Is there no future for a female immortal? I rely on farming to achieve immortality.

Chapter 493 The Bleak and Desolate Realm

Cang Meng was somewhat taken aback after hearing this.

"Elder Tree must have something important to discuss with that human female cultivator, right?"

"Didn't you just see it yourself? That human female cultivator only underwent a minor Five-Nine Tribulation, yet it attracted such a huge commotion."

"Moreover, the celestial phenomena that arose after her advancement, especially the Dharma image with the sun disk floating behind her head, actually made me feel apprehensive."

Keep in mind, this is just a mere advancement to a celestial phenomenon! Yet it still fills a peak seventh-order demon lord with fear.

This female cultivator is definitely not simple!

"Elder Tree is the oldest living being in our Canglan Realm so far. Perhaps he saw something in this human female cultivator, Su Yang, and that's why he did this."

"By the way, son, you must cultivate a good relationship with that Fairy Su Yang from now on... This Fairy Su Yang is no ordinary person..."

The wolf replied somewhat impatiently, "Then do you need to tell me, Dad?!"

Ever since he learned how capable Su Yang was, he had already made up his mind to cling tightly to Su Yang's coattails.

He even needs to cling to the fairy's leg to ascend to the celestial realm!

Suddenly, Canglang felt a moment of confusion.

He felt more and more like his older brother...

I wonder how my elder brother is doing now? Has he returned to his desolate realm using his life essence...?

******

The desolate and boundless realm.

Suddenly, a violent spatial rift appeared in the air.

The spatial rift intensified until a large, blood-stained cultivator emerged from it.

"puff!"

The stout cultivator coughed up a mouthful of blood, his breathing became extremely unstable, and his entire body rapidly fell downwards.

I don't know how much time passed, but then I heard a 'bang'.

The figure crashed violently onto a high mountain.

However, he was unharmed, while the mountain, unable to withstand the immense impact of the stout cultivator, was cleaved in two.

The birds and beasts in the mountains were also frightened by the commotion and flew away.

Fan Xiaode opened his eyes in a daze, looking at the familiar blue sky and the extremely small amount of spiritual energy contained in the air, before relaxing and grinning.

"Hahaha, I've finally returned to the Barren Water Realm! Cough cough cough..."

"It hurts so much! Those people are really troublesome trying to steal my essence blood."

"Fortunately, no matter what tricks they try, they can't beat me!"

Then, Fan Xiaode took out a jar of spiritual wine that Su Yang had given him, took a big gulp, and immediately began to treat his injuries and the spiritual energy he had lost.

Because the spiritual energy concentration in the Desolate Realm was extremely weak, it took Fan Xiaode a full day and night to finally recover.

"Has the Desolate Realm...withered and decayed to this extent...?"

Fan Xiaode's eyes dimmed.

He had only been away from the Desolate Realm for a few decades, and the Desolate Realm had already... had weakened to this extent.

The next moment, Fan Xiaode's figure flashed and disappeared from the spot.

When he returned to his sect, the Floating Sect, the number one sect in the Desolate Realm, what greeted his eyes was a desolate and barren landscape.

"How could this have happened?! How could the Floating Sect have become like this?!"

He quickly flew towards the depths of the Floating Sect.

Ke Fan Xiao De flew all over the Floating Sect, but still couldn't find a trace of a living person.

What about his family and friends?! What exactly happened in the Desolate Realm during the decades he was on Star Luo Island? What happened to the Floating Sect?

A sense of panic rose in Fan Xiaode's heart.

What about the people in the Floating Sect?

Clearly... clearly, before he left, the Floating Sect was perfectly fine, and the Withered Realm was perfectly fine...

He's only been gone for a few decades, how could everything have changed?

Just as Fan Xiaode was feeling utterly hopeless, a commotion suddenly came from the forbidden area behind the Floating Sect's mountain.

Upon noticing the commotion, Fan Xiaode immediately headed towards the forbidden area behind the mountain.

The protective array of the forbidden area in the back mountain has long been destroyed and broken.

When Fan Xiaode arrived at a corner of the forbidden area behind the mountain, he saw a skeleton lying inexplicably on the ground.

A faint spiritual light flickered in the empty eye sockets of the skeleton.

"Ancestor Ming Su?"

Upon hearing Fan Xiaode's voice, the skeleton's ten bone fingers suddenly twitched slightly.

"Little...Little De?"

