Outside of Time - Chapter 1153

[Chapter 1131 Heaven and Earth are the Guest Houses of All Living Things]

A plant stands tall, blooming, with branches and leaves swaying, shining with starlight.

Another tree next to it has withered and fallen, its branches and leaves have dried up, and its flowers have fallen, as if it is about to merge into the muddy earth.

But… the Poison King is still staring.

I didn’t look at the flower that seemed to be victorious, but at the other one that was gradually blending into the mud.

“Live towards death?”

The Poison King murmured, with a strange gleam in his eyes.

…

At the same time, in the sky of the Western Region, Li Mengtu’s face was pale. As he sped along, the injuries in his body surged and he occasionally spurted out blood. No matter how he suppressed it, it reached the critical point.

This battle was the most intense life-and-death struggle in his life.

Although it was a narrow victory, the injuries were unprecedentedly severe.

“I’ve fought with other stars, and that’s the most I’ve gotten.”

Li Mengtu murmured. Even though he had won now, he was still frightened when he recalled the scenes before.

It is this mentality that makes him not relax at all now.

“There is never a lack of variables in this world, and variables… especially love geniuses.”

Li Mengtu took a deep breath. He would not allow any variables to occur in this incident, so he knew that his speed was still too slow.

So the next moment, he raised his right hand and pressed it on his forehead. Amid the roar, his face became abnormally red, as if his potential was stimulated and some of his power was burned.

This will result in faster speed and instant movement.

In this way, over a period of three days, with the help of his own teleportation and the power of the ancient teleportation array, he finally returned to the Li family before the arrival of the fourth aurora vortex day.

It is not the forbidden area east of the center, but the real ancestral land of the Li family.

Li Cheng!

This city is majestic and vast in scope. It is prosperous and has countless monks.

And beneath the city, deep in the earth, there exists an amazing underground palace.

This underground palace is like a separate world.

To be precise, it is true. It is a small world.

There is heaven and earth inside, but no living beings.

The whole world was quiet, with only the wind howling here, blowing across the rivers, across the plains, and blowing on a high peak.

There is a wooden house on the top of the mountain.

The door is closed.

In the courtyard, there was a tripod with burning incense rising into the sky, not tilting or slanting in the wind, like a blue cloud rising straight up.

After a long time, the sky of this small world began to ripple silently, and the figure of Li Mengtu stepped out from it.

After arriving here, he took a deep breath and walked into the yard of the wooden house. Looking at the closed door of the wooden house, his expression became solemn.

Kneeled down.

This place is the holy land of their Li family and where the ancestor lived in his later years.

After the ancestor passed away, it became the ancestral hall of the Li family.

According to clan rules, clan members are not allowed to come here except on the day of ancestor worship.

“The descendant, Li Mengtu, disturbed the peace of our ancestors.”

Li Mengtu spoke in a low voice, then touched his forehead to the ground and kowtowed solemnly.

After a while, Li Mengtu stood up, withdrew his gaze from the house and looked at the furnace in front of him.

This furnace is the goal and focus of his visit this time.

So with a wave of his hand, the scroll that sealed Xu Qing flew out of Li Mengtu’s body and went straight to the furnace.

The moment it fell into the cauldron, the entire cauldron shook violently, and this small world also shook in an instant, with a rumbling sound.

Endless flames rose from the ground, coloring the world, and the formation was also shining.

Using the world as a formation and the earth fire as a limit, the furnace is gathered together to turn it into a baking furnace to bless the scroll, thereby making its refining power surge.

“This way, we can be absolutely safe. There is no possibility of Xu Qing turning around, and he will definitely die!”

Looking at all this in front of him, Li Mengtu finally felt relieved.

After he bowed to the wooden house of the ancestral hall again, he walked into the sky, ready to leave here and return to the Taoist Immortal Sect to use the rich immortal spirit there to heal his wounds.

“When I recover from my injuries and come back here, Xu Qing’s spirit will have dissipated into the thick earth, and my inheritance will also return.”

Li Mengtu lowered his head and looked at the cauldron again, then at the scroll inside the cauldron.

What exactly is contained in the scroll left behind by the ancestor of the Li family before he passed away? Most of his descendants only know part of it, but not the details.

They only knew that the scroll was a family treasure and came from a place called Houtu.

That is the hometown of our ancestors.

I just know that if someone can open it, even a lower immortal can seal it.

Li Mengtu, who could only open a glimmer of the scroll at the cost of his life, knew more.

“The body withers and becomes nothingness, the soul goes through reincarnation, constantly being worn away, and finally… the spirit is scattered into the thick earth.”

While muttering, Li Mengtu’s body shook and disappeared from the place.

With his departure, the peace of the small world was broken and it fell into endless roar of fire. This sound… echoed for a long time.

…

Boom!
Boom!
Boom!
The sound of thunder seemed to come from the distant sky, passing through the real world and falling into the illusory sky, becoming a muffled thunder.

Exploded in the ears of countless sleeping people in the capital.

Awakening all the living beings in this city.

It also woke up an old man, who opened his eyes silently and coughed softly.

This sound, to some extent, seemed to surpass the thunder in the sky, causing the old man’s mansion to be brightly lit in an instant, and countless servants rushed over immediately.

