In the valley, the stone statue of Wang Lin had transformed from an ancient old man to a young man. He looked almost exactly the same as before he had become a stone statue. Every time Li Qianmei looked at the statue, it was as if she could see Wang Lin standing in front of her.
"You promised me that you would give it to me …." Li Qianmei murmured softly, as if she were talking to herself, but also to Wang Lin, who had become a stone statue.
Every time she had met Wang Lin during the past six years, they would appear in Li Qianmei's mind, and they would become more and more profound. However, sometimes she would ask herself why everything had turned out the way it did.
She couldn't understand it, but Wang Lin's figure became more and more imprinted in her mind …. What she couldn't get out of her mind was the image of the fish in the water, its eyes gazing up at the bird in the sky above the water.
When the bird landed, its feathers fluttered, and when it drank water, its gaze met the gaze of the fish in the water. Although it was only for a moment, it became an eternity in Li Qianmei's mind.
"Is there really … a past life …?" Li Qianmei bit her lip. There were no more tears in her eyes. She peeled off the blood rings on her fingers, and once again began to smear the blood on the statue of Wang Lin.
Time passed by slowly. In the blink of an eye, another year had passed …. During that year, the speed at which the statue of Wang Lin absorbed the blood grew faster and faster. Li Qianmei only had an hour to rest every day. The rest of the time, she had to stare at the statue, and smear the blood on the statue before it completely absorbed the blood.
Over and over again … This year's time was equivalent to the previous six years. Li Qianmei's body grew even weaker … She didn't have much time to recover. She could only continue to consume her life force and slowly fade away.
During the past seven years, there weren't many medicinal pills left in her storage space. She consumed them all and turned them into origin energy to circulate her life force.
However, the consumption of medicinal pills couldn't compare to her daily consumption. No matter how many medicinal pills she had, it was useless …. This was because Li Qianmei didn't have the time to digest the medicinal pills. She only had an hour every day …. If there was a gap in the seven years of hard work because of the medicinal pills, then all her hard work would be for naught …. Li Qianmei's face was dim, and there wasn't a trace of spirit in it. Only her eyes were still filled with determination. She didn't think about whether it was worth it or not. She only knew that she had to do it, and that she didn't regret it …. That was enough.
After smearing the blood on the statue, Li Qianmei took out a medicinal pill from her storage bag and quickly put it in her mouth to digest it. After an hour, she gave up on absorbing the medicinal energy and allowed it to dissipate. She barely managed to exchange for some origin energy. She gathered her own life force, stimulated her body to produce more blood, and smeared the blood on the statue again …. One month, two months, three months …. A woman, with her tenacity, her determination, and her determination to not regret, endured for eight years …. She didn't have the hundreds of years of lonely waiting that Li Muwan had, and she didn't have the lonely zither music that Li Muwan had. However, she had the same determination. Even after eight years, it was still eight years, until the end of her life …. "You still haven't answered my third question. I still haven't heard you say your third question …."
Li Qianmei bit her lip and smeared the blood on the statue again and again until eternity passed.
After eight years, she didn't even have that one hour of rest every day. The absorption rate of Wang Lin's statue had reached a terrifying degree. Almost all the blood would be absorbed the moment she finished smearing it. Li Qianmei didn't have any time to hesitate or cultivate. She was going to smear the statue with blood again and again.
This method made her even more haggard. She didn't have time to rest or cultivate, and she was overdrafting her life with her Nirvana Shatterer cultivation.
If a woman could do this, it would be blasphemy to ask if it was worth it or not … She had lost the ability to think and no longer thought about anything. However, the memories of her meeting with Wang Lin turned into a force that supported her through the eighth year.
However, compared to the eighth year, the most terrifying thing was the ninth year. The speed at which Wang Lin's statue absorbed blood had reached a terrifying degree. Often, before she even finished smearing the blood, the area she touched would immediately dissipate.
As a result, it had exceeded Li Qianmei's limit. Even if she used both of her hands, she couldn't keep up with the speed at which the blood dissipated. After discovering this, Li Qianmei revealed a miserable expression. She didn't hesitate to bite the tip of her tongue and began to use the essence blood in her mind!
Essence blood was an extremely important thing for a cultivator. The amount of essence blood determined everything for a cultivator. It didn't exist in the limbs, but at the tip of the tongue and the heart.
