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'If I still perished even with a system at my disposal, wouldn't I be far too useless?'
'Never mind, even if my future is destined to end, it will be a thousand years, or even tens of thousands of years from now.'
At this point, Zhou Xuan raised his hand and gently pinched the cheek of the chubby little girl in the current timeline, then gently stroked her soft hair, thinking to himself:
'Having lived so many years, it's all been worth it no matter how you look at it!'
Just as Zhou Xuan, atop the Ninety-Nine Dragons Mountain, gently stroked the little girl's soft hair...
In the Great Wilderness Stone Village, Zhou Xuan, who was sitting cross-legged beneath the charred trunk of the Willow God, also sensed the vast river of time and space surging and turbulent, rushing toward him.
"Qiang!!!"
However, just when Ishimura Shugen thought that his life was over.
Amidst the turbulent flow of time and space, a sword's cry suddenly resounded.
As the sword's cry resounded, a golden light, dreamlike and ethereal, resembling Buddhist light yet far more vast and pure, surged forth.
Following closely behind was a willow shadow, which surged fiercely from an even earlier timeline...
With the combined efforts of several powerful Immortal Kings, the turbulent river of time and space returned to calm once more.
"Swish swish swish!!!"
Just as Zhou Xuan, who had narrowly escaped death, raised his hand to wipe away non-existent sweat from his forehead...
The rustling of leaves in the wind reached Zhou Xuan's ears.
The people of Shicun have always revered the Willow God, so there is not a single tree within a kilometer radius of the Willow God's charred trunk.
There were no trees, yet the sound of wind rustling through the leaves could be heard, which meant that the Willow Goddess had awakened?
Thinking of this, Zhou Xuan looked up.
Just then, I caught a glimpse of the Willow God, which, after years of transformation, had sprouted a third willow branch from its charred trunk. It had seemed as if time had stood still, with the three green willow branches remaining motionless despite the wind and rain. Now, they were swaying in the wind.
Clearly, the Willow Goddess has awakened from her slumber.
As Zhou Xuan looked up, a gentle divine thought also sounded in his ear:
“I saw that, countless years ago, I intervened to quell the disturbances in the river of time.”
"Although it has not been fully restored, most of the memories are still sealed."
"But my memories that I just recovered tell me that I felt something was wrong at the time and acted in vain."
"The reason for this is actually the anomaly in the river of time and space caused by you, young friend."
"From my observation, young friend, neither your divine sense nor your cultivation techniques have reached the realm of immortality, yet you have caused an anomaly in the river of time and space that only an immortal king could trigger."
"Young friend, your future is limitless!"
Upon hearing this, Zhou Xuan rose, bowed deeply to the Willow Goddess, and spoke:
Zhou Xuan thanked the Willow Goddess for her help.
Being able to make a move on the upper reaches of the river in time and space, and casually comment on the Immortal King, it's clear that this Willow God, who is rooted in the Great Wilderness Stone Village, is definitely not simple.
No matter the time, combat strength is king.
It is not shameful to bow to someone who is stronger than you and who has protected you.
“My young friend gave me the Taoist scriptures as a cause, and I support my Taoist friend as a result.”
Just as Zhou Xuan bowed, the willow god, its trunk charred black, spoke through the swaying willow branches:
"The arising and ceasing of causes and conditions, the blooming and withering of flowers, the way of cause and effect is just like this."
"I see that you are not whole, young friend."
"It must have been by chance that a part of itself was separated and arrived in the present era."
"Two bodies coexist, each occupying one end of the river of time and space."
"Such an experience is invaluable. If one can extract its essence and comprehend the principle that while time and space may change, my body remains still, and as the years pass, my spirit will never perish."
At this point, the willow god's note fell slightly, gently touching Zhou Xuan's brow:
"Then the foundation for becoming an Immortal King can be laid."
"If you, young friend, encounter the right opportunity to break free from the shackles of humanity in both bodies, and then unite your two bodies, you may be able to directly attain the Dao of the Immortal King."
Oh, Celestial King!
That is true immortality, an indestructible physical body, and an undying spirit.
It is a being that is difficult to kill unless it is attacked by multiple Immortal Kings of the same level and attacked by special methods.
Furthermore, the "Dream Enlightenment" method, which describes the Immortal level of the Monk Immortal King, records that when the Monk Immortal King was in the Immortal stage, he could simply call out the Immortal King's true name and have it perceived and manifested as countless strange phenomena.
It can even step onto the river of time and travel through the past and future...
And now, Willow God, who has taken root in the Great Wilderness Stone Village and whose withered tree has come back to life, is telling me that I have the potential to become a Celestial King?!
