Immortality begin with Alchemy Grandmaster

Chapter 1884: Chapter 697: His Legacy_3

Sima Huiniang pressed her lips together and gently shook her head, ”It’s hard to say right now, we’ll have to see how Wang Yuan and Chu Kui decide.”

The battles of the Luo Tian Sect have always been decided by Wang Yuan and Chu Kui.

The former charges at the frontlines, while the latter commands from the center of the battlefield.

As for the other three Golden Core Elders, they’ve been gradually recruited as guest elders over the years.

The Luo Tian Alliance of the past became merely a name during the day of the demon chaos.

Gu Caiyi spoke softly, ”The battle at Shifang Immortal City three years ago left Wang Yuan seriously injured, I’m afraid this time we might...”

”What do you want to say?” Sima Huiniang looked over with a stern expression.

”I mean, the Five Elements Divine Domain is not a place for us to stay long. The Five Elements Divine Sect’s attitude towards us is very ambiguous. I’m afraid they aren’t so kind as to shelter us; now they even want us to go to our deaths. So, should we consider your brother Sima Wenjie’s plan?”

”You mean merging with Mount Sky Cliff?” Sima Huiniang stated the plan and then resolutely refused, ”Impossible! Luo Tian Sect is his foundation, and even if I die, I won’t agree to a merger.”

The Mount Sky Cliff they mentioned is another well-known Nascent Soul Ascendant Sect in the Eastern Wasteland.

It also participated in the pioneering war of the Xiao Yue Mountain Range back in the day.

In that battle, several Nascent Soul Ascendant Sects joined forces.

But the end result was that the Luo Yun Sect was destroyed, the Yu Ding Sword Sect was overrun by demon beasts, and even the Medicine King Sect close by had to relocate, leaving its original great territory.

Only the Five Elements Divine Sect, Fenghua Palace, and Mount Sky Cliff, which were far apart, preserved their strength.

Oh!

And Tian Fan City, a major participant in that pioneering war, is now merely a name as well.

The sect remains, but its leaders are now strong members of the Dark Abyss Sect acting as proxies.

After that battle, the Nascent Soul Ascendant Sects were affected, but the Golden Core sects like Luo Tian Sect were the most impacted.

Once renowned Golden Core Great Sects like Qingdan Valley and Ice Castle in the Yu Ding Realm have long dispersed.

The elites of these sects, even if they survived, either became rogue cultivators or were absorbed by Nascent Soul Ascendant Sects.

Among these forces, few like Luo Tian Sect, who traveled countless miles, maintained their sect structure.

This also shows how essential the remaining strength of Luo Tian Sect is.

Thus, Nascent Soul Ascendant Sects like Mount Sky Cliff have the idea of absorbing Luo Tian Sect and have repeatedly sent people to contact them secretly.

Seeing Sima Huiniang’s resolute stance, Gu Caiyi’s eyes reddened.

”Do you think I don’t care about his foundation?”

”But if no one remains, what use is left with just the empty name of Luo Tian Sect?”

”Ling Jun hasn’t sent any news, and the Five Elements Divine Sect’s attitude towards us is ambiguous; if this continues, with one battle after another draining us, how many from Luo Tian Sect can survive?”

”Most importantly, is he really still alive?”

Sima Huiniang suddenly took a step forward, staring intensely at Gu Caiyi.

”He’s alive!”

Gu Caiyi gritted her teeth and said, ”But all the Golden Core cultivators who went to the Great Snow Mountain at the time are dead! This is information that all sects have disclosed later, how can you be sure he’s still alive.”

Sima Huiniang pointed a finger at her chest, ”He’s really still alive!”

”Alive in your heart?” Gu Caiyi looked at Sima Huiniang with a sympathetic gaze, ”I also want to believe he’s still alive, but in reality, sixty years have passed without any news!”

Sima Huiniang’s tone softened slightly, shaking her head.

”I once told you, during my Foundation Establishment Ceremony, Chu Kui gave me a pair of Spirit Beetles. This beetle has a male and a female, implanted in me and him, nurtured with our heart blood. Mine is still alive, which means he’s still alive, maybe even doing quite well.”

”Stop mentioning that Spirit Beetle!”

Unexpectedly, Gu Caiyi, who rarely lost her composure, burst out when the Spirit Beetle was mentioned.

Her face flushed, her voice almost a shout.

Sima Huiniang shook her head, knowing the other was jealous.

Jealous for so many years!

Jealous that she became Luo Chen’s person before her.

Jealous that she believed more firmly than anyone else that Luo Chen was still alive.

Jealous of her connection with Luo Chen via the so-called ”heart-linked” Spirit Beetle.

While Gu Caiyi, in her year after year of steadfastness, gradually began to doubt whether Luo Chen was still alive.

Leading to her love becoming increasingly blurred.

Every time she thought of her wavering, she was plagued with endless guilt.

So-called love, in the face of time, in the face of distance, is the most vulnerable to the test.

”Enough!”

”You should go back to closed-door cultivation and form a Golden Core as soon as possible!”

”Luo Tian Sect is still too weak to withstand the storms of the Immortal Cultivation World. As for me...”

Sima Huiniang appeared somewhat desolate.

Even dedicating herself to cultivation with mundane sect affairs handed over to her disciple Yao Mingyue, the disparity in talent and lack of resources made her increasingly apprehensive about Core Formation.

Especially!

Her lifespan is limited.

She was older than Luo Chen, Gu Caiyi, and barely completed her Foundation Establishment before turning sixty.

Now, with only a few decades left before the two-hundred-and-fifty-year Foundation Establishment limit.

To go from entering the ninth level of Foundation Establishment to Foundation Establishment Stage Finalization, and then taking the final step to form a Golden Core is a time span she simply doesn’t have.

What she just told Yao Mingyue about thirty years, haha...

She smiled wryly, having somewhat given up.

Perhaps, this time at the San Tu River battle is her last contribution to Luo Tian Sect’s strength.

Gu Caiyi stood up and walked toward the exit of the cave mansion.

Her figure seemed somewhat lost.

Just then!

A chilling aura suddenly emanated from behind.

Gu Caiyi turned back suddenly!

In her sight, Sima Huiniang’s clothes were in disarray, her hair fell down.

Her hands clutched her chest tightly, her face pale beyond words, eyes full of disbelief.

It was as if the sky had collapsed.

Such a loss of composure, not even when it was known that all the cultivators in the Great Snow Mountain had succumbed to the Demon Emperor, did Sima Huiniang exhibit before.

Could it be...

Gu Caiyi felt as if she had fallen into an icy abyss, speaking hoarsely:

”Huiniang, what happened to him?”