One drop of blood here was equivalent to one's entire body.
After Li Qianmei spat out the essence blood from the tip of her tongue, her hands formed a seal to turn the essence blood into a blood mist that surrounded the statue. Only with this kind of intense consumption could she keep up with the speed at which the statue absorbed the blood.
However, every time she spat out essence blood, her face would become a bit more pale. She looked like she was only skin and bones, and her peerless beauty from the past was no longer there.
However, all of this changed in the second half of the ninth year. The absorption speed of Wang Lin's statue increased once again. Even the essence blood at the tip of her tongue was not enough!
Li Qianmei's body was extremely weak. Her eyes were filled with despair, but she clenched her teeth and waved her right hand. A small silver sword appeared in her hand and she stabbed it at her heart!
Where the essence blood was, there was also the heart!
The intense pain caused Li Qianmei's body to tremble. However, this didn't stop her. Instead, her body became even weaker.
Using this unimaginable method, Li Qianmei passed the ninth year and welcomed the 10th year … "The voice said that if I can use this method for 10 years, there is a chance that he will awaken. Now there is only one year left …" After nine years, Li Qianmei was like a completely different person. As the 10th year arrived, the essence blood in her heart and the tip of her tongue was no longer enough to smear the statue.
Li Qianmei chose the origin soul dao blood … The so-called origin soul dao blood was the essence of her cultivation. She had comprehended the will of the heavens and earth and fused it into her origin soul. It became the foundation of her cultivation and forced it out into an aura. This aura was not blood, but it was even more precious than blood. The life force it contained was Li Qianmei's everything!
In the last year, Li Qianmei also hesitated. However, when she saw the statue of Wang Lin, her hesitation turned into a bright smile. It was just like the first time they met, and her smile was very moving.
"There is another woman in your heart. I won't steal her from you, nor will I make you choose. For her, you must have suffered bitterly … How could I force you … It doesn't matter if you don't care about me, but there are some things in the world that cannot be pondered or changed … I believe that if the woman in your heart had come during these nine years, she would have done the same, and she would have done even better than me … Even if it was that Mu Bingmei, if she knew everything and came here, I believe she would have done the same … I don't ask for anything, I just want to complete the picture that has always appeared in my heart. In my previous life, you were a bird and I was a fish … Over the years, I have thought about a lot and understood a lot. Perhaps it was an illusion, but I have seen a lot … I saw you turn into a bird and land on the surface of the water where I was swimming. One time was to drink water, and the other time was when you were injured and fell into the water … I used my strength to push you to the shore so that you could breathe and continue to fly …"
Li Qianmei had a gentle smile as she looked at the statue of Wang Lin and closed her eyes. The moment she closed her eyes, her origin soul began to move and a vortex appeared between her eyebrows. Drops of dao blood slowly came out and landed on Wang Lin's body.
Li Qianmei was like a fallen flower and began to wither even faster.
However, this tenth year seemed to be extremely long, even longer than the previous nine years combined. On the ninth month of the tenth year, Li Qianmei opened her eyes. She looked at the statue and silently pondered for a long time.
She gradually got up and looked at the sky. It was as if she was seeing the scene of herself pushing the bird to the shore in her previous life.
Gently shaking her head, Li Qianmei took the jade pendant hanging around her neck. This jade pendant contained her Life Spirit. Looking at the stone statue, Li Qianmei gently hung the jade pendant on it.
"Even with everything I have, I can't help you get through these last three months … I can't do it … However, I know that all the cultivators that go to the Demon Sect's battlefield, as long as they are recognized by the Demon Sect, the Demon Sect's high elder can use a spell to extract their soul blood. Once they die on the battlefield, the soul blood can be used to create a new soul and reincarnate … I was recognized by the Demon Sect back then, so I left my soul blood behind. Now I'm going to take it out and maybe it can help you get through these three months …" Li Qianmei looked at the statue of Wang Lin for a long time before withdrawing her gaze.
Around the valley, Li Qianmei took out nine flying swords from her storage space and stabbed them into the surroundings, forming a sword array. This sword array was the strongest of her magic treasures, and it had helped her kill countless fierce beasts on the battlefield!
After leaving behind the sword formation, Li Qianmei bit her lip and swallowed a pill with her weak body. Then she quickly left the valley for the first time in 10 years. She left the wild continent and headed toward the rank 9 region's Demon Sect!
