Chapter 1908 - Stone Village is Still There, but the People Aren’t
The single-legged elder left. This was clearly an expression of goodwill from this restricted region, warning Shi Hao that there might be a true immortal who will take action against him!
The years were long and drawn-out. Shi Hao remained in Imperial Court, several hundred years passing in a flash, yet nothing happened. The so-called ruined immortal revived, but didn’t hurry over.
Back then, Shi Hao was already a thousand eight hundred years old, but there wasn’t the slightest trace of age on his face. He was still young, his eyes clear.
His cultivation became more and more deep and immeasurable.
Apart from the restricted region lord, no one knew what happened. The time he experienced was extremely long, terrifyingly so!
If that wasn’t just a dream, then he already lived eight lives, experienced hundreds of thousands of years. Moreover, his eighth life also already crossed ninety thousand years.
This was an ancient and terrifying amount of time!
No one else knew, Mu Qing, Crimson Dragon, and others had no idea. Shi Hao didn’t tell him about this terrifying experience, preventing their dao hearts from becoming unstable.
Shi Hao could feel that it was hard for time to leave behind its traces on his body. This eighth life seemed to have granted him an indescribable type of power.
In the massive hall, Shi Hao’s palms formed imprints. Endless essence energy gathered from the void. At his body’s side, auspicious multicolored light surged, immortal mist rushed out. The essence of heaven and earth was thick to the point of becoming liquid.
“Come!”
Shi Hao released a short shout. His palms shone, acquiring the innate essence of heaven and earth!
Weng!
The entire massive palace surged with heaven reaching divine light. The world surged intensely, the scene in this place extraordinary. All of the plants were growing crazily, as if spring came upon withered trees, seeds germinating.
Even in the distance, on the towering snowy peaks, all types of plants made their way through the ice and snow, blossoming, releasing exuberant life energy.
At the same time, everyone in Imperial Court was surrounded by essence energy. Even without cultivating, the natural laws and essence surrounded them, automatically absorbed.
“This is…” They raised their heads, looking towards Shi Hao who was already standing in midair. He was currently guiding down the foundational essence that scattered down between heaven and earth.
Dazzling divine liquid appeared in the surroundings, flowing with the aura of undying matter.
“This is Divine Origin Liquid?” Zhu Lin was alarmed.
They recognized this type of material. Shi Hao previously brought out some Origin Stones from Immortal Domain that allowed cultivation.
Unfortunately, there wasn’t much of it!
It was because when he previously suffered the attack of Aocheng Immortal King, large amounts of this treasure exploded to pieces, turning into essence energy, thus scattering, only a small amount was left behind.
Now, Shi Hao was currently refining this type of thing himself, creating it himself!
In the past, no one did this type of thing. However, the various long life clans tried every method to infuse it into some divine medicines and other things, refine some undying matter. They then drew out heaven and earth essence, turning it into liquid, mixing everything together, and only then was it possible.
However now, it was completely different. Shi Hao directly drew out the source of the world!
This liquid naturally carried some undying substance.
The most shocking thing was that this Divine Origin Liquid could seal a body. When wrapped within, they would become dormant, the corrosion of time no longer able to corrode their body and mind.
“This… is natural luck! This is life substance, able to seal those who are dying!”
Mu Qing, Shi Zhong and others cried out, becoming extremely excited.
They personally tried it. When sealed in the Divine Origin Liquid, their life force became everlasting, no longer corroded. The effects of time seemed to move right past them.
The Divine Origin Liquid wasn’t easy to preserve, it would solidify quickly.
Only Shi Hao could extract the essence at any time, acquire the source of heaven and earth, create this type of matter. No one else in Imperial Court could do it.
Condensed Divine Origin Liquid was extremely beneficial for cultivation, not carrying a trace of impurity. Foundational essence energy surged, being absorbed into everyone’s bodies.
Mu Qing, Crimson Dragon, and others knew why Shi Hao refined this type of thing. This was originally a heaven-defying action, after all, it was acquiring the source of the world, easy for judgment to be provoked.
However, Shi Hao still did it. He wanted to bring this type of Divine Origin Liquid back with him to Stone Village!
Even he himself was already a thousand eight hundred years old, one could imagine just how many generations of people emerged in Stone Village.
Soon afterwards, Shi Hao stood at the head of the village, currently looking at it.
Its changes weren’t great. After being expanded several times, it stopped changing. Later on, the new people who were born all began to build towns in other regions.
This place still retained its original appearance.
After a thousand eight hundred years, Stone Village was still the same, but what about the people from back then?
