In the middle of nothingness.
The Qiankun Bead sank in darkness.
The inner space was crowded with a large number of cultivators.
Qin Lianyi was clustered in the centre, with her manipulating the Qiankun Bead’s destination.
Xia Yu Fei’s several women stood next to her, while the surrounding cultivators were all friends from the Western and Northern Regions, plus the Earth Ascensionists, less than five hundred of them.
And in the most central Everlasting Pool, the Devil Sovereign’s husband and son were immersed in it, renewing their lives with the Everlasting Substance, but their breath was getting weaker and weaker, and they were afraid that they wouldn’t be able to last much longer.
Suddenly!
Fu Zi’s eyes opened:
“I feel the power of the Ten Thousand Returning One, really fading.”
The Demon Monarch’s wounds healed and no longer seeped blood, “Great, Qin Li has won, he killed Wan Gui Yi!”
At those words!
Everyone was overjoyed.
Originally, everyone had sadness in their hearts and wanted to leave their homes.
Who knew that the peak had turned around, and Qin Li had turned the tide with his own strength.
“Great!”Xia Yu Fei cried with joy, “Let’s quickly go back and welcome Qin Li’s triumph.”
The remaining few women were also ecstatic: “The heavens are vast and dangerous, we can’t afford to be lazy in the future, we need to cultivate properly and stop dragging our husband’s feet!”
“We’re going home!”
Qin Lianyi laughed the most happily, manoeuvring the Qiankun Bead and approaching the Four Directions Domain.
The Husband and the Demon Lord also recovered somewhat and teamed up to tear open the spatial cracks, allowing everyone to return to the Southern Heavenly Mystic Realm.
Subsequently!
The news of the victory spread.
The entire South China Sect rejoiced as all the cultivators recovered from the calamity.
Xia Yu Fei personally cooked and made a table of good food, and the remaining few women also organised a grand rehearsal to welcome Qin Li’s triumph in style.
However!
A day passed.
Qin Li did not return.
The crowd vaguely felt that something was wrong.
“Why isn’t he back yet, could something have happened ……”
The Husbandman sat in the centre, stabilising the people, “Everyone, don’t think wildly, perhaps Qin Li has suffered a serious injury and is truly healing!”
The Demon Monarch nodded, “The people below have sent word that Qin Li and Wan Gui Yi are dueling on the central island, the aftermath of the battle ** and thousands of miles, let’s quickly go over and look for it.”
Soon!
The crowd travelled to the central island.
The South China Sect was almost out in force.
The cultivators from the Northern Academy, also joined in and started searching.
The Husband and the Demon Monarch opened their celestial senses and searched the carpet, vowing to find traces of Qin Li.
However, the Central Island’s terrain was complicated, and after a month of rain, many flash floods erupted, coupled with the aftermath of the previous battle, the terrain was disorganised, and the undercurrents surged, making it impossible to find Qin Li’s location.
One day!
Two days!
Three days!
There was still no news of Qin Li.
Everyone’s faces were particularly ugly, bad thoughts surfacing in their hearts.
A few women were so anxious that they were about to cry out, “Why isn’t Qin Li back yet, he possesses the Longevity Substance, he should be able to heal from his injuries soon.”
“Mother, Auntie, it’s fine.”Qin Lianyi showed a steadiness beyond her age, after a storm, she was no longer mischievous and had learnt to sympathise with people, “Father’s life is hard, he has come through so many difficulties, he can definitely survive this calamity as well.”
The search continues.
Qin Lianyi harnessed the little dragon and brought Little White with her as she went forward to search.
When passing by a river, the Qiankun Bead reacted, emitting a glistening clear light and pointing towards a place.
“Why is the Qian Kun Pearl suddenly moving, could it be guiding father’s direction, it’s really great!”Qin Lianyi was ecstatic, following the instructions, he came to the edge of the river.
Because of the heavy flooding, the river’s water was turbid, mixed with mud and sand, and there were many driftwood stumps floating above it. Not far away was an old tree that was stuck at the river’s edge, stopping much of the debris and now forming a driftwood pile.
“The Qiankun Bead is pointing there!”
Qin Lianyi rushed over and hurriedly swept away the driftwood pile.
Qin Li’s body was seen lying amongst them, although it had gone through several ups and downs and had been soaked by the current for several days, his flesh was intact, only his long white hair was a little knotted and stained with many leaves.
“Ah Dad!”Qin Lianyi was ecstatic and hurriedly hugged Qin Li, it was like hugging a piece of cold ice, the cold chilled her heart.
“Impossible, I don’t believe it!”Qin Lianyi touched Qin Li’s heart, it was silent, probed his divine court, it was dark and lightless. All signs indicated that Qin Li was dead, and up dead for a long time.
“Why is this happening! Abba, wake up! I won’t be naughty anymore, don’t leave me!”Qin Lianli bawled, tears falling like rain. The tears fell on Qin Li, and no miracle occurred, but activated the Qian Kun Bead.
