Chapter 1498 - 808: Writing Immortality Together (Triple Update Combined)

Even if Yin Weiyin cannot understand, he will have to make do.

He slowly stood up, walked to her side, gently held her hand, and played with her delicate fingers. Indeed, the touch was soft and smooth; the frustrations during the carriage ride eased a little. He slowly said, "Immortals like Master Yunzhou, who become possessed in a moment, are truly one in a hundred. But you don't know why he became possessed. The woman coming up the mountain was the White Lotus Saint Mother. I was wondering if Master Yunzhou didn't know what plans this woman had, but just saw her. Unable to leave her, he became possessed and died because of it..."

He paused, leaving half a sentence unfinished, as if pondering the phrasing.

Yin Weiyin understood instantly. She had thought Master Yunzhou encountered some formidable Heart Demon, but it turned out to be such. She laughed and said, "Then you need not worry about the dangers of becoming Immortal. Fools like Master Yunzhou are one in ten thousand."

"I can empathize with that," he said, uttering the unfinished half-sentence.

"..." Yin Weiyin was stunned for a moment, then after a while said, "You have me... no need to worry."

Chen Yi glanced sideways at her, suspecting she was secretly calling him foolish, but he had no proof.

Yin Weiyin remained unfazed, her cool eyes looked back at him with interest and she, in turn, held his hand.

"I had long thought you would have such worries, worried about ascension, thus leaving the secular world behind, bidding farewell to love. But how can immortality be this way? Haven't you heard, when one attains Dao, all around rise?"

The inheritance of Taihua Mountain is one of the rare stable ascension magic skills within Taoist sects, a well-traversed path to heaven. Although in the golden boy and jade girl pairings, the Jade Girl often ascends first while the Golden Boy perishes into dust, that is due to those Golden Boys lacking talent. Now, Chen Yi and she are a perfect match. After ascension, they are certainly no ordinary immortals. Once Dao Cheng ascends, those like Yin Tingxue, Lin Wanxiao, Min Ning, these chicken and dogs, naturally can ascend together.

Yin Weiyin smiled and asked, "Even without Magic Skill, there is reincarnation. If one obtains immortality, why worry about temporary gains and losses?"

Chen Yi lowered his gaze and said, "Seems so."

"A madman once said, in reincarnation, memories differ, no longer the same person. But haven't you heard of the awakening of wisdom from one life to another? The Jade Emperor reincarnated and cultivated for 30,000 years, knowing still he was the Jade Emperor, ultimately achieving Dao, succeeded in accomplishment. The person remains, but ordinary human vision is limited and cannot see through it. When I spoke to you of Southern Spring Cat Slaying, this was the principle: unable to let go, unwilling to discard, unable to break free, thus unable to attain Dao."

"Indeed."

Seeing that he was gradually understanding, Yin Weiyin felt somewhat relieved and gently held his hand, dipped a brush in ink, and wrote a word on paper:

"Immortal"

Those outside the mountain.

She smiled and slowly said:

"The character 'Immortal' signifies being outside of the mountain, not within it. The reason people cannot become Immortal lies in being amidst this mountain, for people are mountain dwellers and Immortals are mountain outsiders. People and Immortals are separated by a single mountain; seeing through it can lead to great freedom.

If they can't see through this mountain, they are not considered to have obtained Dao,

This is... the obstacle of understanding."

He lowered his gaze at the character Immortal, lost in thought.

Having gained some insight, the female crown observed, seeing his hesitation, almost shouted, "Wretch, why not become Immortal?"

But she saw Chen Yi draw his brush slowly and write another word:

"Celestial"

Far from family and people.

The female crown scrutinized it with a frown, slightly startled.

Both words are 'Immortal,' though 'Celestial' is even older, yet with a different script and entirely different implications. 'Celestial' corresponds to 'migration,' meaning far from family and people.

Moonlight enveloped, it fell on the fluctuating clouds like thousands of tons of ocean waves moving, the tide rising and falling. When the clouds passed, the wind calmed, and moonlight again slipped onto the window lattice, falling on paper. She suddenly realized that from the beginning, she did not understand the crux of his inner turmoil.

Her hand still rested on his,

Tonight, they wrote an Immortal character together, yet it was not the same word.