Chapter 639 - 640: Ascend to Immortality by Daylight
Bai Xuanling wanted to twitch the corner of her mouth, but found she couldn’t, and said coldly:
"Why are you looking after me? You’ll get yourself killed doing this."
"If I didn’t look after you, you’d really die."
Bai Xuanling raised her hand, Qingming returning, and took two heavy breaths:
"I thought you understood."
"I thought you understood too."
Chu Xingchen did his best to maintain a calm expression. Bai Xuanling’s punch had not held back in the slightest, but fortunately, the punch she’d thrown in the chaos of her muddled mind hadn’t employed any additional techniques.
Tendrils of crimson threaded through Bai Xuanling’s eyes, and she said hoarsely:
"Now is not the time for rash actions."
Chu Xingchen grabbed Bai Xuanling’s wrist and pulled her backward—they were within the celestial demons’ attack range—and asked:
"How long can you hold on now?"
Upon hearing this, Bai Xuanling casually pulled a pill from her spatial ring, popped it into her mouth, and after a moment said:
"Your pills don’t have much effect anymore. If I can keep my spiritual consciousness clear, I probably won’t last long enough for reinforcements to arrive."
"What if you stop fighting?"
"Stopping wouldn’t make any difference. I might as well let the world see the old Yama’s splendor once more."
Hearing this, Chu Xingchen grinned and said:
"What’s so great about that kind of splendor? There’s a better kind—would you like to try it?"
Bai Xuanling scoffed:
"Don’t tell me you’re talking about your disciple-acceptance trick? I, Bai Xuanling, have been wise my whole life—I don’t want to end up as a laughingstock on my deathbed."
Chu Xingchen glanced back, looked at Huang Miao, then smiled and changed the subject:
"I’m not a saint. Since you trust me, then I should trust you too."
Chu Xingchen had already made his calculations—if she couldn’t hold on until the end of the battle, then the sooner the better!
Bai Xuanling froze, listening to Chu Xingchen’s baffling words, uncertain for a moment whether her clouded mind had misheard.
Chu Xingchen drew the Shattered Spirit Butterfly Jade from his system space. The jade’s radiance was flowing and shifting now, a pure essence of Dao slowly seeping outward.
After absorbing the scattered Principles, the Shattered Spirit Butterfly Jade had gained one additional use.
The system prompt hadn’t stated it explicitly, but it was practically spelled out.
The fact that Bai Xuanling had let him get this close—at the very least it meant she truly trusted him.
Chu Xingchen’s gaze locked onto Bai Xuanling.
[Target: Bai Xuanling]
[Cultivation: Tribulation Transcendence Great Perfection]
[Orange Attribute: Immortal Physique]
[Purple Attribute: Decisive Slayer]
[Purple Attribute: Combat Instinct]
[Blue Attribute: Exceptionally Keen]
[Black Attribute: Murderous Heart into Spirit]
[Disciple Recruitment Conditions Met]
Bai Xuanling’s black attribute had already changed from the original[Murderous Nature in Heart].
Both were black attributes, but this one was clearly worse.
Chu Xingchen asked with a smile:
"Sister Bai, do you know what every cultivator dreams of?"
Bai Xuanling stared at the spiritual treasure that had suddenly appeared in his hand, momentarily bewildered, and answered instinctively:
"Spirit stones and spiritual treasures?"
"Wrong." Chu Xingchen triggered the Shattered Spirit Butterfly Jade with his spiritual consciousness and laughed loudly:
"It’s Ascend to Immortality by Daylight!"
Chu Xingchen looked at Bai Xuanling, and at the line of text above her head.
[Shattered Spirit Butterfly Jade usage target selected—Bai Xuanling]
Although countless immortal texts recorded that ascending through tribulation required enduring an endless heavenly tribulation, the Heavenly Dao had now crumbled and the path of ascension had been severed.
Whether this ascension would even involve a heavenly tribulation was anyone’s guess.
This ascension was an opportunity provided by the system. His climb to this level of cultivation—at most a sliver was his own effort.
Chu Xingchen didn’t mention that he’d actually made arrangements, measures that might carry them safely to the end.
