The Reincarnation Sage’s expression shifted, she had just raised her hand when she saw the Reincarnation Dao Scroll floating beside her being snatched away by Nuo Yisheng.
The Reincarnation Sage stared coldly at Nuo Yisheng, she didn’t utter a single word of nonsense. At that moment, her Dao charm had begun to dissipate, compounded by the cursed Dao charm afflicting her, leaving her utterly powerless to resist. Even through the crystal’s image, Lan Xiaobu could sense the corrosive aura of those laws.
Nuo Yisheng’s hand trembled as he clutched the Reincarnation Dao Scroll, this long-coveted scroll was finally his.
“Why not beg for mercy? Perhaps I wouldn’t kill you.” Nuo Yisheng took a deep breath to calm himself, then sent the Reincarnation Dao Scroll into his own world.
The Reincarnation Sage gazed at Nuo Yisheng calmly, “Tell me, how did you hide your malice from me? And how did you obtain the Withered Sage Vine? There can only be one such plant in any realm.”
Realising she’d been poisoned by the Withered Sage Vine, the Reincarnation Sage didn’t act. Perhaps she knew the poison was incurable, beyond anyone’s ability to remedy.
Nuo Yisheng chuckled, “I won’t tell you, because I know I might not be able to kill you. But I’m certain that by the time you return in the next cycle, I’ll have far surpassed you. As for the Withered Sage Vine, I only used half a stalk, the Great Curse Technique saved me the other half.”
The Reincarnation Sage looked at Nuo Yisheng with disdain, her tone carrying a hint of mockery, “The truth might be hard to hear, which is why I’ve always fed you lies. The truth is, with your aptitude, you’ll likely never prove the Great Dao, let alone grasp the true essence of the Great Dao of Reincarnation. I think you’ll understand soon enough…”
After saying this, the Reincarnation Sage’s entire form slowly disintegrated, dissolving into nothingness and vanishing without a trace.
Nuo Yisheng’s smile faded, and the image ended there.
Lan Xiaobu put away the crystal ball, then picked up a jade box sealed with restrictions. With a few swift movements, Lan Xiaobu removed the seals, revealing half a stalk of Withered Sage Vine inside.
Nuo Yisheng likely knew he couldn’t truly kill the Reincarnation Sage, so he frantically sought to boost his cultivation, hoping to overpower her in her next cycle.
Unfortunately for him, he hadn’t even proven himself a Sage before Lan Xiaobu killed him.
Lan Xiaobu added over a dozen more restrictions to the jade box containing the Withered Sage Vine, sneering inwardly. Even if he hadn’t killed Nuo Yisheng today, Nuo Yisheng would’ve eventually been slain by the Reincarnation Sage.
The Reincarnation Sage hadn’t been wrong about Nuo Yisheng at all, this man aimed high but lacked the substance, even with the Reincarnation Dao Scroll in hand, he could never become a second Reincarnation Sage. Just like Ming Changxiao, who obtained the Great Curse Technique but was still far from becoming a Curse Sage.
Lan Xiaobu opened the Reincarnation Dao Scroll again, and soon he was captivated. This scroll wasn’t just a cultivation technique, it could also be considered an origin-opening divine ability.
A reincarnation divine ability, one that would surely become part of his path to Sagehood. Once he proved himself a Sage, these great divine techniques would gradually fade, paving the way for his Sage title.
Lan Xiaobu attempted to wield the reincarnation divine ability, but as soon as his Dao charm began constructing a reincarnation passage, it felt as though he was being dragged into an endless abyss, his soul plunging into emptiness and dissolution.
Lan Xiaobu was alarmed, he quickly halted his cultivation of the reincarnation divine ability.
For a while, he remained shaken, had he not stopped in time, would he have been entirely transformed into a trace of charm within the reincarnation passage? Was this a flaw in the Reincarnation Dao Scroll? Or was his own cultivation too shallow? It was likely due to his low cultivation, it seemed he’d need at least Quasi-Sage level to master this divine ability.
No, that wasn’t right, he had already touched upon the laws of time. Not only that, he had cultivated the Great Destruction Technique, the Great Severance Technique, even the Great Curse Technique that had grievously wounded the Reincarnation Sage. None of them had produced such a terrifying sensation, so why did practicing the reincarnation divine ability cause this?
With that thought, Lan Xiaobu immediately had the Cosmic Dimension Model construct a dimensional framework of the Reincarnation Dao Scroll, replicating a new copy.
With the original scroll as a reference, the Cosmic Dimension Model worked swiftly, in just an hour, a brand-new Reincarnation Dao Scroll appeared before Lan Xiaobu.
Lan Xiaobu seized the new Great Dao of Reincarnation Scroll, his divine sense delving into it once more. The vast, boundless charm of reincarnation was instantly perceptible to him, time, space, from life to death, then from death to life…
The charm of the Dao swirled around Lan Xiaobu, flowing from one extreme to another, an endless cycle of life and breath.
After an unknown amount of time, Lan Xiaobu suddenly raised his hand, gathering several strands of charm, and as the laws of charm surged, a century passed. The first mortal reincarnation passage was effortlessly constructed in his hands.
He had casually created a mortal reincarnation passage, meaning he had already entered the threshold of this divine ability. Given time, he could eventually construct a Sage’s reincarnation passage. With a mere gesture, he could control a Sage’s cycle of life and death.
