Urban Undying Lord
Chapter 335 - 335 334 Ten Years Eighth Update

335: Chapter 334: Ten Years (Eighth Update) 335: Chapter 334: Ten Years (Eighth Update) The ancient tree stood tall and straight for three days, its vegetation growing robustly.

A breeze blew by, carrying with it the fresh fragrance of grass and plants, leaving one feeling refreshed and clear-headed.

This was a small valley, a valley without a name, but Ye Xuan preferred to call it ‘Heart Burying Valley’ because he had buried his heart here as well.

Deep within Heart Burying Valley.

A pond, a tomb, and nothing else.

In front of the tomb, Ye Xuan stood silently, his body without any fluctuations, no longer radiating the earth-shaking immortal light.

He seemed to have become an ordinary person, with only a tinge of sorrow in his heart.

Ye Xuan’s eyes were somewhat vacant as memories from years past surfaced in his mind.

It was on a deep autumn night when Ye Xuan had just emerged from the Blood Sea Battlefield.

Under the hazy moonlight, the brother and sister sat back to back.

“Brother, if one day I grow old and die in the Mortal World, would you cry for Ling’er?” a young Ye Ling’er asked with a sly smile.

“You are my sister, Ye Xuan.

As long as I, Ye Xuan, live, I will not let you grow old and die in the Mortal World.”

Ye Xuan’s words were full of determination, for at that time, he was a fearsome killer, battling against Heaven itself.

He believed that with his Cultivation at the Transcendance Tribulation Stage, he could fully protect his younger sister and mother.

“Brother, remember you said this,” Ye Ling’er said playfully, sticking out her tongue.

As thoughts turned, the loved ones were gone, and Ye Xuan looked blankly at the tomb.

A self-mocking smile crossed his eyes.

It turned out he could do nothing.

Even though he became a Luotian Mystic Immortal and returned after five hundred years, he could only watch helplessly as his little sister passed away in the Human World.

“I stepped out from the Human World, I returned from the Earth Immortal Realm, and though I possessed invincible power in the Human World, I could only watch as my loved ones departed.

What a joke, isn’t it?” Ye Xuan said with self-mockery, but his smile was filled with bitterness.

The days and nights alternated, the stars shifted in the sky.

For seven consecutive days and nights, Ye Xuan stood silently in front of the tomb, like an eternal rock standing firm, with no further movement.

When the sun rose on the eighth day, Ye Xuan finally moved.

He caressed the cold tombstone, his voice hoarse as he murmured, “Little sister, your brother has buried your family of three together.

I hope that in the next life, you can just be ordinary people, living a happy life as mortals.

“Once, your brother thought that if I were just a mortal, I would be willing to grow old with you and our mother in this mortal life, and perhaps I could even give up this so-called path to becoming an immortal.”

“But fate has mocked me, leading me to this point where I have no way back.”

Gazing into the sky without a word, feeling the Earth move without alarm!

Ye Xuan’s eyes were deep, his body faintly emanating immortal light.

The death of Ye Ling’er was a heavy blow to him, for she was his last relative in the Mortal World.

Ye Xuan was lost, and he was also wandering.

He felt that he had lost something very important.

He searched desperately within himself but could never find what he had lost.

Was it familial affection?

Compassion?

Or perhaps it was the full spectrum of human emotions and desires?

Ye Xuan questioned himself, but none of these were what he had lost since he had never actually lost them.

If he had lost familial affection, he would not mourn his sister’s death.

If he had no compassion, he would not have spread martial skills across the world, leaving a spark of hope for humanity.

The so-called human emotions and desires still existed within him but were suppressed by his firm and rock-solid Dao heart.

For he wished to ascend to the Nine Heavens, he could not be blinded by these mortal emotions and desires.

“The Heavenly Dao is unjust, the Human Dao is the holiest, let me walk this birthplace of mine once again, and see what exactly I have lost.”

All around Heaven and Earth, thunderous sounds roared, Ye Xuan’s voice echoed through the valley, as the dark clouds that covered the sky rose beneath his feet and carried his form away, disappearing in the Heart Burying Valley.

The autumn wind was bleak, withered leaves fell, and as Ye Xuan departed, the raised tombs stood firm in the autumn breeze, as if burying Ye Xuan’s last thoughts as well.

…

The world was in an uproar, discussions were rampant.

When the Cultivation Alliance, which had ruled the Human World for hundreds of years, fell, the entire Human World began to waver.

Ye Xuan, with his own power, annihilated a million cultivators within Heaven and Earth, the so-called Cultivation Alliance crumbled with a single blow from his hands.

When this news reached the ears of the people, they were all frightened, deeply afraid that this outsider Evil Demon would instigate a dark chaos, bringing an unprecedented calamity upon humanity once again.

However, the supposed disaster did not happen; Heaven and Earth still operated normally, the sun still rose from the East and set in the West, and Ye Xuan’s figure did not appear anywhere in the world.

As time passed, the four major Cultivation families, led by the Azure Dragon, began to reveal the truth of history, publishing the history books of five hundred years ago for all to know, only then did people realize what kind of existence Ye Xuan was five hundred years ago.

As the truth of history was published, numerous cultivators who had lived for five hundred years clarified for Ye Xuan, awakening the people and causing them to spit curses at the Cultivation Alliance.

The name of Divine King Ye Xuan became known to the people once again.

Sadly, the people did not know that Ye Xuan had never cared for such vanity, whether the world hated or respected him, it would not cause the slightest ripple in his heart.

Ten years passed in the blink of an eye.

As the people waited for Ye Xuan’s reappearance, Huang Pudgy and others searched for him everywhere, Ye Xuan seemed to have evaporated from the Human World, never to be seen by anyone again.

…

Traveling through mountains and rivers, crossing desolate deserts, a flat boat traversed the ocean.

Leaving Ye Xuan’s footprints among the green mountains and waters, Ye Xuan stayed for a year at the first peak of the Human World, and as three years passed, he had walked the whole of the Human World’s native soil, but still had not found what he lost.

In the fourth year of spring, Ye Xuan offered his help to the world, showing his kind side, becoming a wandering doctor, saving countless people with terminal illnesses.

Sadly, even in that year, Ye Xuan did not find the answers he sought.

In the fifth year, Ye Xuan loathed evil, posing as an ordinary cultivator, purging the Human World of injustice, killing thousands of evil-doers, rescuing people from dire straits.

In the sixth year, Ye Xuan committed every imaginable atrocity, plundering and slaughtering across thousands of miles, yet still, he did not find the answers he sought.

In the seventh year, Ye Xuan no longer walked in the Human World, he sat cross-legged in the Nine Heavens, interrogating his own Dao heart, yet he gained nothing.

In the eighth year, Ye Xuan acted as if maddened, the Laws of Heaven and Earth invaded his body, hoping to comprehend his true heart between life and death, yet he was invincible in the Human World, and even the Laws of Heaven and Earth could not harm him.

In the ninth year, Ye Xuan sat withered on the cloud, watching the sunrise and moonset, feeling the trajectory of the Heavenly Dao, but ultimately he gained nothing.

The tenth winter!

Snowstorms danced ceaselessly between Heaven and Earth, the cold wind howled viciously like fierce beasts, and Ye Xuan walked alone through the ice and snow, without a goal or direction, just silently moving forward.