Chapter 622 - 288: Cangyuan Seal and World Origin Pearl

(Originally, this ending could have been written for another half month, but today my doctor urgently stopped me due to a serious health issue. The latest check-up results are very bad, and the local doctors are at a loss. They've advised me to go to Beijing for treatment. I bought a train ticket for the day after tomorrow, heading to Beijing Medical University. I don't know when I will return, so I can only rush the ending. Fortunately, the main story has been told, although the ending is a bit abrupt. I hope everyone understands that health is truly the foundation of everything. In the coming period, I need to take good care of myself. Thank you all for your long-term support.)

Each subsequent day, Li Changqing felt the changes in his body become more apparent, as if countless ants were biting him all over.

It was so painful that Li Changqing trembled all over.

Even his skin began to fester, and in agony, Li Changqing clawed his arm until it bled.

Seeing Li Changqing in this state, Mu Qingge couldn't bear it either.

However, she couldn't suppress the effects of the Thousand Devouring Powder.

Li Changqing's condition also drew the attention of the Yan family. Seeing Li Changqing like this, Yan Botao was terrified and didn't know what to do.

Moreover, the spies arranged by Monarch Yuehan in the Yan family reported Li Changqing's condition back.

"Even the Thousand Devouring Powder can't be endured, Li Changqing truly is just a paper tiger."

Monarch Yuehan chuckled.

If he's just a paper tiger, then what's there for Monarch Yuehan to fear?

Yan Botao had no choice and eventually informed Xue Qianbai, hoping he could figure out a solution.

When Xue Qianbai arrived at the Yan family and saw Li Changqing's state, he was also taken aback. At this moment, Li Changqing's hair was disheveled, and there was hardly a spot on his body unscathed, covered in bloody scratches.

Meanwhile, Li Changqing was writhing on the ground in pain, looking as if he was better off dead.

Seeing this, Xue Qianbai stepped forward and knocked Li Changqing out with a hand chop.

It was the only thing to prevent Li Changqing from harming himself further.

"Thousand Devouring Powder."

Xue Qianbai looked at Mu Qingge, frowning, and asked, "How did this happen?"

Mu Qingge didn't say anything but told Xue Qianbai that unless Li Changqing was taken to soak in the Medicinal Spring beneath the Red Source Volcano, he would certainly suffer a fate worse than death.

Upon hearing this, Xue Qianbai wasted no time in summoning the hovering Snow Sculpture, dragging Li Changqing as they flew towards the Red Source Volcano.

The Red Source Volcano wasn't close; it was already in the realm of the Western Wilderness.

When Xue Qianbai brought Li Changqing to the Red Source Volcano, they found that an ambush had been laid there.

Monarch Yuehan and the Faceless Painting Saint had already arrived.

Not only that, but even the four Great Protectors of the Longevity Sect were also present.

Their goals differed, though; Monarch Yuehan was after Li Changqing, while the four Great Protectors targeted Xue Qianbai as the key.

A great battle was about to erupt.

Despite Xue Qianbai's considerable strength, he was quickly outmatched by so many experts, unable to tend to Li Changqing.

The Faceless Painting Saint took this opportunity to seize the unconscious Li Changqing, while Monarch Yuehan eagerly unleashed his Three Souls and Six Spirits, wanting to forcibly fuse the last spirit within Li Changqing's body with the others.

Just as the Three Souls and Seven Spirits finally fused, Monarch Yuehan intended to merge the complete soul with himself. At this moment, however, the Treasure Lotus Lamp in Li Changqing's possession suddenly lit up!

With the lamp's illumination, the Three Souls and Seven Spirits were immediately absorbed into it.

This panicked Monarch Yuehan!

He couldn't understand what had happened; without a soul to support his body, it would decay within the time it takes a stick of incense to burn.

He would truly die.

"Give it back to me!"

Monarch Yuehan reached out to grab the Treasure Lotus Lamp, only for a hand to seize his wrist.

Monarch Yuehan looked up and saw it was Li Changqing!

At this moment, the Treasure Lotus Lamp had merged onto Li Changqing, who, covered in blood, seemed to have been reborn, regaining his original form.

