ninety thousand miles

Chapter 562 Fortunately
Liu Yang was very anxious.

Soon after he noticed the changes below, the white jade steps connecting the two spaces disappeared. Thinking of the pot sound he heard before, he realized that something had changed on Li Chuan's side.

He didn't know whether this was intentional by Li Chuan or an unexpected event. He searched around but couldn't find any other exit, so he could only wait for the change to end.

While waiting, he could hear the sound of the kettle from time to time, which changed from gentle to urgent and then disappeared.

Liu Yang couldn't sit still anymore. He stood up, stared at the direction of the stairs and wanted to rush down. At this moment, a peach blossom fell at his feet.

He turned around in shock and saw that the ruins had disappeared, replaced by a magnificent fairy palace and falling peach blossom snow.

At the same time, the stairs appeared again.

Liu Yang did not hesitate. He walked quickly down the stairs and when he returned to the gravel ground, he found that it was as dark and cold as when they first arrived.

He saw Li Chuan sitting on the ground, with a book and a pottery jar in front of him.

There was not a single stone left in the gravel ground.

"Li Chuan?" Liu Yang called out tentatively. He saw Li Chuan raise his head.

"What happened here?" Liu Yang asked.

"Immortal Yun Yi left a message. I can only see it after I find the alien insects." After saying that, Li Chuan picked up the "Pattern Scripture" and put it back on his chest. "Do you feel anything on it?"

"The steps disappeared just now." Liu Yang said, "I seemed to hear the sound of your pot. Then a lot of peach blossoms fell and the palace returned to its original appearance. It must be an illusion. Then the steps reappeared."

"Can we go out now?" Liu Yang asked.

Li Chuan said: "Okay, but I want to stay for a while."

Liu Yang walked over to Li Chuan and sat down. He took out a bronze lamp and illuminated the surroundings.

Li Chuan said: "My previous guess was that the Divine Hero Tian Su deliberately chose this time point a thousand years ago, and my guess was correct. Also, the spiritual treasure had already appeared at that time, and Tian Su gave it to the True Immortal Ying Feng to refine. After that, Tian Su also did something..."

He paused and said, "He enlightened a peach tree."

"Is Tian Su's enlightenment to Mr. Tao for some purpose?" Liu Yang asked.

"Well, Mr. Tao is a living White Walker." Li Chuan said.

"I don't understand." Liu Yang said.

"After the Heart Abyss aliens enter the world, they can survive for a short period of time on living things that are between life and death, but if they want to parasitize, they must be intelligent creatures, such as humans and monsters." Li Chuan explained to Liu Yang.

"After successfully parasitizing, it will take twenty years to replace that person, but that is just parasitism, not real life. When the host dies, it will lose all its memories and then replace another person. Even its offspring will also be human at the beginning."

"And... there may be a limit on the number. I'm not sure about this, because the White Walkers in Xialin Village and the Soul Eaters, I feel, evolved in different directions because of the different environments."

As Li Chuan spoke, he was also integrating the information in his mind.

"The White Walkers in Xialin Village will never realize their difference even when they die. It's as if they really just want to be human for once. Maybe they want to slowly increase their numbers and eventually parasitize monks, or some of them can join the Xuanmen and parasitize a more powerful existence." "The Frost Leaf Sect seems to be heading in this direction as well."

"And the Soul Devourers... they seem to want to get in touch with a certain voice through some kind of ritual."

"They are all White Walkers, there is no doubt about that, I am sure of that. But they are not alive. They don't know who they are, and they don't have any written history or anything like that."

"Mr. Tao is alive? But isn't he a peach blossom demon?" Liu Yang was puzzled, "Is this still parasitism?"

"No." Li Chuan said: "He is a living White Walker who is allowed to live by the Heavenly Dao."

"I still don't understand. Did Immortal Yun Yi tell you this?" Liu Yang asked.

"No, it's Tiansu." Li Chuan said.

"He also left a message?" Liu Yang asked.

"The entire Xuanshui Mountain Secret Realm is where he shows everything he knows to future generations." Li Chuan sighed slightly and said, "Immortal Yun Yi just showed me the power of 'life' that he realized here. I saw it, too. Afterwards, I felt a force in my body that resonated with something in this space, and they blended together. Then I understood."

"It was an epiphany." Liu Yang said.

"It's not an epiphany," Li Chuan denied. He said, "It's the things I already knew. They started to connect in the right order, so I was able to see clearly what was originally contained in them. Some information that I ignored and thought was not important was also seen again by me because it returned to the right place."

"It was that glass of wine that helped me." Li Chuan looked towards the place where the stone table was originally placed. At this time, the table, chairs, and wine utensils had disappeared without a trace. He sighed, "Immortal Yun Yi... is a good person."

"Tian Su arranged everything." Liu Yang also sighed.

"Maybe not," Li Chuan disagreed with Liu Yang again. He was not sure. He said, "Maybe... maybe he just did what he could. I have a feeling, maybe not just in this life, but in many lives. I can't tell, but at that time, I sat here, and I felt a kind of peace, and then... then I am very glad that I am sitting here in this life. Although I still have many questions in my heart, I have no idea what will happen next. I am just glad that I am here, and Yun Yixian also came here before, and then we know what Tian Su here has done."

"This is enlightenment," said Liu Yang.

Li Chuan didn't want to argue with Liu Yang, so he said, "So I want to stay here for a while. Read some books, improve my magic weapons, and so on. Stay for a few more months."

Liu Yang said: "It's fine with me anyway. The formation set up by Immortal Yun Yi is still there. It should have only been three days since we went out."

"That's good," Li Chuan said, taking out an iron pot, handing it to Liu Yang and saying, "You said before that you could cook something? Get some work done and cook something. It's too cold here."

"Okay." Liu Yang took the pot, lit the fire quickly, put the pot on the stove, and started cooking the soup.

The fragrance came out quickly.

Liu Yang looked at the pot and asked, "Are all the gravel in the pot?"

"They are all here." Li Chuan looked at the pottery jar and said, "I originally wanted to keep a few pieces, after all, I probably can't find stones with such good structures anywhere else. But since they are all in there, I won't take them out."

"But why does Tiansu want the White Walkers to 'live'?" Liu Yang asked.

(End of this chapter)