A Record of a Mortal’s Journey to Immortality—Immortal World Arc - Chapter 45

Chapter 45: This Is Impossible

Back in the cavern.

Han Li slowly opened his eyes and he felt greatly exhausted after the ordeal.

After he collected his mind, he took out a pale-blue Cloud Crane Grass and threw it into his mouth before he started to chew on it slowly. His expression slowly darkened.

After a while, he let out a long sigh as he spoke suddenly.

“Daoist Devil Light, can you come out for a talk?”

The moment he finished speaking, the shadow in front of him distorted and grew, a man that looked like him and was wearing a black robe with skin as black as ink, appeared in front of him.

The man stared at Han Li, remaining silent.

“Devil Light, have you seen a chain that contained some sort of magic and a skill that is able to seal another person’s Nascent Soul?”

“Does the sealing of Daoist’s Nascent Soul have anything to do with it?”

After two years of resting, Devil Light had also recovered quite a bit. However, his manner of speech was still rather robotic.

Han Li nodded, before he gave a brief description about his Nascent Soul to the other.

“From my interpretation of Daoist’s condition, I’m afraid you would have to recover your cultivation base and magic before you can use the secret skill to get your Nascent Soul to break free from the chains. However, at the same time because your Nascent Soul is being bound by these magic chains, you cannot cultivate at all, not to mention recovering your cultivation base. In that case, it has formed a self-conflicting knot, like the situation of what comes first, the chicken or the egg” Devil Light said after a long silence.

“I have also guessed the same things you have just said. In fact, my condition is worse than what you have said. Even if I destroy my own body and my Nascent Soul separates, I won’t be able to break out of this restraint either.” Han Li said with a furrow of his eyebrow.

“Did Daoist find anything in your recent run to this Sect’s Sutra Pavilion?” Devil Light asked once more.

“Although I read many ancient books and records, the majority of them are useless.” Han Li sighed helplessly.

“In that case, I think that the level of this world’s secret skills aren’t enough to resolve such a difficult question. I’m afraid that we can only find a way to resolve it after we return to the Immortal World.” Devil Light finally said after another long silence.

Somewhere in the Immortal World, in an unknown forest.

Smoke flooded the forest and all that could be seen were tall and towering trees. Some were green and strong, while some were pale and decaying. Some were even red throughout, looking extremely weird and unique.

In the depths of the forest, there was an empty and broad clearing of about a thousand feet wide, sparsely populated with short and low bushes. It clearly did not fit in when compared to its picturesque surroundings.

In the direct center of this spot, there was a tall, overbearing and weirdly shaped tree growing there. The tree was completely greenish-black in color and was at least a hundred feet tall. The trunk was tall with few branches, not to mention leaves growing on it. It looked really bare, like it was a standing giant wooden rod.

The unique thing about the tree was near the crown of the tree. On top of about eight branches growing crookedly, there was a giant, gray bird’s nest. From afar, it looked like an inverted torn straw hat.

An incredibly large and weird giant bird was resting in the middle of the nest. It was whimpering softly, the bird clearly in a lot of pain.

The bird had arrow-like features growing all over, its head exceptionally big even though its neck appeared slightly slender. There was a giant bag hung near its chest, it puffed up and down according to its breathing.

Suddenly, the bird’s neck straightened, its head tall as its eyes glanced towards a certain direction cautiously. The pouch in front of its chest suddenly grew dramatically.

A loud crackle sounded!

Suddenly, the woods in three directions rattled and a figure appeared from each direction, flying towards the giant nest rapidly.

The three people were dressed in black, their jumps timed perfectly and in sync with each other. Even the angle of their actions were the same. What was even more shocking was that the three men’s figures and appearances were the exact same, all three with a handsome and extraordinary teenage man’s face with sharp eyes.

The three men closed in the distance between them and the giant nest with an incredible speed, only leaving a shadow in the air before their figures blurred once more and disappeared.

“Chirp.”

In alarm, the pouch in front of the giant bird’s chest swelled up before it suddenly widened in the southeast direction and called out loudly.

With a crazy strength, sound waves morphed into countless small green wind knives and surged towards the tall tree in front.

Loud tumbles!

Like lightning, countless blades of wind formed an invisible tall wall and everything it passed by, including the low bushes were pulled up by the roots and minced into pieces. Some tall trees were pulverized intro shreds and others sliced into mulch.

With the help of the dust, all of the broken pieces were blown about by the wild wind towards the forest without slowing down.

At the void in the southeastern direction, two black figures that disappeared earlier suddenly reappeared in the dust storm and fell towards the floor hurriedly.

At the same time, the two men suddenly glowed with a green glow and their figures immediately blurred as they flashed and disappeared in the air with unreasonable speed, sometimes reappearing quickly and sometimes slowly.

The storm of wind blades could not touch them at all.

The giant bird growled nonstop, and the waves of wind blades surged towards them nonstop.

However, those two figures moved between the waves of wind blades easily. They appeared and disappeared, as they rushed towards the giant bird without being affected at all.

Seeing that the two of them were almost before it, the giant bird looked below it before it let out a long growl.

The flesh pouch under its neck quickly swelled up. Almost instantly, it became as huge as its body, and it was still growing.

One of the men saw it and immediately cried out in anger.

“Animal, you want to blow yourself up? You must be dreaming!”

The moment he finished speaking, the third young man that had remained invisible suddenly appeared over the giant bird’s head without any sign.

He held onto a black knife, his wrist merely flinching and a flash appeared, instantly cutting across the giant bird’s throat.

All that could be heard were loud pops as a strong energy surged from the cut, bringing with it a large amount of blue blood. The blood sprayed crazily like a fountain.

When the blue blood finished pouring out, the flesh pouch under the green giant bird’s neck also shrunk. The bird’s head tilted as it collapsed in its nest, its blood drenching its feathers.

Under it, there was a giant white egg drenched with blue blood laying under the giant bird’s abdomen and it looked extremely lonely.

The three young men jumped down from the giant bird’s head without any expression. They each walked to the two wings and the tail and looked in the midst of the thick feathers before they each plucked out a sparkling feather.

Right at that moment, a yellow glow sparkled at one of the men’s waists, followed by a rushed ringing sound.

Seeing this, the other two men jumped beside that young man. With a blur, the three actually merged into one body.

Following that, the young man took out a circular communication device from his waist. He used his consciousness to look at the message briefly, before his expression changed, eyebrows furrowing as he said.

“This is impossible…”

With that said, a hint of ruthlessness flashed in his eyes, before he waved his hand and kept the giant egg. He jumped and disappeared with the crazy wind.