#332 - I'm glad you're alive (4000 words, two in one) - Cultivating Immortality, Starting from Childhood Sweethearts

“Hongxiu, what do you think this world should be like?”

A woman with shoulder-length short hair turned her head, looking at her sword spirit, a relaxed and carefree smile on her lips.

“What else could it be like? It is what it is.”

The voluptuous woman in a red dress rolled her eyes at the short-haired woman.

“Mutual slaughter, doing anything for one's own selfish desires, no one has any firm beliefs, this world is simply rotten to the core.”

“Although this world is rotten to the core, at least I'm pretty~” The short-haired woman said something irrelevant.

Hongxiu said speechlessly, “Jianjia, how can you have the nerve to say that? Look how short your hair is, no woman is like you.”

Jianjia smiled: “Short hair is better for killing enemies, otherwise it would be too troublesome to tie it up every time, but speaking of which, don't you think it looks good? I think it looks pretty good.”

Hongxiu snorted twice: “Only you think it looks good.”

“Hypocrite.” Jianjia pinched the tender face of the sword spirit beside her, “When I cut my hair short, your eyes were clearly shining when you looked at me, but now you're tired of it and think it doesn't look good, right?”

Hongxiu slapped the girl's hand away: “You saw it wrong at the time, I've always thought your short hair doesn't look good.”

“Really,” Jianjia sighed helplessly, “It's come to this, and you're still so hypocritical, not honest at all. Let me tell you, you'll never find a man who likes you like this~”

Hongxiu rolled her eyes: “I am a sword spirit, I don't care if men like me or not, even if they like me, it won't work out. On the contrary, you are the one who has been single for ten thousand years!”

“Hahahaha, I'm single not because no one likes me, but because I look down on those men.

Why should those men conquer me? They're not as powerful as I am.”

Jianjia laughed loudly, completely disregarding her image, the woman's boldness seemingly the opposite of her name.

Hongxiu shook her head and looked ahead: “People are about to die, and they haven't even experienced being a woman, you've lived a pretty failed life.”

Jianjia put away her smile and followed Hongxiu's gaze forward: “As if you've experienced being a woman.”

In front of the two, as far as the eye could see, were millions of warriors wearing silver-white Xuan armor, these warriors were eight feet tall, holding Zhangba long spears.

They stood neatly in front of the two, like a white ocean, the air filled with a murderous aura.

Above these silver-white Xuan armor warriors, were divine beasts and exotic beasts such as true dragons, true phoenixes, vermilion birds, unicorns, Bashe Bifang, and so on, circling.

Further up, the Dharma appearances of ten old immortals looked down from above, with a hint of looking down on all living beings.

It seemed that these ten people were giving the woman and the sword spirit their final judgment.

“Jianjia! I'll give you one last chance! Surrender to our Heavenly Court! I'll spare your life!” One of them, who looked like an immortal, spoke.

Jianjia slowly stood up and grasped the blood-red long sword beside her: “You old immortals only have this kind of ability! Now that I've come to this point, do you think I would still surrender to you?”

“Obstinate!” An elder reprimanded.

“Why waste words with her, just kill her!”

“Kill her, this kind of person is useless to keep.”

“It's just a pity for such a sword immortal.”

“It doesn't matter, there are so many seedlings, there will always be more in the future.”

Above the sky, those elders spoke one after another, and for a moment, there was actually some noise above the sky.

“Then kill her.”

And at this moment, the old man sitting in the middle slowly spoke.

When the old man's voice spread out, no one spoke anymore.

“Kill.”

The old man waved his hand.

Millions of heavenly soldiers, holding long spears, rushed towards Jianjia.

“Roar!”

Divine beasts and ferocious beasts pounced towards the ground.

Jianjia held the long sword tighter and tighter, Hongxiu shook her body and turned into a wisp of red smoke, returning to the long sword.

“Hongxiu, this time, I might really die~” Jianjia said to the long sword in her hand.

