The Devil King? No, Please Call Me The Immortal King Xiaoyao.

#36 - Chapter 36 Fate

Central Continent, Heavenly Court

"Wan Shaou, I'm entrusting this matter to you."

Lian Jiusheng looked at the person in mourning clothes before him, slowly handing the token in his hand to him.

Feeling the cold touch of the metal and stone on his fingertips, Wan Shaou lowered his head and bowed, "Thank you, Senior Lian, for your repeated guidance. This junior will certainly not fail Heavenly Court's duties."

Lian Jiusheng seemed to pity him, and with the matter already decided, he could only comfort him, "Ah, why bother with such formalities between you and me? Don't be too sad. Life and death are predetermined. Just focus on making amends for your mistakes!"

"Yes."

Within Heavenly Court, a white seagull soared, riding the wind and clouds, heading south.

Once Wan Shaou's figure gradually disappeared, Lian Jiusheng slowly retracted his sorrowful expression. His eyes became profound, and his expression turned cold. If anyone were here, they would feel that he seemed somewhat different from other Heavenly Court Gu Masters, but upon closer inspection, it didn't seem like there was much difference.

But if you could hear his thoughts, you wouldn't think so:

"Heh, fate?"

Southern Border, two hundred miles east of the former White Bone Mountain, a "small mountain" slowly moved. It wore a sky-blue back garment with star-like patterns, a snow-white body, smooth and delicate, and large, bright, and lively eyes.

Hearing this description, you might think it's a fairy, but if you said that, the River-Swallowing Toad would probably be quite happy.

Beside the river, the River-Swallowing Toad hopped along the riverbank, with Yi Xin sitting on its head. It loved water, and Yi Xin indulged it, mostly traveling along the river, as Yi Xin wasn't in a hurry. He still had gains to count.

"A White Bone Transformation Spirit Mountain, is none other than the Boundless Spirit Testing Platform.

After forty-three thousand years, I obtained a fortuitous opportunity here.

Feeling it was too empty and lacked spiritual energy, I transformed it into a pagoda pavilion.

Externally drawing in beast birds and a forest of white bones, internally cultivating treasures arranged in layers.

How many layers of spiritual springs and secret chambers are there? Also using a pill chamber as the core.

You can explore its mysteries yourself, using the jade ring as a token to summon it at will.

The path of the Great Dao is full of hardships, gifting this to you, Yi An."

Yi Xin gently rotated the jade ring on his left ring finger, lost in thought, "Yi An? Is this a coincidence?"

It turned out that this so-called White Bone Mountain actually had a connection to the Boundless Demon Sovereign. It was once the spiritual bone of an ancient desolate beast, and because of its outstanding spirituality, it was favored by the Boundless Demon Sovereign, who had not yet become a尊 and was still traveling the world, and refined it into a spirit-awakening platform to absorb the world's vitality.

Although the Boundless Demon Sovereign was called a Demon Sovereign, his personality was more like a scholar who liked to explore, so it was not surprising that he would do this.

Thirty-three thousand years later, a Gu Immortal named Yi An discovered the mysteries here, not only obtaining the Boundless heritage, but also transforming it into a pagoda pavilion. She hid the secret treasures within the external mountain forest, which could not be discovered without special means.

And this Gray Bone Talent was only a Rank 4 Gu Master, so he naturally did not understand the mysteries within. At the end of his life, he relied on a fleshy sac secret chamber in the pagoda to set up a inheritance, and what later generations obtained was basically his legacy.

"I didn't expect Gray Bone Talent's actions to hide the real treasure even deeper. Thinking about it, how could such a unique landscape of White Bone Mountain be created by a Rank 4 Gu Master?"

"It's even more difficult to say that it was formed naturally. After all, the landforms of Southern Border are mostly green mountains and green stones, and White Bone Mountain is obviously out of place. Only Gu Immortal methods can achieve this."

"In addition, this method comes from the famous Boundless Demon Sovereign and the mysterious Yi An True Person. Even Gu Immortals would find it difficult to investigate and know."

There is no need to say more about the name of the Boundless Demon Sovereign, everyone knows his abilities, but this Yi An True Person...

Yi Xin summoned the Riverside Immortal from his aperture. As always, she danced happily and intimately around Yi Xin. Looking at the Riverside Immortal frolicking between his fingers, Yi Xin couldn't help but think of her origin.