Something wasn’t right, why could he learn and wield the reincarnation divine ability so effortlessly with the scroll crafted by the Cosmic Dimension Model, yet the original scroll had dragged him into an abyss, threatening to dissolve his soul?
Lan Xiaobu reopened the original Reincarnation Dao Scroll, only to find it blank. However, he caught a faint trace of charm within it, he swiftly cast over a dozen restrictions to lock it in place, then directed his divine sense onto it.
“Nuo Yisheng, you should’ve contributed everything to rebuilding my reincarnation passage, shouldn’t you? Your talent is mediocre, your schemes are average, but your luck isn’t bad, you even managed to find the Withered Sage Vine. Yet with that alone, you dared to plot against me, you’re still far too green. Unfortunately for you, you didn’t know I was already preparing for reincarnation. Not just because of the Great Curse Technique, but because I aim to prove the Seventh-Turn Reincarnation Sage. From now on, your soul will be forever suppressed within my Dao of Reincarnation, sinking into it eternally…”
Incredible, Lan Xiaobu’s heart raced with lingering fear.
Thankfully, he was inside the Cosmic Dimension Model, where all rules were tied to his mind and spirit. Had he not been within it and instead tried to comprehend the Great Dao of Reincarnation outside, he might’ve truly been suppressed into the reincarnation passage by the Reincarnation Sage.
These Sages were indeed not to be trifled with, that bastard Nuo Yisheng had nearly dragged him down with him.
But from today onward, the Reincarnation Sage could only dream of the Reincarnation Dao Scroll, as for reclaiming it, that was out of the question. Once he proved his Sagehood, the scroll would contribute to one of his turns.
And if he ever encountered the Reincarnation Sage in the future, he’d need to be cautious, she had proven her Sagehood through the harshest path of reincarnation, forcibly reaching the Seventh-Turn Sage realm, which was utterly terrifying.
Calming his thoughts, Lan Xiaobu remembered he was still inside the Cosmic Dimension Model, which was traversing the void passage. How much time had passed? A jolt of alarm struck him, while comprehending the reincarnation divine ability within the Cosmic Dimension Model, he’d completely forgotten to monitor the external array. Even if it had been triggered, he wouldn’t have noticed in time.
The Cosmic Dimension Model mustn’t get caught in a void vortex, if it did, by the time he returned to the Great Desolate Divine Realm or the Eternal Life Realm, who knew how many years would have passed.
He hurriedly extended his divine sense outward, Lan Xiaobu was astonished to find the Cosmic Dimension Model was no longer in the void, the area his divine sense reached was filled with shattered corpses.
Lan Xiaobu quickly emerged from the Cosmic Dimension Model, sweeping his divine sense outward. His first realisation was that this must be the Rootless Divine Realm, he hadn’t gone to the wrong place. Secondly, the area he was in had recently been the site of a great battle, more precisely, a clash between cultivators.
Judging by the bodies on the ground, there were thousands of them.
Any corpse with a ring had been stripped clean. Lan Xiaobu sighed inwardly, you’ve taken their rings, couldn’t you at least bury the bodies? It’s not much effort. Don’t think divine realm powerhouses are immune to plagues, the Great Desolate Cosmos has a Plague God. Even immortals or divine beings could fall to it.
The mighty Reincarnation Sage had been poisoned, hadn’t she? Though her poisoning was intentional, it was certainly a toxin she couldn’t dispel.
Sensing the rules of heaven and earth, Lan Xiaobu immediately knew the Rootless Divine Realm was similar to the Eternal Life Realm, its rules gradually perfecting. Once the Rootless Divine Realm and Eternal Life Realm fully merged, the primal energy of heaven and earth would surge.
His divine sense fell again on the corpses, they didn’t seem to be casualties of a cultivators’ army battle, but rather the result of a clash between two sects.
Regardless of the cause, Lan Xiaobu planned to bury them all on the spot.
Before he could carve out a massive pit, a figure darted past him. Lan Xiaobu’s divine sense had already locked onto the person, a cultivator at the God-Unification Realm.
Just as Lan Xiaobu was about to call out, the God-Unification cultivator suddenly doubled back, landing in front of him. He was of average build, around the fourth layer of the God-Unification Realm. In the Eternal Life Realm, that was nothing, but in the Rootless Divine Realm, it was decent cultivation.
“Are you a survivor of the clash between Tianfan Sect and Luan Soul Divine Mansion? Which sect are you from?” The God-Unification cultivator sized Lan Xiaobu up and down before asking abruptly.
Tianfan Sect? Luan Soul Divine Mansion?
Only now did Lan Xiaobu learn that one of the sects involved in the clash was Tianfan Sect, a name he recognised, it was the sect founded by his sworn brother Guan Huan.
He hadn’t expected Guan Huan’s sect to be in the Rootless Divine Realm. With these two sects clashing, he wondered if Guan Huan was present. Probably not, if Guan Huan were here, why would there be a need for a clash? With Guan Huan’s strength, surely at the First-Turn Sage level, wiping out a sect in this place would be a mere slap, no need for a battle that left so many disciples dead.
Perhaps the current sect leader of Tianfan Sect was one of Guan Huan’s disciples or grand-disciples.
With that thought, Lan Xiaobu clasped his fists and said, “I’m a disciple of Tianfan Sect.”
