Chapter 433: 236, Tian Liuli Can't Bear It Anymore_2
Chapter 433: 236, Tian Liuli Can’t Bear It Anymore_2
Legend has it that long, long ago, the Immortal Realm was singular, referring neither to any specific day among the Nine Heavens nor to the Immortal Realm among the three realms of immortals, demons, and mortals.
It was the one and only realm of immortals.
For the immortals of the Nine Heavens, it was an exceedingly distant era, even more ancient than the era of the three realms of immortals, demons, and mortals.
It is said that within the Immortal Realm of that time, there also existed an Immortal Emperor.
He was the earliest of the Immortal Emperors and the only one recorded throughout ancient and modern times to have successfully passed the Tribulation of the Dao.
However, after he passed the Tribulation, he mysteriously disappeared.
Some say he ascended to a world above the Immortal Realm, others say he reached the ultimate end of cultivation, merging into one with the Heavenly Dao.
Still others claim he has always been present, never revealing himself, always stirring chaos from the shadows. Each of the current nine great Immortal Emperors has a deep connection with him.
The Remnant Soul of Immortals called him to mind not because of the fleeting glimpse of life before death, but rather because he remembered an event that had occurred in the fifth millennium after the formation of the Nine Heavens.
After the formation of the Nine Heavens, the situation in the Immortal Realm was highly complex. Perhaps there were gaps in strength among the various Immortal Emperors, but none were so large that any emperor could fight another to the death and still have the strength to face any other Immortal Emperor afterward.
Thus, no matter how complicated the situation in the Nine Heavens, a balance and a tacit agreement were always maintained.
That was, the Immortal Emperors do not engage in direct combat.
Until that day.
On that day, the hitherto faultless Wall of Heaven cracked after millions of years.
When the immortals of the Immortal Realm thought an external enemy had descended, causing great anxiety, a fragment of clothing fell from the cracked Wall of Heaven.
It was then that the Nine Heavens suddenly trembled.
With the exception of the Heavenly Master of the Pure Yang Harmony, who had never interacted with the outside,
the eight Immortal Emperors unexpectedly burst into fierce conflict over that fragment of clothing.
That battle raged until the heavens were about to collapse, the sun and moon lamented, and the Dao was obliterated.
The Immortal Realm was thus plunged into an unprecedented battle of the Nine Heavens.
At the end of that great battle, it was unclear who won or lost. But the outcome was that three of the eight Immortal Emperors fell into eternal slumber, the Triple Heaven closed. The other five Immortal Emperors, although they did not seal the heavens completely, secluded themselves and withdrew from worldly affairs.
It’s said that the fragment of clothing was divided into five parts, of which the piece acquired by the Splendid Immortal Emperor of the Jade Emperor Liuli Heaven was the largest.
What came afterwards, everyone in the Immortal Realm knew. The Splendid Immortal Emperor, who seemed to be the biggest winner of that disaster, soon faced the Tribulation of the Dao and perished.
Some said it was an ominous otherworldly entity, which bewildered the Immortal Emperors, prompting them to engage in battle; others accused it of being the remaining clothing of that first Immortal Emperor who had overcome the Tribulation, carrying the secret of overcoming the Tribulation, thus drawing the Immortal Emperors like moths to a flame. And so, soon after acquiring that fragment of clothing, the Splendid Immortal Emperor faced the Tribulation and met his spectacular end.
Others claimed it was something deliberately released by the Heavenly Dao, aiming to incite the Immortal Emperors to destroy each other to protect its own existence.
There were even rumors that an Immortal Official of Liuli Heaven once said that on the day before challenging the Tribulation, the Splendid Immortal Empress sat drearily in her own chamber, tearfully gazing at that piece of clothing.
But this rumor was quickly clarified in person by the other Immortal Officials of Liuli Heaven.
The Splendid Immortal Emperor of the Jade Emperor Liuli Heaven had, since the era of the Three Realms, severed her emotional roots and after nearly annihilating the demons of both realms, became a spectacularly accomplished Immortal Emperor Supreme, the unmatched Stone Maiden, whose unparalleled beauty and cold-heartedness, imperious in grandeur, how could she ever shed tears?
Yet now, looking at the atmosphere in the room, how similar it was to the scene when they fought over that fragment of clothing.
In his heart, a daring thought emerged.
Perhaps, the person before him was not the successor to the Splendid Immortal Emperor he had imagined, but the Splendid Immortal Emperor herself!
