587 Ask the Heaven (1/2)
”Fallen Immortal?”
Upon hearing this answer from Wang Lu, Xuan Mo seemed a bit surprised.
”You already knew about this?”
Wang Lu said, ”Far more than just know, we have basically dealt with one of them…”
Before he could continue, Xuan Mo's face had already sunk. ”Have they already begun to descend?”
Hearing her question, Wang Lu realized that the crisis Fallen Immortal was even more frightening than expected. They… descended. Just by one sentence, Wang Lu couldn't help but picture in his mind the scene where dozens or hundreds of Mr. Feng Yue descended on Nine Regions.
That would be the end of the world.
However, the situation was not yet that desperate. Recalling what Mr. Feng Yue did, it was not difficult to see that he did his utmost to provoke a dispute between Demon World and Nine Regions, as a matter of fact, in order to pave the way for something. Unfortunately, he failed within the sight of success. He did not achieve the final step.
”At present, there's only advance force. The arrival of the large force should still face insurmountable barriers.”
However, Xuan Mo seriously shook her head. ”The appearance of the advance force means that the situation has already become very bad. Very well, since you don't understand the whole picture, I will explain from the beginning.”
”Fallen Immortals… Let's use this name to call them. The earliest record about the Fallen Immortal, happened in the Wild Era, a long, long time even before my time. The history books recorded that a strange occurrence was born in the sky. The vault of heaven opened and the light shone. A black-winged creature then descended on Nine Regions. He claimed to be an immortal and possessed a might unimaginable to cultivators. At first, people thought that he was a True Immortal that descended down to earth, and he came with the sacred will of the immortal world, and to whom should people worship at. However, very quickly he did all kinds of evil things in Nine Regions, causing public outrage.”
Wang Wu asked, ”What are the specifics of those all kinds of evil things?”
Xuan Mo said, ”In the history books, this matter is insufficiently detailed. But according to the conclusion of many historical materials collated by later generations, the Fallen Immortal forcibly wrested away the daoist companion of the sect leader of a top ranking sect of the time and then cruelly killed her in s*do-mas*chistic way.”
”…”
”After such insults, how could that sect leader let it go just like that? Unfortunately, although he was praised as one of the best in the world, in just three moves, he was struck by the Fallen Immortal into a meatloaf and then swallowed into the belly. His millennium cultivation became the nourishment for other people.
”And this was just the beginning. Later on, he became tyrannical by relying on his strength, causing too numerous to mention tyrannical actions. In the end, it caused a large number of cultivators to unite to fight against him. The war was so earth-shaking that the sun and the moon stop shining. Finally, they managed to thoroughly exterminate him. However, the immortal cultivation world also paid a terrible price.
”After a painful experience, people finally realized that those that descended from the upper realm do not necessarily harbor goodwill.”
”Wait a minute. How do you make sure that the man was really from the immortal world, and not from somewhere else, like Demon World for example? There are thousands of worlds, of which, Nine Regions, Demon World, to put it crudely, are just a drop in the ocean.”
”From the remains of that man, people found clues on when he cultivated in the human world. Ten thousand years prior to that time, he was indeed a cultivator cultivating in the human world.”
”So that's how it is… did he forget his root after he soared to immortality?”
”It couldn't be counted as forgetting his root. He was once an evil cultivator in Nine Regions, and perpetrating outrage was, in fact, his duty.” Xuan Mo bitterly smiled and said, ”Later, something similar occasionally occurred. However, the descended Fallen Immortals actually came from righteous sects.”
Wang Lu frowned. ”Having origin from righteous sects was also not good? What exactly happened to them after they soared to immortality? Isn't in the legend the immortal world a paradise full of bliss?”
”You also know that it's just a legend, an excuse to induce people to cultivate seriously. As a matter of fact, no one has ever seen the immortal world. And the True Immortal that occasionally descended to the world of mortals never revealed the secret of the immortal world. However, it may be safe to assume that it is not as beautiful as that in the legend. Since ancient time, there have been around eight hundred or a thousand who have soared to the upper realm. In the even more ancient era, the Great Desolation Era, there was not even a statistic, among which, some were righteous cultivators, but there was no lack of evil cultivators either. And after they soared upward to the immortal world, they might not necessarily unable to produce descendants. Thus, it's not surprising that there would be Fallen Immortals. The key is how to deal with these Fallen Immortals in the world of mortals…”
”Is there no one in the immortal world that deal with this thing?”
”We can't confirm the attitude of the immortal world toward the Fallen Immortals because the True Immortals that occasionally visited the lower realm has never had in-depth communications with the cultivators, or even start a dialogue, so we can't ask them anything. On the more optimistic note, perhaps they are already trying to stop the Fallen Immortals from coming, otherwise, the number of Fallen Immortals would be ten times as many. But…”
Wang Lu was silent for a while. ”But it is also possible that the immortals in the upper realm are completely not interested in caring about the lives and deaths of the lower realm. Just as humans do not care about the burning of the ant nest by their naughty children.”