Naturally, those relied on his wealthy, noble Brother Yuyang.
One sentence from Chu Xingchen—"You can’t just let your brother wait here to die"—had won over Brother Yuyang.
Beneath this location was a mountain-protecting grand array separately constructed by the Taidao Sect—one that Daoist Yuyang had pulled strings to obtain, reportedly based on the original draft of the Taidao Sect’s own mountain-protecting grand array.
Though it was called a draft, it was still a top-secret project—the highest clearance item Daoist Yuyang could possibly obtain. Chu Xingchen hadn’t even seen how the array was constructed.
It had all been personally arranged by the Taidao Sect’s Tribulation Transcendence cultivators.
He only knew how to activate it.
The spirit veins here were weak—or rather, all of Western Niu Continent’s spiritual energy was weak.
Though Chu Xingchen had used the Xuanqing Heavenly Sect’s treasure to siphon some over, it was all far too thin. Array formations required spirit stones and high-spiritual-energy treasures to sustain their operation, and here, Chu Xingchen had already poured in a considerable stockpile of spirit stones he’d saved over the years.
Of course, if he made it out alive in one piece, he would absolutely seek reimbursement from the Xuanqing Heavenly Sect.
How long it could hold, he wasn’t sure—but at the very least it could buy time, leaving some room for a turnaround.
But Bai Xuanling coming in person—that was loyalty. And with her here, she could protect him even better.
Chu Xingchen didn’t hesitate. He decisively activated the array.
Spiritual energy surged and rolled, a golden curtain rising, a formidable Dao foundation turning into motion.
Bai Xuanling stared at Chu Xingchen in shock. The Shattered Spirit Butterfly Jade in his hand surged with energy, and then a wisp of purple qi poured from it, shooting straight into Bai Xuanling’s body.
The next moment.
Bai Xuanling could clearly feel it—the foundation of her cultivation, long sealed off, was being pried open. It couldn’t be stopped, couldn’t be controlled. After all, with no path forward, Tribulation Transcendence Great Perfection had been the highest combat power in this realm.
Every powerful Tribulation Transcendence cultivator had methods to subconsciously block their cultivation from advancing further.
Bai Xuanling felt no joy in her heart—only a resigned smile as she said:
"Ascend to Immortality by Daylight? Don’t you know that brat Lu Xuan once read my fortune—I’m fated never to ascend, and the tribulation means death?"
"If you have such a precious thing, you should save it for yourself. Even giving it to Lingyu would be better."
Though Bai Xuanling had always belittled Lu Xuan’s Tianyan Divination Art as nothing but blind guessing,
the Tianyan Divination Art was, after all, the founding art of the Tianyan Sect.
She had genuinely studied and practiced it. Though she lacked talent, her mind was sharp, and she understood the general principles.
The Tianyan Divination Art was real.
As the sect master, Lu Xuan had reportedly cultivated the Tianyan Divination Art to its absolute peak.
The fate he’d calculated for her wasn’t as hazy as his other predictions.
Perhaps the Heavenly Dao had long since sealed Bai Xuanling’s fate, for the answer had come with striking clarity—extinction.
Chu Xingchen regarded her calmly and grinned:
"Destiny is right before your eyes. Do you trust me, or do you trust Sect Master Lu?"
Bai Xuanling was taken aback, her expression softening considerably. She no longer resisted the force extending and breaking through, and smiled:
"You brat—your tongue is more bewitching than my inner demons."
Ascend to Immortality by Daylight?
Bai Xuanling’s gaze swept across.
In the world of cultivation, who didn’t dream of ascending by daylight?
And with so many cultivators present, she who had been silent for so long—wouldn’t returning like this make for an even grander entrance?
As for whether Chu Xingchen’s words were true or false, Bai Xuanling had no interest in asking. She chose to believe.
Bai Xuanling’s aura climbed steadily, surpassing the limits of Tribulation Transcendence.
Her pressure condensed into something tangible, warping the very space around her.
At this moment, whether demon or human, every being turned to look.
Looking upon this scene.
Ascend to Immortality by Daylight.
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