The original Splendid Empress, in challenging the Tribulation, did not do so to truly become the Dao Ancestor, but rather to reincarnate here in the Mortal World.
In other words, this youth…
At that moment, his thoughts were extinguished, darkness surged like a tidal wave,
and he fell into eternal slumber.
Just as he fell asleep, Xu Yuan happened to wake up.
He had no memory of what had just happened.
All he remembered was that he had a bizarre dream in the haze.
The dream was vague, without beginning or end, unable to grasp the specifics, but he vaguely remembered a general idea.
In the dream, there was a woman who harbored resentment because she had taught several female disciples, leading to a quarrel after he found out something was off about her, prompting him to flee.
Angered, she did something, using the disciples as leverage to trick him into returning.
As for the cause and effect, he also didn’t remember much.
However, Xu Yuan faintly remembered that the woman’s name contained the word “heaven.”
‘Could it be Tian Liuli?’
Looking at the woman before him, with her cold and distant demeanor, he felt an inexplicable palpitation.
“You’re awake?”
Tian Liuli’s gaze shifted, falling on him, as her cold brows and eyes unconsciously softened,
“Hmm.”
Recalling the events that had occurred in the secret realm, Xu Yuan also felt somewhat awkward.
Unexpectedly, he had fallen into Lin Qingque’s trap.
But then again, after retrieving the Illusory Realm, it was natural that Lin Qingque’s strength was not much inferior to Tian Liuli.
Furthermore, to facilitate her ability to awaken her own memories in the secret realm, he had not been overly cautious with her, which led to this incident.
“It seems you already have known what happened,”
Tian Liuli’s voice was infinitely gentle and affable, yet Xu Yuan felt chills all over his body.
He had a bad premonition.
“I give you two choices, first, kill them,”
Tian Liuli reached out, catching a goose-yellow little flower that had drifted from somewhere, bowed her head, lightly sniffed it, and her lips slowly curled into a smile, “second, join them in opposing me.”
She appeared to be smiling, yet her eyes were utterly devoid of mirth.
“Liuli,”
His throat moved with difficulty, and he began to speak with a gravelly voice.
“You don’t want to make a move?”
Tian Liuli narrowed her eyes and said slowly, “They just did something to you, you know that, and even with this knowledge, you still don’t want to make a move?”
“…”
Xu Yuan responded in silence.
He indeed had intended to take action, but he had not planned to kill them as soon as he moved.
“Hmm.”
Tian Liuli chuckled lightly, her tone casual and frivolous, “It seems you really are as I thought, still holding on, unfortunately, I no longer plan to indulge you.”
Hearing her doting tone, Xu Yuan also laughed angrily.
“Liuli, I don’t think your past behavior was any different from theirs now.”
Tian Liuli slightly lifted her gaze, those crystal-clear, glass-like eyes sparkling.
“Is there a possibility that I and they could be considered on equal terms?”
“You and they are indeed comparable.”
He lifted his head and quietly watched her.
“…Good, very good.”
Her two jade fingers subtly shifted, and the delicate little flower pinched between them quivered into ash.
Tian Liuli exhaled a breath of clear air, suppressing the anger in her heart, yet her voice did not revert to being stern and cold. Instead, it remained gentle, carrying a semblance of understanding and indulgence, “Then let’s say that I wronged you in the past, for the first choice, I’ll change it for you. You don’t have to do it, I’ll do it, this should be acceptable, right?”
Watching the unusually accommodating Tian Liuli, who seemed uncharacteristic of herself today, Xu Yuan suddenly fell silent.
After a long time, he closed his eyes and spoke softly.
“This is not conceding.”
Yes, this was not conceding, but merely her own presumption.
Therefore, he would not concede either.
“…”
Tian Liuli didn’t speak, only quietly gazing at him.
After a lengthy silence, and a long look, until she was certain he would not retract his words, Tian Liuli finally made her move.
She smiled again.
This time, there was no trace of warmth in her smile.
“Very well, you forced me into this. Did you think the me from just earlier was the real me?”
The real her possessed none of the gentleness shown now, much more ruthless than the meek her who, despite predicting his response, still harbored the hope.
Next, let me show you the real, merciless me.
“I can spare them, on the condition that you can watch as I kill them.”
Her lips bloomed into a wanton, mad, and thoroughly cold and unfamiliar smile.
In Xu Yuan’s astonishment, she waved her sleeve, releasing the people inside.
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