"Is that you, Little De?"

Fan Xiaode finally couldn't hold back anymore. Tears welled up in his eyes, and he became a sobbing man in no time.

"Ancestor Ming Su, what exactly happened to the Floating Sect? Besides you, where are my junior sister and the others? What happened?"

"I've only been gone for a few decades, how come everything has changed?"

"Decades? Little De... In the decades you've been there, four hundred years have already passed in the Desolate Realm!"

Upon hearing this, Fan Xiaode paused noticeably, his eyes filled with disbelief.

"How is this possible? Four hundred years... four hundred years... how could four hundred years have passed?"

"Could it be... could it be that the flow of time on Star Luo Island is different from that in the Bleak Realm...?"

Fan Xiaode was right. Xingluo Island was a special region. Almost all the Immortal Realm, the Underworld, and the other three thousand minor realms had spatial nodes and passages leading to Xingluo Island.

Therefore, the flow of time is different for each realm on Star Luo Island.

Fan Xiaode had lived on Xingluo Island for decades, while four hundred years had already passed in the Kumiao Realm.

Su Yang has only been on Xingluo Island for a year, while three years have already passed in Canglan Realm.

Fan Xiaode, looking dazed, continued, "What about my junior sister and the others...?"

"Could they all be...?"

With his last breath, Ming Su replied:

“Little…Little De, in the past five hundred years, the concentration of spiritual energy in the Desolate Realm has dropped to an unimaginable level, and your junior sister and the others…they simply cannot cultivate with this meager spiritual energy.”

"Unable to cultivate, unable to advance and break through their cultivation levels, then what awaits them... is only death! They... have all exhausted their lifespans."

"Only my old bones still retain the last bit of strength."

"Little...Little De...Thank goodness...thank goodness you came back before my last remaining wisp of soul dissipated!"

"As long as you are here, our Floating Sect still has hope!"

"Little...Little De, escape from the Desolate Realm! This realm has completely degenerated into a deathly realm of Dharma's decline, making cultivation impossible!"

"You must find a way to escape the Desolate Realm and go to other realms. Only then... will you have a chance to survive."

"Remember...remember! Your junior sister was still calling your name as her time drew near..."

After the skeleton finished speaking its last words, the light in its eye sockets suddenly vanished.

Fan Xiaode looked at the skeleton that had completely lost all life and closed his eyes in pain.

His tears had dried on his face.

He stood there for three days and three nights, and finally solemnly buried the skeleton under the forbidden ground in the back mountain, his figure flashing away.

The desolate realm, the peak of the mayfly.

This is the highest point of the Desolate Realm, and also the place where the Ascension Passage once connected the Desolate Realm to the Upper Realm.

The upper realm of the Bleak and Misty Realm is not the Immortal Realm, but another, higher-level realm.

In the Boundless Realm, after breaking through to the Nascent Soul stage, one can ascend to the Upper Realm atop the Mayfly Peak.

However, since the concentration of spiritual energy in the Desolate Realm gradually decreased, the passage between the Upper Realm and the Desolate Realm has been completely severed.

"Like a mayfly in the vast天地 (heaven and earth), a mere grain of sand in the boundless ocean..."

This is the origin of the name of the Boundless Realm or the Floating Sect.

The Bleak Realm, withered and insignificant, its name seems to foreshadow its fate.

The Floating Sect is but a tiny mayfly in the vast expanse of heaven and earth...

"Vague and insignificant...mayflies..."

"Could it be that our Bleak Realm is truly just a tiny mayfly under the Heavenly Dao?"

"Is Heaven truly determined to kill us?! Why! Why! Why?!"

"No! I don't believe it! I will not abandon the Desolate Realm! I will not live alone!"

The moment after Fan Xiaode finished murmuring, he stood at the highest point of the Mayfly Peak and suddenly sat down cross-legged.

Around him were displayed all sorts of rare and precious natural treasures.

These are all things he has collected over the decades on Xingluo Island.

He muttered to himself as his hands rapidly formed hand seals.

In an instant, these rare and precious materials released a powerful and intense energy.

And Fan Xiaode, who is located at the center of these rare and precious materials, connects these energies together.

Suddenly, from within the Mayfly Peak, a rich spiritual energy began to emanate throughout the entire Desolate Realm.

The concentration of spiritual energy in the Desolate Realm is also miraculously increasing at a rapid pace.

