies fluttered and buzzed.
In the small pavilion at the center, the gentle look in Meiyu's eyes deepened. She reached out a finger, tapping lightly on the worn wooden table in front of her, and said:
"Is this your explanation? By your logic, as long as you think it's right, then it should be done?"
"If you think Linglong can die, then she can just go and die."
Meiyu slightly raised her head, exposing her neck. She tapped her throat lightly with her finger and continued:
"Or if you think I should die, should I stretch my neck out for you right now?"
Bo Luo sighed softly. "I have already told you the truth about the East Sea incident. The facts are exactly as I stated. It was Linglong who thought she could kill Chu Xingchen. But who could have known that not only had Chu Xingchen's injuries healed, but his cultivation base had also broken through to the Tribulation Transcendence realm..."
"That is not what I want to hear!" Meiyu interrupted, her eyes narrowing. "Seeing that you abandoned your Buddhist identity to join us in besieging Chu Xingchen, we finally trusted you. Was Linglong following your arrangements by staying in the East Sea all this time?"
"I don't believe you were unaware that Chu Xingchen left the East Sea. He had been wandering there for so long, and Linglong never made a move. If you truly wanted to avoid all this, you could have ordered Linglong to return early."
"But you turned a blind eye. Even thinking the best of you, you merely wanted to use Linglong's life to test whether Chu Xingchen's injuries had truly healed and what his exact realm was."
"If Chu Xingchen was truly bluffing, it would naturally be good if Linglong killed him. But if it was false, you still used Linglong's life to probe for information."
"The power of faith you gave Linglong—did you plan for Xu Linglong to die there all along?"
Bo Luo raised his gaze. "I never told her to do that."
"Heh, spending so much time in the Buddhist sect has certainly taught you a lot of sophistry." Meiyu's gentleness faded, replaced by a look of disdain. "We both know perfectly well that your inaction was an intentional action!"
Bo Luo asked in return, "Could Linglong not see it clearly? Why wouldn't this be her own choice?"
"Linglong is already dead. I don't care what she did," Meiyu said, her voice growing cold. "But you are still alive, so naturally, I care about what you do!"
A dragonfly buzzed loudly as it flew into the pavilion.
Bo Luo looked at the dragonfly:
"A great upheaval is imminent. The number of Heavenly Demons has already been depleted. How could losing Linglong be a good thing for us?"
"That is a question for you," Meiyu said, propping herself up. "If you never intended to tell me the truth, then we are done for today."
Bo Luo turned to look at Meiyu, who was preparing to stand up and leave. After some thought, he finally spoke:
"If you want to hear the truth, then yes, I did think of it that way."
"Knowing Chu Xingchen's true condition is very important to us. If we could kill Chu Xingchen and prevent him from helping another True Immortal transcend, that would be even more important."
"That is why I did not give Linglong any instructions. If you ask about my selfish motives, these are them."
"But if Linglong hadn't gone looking for Chu Xingchen, I naturally would have had her return when the opportunity arose. After all, an extra Heavenly Demon would significantly increase our chances of winning."
"Whether she went or not, I could accept either outcome."
"Therefore, I left Linglong some power of faith for her to use at a critical moment."
"But if you ask whether Linglong knew, we both understand that she did know, and she acted accordingly."
"Now the situation is on a hair-trigger. Chu Xingchen captured a member of our race alive and learned our secrets. I don't know if he guessed it or if information was leaked."
"But if we give them more time, they will definitely figure out our plan."
"If we wait until they seal off the various spirit veins, it won't just be Bai Bo and Linglong who died in vain; you and I will also die here."
"And the only opportunity we have sought for thousands of years will end right here."
"You and I carry the blood of countless members of our race on our shoulders."
Bo Luo stood up first, looking at the gradually withering lotuses and the slightly muddy river water, and said:
"What I have done, and what I must do, is what I have been doing from the very beginning."
"And do not forget how the first-generation Meiyu passed all of her cultivation and true blood to you before she died."
"I haven't forgotten how the first-generation Bo Luo instructed me back then."
Meiyu's expression grew cold as she also stood up. Feeling the blood of true origin flowing through her body, she said icily:
"So, what exactly are you going to use to gather such a massive amount of spiritual energy? I've seen all your actions. Are you counting on those insignificant spirit vein branches, or are you hoping we can conquer one of the Eighteen Immortal Sects? Or can you truly incite a rebellion within one of them?"
Bo Luo turned around, slightly raised his hand, and directly crushed the dragonfly fluttering in the pavilion to death using spiritual energy.
The dragonfly turned into dust and fell to the ground.
Bo Luo lowered his head slightly, looked at the fallen dragonfly, and said calmly:
"We will use those insignificant spirit vein branches to construct a grand array, and then use our lives to make up the remaining spiritual energy."
"The spiritual energy fluctuations of a Tribulation Transcendence cultivator are like an ocean, and it is even more so for a True Immortal cultivator."
"If we don't have that much spiritual energy, then we will gather it at all costs—using ours, and using theirs."
"I have already found my grave. As for you... that depends on what you think."
"You coming to find me today must also reflect the intentions of the others."
"Whether you should share this news with them or not, you know in your heart. I stand by my promise: on that day, it will definitely be me facing Bai Xuanling directly."
"I will absolutely be on the front lines, and I will absolutely die before any of you."
Meiyu said nothing more. She neither agreed nor refused, and even the expression on her face remained completely unchanged.
