An ice-cold wind blew past, stirring up sand and dust. The grass beneath the soil was swept up and filled the sky. The earth was barren and devoid of life, and no signs of human habitation could be seen within a thousand miles.
In the distance, there was a silver-haired woman with tears in her eyes as she dug the earth unceasingly. At first, she seemed to be searching like a madwoman, but after that, she became like a machine. She did this every day.
She had been digging in this ice-cold frozen earth for a whole twenty-five years. Her footprints were left behind in a perimeter of several thousands of kilometers.
If a mortal woman experienced twenty-five years, her youth would have long since faded, and her black hair would be dyed snow. How many people could persist in digging endlessly like this?
"Why? It has to be here! I want to find you! I want to take care of you while you're alive, and I want to accompany you when I die!"
She cried loudly again. Twenty-five years had passed since that battle, and every day, she felt as if her heart was being cut by a knife. Every time she recalled the final scene from back then, she felt suffocated and her entire body turned ice-cold.
She herself was unconscious for many days and only woke up after more than a month. In the end, she saw a scene of desolation everywhere. The earth was covered in bloodstains, countless corpses, mountains and rivers were shattered, and all the heroes were gone. Only broken bones and dried blood were left behind. They were mottled and recorded the sorrow of the past.
Ying Xiaoxiao cried loudly for a long time before she started to move again. She clearly remembered that he fell on this land that day. She searched madly for over twenty years, but why couldn't she find him?
There were many withered bones in the excavated ground. It was an endless sorrow, and she really didn't want to recall the circumstances of that final battle.
The dog emperor wanted to send them away, but she couldn't bear to do so. She was afraid that an accident would happen to him because she had long since seen the farewell in his eyes. They might not meet again in this lifetime.
So, she rushed out of the light screen at the last moment. She wanted to stay no matter what. Even if she died, she wanted to stay with him on this land.
"Big Brother Chu Feng, where are you? I've been looking for you for many years! "Ying Xiaoxiao cried.
There weren't many living beings within a perimeter of five hundred kilometers. A large area of the land was barren. Whether it was the population or the vitality of the land, both had sharply decreased by more than ninety percent.
Another two years passed, and Ying Xiaoxiao was still digging unceasingly. She wanted to dig through the entire land. Even if she saw the most unacceptable outcome, she would still continue.
"Why is my power getting weaker and weaker? Why is the essence of heaven and earth and all kinds of spirit qi getting thinner and thinner?" Ying Xiaoxiao raised her head and looked at the sky.
Her beautiful dress had long been tattered, but a girl who loved beauty didn't care about it. She started to look for Chu Feng again.
She did not give up on this area because she knew that the great battle back then had changed the landscape. Perhaps Chu Feng had sunk into the ground nearby.
In the surroundings, there were many mountain peaks that had been shattered, telling of the terror of the battle back then. The entire land was in such a state, and there were many regions that had been destroyed.
On this day, she searched again as usual. When she walked down a newly discovered crack in the ground, her eyes suddenly widened in shock. She saw a tattered battle suit and bloodstains …
"It's his battle suit!" She rushed downwards like a madman. She would never forget. Even though a long time had passed, her memory would never fade. She still remembered that during his final battle, he was wearing that moon white battle suit.
However now, it was covered in blood, long becoming a dark red color. Quite a bit of it was broken, just below.
"Chu Feng!" Ying Xiaoxiao cried as she rushed to the bottom of the huge crack.
She was afraid that reality would be too cruel and that there was still no sign of Chu Feng. She was also afraid that when she found him, he would already be an ice-cold skeleton. She shed tears continuously and fell down.
Finally, she saw that person lying quietly on the ground. He was motionless, and his arms and legs were a little deformed. He had been seriously injured during the great battle back then, and no one had ever helped him recover.
Ying Xiaoxiao trembled as she picked up Chu Feng as though she had found the most precious treasure. She was unwilling to let go as she muttered, "You're not dead. Definitely. I'll take you away and cure you!"
She was terrified and didn't even dare to check whether Chu Feng was alive or dead right away. She only wanted to believe that he was still alive.
She only calmed down after a long time. She used her hand to touch his chest and used her soul light to touch his frontal bone.
"Ah, he's really alive! That's great!" She was like a young girl who wasn't familiar with worldly affairs. She laughed happily and cried joyfully as she skipped and jumped on the spot.
Ying Xiaoxiao couldn't help but cry from the joy and emotion of going from losing to having it again. She had already prepared for the worst earlier on and thought that even if she found him, she could only find a damaged and ice-cold corpse or even just some broken bones.
"Heavens, this is the first time I'm sincerely thanking you!"
Not long after, she discovered a stone jar in the crack in the ground. It was not far away and the jar was open. There were all kinds of rare and precious great medicines inside.
