Chapter 636: Chapter 635: The White Snake Perishes, Leaving Behind a Spring of Life

"Yes, Daoist Lord, I heard from the State Preceptor that you came from the Southern Immortal Realm. It seems the Celestial Dao Gate descended there as well. Didn’t you encounter Sister Bai and Sister Xiao Qing?"

The young girl, Ling’Er, blinked her eyes and stepped forward to ask.

Ever since Lady Nuwa blessed them separately back then, she followed the group to the Celestial Court. Over the years, she had always been with Bai Suzhen and Xiao Qing, already regarding them as sisters in her heart.

The Queen of Ten Thousand Beasts, Long-armed Ape, Sun Wukong, and others, all looked at Lin Heng with curiosity.

Only Shen Gongbao had a complex expression, wanting to speak but stopping.

Previously, when the Tathagata attacked the Celestial Court, he enveloped the entire realm with Saint’s Power, making the outside world unable to be explored.

Later, the destruction of the Phoenix Blood Dragon Pattern Cauldron alarmed the Tathagata, and Yang Jian took the opportunity to open the Celestial Eye, briefly tearing the Saint’s seal.

It was also at that time that Shen Gongbao peered into the secrets of the Southern Domain and discovered that the Daoist Lord had returned.

But at the same time.

He also learned of Bai Suzhen’s misfortune.

In fact, Shen Gongbao hadn’t interacted much with Bai Suzhen and Xiao Qing, but he knew that the two sisters, along with the Black Bear Spirit and that Sword Spirit Maiden Long Kui, were already like family to the Daoist Lord.

The thought of White Snake’s demise just thirty short years after not being in the Celestial Court left Shen Gongbao feeling guilty and remorseful.

"It was my negligence that brought disaster upon Miss Bai. Please, Daoist Lord, punish me!"

Shen Gongbao suddenly said, bowing and confessing with an ashamed tone. 𝙛𝓻𝒆𝒆𝒘𝙚𝓫𝙣𝙤𝒗𝙚𝓵.𝙘𝙤𝙢

These words caused everyone present to change their expressions.

"Wha... what do you mean?"

"Sister Bai, she..." The young girl Ling’Er couldn’t quite believe it, her beautiful eyes reddening as she looked toward Lin Heng, hoping for his answer.

The Black Bear Spirit was immediately flustered: "Boss, White Snake Immortal... has something happened?"

Its voice was already slightly trembling.

From the Human World to the Upper Realm, it had always accompanied Lin Heng just like the White Snake Sisters.

The bonds between them were already like that of family.

Lin Heng’s lips turned pale, wanting to speak but stopping, and then silently opened a space portal.

Upon discovering the Tathagata’s attack on the Celestial Court in the Eastern Domain, Lin Heng had immediately asked Cyan Snake to take White Snake’s corpse and hide it in the Little World he had forged.

When the space portal opened at this moment.

Everyone heard the sobbing from within.

"Sister... sister..."

It was Cyan Snake, crying in grief.

Lin Heng frowned and hurried into the Little World, followed by everyone else.

Then they saw in this Little World, Cyan Snake sitting alone at the peak of a high mountain, holding a gradually phantom-like white python in her arms, crying in solitude.

In an instant.

Everyone who followed inside felt a thud in their hearts, stunned on the spot.

Cyan Snake saw their arrival and looked at Lin Heng with her saddened eyes, helplessly saying, "My sister is going away, she is going away..."

Hearing Cyan Snake’s helpless and despairing tone, Lin Heng felt his heart being clenched. He stepped over to Cyan Snake’s side, raised his palm, and the myriad rules’ power was pulled and applied to Bai Suzhen’s body.

He tried to use this to prevent the white python’s body from dispersing.

However, all was in vain.

No matter Lin Heng’s Heaven-Reaching means, no matter Cyan Snake’s unwillingness to let go.

Bai Suzhen continued on the path to demise.

Her body was like sand tightly grasped in someone’s hand; the tighter the grip, the quicker it scattered.