The next moment, Meiyu's figure dissipated, as if she had never been there at all.
Bo Luo slightly raised his head, looking at the sun that was half-covered by dark clouds.
No one lives just to die, so everyone instinctively fears death.
Everything has a price.
Without putting everything on the line, how can there be a desperate counterattack?
When at a disadvantage, one must be even more willing to risk everything.
Unfortunately, I'm afraid not everyone thinks this way.
However, before the final gamble, one must learn to play all their cards.
Central Continent, Daoxuan Temple.
Qian Qing, wearing a black martial outfit, pounded on the door with all her might. But before her hands could touch the gate, they were repelled by an invisible force.
A young novice monk shook his head with a helpless look and said:
"Almsgiver, you've been here many times. Don't think that just because we are monks, we won't get angry."
Qian Qing's martial artist vitality boiled around her, and her robust inner energy fiercely smashed toward the door she could never touch:
"I said it! Either let Yuan Kong come see me! Or take me to the Heavenly Evolution Sect! I've gone through your trials so many times! It's you who are breaking your promises!"
The young novice monk looked even more helpless.
"First of all, not every temple has the monk you're looking for. Secondly, you're a martial artist and don't understand what kind of sect the Heavenly Evolution Sect is. It's not a place we can just take you to whenever we want."
Qian Qing stopped her movements and asked coldly:
"Then tell me the way, and I'll go myself!"
The young monk shook his head repeatedly. "Some places cannot be reached just by knowing the way."
Qian Qing tried her best to negotiate in a calm tone:
"Then just take me to the Tianyan Sect. Whether I can get in or not is my own business."
Just as the little novice monk was about to shake his head again, a large hand suddenly rested on his head. He turned around and immediately bowed.
"Abbot."
The Abbot looked at Qian Qing and spoke in a tranquil tone.
"Your wish is sincere. I shall accompany you on this journey."
The little novice monk looked at the Abbot in shock.
He had kept refusing Qian Qing not because he truly couldn't take him to the Tianyan Sect, but because Qian Qing was a pure mortal.
The divide between immortals and mortals was like a bottomless abyss.
Even if he went... what would be the point?
Not to mention this was the Tianyan Sect. The gap there went far beyond the mere difference between immortals and mortals.
ut it can buy an entire year of absolutely perfect training results! Su Yu stared at his empty wallet and decisively opened up various online loan platforms. “Borrow a thousand bucks! Recharge my vitality!” Boom! His vitality broke a hundred points, shattering the limits of the human body! “Borrow ten thousand bucks! Recharge my combat skills!” Boom! A basic punching technique so common it was everywhere instantly maxed out, revealing the ultimate assassination technique of Five Elements Unity—Inner Force! When a rich kid hired assassins for a midnight ambush, aiming to break both of his legs, they instead ran headfirst into a monster—a human-shaped tyrannosaur, brimming with dragon-like vitality. With just two fingers, Su Yu snapped a steel staff reinforced with alloy. Staring at the killer’s stash of stolen cash—a staggering quarter-million dollars—he showed a corporate-sincere smile: “Thanks for the pre-exam gift pack, Mr. Zhao! I’m gonna go re-invest this!” Three days later, at the National Martial Arts College Entrance Exam, while everyone else struggled just to reach the passing line, Su Yu threw a single punch—and more than a thousand vitality points literally detonated the entire arena!
lanned to earn money steadily and take life at a slower pace. But he never expected... his father's remarriage, and the stepmother bringing along a dependent, would completely disrupt his life's plans...
ive and Ruthless] Before his transmigration, Ye Xuan was playing a game called "Severing Emotions to Attain the Dao." The game's core wasn't about leveling up by fighting monsters, but about conquering various "bad women" with wicked personalities and cold, fickle natures. There was only one method to conquer them: stay unwaveringly by their side, then die at a critical moment, driving them to madness after losing the protagonist. The higher their level of regret, the higher the player's score. To dominate the server, Ye Xuan conquered all the bad women. In the early stages, he showered them with boundless tenderness, only to choose to sacrifice himself for them later, making them weep bitterly and drown in regret. Among them were: Xia Lengyue, the unfaithful immortal wife who chased after powerful men and discarded her husband like trash. Ye Qingcheng, the Demonic Venerable of the Joyous Union Sect, who appeared pure and innocent but was, in reality, promiscuous. Wu Lingxiao, the Empress of the Great Xia Dynasty, who lusted after men and loved maintaining a harem. Bai Qiangu of the Endless Demonic Sect: a bloodthirsty mass murderer. However, when the protagonist transmigrated into the game world, he made a horrifying discovery. Eight hundred years had already passed. The bad women he had conquered had now each become deities and revered ancestors. Faced with the endless stream of toxic women coming for him, Ye Xuan could only rely on his god-tier acting skills to carve a path of survival through this world of treacherous women.
e school belle recognized by the whole school, a genius girl from the kendo club. She also has a hidden identity, the youngest legendary demon hunter. Chen Shuo just transmigrated and found himself turned into a weak, helpless little vampire. He was caught by Su Xiyen and taken home at the very beginning. Since then, Chen Shuo's life creed only had two items. "First, classmate Su Xiyen is always right." "Second, if classmate Su Xiyen is wrong, please refer back to item one." Many years later, Chen Shuo, who had turned back into a human, led a pair of twins to appear in front of all the vampires to share the secret of how he turned back into a human. "It's simple, I tricked a female demon hunter into becoming my wife!"