However, Xiao De's cultivation was at the peak of the Nascent Soul stage, just one step away from breaking through to the Divine Transformation stage, and it was collapsing at a visible speed.

"Boom!"

Suddenly, lightning flashed and thunder roared across the sky.

Countless bolts of lightning formed in an instant and struck fiercely towards Fan Xiaode.

"puff!"

Fan Xiaode was hacked to pieces, but his body didn't move an inch.

"I must...I must restore the Desolate Realm!"

Fan Xiaode's cultivation level has now dropped to the early stage of Foundation Establishment.

Qi Refining Perfection... Late Stage Qi Refining... Mid Stage Qi Refining... Early Stage Qi Refining...

His hair turned deathly white in an instant, and terrifying wrinkles covered his entire face.

boom!

A bolt of lightning struck Fan Xiaode's right index finger, causing a storage ring to break off and fall from his finger.

Fan Xiaode coughed up a mouthful of blood, and a few drops of it landed on the broken storage ring.

He finally couldn't hold on any longer, and his body fell awkwardly from the top of the mayfly peak.

"Failed..."

"In the end, I was too naive..."

"I'm sorry, junior sister, I'm sorry, Ancestor Ming Su, I'm so sorry..."

"Fairy, Second Brother, Third Brother, I have to break my promise..."

Van Xiaode's body was falling rapidly, sparks flying from his robes.

His eyelids were so heavy that he couldn't lift them at all.

At this moment, at the summit of the mayfly.

Without Fan Xiaode's control, those rare and precious materials stopped releasing energy towards the Desolate Realm.

Just then, the dark clouds that were about to dissipate suddenly gathered together again.

"Boom!" "Boom!" "Boom!"

Several booming sounds rang out from above.

Then, a seed that shimmered with starlight and was surrounded by the power of stars appeared in the air.

Immediately afterwards, bolts of silver lightning, as thick as buckets, descended from the sky.

Clap!

All the lightning struck this seed.

But the seed showed no sign of being struck by lightning.

Moreover, this seed is also mysteriously absorbing the power of these lightning bolts.

I don’t know how much time passed.

The seed that was suspended in mid-air suddenly began to sprout!

Suddenly, hundreds of millions of stars appeared in the sky above the desolate realm.

The countless stars attract endless stellar power.

At this moment, all living beings in the desolate realm involuntarily looked up at the sky.

"this......"

"What happened? Why are there so many stars in the sky all of a sudden?"

Boom boom boom!

A massive amount of stellar power, like a floodgate opened, rushed towards the Mayfly Peak.

After some time, the spiritual energy within the Desolate Realm was completely exhausted, leaving not a trace.

Conversely, the Bleak Realm is filled with dense stellar power.

The sky was filled with countless twinkling stars.

Starlight illuminated the earth, bringing a different kind of dawn to the already withered and decaying Bleakworld...

******

Fan Xiaode struggled to open his eyes, looking around blankly.

"Am I... in the underworld?"

Although the souls of beings who embark on the path of cultivation will not enter the cycle of reincarnation after death, they will eventually enter the underworld through various means, be absorbed by the Soul Nourishing Tree, and ultimately give birth to new and brand-new soul individuals.

"Is this...the underworld?"

Immediately afterwards, Fan Xiaode suddenly felt an indescribable pain coming from inside his body.

He simply couldn't bear the pain.

"Hiss—" He gasped in pain.

Only then did he realize what was happening.

"Physical body? My physical body still exists? I don't exist as a spirit or soul?!"

"This...is not the underworld!"

"This is... the Desolate Realm!!!"

Suddenly, Fan Xiaode looked up at the starry sky, and the dazzling starlight, along with the surging power of the stars, was absorbed into his body.

He felt his physical body was becoming increasingly stronger, and correspondingly, his cultivation level was also constantly increasing.

Early stage of Foundation Establishment... Late stage of Foundation Establishment... Perfect Foundation Establishment...

Golden Core... Nascent Soul... Nascent Soul Perfection!

His cultivation level recovered instantly within seconds, and not only that, there was no sign that his cultivation was advancing any further!

Fan Xiaode only heard a 'click' sound!

He broke through the bottleneck of reaching the peak of his Nascent Soul stage in an instant.

Why didn't he die? He even recovered his cultivation and broke through to a higher level?!

However... there was no spiritual power in his body at the moment; instead, there was the power of stars!