Ultimately, amidst Cyan Snake’s helpless cries, she completely dispersed into the world.

No one could stop the extinction of life and Dao, not even the nearly saintly Lin Heng.

"Sister Bai..." The young girl Ling’Er covered her mouth, crystal-clear tears falling one after another, deeply saddened.

"White Snake Immortal..." Black Bear Spirit felt the world spinning and couldn’t help but howl in anguish, looking at the boss with a drooping, sorrowful head, its heart like being pierced by needles.

"It’s all my fault, all my fault, I shouldn’t have stolen the Book of Life and Death for them, I shouldn’t have supported their bid for the Saint position, it’s all my fault..."

The Black Bear Spirit pounded its chest with regretful tears all over its face.

Lin Heng stood beside Cyan Snake, the cold wind on the mountain top piercingly chilly, and he closed his eyes, silent.

His slender figure exuded a sense of powerless melancholy.

He couldn’t help but, knowingly asking, look at Shen Gongbao: "Shen Gongbao, you’re knowledgeable and wise. Is there truly no example of rebirth after the extinction of life and Dao?"

Lin Heng’s gaze was expectant, hoping to hear an answer with hope.

However, Shen Gongbao still shook his head: "Please, Daoist Lord, restrain your grief..."

These words silenced everyone; no one could refute.

Because they all knew, the extinction of life and Dao was irreversible.

Only the young girl Ling’Er, with a simple mind, wiped her tears and looked at Sun Wukong, saying: "Aren’t you the Innate Holy Spirit who mends the heavens? How did you live again?"

Sun Wukong shook his head: "My situation was different. Before mending the heavens, Lady Nuwa preserved a remnant of my consciousness and placed me in the Land of Great Heavenly Fortune within the Three Islands and Ten Provinces Ancestral Veins to enjoy the creation of the world. And even so, it took millions of years to be reborn as a stone monkey."

"But for Miss Bai... not to mention whether there’s a trace of her soul left in the world, even if there is, she cannot take my path."

"I am a Chaos Divine Stone, an Innate Holy Spirit, beyond the Three Realms, not within the Five Elements, so..."

He sighed lightly, without continuing, but the meaning was already clear.

The young girl Ling’Er heard and her tears of disappointment fell again.

At that moment, Yang Jian suddenly said: "Actually, there’s a way to rebirth in this world."

Hmm?

His sudden statement left everyone astonished, their gazes instantly converging on him.

"You, you have a way?" Lin Heng’s gaze was filled with expectation and nervousness as he stared at him.

After the battle with the Tathagata, Yang Jian was too weak, speaking with great difficulty: "In this world, there’s a place called the Highland, which is the Spring of Life. Everything in the world can find a glimmer of life there."

Upon hearing this, Sun Wukong seemed to recall something, memories from his time as a Holy Spirit. He furrowed his brows and said: "I think... I’ve heard this rumor before..."

"Is there really such a place?" The rest looked at each other, feeling surprised, even the knowledgeable Shen Gongbao was full of doubts.

He had never heard of such a place as the Highland being the Spring of Life.

"Grand Thousand Upper Realm, Five Great Immortal Realms, I’ve never heard of such a peculiar location?"

Tianpeng said, he had not yet reached Quasi-Saint, but he was nevertheless the Marshal Tianhe of the ancient Celestial Court, having conquered various places in his early years, and having the experience of journeying Westward. He considered himself quite informed about the Five Great Immortal Realms, yet the place Yang Jian mentioned was unheard of to him.

Everyone frowned, suspecting Yang Jian was deliberately saying this to encourage the Daoist Lord to rise again.

However, Yang Jian said: "This matter is only known by the Red-bottomed Macaque."

As soon as he finished speaking, the hunched white-haired figure of the Red-bottomed Macaque emerged from the void passage.

This Red-bottomed Macaque, who had lived for an unknown number of years, faced the curious and excited gazes of the crowd, and turned directly toward the Ox Demon King, saying:

"Ox Demon King, still unwilling to speak?"