She turned her head and saw a beautiful young woman in a white dress, holding a few small sunflowers in her hands and wearing a sun hat as she walked along the road.

"Yin Wanluan?" Xi Heng was a little confused again.

In her mind, the other person was not the way she saw him, but a search of her memories revealed no mistake.

"What a coincidence, you live around here too?"

"Hmm..." The girl nodded slowly.

"Thank you for what happened last time," the other person said with a smile.

Last time? And what was it?

Xi Heng continued searching his memory, recalling the incident a few days ago when the other party brought him to their home to be a private sketching model, but the memory became even more hazy.

"Would I agree to something like that? No way," she thought.

Before her, Yin Wanluan approached with light steps, picked a sunflower from one of the few plants in her hand, and cheerfully handed it to Xi Heng.

"It's a rare opportunity to meet you. This is my sketching material. Here, I'll give you one."

"Thank you..." Xi Heng accepted the gift with a puzzled look, gradually finding an anchor point in his heart, and as if climbing a rope, he recalled more.

She seemed to belong to another world.

I should leave this place.

"Not feeling well? Why are you looking so listless today?"

"I'm thinking," the girl said slowly.

"If you have a real wish that you don't know if you can achieve, but to walk that path you need to let go of everything you currently have... should you still go on that path?"

"Your true wish?" The other person pondered for a moment, then replied naturally, "Of course I do. What's wrong with going through fire and water for a sincere heart? And everything else is just scenery."

"is that so……"

"If you've even lost your true desires, are you still yourself?" Yin Wanluan asked. "What are you going to do? Do you want to take me with you?"

"To become an immortal." Xi Heng smiled bitterly.

The other person paused for a moment, then let out a series of pleasant chuckles, saying only:

"Then I'll help you succeed. After you become an immortal, don't forget to come back here to see me... um, see us."

"Okay." The girl nodded, accepting the promise.

The agreement was made, and everything before my eyes instantly turned into countless bubbles, shattering with a bang.

……

Volume 1: Chapter 307, Transcending Tribulation and Becoming an Infant

After Xi Heng made a promise to Yin Wanluan, who appeared as a literary young woman in a white dress, he felt a sense of detachment, as if waking from a dream.

The world before my eyes suddenly burst into countless bubbles, and in the blink of an eye, my vision was plunged into darkness again.

When I came to my senses, I found myself sitting on a soft recliner somewhere.

The surroundings were completely dark, with only the overwhelmingly large screen in front of me providing any light.

The screen displays videos of himself and his friends' daily lives in modern times.

Xi Heng turned his head in a daze, his hair brushing against the back of the leather chair, and saw himself with black hair next to him.

The man was holding a small bucket of popcorn, his ordinary brown-black eyes reflecting the brilliance of the film in front of him, as if he were completely absorbed in it.

He pinched a few grains of food between his fingers, brought them to his lips, and bit down.

click-

Warm music filled the surroundings, and the sound of the movie theater's speakers covered everything.

After a burst of music, the film cheerfully moved to its end, and the girl next to me, who was eating popcorn, suddenly turned her head and looked over.

She said, "Isn't this what you wanted? Why are you leaving?"

"..." Xi Heng shook his head and slowly looked at the screen.

It is depicted as quite cheerful, like a paradise.

“There’s always a difference between reality and illusion,” she said. “Even if I want such a paradise, I have to work hard to achieve it myself, rather than being trapped by sudden illusions for the rest of my life.”

"What's wrong with illusions?" said the black-haired girl eating popcorn. "Sometimes, truth and falsehood aren't that important."

"True is true, and false is false," Xi Heng answered clearly, then casually asked, "Who are you?"

The other person did not respond, but simply moved the popcorn bucket in their arms a little closer.

The white-haired girl thought for a moment, then went over, picked up a few pieces, and brought them to her lips.

Taking a bite, the taste was exactly the same as the popcorn I remembered from the movie theater.

"Impression..." she began to guess, "Is this my impression? Is the torment in my heart not over yet?"

The person next to you shook their head again: "You have already passed the third tribulation of enlightenment. Next is the fourth tribulation, the tribulation of seeing one's true nature."

"So who are you?" Xi Heng rubbed his temples.

“I am you. You will see more of yourself in the future.” The other person said, “Let them become you.”

“I don’t understand…” Xi Heng tilted his head.

With a blink of an eye, the other person vanished instantly.

The entire movie theater was instantly engulfed in flames.

Amidst the howling sound, the crimson flames spread from west to east as if time had accelerated.

In an instant, the flames covered all vision, and amidst the howling fire and scorching sounds, the video was still playing.

Xi Heng heard a deep rumble of thunder, and then everything went dark.

Whether it was a moment or a long time later, specks of white light reappeared in the field of vision, until they covered everything.

The white light disappeared, and the scene of Yaowang Mountain appeared before my eyes.

A young girl carrying a basket was panting as she climbed up the hillside, her hands covered in dust and her steps unsteady.

Xi Heng recognized himself as someone who was about to die for the first time as he prepared to pick the Ganoderma lucidum on the cliff.

As she watched silently, the other person suddenly turned around, stared at her inexplicably, and asked:

Am I you?

“You are my past,” Xi Heng said.

A slight smile appeared on the other person's lips: "Looks like the future looks pretty good..."

In an instant, the frail girl's figure transformed into a stream of light and fell into Xi Heng's body.

The view shifted, a flash of white light appeared, and the scene changed again.

At the foot of Yaowang Mountain, in Kangcao Pavilion.

