671: Blue Lotus, Red Lotus

In the dim, ancient era, Qi Cultivators were rampant.

All living beings practiced the methods of Qi Cultivators, which were ancient cultivation techniques. In that world, there was a special power called Ancestral Qi, which allowed for this path of cultivation.

Qi Cultivators didn't have such distinct Realms, but in that era, Qi Cultivation also reached its Peak, surpassing Great Emperors. There were even more distant, profound, and terrifying Realms beyond Great Emperors.

Qi Cultivators were once incredibly glorious.

However, they declined and vanished in the later period of the Ancient Era because the Ancestral Qi in the world rapidly disappeared.

Further back, before the Ancient Era, when heaven and earth first opened, Innate beings roamed freely. A single breath could change the sun and moon and shake mountains and rivers.

The Witch Dao was born, creating an incomparably brilliant and prosperous age, even surpassing the later Ancient Era Qi Cultivators, the chaotic era of myriad races, and the Primordial and Desolate Eras! None could compare to the era of the Witch Dao!

There were peerless Great Witches with world-shaking abilities who observed the heavens and earth, comprehending the vicissitudes and illusions of the Universe. The Witch Dao spread for an extremely long time and also dominated and led the evolution of the entire Universe.

Further back, before the era of Witches, before the ancient times...

Heaven and earth seemed to be a chaotic void; the Universe had not yet taken shape or expanded.

Finally.

Chu Ying saw a figure, dressed in black, who looked exactly like him.

The person in black was holding a little girl in red, walking through the unformed Universe... or rather, a void of Chaos and emptiness.

“She is Chu Hongyi.”

Chu Ying couldn't help but murmur, his gaze towards the little girl in red exceptionally complex.

At this moment, he deeply felt an incredibly profound bond between himself and Chu Hongyi.

Chu Ying continued to watch.

His black-clothed self and Chu Hongyi walked to the end of the Universe. They stepped into another Universe, where heaven and earth had already formed.

“No, time is flowing backward; I am looking forward.”

As his black-clothed self and Chu Hongyi walked, the Universe continuously evolved. The two walked to that ancient village, the place where Chu Hongyi was born.

“How exactly was Chu Hongyi born?”

“How could she have lived for so long? Is she really only at the Quasi-Emperor Realm? Or rather…”

Chu Ying stared blankly.

Chu Hongyi, such a little girl in swaddling clothes, appeared on a snowy day.

She seemed to have fallen from the sky!

“This… how is this possible? No Origin?”

Chu Ying was stunned.

He continued to look forward, trying hard to glimpse earlier scenes in the long river of time.

Suddenly, his vision was filled with Chaos, and a terrifying sharp edge pierced towards him, as if to blind his eyes.

An indescribable mighty force acted upon him, seemingly wanting him to retreat in the face of difficulty and not continue to pry.

His soul endured immense pressure, as if his whole body and all seven orifices were bleeding. His liver, blood vessels, and bones seemed to shatter under that immense pressure.

His cells seemed to be crushed into nothingness.

But all of this was merely his perception, an illusion. He ultimately persevered.

After the blurring darkness and Chaos, he saw himself in a vast, boundless space, impossible to describe.

There were two lotus flowers floating between heaven and earth.

One a green lotus, one a red lotus.

The green lotus and red lotus were born together, seemingly having endured eons of time. That place didn't even seem to be a Universe; it was beyond Chu Ying's comprehension.

There, only the green lotus and red lotus existed, nothing else.

The green lotus and red lotus grew together, becoming more and more vibrant and beautiful.

But one day, a terrifying wind, a Black Wind, blew in from an unknown dimension.

That Black Wind carried incredibly terrifying power, as if the pair of green and red lotuses suffered an extremely dreadful attack and injury!

The green lotus and red lotus clung tightly to each other, embracing each other. They survived in that Black Wind.

But the Black Wind was too powerful, irresistible, and its Origin unknown.

The green lotus and red lotus suffered unimaginable severe damage, with countless Origins destroyed, making it difficult for them to continue to survive.

However, the red lotus suddenly ignited, bursting into flames of Nirvana!

Those Nirvana flames burned the red lotus, releasing incredibly gentle energy and light, which entered the body of the green lotus.

The green lotus survived, its Origin largely repaired, floating between heaven and earth.

The red lotus, however, was left with only a single lotus seed.

Soon.

The green lotus transformed into a human, which was his black-clothed self, identical to Chu Ying!

After the green lotus transformed, he emerged from that unknown dimension. He was an endlessly long-lived being. He took the red lotus and sought the Origin of life, attempting to save the red lotus.

The red lotus was not dead; that lotus seed was the storage place for the red lotus's life consciousness.

Only by finding the Origin of life could the red lotus awaken.

He carried the red lotus seed through endless time and space, also trying to find that Black Wind, passing through countless dimensions.

Finally, his green lotus self found the Origin of life, and there, he revived the red lotus.”

However, at this moment, the mysterious Black Wind blew in again from an unknown place.

This time, the green lotus sent the red lotus into the long river of time and faced the Black Wind alone.

“No matter what dimension you come from, I want you dead!”

The green lotus, having experienced it once before, besides being immortal, had also become incredibly powerful. He withstood the Black Wind and repelled it!

Afterward, the green lotus left to search for the red lotus in the long river of time.

However, the Black Wind, repelled by the green lotus, did not give up and actually tried to attack the red lotus, who had already fallen into the long river of time!

The green lotus was enraged and fought a great battle with the Black Wind in the long river of time, shattering many fragments of the long river of time in various Universes, leading to the collapse of Universes and the destruction of worlds.

No one knew of the earth-shattering battle, only the Universes and worlds that were annihilated in those times and spaces.

When the green lotus repelled the Black Wind once again, this time he himself was severely wounded!

The Black Wind had been repelled by the green lotus and left that dimension, but the green lotus himself was also tainted with terrifying Karma.

In the future, one day, the Black Wind would return.

On that snowy day, the red lotus, having fallen from the long river of time, transformed into a little girl in swaddling clothes.

The green lotus, who was the black-clothed Chu Ying, adopted the little girl in that village.

He embarked on a long journey of immortality with the little girl.

He named the little girl, Chu Hongyi.

Chu Hongyi had long forgotten the memories of being the red lotus, those memories of being with the green lotus in an unknown dimension.

He and Chu Hongyi walked through eons of time and witnessed the destruction of Universes.

At a certain moment, he finally felt that the Black Wind was about to arrive again, entering this dimension.

Thus, he chose Reincarnation, to evade the Black Wind through Reincarnation, to fight against the Black Wind, and to wash away the Karma!

And the red lotus—Chu Hongyi, who had revived through the Origin of life, had already concealed her Karma, so the Black Wind could not sense her.

As long as he left, the tragedy could be avoided from happening again.

Moreover, when the last Reincarnation ended, and he became immensely powerful, he would be able to completely eliminate the Black Wind!

The last Reincarnation is the current Chu Ying!