My Mythical Path to Immortality in Another World

Chapter 212 Liberation

Strangely enough, as the goddess's hand approached, the white-clad woman's initially terrified expression gradually calmed down.

However, at that very moment, a single tear, shimmering with a crystalline light, silently slid down the goddess's cheek. This tear contained boundless compassion and love, seemingly capable of encompassing all the suffering of the world.

When the goddess's hand finally gently touched the top of the white-clad woman's head, the woman immediately became incredibly docile, like a well-behaved and adorable kitten, gently rubbing her soft hair against the goddess's palm, as if she were trying to win the goddess's favor.

For a moment, the entire scene seemed to be enveloped in a warm and soft light, making it exceptionally cozy and touching. Everyone was immersed in this wonderful atmosphere, quietly watching everything that was happening before their eyes.

"Sigh..." Suddenly, accompanied by a soft sigh, the woman's figure slowly began to dissipate like smoke.

Just as she was about to disappear completely, a dazzling stream of light suddenly appeared where the woman had been standing.

At the same time, a crystal-clear tear slid down from the goddess's eye.

This teardrop, like an incomparably precious gem, shimmered with a heartbreaking light. When it met the stream of light, the two instantly merged, creating a strange and mysterious fluctuation.

Immediately afterwards, the teardrop and the shimmering light vanished from the spot, as if they had never existed.

"Houtu Goddess, have mercy..." The phantom images of gods behind Zhao Xuan bowed respectfully to the goddess, their movements perfectly synchronized and filled with awe.

Then, these divine figures faded away like phantoms until they disappeared completely.

Seeing this, Zhao Xuan also bowed solemnly and said softly, "Houtu Goddess is merciful." As soon as he finished speaking, the divine phenomena behind him gradually disappeared and ceased to appear.

At this moment, the surrounding space suddenly underwent a violent change, and the pond and the beautiful lotus flowers growing in it appeared out of thin air in the place that was originally empty.

With a flick of his arm, Zhao Xuan caused the pond and lotus flowers to shrink rapidly at a visible speed. In the blink of an eye, they became only the size of a palm, and then, as if drawn by some magical force, flew straight towards Zhao Xuan's palm.

After they fell into Zhao Xuan's hands, upon closer inspection, he discovered that the pond and lotus flowers had lost their original appearance.

What is now presented before us is a smooth, round pill that exudes a faint fragrance!

The elixir was entirely emerald green, as if carved from jade, with some mysterious patterns flowing on it.

The aura emanating from that pill was exactly the same as the one that Daoist Qingping had once bestowed upon him!

Without a doubt, this is indeed a divine pill for mending the heavens.

However, it was also the root of the mysterious woman in white's lifelong suffering.

Three hundred million years ago, a divine pill that mended the heavens was casually transformed by the Heavenly Witch Dao Lord into a shimmering pond, quietly hidden deep within this vast and boundless mountain range.

Such divine objects naturally attracted countless cultivators of the Heavenly Witch Demon Sect, who regarded them as a rare and precious opportunity and searched for them desperately.

However, just before the cultivators of the Heavenly Witch Demon Sect had found the Heavenly Mending Pill, a lotus seed of unknown origin fell into the pond as if by fate.

From then on, the lotus seed began to continuously absorb nutrients from the pond, and these nutrients were in fact the astonishing medicinal power contained in the Heaven-Mending Divine Pill.

Nourished by the long years, this lotus seed took root, sprouted, and continued to grow strong.

Gradually, it not only gained its own intelligence, but also transformed into a beautiful and refined woman in white.

But as time went by, and the lotus's level rose and its spirituality grew stronger, a cruel reality was laid before her—no matter how hard she struggled, she could never break free from the pond's constraints and transform into a free and independent being.

After countless years of living together and interacting, the lotus flower has now become completely integrated with the pond, or rather, with the Heaven-Mending Elixir, and they are indistinguishable.

This close and inseparable connection was like an invisible shackle, firmly imprisoning the white-clad woman's yearning for freedom.