"I don't have much time, and the life soul jade can only last for about one month. I must retrieve my soul blood within one month, but … that soul blood is not easy to obtain …"
Li Qianmei turned into a ray of light and disappeared among the stars. She couldn't take away the statue of Wang Lin. It seemed to have merged with the wild continent three years ago.
Once Li Qianmei left, she never returned … The final three months slowly passed. That woman's figure was no longer accompanying the valley, and it was as if the valley had become lonely due to her departure. The roars of the ferocious beasts on the continent became even more intense, and they gradually closed in on the valley.
However, under the sword formation formed by the nine flying swords, all the fierce beasts that entered the valley let out miserable cries and died. The fierce beasts gradually retreated and no longer dared to approach.
One day, two days, three days … In the blink of an eye, 10 days passed.
The jade that Li Qianmei left behind hung on the neck of the statue of Wang Lin. It gave off a gentle glow as if Li Qianmei had never left and was nourishing the statue of Wang Lin.
It carried her warmth, her 10 years of care, and her heart. It turned into a force that accompanied the statue of Wang Lin … The 11th day, the 12th day … until the 20th day.
Li Qianmei still hadn't returned … It was as if she had vanished from the world, and there was no news of her at all. It was as if this woman had never appeared in this valley. Only the sword formation and the jade pendant bore witness to everything that had happened.
The valley was silent. Only the sparkling light emitted by the stone statue faintly illuminated the surroundings, reflecting the light from the jade pendant. However, the light from the jade pendant became dimmer and dimmer, like a candle flame being blown away by the wind. It seemed like it would be extinguished at any moment.
Time slowly passed. On the 27th day after Li Qianmei left, an old woman in white walked through the starry sky of the Wild Continent, a place where very few cultivators came.
The old woman's expression was gloomy as she held a jade in her hand. As she moved forward, she would confirm the direction and get closer and closer to the wild continent.
One day later, the wild continent Wang Lin was on appeared in the fog before the old woman!
The old woman let out a cold snort and took a step forward. Her entire body disappeared and when she reappeared, she was on the wild continent. The moment she landed, she immediately spread out her divine sense. Her peak Nirvana Shatterer aura swept across the wild continent.
In an instant, she found the valley that she had been searching for all this while!
After finding the location of the valley, the old woman moved like a ray of light. Thunderous rumbles echoed as she broke through the void and appeared outside the valley where Wang Lin's statue was.
"This is the place!"
The old woman frowned. Just as she was about to enter the valley, nine rays of sword energy shot out from the valley toward her, preventing her from taking half a step in!
The old woman's expression was neutral, but there was a complicated expression in her eyes. She looked at the nine flying swords and let out a sigh. She waved the jade in her right hand and it collided with the nine rays of sword energy.
The jade slip flickered and released a gentle aura that surrounded the nine strands of sword Qi. The nine strands of sword Qi immediately trembled, but they gave up all resistance and dissipated into the surroundings.
Without the obstruction of the sword energy, the old woman stepped into the valley and immediately saw the statue of Wang Lin at the center!
She also saw the jade hanging on the statue's neck.
Looking at the statue of Wang Lin, the old woman revealed a complicated expression. After a long time, she let out a sigh.
"Li Qianmei, you sacrificed so much just for this person!!
Forget it, this old woman promised to deliver the soul blood for you, so I've fulfilled my promise! "
The old woman flicked her sleeve and a spatial rift appeared in front of her. A fist-sized ball of blood flew out from within.
This ball of blood wasn't real blood; it was more like a soul. After it appeared, the old woman waved her hand and it fused with the statue of Wang Lin.
The moment the soul blood fused with the statue, the statue of Wang Lin trembled and a monstrous blood-colored light shined. However, this blood-colored light didn't contain any killing intent. Instead, it contained a sense of vitality, a sense of gentleness, and a sense of companionship that had accompanied him for 10 years … As the statue trembled, it was as if an aura was about to burst out!
Cracking sounds echoed and large amounts of cracks appeared on the eyes of the statue of Wang Lin. After sleeping for 10 years, he opened his eyes for the first time!
As he opened his eyes, the stone skin on his face began to collapse and spread out. It seemed like it would take some time for his face to completely shatter.