Dare not neglect in the slightest.

Because the thunder in the sky kills people, it depends on fate.

The old man kills people based on his mood.

Therefore, his cough was louder than thunder.

The old man was wearing a valuable silk undershirt, which showed that he was of noble status.

Although he had a head full of white hair, wrinkles all over his face, and dark brown age spots were very obvious on his body, the aura of power that came from being in a high position for so long could make people ignore the fact that he was about to die when looking at him.

All I remember is his thunderous wrist in his life.

“What time is it?”

The old man spoke hoarsely.

Dozens of servants came rushing over, each one of them cautiously, and some spoke in a low voice.

“Master, it’s four o’clock in the morning.”

The old man was silent for a while, then lay down again and spoke softly.

“Everyone, go down.”

All the servants breathed a sigh of relief and cautiously left.

The room became quiet again, with only the occasional rumble of thunder from the sky.

In the darkness, the old man did not close his eyes. He looked into the darkness, felt the withering of life, felt the weakness that he was unwilling to accept, and also felt the approach of death.

“I’m old…but I always feel like I’ve forgotten something.”

The old man murmured for a long time, and finally closed his eyes.

This was the 79th year of the Tiangui calendar in the Daning Dynasty, the capital of Daning, Tianbao City.

Prime Minister Xu Jinfa, who had great power, assisted Emperor Tiangui in ascending the throne, conquered twenty-five countries, and laid an unprecedented foundation for Daning… passed away.

There was constant thunder that night.

Like reincarnation, it never stops.

Some of the people in reincarnation can be remembered by history, but more of them… are just a wave.

Like on this day, Xu Hong was born in another world.

His father was a businessman, and his lifelong goal was to become a wealthy businessman.

So, the eldest son born in the family tonight was named Hong.

Throughout his life, Xu Hong worked hard to fulfill his father’s dream. He gave up studying, took over the family business early on, and moved towards his ideal.

Day after day, year after year.

Along the way, he was kind and generous, and became a great philanthropist in the eyes of others.

But unfortunately, a scam set up by someone close to him ended his family’s dream.

A plague shattered his own dream.

All the wealth in the family has become nothing.

He was separated from his wife and children and was extremely miserable. Before he died… he was wrapped in a mat and thrown into a pile of corpses in the city, and then burned… to death.

Regret?

Xu Shan had no idea, he just felt a little unlucky, so he endured the headache, looked at the burning corpse in front of him, and spat out a mouthful of thick bloody phlegm.

All around him were broken carriages on the official road, gold ingots scattered all over the ground, shivering women, and pairs of greedy eyes in the flames.

He is one of them.

As a bandit on the Yunlai Mountain, he was unwilling to do so. After all, he, Master Xu San, had been used to a free life. As a man of the world, what he wanted was to be free.

Staying on this mountain, robbing passing caravans, and occasionally facing life and death, the result is… others eat the meat while you drink the soup.

He was very impatient with days like this.

The point is, his head was hurting more and more.

This was a problem he had when he was a child. His mother said it was a sign of his brain growing.

He believed it at that time.

But as I grew older, my headaches became more and more severe, but my brain didn’t seem to grow much.

I was always deceived, always wronged, and my mother was killed by someone. I felt like I was taking revenge…

I don’t remember anymore, I just remember that I could never kill enough.

So he knocked his head hard, and then bandaged the wound on his leg. Thinking about the knife that the escort had stabbed him with before he died, which almost cut his vitals, Xu Shan felt even more unlucky.

“I need to find a time to leave here. It would be best if I could find a doctor to take a closer look at what’s going on in my brain.”

As Xu Shan was thinking, a laugh came from afar, followed by a trembling woman being thrown in front of Xu Shan.

“Silly Third, you performed well today. How about I give you a wife as a reward?”

Xu Shan’s whole body trembled. These words made his head hurt no longer. At this moment, his breathing became rapid. He stared at the trembling woman. He suddenly felt that being a bandit here was not a bad thing.

So he quickly asked the second in command who had given him the reward.

“Ah, thank you…”

A stone came flying at him and landed on Xu Shan’s head.

The force was so strong that Xu Shan felt pain and took a few steps back. The second in command in his eyes began to laugh at him.

“Do you really want it?”

These words were accompanied by countless laughs all around.

“No, no…”

Xu Shan also smiled, but underneath his nonchalant appearance, he felt a severe pain in his head.

The pain made him want to kill someone, or… kill himself.

So when the group packed up all their belongings and were on their way back to the village, he rushed in front of Er Dian Nian and stabbed him with a knife amid the other’s laughter.

But unfortunately, I didn’t win.

What greeted him was a storm of pain, and his whole body was like a rag doll with holes all over it, and blood all over it.

But before he died, he smiled.

In front of the astonished eyes of the second in command and with the sound of people around him gasping for air, he swallowed the meat he had bitten off.

That piece of meat was from the second in command’s throat.

The world is blurry.

In this blur, Xu Shan suddenly found that his headache was gone, and a sentence that seemed to be out of his memory came into his mind.

“Heaven and earth are the guest houses of all living things…”

“What’s the meaning?”