Chapter 100: A Million Forerunners (2/2)

In these few words, w.a.n.g Lu had sketched out some of the magnificent and breathtaking scenes of the Immortal World, which mesmerized those villagers.

Prior to this, their understanding of Immortal World was limited to the human imagination and what the Seven Stars Sect’s Publicity Envoy said about it. That Publicity Envoy actually possessed a silver tongue, but his depiction of Immortal World was nothing more than mountains of gold and silver. It was worlds apart from the scene that w.a.n.g Lu described.

However, the sheer momentum of imagination alone was not enough to completely convert these villagers. Therefore, w.a.n.g Lu changed the subject. To cater the taste of the audience, he spoke about the life of a Daoist Immortal.

It was naturally fascinating, as well as exciting.

Those millions and millions of year giants in the Immortal World aside, anyone who had just soared to become a new Daoist Immortal, when they set foot in the Immortal World, there would be seventy-two absolutely out of the world beautiful fairies who greeted them, served them and attended to all their needs, and henceforth became that Daoist Immortal’s private property. And then, there would be a magnificent palace to be that Daoist Immortal’s residence in the Immortal World. In that vast expanse of territory, any mortal monarch’s power would never be on par even against even the weakest Daoist Immortal. As long as any Daoist Immortal willed it, millions and millions of territory in the Immortal World could transform.

This description was obviously too vulgar, yet the audience down below tweaked their ears and scratched their cheeks in delight; they were unable to contain their joy.

Indeed, to them, this was what Immortal World should be; this was the treatment befitting of a Daoist Immortal! That gold mountain and mountain of silver thing was too low taste! How could it be compared to the seventy-two fairies...

Before long, w.a.n.g Lu’s description on matters of Immortal World temporarily came to an end. However, under the stage, some people were already impatient. “May I ask, Daoist Immortal, how to ascend to the world of the Immortals?”

“Can everyone cultivate to become Immortal?”

“Daoist Immortal, do you think I have the qualification to be a cultivator?”

“Daoist Immortal…”

Pandemonium broke out, and everyone rushed to talk at once. w.a.n.g Lu onstage made an appreciating-a-flower smile, he neither stopped them, nor he answered. After a moment, the old Village Head w.a.n.g Qinian forcefully stamped his crutch and yelled, “Be quiet!”

The Village Head’s authority was still effective, and soon, the villager’s noise subsided. The Village Head w.a.n.g Qinian respectfully bowed in respect to w.a.n.g Lu, and then, with a sinking voice, asked, “Dare I ask Daoist Immortal, can us, mortals… have the possibility to become Immortals?”

w.a.n.g Lu revealed a faint smile. “Yes.”

w.a.n.g Qinian’s heart wildly thumped, thinking, “Sure enough! Although that devil Seven Stars Sect cruel and evil, their theory of everyone can become Immortal is not wrong!”

Excited, this old Village Head tremblingly asked, “Then, can-can I become… Immortal too?”

Behold, w.a.n.g Lu actually shook his head. “No, you can’t.”

w.a.n.g Qinian was stunned. “I-I can’t?”

The audience down the stage also began to talk among themselves. Just now, they were told that everyone could become Immortals, but why w.a.n.g Qinian can’t? Was it because w.a.n.g Qinian was not a mortal?

w.a.n.g Lu therefore sighed. “Just now I talked about the matters of heaven, do you guys know how many layers of heaven there are?”

The audience looked at each other; how could they know the answer?

“So far, above the mortal world, there is a total of Nine Heavens. These Nine Heavens didn’t exist at all when the universe is created, but rather they were transformed one by one after that.”

“Transformed?”

“Yes, it was transformed from the mortal world. The last three layers of heaven came from the mortal world’s transformation, one in each previous era.”

“What!?”

This time, not only the villagers down the stage were surprised, even the Wisdom Sect’s Elders on the stage could not help but gawk, thinking, “Sect Leader, isn’t this too much!?”

w.a.n.g Lu said, “The mortal world, after thousands upon thousands of years of change, may soar upward into the heavens. Naturally, the entire world would ascend, at that time, everyone would become Immortals, and henceforth, forever enjoy the bliss...That’s why I said that everyone could become an Immortal.”

“Then, we need to wait for thousands of years?”

“The number of years is not fixed; the world’s ascension need not the pa.s.sage of times, but rather the great effort of thousands upon thousands of cultivators.”

“The great effort of thousands upon thousands of cultivators, what… does this mean?”

w.a.n.g Lu sighed. “An ancient legend in the Immortal World says that when a world has a million of ascenders, it will trigger the entire world’s ascension, integrating with the other Immortal Worlds, and at that time, the other mortals will ‘ride the coat of those soaring cultivators’… But, it will at least need a million forerunners.”

“Then, how many are our world’s forerunners?”

“So far, it’s less than a hundred people.”

“Oh…” The crowd was greatly disappointed and discouraged.

w.a.n.g Lu was silent for a while until that depressed mood gradually spread, before he said, “Are you giving up?”

w.a.n.g Qinian wryly smiled. “We do not dare to deceive you, Daoist Immortal, this soaring to become Immortals thing, we all want that. However, I’m afraid it would be hundreds of thousands of years later before there are a million forerunners and thus the rest of the people become Immortals. At which time, we have long turned into a pile of rotten bones!”

w.a.n.g Lu laughed. “Why aren’t you willing to become the forerunners?”

“What?”

“This a million of forerunners, someone has to do it. Otherwise, if we let the years goes by, there would be no world’s ascension. And if we’re not careful, we might fall prey to the devil and forever sink into oblivion. Since you’re bent on becoming Immortals, why don’t you be the forerunners?”

“C-Can we?”

“If you never give your effort, never practice, you will never be. For any world’s ascension, there are steps upon steps effort of hundreds of millions of mortals. The most precious thing in life is life itself, because life is only once, therefore, people should spend their lives in this way: when they look back to their past, they don’t lament because they have wasted their years, nor ashamed of their mediocrity. So, when one dies, one will be able to say that one has dedicated one’s whole life and all of one’s energies to the most precious cause—striving for the world’s ascension.”