With confusion in his eyes, Wang Lin felt like he was dreaming. In that dream, he had entered a strange realm. It was the Dao Realm … "Hmph, you're awake!"
A cold voice interrupted Wang Lin's confusion, causing Wang Lin's eyes to regain their light. His gaze flickered and he immediately saw the old woman in white standing in the distance.
"You are …" Wang Lin's gaze was calm as he looked at the old woman. With one glance, he could clearly see an origin soul moving inside her body. There were various spells flashing inside that origin soul, and under his gaze, the spells inside her origin soul stopped changing. It was as if he could see the roots of those spells with just a thought!
As his gaze moved, he saw a seal on the right side of the old woman's heart. That seal was used for healing, and it had existed for no less than a thousand years.
Under his gaze, the expression of the old woman in white changed drastically and she instinctively took a few steps back. Sweat instantly appeared on her forehead. At that moment, she felt as if he had seen through her body and that her origin soul had frozen. In fact, all the secrets in her heart, including her spells, had been exposed to him. She even had the vague feeling that with just a thought, he could erase all of her spells from her memory!
What made her even more terrified was that the seal left behind by the High Elder of the Demon Sect when she was seriously injured thousands of years ago was about to collapse from just one gaze. It was enough to cause her almost healed injuries to turn back thousands of years and cause her to be seriously injured like she was thousands of years ago!
"I came from the rank 9 Demon Sect to bring you Li Qianmei's soul blood to wake you up. What are you doing?!"
Although the old woman was terrified, she had a bad personality. She retreated a few steps and stared at Wang Lin as she shouted, "Could it be that you want to kill me?!"
"Li Qianmei?" Wang Lin was startled.
When the old woman saw Wang Lin's expression, even the terror seemed to have been suppressed. She revealed a hint of sadness and let out a long laugh. "Li Qianmei, oh Li Qianmei, you did all of this and this person didn't even know!
Forget it, I've already brought you my soul blood and returned your favor. From now on, we don't owe each other anything! "
The old woman suddenly turned around and was about to leave!
Wang Lin had a faint guess in his heart and immediately said, "Fellow cultivator, don't be in such a rush to leave!"
As he spoke, the laws of the world seemed to change. The old woman's body trembled and she couldn't leave. She turned around and stared at Wang Lin. She gloomily said, "Your cultivation level is high and killing me is easy. Why won't you let me leave? What is the meaning of this?!"
Wang Lin looked at the old woman and slowly said, "I've been unconscious for a long time and don't know what happened during this period of time. I hope fellow cultivator can tell me in detail!"
The old woman sneered. After a long time, she said, "You want to know?
Fine, I'll tell you everything!
Do you know a woman named Li Qianmei?
You don't need to speak, you definitely know her!
I don't know how the two of you met, but do you know that 10 years ago, Li Qianmei gave up the great opportunity to become a disciple of the Demon Sect? She gave up the importance the Demon Sect placed on her and became the first person to leave the battlefield. Rumor has it that she went to the Everlasting Sect to see someone!
The Demon Sect naturally didn't want her to do this, and even the Heaven Breaking Sect was dissatisfied. Once this precedent was set, there would naturally be people who wouldn't follow it!
What she lost doesn't matter to you, so it doesn't matter if you don't know! "
Wang Lin was startled. He really didn't know about this. He had seen Li Qianmei at the Everlasting Sect, but she hadn't said anything.
"Do you know that 10 years ago, Li Qianmei left the Everlasting Sect and returned to her own sect because of her teacher's order?
You're aware of this, but did you know that after she returned to the sect, she was immediately imprisoned by her Master for the sake of not letting her leave? She was imprisoned for three months!
"Why was she imprisoned for three months? Because at that time, someone was facing a life and death crisis!
I don't know much about this, but I believe you understand! "
Wang Lin was startled. He naturally knew, but this was the first time he had heard about Li Qianmei at the Heaven Breaking Sect.
"Do you know that in order to save you, Li Qianmei broke ties with her teacher, who was like a father to her, and used her life in exchange for a chance to leave? From then on, she became someone without a sect!
"Do you know that in order to awaken you, Li Qianmei covered your entire body with blood every day? Then she used up all her blood and replaced it with essence blood. In the end, there wasn't enough essence blood, so she used her domain origin soul to replace it!
"Do you know how painful all of this was? It was like this for 10 years, and it never stopped!
