Am I the only one who didn't ascend?

Chapter 467 Funeral
According to his last wish, Guan Tiejun's funeral should be simple.

However, even though the funeral of the Allied Marshal was simple, it still had specifications beyond ordinary people's imagination.

In the early morning of this day, hundreds of thousands of soldiers gathered in front of the mountain fortress west of Lingshan Mountain where he finally fell.

In addition to the 100,000 people who came to the battle in person, there were also soldiers who were fighting at the rear and were unable to witness the Marshal's solo battle against the True Immortal. They also strived to come. Almost all the Dinghuang Army stationed in Nanxiang were present, and allied forces from other countries also sent representatives.

At first, Lu Youyou, who arranged the funeral, did not want the scene to be so grand, but it was difficult for the soldiers to disobey their wishes. So after a simple negotiation, she temporarily changed her mind and allowed all those who volunteered to attend.

Finally, when the sun that rises day after day finally slowly climbs over the top of Lingshan Mountain and casts golden light on the earth, there are more than 300,000 soldiers dyed by the rising sun.

The coordination and dispatch of 300,000 people is an extremely complicated task, but the countries of the Immortal Alliance have shown great efficiency in this matter. In just two days, the 300,000-strong army stood in front of the fortress in an orderly manner, silently witnessing Marshal Guan Tiejun's last step in the Immortal Alliance.

The person who presided over the funeral was Lu Youyou, the leader of the Blessing Kingdom. She did not prepare any long speech, nor did she deliberately exaggerate the atmosphere of the ceremony. Because when the ceremony began, she stood on the top of the fortress, overlooking the earth, and saw 300,000 faces that were either sad or ashamed...but all high-spirited to fight.

There was no need for any words of encouragement from superiors, because the soldiers never wavered in their fighting spirit. There is no need to dwell on Guan Tiejun's achievements during his lifetime, because as a marshal of the coalition forces, his achievements have long been known to everyone.

His fall was the heaviest blow that the Immortal Alliance had suffered since its founding, and it was a completely unexpected blow.

Therefore, Wang Luo's magic touch in laying out Nanxiang is naturally known to everyone. As another major contributor to this battle, there was no reason for him not to be present.

Before Rongcheng set off to the west, the Immortal Alliance Hundreds of Countries had summoned experts many times to brainstorm and deduce the battle situation. However, even in the most pessimistic scenario, the Immortal Alliance did not lose its marshal in the first month of the war. Generally speaking, if the situation is so corrupt that the Immortal Alliance cannot even save its own marshal, then the entire Immortal Alliance will be in trouble. The existence of the alliance is also in danger.

Pioneering is no child's play. No matter how much manpower and material resources the Immortal Alliance invests in this effort, no matter how foolproof the professors and staff have planned, failure may come at any time. Just like the aftermath of the chaos in Rong City more than two years ago that has yet to be fully digested...

This battle is undoubtedly a tragic victory, but a tragic victory is also a victory. Therefore, at Guan Tiejun's funeral, Lu Youyou briefly commended everyone who participated in the siege of the real immortal.

"...Senior sister, would you like to share your thoughts?"

Fortunately, Bai Cheng was only an isolated case in the four states on the left side of the sky. Fortunately, this isolated case died under the sword of the marshal before the desolate poison broke out in full force.

As the murderer who personally carved a hole in the perfect layout, Wang Luo was simultaneously receiving the admiration and gratitude of hundreds of thousands of people at his feet.

The Immortal Alliance finally passed the most difficult stage of pioneering the westward journey without any danger.

But in the end, the Immortal Alliance failed to achieve a complete victory. The coalition lost its marshal, and Ningyuan Pavilion lost its precious sword holder. Guan Tiejun's fall was essentially the fact that he was shouldering the sacrifices of hundreds or thousands of people on his own.

Regarding this, both Wang Luo and Lu Youyou have subtle thoughts... But the entire layout of the siege and killing of Bai Cheng is known to the senior officials of the Immortal Alliance. In order to smoothly mobilize the 100,000 coalition troops from the hundreds of countries of the Immortal Alliance, they arrived at various key points overnight. Lu Youyou naturally wanted to inform the heads of hundreds of kingdoms of the overall plan and the results of the plan in a timely manner.

However, standing on the top floor of the high fortress, feeling the sting of the cold light of the holy sword that still lingered in the air, the irony in Wang Luo's heart almost overflowed.

After the brief opening remarks and memorial speeches, the key part of the funeral came.

However, in the world of consciousness, Bai Cheng did not say a word, seeming to be disdainful and unable to do so. It was obviously her initiative to come and watch the ceremony, but she seemed to back down when things came to a close.

This sense of absurdity couldn't be endured alone, so Wang Luo quickly shared it.

