609: Chapter 609

You Chen stood at the very top of the canopy.

His broken sword was still humming.

He did not look at those Pseudo-Immortals, nor did he look at the faint, visible hand at the end of the black tide.

His gaze pierced through the chaotic crowd, through the shattered space, and fell upon Qin Yun.

That sword strike just now.

It was too similar.

It was not just the sword style.

Nor was it just the Sword Intent.

It was that feeling of severing Karma and breaking the root.

He dared not believe it.

So many years had passed, era after era had pressed down upon them, and many old friends had become tombstones, become soil, become dust whose names no one mentioned anymore.

But that sword strike just now caused the embers in his heart, which had never been fully extinguished, to suddenly flare up.

You Chen forced himself to steady his breathing.

He looked again.

This time, he did not look at the sword.

He looked at Qin Yun's eyes.

Those eyes, separated by the turbulence of the Abyss and the surging crowd, were exceptionally calm.

You Chen's Adam's apple bobbed.

The way of the Minds Eye originated from a single thought in the heart.

Back then, he had walked the path of the Minds Eye.

But the ultimate end of the eye-based path, was it not the Double Pupil?

You Chen's chest tightened.

Once this thought arose, it could no longer be suppressed.

Standing on the tree, it was as if he had suddenly been yanked back to a long time ago.

That year, the Sword Tomb opened.

Sword Qi filled the sky.

He had truly died once.

His blood had drained dry.

His bones had shattered.

He lay in the deepest part of the Sword Tomb, his Divine Soul nearly dissipated.

But in the end, he had crawled back out from the pile of the dead.

It was not luck that he relied on.

It was the great power of the terrifying will existing within the Sword Tomb that had pulled him back from the line of death.

Ever since then, You Chen had been convinced of one thing.

Jun Yun would not die so easily.

If the Sword Tomb could let the dead rise, perhaps Big Brother Jun could also be resurrected due to some Opportunity.

One era passed.

Two eras passed.

Later, even You Chen himself could barely remember how long he had waited.

This belief had wavered.

But it had never truly been extinguished.

He kept moving upward.

Later, he wanted to become stronger.

Because he had a new idea.

Immortal Ascension.

To walk the complete Immortal Path.

Then follow the long river of time back to find him.

To find the Jun Yun of the past.

To find that ending.

This had been his deepest obsession throughout these years.

And now, that person seemed to be standing right in front of him.

You Chen gripped his broken sword tightly.

He wanted to speak.

He wanted to take a step forward and confirm it completely.

But at this very moment, Qin Yun, on the other side, seemed to have sensed something as well.

Their gazes collided once more.

But the next moment.

The change came first.

In the middle section of the True Road, a speck of azure light suddenly lit up.

The azure light was not dazzling, yet it ignited the entire road.

The azure pagoda was right in the middle of the road.

Hum.

The azure light surged violently.

In an instant, the entire True Road was illuminated.

The laws of heaven and earth trembled along with it.

The space on both sides of the Abyss cracked in large swathes.

The ancient road, which had originally only been flickering in and out of existence, rapidly turned from virtual to real under this azure light.

Layers of old light faded away.

The road that could truly be trodden was completely revealed.

But this was not a choice for everyone.

It was a forced opening.

As soon as the road took shape, a terrifying suction force emanated from it.

All the Pseudo-Immortals present changed their expressions simultaneously.

That suction force locked onto them alone.

It locked onto their Qi.

It locked onto their Dao Fruit.

It locked onto that deepest connection between them and the Immortal Path.

"Not good!"

Ji Wuchen's Primordial Spirit had just stabilized when it was yanked up by that suction force.

"The road is claiming people!"

Immortal Zanghe, Immortal Fenyue, Immortal Lihun, Immortal Suixing, along with many more Pseudo-Immortals hidden in the shadows, all flew uncontrollably toward the True Road.

The Grandmist Qi on Gu Zhan's body tightened sharply.

