Chapter 144: Longevity, Attaining the Dao and Becoming an Immortal
The initial address?
"...Please Council Speaker, enlighten me."
The Chairman did not answer immediately. After a soft laugh, he drifted towards the direction of the spirit mountain.
Seeing this, the middle-aged Combined Dao also quickly followed.
Soon, the voice of the Council Speaker came from beside his ear.
"What do you think is the ultimate pursuit of us cultivators?"
"To strengthen the Righteous Path Alliance!" the middle-aged Combined Dao answered without hesitation, his voice firm and powerful.
However, this sentence did not receive a response.
The Council Speaker turned his head, glanced at him with a very strange look, and then tactfully said, "What I mean is, what is the pursuit of a cultivator as an individual?"
A cultivator's individual pursuit?
"To... repel foreign enemies?"
After Combined Dao, he knew more things.
For example, on the other side of the Starlight, those Cang Clan who were not annihilated, they are eyeing us like a tiger, wanting to defeat the Human Clan and return to the Central Continent at all times.
"What else?"
"And... to live longer?"
After all is said and done, a longer lifespan is what supports cultivators in overcoming obstacles and pursuing the Great Dao.
"That's right, repelling foreign enemies and living a long life, in other words, means stronger power and higher Realms." The Chairman's tone became increasingly ethereal. "But what we pursue, in the end, is just eight characters."
The middle-aged Combined Dao concentrated.
"Longevity, attaining the Dao and becoming an Immortal."
These eight characters, known to everyone and familiar to all, now fell into the ears of the middle-aged Combined Dao who had just witnessed the Dao Venerable's bearing. They were like a bright lamp, guiding him to see through the last layer of mist.
"..." After a long silence, the middle-aged Combined Dao's voice trembled slightly: "So, the ultimate existence in the Tai Xuan Realm is..."
"Immortal!"
The Chairman looked up at the spirit mountain within the clouds, "The Seven Great Immortal Sects of the Tai Xuan Realm, their nine Immortal Sect Ancestors, are all True Immortals!"
The people of today only know that an Immortal Sect is an Immortal Sect, but they do not know why an Immortal Sect is an Immortal Sect.
The middle-aged Combined Dao remained silent. For him, who had just advanced to Combined Dao, this matter was truly beyond his comprehension.
The Chairman also stopped speaking. The two thus arrived before the spirit mountain.
"Greetings, Dao Venerable Senior."
"Having not seen through the Immortal Gate, how can I be called Venerable Ancestor?"
Amidst a sigh containing endless vicissitudes, the last layer of cloud dispersed.
However, they saw a burly man sitting on the mountain peak. On his thick neck, muscles were knotted like a coiled giant python. His back was straight, like a pillar supporting the sky, propping up this expanse of heaven.
A long saber was placed on his knees. His eyes were clearly black and white, and his features were like they were carved by a saber, rugged and resolute.
"Just call me Gu Mo."
Gu Mo, founder of the Great Desert Saber Gate.
"Senior is the foremost person in the Saber Dao of the Tai Xuan Realm. The title 'Dao Venerable' is well-deserved," the Chairman said seriously.
Gu Mo glanced at him indifferently, "As you wish."
How others addressed him was their business; he knew what was in his own heart.
Then, Gu Mo's gaze passed over the Chairman and calmly looked at the middle-aged Combined Dao behind him.
"You are the Alliance's newly advanced Combined Dao?"
The middle-aged Combined Dao felt as if the unparalleled saber light that seemed to want to cleave him open had appeared before his eyes again. He could barely speak properly: "Yes, yes."
Gu Mo frowned.
This Alliance's newly advanced Combined Dao was even more disappointing than he had expected.
But he still withdrew his gaze.
Forget it, he is a Combined Dao after all.
"Yuan, have you found him?"
The last time someone entered the Mystic Realm, it was to bring Gu Mo the news that Yuan had disappeared.
If Yuan hadn't instructed him beforehand, he would definitely have left this Mystic Realm to search for Yuan's whereabouts.
"No, we searched the entire continent, but we did not find any trace of the First Generation Speaker."
"..."
As expected.
Yuan still left.
Gu Mo closed his eyes and reopened them after a long time. His expression seemed a little wistful, and then he slowly said, "No need to search anymore."
Hmm?!
The Chairman was a little surprised. One must know that Dao Venerable was extremely resolute on this matter back then.
But he was also sensible enough not to ask further questions.
"Yes!"
If this news spreads, the Alliance will likely be in turmoil for a while again.
He had to find a way to minimize the impact of this news on the Alliance.
Just as he was pondering, Gu Mo's voice sounded again.
"Oh right, how is the Starry Sky Frontline Battlefield? Are the casualties severe?"
This time, his tone was quite concerned.
"..." The Chairman couldn't help but pause.
The Starry Sky Frontline Battlefield...
"Reporting to Dao Venerable Senior, after the First Generation Speaker disappeared, in order to search for the First Generation Speaker's whereabouts, most of the manpower within the Alliance was withdrawn from the Starry Sky Frontline Battlefield," the middle-aged Combined Dao respectfully said.
The air...
No!
The entire Mystic Realm seemed to freeze at this moment.
The Chairman lowered his head and couldn't help but curse inwardly.
Damn it!
You don't speak when you should, but now you're active when you shouldn't!
"Look up, look at me."
The voice wasn't heavy, but the entire Mystic Realm dimmed at this moment.
The sky changed abruptly. The originally clear blue sky was rapidly swallowed by dark clouds, leaving only a lead-gray depression. A low rumble was faintly heard, like the low growl of an ancient beast before awakening.
The Chairman stiffly raised his head, only to find Gu Mo staring fixedly at him. The raging anger in his eyes made his heart tremble.
"Can't you distinguish between what is important and what is not!!!"
Boom!
Lightning tore through the thick clouds, instantly piercing the darkness and illuminating everything between heaven and earth. Deafening thunder exploded, as if heaven and earth were collapsing at this moment. The Mystic Realm echoed with this earth-shattering roar.
Gu Mo's resolute face was illuminated by the lightning. The wind howled furiously, and his black hair danced wildly, making him appear like a god of slaughter who had walked out of ancient myths.
............
Upper level of the high tower, inside the treasure room.
Xu Xing was playing with a jade in his hand, just about to answer the line 'A desolate land of Bashan and Chushui', but suddenly paused.
A fierce and domineering aura spread ostentatiously. The contained anger expanded without concealment, and a suppressive atmosphere enveloped the entire Highest Council Submarine City.
The higher one's cultivation, the more suppressed they felt!
"Dao Friend Gu Mo?" Xu Xing was a little surprised.
Gu Mo was the younger brother of that astonishingly talented Ancestor of the Saber Dao from ancient times.
Although he hadn't crossed that threshold yet, he was someone who came from their era, so it was natural to call him 'Dao Friend'.
And after many years of not seeing him, looking at his current state, he had also touched that hint of a boundary.
It was truly cause for celebration.
"It's time to go."
The next moment, Xu Xing's figure gradually faded, and then disappeared from the treasure room of the Council Speaker's Tower.
This was an internal matter of his Alliance; Xu Xing had no intention of interfering.
As for the reason for Dao Friend Gu Mo's anger, he could probably guess.
Like his elder brother, Gu Mo was fiery-tempered and straightforward.
After the Human Clan heavily defeated the Cang Clan, he had gone to the Star Field Frontline Battlefield, stationed there for thousands of years, achieving distinguished military exploits.
During this period, he even brandished his saber at the Ancestors of Cang Race several times. The heroic spirit of his Saber Dao was even slightly superior to that of his elder brother!
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