The True Immortal Bai Cheng is the most terrifying opponent that the Immortal Alliance has encountered since its journey to the west. The True Immortal's cultivation is just one of them... She regards the Dinghuang Barrier as if it were nothing. She can enter and exit freely with just one incarnation. It can spread the poison of separation and desolation under the layers of the Great Law. These things that completely broke common sense and rules almost destroyed the theoretical foundation of the Immortal Alliance to determine the famine.

Ironically, Wang Luo is also among them.

The price is really not heavy. As a result, those who were too enthusiastic about the development of Rongcheng were once again hit hard and had to return to rationality.

In fact, in the battle with the True Immortal Bai Cheng, the actual damage suffered by the Immortal Alliance was not particularly tragic, and the number of casualties calculated afterwards was almost negligible. Bai Cheng's separation poison is designed to break emotional marriages, but it doesn't have much real lethality. And as the master of Desolate Poison was cut down by the Holy Sword of Ning Yuan early, the Desolate Poison that permeated the front line also naturally dissipated... If Guan Tiejun had not been overdrawn in the end and even had no choice but to die, then this battle of the Immortal Alliance to determine the desolate world would almost be It's said to be a complete victory.

Wang Luo didn't rush him, he just let Lu Youyou advance the process step by step with sarcasm in his heart.

Lu Youyou personally took the initiative to bury Guan Tiejun's body among the paper figures protecting the mountain in Lingshan... This seemed to Wang Luo to be a very clever move.

For those who know the inside story, the process of sending the soul and body of a living person into the paper man is actually a process of refining and sealing. In the old immortal calendar era, only those who committed heinous crimes would be tortured like this... Although this was also based on Guan Tiejun's own last wish, it was really inconvenient for the truth to be made public.

Therefore, Lu Youyou presided over the refining in a dazzling way. Not only did she modify the refining ceremony into Guan Tiejun's funeral, she also added a large number of gorgeous and illusory light and shadow performances during the refining process. Guan Tiejun's already withered body, under the influence of illusion, took on the same appearance as before his death. His old-fashioned and scarred face even still had a trace of blood flowing red, as if the old man might open his eyes at any time. Eye.

The process of the body transforming into a paper man is not only accompanied by melodious fairy sounds coming from the sky, but also exotic flowers and plants blooming out of thin air, competing for beauty. In just a short moment, the foot of Lingshan Mountain was filled with fragrance, making people intoxicated.

Then, under such a bright decoration, Lu Youyou, Song Hui... and Guan Tiejun's only two remaining relatives: Guan Dingnan and Guan Xiaohe, the four of them joined hands to lift the withered body like a doll. Bit by bit, they were sent into the paper man protecting the mountain.

The paper figurine, cut and drawn by Song Hui himself, was initially just a piece of pure white and colorless paper with a simple outline and a rough human shape. However, as Guan Tiejun's body gradually merged into it like an ice cube sinking into warm water... the white paper suddenly showed colorful colors, and the outline also squirmed slightly, becoming more detailed and personified bit by bit.

Not long after, Guan Tiejun's face was reflected on the paper man. At first glance, it looks as vivid as a living person, without any of the thin characteristics of the old paper figures. Obviously, Song Hui not only reproduced the technology of the old Immortal Calendar era, but also incorporated the Immortal Alliance's thousand-year evolution of the Immortal Way into it.

In fact, only such a paper man can perfectly carry Guan Tiejun, who was born in the New Immortal Calendar era.

After that, Guan Tiejun on the paper opened his eyes. And as his eyes lit up, his entire body also became full and full, becoming three-dimensional, almost the same as a living person, and it was completely impossible to tell that the body was just a piece of paper.

As the paper man Guan Tiejun awakened, the soldiers attending the funeral in front of the fortress suddenly burst into incredible exclamations and joy. Because people seemed to see the marshal coming back from the dead.

But in just a short moment, Guan Tiejun returned to his original state. His body full of vitality quickly shriveled up, and finally turned into a piece of thin paper. The delicate colors on the paper also faded away in the blink of an eye, and became a piece of paper again. Snow white.

After that, Lu Youyou, with a hint of reluctance, raised the paper man high and climbed all the way to the edge of the Gangfeng layer, so that at the last moment, he could look toward the east toward the rising sun and see the prosperity and beauty of the Immortal Alliance. It was deeply imprinted in my heart... Then, the paper man turned into rainbow light and instantly flowed to the westernmost side of the Dinghuang barrier - the place once called Chilangdi.

With the fall of Bai Cheng, the red ridges formed by coincidence no longer exist. The red ridges like ugly folds sink into the earth as they move westward from Rong City, making the terrain return to flatness. But the invisible border still stands.

