1 Chapter 1: Breaking the Void with Martial Arts_1

Who in the world can evade death?

No matter how breathtaking your beauty, how you outshine all others, in the end, you will become a mere skeleton in rouge. No matter how proud and splendid you are, possessing vast lands and rivers, in the end, you will eventually be reduced to a handful of yellow earth!

Immortality, is something everyone yearns for. But there are neither eternally youthful beauties nor imperishable emperors; the brightest stars and the masses, they are all the same in this regard. Nobody can escape the cycle of birth, aging, sickness, and death. Nobody can live forever in this world.

Nevertheless, legends about immortality persist.

Laozi, Zhuang Zhou, Dharma, Chen Tuan, Zhang Sanfeng...

Their names, honored throughout the ages, like ancient incantations that continuously inspire later generations, making people believe that immortality is not completely ridiculous, that some people can reach that realm.

However, time is ruthless. As the years pass by, these once immortal legends slowly erode in the river of time.

Until after seemingly endless epochs, a miracle emerged in the plain light of day!

On a full moon night, the Prideful Goddess Lanno, ended her worldly ties on Kunlun Dusty Peak and went through the Shattered Void, to the shock of all cultivators, and the talk of immortality became popular again.

In the last few days, over a hundred thousand people flocked to Kunlun Mountain, from the nobles and royals to the male peddlers and female dealers, spanning all three religions and all nine streams of ordinary life. They all have the same goal, to witness a miracle rarely seen in a millennium.

Finally, it was the day of the full moon. Majestic Kunlun, grand and beautiful, under the pure moonlight, was as if shrouded in a layer of hazy gauze, making this Sacred Mountain seem like a fleeting fairyland.

In the moonlit night, Xiao Chen ran like the wind, his body covered in blood, even his black hair was dyed red with blood. But his sharply chiseled face was full of unyielding determination, his eyes bright as stars, shining with a resolute light.

He was in the midst of a life and death escape!

The Royal Heavenly Maiden, Zhao Lin'er, swore to annihilate him, leading dozens of cultivators to hunt him down from all corners. The Heavenly Maiden, her face veiled under light gauze, her figure elegant, curves enchanting, eyes clear as autumn water, moving with the grace and lightness of a startled swan, seemingly ethereal, as elegant as a fairy descending to the human world.

With nowhere to run, Xiao Chen rushed towards the Dusty Peak!

Under the moonlit night, the area around the Dusty Peak was packed with people. Over a hundred thousand people gathered, but it was eerily quiet. Everyone was silently looking up at the woman in white on the Dusty Peak.

At the summit, Lanno, in her snow-white clothing, bathed in moonlight, her immortal body seemed to exude a faint sacred light. Her white skirt fluttered in the wind, she seemed as pure and ethereal as the Fairy from the Lunar Palace.

In the past half month, she has tried to break the void twice but each time just as she was about to succeed, she retracted the foot she was stepping forward with.

She was just a step away from eternal life.

However, if she were to cross that step, the mundane world would be forever estranged from her and she would sever all earthly ties!

To wield the Wisdom Sword and sever worldly ties required immense courage! Because once she took that step, what awaited her in the endless epochs of immortality might be an eternal loneliness.

The will of Heaven is unpredictable, the sentiment of a Fairy as cold as frost!

Today, as she had stood from the break of dawn until now, the various worldly matters surfaced one after another in her mind. It was finally the time to bid goodbye to this mortal world. Intense divine light suddenly erupted at the summit, and the entire mountain top was shrouded in an incomparably sacred light.

Lanno, as beautiful as ice and snow, in the sacred light, appeared so transcendent and noble. Among the gaze of the thousands, the void shattered, and she confidently and resolutely took a step forward.

At the last moment, she looked back at the mortal world for one last time. That dreamlike, fairy-like face forever etched in people's hearts, as hundreds of thousands of people shouted Lanno's name in unison.

However, the unified shouts quickly became scattered when people noticed two figures racing towards the mountain peak and disappearing into the Shattered Void together with Lanno!

The history of Jiuzhou records that in the year 7316, the Prideful Goddess Lanno broke through the void, and the Royal Heavenly Girl Zhao Lin'er was fortunate enough to form an immortal bond and entered the World of Longevity together.

As for Xiao Chen, he did not have the fate to be recorded in history.

In the moment of entering the Shattered Void, Xiao Chen was truly shocked to the extreme!

He had never imagined that there would come such a day when he would enter the World of Longevity in this way. In that moment, he thought of a lot of things, his family, friends… they were all going to be part of a past that he would have to leave forever. He was going to be forever separated from this mortal world.

This life and death escape was unexpectedly going to have such an outcome. For many people, entering the World of Longevity through the Shattered Void was a glory that would be remembered for all time. Yet, Xiao Chen would willingly give up this opportunity. He was so attached to this mortal world, his parents, his relatives… they would be gone forever! He silently bid his farewell.

Xiao Chen didn't know that the Royal Heavenly Girl Zhao Lin'er had also entered the Shattered Void.