Time flew by like a shuttle as he killed all the geniuses. His old friend from the past was no longer here. Ye Xuan bowed and paid his respects to his old friend.
"Who are you?"
Suddenly, a delicate female voice sounded from behind Ye Xuan. A beam of spiritual light shot toward Ye Xuan. However, Ye Xuan didn't dodge, and the spiritual light disappeared without a trace.
Ye Xuan slowly turned around. A woman with picturesque features entered his line of sight, and a trace of a smile appeared on his face.
"It's been six hundred years since we last met, and you've already reached the Body Integration Stage. If Brother Bai Yi knew, he would be very relieved," Ye Xuan said gently.
"Mr … Mr Ye?"
Xue Ji was Liu Baiyi's only disciple, and she used to be one of the four team leaders of the Wu 'an Bureau. Her appearance hadn't changed in the slightest after six hundred years, but her temperament had become more mature and seductive.
When Xue Ji saw Ye Xuan's face, her cold eyes became sluggish, and tears gradually appeared in her eyes. Then, she couldn't control her emotions anymore, and she suddenly knelt to the ground and kowtowed to Ye Xuan.
"Xue Ji pays her respects to Mr Ye."
"You're Brother Bai Yi's only disciple, so there's no need for such formalities."
Ye Xuan waved his hand through the air, and a gentle breeze lifted Xue Ji's kneeling body. Xue Ji bit her lips, and she looked at Ye Xuan with a complicated and emotional expression.
"In the blink of an eye, six hundred years have passed. I didn't think that Brother Bai Yi would have already been buried by the time I returned. Since then, the world has lost a peerless prodigy. This is one of the regrets of my life," Ye Xuan sighed.
If there was one person that Ye Xuan admired the most in the human world, then it would be the deceased Liu Baiyi.
Liu Baiyi was a prodigy of the ages, and he was extremely talented.
During the Age of Chaos, Liu Baiyi created the Blood and Qi Conveyance Method. Even in a world without Spiritual Qi, he was able to use the methods of an Immortal Cultivator. He even created an alternative path of cultivation.
Even though this path had a certain flaw, throughout the countless years of the Earthly Immortal Dimension, had anyone ever created a unique path of cultivation?
This also proved how peerless Liu Baiyi was. He could be called one of the rare geniuses since ancient times.
"Tell me, why did Brother White Robe die of old age in the mortal world?" Ye Xuan asked softly.
"Mr. Ye, back then, you were the one who found a physical body for my Revered Master …" Xue Ji explained the reason behind Liu Baiyi's death.
Six hundred years ago …
Ye Xuan had found a physical body for Liu Baiyi and allowed Liu Baiyi to embark on the path of cultivation. However, Liu Baiyi's primordial spirit was too strong. Apart from his fixed daily cultivation, he was constantly perfecting the Immortal Defying Array, which had reached a crazy level.
The physical body that he occupied gradually collapsed. At that time, the Spiritual Qi of Heaven and Earth had just recovered. However, because his primordial spirit was overworked, his physical body gradually withered as well.
If Liu Baiyi had given up on the Immortal Defying Array and focused on recuperating his primordial spirit and physical body, he might still be alive in this world.
Unfortunately, Liu Baiyi was a prideful person. Furthermore, he felt a sense of guilt towards Ye Xuan.
Initially, he had promised Ye Xuan that he would complete the Immortal Defying Array and help Ye Xuan cross the Nine Heavens Immortal Tribulations. However, even when Ye Xuan was about to cross the tribulation, the Immortal Defying Array was still not completed. Instead, Ye Xuan had found a physical body for him and left.
Due to his guilt towards Ye Xuan and his persistence towards the Immortal Defying Array, Liu Baiyi could not care less about his deteriorating primordial spirit and physical body. He worked day and night to perfect this supreme formation. Even Xue Ji's advice was useless.
Three years later, the Immortal Defying Array was completed. However, it was also on this day that Liu Baiyi destroyed the Immortal Defying Array with his own hands.
This also shocked Xue Ji. She anxiously asked Liu Baiyi why he did this. However, Liu Baiyi's answer made Xue Ji speechless.
"Brother Ye has ascended to the Immortal World. This preliminary Immortal Defying Array is useless to him. Even if Brother Ye comes back one day, how can I give him this kind of formation?"
It was also on that day that Liu Baiyi sat in a daze for seven days and seven nights. When the sun rose on the eighth day, he once again fell into a frenzy of obsession. He messed up all the formation documents and drew another embryonic formation diagram.
Four hundred years, he did not sleep for four hundred years. He did not rest for even a second. During these four hundred years, Liu Baiyi was completely immersed in drawing the formation diagram.
His fleshly body eventually became as thin as a skeleton, his Nascent Divinity dimmed and cracked, and his Qi became weak. However, on this day, four hundred years later, a hoarse and excited laughter rang out from Liu Baiyi's mouth.
That inexplicable and terrifying fluctuation bloomed in the Immortal Defying Array.
"What is the Immortal Defying Array?"
"Follow and you will become an immortal. Go against and you will become a mortal. This is the real Immortal Defying Array. Even if Daluo Jinxian enters this formation, he will definitely not be able to leave!"
Liu Baiyi, an eternal genius, laughed wildly on this day. He spat out a large amount of blood essence from his mouth. However, he did not care. He laughed and laughed until tears came out of his eyes. He held the new Immortal Defying Array in his hands as if he was looking at a peerless treasure.
On this day, although Liu Baiyi had completed a new Inverse Immortal Array Diagram, his life had finally come to an end. In his final moments, he trembled as he handed the Inverse Immortal Array Diagram to Xue Gie.
"Xue Ji, I have reached the end of my lifespan. However, I have never owed anyone anything in my life. Brother Ye is my best friend. You have to hand this Immortal Defying Array to him personally. Only then can I die in peace."
His physical body collapsed and his Primordial Spirit was annihilated. He did not even have the chance to reincarnate. After four hundred years of painstaking effort, Liu Baiyi finally passed away peacefully. However, the smile on his face was serene and peaceful. His face was filled with a kind of sacred light.
Liu Baiyi was a mortal, but he had created such a great formation. He was worthy of Ye Xuan's kindness in the past. Even if he died in the mortal world, he could die in peace.
After listening to Xue Ji's mournful narration, Ye Xuan remained silent. He really didn't think that just casually finding a body for Liu Baiyi all those years ago would actually make Liu Baiyi remember this kindness in his heart.
"Brother Baiyi, I'm sorry. I, Ye Xuan, have harmed you!" Ye Xuan bowed. The aura around him was somewhat sorrowful. He felt sad for the loss of a close friend.
Ye Xuan had never had a friend, and he did not need one. Because in Ye Xuan's understanding, the so-called friends were just exchanges of benefits.
If one day their benefits were harmed, the so-called friends would turn hostile.
However, today, after learning about Liu Baiyi's past for hundreds of years, Ye Xuan's heart was filled with pain. He felt sad for the loss of such a true friend. From now on, who would be able to call him brother?
"Mister Ye, my master passed away peacefully. Xue Ji has followed my master's instructions and waited for you here for six hundred years. Today, I can finally complete my master's task."
Xue Ji smiled sadly. A formation diagram appeared in her hand at some unknown time. Then, she respectfully handed it to Ye Xuan.
After receiving the formation diagram from Xue Ji, Ye Xuan held it tightly in his hand. This was because he knew that this was the last memory that Liu Baiyi had left for him. It was also the proof of their friendship.
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