The Burial Sea has stood between Heaven and Earth for countless years, long discovered by the Human Cultivators.
Such a magnificent spectacle naturally arouses curiosity about where this Burial Sea ultimately flows.
Many cultivators have thus ventured into it, pursuing its end.
But without exception, those who step into the Burial Sea never return, as if buried by this vast expanse.
Hence, this sea was nad the Burial Sea.
This skyward Burial Sea is profoundly mysterious.
There are also nurous legends saying the Burial Sea is actually the Boundary Sea, separating two realms, with another realm existing within.
This theory is supported as, at the end of the Burial Sea, one can vaguely see sothing akin to a boundary wall.
.....
Lu Qingshan is presently within this mysterious Burial Sea.
The seawater flows incessantly, carrying Lu Qingshan upwards towards the unknown against the vast Heaven's Vault.
Upwards, upwards, and upwards again.
Central Heaven, envy of Heaven, towards Heaven, beyond Heaven....
The Nine Heavens pass beneath Lu Qingshan layer by layer.
Above the Nine Heavens lie realms that even cultivators find hard to reach.
Yet, borne by the Burial Sea's currents, Lu Qingshan ascends like a streak of Qingyun.
The human fear of heights is instinctual, and reaching such uncontrollable heights typically evokes a hint of fear in anyone.
Yet Lu Qingshan's heart rejoices like a child's.
Adhering to the steed's tail, he spans a thousand miles.
What is the endless Void but an endless journey?
An obsession with challenges is also engrained within the Sword Cultivator's essence.
Undeniably, over the years, Lu Qingshan has beco purer, more like a Sword Cultivator.
....
Gradually, unable to tell how high he'd ascended, Lu Qingshan perceives strange entities within the surrounding seawater.
These are fragnts, with no fixed shape, glinting with a golden light amidst silver radiance, their origin unknown, yet he can sense faint vestiges of cosmic forces within, as though eternal ti flows through them.
Ascending further, Lu Qingshan truly enters a bizarre and perilous realm, beyond what others can conceive.
Everything around becos blurry and dim, a mysterious force shackling him, allowing Lu Qingshan to distinctly feel his vitality waning.
He realizes he has reached the Burial Sea's end, the place where everything is interred.
All say the end of the Burial Sea is dreadfully terrifying, where intruders are annihilated in body and spirit.
This is precisely what Lu Qingshan experiences now.
The Burial Sea's waters still propel him forward unceasingly,
the force irresistible.
There's no turning back in the Burial Sea.
At last, after crossing so unfathomable distance at great speed, a mbrane appears before Lu Qingshan.
The mbrane is remarkably elastic and extraordinarily tough, keeping all seawater beyond its confines.
Since the seawater is blocked, Lu Qingshan naturally cannot enter.
Yet, the propelling force of the Burial Sea remains, allowing no return.
"So, this is why the Burial Sea buries everything?" Lu Qingshan murmurs softly, as if witnessing the solitary deaths of cultivators who once trodden the path of the Burial Sea.
However, despite witnessing this dead-end, Lu Qingshan shows no hint of worry; rather, excitent fills his eyes.
"Yitian, since you ca from here, the key to entering must be you." He chuckles.
Thus, surrounded by ashen seawater, Lu Qingshan draws Dragon Sparrow and strikes at the tenacious mbrane.
The mbrane dissolves, revealing an entrance.
"I guessed right after all," Lu Qingshan whispers.
What lies inside, what encounters await, all remain unknown to him.
But Lu Qingshan knows that opportunity and danger coexist.
For this is an eternal truth.
"Then let's go." He leaps inside.
In an instant, countless points of light rush toward Lu Qingshan.
These light points flood the entire area, resembling a galaxy swirling with countless stars, including Lu Qingshan.
Then, the galaxy reverses, transforming into a spinning kaleidoscope, carrying Lu Qingshan towards an unknown destination.
Lu Qingshan remains conscious but immobile, carried by the current.
The galaxy reverses, and ti loses aning; all sights pass fleetingly, indistinguishable whether re seconds or a whole year.
A profound, boundless sensation rises from his heart spontaneously.
"Is this the path you once traversed?"
"Yitian, what wondrous origins do you have?" Lu Qingshan murmurs softly.
His eyes flicker slightly, ignoring his body's movent, intently gazing ahead.
Bam!
The galaxy seems to crash into an invisible barrier, causing it to tremble violently.
At that mont, Lu Qingshan senses that the collision allows the galaxy to seem as though it enters another world.
Upon entering this new world, all dust around ceases to move, and he too remains still.
Lu Qingshan can clearly see, with his naked eyes, the stagnant dust and vibrant stars in the air.
All is still, yet Lu Qingshan perceives motion.
What flows?
He wonders.
"Ti, my lord." Qin Yitian's ethereal voice resonates within Lu Qingshan's mind.
"What?" Lu Qingshan is shocked.
Yes, he hasn't moved, nor has the galaxy; it's ti, the years flowing backward.
"Not forward, but in reverse." Qin Yitian's voice becos increasingly epheral, as if vanishing at any mont.
Lu Qingshan senses sothing amiss, "Yitian..... Yitian?"
He calls out in his mind.
"My lord, I'll wait for you in Qin City....." Qin Yitian's voice abruptly halts.
No matter how Lu Qingshan calls, the Sword Spirit maiden does not respond again.
.....
If the galaxy in the Void were frozen into a single fra, with ti as the axis, and the perspective infinitely expanded, on a point along the axis, one would see a figure gazing towards Lu Qingshan.
It is a woman, a smile on her lips.
Her eyes watch Lu Qingshan speeding toward her amidst the endless galaxy, revealing tenderness with a faint smile on her lips.
....
Bang!
Another thunderous sound echoes, the galaxy jolts once more, seemingly piercing through another barrier, instantly breaking through.
The endless galaxy disperses, vanishing, and a new world cos surging forth.
He gazes at this world greedily, etching the scenes into his mind's eye.
This world is filled with countless peaks.
The blue mountains rise and fall, ridges standing majestically.
Within each peak, cities are faintly visible, shadows crisscrossing within.
In the next mont, Lu Qingshan regains control over his body.
Yet, as he prepares to act, invisible shackles suddenly close in on him.
It is the power of a world.
"Oh no!"
Lu Qingshan silently exclaims, then everything falls into darkness.
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