The destination of the paper man Guan Tiejun lies on this invisible boundary line.

When he stood on the border, an invisible rope slowly lit up, extending from his shoulder to the distant Jianmu of Rongcheng.

Then, Guan Tiejun picked up the rope and took steps towards the direction of the western wasteland. The steps of the paper man were thin and soft, but as the footsteps settled, everyone felt a silent shaking in their hearts. It was as if the entire civilized territory of the five Tianzhiyou states was being dragged forward by the paper man.

This is of course just an illusion. With Guan Tiejun's power alone, no matter how many people's will is placed on the thin paper man, it is impossible to drag the entire Rong City... But it is not an illusion, because driving Rong City What is moving forward is actually the progress of the simplest and simple trackers.

One thousand and two hundred years ago, when the Immortal Alliance was first established and the Bafang Dinghuang City took shape, when all Dinghuang cities were divided by the wasteland, the force that drove Dinghuang City forward and expanded the territory of civilization was to bravely walk at the forefront of the barrier. of trackers. They used their flesh and blood to drag the entire city forward, facing the slaughter of wild monsters and beasts, and never retreated. Most of them fell on the way forward, and their corpses turned into nutrients for the civilized territory, nourishing the prosperity of future generations for thousands of years. Then, their will and their great achievements were included in the Ning Yuan Diagram and became immortal magical powers.

Nowadays, the Immortal Alliance no longer needs to recruit trackers to pave the way for Dinghuang City with their flesh and blood. Because Ning Yuan Tu has been able to extract an endless stream of power from the prosperous times to push the city forward. So much so that the rear of the Immortal Alliance could even celebrate the victory of pioneering in a state of revelry.

But Guan Tiejun's advance aroused the simplest resonance in Ningyuan Tu. His footsteps seemed to blend with the heartbeats of countless immortal alliance soldiers, never ending.

...The ceremony ended in silence. Hundreds of thousands of coalition troops were silent, gradually dispersing like a stream.

Guan Xiaohe supported his brother, who was still injured and almost exhausted, and gave Wang Luo a complicated look. Finally, he nodded and thanked silently.

Lu Youyou stayed until the end.

She was silent for a long time, then finally said: "The paper man protecting the mountain in Lingshan is essentially a kind of torture. Before completing the mission, a person's thinking, will, and actions will be tightly bound by the mission assigned to him, and he will live like a slave. Only by completing the mission can you gain freedom according to the size of your achievements. The Professor Song Hui you saw before became a completely free and independent person because of his great contributions to Lingshan. There are almost no traces of paper figures left on him. , I have no right to order him to do anything. This time, I asked him to take action purely out of favor... However, the other paper figures of his generation have all been worn out, except for Song Hui. , I have almost never heard of any paper man who can actually complete his mission of redemption and gain freedom."

After a pause, Lu Zhiyao said again.

"The mission assigned by Marshal Guan to himself is to complete the great cause of eradicating the wasteland and cover the entire nine states with civilized territory... Of course, each of us firmly believes that the day of recovering the wasteland will definitely come, but it will definitely not be thirty or fifty years ago. Within. It may take three to five hundred years, or even one thousand or two thousand years. When we first entered the wilderness, we were almost blocked by just one person, and no one dared to estimate the difficulties ahead. However, he still set up such unrealistic ambitions. Therefore, he did not expect freedom at all. It was the end he had designed for himself. We talked deeply, so I can't say why he was so decisive, but I think maybe in his view, the pioneering journey had just begun, and he, the marshal of the coalition, had no choice but to fall... This is not only not an achievement, but a great achievement for a commander. It was an oversight, so he had to use this extreme method to atone for his sins. The so-called "devoting one's best to one's own life" probably describes people like Marshal Guan..."

After saying that, Lu Youyou let out a long sigh and looked at Wang Luo with an extremely deep and distant gaze.

"Wang Luo, I'm not qualified to ask you for anything, and I don't want to ask you to do anything, because I know you must already have the answer deep in your heart. I just hope that you can follow that answer and not be swayed by temporary emotions... As for Another person who hopes we never meet again."

After saying that, Lu Youyou's figure dissipated like mist.

After Lu Youyou left, Bai Cheng's voice sounded in Wang Luo's conscious world.

"Now I finally know why my senior sister back then stood so decisively on the side of the ants... Unfortunately, I knew it was too late. I have always said that I trusted my senior sister back then, so much so that I resented her betrayal. So far. But in fact, if I had been more blindly trusting, maybe there wouldn't have been many of the things that happened later. By now, the resentment in my heart has disappeared, I have no hope for heaven, and my only concern is too empty. Therefore, I really have no reason to stay in this world. Wang Luo, please find a way for me to never see Lu Youyou again."

(End of this chapter)