Meanwhile, the attack from the Faceless Painting Saint approached, but with a simple wave, Li Changqing struck him down, rendering him a cripple.

"You're not poisoned!"

Monarch Yuehan couldn't believe it.

"Of course, I'm poisoned. Without being poisoned, how could I deceive you?" Li Changqing chuckled and said, "I naturally knew when Mu Qingge poisoned me, as she told me immediately upon returning. If we didn't put on this act, how else could we deceive you away from Celestial Sea City?"

Li Changqing wasted no words with Monarch Yuehan; Xue Qianbai was still in the midst of a fierce battle, enduring against four Great Martial Sect experts. Holding his ground thus far was admirable.

Li Changqing joined the fray, effortlessly wielding the Immortal Slaying Sword Array; to him, the four Great Martial Sect members were like ants.

The four Great Protectors met their demise within Li Changqing's sword array.

Monarch Yuehan, now unable to escape, felt his body decay, filled with fury at Li Changqing's scheming right until his death.

Monarch Yuehan died.

The position of Realm Master Cangyuan suddenly vacated.

Li Changqing had Xue Qianbai bring him here to lure out the Longevity Sect and eliminate them. However, Li Changqing didn't expect that Celestial Sea City seemed to have colluded with the Longevity Sect too.

Li Changqing moved to Celestial Sea City, seized the Cangyuan Seal, and became the new Realm Master Cangyuan.

He purged those who had once been his lackeys, whether by killing them or driving them away.

At the same time, Li Changqing leveraged Celestial Sea City's power to forcibly end the war between the Human Race and the Ghost Race.

After more than a decade, the war finally came to an end.

Li Changqing also publicly exposed the Longevity Sect's crimes, rallying everyone in the Cangyuan Realm to oppose them.

Nobody anticipated that the Longevity Sect, through war and exploiting countless souls' deaths, gathered a new key to unseal the Long Night Ancient Kingdom and fully release the suppressed Immortal.

With the Immortal's release, the world darkened.

The boundless aura sent shivers through everyone.

The Immortal was called the Lonely Sail Immortal.

The Longevity Sect's leader was overjoyed at the prospect of creating greatness alongside the Immortal.

Yet when the Lonely Sail Immortal emerged, he had no interest in the Longevity Sect; his goal was to break through the Cangyuan Realm's barrier and forcibly return to the Immortal Realm.

The Longevity Sect faced utter defeat, their leader unable to fathom that his three lifetimes of efforts had been for naught.

Li Changqing personally came to negotiate with the Lonely Sail Immortal, saying if he wished to tear open the world, it would require the sacrifice of countless lives to break the barrier.

This was something nobody wanted to see.

Li Hengsheng then revealed the Stele's secret: the fusion of the Cangyuan Seal and the World Origin Pearl was the key to unlocking the Cangyuan Realm's barrier.

Jiang Tianyun desired the World Origin Pearl because within the Cangyuan Realm his breakthroughs were impossible; he needed to open the barrier and enter a larger dimensional world.

However, extracting the World Origin Pearl—if done before Li Hengsheng turned eighteen—would have been fatal.

But now, Li Lu'er had turned eighteen.

The seldom-seen Li Xuanxi finally appeared; for years, she had guarded Li Lu'er, sealing her bloodline aura to prevent discovery that she was the World Origin Pearl.

Now that she was eighteen, extracting the World Origin Pearl would pose no problem.

Since the world's pathway could be opened, even the Lonely Sail Immortal preferred to avoid unnecessary slaughter. Thus, Li Changqing extracted the World Origin Pearl, fused it with the Cangyuan Seal, and opened the barrier.

The Lonely Sail Immortal soared into the sky, leaving this world.

At this time, not only the Lonely Sail Immortal but many others desired to depart this world to see the real Immortal Realm.

Li Changqing did not stop them.

Li Hengsheng also approached Li Changqing to bid farewell, wishing to explore another grand world. After some contemplation, Li Changqing agreed.

He merely advised Li Hengsheng to be cautious, for in the Immortals' world, ordinary humans were no more than ants.

Even terrestrial immortals were but slightly larger ants.

Li Hengsheng bade farewell to Li Changqing, taking Lu Shiran to another world.

Thus began a new chapter.