"I hope you will keep your promise. I have left a trace of my consciousness inside. On the day you deliver the inheritance, I will tell you everything," Jiang Yun said.
His body was surrounded by sword Qi, and the small sword was seen floating in midair before it slowly came to a stop in front of Xu Zimei.
Xu Zimei took the small sword and put it into her Storage Ring.
She then asked, "How much do you know about the Ancient Demon Cave?"
"It’s a Forbidden Land of the Upper Realm; it’s not just that understanding it is impossible, even publicly discussing it is not allowed," Jiang Yun said. "I’ve only passed by the Demon’s Cavern once and know a little about it.
It is said that within it linger the most powerful demons of this world, possessing the strength to destroy worlds."
"What if I am one of the so-called demons?" Xu Zimei asked with a smile. "Wouldn’t you be hostile towards me?"
"In fact, I don’t have many feelings about demons," Jiang Yun shook his head and said. "Just like humans can be good or evil, so can demons. One should not condemn an entire race with a single stroke."
"You are an interesting person," Xu Zimei said with a smile.
"Yuan Central Continent is ultimately too small," Jiang Yun looked at Xu Zimei and said earnestly. "Come to the Upper Realm sooner. It’s a vaster and broader world.
That’s where the true destination of the strong lies."
"What do you plan to do with them?" Xu Zimei turned to look at the five people from Hidden World Village behind her and asked.
"It’s up to you, kill them if you want, or let them go," Jiang Yun replied.
As they were talking, a rumbling explosion suddenly came from above the firmament.
With the sound of the explosion, the entire small world began to shake.
Xu Zimei looked up into the sky, and saw countless tiny red dots suddenly appearing above the firmament.
As these red dots grew larger, Xu Zimei was startled to realize that each represented a person.
However, these people had red skin, and their eyeballs were pitch black without any white sclera.
Aside from that, they were not much different from ordinary humans.
Xu Zimei had seen some things in the evolution of the River of Fate and naturally recognized these beings at a glance.
"The Undying Race," he said in surprise.
One of the rulers of the Wild Desolation era, the Undying Race was collectively referred to as one of the Three Great Races along with the Monster Race and Giants.
These three races defeated the Ancient Nether and almost ruled the entire era of Wild Desolation.
The Giants were severely weakened in their battle with Ancient Nether and eventually retired from the world.
The Monster Race was overthrown by True Martial Great Emperor, while the Undying Race seemed to vanish without a trace, leaving no message behind.
"You do know quite a lot," Jiang Yun said with a smile.
"What does the Undying Race want here?" Xu Zimei asked curiously.
By this time, the sky was almost completely occupied by densely packed Undying Race members.
In the most central position was a cylinder-like device resembling a launcher.
Although there were many members of the Undying Race, their realms were not very high.
However, it seemed the Undying Race had a special method to converge their power together and then transmit it into the central cylinder.
When so many people’s power was converged, it must be terrifying.
With each attack launched by the central cylinder, the small world where Xu Zimei was shook once.
The earth cracked in countless places, and it was feared that if this continued, it would sooner or later be destroyed.
"Can your small world hold on?" Xu Zimei asked.
"They won’t destroy this small world," Jiang Yun shook his head and replied, "This is already their third time here, and I don’t know how much longer I can last."
"So that’s why you’re in a hurry to send out your legacy?" Xu Zimei asked.
"If you hadn’t appeared, I would’ve only been able to pass my legacy to those five people and let them take it out," Jiang Yun nodded and said, "But I ultimately couldn’t trust them."
"We haven’t known each other for too long, have we? And you can trust me?" Xu Zimei asked with a smile.
"It’s a personal feeling," Jiang Yun replied, "Besides, I can tell that my legacy doesn’t appeal to you as much.
But it’s different for them."
Xu Zimei smiled and asked, "What are the Undying Race doing here?"
"They’re seizing small worlds to use as bases," Jiang Yun replied, "Some people once reached a certain consensus that the Undying Race should not appear on the Yuan Central Continent, so they can only look for these small worlds in the void."
Seeing Xu Zimei’s puzzled look, Jiang Yun smiled and said, "You’ll understand once you go to the Upper Realm. The Undying Race on Yuan Central Continent isn’t much of a threat."
As the two of them talked, the sky of the entire small world began to show cracks.
It was as if the entire firmament was about to collapse.
"You should leave," Jiang Yun said, looking at Xu Zimei.
"Aren’t you leaving?" Xu Zimei asked.
"This is my small world; where can I go?" Jiang Yun smiled and said lightly, looking up at the sky, "These ants only dare to act because they see my avatar is weak.
If my real body were here, they wouldn’t dare to be so presumptuous."
Xu Zimei nodded, stepped onto thin air, and crossed over to the five people from Hidden World Village.
"My lord, how did it go?" The five people, seeing Xu Zimei appear, quickly asked.
"Don’t say I didn’t give you a chance. Now there are two paths before you; choose for yourselves," Xu Zimei smiled and said, "Either you share life and death with this small world.
Or I’ll let you out to do me a favor."
The five people looked at each other, nodded, and replied, "Please tell us, my lord."
As the firmament above completely shattered, a vast army of the Undying Race descended from the heavens.
In an instant, they occupied the entire small world.
And in that valley fragrant with peach blossoms, Jiang Yun stood at the summit of the valley, his white robe fluttering suddenly.
He calmly watched as tens of thousands of troops surrounded him.
"The respect of Sword Immortal is as consistent as ever, still radiant," a loud laugh rang out, and the dense crowd parted, as a man in a blood-black robe slowly stepped forward.
"Five Steps to Immortality," Jiang Yun’s gaze grew deep and intense as he said lightly, "You really think highly of me."
"The Sword Immortal who once battled the Great Emperor, and who declared ’In this world, the Sword Dao is but so’—how could we dare to underestimate you?" the man in the Blood Robe replied with a smile.
"The fight with Qin Tian was just a casual sparring session; it’s been too exaggerated by later generations," Jiang Yun shook his head and said lightly, "Occupying my small world, aren’t you afraid of my retribution?"
"Matters of the Upper Realm will be handled by those above. We just need to do our part," the man replied with confidence.
Jiang Yun’s gaze turned sharp, he tilted his head down slightly, and slowly drew out the longsword in his hand.
As the longsword was unsheathed, myriad sword qi resonated through the void.