She knew that this should be a life-saving medicine that Chu Feng had prepared for him to fight to the death, but it was a pity that the spiritual essence and medicinal properties contained within it had pretty much been lost.
"It looks like a Great Cosmos Realm powerhouse circulated his breathing technique on his own and absorbed it unconsciously?" Ying Xiaoxiao was suspicious.
If this was the case, it was enough to show how serious Chu Feng's injuries were. His Great Cosmos Realm corporeal body had already swallowed the essence of those rare and precious medicinal herbs on its own, but he still didn't wake up in the end.
She continuously poured pure vitality into Chu Feng's body in an attempt to save him and wake him up.
"Chu Feng, wake up!"
After an unknown amount of time, Chu Feng heard a call. His soul gradually awakened in the dusky darkness and he saw light. After that, he saw a familiar but incomparably haggard face — Ying Xiaoxiao.
Her silver hair had lost its luster and the dress she wore was also tattered. Her face was dirty and full of tears, but she was smiling when she saw him open his eyes.
"You're finally awake."
After a long while, Chu Feng struggled to sit up. His bones crackled as they all returned to their original positions.
This time, he had suffered serious injuries, mainly to his soul. But in the end, the woman on the road of pollen helped him so he wasn't consigned to eternal damnation.
Otherwise, many Dao Ancestors would've attacked him together at the last moment and his body and soul would've certainly been annihilated!
Later on, he discovered that it should be Nine Daoyi, the rotten corpse, and the others risking their lives as they roared furiously and wanted to avenge him. In the end, everything before his eyes went black and he didn't know anything.
"Xiaoxiao, don't cry." Chu Feng leaned against the wall of the large crevice and circulated his breathing technique. There weren't too many problems at the moment. After a long period of silence, his soul had more or less recovered.
Suddenly, he saw the stone jar. Why was it still here?
He clearly remembered that in order to save Nine Daoyi, he had struck the stone jar away. He didn't know where it had fallen and why it was here. It shouldn't have fallen together with him.
"Xiaoxiao, where's this stone jar?" Chu Feng asked her.
"It was by your side when I found you."
Chu Feng frowned. This matter was somewhat odd. Could it be that the jar really had its own consciousness and ran back on its own? The Celestial Emperor Jar was just joking at first, but now its will had fully recovered?!
He pondered quietly. If the jar hadn't flown back on its own, then there seemed to be some power pulling karma?
But he soon stopped thinking about it. There was still a silver-haired girl in front of him. Was she the one who dug him out from the large crevice? Had she been looking for him all this time?
"Xiaoxiao, why are you here?" Chu Feng asked.
"I … I've been looking for you all this time." Ying Xiaoxiao couldn't help but cry. She hadn't given up all these years and had finally found Big Brother Chu Feng.
Chu Feng's heart stirred. He recalled how he had shouted at the Dog Emperor to take care of those people during the great battle. In the end, someone ran out at the last moment and didn't leave with the resplendent light screen. It was … Xiaoxiao.
"You stayed behind and didn't retreat with them?" Chu Feng asked.
"Yes, I couldn't bear to part with you!" Ying Xiaoxiao raised her head and said. She wasn't bashful nor did she speak in a low voice. Instead, she told him directly.
Chu Feng felt ashamed in his heart and was even more moved. He didn't know what to say and finally asked her how many years had passed since the great battle and how was the outside world.
When he found out that Xiaoxiao had searched every inch of this land by herself for him for twenty-seven years, Chu Feng's nose turned sour. He stroked her messy silver hair and saw that her large eyes were bloodshot. It was obvious that she hadn't rested well and that incomparably haggard face. The deepest part of his heart was touched. Someone had retreated from the path of escape without regard for her life and death and had come to find him regardless of everything. How could he remain indifferent?
"Thank you, Xiaoxiao, but you shouldn't have come back. The Yang Realm should be very dangerous now." Chu Feng seriously suspected that there was a mysterious power hiding him after he fell and allowing him to escape this calamity.
Otherwise, not only would Xiaoxiao have found him long ago, but those Dao Ancestors of the vile earth definitely wouldn't let him, the Fire Dao Ancestor, off.
Those people could clearly see where he was falling.
"I'm very willing to come back. I'm incomparably happy now." Ying Xiaoxiao wiped away her tears and laughed heartlessly. She was incomparably brilliant.
What was going on in the outside world? Ying Xiaoxiao didn't know either because her area of activity was limited. She could only dig the earth continuously in this area and search for Chu Feng.
At that time, Xiaoxiao had been unconscious for a very long time. She hadn't seen the final outcome of the battle for at least a month. After that, she didn't have the mood to understand the situation in the outside world.
She only knew that nine out of ten rooms in the outside world were empty and that the survivors were far from reaching ten percent.