Under the laws personally established by the Heavenly Witch Dao Lord, the Heaven-Mending Divine Pill was regarded as an indispensable opportunity and nutrient for the cultivators of the Heavenly Witch Demon Sect.

How could such a divine pill possess the ability to transform into a living being?

When the mysterious woman in white realized this, a strong impulse surged within her—to try to break free from the constraints of the laws set by the Heavenly Witch Dao Lord and thus take human form.

The woman in white made endless efforts for this, going through countless springs, summers, autumns, and winters, but all her attempts ultimately came to nothing.

Even though she successfully absorbed the powerful medicinal properties of the Heaven-Mending Divine Pill and used it to achieve the spiritual plant body at the level of the Primordial Taiji Golden Immortal, she still could not change her predetermined fate.

The more of the medicinal properties of the Heaven-Mending Elixir he absorbed, the greater the impact he would be.

It should be noted that although the Heavenly Witch Dao Venerable's own realm was only at the level of Hunyuan Taiji Grand Luo Golden Immortal, his profound understanding of the laws and the Great Dao had actually reached the level of Hongmeng Taiji Grand Luo Golden Immortal.

The reason why these top experts failed to advance further and break through to the supreme realm of Hongmeng Taiji Golden Immortal was not because their understanding of the Dao was not deep enough, but because they lacked a super divine realm to support their subsequent cultivation path.

And so, in the long and hopeless struggle of those years, the woman in white gradually sank into deep despair.

Now she no longer hopes to defy fate; her only desire is to be freed from this endless torment.

Therefore, under its powerful control, the entire valley began to present a strange scene.

The thick fog that had always existed in the valley and would never dissipate became even denser, like a mysterious barrier blocking outsiders from prying into its depths.

The purpose of this mist was to lure cultivators from the Heavenly Witch Demon Sect to investigate.

However, things didn't go as planned. Although the eerie fog did attract some attention, it ultimately drew not cultivators from the Heavenly Witch Demon Sect, but an unexpected parasitic beast.

This parasitic beast has an extraordinary origin; it descended upon the world a billion years ago along with a chaotic beast captured by the will of the world.

After the initial battles of encirclement and suppression, it managed to escape the pursuit of the cultivators of the Divine Realm by a stroke of luck, and fled all the way to the mysterious land of the Heavenly Witch Demon Realm.

Here, after a long period of interaction, the aura of this parasitic beast gradually merged with the unique aura of the Heavenly Witch Demon Realm.

In this way, its original parasitic characteristics were cleverly concealed, allowing it to hide safely and remain undetected. And so, this parasitic beast silently hid in this land for hundreds of millions of years.

Until one day, the lurking parasite accidentally discovered that the mist in this valley could effectively prevent others from using their divine sense to explore this place.

For it, which had been searching for a safe haven, this was undoubtedly a huge surprise.

Therefore, it did not hesitate to make this place its base camp, using it as a stronghold to continue to hide its tracks.

It was precisely because of the dense fog that could prevent divine sense from probing and the presence of that terrifyingly powerful parasitic beast at the level of a Grand Luo Golden Immortal that even if someone occasionally noticed the unusual nature of this valley, it would be extremely difficult to delve into it.

After all, with such double obstacles, breaking through the layers of fog and discovering the pond formed by the Heaven-Mending Divine Pill was an almost impossible task.

At this moment, even if the woman in white realized that the situation had developed beyond her initial expectations and that she was powerless to withdraw the thick fog, she was already powerless to do so.

Since the parasitic beast had already ascended to the realm of the Primordial Golden Immortal, upon noticing the strange change of the dense fog rising around it, it immediately used a secret technique to merge its own aura with the fog, thus successfully breaking free from its original constraints and control.

The woman dressed in white, after years of arduous struggle, was actually trapped in a deep vortex of obsession from which she could not extricate herself.

Her spirituality was also divided into three parts: the first was the spirituality that was determined to seek the path to liberation; the second was the spirituality that longed to realize its own value and manifest its instincts; and the last part was profoundly influenced by the laws established by the Heavenly Witch Dao Lord.

These three spiritualities are like two sides of the same coin, intertwined yet conflicting, much like a patient suffering from severe personality disorder.

