804: Heaven and earth were extinguished

"Thank you for your kindness, Senior. I am deeply grateful."

"It's just... please forgive me, I cannot follow you to cultivate."

Feng Yuan gritted his teeth. In this instant, many thoughts flashed through his mind. His uncles, Elders, and brothers at home had been severely injured by the Main Branch Elders while trying to seek justice for him. If he left, no one would be able to take care of them.

He couldn't just leave like this.

"Feng Yuan, do you know what kind of Opportunity you are missing by refusing?"

Before Zhou Xiuyuan and Qin Shulan could speak, Zhou Guangyao questioned Feng Yuan in a low voice, looking disappointed at his lack of ambition.

Hearing Zhou Guangyao's words, Feng Yuan only shook his head.

If he were someone who only cared for himself, he wouldn't be worthy of his uncles, Elders, and brothers risking their lives for him.

He knew that such a chance would likely only come once in his life.

But he still refused.

When Zhou Guangyao wanted to say more, he was stopped by Zhou Xiuyuan.

"No matter."

Zhou Xiuyuan was not one to force others.

Everyone had their own convictions.

"Let's go."

Zhou Xiuyuan nodded toward Feng Yuan.

Taking a step forward, the three of them disappeared into the mountain forest.

"May I know your names, Seniors?"

Feng Yuan shouted toward the sky.

His voice echoed through the forest, but there was no reply.

Looking at where the three had disappeared, Feng Yuan stood in a daze.

He had personally pushed away his Opportunity.

While Feng Yuan was lost in thought, a wisp of sword light pierced through the Void Realm and sank directly into his mind.

"Feng Yuan, I gift you this sword strike."

"How much you can comprehend depends on yourself."

That wisp of sword light entered Feng Yuan's mind and transformed into a small figure holding a sword. The figure gripped, drew, and swung the sword; the movement was perfectly Tian Cheng.

It was clearly such a simple sword movement, yet thousands of sword techniques were hidden within it, encompassing all things.

A wisp of sword light was imprinted into his consciousness from afar.

A long time passed.

When Feng Yuan woke up, his face was already covered in tears.

The kindness of saving his life and the grace of teaching the Dao—how heavy they were.

After bowing deeply toward the distance in gratitude.

Feng Yuan climbed the cliff again, picked most of the Poria Grass, and left the cliff.

No one knew that before the future Dao Lord Feng Yuan, whose name would resound throughout the region, became the Dao Protector of the Zhou Family Sword Hall by joining the Qingyang Zhou Clan, he had such an experience.

"Hall Master, Senior Lan, I've found out."

"Outside these Changping Mountains, there is a Nascent Soul family, the Feng Family."

"There is a Nascent Soul True Lord in the Feng Family."

"I heard that some time ago, Old Ancestor Feng's direct grandson, Feng Ping, awakened a Sword Bone and has been accepted as a True Disciple by the Master of Sword Inquiry Manor."

Zhou Guangyao followed behind Zhou Xiuyuan and Qin Shulan.

He recounted all the information he had gathered.

These things were not hard to find out.

As a Nascent Soul family, the Feng Family had quite a reputation in this area, and a direct descendant joining Sword Inquiry Manor was a major event that naturally spread far and wide.

If they hadn't met Feng Yuan.

They certainly wouldn't have known from these reports that the Sword Bone awakened by the Feng True Lord's grandson actually came from a youth within the Feng Family.

"The Feng Family True Lord."

"Hmph."

Qin Shulan's face turned cold. She released her Divine Sense and sensed for a moment.

Drawing the Shuyu Sword from her waist, she swung it once, and a sword light pierced through the Void Realm.

At this moment.

On Mount Fengyun, thousands of miles away.

A sword light emerged from the Void Realm and slashed down toward the peak of Mount Fengyun.

Boom!

The sword light pierced through the Feng Family's Mountain Protection Array and split an Immortal Cave at the mountain peak in two.

It struck the Old Ancestor of the Feng Family, who was in seclusion inside the Immortal Cave.

Such a fast and powerful sword strike.

True Lord Feng had only just sensed it when the sword light was already upon him, easily tearing through his Protective Treasure Robe.

The Old Ancestor of the Feng Family was heavily injured.

Qin Shulan sheathed her sword.

Had it not been for her consideration of Feng Yuan, she would have killed this True Lord Feng with one strike.

But if she really killed him, the Feng Family would lose its Nascent Soul True Lord, and they would likely be replaced soon.

That wouldn't be a good thing for Feng Yuan.

Having severely injured the Feng Family's True Lord, Qin Shulan vented her anger.

Zhou Xiuyuan's heart stirred. Along the way, they had discussed the Dao of the sword and cultivation; Qin Shulan was as gentle as water, making one feel like they were in a spring breeze, but today he saw another side of her.

It actually matched her sword Dao—continuous like the ocean, yet not lacking in weight and sharpness.

Strength within softness, a perfect blend of hard and soft.

"Sword Inquiry Manor."

"It's also a major power. I heard its Villa Master is a Void Refining Great Power."

Zhou Guangyao looked at Qin Shulan, who had acted so decisively, feeling a bit tongue-tied. He paused, and after Qin Shulan sheathed her sword, he asked, "Hall Master, how about we pay a visit?"

Although Sword Inquiry Manor was named after 'Inquiring the Sword,' the Villa Master's reputation wasn't particularly prominent.

It hadn't been among Zhou Xiuyuan's targets for this trip down the mountain.

Zhou Guangyao wanted to see what kind of person had stolen Feng Yuan's Sword Bone.

At the same time, if there was a chance, he also wanted to test the power of a natural Sword Bone.

Thus, he asked cautiously.

"Fellow Daoist Qin, what do you think?"

After listening, Zhou Xiuyuan looked toward Qin Shulan.

"Brother Yuan can decide."

"Then let's take a trip there."

Zhou Xiuyuan could naturally tell what Zhou Guangyao was plotting.

He didn't mind.

It was a good thing for young people to have their own ideas.

As long as they didn't violate the clan rules.

The three of them rested for a moment and headed toward Sword Inquiry Manor... Time cannot be perceived in the Void Realm.

One day.

The million-zhang-long Black Giant Serpent traveling through the Void Realm stopped again and looked toward the distant void.

At the same time, Zhou Xiutong, who had just finished her cultivation, also opened her eyes.

The crackling electrical arcs on her body instantly retracted into her.

Thunder no longer fell on the One-Horned Divine Peak, resonating with the Dao rhythm within Zhou Xiutong's body.

Following the direction Mo Xuan was looking.

Zhou Xiutong saw a massive, expanding ball of light.

"What... is that?"

Zhou Xiutong was shocked. She had followed the Old Ancestor through the Void Realm for so long.

But this was the first time she had seen such a sight.

It looked like a Small World, but it was expanding—no, it was collapsing.

Zhou Xiutong watched from afar.

That expanding ball of light was clearly a world.

However, the interior of this world was like a vortex, sucking everything from that world into it.

It emitted a massive light from the energy of a collapsing world.

"That world died?"

Zhou Xiutong hadn't expected that in the myriad worlds, a world would also have a lifespan.

"If that's the case, will the Chaofeng Ancient Realm have a day like this?"

That world no longer had any living beings.

Would the Chaofeng Ancient Realm also have such a day?

Zhou Xiutong looked at the continuously expanding ball of light and whispered to herself, her thoughts drifting further and further away.

But there was no answer to this question.

Even Mo Xuan didn't know.

It was also the first time he had seen the extinction of a heaven and earth.

Even worlds have an end, and all things have a lifespan.

Perhaps only through Immortal Ascension can one transcend.