Shi Hao’s nose felt a bit sore. Even for someone as powerful as him who had experienced the baptism of endless time, there was still a part of him that was extremely soft. This was a place left for Stone Village.
Forget about the old clan chief’s generation of people, even the many generations after him had already departed from the world, buried under the yellow earth for who knew how many years.
Dazhuang, Ermeng, Pihou and the others were still there, but they were already extremely old, in their later years. Their cultivation levels really weren’t that great, being able to live until now was completely because of Shi Hao cleansing their flesh with his own blood.
Their parents had also long returned to the yellow earth.
Shi Linhu, Shi Feijiao, these past Stone Village leaders had previously hunted for the village, providing their food source when he was still young.
Unfortunately, they had already passed on.
There were also those enthusiastic aunts, all of them also no longer there.
Shi Hao wanted to cry. Even after experiencing so much, his cultivation now truly incredible, in the end, his heart was still sore. The people of the past could no longer be seen.
This time, after he returned, the reason he brought back Divine Origin Liquid was because he wanted to seal up some people who didn’t have much life left, leave them alive for the future when he could reverse time for them, grant them another life.
“Grandpa Chief, you can sleep peacefully.” Shi Hao said quietly.
Shi Yunfeng was close to two thousand years old. At his age, he should have long returned to the earth. However, the past Shi Hao forcefully used immortal blood great mending medicine to readjust his body.
However, despite this being the case, time was still ruthless.
In the recent hundreds of years, he was always in a half sleeping state.
An elder with an ordinary body, just how many years could he live?
If the old clan chief was awake, there was no way he would allow Shi Hao to seal up his body with Divine Origin Liquid. It was because he had said that he was already fulfilled in this life, that he could go and meet those old companions now.
“Little Hao, are you really going to seal us? Just let us die normally, we’ve already experienced all of the flourishing ways of the world, what else is there to still be dissatisfied with? What we should experience has already been experienced, everyone has to die eventually, return to the yellow earth. This is the most natural way, and also the best place of return.” Dazhuang said.
They were all already old, no longer able to even walk, their old eyes turbid, full of white hair, backs stooped.
He, Ermeng, Pihou, Huzi, and the others, that generation’s cultivation conditions weren’t great, so their own cultivation levels weren’t high, far from being able to compare with Stone Village’s later generations.
Now, those who obtained Shi Hao’s flesh and blood still became older year after year.
“Little Hao, just let us depart from this world naturally. Doing this is going against the heavens, we are scared that you will suffer the punishment of karma.” Ermeng said. He patted Shi Hao’s shoulder, while he himself coughed.
Who else could call Shi Hao Little Hao? There weren’t many left at all.
Shi Hao’s nose turned sour, hot tears tumbling down. Stone Village was still the same, but the people were no longer there. The uncles and aunts from his youth were already gone.
At that time, the villagers all spoiled him. He didn’t have parents back then, it was the villagers and the old clan chief who raised him up.
However, those strong and robust uncles, those enthusiastic and daring aunts were now all gone. Shi Hao wanted to cry. Time brought away too many people close to him.
When he refined immortal blood great medicine, he previously wanted to leave it for them, but they refused, all of them having smiles on their faces as they left, not willing to squander the great medicine, saying that he should keep it for himself to use in the future.
“Little Hao, don’t feel bad. Everyone has to die one day, this is something that can’t be changed.”
Huzi held his shoulder, his breathing a bit rough, also carrying a bit of melancholy. He looked out of the village, into the great wilderness, saying, “We hate to part with you too, but it is time for us to leave. During these years, we really have become extremely old, yet at our age, we still think back to when we were young, thinking about the times when we went to loot the Green Scaled Eagle’s nest, think about so many people…”
Shi Hao’s eyes became sore, wishing to shed tears, unable to hold back.
He hugged all of these people, saying, “All of you are my family, my siblings who accompanied me, grew up together with me. I won’t watch you all die from old age, please just forgive my bit of selfishness, accompany me a bit longer, accompany me on another journey…”
These people embraced him as well, all of them sobbing.
He wasn’t willing to see everything go! Stone Village!
The past people, they all disappeared.
In the end, Shi Hao still did the same as he did with the old clan chief, sealing them up. Moreover, he used the divine spring to seal the old clan chief, Dazhuang, Ermeng, and the others within.
Stone Village was still the same, but the people weren’t.
That day, some people heard someone weeping in the very depths of the great wilderness. The voice carried sorrow, carried great pain.
Shi Hao knew that these things were unavoidable, but he still couldn’t let them go!