We Agreed On Experiencing Life, So Why Did You Immortals Become Real?

Chapter 545: Alive or Dead, I Will Have Proof

Within the Yuezhuo hidden realm, the doorways that had once led to the outside world were now closing, one by one, slowly and inexorably.As the hidden realm dissolved and collapsed, more and more cultivators were crushed and torn apart by that irresistible force of the void, their bodies and souls destroyed together amid their own screams, vanishing utterly into nothingness, without even the chance for reincarnation left to them.

At this moment, within the vast expanse of the hidden realm, not a single living soul remained. Only a dead and total silence.

Xiao Mo, his life's original source utterly dissolved, fell silently from the high sky like a kite whose string had been cut but just as he was about to crash to the ground, a gentle breeze suddenly swept through, lifting him and holding him steady.

That breeze then slowly condensed into the form of a woman, her features exquisite, her bearing graceful.

She gathered Xiao Mo gently into her arms and carried him carefully down from the air to the ground below.

Looking at those closed eyes cradled in her arms, deep reluctance and heartache showed in the woman's own eyes.

At the same time, from deep within the palace, a woman slowly stepped out from within that divine statue.

The woman in the golden dress walked toward the woman formed of the breeze, lowered her gaze to look at Xiao Mo in her arms, hatred filling her expression.

"A pity that this time, he was not destroyed body and soul both."

The woman in gold gritted her teeth, her voice cold as a blade, as though she wished she could tear Xiao Mo apart alive.

"I will not let you do that to my master." The woman formed from the breeze spoke calmly, her gaze never once leaving Xiao Mo's face.

"Ha ha ha."

The woman in gold gave a cold laugh, her tone full of mockery.

"The five of you sisters recognized him as your master back then, and even after death, you built your tombs atop this very sealing formation, each of you suppressing and sealing us in turn."

"You keep saying it was for the sake of the myriad races' future. But look at the myriad races of this world now. What have they become?"

"I merely let those three insects catch a small glimpse of where this forbidden place lay, and those three fools went and flattened Jiuyou Mountain, discovering this place for themselves."

"With a little further guidance, I made them believe that reaching the core of the hidden realm required the blood sacrifice of tens of thousands of cultivators, and sure enough, they went and deceived no small number of cultivators into coming here to die."

"And those foolish creatures, for the sake of a few pitiful natural treasures, fought each other to the death, betraying their own kin, harming even their own cultivation partners."

She glanced at Xiao Mo and said with contempt.

"You see, he has now been betrayed by your own demon kind, and this is the miserable end he has come to."

The woman in gold tilted her head slightly, a flicker of confusion in her eyes. "Heiyin'er, tell me, all those years ago the myriad races fought us gods to the death, rivers of blood flowing everywhere. What was it all for, in the end? Is this the future you all wanted?"

"Whatever path the myriad races follow, that is theirs to choose in the end."

The woman named Heiyin'er said quietly, reaching out to stroke Xiao Mo's now-cold cheek.

"Better that than being at your mercy the way we once were, slaughtered by the gods, reduced to your slaves."

"Ha ha ha."

The woman in gold laughed softly, her laughter clear as a bell.

"Then you had best have the ability to suppress us forever and ever. And do not forget, in that divine war, the myriad races never won! And we, we never lost either!"

She lifted her chin slightly, her voice cold and certain. "We will return, in the end."

"And when that day truly comes," the woman in gold's voice dropped, her gaze sharp as a blade, "I will make your master remember everything, piece by piece, and then, I will let my sister kill him with her own hands."

"That day is not far off now."

As her words settled, the woman in gold's form gradually dissolved into scattered points of golden light, drifting through the air like fireflies.

The divine statue deep within the palace returned to stillness, showing no further sign of movement.

"Master, rest assured. I will watch over her carefully. I will never let her escape."

Heiyin'er lowered her head, looking at the quiet, pale face cradled in her arms.

In the next instant, Heiyin'er transformed suddenly into black flame, wrapping slowly around Xiao Mo's body.

In no more than ten breaths, Xiao Mo's remains were entirely reduced to ash by the burning black flame, dissolving into the world around them yet that black flame gently wrapped Xiao Mo's soul, layer upon layer, and carried it silently out of the collapsing hidden realm.

"Master, we sisters will wait for you, always. Waiting for the day you truly return."

Within the hidden realm, only Heiyin'er's quiet, distant voice remained, echoing for a long while through the collapsing world and the very instant Xiao Mo's soul left the hidden realm, the entire realm collapsed completely, dissolving into nothingness.

Only that single, solitary palace remained, floating deep within the endless void.

A hundred li beyond Jiuyou Mountain, Little Green was flying at tremendous speed straight toward the location of the hidden realm.

At this moment, Little Green's heart was consumed with urgency, every breath feeling as long as a hundred years.

To Little Green, this was, after all these years, her best chance yet to bring Elder Brother Xiao home but just as she arrived at a point roughly fifty li from the hidden realm, Little Green's mind suddenly jolted violently.

An indescribable sense of alarm surged through her heart.

Almost by instinct, she used her dragon clan's divine ability to shield herself and the maidservant beside her completely.

In the very next instant, a violently savage ripple of spiritual energy, carrying scorching flame with it, burst outward with tremendous force.

Little Green could clearly sense that even the laws of heaven and earth had grown somewhat disordered.

"This is..."

Little Green's small hands clenched tightly, her fingertips going pale with the pressure.

In her thousands of years of cultivation, Little Green had encountered phenomena like this before.

A situation like this generally pointed to only one possibility, a hidden realm collapsing.

"Elder Brother Xiao, please, do not let anything have happened to you."

Little Green's heart felt as though it had been seized by an unseen hand, her very breath growing difficult.

A wave of self-reproach rose in her heart as well.

The more she thought about it, the more she felt she should have gone to investigate the moment she first suspected something, rather than continuing to gather information and delaying until now.

"Elder Sister, look!"

The maidservant Han'er raised a hand and pointed ahead.

Not far away, within the Jiuyou Abyss, something like a churning tide had formed into an enormous vortex, swallowing everything around it.

Above the abyss, dark clouds gathered thick and heavy, pressing down in layers, and countless bolts of lightning struck one after another, lighting up the entire darkened sky and a series of high, sorrowful phoenix cries rose from deep within the abyss, echoing through the whole of heaven and earth.

Centered on the abyss, violent ripples of spiritual energy spread outward for ten thousand li, and even the distant horizon seemed to tremble.

A tremendous boom.

An earth-shaking crash rang out, as though the sky and earth themselves had been blasted straight through, the deafening roar lingering for a long while.

By the time the roar finally faded, all that remained where the abyss had once stood was an enormous crater.

"Elder Sister, this, this is..." Han'er stared blankly ahead, her voice trembling without meaning to.

"The hidden realm," Little Green said slowly, her nails nearly piercing her own palms, "has collapsed."

"Alive or dead, I will have proof."

Little Green suddenly raised her head, her gaze sharp as a blade as she looked at the maidservant beside her.

"Han'er! Go and find out!"