Chapter 2084: That woman, Dongmei
The emperor was unwilling to leave, but he had no choice. As his figure gradually faded and slowly disappeared, only five people, including Xuan Luo, were left beside the sea wall storm.
“You should leave too. Even I need to use all my strength to deal with the sound of this last day. Even if you stay, you will not be able to enter the ancient realm of the gods this time…
I only realized this a few days ago,” said the ancient Dao as he looked at the sea wall storm.
Xuan Luo and the other two were silent, bowing to Gu Dao. After seeing the three of Jiudi leave helplessly, they already knew that they could not participate in this opening.
Just as they were about to leave, Wang Lin got up and walked towards Xuan Luo.
“Master.”
Xuan Luo looked up and smiled at Wang Lin.
“Master is about to be reincarnated. If I can safely come out of the ancient realm this time, I will protect Master’s reincarnation… If I don’t come out, with this thing, I can also keep Master safe.” Wang Lin looked at Xuan Luo, raised his right hand and grabbed the void, and immediately a jade tablet appeared, which he respectfully handed to Xuan Luo.
Xuan Luo took the jade tablet, but instead of checking it out immediately, he looked at Wang Lin. After a long time, he spoke softly.
“Protect yourself…”
Wang Lin nodded.
Xuan Luo closed his eyes and when he opened them again, he turned and, together with Song Tianhe and the Ancient Daoist, turned into three long, red streaks and disappeared in a flash.
At this moment, outside the sea wall, only Wang Lin and the ancient Taoist existed silently.
Time passed slowly, and before long it was dusk. Only half an hour had passed since the storm began, and the roar of the storm had reached its peak. The swirling vortex of nothingness spun rapidly, and at first glance it seemed to be motionless, as if it were not spinning at all.
But the more so, the more it shows that the speed is so fast that it has reached an amazing level.
As the whirlpool rotated, the sea outside the sea wall seemed to be sucked into the whirlpool, leaving the sea wall at a tremendous speed and heading straight for the whirlpool.
The whirlpool is like a black hole that swallows everything, constantly sucking in large amounts of seawater, causing the scope and size of the sea wall to rapidly decrease.
“When all the seawater here is sucked up, it will be the time when the ancient realm of the gods opens…” Gu Dao looked at the sea wall storm and slowly opened his mouth. His voice was still clearly heard in the roar.
“I entered this ancient realm of the gods to resurrect my wife. What are you doing here?” Wang Lin looked at the whirlpool rapidly devouring the sea water. It wouldn’t be long before the sea wall storm would completely disappear. He said slowly,
“…for an answer!” Gu Dao turned his head and looked at Wang Lin.
“After I inherited the memory of the ancient ancestor, I hesitated in his memory. I went to help him confirm this hesitant guess. I have been waiting for this day for a long time. Your arrival is the opportunity for me to find this answer!”
“The answer…” Wang Lin muttered.
“If I find this answer, perhaps I can leave the land of the ancient tribe and go anywhere I want.” Gu Dao’s eyes flashed with a hint of complexity.
“You have the head of the Immortal Ancestor there. You should have seen that the Immortal Ancestor was at peace before he died, without suffering… The Ancestor has also died…
I can feel his death in his memories. With hesitation, disbelief, and a choice, he walked towards death.
Both of them, at the cost of their lives, were seeking an answer, and at the same time, they left a legacy for the Xian and the Gu clans. Perhaps it was protection,” Gu Dao muttered.
The roaring continued, and the whirlpool continued to devour. The sea wall storm was now less than half the size, and a large amount of seawater had disappeared into the whirlpool, never to be seen again.
It won’t be long before all the water disappears.
“The Ancestors of the Ancient and the Immortals discovered a secret that they could not believe. They hesitated and doubted, and in the end, in pursuit of the truth, they walked towards death…
Now, I also want to find the answer.” Gu Dao withdrew his gaze from Wang Lin and looked at the rapidly shrinking sea wall storm, opening his mouth hoarsely.
Wang Lin was silent.
Half an hour passed, and all the water in the sea wall storm was completely swallowed up by the whirlpool. The roar of the storm continued to reverberate, and in front of Wang Lin and Gu Dao, the nine huge pillars that surrounded the sea wall were gone, emitting a glaring nine-colored light. The gate to the ancient realm of the gods, which was made up of these pillars, slowly opened!
At the moment it opened, a ripple spread outward from the gate, spreading at an unimaginable speed, sweeping across the vast basin in an instant, toward the ancient land and toward the land of the immortals.
As the ripples swept across the vast basin, the wind here stopped, and the three long, bright streaks of light in the sky that were the Songtian and the others stopped in the sky, motionless.
On the ground, on the continent of the ancient race, whether mortal or immortal, all living things, when the ripples swept past, remained in the same position as they had been in that instant, completely still.
Fire, rivers, and everything else also stopped moving at this moment.
In the ancient land, there was an area where rain was falling, but at the moment, the rain was also motionless in the air.
The same was true on the Celestial Realm, where the three Immortals, the twins, the Celestial Emperor, countless immortals and mortals, and countless celestial beasts were all motionless.
The five elements of heaven and earth, the operation of all rules and laws, everything, all of it, was completely frozen in this instant.
The entire Xiangang continent was silent at that moment.
Only in the center of this vast basin, the gate made up of nine pillars slowly opened, and after a moment, it was completely open. The nine colors of light surrounded it, faintly revealing a passage that led to an unknown place.
“This time, the opening is indeed very different from the past…” Gu Dao muttered, the power contained in the ripples could still everything that existed in the realm of the sky.
Gu Dao’s eyes flashed, and without the slightest hesitation, before Wang Lin, his body swayed and he headed straight for the nine-colored light that had opened the gate, gradually disappearing inside it and disappearing without a trace.
At this moment, outside the gate, there was only Wang Lin left. He closed his eyes and when he opened them again, he walked towards the gate, step by step, and stepped inside.
After Wang Lin walked into the entrance to the ancient realm, everything that had been frozen on the Xiangang continent suddenly came back to life. The strange thing was that almost no one could detect the momentary stillness.
The cultivators couldn’t do it, the ancient clan couldn’t do it, and even the great immortals didn’t realize that they had lost about ten breaths of time.
This ten-breath period of time was lost from the world, from the five elements, from every mortal, from every cultivator and ancient clan member, and from the eight Great Celestial Emperors.
It seemed to have been sucked away by a strange force, which took away the ten breaths of existence of all things on the Xiangang Continent and disappeared into the gate of the ancient realm of the gods.
When the entire Xiangang Continent recovered, the nine pillars in the vast basin immediately dispersed, and after erupting with a light that covered the heavens and the earth, they disappeared without a trace.
With the disappearance of the nine pillars, the gate to the ancient realm of the gods also disappeared naturally.
When the central gate of the vast basin disappeared, the only remaining huge vortex emitted the roar of the sea, and an endless amount of water poured out of the vortex and poured down into the vast basin.
The sound of the falling sea roared and reverberated. After a few hours, the boundless basin once again became the sea, which was still seemingly endless. The sound of the waves crashing and roaring dissipated, replaced by the sound of the waves of the sea returning to normal.
Everything returned to normal, as it did on the Xian race’s land and the Gu race’s land. All the previous stillness returned, including the two figures in an elegant courtyard house in the Black Rock City of the Primordial Ancient lineage.
The house was not large, and the furnishings were simple, but there was a sense of warmth. An old woman lay on the bed, her face full of wrinkles, but one could still see the beauty of her youth.
Next to the old woman was a woman wearing white clothes. You couldn’t see her face, but you could see her long hair hanging down. Her back was beautiful, but in that beauty, there was a wisp of sadness that made people feel pity.
It’s like the fish in the water, you can’t see the tears, but when she looks at you under the water, maybe you scoop out a palmful of water and lick it on your lips, you can feel the taste of the tears.
“Dongmei… I’m going to accompany Aunt Chang… Don’t cry… After I leave, you’ll be all alone… You’re different from me. I’m just an ordinary member of the clan, with a limited lifespan… But you have the ancient meridian, and you can practice… You… take good care of yourself.” The old woman looked reluctant, and spoke softly.
She is Song Zhi…
Song Zhi was after all just an ordinary member of the ancient clan, and her 500 years of life span was already her limit.
“I know that there is a story in you… I have seen you many times, alone, with tears in your eyes, staring at the sky… I even remember when I told you about the scenes in the ancient capital of Yudao, about the man named Wang Lin, and his story with Li Muwan, and how you would smile weakly.
Dongmei… promise me that if you can’t forget, don’t force yourself to suffer.” The old woman looked at the woman who had grown up with her and muttered.
She would never forget the look of shock and sadness on Dongmei’s face when she first mentioned the name Wang Lin.
She also remembered that five hundred years ago, on the way back, Wang Lin not only told her the story of Li Muwan, but also told her about a woman named Li Qianmei.
“Reincarnated people… Dongmei, is Li Qianmei the same person…” The old woman did not say this sentence, but looked at the beautiful woman in front of her and slowly closed her eyes.