Before the sacrifice, Gu Yue Qingyao had told him that if he had the opportunity in the future, he must go to the inheritance secret realm of Yi An True Person, after all, this Riverside Immortal came from her hand. It's just that he didn't expect that the secret realm hadn't arrived yet, and he would meet its master first.

Although Yi Xin didn't know the identity of that mysterious woman, the Riverside Immortal could be so well-behaved in her hands, and he only obtained this jade ring to control the White Bone Pagoda after she left, even if this person was not Yi An True Person, she must have a close relationship with her.

Thinking of this, Yi Xin had a place to go in his mind: "Since this is the case, then I will set off to..."

"Who's there!"

Suddenly, Yi Xin stopped the River-Swallowing Toad's advance, looking alert.

He saw a figure appearing in front of Yi Xin at some point. This person was dressed in cloth, with his hands behind his back, black hair and a beard. He stepped on a giant white seagull, his expression cold, staring at Yi Xin as if looking at a dead person.

Yi Xin's heart surged, "Why can't I sense this person's cultivation?"

That's right, in Yi Xin's investigation, this person's body didn't reveal any true essence fluctuations, like a mortal. This was obviously impossible. Whether it was his cold temperament or the beast emperor-level white seagull under his feet, it showed that this person was absolutely extraordinary.

However, because of this, Yi Xin was even more fearful. Although he was only at the peak of Rank 3, he could also sense the aura of a Rank 5 Gu Master, but he couldn't detect anything about this person at all, unless he was...

"Stop probing, demon," Wan Shaou snorted disdainfully. He looked at Yi Xin with increasing impatience, as if a great fire of anger was accumulating, "Heaven, has come to collect you."

Suddenly, he made a sudden move. Before Yi Xin could react, his chest was directly pierced, blood gushing out, splashing on the sky-blue back of the River-Swallowing Toad, and the River-Swallowing Toad was also severely suppressed by the other party's aura, unable to move.

Suffering this blow, Yi Xin weakly lay down on his back, with only Wan Shaou's extremely cold eyes left in his vision.

"W-Why?"

Listening to Yi Xin's questioning filled with doubts, Wan Shaou closed his eyes. He seemed to be reminiscing about something, or sighing about something. After a long silence, he slowly opened his mouth:

"Why? There is no why, because this is fate's arrangement."

"Demon, you were destined to die!"

Looking at this person he had never met, Yi Xin now knew his origin, "Heavenly Court..."

He didn't say these words, because he couldn't speak anymore. His throat was filled with blood, and a huge hole was blasted out of his chest. The vitality was slowly fading from his body.

The powerful aura of the Gu Immortal covered this world, and everything was silent. The River-Swallowing Toad couldn't even make a whimper. Of course, it could feel the hot blood of Yi Xin slowly flowing down its back.

It wanted to resist, but it couldn't. It was just a mortal Gu. Even if it was the peak Rank 5 of mortal Gu, it was still a mortal Gu. There was a difference between immortals and mortals, and it was powerless. It could only watch Yi Xin die.

"Yi Xin, don't die. You said you would dig a palace bigger than the Yellow Dragon River for me..."

"It's all because Qingzhan is too weak to protect you..."

"Yi Xin, Yi Xin"

"Yi Xin!"

Drip, drip

Crystal tears poured down like a dam, irrigating the land under the River-Swallowing Toad.

In the blur, it seemed to see the day it met Yi Xin.

"River-Swallowing Toad,", that hairless bipedal monkey called it that. It didn't know what it meant, but seeing their surprised and fearful appearance, it understood that it must be a resounding name, just like its mother, once it acted, the sea surged, swallowing mountains and rivers.

And it, finally after a long experience and growth, also obtained the same name. But after having such a name, the world became boring, because the following daily life was exactly the same, wake up and eat, sleep when full.

After all, no matter which creature, once they saw it, they were so scared, as if it would eat them, "Just kidding, I obviously love to eat fish the most, okay? Look at you, either hair or shells, so disgusting."

Especially humans, those hairless bipedal monkeys, always disturbed its sleep for no reason, it was most annoyed.

However, there was one person who was not the same. Although he was also very small, he was quite white, like its favorite moon, and his hands were so warm, so comfortable, and there was also a beautiful butterfly sister.

