The sea may collapse, but its waters can yet exist. I gave you ample time to fuse, but you still haven’t achieved it. Because if you had, my memories and experiences would not be just a movie in your life.
Thus, now, you have two paths you can take.
First, let the stream flow into the sea, the dust merge with the Earth. Since you cannot fuse with me, let me fuse with you.
Second, use the Lotus Seed Soul Cleansing, let this heaven and earth condense into a Sword Spirit Void, gather all with the Undying Rebirth Technique. After Nirvana, reform and challenge the Realm of the Sword Spirit Three Heavens again."
"Master, I choose the first one."
Zhou Yan didn’t hesitate and chose the first option.
The Master didn’t say it, but Zhou Yan knew that the first option could be an ending of utter annihilation. The stream will seem mighty as it enters the sea, but it will no longer be a stream, it will no longer possess a self.
And the second option, to recondense the Sword Spirit, to condense the Void, would still be under the shackles of the Heavenly Dao, living like an insignificant ant.
Originally, the second option was the best choice on the Path of Invincibility, to defy heaven and contend with fate.
But the Heavenly Dao is no joking matter, and fate is not mere decoration. Cultivators who seek to defy heaven all die.
Cultivators who fight against fate, even if they succeed, end very tragically, forsaken by all, not meeting a good end, ultimately, they still lose.
Those Cultivators who shout ’I will defy heaven,’ ’My life is determined by me, not by the heavens,’ are actually idiots, mentally impaired, mere ants under the Heavenly Dao, a mere variable can leave them with no place to be buried.
Heaven is not so easily defied!
Fate, too, will not give ants under it a chance to fight against it.
"You choose the first... Aren’t you afraid your teacher might seize your body?"
The elderly man’s gaze was unfathomably profound as he spoke softly.
"Master, your disciple understands, but is willing."
Zhou Yan calmed down, his tone very definite and solemn, accepting death as an inevitability.
"Why must you do this? Take the second road, though painful, you still have many opportunities." The old man sighed again, his speech becoming more and more strained.
Like a flickering candle in the wind, at any moment, it could be snuffed out.
"Master, please begin. If successful, help me... kill Zhou Yuntian, then inject the Ancestor Blood into my father’s body. Then, bury my and Feng Lingqing’s bodies together, and tell the Holy Daughter I won’t be able to marry her in this lifetime..."
As Zhou Yan spoke, he seemed to have made his definitive decision to die, his tears flowing uncontrollably.
True fusion requires one to die.
Actually, no matter which option, Zhou Yan knew that his chances of dying were over ninety-nine percent. The second option might indeed offer a greater hope for survival, but his Master would surely be reduced to ashes and smoke.
In his life, Zhou Yan knew the one who had treated him the best was his Master, even if the time they spent together was not long, he could feel that the Master was always protecting him.
Now, to die for his Master, and since he was already destined to die, what difference did it make?
This way, he would no longer disappoint his Master.
"Alas... Yan’er, prepare yourself. I can only follow your will to make a choice, but I cannot choose for you. Therefore, your will must be firm."
The old man sighed again, his voice growing weaker.
Zhou Yan nodded firmly and then closed his eyes.
At that moment, Zhou Yan didn’t notice that the old man’s eyes held unexplained tears.
But now, he held back his tears and within this space, he imprinted a few soulful characters, as if leaving his last will.
"Yan’er, when you see these, your teacher will have vanished forever...
Do not be sad; in truth, your Master already perished long ago. This residual soul remained only to ensure that the Primordial Magnetic Pole Light I left for you would not be stolen by enemies... What I said earlier was only to deceive you.
Only this way, will you be willing for your teacher to give his all for you.
In reality, your teacher is a very cowardly person, unwilling to face those pains, so that’s why...
When you awaken, you’ll presumably... have condensed a new form of Sword Spirit, the essence of my Natural Dao’s heart condensed into a Sword Spirit, unbreakable and not belonging to this world. The Heavenly Dao of this world can’t trouble you!
Your Sword Spirit will be invincible, condensing Sword Soul, you have more than a fifty percent chance.
But do not underestimate the power of the Heavenly Dao and fate...
Your teacher had an unfulfilled wish and thus cannot rest in peace. I calculated carefully, the passage of time in this world, the different Time Rules, might allow for a possibility to return to Earth to make up for regrets, but your teacher dared not go, afraid to witness a scene of despair...
But now, about to completely perish, it doesn’t matter anymore.
When you reach the realm of Void Nine, you can enter a Channel, heading to the Earth and see a woman named Lin Yuxi.
Her Soul has a slight imperfection which makes her easily recognizable.
Considering the time developed in that world since I left, it might not exceed twenty years, or even shorter. Find her, see if she is doing well, if any physical ailments remained. See if her child is still... alive, and if alive, is she all right?
I’ve left you ten Fist Intents, capable of shattering the Void, but with severe repercussions, I hope you use them with caution.
Lastly, do not be sorrowful and upset anymore, Life and Death are predestined, you must swiftly grow strong, the Nine Origin Reincarnation is about to begin, and with your teacher’s Life Energy, you will be targeted by the powerful as if you were me, putting you in greater danger.
After inscribing these soulful characters, the old man used a special Ancient Array to dissolve them, then trembling, he took out a black Lotус Seed with a purple halo and a Spiritual Soul Crystal that shimmered like teardrop.
Five thousand characters in this massive Chapter~ Equivalent to two Chapters~~