What's going on? Am I about to meet my demise and become one with this world? I've been so careful and vigilant throughout my entire cultivation journey, yet it seems like that was all for nought... Compared with all of the countless cultivators who perished earlier in their cultivation journeys, the only difference is that I was able to live a bit longer than them. I'm sorry, Wan'er.

If we can be reunited in the next life, I would rather that we were both mortals. Immortality would be out of our reach, but at least we wouldn't have to waste the majority of our lives toiling away in cultivation. 

A hint of sorrow and resignation welled up in his heart as these thoughts drifted through his mind.

Right at this moment, streaks of golden light suddenly appeared in the surrounding space. They were rapidly converging toward him, imbued with bursts of time law powers, but the world was still moving extremely slowly.

These streaks of golden light surged into his body as five torrents of golden...