The air was filled with the aroma of medicine, and a young girl stood on the counter, coughing softly.

Xi Heng stepped across the threshold and saw the other person staring straight at him, their eyes shimmering, seemingly lost in thought.

A moment later, the other person said, "Am I you?"

“You are also my past,” Xi Heng continued.

But this time the other person shook their head: "I'm asking my conscience."

"Intentions?"

"Are you still me now?" the other person asked.

"Of course." Xi Heng felt there was no difference.

"Hmm..." The girl from the pharmacy stared at her for a while, looking left and right, and then nodded hesitantly after a moment: "Let's just say that, since we'll have another chance to ask again later, so I won't make things difficult for myself this time."

After saying that, a white light flashed around her, as if she were about to swim towards the herb-gathering girl from before.

"Wait a minute." Xi Heng raised his hand and asked, "I have a feeling that you all know something I don't. What do you mean by 'there will be another opportunity'? What do you mean by 'making things difficult'?"

"You can't ask me that," the girl from the pharmacy said, spreading her hands. "You have to ask your own conscience."

What is one's true nature?

"I don't know." The other party stuck out its tongue and its body transformed into a stream of green light, sending it into Xi Heng's body.

Then the view changed again, and after a flash of white light, they arrived at the training ground of the Red Thread Sword Academy.

Among them was a young girl dressed in red and white, twirling a sharp blade in front of a sword-testing stone.

Upon seeing Xi Heng arrive, she stopped what she was doing, went to the spring, took a bamboo tube, and drank a ladleful.

Then he turned his sword and pointed it at Xi Heng:

Am I you?

"Yes, yes, yes." The white-haired girl pressed her temples and said with distress, "Everyone is like that, so please don't make things difficult for me, okay? Let me get through this tribulation of enlightenment easily."

However, the girl from the Sword Academy frowned slightly: "You seem so lazy. Are you really me?"

"Weren't you lazy at the Sword Academy? Hmm... you did seem to work quite hard." Xi Heng recalled for a moment, then added, "Anyway, you'll understand when you get to my age. It's better to have fewer troubles."

"How old are you?" the black-haired girl from the Sword Academy asked.

"Let me think... one hundred and one hundred and twenty years old?" she calculated.

Upon hearing this, the other party remained silent for a moment before saying:

"Take my sword, and you can pass this pass."

“Alright.” Xi Heng nodded, flames bursting forth in his hand, forming a crimson blade.

Then, the person in front of him suddenly took a step forward, the sharp blade retracted to his shoulder, and with the force of a rain of blood falling from the sword, he charged straight at him in an instant—

The white-haired girl casually raised her sword to block, but when the two swords clashed, she discovered that the sword's power was many times greater than she had imagined.

She suddenly focused her mind and concentrated her strength, managing to block it.

The woman dressed in the Sword Academy robes stopped and nodded to Xi Heng.

Then, just as promised, it turned into light and fell down.

The next scene is in the imperial city, where a young girl who has just changed into the clothes of a princess of the Great Zhao Dynasty is wandering around the Sijia Palace surrounded by palace maids.

When Xi Heng arrived, both the princess of Great Zhao and the palace maids stopped and looked at him.

In just a few seconds, the princess said nothing, her eyes sparkling as she ran towards her, as if she only wanted to escape from this place, and transformed into a stream of light that entered her body.

Next came a wandering swordsman who, after exchanging swords with Xi Heng a few times, acknowledged her.

Next was the Emperor of Great Zhao, who had just killed several treacherous officials. Seeing only Xi Heng's current relaxed, lazy, and trouble-averse appearance, he assumed she was him and entered.

The journey of the sea traveler was even simpler. He only had to see that he had become a cultivator, ask a few questions about his current level and whether he could advance his cultivation further, and then he directly accepted it.

The border generals were a bit of a problem, but the Blood Sea Asuras behind them were even more terrifying. Xi Heng fought them for a while before he could barely manage to retreat.

And then there were the Heavenly Emperor Zhao, the Crimson Dragon's true form, the Apostle of Vengeful Fire, the Lord of the Death Realm, and so on. One after another, none of them were easy to talk to. Xi Heng spent a great deal of effort to forcibly peel them off as his past.

He encountered difficulties several times during this period and only managed to achieve success after exerting all his efforts.

These tribulations of enlightenment are far more difficult than the three tribulations just now.

When Xi Heng merged his past self into his main body, absorbed their power, and his mind became whole, he silently pondered the power of the next three tribulations of lightning.

Outside, on the platform of the Divine Tree.

The white-haired girl slowly exhaled the remaining turbid air from her body, finally overcoming two mental tribulations, and opened her eyes.

Many powers related to the past reappeared within his body, which were gradually absorbed into his body by the nascent soul and absorbed into his own power.

Looking around, he saw that the spirit stones and auxiliary materials such as the Five Elements Spirit Fruits that had been placed beside him had all turned into gray and black remains after the mental tribulation, and no longer had any spiritual light.

Xi Heng looked inward and found that the spiritual fire within his body had significantly increased.

Even though there were still three types of lightning tribulations left and the nascent soul was not yet fully mature, it was greatly amplified by the effects of the Five Elements Spiritual Fruit.

"The fire element effect of the spirit fruit has already taken effect; has the time element effect also taken effect?" she wondered.

"Perhaps it exists, perhaps it doesn't... After all, it's unknown whether the Heavenly Dao of Time is complete at this point."

These thoughts vanished in an instant, and the girl immediately gathered her spiritual light again, preparing to face the upcoming triple lightning tribulation.

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