Chen Yang was also directly locked by the power on the road.

You Chen stood on the World Tree, having just seen hope, having just recognized traces of an old friend, when the True Road beneath his feet jolted violently, and he himself was dragged toward the road.

This time, it was not that he wanted to go up.

It was the Immortal Path doing the claiming.

You Chen looked up abruptly, looking at Qin Yun.

He had not yet had the chance to confirm.

He had not yet had the chance to shout out.

He was already dragged away from the canopy by that suction force.

Gu Zhan was also swept up.

Chen Yang cursed angrily, his body likewise out of control.

"Big Brother Yun!"

Qin Yun stepped forward, wanting to reach out.

But that suction force did not care about him at all.

It only claimed Pseudo-Immortals.

He could only watch as the three were forcibly dragged away by the True Road.

Azure light covered the True Road.

One by one, the Pseudo-Immortals were swept into it.

Old friends were right before his eyes, yet they were torn apart again by the era and destiny.

Before the Abyss, many people were stunned.

Before everyone could recover from this sudden change, the power of the azure pagoda rose another level.

The True Road was open.

The azure pagoda, borrowing the power of the Immortal Path, began to counter-suppress the Abyss.

Layers of azure light spread down.

It first landed before the True Road.

Then it landed on the crack of the false road.

Finally, it covered the entire edge of the Abyss.

As soon as the black tide touched the azure light, it was annihilated on the spot.

Swaths of Fallen Beings did not even have time to scream before they turned into black smoke within the light.

On both sides of the Abyss, those sealing nodes that had originally shattered lit up once again.

One.

Two.

Three.

More and more azure lotuses slowly emerged from the Void Realm and the cracks.

Once the azure lotuses landed, they took root.

Once they took root, they suppressed.

Each new sealing node was patched up by the azure pagoda.

The disaster that had been constantly expanding was suppressed on the spot.

In the depths of the false road, the will of that "Emperor" finally showed signs of retreat.

The hand of filth had just reached out halfway when it was pressed back by the azure light.

The black tide churned.

The false road trembled.

It seemed to want to charge again.

But the power of the True Road and the power of the azure pagoda stacked together was no longer something its probing will could forcefully shake at this moment.

A cold voice slowly emerged from the deepest part of the false road.

"It is you again."

"Qing."

Qin Yun stood where he was, his eyes sinking bit by bit.

This was not the first confrontation.

The "Emperor" and the "Qing" behind the azure pagoda clearly had a Karma more ancient than anyone imagined.

After the voice fell, the will in the depths of the false road began to contract.

The black tide retreated.

The hand of filth retreated.

Those ominous things still remaining outside were also pressed and extinguished by the azure light, layer by layer.

The Abyss sank down again.

It was not truly calm.

It was just pressed back into the bottom of the crack.

The True Road remained.

But the people on the road had all been swept away.

What remained were only the severely injured and dying Saint Realm experts, Great Emperors, and Heavenly Emperors.

Some had severed arms.

Some had damaged Divine Souls.

Others still had not recovered from their stupor, staring blankly in the direction where the True Road had disappeared.

Heaven and earth were still trembling.

But the Abyss had fallen back into silence.

This great battle seemed to have been suddenly cut in half.

Only emptiness remained.

Qin Yun stood where he was, not moving for a long time.

Gu Zhan, Chen Yang, and You Chen had all been swept away.

The True Road had temporarily sealed the Abyss.

The Immortal Path had opened.

Old friends had appeared.

And then left.

What was left was only a mess on the ground, and him alone.

Qin Yun slowly raised his head, took one last look at the direction where the True Road had disappeared, and then looked down at the crack in the Abyss that had been resealed by the azure lotuses.

The emotions in his eyes were profound.

Yet he pressed them down bit by bit.

The wind blew over.

He stood at the edge of the Abyss, as if standing at the place where an old era had truly ended.

A moment later, Qin Yun turned around.

He took a step forward.