Wang Mu sits suspended in mid-air.
A moment later, his Primordial Spirit leaves his body, transforming into a torrent of mingling light and shadow, soaring above the Immortal Mansion.
Countless threads of energy emanate from the Primordial Spirit, unlocking and permeating every corner of the Immortal Mansion like keys…
The next second!
Rumble!
The ancient ice mountains shatter, white beams flicker across the sky, and hints of green quietly bloom from every corner of the Immortal Mansion.
The ice mountains fracture into rivers, the Primordial Spirit illuminates the Immortal Mansion like the sun, exotic flowers and ancient trees eagerly sprout from the earth like bamboo shoots after rain, and the once-thin Spiritual Energy begins to gush forth.
This visible transformation lasts only a few moments.
The Immortal Mansion is renewed.
Even the central Ice Blue Ancient Tree has donned a new attire, with icy blue and lush green blending together. The branches, sparse due to sacrificing life to Wang Mu, are now dense and thriving, life is majestic, beginning a wild growth.
In the blink of an eye, it transforms into an ancient tree with a canopy covering the sky.
"Yuhuan Immortal Mansion… this is indeed a small world!"
Wang Mu takes a deep breath.
At this moment, because of the connection with the Big Formation, the Immortal Mansion has become a lifebound magical treasure tied to his life and death.
"This Immortal Mansion is perfect for cultivation and farming..."
Wang Mu glances around.
It perfectly maximizes every ounce of his power.
Just then, scenes suddenly appear in the void.
In the images, a woman plants the Ice Fire Seed into Xuanbing and battles with an Exotic Beast…
"That is… An Qixiu's first life…"
"..."
Wang Mu seems to understand.
Earlier, he only saw the records of An Qixiu.
These scenes should be memories An Qixiu left behind, or rather… each life when she awakes, she retrieves her memories.
This Immortal Mansion is the root of her reincarnation.
The records of An Qixiu's six lives were in text akin to a diary, merely outlining a general idea, not very detailed.
But the images as memories are much clearer…
Virtually…
Even the details of battles are all present.
The images continuously appear, quickly, and with Wang Mu's current Divine Sense, he can instantly perceive them all.
In just a few days, the first life is past.
Next, the second life, third life, fourth life…
"Wait… in the previous records, the seventh life was mentioned as happening after a game, with no records—are there images representing its memories?"
Wang Mu's heart stirs.
Thus far, he only knows of this millennia-long experience from An Qixiu and Xiao Li.
Ying's experience is far simpler, always guarding the Dark Border.
The days fly by, and the later lives are more detailed.
"If I could see the contents of the seventh life… maybe I'd understand why I appeared…"
Wang Mu watches closely.
Finally, the sixth life comes to an end.
Wang Mu sees the vow he and An Qixiu made for their next life under the Changqing Tree…
Identical.
It makes him quite sentimental.
At that time, An Qixiu had hair white as snow, with sickly red eyes, considered a strange person in that world.
Then, an upheaval in the world.
An Qixiu first went to the Holy Mountain where Nanrong Biyou resided, Wang Mu knows this.
The difference is…
On the day of the upheaval.
An Qixiu's aura surged successively.
"The passage to the Upper Realm opens, Spiritual Energy floods down…"
"After the accumulation of six lives, is she about to ascend directly?"
Wang Mu takes a deep breath.
This is not empty speculation!
Bear in mind, An Qixiu has the experience of six lives, with her first life already being powerful enough!
In the subsequent lives, each time she prevented countless disasters, though in the end, the result didn't change...
But that merit, even Wang Mu acknowledges, he couldn't compare.
A living history, that's An Qixiu, she virtually spans the development of Nine Provinces' humanity since its birth, starting from the initial planting of the Fire Seed.
At the moment when the passage between the two realms opens.
"Has she ascended?"
Judging by the aura, An Qixiu has definitely ascended.
Even the aura has grown so strong it makes Wang Mu doubt whether she's about to ascend?
"It shouldn't be…"
"From the experiences and memories of Heroine Yan and her companions…"
"An Qixiu shouldn't have had much power then…"
"Yet today, on the first day of the world's upheaval, she directly comprehended and ascended…"
Wang Mu cannot comprehend, can only continue watching.
In the images...
Step by step, a lotus with each life, the White-haired Immortal ascends to the sky, Heavenly Thunder splits the way, golden glow sweeps across the sky.
"A vast eternity, another cycle of reincarnation…"
The white-haired woman stands proudly in the void, gazes upon the earth beneath, her eyes deep and tranquil, like the unchanging Xuanbing of eternity.
Suddenly, she halts, looks to the sky, and lets out a soft sigh.
Within the sigh, there's a sense of reluctance towards this land, nostalgia for old friends.
"What, are you still lingering over something?"
In the distance, a black shadow stands afar, mocking laughter suddenly resounds.
In the Immortal Mansion, Wang Mu is startled.
It's Piao Miaoxu!
No, it's Sky Demon Emperor Chen!
Wait, at this time, Sky Demon Emperor Chen shouldn't have awakened?
Otherwise, why would she have been sealed all these years?
No, no, no…
Wang Mu solidifies his Primordial Spirit, as if he's thought of something.
Piao Miaoxu, after being defeated by him back then, didn't die because she was the reincarnation of Sky Demon Emperor Chen.
Instead, she was sealed in the Immortal Mansion by the later An Qixiu.
So, after being defeated by him back then, her memories as Sky Demon Emperor Chen should have awakened!
Wang Mu suddenly recalls, in previous illusion realms with Nanrong Biyou, Mu Hongyuan, and others' past life experiences.
Each time at the final scene, after finishing Piao Miaoxu with a sword, Piao Miaoxu would always whisper something in his ear, sometimes vague, sometimes clear, yet Wang Mu didn't pay much attention.