“So what if you die.” Hongxiu's tone was full of indifference, “I was originally just a sword, especially being refined by these guys, it's better to be destroyed.”

“No, I can die, but you can't.” Jianjia's lips curled up, “If I die, there will be thousands of successors, but if you die, the world will indeed lose a good sword.”

Jianjia's embroidered shoes on her feet moved forward, step by step towards the sky full of divine generals, divine beasts, and ferocious beasts!

“Live on! With my share!”

In the "illusion", Hongxiu's sword energy and Xu Ming's sword energy exploded like a storm.

Tens of thousands of heavenly soldiers were destroyed, those divine beasts and ferocious beasts turned into stars of spiritual power and dissipated in the air, and volcanoes were destroyed one after another, with magma splashing outwards, unable to approach Hongxiu and Xu Ming at all.

Huge smoke and dust filled the entire sky.

Shi Xin felt something was wrong and kept running into the smoke and dust.

As the smoke and dust gradually dissipated.

Shi Xin slowly stopped.

In front of Shi Xin, Xu Ming fainted on the ground, lying in the arms of the woman in the red dress.

The woman in the red dress knelt on the ground, holding Xu Ming, resting his head on her lap, her red eyelashes fluttered gently, her red lips curled into a gratified arc, her pert buttocks and slender waist forming a beautiful curve.

The red dress on her body was a little tattered, revealing her fair and well-proportioned thighs.

In her gaze towards Xu Ming, there was a hint of trance, and Shi Xin didn't know what the other party was thinking of.

“Jianjia, it seems, I'm quite lucky.”

Hongxiu said with a smile, as if talking to herself.

Hongxiu raised her head and looked at Shi Xin not far away: “Don't worry, your little lover is fine, he just passed out from exhaustion.”

Shi Xin shook his head: “I am not his little lover.”

“Heh heh heh heh...” Hongxiu chuckled, “You monks are really interesting.”

“Forget it, forget it.” Hongxiu shook her head, sighed, looked around, her eyes filled with the vicissitudes of time, “Little monk, do you know what this place is?”

Shi Xin shook his head.

“This place is a graveyard...”

Hongxiu raised her head, looking at the pale red sky.

“The Rootless Secret Realm has existed in the world for tens of thousands of years, you people have figured out the laws of the Rootless Secret Realm and created amulets, when cultivators encounter life-threatening dangers, they can leave with the amulet.

You people, every once in a while, come back here to look for opportunities and seize treasures.

But ah, you never know how this place came to be.

The Rootless Secret Realm is a fragment of that interrupted history from ancient times.

And this place is the burial place of a silly girl, after she died, the sword energy cut off the surroundings, and the sword realm merged with the surroundings, thus forming such a place that is like an illusion but not an illusion.

Those heavenly soldiers and divine beasts and ferocious beasts you see are all the souls of that silly girl's subordinates.

That's why you feel that this place is both real and fake.”

Shi Xin: “...”

“For countless years, I have watched people come and go, tested cultivators one after another, picked and picked, selected and selected, but there has never been one that suits my taste.

This time, the Rootless Secret Realm is destroyed, and I don't want to make do, thinking that it will be destroyed if it is destroyed.

It's good to be destroyed, anyway, I've lived long enough.

As a result, I didn't expect to meet a guy whose personality is like that silly girl.

It's just a pity that he's a man.”

Shi Xin put his hands together: “Benefactor has killed many people.”

“Killed many people? Heh heh heh heh...”

Hongxiu was stunned for a moment, then laughed.

“Little girl, do you know that your ancestor killed far more people than I did.

Little girl, sometimes killing is to let more living beings survive.

If you don't kill the enemy, the enemy will kill you, kill your friends, kill your Dao companion, kill everyone behind you!

The so-called Dharma is not just blind compassion.

Besides, you say I killed many people, but in my opinion, there must be a price to pay for everything.

Just take the people who enter the Samadhi Cave as an example.

They want opportunities, I can give them, but they must have the life to take them.

If they don't have the life to take them, then they leave their lives behind.

