Everlasting Immortal Firmament
chapter-074

“Death? Haha! What bold words! With just you?” Ji Dihong narrowed his eyes, murderous intent flashing in them.

The rainbow light barrier isolated everything. Even Heaven’s eye could not peer in. Everyone was cut off from the world outside.

“A game? You prepared for one thousand years to get everyone to play a game? To kill the nine inheritors?” Jiang Lianshan said sullenly.

Everyone in the surroundings stared at Old Mister Guan Qi, then his nine inheritors.

These nine did not seem very capable. Regarding strength, they were weak. Regarding intelligence, they were extremely limited.

Aren’t they Old Mister Guan Qi’s disciples? Why kill them?

“Pavilion Master, what did this disciple do wrong?” Wu Yazi and the others asked anxiously.

“You did not do anything wrong. They just underestimated you all.” Old Mister Guan Qi smiled.

“Underestimated us?” The nine frowned slightly.

Then, they suddenly clutched their heads in pain.

“Argh! Pavilion Master, why did you attack us?”

“My head! It hurts!”

“Lord Buddha, save me!”

“Imperial Emperor Gu, save me!”

Guan Qi’s nine inheritors started shouting for help.

Before the surrounding experts could do anything, Old Mister Guan Qi sighed softly, “It is not me attacking you. Your heads hurt now because of yourselves.”

“Argh! Argh! My head!” The nine inheritors pounded on their heads.

The people who knew the nine inheritors were about to make a move when someone suddenly exclaimed while goggling, “Something’s not right. The nine inheritors’ appearances are changing?!”

Everyone paused and stared at Guan Qi’s nine inheritors in shock. The faces of the nine inheritors twisted, the change becoming more obvious. Soon, the nine’s appearances became the same. Then, they emitted lights of various colors—red, blue, green, purple, and more, continuously changing.

“Heavenly Go Pavilion Master, what did you do to them?” Gu Hai called out with a frown.

Gu Qin was among the nine.

Old Mister Guan Qi looked at Gu Hai and shook his head. “It is not me.”

“Who else if not you? Why did they all take the same appearance? Who is this person?” the experts immediately shouted while glowering, wanting to charge forward.

“Meow!”

The fur of the black cat in the air suddenly stood on end as it screamed in startlement.

Everyone looked over in shock. What’s wrong with this black cat?

No one had done anything to the black cat. The black cat was horrified at the nine’s appearance after their transformation.

“This is impossible!” the Myriad Age Daoist Sect’s Heavenly Access, the Past Buddha, and the Present Buddha exclaimed.

What is impossible? The other people showed confused expressions.

The Myriad Age Daoist Sect’s Heavenly Access, the Past Buddha, and the Present Buddha appear shocked and horrified. Horrified? Why are they shocked and horrified?

“Six Paths? Meow! They are Six Paths!” the black cat exclaimed.

“The Six Paths Immortal? How can this be?” The Past Buddha goggled in incredulity.

“The Six Paths Immortal? What Six Paths Immortal? Guan Qi’s nine inheritors?” Everyone looked at the black cat and the Past Buddha in shock.

Then, Old Mister Guan Qi waved. A rainbow light ball contained the nine inheritors.

After suffering pain for a while and their change in appearance, the nine inheritors suddenly calmed down. Furthermore, they all showed sullen expressions.

“Congratulations on everyone’s revival, the Six Paths Immortal’s nine clones!” Old Mister Guan Qi suddenly said with a smile.

Buzz!

The nine inheritors raised their heads simultaneously, looking coldly at the surroundings.

Their cultivations remained the same, but their eyes were menacing. Seeing this made the experts’ hearts skip a beat. An aura of heavenly might pressed down.

“How can this be? Why did their eyes become like this in mere moments? Why do I feel some fear?” someone exclaimed.

The expressions of the Myriad Age Daoist Sect’s Heavenly Access and the Three Lives Buddhas changed dramatically.

“Meow!” Mao Tianyun roared while glaring.

“The Six Paths Immortal? Nine clones?” the Severed Sect’s Heavenly Access said in shock.

The nine inheritors looked identical to each other. Except for their ferocious gazes, they looked benevolent, giving a feeling of trustworthiness.

The nine surveyed their surroundings. Suddenly, they turned to Old Mister Guan Qi. The looks in their eyes turned glacial.

“Don’t look at me like that. I am the one who revived you all, right? Now, do you remember all these people? They are here to kill you. Furthermore, they want to snatch away the heavenly souls in your hands.” Old Mister Guan Qi smiled.

The nine inheritors looked at the black Go stones in their hands. All the heavenly souls of the people who died in the past eight hundred years were in the black Go stones; these were the heavenly souls the various experts helped them obtain.

“We are almost there. It looks like your memories are becoming clearer. Given that, everyone to their places, then. You have the consciousness connection. While you know where they are, they also know where you are, right?” Old Mister Guan Qi smiled.

As Old Mister Guan Qi guffawed, he waved his hand.

Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!

The rainbow light flowed into Guan Qi’s nine inheritors, who then shot into the barrier in the sky.

Whoosh! Whoosh!

The nine disappeared in the blink of an eye. This time, they did not disintegrate.

“Guan Qi, what’s going on with those nine earlier? Nine clones? What nine clones?” the Myriad Age Daoist Sect’s Heavenly Access roared ferociously.