He told it that he could give it a home where no one would disturb it. With the thought of trying it out, it went to a place called Gu Yue Village.

There was indeed a clean and comfortable deep pool there, but it was a bit small, its size was too big, but its mother said that a big size can find a good husband.

Fortunately, that little human told it that he would expand the pool, oh, yes, that little human could actually communicate with it without any obstacles, so amazing, and, it also knew his name, called Gu Yue Yi Xin, not majestic at all, not as good as River-Swallowing Toad.

After that, its life became much more interesting, there was delicious "honey" from the butterfly sister, and delicious pebbles from Yi Xin, and fragrant grilled fish.

Sometimes it could also go to the mountains with Yi Xin to play with some wolves, but they were too fragile, they couldn't do it with a touch,

It once told Yi Xin, "This Qingmao Mountain is too small."

It was still afraid that Yi Xin, who lived here, would be angry, after all, as far as it knew, many creatures were very attached to their homes, but it didn't expect Yi Xin to nod in agreement, and promised to leave Qingmao Mountain with it, and would build a water palace bigger than the Yellow Dragon River for it in the future.

This made it very happy, after all, its mother, such a powerful River-Swallowing Toad, didn't have a water palace, but it could have it, it would be the first River-Swallowing Toad King in the world with a palace.

And it also had a unique name, called "Qingzhan", it liked this name very much, because it made it feel that it must be a particularly clean water, it liked clean water, and Yi Xin also nodded and said it guessed right, hum ~ Qingzhan the Great King is very smart, okay ( •̀∀•́ )

Moreover, the outside world is really too interesting, especially this White Bone Mountain, it looks really strange, but it still likes it very much, because it took the first step of Qingzhan the Great King here, accepting the Bone-Piercing Scorpion as a younger brother, although it is very weak ┐(´-｀)┌

But Yi Xin is powerful, he actually put the mountain into the ring, wow, it would be great to take a big river that day, hee hee ૧(●´৺`●)૭

Originally everything was fine, everything was fine!

It's all you, it's all you, it's all you! Why did you kill Yi Xin!

The River-Swallowing Toad raised its head unwillingly towards Wan Shaou, the huge pressure pinned it tightly to the ground.

Wan Shaou smiled disdainfully: "River-Swallowing Toad? Humph! Gu worms can't resist fate! Especially a mortal Gu like you."

Hearing the River-Swallowing Toad's wailing, Yi Xin tried his best, using his last strength, to gently pat its back.

"Don't... don't cry, Qingzhan."

"Don't cry..."

"Don't... cry..."

A person's life is limited, it is fragile, if he suffers from a serious illness, he will die, if he is seriously injured and cannot stop, he will also die,

This is fate, people, will die.

Gu Yue Yi Xin, died.

His breath returned to silence, his face was no longer bloody, he, motionless.

Wan Shaou quietly watched all this, until he completely determined that Yi Xin had no life left, the beast emperor white seagull carried him away, he was going back to report to Heavenly Court.

As for the River-Swallowing Toad, he was too lazy to care, it was just a mortal Gu, and it couldn't make any waves. He didn't want to refine it either, after all, his school didn't need a Gu worm like the River-Swallowing Toad.

After Wan Shaou left, the pressure on the River-Swallowing Toad gradually disappeared, it gently put down Yi Xin's body, it shed tears, lowered its head, and slowly rubbed Yi Xin's somewhat cold face with its wide and smooth forehead, it knew that Yi Xin liked to touch here with his hands the most.

"Wake up, Yi Xin... wake up... you promised me, you haven't built a palace for me yet, don't die, I won't dislike the nest you gave me in the future, don't die, please don't die..."

But Yi Xin couldn't answer it anymore, he was as cold as ice.

"Jiang Ang!!!!!"

The earth-shattering toad cry resounded through the sky, the soaring water column rose, shattered the clouds, and exploded into thousands of water droplets,

It's raining.

Sadness, this is a lonely rain, only from the water of true love.

…………

In the darkness, in the silence, voices came:

Fate? What is fate, why is it fate?

Fate wants me to die, so I have to die?

I finally escaped from Qingmao Mountain, will it end like this?

No, no

No!

I still have ideals to realize, and promises to fulfill.

I promised Sister Qingyao, promised Qingzhan,

I will definitely resurrect her, and I will definitely build a big palace for it.