"Do you know that in these 10 years, aside from the last few months, she never left this valley and accompanied you every day!
"Do you know that in these 10 years, not only did she use her blood, but she also used her life force, her everything. She used her life force to send her blood to you, so she was extremely weak!
"Do you know that in the end, her origin soul couldn't be replaced, so she went to the Demon Sect and paid a great price to retrieve her soul blood for me to deliver to you?
"Do you know that even before she left, she left her life soul jade on your body to nourish your body? Do you not know all of this?
You actually don't know??? "
The old woman's expression was filled with grief as she stared at Wang Lin and said all of this!
When these words entered Wang Lin's ears, it was like thunder rumbling in his mind. His body trembled violently. He knew, he knew what the blood light that never stopped inside the Heaven Defying Bead was. That gentle and warm blood light that nourished his soul even in the Dao Realm was!
He lowered his head and saw the jade on his neck. The light from the jade was dim, as if it could dissipate at any moment. When Wang Lin looked at it, for some reason, there was a crack on the jade!
"Do you know where she went?" The old woman's voice was filled with sorrow as she let out a miserable laugh.
"You don't know, you don't know what kind of conditions she agreed to the Demon Sect to retrieve her soul blood. How could you know? If it wasn't for the fact that I watched her grow up and was her senior sister, I wouldn't have known everything when I interrogated her at the Demon Sect …"
Wang Lin silently pondered and softly said, "Where is she …"
"Where is she?
How could the Demon Sect's soul blood be taken so easily? She left the battlefield 10 years ago and hasn't returned for 10 years. She was expelled by the Heaven Breaking Sect, so how could the Demon Sect not punish her? If she wanted her soul blood back, she had to pay the price!
In order to retrieve her soul blood, she promised the Demon Sect to go to the deepest part of the battlefield. She was going to explore the depths of the battlefield to see if there was a passage to the Outer Realm in the world filled with fierce beasts!
If there really was a passage to the Outer Realm, how could she return safely? Even if it wasn't connected to the Outer Realm, there were powerful fierce beasts in the depths of the battlefield. She would without a doubt die!
Not to mention that her vitality had been destroyed and her cultivation had been greatly damaged. She had overdrawn her life force, so how could she survive?
The Demon Sect wanted her to die on the battlefield to serve as a warning to others!
"In order to retrieve her soul blood, she has already gone into the depths of the battlefield. The people of the Demon Sect won't let her return, so she could only ask me to bring her soul blood back. You know all of this now!
She didn't let me tell you, but since you asked, why shouldn't I tell you? Why shouldn't I tell you? I want you to know all of this! "The old woman sneered. Her words were like awls that deeply pierced into Wang Lin's heart.
Wang Lin's body trembled. Originally, it would take some time for the stone skin to shatter, but when he heard all of this, cracks spread violently. Then with a thunderous rumble, it completely collapsed!
The stone skin was connected to Wang Lin's flesh and blood. Now that it collapsed, Wang Lin was covered in blood, but how could he care about any of this?
The stone statue he had turned into was connected to the wild continent. The moment it collapsed, the entire continent trembled and unexpectedly collapsed!
Thunderous rumbles echoed out as the entire continent collapsed. Huge gullies appeared in the land, and the Wildlands were torn apart!
The moment the continent collapsed, Wang Lin charged out!
An incredibly powerful cultivation base aura exploded out from his body, a cultivation base so powerful that it could shake Heaven and Earth!
After he appeared, Wang Lin looked at the stars and stepped forward. His right hand reached out and grabbed the old woman.
"Lead the way!
I want to go to the Demon Sect's battlefield! "
Wang Lin's voice was calm, but it gave off a majesty that couldn't be refused. Even peak Nirvana Shatterer cultivators couldn't refuse!
They didn't dare to refuse!
"You …" The old woman's origin soul trembled when Wang Lin's cultivation aura erupted. She couldn't even use any spells or dodge, so she was instantly caught by Wang Lin.
"I'll go save her!"
13,000 words erupted in four chapters. This eruption was much more tiring than usual. He had erupted too many times this month, so his body couldn't bear it anymore. His brain was about to be squeezed dry. These 13,000 words were forced out by him using five bottles of stimulant drinks and three packs of cigarettes.
"Fellow cultivators, I've done my best, I've risked my life for 10,000 votes!!!