“Does anyone remember the Six Paths Immortal from eight hundred thousand years ago?” Old Mister Guan Qi smiled.

“Meow! Eight hundred thousand years ago? There were ten Six Paths Veritable Lords. One was the true body, and nine were clones—no, the ten were indistinguishable. Who knows what the Six Paths Veritable Lord cultivated? He separated his three spiritual souls and seven physical souls, each occupying one body, so there was a total of ten bodies, one primary and nine secondaries. When the ten bodies rebelled against Heaven, nine bodies got destroyed. However, the last one survived, killed Heaven, and replaced Heaven,” Mao Tianyun said coldly.

“That’s right. The nine clones were all destroyed, so over the past eight hundred thousand years, the Six Paths Immortal has wanted to fix that. In order to make himself more perfect, he went into a slumber to repair his body. When he wakes up, he will be perfect. I played Go against him eight centuries ago. While it looked like I lost that game, I did not finish playing it. Did I lose? I did that on purpose.” Old Mister Guan Qi smiled.

“To plunder Six Paths’s soul guides?” Jiang Lianshan’s face sank.

“Something like that. During that Go game, I found the past soul guides of the Six Paths Immortal’s nine clones. Then, I formed them into nine seeds and merged them into my inheritance. Of course, they also contained the Six Paths Veritable Lord’s memories.” Old Mister Guan Qi smiled.

“Seeds? That was the inheritance that Guan Qi’s nine inheritors received?” the Past Buddha said with an unsightly expression.

“That’s right—nine seeds for nine inheritors. After the seed entered the body, it gradually merged with them. These nine eventually merged with the Six Paths Immortal’s clones, indistinguishable from each other. They are the Six Paths Immortal’s clones, and the Six Paths Immortal’s clones are these nine,” Old Mister Guan Qi explained.

Gasp!

Sharp inhalations came from the flying ships.

Revive the Six Paths Veritable Lord? Old Mister Guan Qi, how crazy of you!

“Don’t you want the heavenly souls? Right now, they are in the hands of the Six Paths Veritable Lord’s nine clones. Find them, and you will find the people you want the most.” Old Mister Guan Qi smiled.

Boom!

Right then, the Thousand Islands Sea suddenly trembled, apparently coming to a sudden stop.

“You want us to kill the Six Paths Veritable Lord’s clones? Hah! How laughable! Why should we kill them?” the Myriad Age Daoist Sect’s Heavenly Access scoffed coldly.

“If you don’t kill them, they will kill you, as your purpose in this trip is to kill them. The game we are playing is killing Six Paths.” Old Mister Guan Qi smiled.

“What do you mean?” Ji Dihong narrowed his eyes.

However, Old Mister Guan Qi turned to Mao Tianyun. “You are one of the five divine beasts. Do you sense anything?”

The black cat’s body suddenly twitched.

“Meow?! They-they are still alive? Aren’t the other four divine beasts dead?” the black cat exclaimed in shock, goggling.

“Everyone, welcome to eight hundred thousand years ago, one year before the Six Paths Veritable Lord rebelled against Heaven!” Old Mister Guan Qi suddenly said solemnly.

This pronouncement set off a commotion among everyone in the surroundings.

“Is Old Mister Guan Qi crazy? What nonsense is he saying? Eight hundred thousand years ago?”

“What eight hundred thousand years ago? I don’t understand.”

The surrounding experts felt confused. However, the expressions of Jiang Lianshan, Ji Dihong, Sect Master Heavenly Access, and the Three Lives Buddhas changed; they seemed to have guessed something.

“The time laws? You…you grasped the time laws?” Jiang Lianshan’s expression changed.

“I can’t really say ‘grasped,’ merely a superficial understanding of it. I managed to gain an opportunity. Everyone will appear where you were born. Those who were already alive eight hundred thousand years ago will end up in the bodies of who you were then, just like the earlier Six Paths Veritable Lord clones. Previously, you connected your consciousness with theirs. You will sense their locations once every ten days, and they can also sense your locations once every ten days.” Old Mister Guan Qi smiled.

Sense?

Gu Hai’s face sank. Helping Guan Qi’s nine inheritors compete for the heavenly souls earlier was simply a trap. It was so we would establish a consciousness connection with the nine inheritors.

Given this, they can pursue and kill us?

“The rules of the game are: You have one year to make your move and kill all the Six Paths Veritable Lord clones or get killed by the Six Paths Veritable Lord. If all the Six Paths Veritable Lords are not dead after one year, the power of time will wipe you out, including you lot.” Old Mister Guan Qi looked at the Three Lives Buddhas, Sect Master Heavenly Access, and Mao Tianyun.

“What? Wiped out? Wipe us out?” Everyone’s expression changed.

“The game has begun. Everyone, remember. You have only one year. Welcome to eight hundred thousand years ago! Hahahahaha!” Old Mister Guan Qi guffawed, feeling some pain in his heart.

As he guffawed, he waved his hand.

Boom!

Countless beams of lights shot toward everyone and sent them off in different directions. No one could resist the power of time.

Buzz!

The Thousand Islands Sea shrank and vanished, leaving Old Mister Guan Qi standing alone over a vast sea. He showed a somewhat pained smile.

“The time law? Hah! Yan`er, success or failure depends on this.” Some tears flowed out of Old Mister Guan Qi’s eyes.

Whoosh!

Old Mister Guan Qi vanished in the next moment.