I am a living immortal.

"well!"

The headmaster sighed and said, "You also know that we must throw the demon that descended from the sky from Shangjing Sect back into the Abyss Valley. Otherwise, if it's Shangjing Sect this time, it will be us next time. We must help, as we will all suffer if we fail together."

“We don’t have much confidence at all.”

"The last war... If it weren't for the Emperor Xi of the Great Xi Imperial Family, the price we would have paid would have been even more tragic. You've experienced it too."

"Your disciple..."

"He's not a disciple yet. I haven't accepted him yet. But this time I have accepted him. I can't watch history repeat itself. Besides, brother, do we really need to rely on a newly-minted disciple to carry the burden?"

The headmaster fell silent. When he looked up again, he looked at Xing Lin with a serious expression: "You have seen his magical powers. Even I cannot comprehend their power."

"You may not know this, but I've tried it before. I wanted to do something about it, but as soon as the thought came to my mind, I felt a chill that ran down my spine. It was the smell of death, the smell of a threat. Do you understand what that means?"

After the headmaster finished speaking, it was Xing Lin's turn to remain silent. He was horrified beyond words. His senior brother, a figure at the pinnacle of this world, felt the threat of death just by the mere thought of taking action. What could possibly threaten an "immortal" who had lived for nearly a thousand years? Could it really be a demon falling from the sky, as happened to Shang Jingzong?

“But…isn’t this also a threat?”

"If, I mean if, when he's facing a great demon, he brings in another great demon, what should we do? This is a complete gamble. If we win, everyone is happy, but if we lose, it will be a devastating disaster for the world. It's better to leave him in the Haori Immortal Sect. At least the danger here is not too high."

"Master, you..."

Xing Lin paused at the sight of the headmaster. What kind of eyes were those? Veins of time? Helplessness?

"The situation in Shangjingzong has become so dire!!"

"Yes, seriously, very seriously. The demon was slightly injured by the skyfire, but we could tell it wasn't a big deal. He was also very special. Unlike the ones we'd encountered before, he was quite talkative. He watched us hopping around with an almost playful expression, like a grasshopper after autumn."

"No matter how high or fast we jump, it's just a joke, or perhaps a dramatic theatrical performance. He did it on purpose. If he wanted to, he could break through the seal and walk out right now."

"We know it, and he knows it, so everyone is just playing dumb."

The headmaster sighed.

"So that young man is very important. Otherwise, I wouldn't have the audacity to let you make the same mistake again. We can only take a gamble. In fact, as you have seen, the young man's magical powers may really enable us to resolve the threat of the great demon, perhaps even solve it once and for all. So this young man must be brought to the Northern Wasteland State."

As the headmaster, his words cannot be disobeyed.

"Alas...if it weren't for that..."

Xing Lin wanted to say something, but he didn't say it.

"If we hadn't been so stubborn, none of this would have happened, right?"

"But this is the only solution. You know, this world seems vast, but it also has boundaries. Moreover, when I achieved my current strength, I briefly traveled through the universe. I saw an unspeakable existence, and it was because of this glimpse of its true form that I created the three great classics."

"But what I haven't told you is that I always feel that there is a much larger world outside this world. And this vast land is just a cage that that existence has drawn up to confine itself."

"This..." Xing Lin didn't expect that the topic had deviated to this extent, and the remarks were so absurd.

In Xing Lin's weird eyes.

The headmaster laughed a few times. "You also think I'm confused, or talking nonsense, right? Unfortunately, it's not. It's not just me. Besides the previous Xi Emperors, anyone who has reached our stage has this ambiguous feeling."

"Perhaps the Emperor Xi knows, or perhaps he himself is part of the world that is imprisoned."

"Have you ever seen the vast herds of cattle and sheep on the Cangnan grasslands?"

The headmaster asked Xing Lin a strange question.

Xing Lin nodded and said, "I was fortunate enough to see it. It was a truly stunning scene. The mountains were filled with flocks of sheep, and the wind blew the grass low, revealing the cattle and sheep."

"Then do you know why it only takes one horse and one person to drive the cattle and sheep? Haha, sometimes you don't even need people, just a few dogs..."

"..."

Xing Lin was clever, and he realized it immediately. But right now, he didn't want to. Yes, how similar it was: the world, the fence, the sheep, the people, the shepherd, the Emperor Xi.

"Do you know how long it took me to build myself from nothing to my current strength? Seven hundred and eighty-three years, two hundred and thirteen days. During that time, I've experienced life-or-death crises, setbacks, and opportunities. And I'm the luckiest among you. But it also took me thousands of years of hard training. In just one day, I could be equaled or even surpassed. These thousands of years of hard training made me think twice before even thinking a single thought. People call us immortals."

"I also want to ask, when has there ever been such a frustrated immortal in this world?"

"You mean... that young man is a figure like the Emperor of Xi!!"

“Maybe or maybe not, who knows.”

The headmaster didn't go into too much detail, leaving the matter somewhat ambiguous. But Xing Lin still considered it. The sudden appearance of a young man with such extraordinary powers at such a critical moment couldn't possibly be a coincidence.

For a moment, Xing Lin was almost convinced by the headmaster.

But on the other hand, even so, he was still his disciple. Although he had only just been accepted as a disciple and might not have much affection for him, that didn't matter.

Seeing that his junior fellow disciple still showed no sign of being persuaded.

The headmaster sighed helplessly, "Forget it, forget it. Let the young man come to see me and let him decide for himself. You and I don't need to discuss this here."

Xing Lin finally nodded.

Before leaving, he looked at the headmaster and said, "Brother, what you said before..."

"Don't worry, I'm not that kind of person. You don't have to worry about me becoming decadent. Beings at our level have stronger hearts than you think. We won't admit defeat, otherwise we wouldn't have come up with that plan. Don't worry."