Swoosh!
The Qian Kun Bead floats into the air.
It senses the disappointment of its previous owner and strikes out a dense clear light.
This was actually the Eternal Life Substance, which was injected into Qin Li’s heart without any miracles occurring. Dead was dead, and the Eternal Life Substance couldn’t bring the dead back to life.
“Master!”Little White’s eyes were moist, crying his heart out.
“It shouldn’t be like this!”Xiao Long’s voice choked with tears.
Very quickly!
The news spread in all directions.
Everyone converged on the riverbank.
Everyone saw the result and couldn’t accept the scene.
“Didn’t you say you’d come back alive?”A few women’s hearts were about to break as they hugged Qin Li’s corpse, grief overflowing with tears. Xia Yu Fei’s body was the weakest, and she directly fainted from crying.
Turbid tears dripped from Husbandman’s ancient, wave-free eyes, this was the first time he had shed tears in the hundreds of thousands of years since he had become a Taoist, which contained bitterness and pain that was hard to describe. At the same time a sense of self-blame welled up, “It’s all because I’m too incompetent that I let Qin Li face Wan Gui Yi alone.”
The Demon Monarch stood aside, his empty cuffs fluttering. He didn’t cry, and there was only a devouring rage in his eyes that almost burned through the heavenly aura and incinerated the Nine Heavens: “Blood and sea hatred, not being able to repay it is not enough to be a human being!”
Grief followed him like a shadow, but things still had to go on.
Three days later!
Qin Li’s funeral was held.
The four domains were onyx, and thousands of cultivators wept bitterly.
All cultivators under the heavens knew of Qin Li’s greatness and mourned his departure.
On top of the funeral, everyone’s relatives and friends arrived, Qin Baidao, Qin Weilang, Lin Tianchi, Chu Zitan, Jin Guang, Green Robe, Red Eyebrows, Heavy Sword, Drunkenness, Zo Ran, Han Qiwei, Lin Xiu Xiu ……
One person brought along a bouquet of flowers, and in the end, South China Mountain was covered in flowers for all ages. The four directions domain is also strangling Qin Li’s departure, the day of the funeral, the heavenly flowers, white light filled the sky, the warm southern domain fell a snow, the mountains and rivers are white.
On top of the funeral, several women cried themselves to sleep many times, they couldn’t accept such a devastating blow, their tears were dried up, expecting a miracle to happen, but dead is dead, unless there was a divine medicine to bring the dead back to life.
Qin Lianyi, however, did not continue to cry, as there was only the flame of vengeance in her eyes. A doom and gloom, painful to the core, causing her to grow up rapidly, but a child of more than five years old, fading away her childishness, with an additional calm aura on her face, which was generally the same as Qin Li’s.
Eventually!
Qin Li was buried in South China Mountain.
At the top of the mountain there is a golden tombstone, but also a statue of God, poured into the mould of Qin Li, heroic and handsome, transcendent, standing between heaven and earth, gathering the spirit of Qiankun.
This side of heaven and earth also remembered the achievements of Qin Li, so around the golden idol, always beautiful purple and red, colourful. There are auspicious clouds, auspicious colours surround, the statue of God set off more and more bizarre, as if living over the general.
One year later.
Everyone gradually accepted Qin Li’s death.
Looking at the four domains, the world’s cultivators also removed their onyx and began to get busy.
Although Qin Li is a hero to save the world, but also can not ask others to miss every day, besides the four domains of the hundred waste, the southern domain of the cultivators split out most, respectively, moved to the east and west two domains, the northern domain of the bitter cold, no cultivators are willing to go over, so where to re-become the paradise of the demonic beasts.
The biggest harvest of this extinction disaster is to break the four domains, eliminating regional discrimination. The Four Directions Domain was thus renamed, no longer called the Four Directions, nor the Immortal Domain, but called the Upper Realm, which corresponds to the thirty-six places in the Lower Realm.
Time passes, and the years go by like a shuttle!
In the blink of an eye, another three months.
The Upper Realm flourished, and many forces sprang up.
It was back to the life of old, clans friction, competition for precious medicines, and the opening of secret realms. As for the great battle over a year ago, that had been reduced to legend. Perhaps that boring cultivator remembered Qin Li after tea, after a moment of sighing, he continued to be busy, the knack will not fall into tears, after all, this is life.
While several women are still immersed in grief, every time they see Qin Li’s things, they can’t help but see things and silently shed tears. Accepting the death of a loved one was an easy thing to do, but trying to smooth out the grief was ten thousand times harder.
Qin Lianyi, on the other hand, closed her door and completely fell into cultivation.
Beneath South China Mountain!
It was a gorgeous ice tomb.
Qin Li was lying in an ice coffin, caught in an obstinate ice seal.
The only thing was the piece of shattered wood in the dantian, which on the first day of every month, would spew out a wave of invisible divine power, injecting it into Qin Li’s interior, and then there was no movement.