In this world, where is there such a good thing as wanting everything?”

Shi Xin lowered his head and pondered for a while before raising his head: “There is a question I want to ask benefactor, I wonder if benefactor can answer it.”

“I like chatting with clean people like you.” Hongxiu's eyes curved, “Just say it.”

“Among us people, can only one really live?” Shi Xin asked.

“Of course not.”

Hongxiu's smile became even brighter.

Hongxiu raised her head, looking at the sky with a profound look.

“Who set the rules of the world? Why can't they be broken? Why should we abide by the rules that have been set? Do we have to follow even those unreasonable rules?”

The cigarette stuck in the ground had already burned out.

Hongxiu withdrew her gaze and looked at Shi Xin: “Only those who dare to break the rules can live, and what I want is such a person. If there is only one person left in the end, I will let him live, and he can also take away the treasure I said, after all, it is what I promised.”

But for those who dare to draw their swords against me, those who value their principles more than their own lives, they are the ones I seek.

What a pity.

Among the tens of thousands of people in the Samadhi Cave, only the two of you are like this.

However,

That's already enough.”

Hongxiu looked at Shixin and smiled brightly, “Forget it, I won't say anymore. If I continue, it will go too far. You probably can't bear the karma between the two.”

Hongxiu looked at the three boxes, “Take all these treasures. You deserve them.”

Hongxiu then looked at the broken sword beside Xu Ming, “But I broke his sword, so I have to compensate him.”

Hongxiu gently tapped Xu Ming's forehead, and a flame rune appeared in the center of Xu Ming's brow, quickly dimming.

Hongxiu gently placed Xu Ming on the ground and stood up. “I am originally a sword spirit. Opening this shattered sword realm this time has consumed too much of my strength. I need to slumber for a while.

Before long, this place will shatter, and you will appear inside the Samadhi Cave.

Tell Xu Ming.

If he wants my compensation, then go and draw the sword in front of him.

If he doesn't want it, then leave the sword there.”

As she finished speaking, Hongxiu slowly dissipated like the wind, leaving only her voice echoing, “You two, try your best to live on.”

As Hongxiu disappeared, the surrounding space gradually shattered. Rocks kept rolling down, and fiery rain fell from the sky.

Shixin quickly ran to Xu Ming's side, gently held Xu Ming in his arms, and chanted a mantra. A golden bell罩 covered the two of them.

Shixin looked at everything collapsing around him, as if it were a rehearsal of the annihilation of a world.

After the space shattered and dissipated, Shixin and Xu Ming were still in the same cave as before.

There were many corpses in this cave. These corpses were unscathed. Just as Xu Ming had said, after being swept away by the lava, they thought they were dead, so they really died.

As for those cultivators who died in the “illusion,” they naturally perished along with that half-real, half-fake world. Like that world, they left nothing behind.

However, in front of Shixin, there were three boxes, and in the center of these three boxes, there was a tall stone mountain. On the stone mountain, there was a long sword stuck.

This long sword was the one the red-skirted woman held.

Or rather, this long sword was the red-skirted woman.

Shixin didn't even glance at these treasures and the long sword.

Shixin just quietly held Xu Ming, his eyes blinking as he looked at him, the Buddhist light blooming from his body healing Xu Ming's body little by little.

Fortunately, no more cultivators entered this cave.

Shixin and Xu Ming were temporarily out of danger.

Shixin guessed that the red-skirted woman must have closed the Samadhi Cave before falling asleep.

Shixin didn't know how long had passed.

It could have been two days, or it could have been five or six days.

Xu Ming slowly opened his eyes.

The first scene Xu Ming saw when he opened his eyes was Shixin's golden eyes.

“Am I dead? Did you die with me?” Looking at Shixin's flawless face, Xu Ming asked with a smile, wondering if he had entered hell.

If he had entered hell, then the red-skirted woman was quite kind, not obliterating his soul.

“You're not dead.” Shixin shook his head.

Xu Ming: “Then it seems we're both alive.”

Shixin nodded: “Yes.”