Chapter 168

Chapter 168: A Day in the Life of Vermilion Bird (Five Updates)

A burst of green light shot straight up to the sky.

The Tree of Enlightenment seemed to be on steroids, growing at breakneck speed. What started as a six or seven-meter-tall sapling was now going haywire.

Ten meters!

Twenty meters!

Thirty meters!

Fifty meters!

One hundred meters!

A colossal tree, growing wildly as the Great Dao was infused into it.

The sky was filled with green light, making Lu Ye look like he was covered in it.

The Seed of Annihilation felt threatened and decided to respond with its own power.

Infinite gray light erupted.

It danced and intertwined with the green glow.

At that moment, two phantoms appeared above Lu Ye’s head.

One silhouette was tall and robust, with long black hair cascading over his shoulders, eyes brimming with unwavering divine light. Simply standing there radiated an aura that could suppress the ages.

The other figure was shrouded in gray mist, exuding a sense of profound destruction and terror as if they could invert the sun and moon and annihilate all things in existence.

This was the confrontation between Lu Ye at his prime and the Reincarnation Celestial Lord at his peak.

“A Celestial Lord, managing to cultivate the Dao to such an extent?” the Reincarnation Celestial Lord remarked.

This Dao was likely comparable to the Path of Saints.

“Aren’t you the same?” Lu Ye replied.

“I can’t measure up to you.”

The Reincarnation Celestial Lord expressed a hint of emotion.

He realized what Lu Ye had accomplished at that moment—a Dao so powerful, reaching toward the realm of Saints, and Lu Ye could just abandon it at will?

What audacity!

“But I won’t concede.”

“I have the guts to annihilate even Saints, though I may lack your courage, I do possess lofty ambitions!”

“Then, let’s battle!”

“Battle!”

“Boom!”

Green and gray lights collided violently, a fierce clash of the strongest Daos beneath the Saints.

Seizing the opportunity, the Taiji Diagram behind Lu Ye slowly began to spin.

The rotation was slow.

Yet, it was drawing in wisps of energy, continuously merging into the Yin-Yang Taiji Diagram.

Countless Spirit Stones shattered.

Spiritual Energy flowed into Lu Ye’s body.

His cultivation began to rise.

…

“What? The Vermilion Bird’s traces have also vanished?” Jiang Die received the feedback from the Heavenly Mechanism Pavilion.

There were no signs of the Vermilion Bird in the First and Second Heavens.

Either the Vermilion Bird had fallen.

Or the Vermilion Bird was with Lu Ye.

The latter possibility was slim to none.

Jiang Die carefully reviewed the entire battle record between Lu Ye and the Ten Thousand Spirits Demon Emperor.

Reincarnation Obsession…

Initially, the Reincarnation Obsession erupted, plunging the alien races into suffering.

The suffering then faded away.

Later, the unprecedented wave of Reincarnation Obsession surged forth, tearlessly ripping apart all the souls parasitized by the Ten Thousand Spirits Demon Emperor.

Jiang Die’s gaze lingered on the phrase ‘the suffering disappeared.’

At that moment, she was finally certain.

The Vermilion Bird was dead!

The Reincarnation Obsession was her doing, complemented by the Yin-Yang Devouring Path Gu.

One could only imagine how shattering Lu Ye’s Dao would be under the impact of the Reincarnation Obsession, and just how joyful the Yin-Yang Devouring Path Gu would be.

Unfortunately, Lu Ye was too decisive.

Before the poisons had a chance to erupt, he self-detonated. If only he had held on until each poison blossomed, Jiang Die couldn’t help but tremble with excitement just thinking about it…

But there were no ‘what ifs’ in this world.

“The Vermilion Bird is dead.”

Jiang Die delivered the news to the four women.

Chu Ling had already awakened.

All four women were dumbfounded.

Their minds fixated on a single sentence.

“The Vermilion Bird is dead!”

“The Vermilion Bird is dead!”

“The Vermilion Bird is dead!”

…

The Vermilion Bird was indeed dead.

Transformed into an obsession, it lingered deep within the Six Paths of Reincarnation.

The Reincarnation Celestial Lord observed her, yet made no changes.

He found this Vermilion Bird quite intriguing.

The obsession had to bear endless suffering daily, trapped in their most painful memories.

Day after day, year after year.

At this moment, the Vermilion Bird’s obsession couldn’t evade the rules.

She lived within her memories, but those memories had also changed.

Let’s take one day as an example.

In the morning, the Vermilion Bird transformed into a being torn apart by countless infant beasts in the Genius Ancient Battlefield.

Every beast regarded her as an enemy.

By noon, she watched as she tenderly gathered various cultivation resources for White Fire Spirit, her demeanor gentle, as if she were raising a child.

Yet, White Fire Spirit continually fixated on her with mocking, icy eyes, never revealing her disdain, while she remained oblivious, treating her with kindness.

In the afternoon, Lu Ye self-detonated; he saved himself, yet she reciprocated with cold glances and mockery.

The joy and pride in Lu Ye’s eyes gradually faded into disappointment and sorrow as he stared at her, unable to believe the transformation.

The pain in Lu Ye’s heart shifted to become the pain in the Vermilion Bird’s heart.

At night, Lu Ye struck her down time and again.

Does it hurt? Are you scared?

Only when true death approached did the Vermilion Bird truly comprehend the immense terror between life and death.

Living beings possess a strong desire to survive.

When death looms, that survival instinct erupts with powerful emotions, driving beings to live on.

She was terribly, terribly afraid.

Only by experiencing it firsthand could she truly empathize.

And Lu Ye?

To save himself, he chose to perish with the Parasitic Celestial Demon.

Was he not afraid?

Did it not hurt?

Lu Ye’s answer was no, he wasn’t afraid, it didn’t hurt.

He believed that he was more important than his life. To save himself, he faced death without fear, and the pain of death couldn’t even touch him.

Regret…

He regretted…

He regretted falling in love with himself, regretted saving himself with his life, regretted everything they had gone through, because he had only ever brought pain to himself.

Pain!

It hurt so much!

Extreme pain and profound regret gnawed at the Vermilion Bird’s thoughts.

How many times must she bear such suffering?

This was a day in the life of the Vermilion Bird.

An obsessioned being, unclaimed by reincarnation, with a True Spirit that never dispersed.

…

Green and gray continued to intertwine and shift in the heavens and the earth.

The battle between Lu Ye and the Reincarnation Celestial Lord had reached a boiling point.

“Your protection is starting to crack, why are you still so strong?” the Reincarnation Celestial Lord found it utterly absurd.

Yet Lu Ye felt perfectly fine.

To protect, I cultivate harder to grasp the Dao, refining more techniques, and building up more trump cards. What’s wrong with that?

I practice fist techniques, sword techniques, and the path of killing, etc.

Everything is for protection!

Nothing was amiss.

The Reincarnation Celestial Lord could also cultivate other Daos to aid his destruction.

If your sword technique could make the world collapse, isn’t that also for destruction?

No way, no way? Could anyone really exert themselves to the point of exhaustion just to master a single Dao?

Whatever the case, Lu Ye felt no burden from practicing other Daos.

When even the Reincarnation Celestial Lord poured out all his energy yet couldn’t annihilate this protection, it proved that Lu Ye’s past strength had undeniably surpassed the Reincarnation Celestial Lord.

What awaited the Seed of Annihilation was to be devoured!

Lu Ye’s strength skyrocketed.

Third level of the Realization Realm, fourth level of the Realization Realm, fifth level of the Realization Realm…

The Tree of Enlightenment frenziedly merged with the protecting Dao.

Ah, so comfy~

I feel like I’m about to grow up~

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