Chapter 1854: Chapter 1854: I Would Never Willingly Allow It

Xiao Yi collapsed onto the ground, heedless of the intense burning pain throughout his body.

Pain, to him, had long become commonplace.

No matter how great the pain, as long as he didn’t want to, he wouldn’t even frown.

However, this time... he felt so powerless for the first time, and for the first time, his heart felt dead.

He had always been bold.

Years ago, when he first arrived in the Central Region, with only Earth Extreme Cultivation, he dared to traverse the space turbulence deemed as certain death.

This time, he was equally bold. He had long known that once the blood and poison pills erupted, the consequence would be terrifying.

Before his consciousness completely dissolved, he witnessed the four formidable elders of Mirror Flower Water Moon being submerged in the Blood River and Poison River, dying instantly.

But he was certain he wouldn’t die.

So he gambled his life, went for the risk.

At that moment, he had no other choice.

The strength of the four elders of Mirror Flower Water Moon was far beyond his imagination.

Especially Elder Jingz Yue, whose overwhelming power almost instantly defeated Hall Master Chengfeng and Hall Master Hengtian, leaving Xiao Yi with no chance of victory.

Then, the illusion array formed by the four of them left Xiao Yi with no hope of escaping.

He could only fight desperately, self-detonating the blood and poison pills.

As a result, he won the gamble, the four elders of Mirror Flower Water Moon were killed thoroughly, and he survived.

Yet, what was the difference between his current state and death?

Back when he came to the Central Region, his Small World had been damaged, his body was shattered, and his cultivation nearly lost.

But that time, he still had some hope left.

He gradually recovered and restored his body and cultivation to their peak.

But this time?

This body can no longer be simply described as broken; it’s essentially a collapsed body.

His cultivation lost, all complete Martial Arts dissipated, the Small World utterly collapsed, the body directly ruined.

Just being alive in this body is nearly a miracle.

Don’t even mention recovery, it can’t even be used for ordinary cultivation.

This completely shattered all his hopes.

Not to mention that he can’t use any means now, even if he could, even if he were in his prime, facing such a ’severely injured Martial Artist,’ he would be helpless.

With the alchemy skills he mastered or even more advanced alchemy skills he knew, there was no way to repair this broken body.

As a proficient Alchemist himself, he was all too clear about the severity of the destruction of this body.

And this was where his deepest despair lay.

Even a legendary Alchemist like the Medicine Venerate Master, the top Alchemist on the continent, couldn’t hope to repair this body at all.

Pills are powerless, beyond human reach, perhaps is the most apt description now.

"Is it just going to end like this?"

Weak words escaped from Xiao Yi’s terrifying face.

The aura of despair surrounded his entire being.

For a Martial Artist, nothing is more terrifying than despair.

Xiao Yi’s eyes, already like decaying flesh, were hollow to the extreme.

Before him, by the small Water Lake, a small grass suddenly sprouted and grew vigorously.

The growth speed was visible to the naked eye.

The grass was not some precious Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures or spiritual mushroom.

It was nothing more than an ordinary weed, only a few inches high.

Xiao Yi glanced at it, a hint of puzzlement suddenly flashed in his hollow eyes.

"This place was a Poisonous Land, the toxic aura still lingering on the ground."

"How can mere weeds grow healthily?"

Trembling, Xiao Yi reached out, dragging his broken body, to scoop a bit of clear water from the little Water Lake beside the grass.

"What strange water."

"Clearly just clear water, merely a small lake filled from a pit, the water unable to flow out, like a dead lake, dead water, yet so full of vitality?"

"The water subtly contains Heaven and Earth Rules, so incredibly clear?"

Xiao Yi was unaware that in those ten days, the Martial Arts Rain had fallen for ten days straight.

Of course, he also didn’t know what the Martial Arts Rain was.

These Martial Arts Rains were nothing pure nor precious cultivation items for Martial Artists.

They were just ordinary water.

But as they fell under Martial Arts Rules, they appeared slightly different.

Looking at the vibrant weed, Xiao Yi’s eyes became even more full of despair.

The weed could still absorb the life force from the rainwater and grow healthily.

But for him, Xiao Yi? Even if given more life force items, this shattered body couldn’t absorb them.

And if it couldn’t absorb, then no matter how powerful the elixir, it would be of no effect.

Xiao Yi fell into a stupor.

He sat there motionless, eyes empty and thoughts void.

Night fell, the cold wind of the Extreme East howled fiercely.

His damaged body was now inferior even to an ordinary person, but under the cold wind, he felt no chill at all.

The biting wind should make his body feel intensely painful.

But now he seemed to have forgotten what pain was.

The night faded, the first rays of sun rose.

The gentle sunlight bathed his body that endured a night of cold, yet he felt not a trace of warmth.

The scorching midday sun seemed to crack his skin even more, but he had forgotten what burning was.

The sun rises and the moon sets, cycling endlessly.

Xiao Yi’s dazed, broken body just existed solitarily within the yellow sands of the Extreme East.

Motionless.

Barely breathing.

Perhaps, he would quietly die like this?

Or perhaps, when his broken body could no longer hold on, he would become a handful of yellow earth like the stones of the Extreme East, unchanged for millennia?

Until the third day, night fell.

His already broken body, without sleep or rest, without food or drink, his lips more cracked and terrifying than before.

Yet, at this moment, a glimmer of light suddenly flashed in his hollow eyes.

The stars filled the night sky.

In the past, even the Celestial Stars, he could summon at will, calling down power.

Plucking stars with his hands, treading the cold skies, thousands of miles conquered in an instant.

Great mountains, no match for the might of his sword.

Vast rivers couldn’t withstand his towering Purple Flame.

Now, all was gone, and he was just a cripple.

He could no longer command these stars, but in his eyes, two faces he couldn’t forget, yet could never forget, reflected unrestrainedly.

One, youthful and gentle.

The person, always waiting in the distance.

"You’ve been waiting for me all this time, right?" Under Xiao Yi’s desperate aura, there was suddenly a hint of joy in his tone.

"Otherwise, those fools from the Holy Moon Sect wouldn’t have been chasing me madly all along."

Being hunted was clearly not a good thing.

But to Xiao Yi, he felt increasingly joyful because he knew that his search over the years had not been in vain.

The other, an old face, asleep, yet silent.

"You’ve been waiting for me too." Xiao Yi’s decayed face forced a smile.

"If I gave up too, if I died, what about you?"

"Letting you stay in that cold coffin all your life? I wouldn’t want that."

Xiao Yi shook his head, chuckling lightly.

"Enough despair for a few days."

"Let’s gamble this life once more."

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First Chapter update.