After Chu Feng returned to the surface and changed his appearance, he walked on the earth with Xiaoxiao. He saw a scene of desolation and corpses everywhere.
He sighed softly. The great sacrifice was most likely successful. It was very similar to how eighty percent of the living beings in High Heaven's great sacrifice died in a single great sacrifice and the remaining twenty percent were also annihilated in the following years.
Would the living beings in the depths of the vile earth come to the Yang Realm again?
Following that, he frowned. There weren't too many strange substances left behind, but what about this world's spiritual qi? It was also sharply reduced and didn't even amount to ten percent of the original.
"The End of Days is coming?" He frowned.
In the next few months, Chu Feng brought Xiaoxiao around the world, but he didn't find any old friends. He didn't even see a single high-level evolver.
Instead, he met cultivators with very low realms. In the end, they didn't know the outcome of the battle on the day of the great sacrifice because their cultivation was too low. At that time, they didn't even have the qualifications to watch the great battle of the Dao Ancestors and couldn't observe the outer realm.
What about those old friends? What happened to Nine Daoyi and the rotten corpse?
When he thought about this, he felt a wave of pain in his heart. He saw Gu Qing Dao collapse and the dog emperor explode in front of him, blood splattering everywhere.
"Even you yourself died. Where did you send those people you protected!?" Chu Feng muttered to himself.
Not long after, Chu Feng realized a very serious problem. The entire world's spiritual qi was still continuously declining and the Yang Realm was about to dry up.
This was an unimaginable rate of decline. This great world was no longer suitable for cultivation. If this continued, it would create an Era of Spirit Extinction. Without spiritual qi, there would be no more cultivators in the future!
Ten years later, Xiaoxiao couldn't fly anymore. The spiritual power in her body decreased with each use.
Twenty years later, Ying Xiaoxiao started to like looking in the mirror because she discovered that her body was showing signs of losing its youth.
She was afraid. She hugged one of Chu Feng's arms and said, "Will I become an old woman?"
"I … If I'm really going to become old, please send me to a quiet little mountain village in advance. I don't want you to see me grow old. I want to leave quietly by myself."
Obviously, she had long since realized that this world wasn't suitable for evolvers. It was very likely that no one could evolve in the future.
However, Chu Feng's change was only subtle and far stronger than hers. He was still the same as before.
"Xiaoxiao, I have a talisman here. The dog emperor gave me back then and told me to use it to escape." Chu Feng gave it to Xiaoxiao directly. He felt that this talisman could possibly send Xiaoxiao to a realm with spiritual qi.
"Will you leave with me?" Xiaoxiao asked.
"No, I want to become a mortal immortal in the Age of Dharma Ending. I want to comprehend the heart of an immortal king in this land of despair. I want to rise from these ruins and comprehend the truth of the Dao to achieve Dao Ancestor Realm. I'm not willing to be defeated like this. I'll go to the Wretched Earth for revenge!" Chu Feng's voice was gloomy as he clenched his fists tightly.
"I won't leave. I'll stay in this world to accompany you. Although I might not see you in the future, I'll be at ease knowing that you're still in this world." Ying Xiaoxiao wanted Chu Feng to send her to a quiet little mountain village. She wanted to live the life of an ordinary person.
When Chu Feng realized that all his persuasions were useless, he didn't persist because he was afraid that the dog emperor's talisman wouldn't be that effective. That was because even the dog had died and couldn't escape.
There was still time for him to think of some other ways.
After he left, Chu Feng discovered that Ying Xiaoxiao stood outside that little mountain village for a very long time and didn't leave from the beginning until the end.
He quietly went back and saw that her face was full of tears. She was currently muttering to herself softly, "I really can't bear for you to leave, but I also don't want you to see me grow old. I'm so sad. I'll silently wait for your news here by myself. I hope that you can become a mortal immortal in the future. I'll quietly leave this place before I grow old. I don't want you to see me grow old and how I look after I die. I hope that everything will be good for you in the future."
Chu Feng couldn't bear it any longer. He walked out with large strides and embraced Ying Xiaoxiao whose face was full of tears yet carried astonishment and then incomparable joy.
"You still haven't left. Do you still want to accompany me for a period of time? But it can't be too long. I'm going to grow old. "
"Nonsense. You don't even look like you're thirty years old. How can you say that you're going to grow old?"
"But I only looked like I was twenty years old in the past. I'm aging very quickly now." Ying Xiaoxiao was in low spirits.
"I'm not leaving anymore. I'll stay and accompany you. What mortal immortal? If I have to escape even this and let you grow old by yourself in tears, what kind of immortal am I? I'm too useless! "
Not only did Chu Feng not want to leave, but he even decided to be together with Xiaoxiao and accompany her as she grew old. How could he not understand her intentions?
She gave up her chance to escape and stayed behind to search for him incessantly. She was even crying and broken-hearted like this. How could he let her down?!
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