"This is not like you."
Upon hearing this sudden remark, Jixia was slightly taken aback.
Then, he saw the old man's expression becoming more severe as he slowly narrated:
"I won't ask why you suddenly ca back to life after being reported dead and disappearing for decades. I told you long ago that everyone has their secrets. In any case..."
"It's good you're back."
He smiled slightly, then suddenly coughed heavily, his face ashen, causing Jixia's heart to clench:
"Your health..."
"It's nothing."
Xie Qiaoxuan closed his eyes and regulated his breath.
"Now Baoping is in chaos, the State Mansion has fallen, and with the State Lord and the Demon Hunter General's defeat, the Divine Capital will surely get the news."
"Your biological father leads three thousand demons in a grand assault, but the Wutong Prefecture is vast, and the 'governnt's destiny' is strong; he won't conquer it easily."
"Even if the power struggle in the Divine Capital becos more intense, those old officials who retired decades ago from Baoping State would not let this state fall."
"In this period, Baoping State will inevitably fall into chaos, and you must prepare early to flee to another state..."
Upon hearing this, Jixia frowned:
"I heard that Ruan Xiuxiu of Yunluan Mountain has beco a Sword Immortal. I had a close relationship with her and originally wanted to rely on you, old man, to ascend Yunluan and see her. Why must I flee to another state?"
Xie Qiaoxuan was silent for a mont. Even though his body was failing, when ntioning this, his expression towards Jixia remained unspeakably complex:
"You personally let Song Brahman Mirror go back then. She now, alone, has broken Baoping and suppressed the three True Masters on the 'Baoping List', silencing the entire Baoping Jianghu."
"Wutong Prefecture is near Yunluan Mountain. It's heard she's now standing on Yunluan Mountain, suppressing the current Sword Master Ruan Xiuxiu and the forr Sword Master Song Yuan, not allowing them to take a single step out. How do you suppose to approach?"
"Or perhaps..."
"Even if given another chance."
"You would still stand on the side of that 'Song Brahman Mirror'?"
Rembering those years, watching Song Chai Xin, who was headstrong on Yunluan Mountain, walk step by step into the abyss, unable to pull him back, Xie Qiaoxuan suddenly felt his heart ache:
"Others crash into a dead end and don't turn back; you wouldn't crash once and still want to crash again?"
"Jixia!"
"I don't know why you can 'shed your skin and be reborn,' but this is a rare opportunity."
"In fact, my days were already numbered; I forcefully held on just to see you."
"Why tell that child Xie Wutong?"
Xie Qiaoxuan extended his emaciated hand, which no longer contained 'Primordial true qi', revealing tendons and bones like a seventy or eighty-year-old elder.
He watched Jixia reach out, then smiled and said:
"Because I cannot return, you see."
"On the road, I encountered one of the Great Demon Commanders of the 'Xuanqing Dragon Vein', known as the 'Deceitful Sea Yaksha'. After a battle with him, I was delayed but ended up spent."
"Fortunately, so remaining peak strength was still present so I couldn't run."
"Speaking of it, that old loach truly deserves to die; I never once encountered him in my latter years without misfortune."
"Back then, I should've ignored everything and gone to Xuanqing Lake, personally slain him, and brought you back, avoiding so much that followed..."
As Xie Qiaoxuan spoke increasingly weakly, Jixia clenched his hand, feeling an overwhelming sense of urgency, wondering for the first ti if there were things that could not be done in the world.
Now, trying to learn more about himself from Xie Qiaoxuan's mouth and thus fabricate a lie to deceive 'Tantai Yao', beca unspeakable.
It was also at this mont.
He finally understood.
So people are willing to listen to his lies, even if there are flaws, but are still willing to believe, not for any other reason but because he is worth believing.
And so people, even if they don't listen to a word he says, as long as he stands here alive...
They will acknowledge his existence!
Tantai Yao belongs to the forr.
Xie Qiaoxuan...
Belongs to the latter.
At this ti, dusk was approaching.
In the distance, Black Mountain and Celestial Abyss shook, rumbling like an earthquake in the vast Black Mountain City, capable of accommodating millions of households.
Xie Qiaoxuan, holding Jixia's hand, raised an eyebrow, gazing at the vaguely revealed 'Bronze Ancient Hall' in the distance. He beca increasingly weak while tightening his grip on Jixia:
"Wutong girl vaguely knows your identity, which ans her father knows who you are."
"Xie Bridge, though marginalized because of you, harbored no resentnt over these decades and only believed in your character; he can trust and protect you."
"The Black Mountain Celestial Abyss trembles at this ti, truly..."
"You can't stay in this city anymore, otherwise, your previously exposed 'Demon Suppression Dao Qi', if coveted, will lead you to utter ruin!"
"Song Chai Xin, rember..."
"Back when you beca the Black Mountain Guardian, I boasted, spoke of painting a 'Divine Soul Map' for future generations to contemplate, allowing descendants to step directly into the 'Carefree Realm', forging a 'Divine Soul'. Do you rember?"
Originally, Xie Qiaoxuan, who had closed his eyes, suddenly cracked a Vajra Eye on his brow. In an instant, his heroic posture erged, eyes gleaming with gold, looking at Jixia.
At the sa ti...
He opened his mouth and a 'low-grade' Primordial Pill, nurtured in his Yellow Court for hundreds of years, was directly summoned!
Then, under Jixia's shocked gaze, he saw Xie Qiaoxuan manipulating this Primordial Pill, in just a mont...
It hovered above his crown!
Afterward, it transford into fine sand, beginning to dissipate, flowing toward him!
At this mont, a century of power transford into the purest, most torrential essence.
It was as if Jixia was ascending the 'Eight Hundred Dao Ladder', unlocking nine apertures, stepping into the Great Innate.
Bang, bang, bang!
His body's acupoints, from top to bottom, snapped and cracked, opening with a rapid speed like a breached dam!
"I am incapable."
"The map was only half complete, stored in the Xie Family's study."
"If you can beco the Third-Step Primordial Pill, entering 'Celestial Being'..."
"I hope you can finish the rest on behalf of ."
"Baoping is in turmoil, Celestial Abyss trembles, this Black Mountain is about to beco a target of all attacks. Rember, seek your cousin Xie Bridge, have him take you away through his sect connection..."
"Henceforth, don't do that kind of 'headstrong' foolishness again."
"Among all things in the world."
"Nothing is more important than oneself!"
One Primordial Pill.
Unlocking nine apertures!
Seeing Jixia shining with golden brilliance, almost imperable.
Xie Qiaoxuan's body withered, resembling dried wood; he finally smiled, sighed:
"What a pity..."
"My Wutong Xie Family is about to flourish again."
"But I won't witness that day."
"However, you returned."
"So, even if I held on with my last breath, I saw it!"
"It's worth it!"
Having finished speaking.
Xie Qiaoxuan departed with the evening sun.
Beca an immortal.
Leaving only Jixia holding the old man's hand, dumbfounded and speechless for a long ti.
This day.
He practiced martial arts for over a month in the present world,
Great Innate achieved.
Vajra Imperable.
And in the distance, the 'Bronze Hall' of Celestial Abyss floated, reflected with his bloodline.
As if within...
His forr 'shed skin', long dormant, was about to return!
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