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Immortality Path: From the Blind Man at the Pharmacy-Chapter 333 - 185, 186. As time passes, the third son, Ten Thousand Spirits Country, the Magnificent Five Heroes (Subscribe please)
Chapter 333: 185, 186. As time passes, the third son, Ten Thousand Spirits Country, the Magnificent Five Heroes (Subscribe please)
Even in the Reappear World, even knowing that it was all just the shadow of the past, and even as a mere spectator, Song Cheng’s heartbeat was still racing.
He watched the moonlight twisting and eerily splitting apart, falling once again upon Su Ningyu’s figure behind him, while Yu’s black hair quickly withered, her beautiful face sprouted endless wrinkles, and her plump, vibrant body shriveled rapidly like a corpse drained of all moisture...
The burden on his back lightened and emitted a stench of decay, as the beauty abruptly turned into a skeleton that had weathered hundreds of years.
It was Yu’s skeleton, but it was also the skeleton of his distant past self.
The ordeal that Yu was currently enduring was exactly what he had experienced before.
Song Cheng looked up to see that the dark floor above him had no visible end, boundless, with head-sized windows open on the slanted cold walls.
Outside the window, that giant face still had its eyes firmly shut, obstructing the sky as it huddled in front of the tower. Its skin textures were distinct, but due to its enormity, it was difficult to see the whole picture, making it unclear whether it was male or female.
Song Cheng couldn’t help but ask himself, "Did I really experience all this before my transmigration"?
That face, which could instantly cause a sufferer of "fear of large objects" to collapse, suspended outside the tower. When it closed its eyes, everything still seemed oppressively tranquil. What would it be like if it opened them?
Song Cheng was still carrying Yu’s skeleton on his back.
Such an inconceivable situation left him unsure of what to do.
And soon, Yu’s voice came from below the floor again.
"Song Cheng! Song Cheng!"
Within the dark spiral staircase, "thud thud" footsteps sounded again.
Another shadow ran up, and this time... just as the shadow reached in front of Song Cheng, a crisp shattering sound was heard.
"Seal," shattered.
Shattered like blue-and-white porcelain breaking as it hit the ground.
Yu’s hand grasped Song Cheng.
That hand was still trembling, and so was Yu’s entire body. If death itself was unsettling, then... having died once and come back to life, only to know that death would come again.
In such a case, would you be fearless?
The two continued to walk for a while, and when the moonlight fell again, Yu had completely fallen unconscious... Song Cheng hesitated no longer; he picked up Yu and tapped the wall of the tower beside him.
Miraculously, the hard, cold stone wall transformed into a door.
Song Cheng carried Yu out through that door and entered an entirely black world.
Behind them, the towering tower became increasingly hazy.
The two gradually moved away, leaving the Reappear World and emerging in a forest bedecked with colorful flowers and trees, which was... exactly where they had chosen to enter the Reappear Calamity.
Yu slowly came to, still in a state of shock.
"What was that tower?"
"Probably the Immortal Tower."
"Immortal Tower..."
Yu didn’t know how to respond.
At that moment, she clung tightly to Song Cheng’s clothes.
The fear of death had not yet dissipated, as if a little girl had woken from a nightmare at midnight.
Song Cheng gently soothed Yu while scanning their surroundings. What puzzled him was that the scenery had not changed at all; it was still the same as when they had entered the calamity.
"Could it be that not much time has passed outside?" Song Cheng wondered, yet he distinctly remembered that whether it was his tribulation or the one he underwent with Su Mengzhen, it had lasted nearly half a year.
Not far away, a little bird flew down from the woods and said, "Daddy, Third Mom, you’ve finally come out."
Seeing his daughter, Song Cheng naturally felt joyful, and even the strange tower in the Reappear World seemed to fade a little. He asked, "Ting, how long has it been?"
The little bird said, "A year."
Song Cheng fell silent, pondering for a moment, but he roughly guessed the reason.
The reason why a year had passed this time was probably because he had entered a deeper part of the Reappear World.
In that area, the flow of time clearly differed from the outside.
He closed his eyes and sorted his thoughts.
He had gained quite a bit from this journey.
First, his understanding of "Seal" had improved;
Second, he roughly knew what he had experienced before his transmigration, and deep down, he had completely separated "Nether Pagoda" from "bonus points."
Originally, when he was weaker, he saw both as his "Golden Finger."
But now, it appeared that the two were distinctly different.
Perhaps the latter was more worthy of trust.
As he was pondering, the little bird chattered, "Dad, I’ve run away from home."
Song Cheng was taken aback, saying, "Your mom pressuring you too much?"
The little bird nodded.
Song Cheng actually knew why An Chenyu was in such a hurry—it wasn’t just An Chenyu who was anxious, he was anxious too...
But his concerns were different from Miss An’s.
Miss An was worried about Ting’s life, whereas he was concerned with how to allow his family to live as long as possible, and also worried about the changes in this world.
"Dad, aren’t you angry?" the little bird asked.
Song Cheng said, "My daughter has grown up, she can protect herself now. What’s there for Dad to be angry about? It’s normal for the younger generation of martial forces to have the habit of going out to experience the world. What’s wrong with my daughter wanting to do the same?"
"Coo coo coo!" the little bird chirped happily.
She had been worried about completely severing ties with her family when she left home, but looking at her father now, he seemed to be very understanding.
Therefore, the little bird continued, "Dad, actually... I’ve been away from home for half a year already, and now I’ve even made it to Thundercloud State. Back at home, I always heard An talk about how there are so many different countries in the Western Yin Cloud Miasma, so I thought I’d go take a look."
Song Cheng: ...
He didn’t expect his daughter’s "running away from home" to have taken her so far.
"Why not stay within Dashang’s territory?"
"I got tired of it, it’s not fun."