Hearing this, Zhou Xuan looked up at the system panel that only he could see and thought to himself:
'Why am I suddenly getting excited about the Celestial King?'
'You must understand that my initial goal was to become a supreme being, a Celestial Emperor who could be instantly resurrected even from the dead with a mere thought!'
Shaking his head to clear his mind of distractions, Zhou Xuan looked up at the swaying willow branches and spoke:
"Liu Shen, how are your injuries?"
"Do we need to draw inferences from other scriptures?"
"no need."
As soon as Zhou Xuan finished speaking, the divine thought of the Willow Goddess rang in his ears again:
"At this point, I can only rely on myself to heal my injuries."
"I observe that you have already broken through the limits of the Blood Transformation Realm."
Seeing that Zhou Xuan cared about her, Liu Shen, with her willow branches swaying, transmitted her voice:
“There was once someone like you who created an incarnation and began his cultivation from the very basics.”
"Based on my own experience, I plan to cultivate my clones step by step to the same level, and then merge them with my main body in order to break through the shackles of immortality and become an immortal king."
"But he failed."
"Crash!"
As they spoke, the three emerald green branches of the willow tree swayed gently.
In an instant, a powerful and boundless aura of a supreme expert at the pinnacle of the human realm was formed.
Judging from the aura alone, the aura of this expert at the pinnacle of the human realm is even more powerful than that of the immortals in the strange world.
However, just as he broke through to the pinnacle of humanity and attained the status of a true immortal, he was punished by the heavens. A swift and powerful strike from the heavens instantly annihilated him.
"Heaven and earth are fair. Since you are retracing your cultivation path with your memories, the shackles that heaven and earth place on you will be far greater than those on others."
Just as Zhou Xuan was gazing at the painting, Liu Shen's voice rang in his ears:
"Therefore, if the difficulty for an ordinary person to become an immortal is 1, then the difficulty for a person who is re-cultivating is 10."
"Therefore, if you wish to unite your two bodies and attempt to become a Celestial King..."
"It requires more than ten times the effort of an ordinary person."
"If an ordinary person breaks through one limit, you need to break through many more."
"Only in this way can we deal with this divine punishment."
Upon hearing Liu Shen's voice, Zhou Xuan's lips twitched violently.
Fortunately, Liu Shen woke up; otherwise, he really would have been trapped after breaking through the physical strength limit with the "Divine Elephant Suppressing Prison Force".
He then began to mobilize his qi and blood to break through to the second level of cultivation in the current era: the Cave Heaven Realm.
"Thank you for the reminder, Goddess Liu."
After the Willow Goddess's voice transmission ended, Zhou Xuan bowed to her again and spoke:
"Then continue to hone your strength until you can make no further progress."
"Ruzi can be taught."
Upon hearing Zhou Xuan's voice, the willow branch swayed slightly as it transmitted its message:
"If this clone of yours can truly break through the limits of previous realms one after another, while breaking through the limits of previous realms in every realm."
"I'm afraid that after you merge your two bodies and become an Immortal King, your path will go much further than ours."
At this point, the willow spirit lowered the emerald green paper strip again, placing it on Zhou Xuan's brow and transmitting a voice:
"This is my method; I hope it can lend you a hand."
"Boom!!!"
The words fell.
The emerald green branch that touched Zhou Xuan's brow
It then emitted a lustrous emerald green light, and the emerald green light surged at the same time.
In Zhou Xuan's mind, a scene also appeared: a towering willow tree, revered by all the worlds as an ancestral spirit.
The scene then shifts to the great willow tree, revered as an ancestral spirit by all the myriad realms and races of the world, rising straight up into the sky. It is depicted as a scene of fierce battles and clashes between the tree and terrifying enemies, whose power is enough to stir up the long river of time.
Clearly, the method that Liu Shen taught Zhou Xuan was not a cultivation method that Liu Shen had refined from her own cultivation essentials.
Instead, he poured all the scenes of his battles and the techniques he used into Zhou Xuan's mind in the most direct and primal form.
The benefit of the Willow Goddess's transmission of the technique was that it allowed Zhou Xuan to comprehend the techniques she used through his own combat experience.
This means that what the Willow Goddess transmitted was not the law, but the Tao!
Sensing the incomparably precious images in his mind, Zhou Xuan, who was completely immersed in them, slightly twitched his divine sense and forcibly pulled himself out of the images to bow to Liu Shen and speak:
"This humble one, Zhou Xuan, thanks the Willow God for bestowing upon me the path of cultivation."
"It's just an old way of doing things, nothing to brag about."
Hearing Zhou Xuan's voice, Liu Shen, her willow branches swaying slightly, spoke: