Walking by the Abyss on Thin Ice

Dongling.

Su Yun quietly breathed, only to see the anomalies in the palace in the tomb, seventy-two heavenly realms floating in the air, constantly changing, with various divine and demonic forms imprinted on the inner walls of the heavenly realms, and the spiritual energy surging out of the heavenly realms also changed accordingly.

And below the heavenly realms, there is a deep abyss, unfathomable, with a Li Zhu brewing in the deepest part of the abyss.

That Li Zhu is formed by the fusion of Su Yun's spiritual energy and true essence. At this moment, the Li Zhu is being held in the mouth of a huge Candling Dragon, and the Candling Dragon is coiled on a yellow bell.

Behind the anomaly of the Candling Dragon holding the pearl and coiling around the yellow bell is the universe and the starry sky. The real Candling Dragon is coiled around the Zhongshan Mountain, holding a core-like galaxy in its mouth.

Su Yun had returned to Tian Shi Yuan for five days. When he came, he was extremely weak, his physical body was exhausted, and he could hardly wake up. The ghosts and gods who set up stalls in the Tianmen Ghost Market sent him down, and the Eastern Master took him to Dongling for recuperation.

In these few days, his body gradually recovered, breathing and absorbing the heavenly and earthly spiritual energy for cultivation. Since he saw the scene of the Candling Dragon holding the pearl, he has been constantly contemplating and cultivating his spiritual energy and true essence to condense the Li Zhu hidden in the mouth of the Candling Dragon.

He immediately felt that his cultivation was continuously improving, and the speed of his physical recovery was also getting faster and faster.

When he gradually dissipated the heavenly and earthly spiritual energy, the Eastern Master's carriage happened to return from touring the Tian Shi Yuan. Su Yun went up to greet him, only to see Ying Ying flying down from the back of a dragon.

The little book monster was still excited. She followed the Great Emperor to tour the world, truly majestic. Of course, this was only borrowing the prestige of the Eastern Master.

Even so, Ying Ying was satisfied.

On the other side, Senior Brother Shi Zhenbei, who was mute, led many little building people to repair Dongling. Although Dongling was an imperial tomb, it had long been neglected. Shi Zhenbei was after all a senior disciple of the Lou Ban, so repairing Dongling was not troublesome for him.

They did not die under the Beimian Great Wall.

The so-called despair refers to their situation at that time.

They were completely hopeless, in despair, their bodies assimilated with the ashes of the disaster, turning into two stone sculptures of the disaster. But Su Yun did not give up on them, and still struggled to pull them out of the Beimian Great Wall and the Tianmen Ghost Market.

If their spiritual energy and physical bodies assimilated, then there would be no hope for them. Fortunately, Su Yun never gave up and left them with the last hope.

In the end, Su Yun awakened their spiritual energy, and they each recovered. Even the petrified little building people also recovered.

Among them, Su Yun suffered the most damage. Su Yun traveled a long distance, and later on, without food and water, he almost exhausted his origin and moved forward.

When the Eastern Master saw him, he almost thought he wouldn't survive, but he didn't expect that after Su Yun sensed the heavenly and earthly spiritual energy, he absorbed the rapidly flowing heavenly and earthly spiritual energy, allowing his dried up spiritual energy to quickly recover.

His spiritual energy and physical body cultivated together, allowing his spiritual energy to recover rapidly, and his physical body to recover rapidly as well, which made the Eastern Master amazed.

Especially this time, Su Yun experienced life and death trials, and cultivated to the realm of Beginning Movement, and even comprehended the method of the Candling Dragon holding the pearl, strengthening the Li Zhu!

As dawn approached, Su Yun bid farewell to the Eastern Master. The Eastern Master tried to keep him and said, "I have guarded this place for two thousand five hundred years, and my golden body is complete. In two days, it will be the day when my golden body is complete. After I become a divine being, I will leave this place. Why don't you stay and send me off?"

Su Yun was stunned for a moment, and bowed, "Dare I not obey?"

The Eastern Master smiled and said, "My realm is not as high as Brother Cen's. They can let go of everything and ascend with their spiritual energy, but I can't let go, so I can only rely on my golden body to achieve the divine path. After two thousand five hundred years of cultivation, I am finally about to complete my merit. The divine path of the golden body is not the orthodox path. You don't have to follow my path."

Su Yun agreed, so he stayed in Tian Shi Yuan.

"The divine path of the Eastern Master is to absorb the thoughts of all living beings with the golden body and live in the form of the golden body. When the golden body is complete, he will become a divine being, and the golden body will transform into a flesh and blood body."

Ying Ying had been observing and recording the Eastern Master's path of the golden body these days, and said to Su Yun, "When he becomes a divine being, there will be his Dongling spiritual energy in the world. At that time, he will be able to live forever."

Su Yun didn't understand this. There were many spiritual beings in Tian Shi Yuan who followed the path of the golden body, such as the Divine Emperor Wen Chang, who was enshrined in the Wen Chang Study Palace. He also planned to become a divine being with the golden body, but unfortunately, the golden body was destroyed, and his efforts were in vain.

In history, Su Yun had never heard of anyone becoming a divine being or demonic being through this method. The Eastern Master might be the first.

"But this is not the immortality of immortals. Divine beings and demonic beings have a limit to their lifespan."

Su Yun realized and said, "Did the Winged Dragon, Kylin, Taowu, and other divine and demonic beings become divine and demonic beings through similar methods, or were they born from the heavenly and earthly spiritual energy?"

Ying Ying shook her head and said, "I don't know about that. But I speculate that if there is their heavenly and earthly spiritual energy in the world, they will survive. However, their lifespan also has an end. When their lifespan comes to an end, their heavenly and earthly spiritual energy will turn into disaster ashes."Su Yun's body trembled slightly, as if he had grasped something, and stood there in a daze, unable to speak for a long time.

After a moment, Su Yun muttered in his dream, "The heaven and earth aura of the previous world turned into calamity ashes and ignited calamity fire, burying that world. This scene is so similar to the end of the lifespan of the gods and demons... Ying Ying, what if a world also has a lifespan?"

Ying Ying widened her eyes and asked, "What do you mean?"

Su Yun paced back and forth and suddenly looked up, saying, "Our world also has a lifespan. When the lifespan reaches its end, the heaven and earth aura will turn into calamity ashes and ignite calamity fire, giving birth to new aura from the Fu Bai's aura! When the lifespan of the new world reaches its end, the aura will once again turn into calamity ashes and give birth to the next world!"

Ying Ying laughed and said, "Su Scholar, I think you're overthinking. How could the world be the same as the gods and demons? Look, we are under the Beimian Great Wall, and we see worlds covered by calamity ashes, but they did not give birth to new aura from the Fu Bai. They have forever fallen under the Fu Bai."

Su Yun snorted, this girl was better off not saying anything.

However, it was indeed strange that those worlds under the Beimian Great Wall constantly turned their aura into calamity ashes, always in a state of decay, and did not give birth to new aura like the world they were in.

"Why can't these worlds be reborn?" Su Yun was puzzled.

Ying Ying said, "The God Emperor of the Western Heavenly Court, his method is somewhat similar to the Golden Body Ascension. He cultivates the Golden Body by borrowing faith. Could it be that he also wants to become a god?"

Su Yun shook his head and said, "I think becoming a god is not his goal. His goal should be to become an immortal who transcends eternal life."

He speculated, "The God Emperor is different from the Eastern Master. The God Emperor did not die, so he does not need to cast a Golden Body. The sacrifices of the Western people will increase the power of his physical body, allowing it to continuously improve and reach the level of gods and demons." 𝚋𝚎ｄ𝚗ｏｖ𝚎𝚕．ｃｏ𝚖

"And in the method he learned from the civilization of the calamity ashes, there is probably a method of cultivating the spirit through sacrifices. His physical body and spirit are advancing together. This is another method of cultivating both spirit and body, a unified cultivation method."

Su Yun's eyes flickered as he continued to speculate, "The God Emperor's unified cultivation method has reached a high level, but whether it can resist the Immortal Sword is still unknown. He also needs a war that sweeps across overseas countries and even Yuan Shuo, to promote the Western Heavenly Court to everyone and make his own strength stronger!"

"So, the God Emperor should also have a share in killing Yue Liuxi."

"The true culprits who killed Yue Liuxi are Luo Yujin, Jiang Zushi, the God Emperor, Yu Daoyuan, and the Little Holy Emperor."

Su Yun said lightly, "As for Shentu Feilian and Yu Yi, they were just the ones who wielded the knife."

Ying Ying said, "Now that Yue Liuxi is dead, should Da Qin launch a war? Who will they blame for Yue Liuxi's death?"

She said this while looking at Su Yun's forehead.

Su Yun touched his forehead.

Ying Ying blinked and said, "Blame it on the Eastern Master of Yuan Shuo. By framing Yuan Shuo, the Western countries will have the same reason to go to war with Yuan Shuo. It should be easy to divide Yuan Shuo!"

Su Yun snorted and did not refute.

Ying Ying continued, "Moreover, the Western countries can continue to frame Yuan Shuo, saying that the people of Yuan Shuo spread the calamity ashes disease. They only need the God Emperor to send dreams to the people, and the people will undoubtedly believe it."

Su Yun continued to snort coldly and said indifferently, "Before they take action, I will go to the capital of Da Qin and compete with the Little Holy Emperor!"

They stayed in Tian Shi Yuan for several days and finally witnessed the Eastern Master's Golden Body perfection. In the Eastern Master's realm, golden light converged and merged into his body.

All the gods and demons in Tian Shi Yuan came to witness this rare event of the Golden Body Ascension.

Various anomalies appeared in the sky, various sacred illusions emerged, and various treasures appeared in the void, dazzling the eyes.

The heaven and earth aura surged from the void and flowed into the Eastern Master's body. Su Yun even saw that the Eastern Master seemed to have turned into a kind of imprint, a kind of rune, compatible with the heaven and earth aura!

This was the path to becoming a god. After five thousand years, someone had finally achieved it!

"But this is not true eternal life."

Su Yun and the other gods and demons congratulated the Eastern Master, silently thinking, "The true Eastern Master has long been dead. The one who has become a god now is only his spirit, his spiritual imprint. This is false eternal life, so there will be a day when the heaven and earth aura turns into calamity ashes and declines. What is true eternal life?"

The gods and demons of Tian Shi Yuan prepared the imperial carriage, with Long Xiang and Fei Feng as the carriage, ready to carry the emperor on a distant journey.

The Eastern Master invited Su Yun and others to board the imperial carriage with him. Before heading to the Beimian Great Wall, he wanted to tour the four seas and make a final visit to Yuan Shuo.

On the imperial carriage, Su Yun saw the beautiful rivers and mountains of Yuan Shuo. The Eastern Master took them through the mountains and rivers of the fifty-six provinces and three hundred and sixty counties, passing through the mountains, and traversing the countless treasures of Yuan Shuo, passing through the mist emitted by the aura of the treasures, dazzling their eyes.They sailed across the vast, eastward-flowing rivers, witnessing fish and dragons dancing in the water. They flew over the lake surface, and sailed across the North Sea.

In the morning, the imperial carriage traveled around the Western and Eastern Capitals. By evening, it had traversed hundreds of thousands of miles to reach Lingnan, where Su Yun and the factory supervisor of the Robbery Ash Factory, Qiu Shuijing, were having a tea conversation. By midnight, they had arrived at the East Sea.

At dawn the next day, the imperial carriage of the Eastern Master stopped at the dock of the Great Qin. Long Xiang escorted Su Yun, Shi Zhenbei, and others off the carriage.

The Eastern Master waved at him from the carriage, "I am going to the Northern Crown Great Wall, following the traces of the old saints. If I can cross the Great Wall, there might be a chance for us to meet again in the future!"

Su Yun bowed deeply. When he raised his head, the imperial carriage and the Eastern Master had already disappeared.

"Master Su, where are we going now?" Ying Ying asked.

"To Yun Du, the Imperial City."

Su Yun's clothes fluttered in the wind, his gaze fixed on the lofty Yun Du, "The dispute over the Pavilion Master should have been settled!"

———The web conference will not end until tomorrow, so I guess the update will not be on time tomorrow~