Therefore, even though another hundred million years have quietly passed, no one has been able to obtain the Heaven-Mending Elixir to help him escape his predicament.

As for that incomparably precious Heaven-Mending Divine Pill, I'm sorry, the parasitic beast has no right to even touch it.

It should be understood that this was a tremendous opportunity specially reserved for his own clan by the Heavenly Witch Dao Lord, and it was something that parasitic beasts or other strange creatures could not covet or enjoy.

Under the influence of this mysterious spiritual force, the originally calm pond and the lotus flowers in it seemed to come alive, disappearing into the deepest part of the space, vanishing without a trace.

Zhao Xuan sensed that the spirit was struggling, and at the same time, he understood the endless pain it was enduring deep inside.

For him, who had always sought spiritual enlightenment, this kind of suffering was something he could deeply empathize with, and it stirred feelings of pity in him.

Therefore, he did not hesitate to disrupt his planned path of cultivation and unleashed the Xuanhuang Dharma Body, employing mythological laws.

Of course, he only used the Great Wall of Steel. The thousands of phantoms were the many mythical guardians of the Great Wall of Steel, and Houtu Niangniang was one of them.

Although this world does not have an institution like the Underworld specifically managing the cycle of life and death, the matter of reincarnation is real.

Furthermore, as one of the nine supreme laws, the Law of Reincarnation holds an incomparably revered position. Even in those realms that are not within the Realm of Reincarnation, its influence, though not as powerful as in the Realm of Reincarnation, is still not to be underestimated.

However, due to the lack of an orderly management system like the underworld, reincarnation appears quite chaotic and disorderly here.

There is neither unseen merit to reward those who do good deeds, nor karma to punish those who commit many evils.

In other words, for those cultivators below the Great Luo Golden Immortal level who have not yet condensed their true spirit, no matter what illustrious status they possessed in their previous life, once they enter the cycle of reincarnation after death, they have absolutely no way of predicting what kind of being they will be reborn as.

Fortunately, Houtu, as the ruler of reincarnation, can still play a role in guiding part of the reincarnation order, even if she cannot achieve a supreme ruling position in this divine realm.

With the help of Houtu's power, Zhao Xuan successfully absorbed the spirituality of the woman in white, while deliberately preserving her most crucial soul essence.

Finally, he took out a precious tear of all living beings and carefully sent the woman in white into the cycle of reincarnation, thus saving her from the terrible mystery of the womb.

In this way, the white-clad woman, who only possessed the essence of her soul, not only successfully escaped the torment of her long-standing personality disorder, but also gained a precious opportunity to start her life journey anew.

Zhao Xuan gripped the Heaven-Mending Divine Pill that radiated a mysterious light tightly in his hand, his heart filled with a mixture of emotions.

He knew that this divine pill was a rare treasure in the world, but at the same time it also carried countless joys and sorrows and hardships.

Just as Zhao Xuan was lost in his thoughts, suddenly, the originally calm space around him began to ripple with tiny waves, just like the ripples caused by a pebble thrown into a lake.

Immediately afterwards, a familiar yet awe-inspiring aura slowly emanated from the center of the ripples.

Zhao Xuan looked closely and saw that the illusory figure of the Heavenly Witch Dao Lord gradually became clearer, like a dream, like the moon in the water or a flower in a mirror.

"Young friend, your actions are truly to my liking," said the Heavenly Witch Daoist, a faint smile playing on his lips as he gazed intently at Zhao Xuan. Facing this legendary powerhouse, Zhao Xuan dared not be negligent and quickly bowed respectfully, replying, "This junior is merely acting according to my will."

Upon hearing Zhao Xuan's answer, Tianwu Daojun nodded slightly in agreement.

He sighed softly and continued, "This woman was destined not to suffer such torment. When I established the law, I never foresaw this situation. Now that you have helped her and freed her from her pain, I will give you this Heaven-Mending Divine Pill. This way, it will be put to good use."

After saying these words, the phantom of the Heavenly Witch Dao Lord began to fade and fade, eventually slowly dissipating into the void.