#349 - Chapter 349 Mother Earth, has long been dead

The Earth Mother stared intently at Fa upon hearing his words.

“What do you mean?” the Earth Mother questioned.

“Heh, if you take away the Eternal Fire and let me breathe, I’ll tell you,” Fa tempted.

The Earth Mother looked at the surrounding Eternal Fire, somewhat tempted, but Ye Kong stopped her.

“Ling, if you’re still alive, that proves Hong is dead. Do you… want to know how he died?” Fa threw out a great temptation.

“I don’t want to!” the Earth Mother stubbornly said.

“No, you do. If you didn’t want to know, you wouldn’t be here,” Fa sneered.

“Rumble!”

Heavenly lightning struck behind him, making his laughter even more arrogant.

“Hahahaha…”

“I sense it!”

“Ling, the Flourishing Era, it’s arriving, isn’t it!” Fa stared straight at Ling, his black and white eyes seeming to see through people's hearts.

Ye Kong pulled the Earth Mother behind him, shielding her.

Fa looked at Ye Kong, his expression turning cold.

The clone he had painstakingly condensed before had been destroyed by Ye Kong.

“Hmm? You have the aura of the Great Buddha on you? You’ve been tainted by the karma of Buddhism?” Fa sensed a faint karmic force from Ye Kong.

“Well, I fought with the Great Buddha in the River of Time,” Ye Kong said indifferently.

“The River of Time…” Fa murmured, “So the Great Buddha took the Buddhist Sect and ran to the River of Time.”

“Buddhist trash!” Fa then cursed.

Ye Kong looked up at Fa and asked, “What is the Chaotic Era?”

“Chaotic Era? Heh!” Fa gave a cold laugh, then said, “The Chaotic Era is to destroy the Immortal Cultivation World!”

“Only I am the only savior!” Fa said extremely arrogantly.

“Destroy the Immortal Cultivation World?” Ye Kong was somewhat puzzled.

“The Heavenly Dao collapses, all things become silent, evil demons invade, and living beings are devastated. Only by refining the Immortal Cultivation World can it be sheltered!”

“Or… replenish it with Ling!” Fa said, staring intently at the Earth Mother.

“Ling… is that me?” The Earth Mother was stunned.

“No, it’s not you,” Ye Kong comforted her from the side.

The Earth Mother’s mind was muddled, seeming to understand many things, yet not understanding anything at all.

“Earth Mother? Heh, the Earth Mother is long gone. She is the Spirit of All Things, not the Earth Mother,” Fa said from the side.

“What?” Ye Kong and the Earth Mother were both stunned.

The Earth Mother isn’t the Earth Mother?

She is the Spirit of All Things?

“Before the Earth Mother was even born, she was refined by Hong. The reason Ling is called Ling is because she is the Spirit of All Things, only Hong gave her the identity of the Earth Mother,” Fa said indifferently.

“Impossible, I can control the earth, if I’m not the Earth Mother, then who am I?” the Earth Mother retorted.

“Control the earth? Heh, you are the Spirit of All Things, what is there that you can’t control? Not to mention the earth, you can even control the sky.”

“It’s just that you were restricted by Hong. Do you really think Hong raised you as a daughter simply because you are the Earth Mother?” Fa snorted coldly.

The Earth Mother was completely stunned, somewhat unable to believe Fa’s words.

“Hong is even worse than me, it’s just that the winner is king and the loser is villain. He won, he is the master of heaven and earth. I lost, I am trapped in the Land of Silence,” Fa said again.

Ye Kong looked at the arrogant Fa, his intuition telling him that Fa didn’t seem like someone who would lie.

But this was too outrageous!

“You’re lying, if Hong was a bad person, he wouldn’t have let me sleep to avoid the Chaotic Era, and he wouldn’t have transformed himself into the Dao to save the Immortal Cultivation World!” Ling argued for Hong with red eyes.

“Heh.” Fa gave a cold laugh.

“Although I don’t know why Hong died, I know he definitely didn’t have good intentions.”

After Fa finished speaking, he looked at Ye Kong.

“How about a deal?”

“What deal?” Ye Kong asked.

“Ling is the Spirit of All Things, I can help you kill her and let you absorb her spiritual essence, but you have to help me get rid of the chains on my body.”

“The Spirit of All Things, if you absorb her, you can control all things and become the next master of heaven and earth in the Immortal Cultivation World!” Fa tempted.

Upon hearing this, Ye Kong smiled and tightened his grip on the Earth Mother.

“No need.”

“Earth Mother, whether you are Ling or the Earth Mother, you are you,” Ye Kong said, looking at the Earth Mother.

Ling pursed her lips, unable to speak, she could only hold Ye Kong’s hand tightly. In her eyes, Ye Kong was now her only support.

“Alright, I’ll take you back,” Ye Kong gently comforted her, and then walked away with the Earth Mother.

“The Chaotic Era is about to descend, if you don’t let me out, the Immortal Cultivation World will be completely destroyed!” Fa shouted from behind.

“If it’s destroyed, then it’s destroyed, what does it have to do with me?” Ye Kong said indifferently.

“Everyone will die then, your disciples, your sect, and Ling, none of them can escape!”

“You will die too!!!”

Ye Kong ignored Fa’s roar.

If Fa was released, the Immortal Cultivation World would be destroyed even faster.

When the Chaotic Era arrives, Ye Kong wouldn’t say he could protect the entire Immortal Cultivation World, but protecting the small逍遥Peak would be no problem.

Even if he had the spare capacity, he could also protect the Star River Sect.

Fa struggled violently, but was met with the burning of the Eternal Fire and the bombardment of heavenly lightning.

“Besides me, no one can save the Immortal Cultivation World!” Fa roared angrily.

“Hong, you despicable villain, you were the one who disrupted the Immortal Cultivation World! Did you think that everything would be over when you died?”

“Now that the Flourishing Era has begun, the Chaotic Era will descend soon. The sins you committed will never be repaid!” Fa looked at the endless sky, his eyes full of anger and unwillingness.

“If I had won in the beginning, then everything would have changed!”

……

Ye Kong took the Earth Mother to a quiet place, completely away from Fa, unable to hear his voice.

As soon as the Earth Mother entered, her mind was filled with chaotic thoughts.

Fa’s words had subverted many of her perceptions.

Including the fact that she wasn’t the Earth Mother.

She had always thought she was the Earth Mother, after all, she had the ability to control the earth.

And not everyone had this ability.

But Fa’s words made her doubt her life.

Ye Kong saw that the Earth Mother’s condition was not right, accelerated his speed, and took the Earth Mother out of the Land of Silence, out of the water curtain.

“Earth Mother, don’t listen to Fa’s words, you decide who you are,” Ye Kong comforted her.

“I don’t know who I should listen to,” the Earth Mother said with some distress.

“Then, listen to me,” Ye Kong said with a light smile.

The Earth Mother looked up at Ye Kong and nodded.

“Yeah.”

“Alright, don’t be sad anymore, things have passed, you’ve been asleep for hundreds of thousands of years, you’ve long forgotten the past.”

“Starting over may not be a bad thing,” Ye Kong said with a faint smile.

“Okay, then don’t call me Earth Mother.”

“Then what should I call you?” Ye Kong looked at the Earth Mother.

“Call me… Ye Ling!”