Starting With 100 Million Lives

Chapter 1025: Chapter 1025: Life Essence Brush

When Xiao Huai arrived at the valley, he saw three heads hanging high at the entrance.

The three brothers from last time had already been killed.

A surge of hot blood rushed from his feet to the top of his head, almost driving him to madness on the spot.

From all directions, thousands of immortals emerged from the valley and cloud peaks.

The person leading them was the Sect Master of the Celestial Wolf Sect.

And in his hand, he held the recently shattered Immortal Talisman.

"Xiao Huai, you’ve really come, huh?"

"Hmph, really can’t imagine what’s going on in your head."

"Did you really think we would let you host any justice?"

"Who do you think you are?"

"Today is your day of death!"

Xiao Huai said nothing; he just slowly summoned his Daoist Artifact.

However, immediately thereafter, lights of array restrictions lit up from heaven and earth; this was a hunt.

It wasn’t just the Celestial Wolf Sect; experts from around a dozen families and sects joined in.

All these forces did not want him to continue living.

Because such a powerful person who also likes to preside over justice everywhere is at odds with them.

His existence obstructs everyone’s path.

The battle exploded, and Xiao Huai was unsurprisingly severely injured.

Just as he was about to be killed by the siege, a violent wind suddenly swept through the arena, and shortly after, Xiao Huai’s figure vanished from the original spot.

"Who is it?"

"What’s happening?"

"Who saved him?"

The crowd was uncertain and suspicious.

"He can’t have gotten far, search!"

"Everyone who’s had dealings with him over the years must be found!"

In an instant, the area became chaotic and turbulent.

Elsewhere, Xiao Huai, who was rescued, saw a mysterious woman.

Yes, very mysterious.

Mysterious to the point where he could clearly see her face, yet couldn’t remember her features, only felt she constantly lived in an invisible mist.

"Thank you, senior, for saving my life!"

He endured the severe injuries and flipped up to express gratitude.

The Immortal Mother didn’t stop his actions; only after he finished thanking did she speak faintly: "Do you feel resentful?"

"Yes!"

Thinking of the brutally murdered three brothers, Xiao Huai bit his silver teeth tightly, the veins on his hand bulging, fingernails digging deeply into his palm.

He hated!

Hated immensely!

The Immortal Mother showed no empathy.

Her face calm, her tone unwavering: "The cultivation realm is a place where strength speaks; your persistence in justice and reason seems to be of no use."

"No!"

His firmly held concept was questioned; even though this was his lifesaver, Xiao Huai wouldn’t concede!

"Their deaths this time do indeed have to do with my lack of foresight, but more so with the Celestial Wolf Sect’s inherent evil tyranny!"

He slowly raised his head, looking straight at the Immortal Mother: "I won’t regret my persistence! This chaotic world needs order, needs someone to uphold justice!"

"Is that so..."

The Immortal Mother slowly turned around, her voice somewhat ethereal.

"Hope you can always hold onto it."

"Senior, senior..."

Xiao Huai reached forward, but couldn’t even sense a trace of her aura.

Thinking he hadn’t asked his lifesaver’s name, he felt regretful and ashamed.

Three months later, part of his injuries recovered.

Thus he left the deep mountain wilderness and secretly returned to the Immortal City where he was before.

Soon, he discovered the atmosphere here was different than before.

The usual hustle and bustle were gone; though immortals still roamed the streets, everyone’s face appeared grave.

And a faint Blood Evil Qi permeated throughout the Immortal City.

What happened?

His strength was formidable, and he quickly overheard many secretive discussions in the city.

"Alas, Shengyang Pavilion is already a ruin..."

Shengyang Pavilion?

Xiao Huai’s heart skipped a beat; wasn’t this the small shop he helped before?

At that time, the Jingyu Family was bullying shopkeeper Shengyang Pavilion.

He stood up righteously, forcing back the Jingyu Family’s Third Elder and even made the latter compensate for the losses.

"Oh yes, shopkeeper Zeng’s whole family was slaughtered by the Jingyu Family..."

"And that group of loose immortals in the north of the city were wiped out by the Celestial Wolf Sect."

"Over ten thousand died that night!"

"So tragic, rivers of blood!"

"And it wasn’t just that, there’s more..."

Upon hearing these talks, Xiao Huai’s head buzzed loudly.

These were all people he had helped.

And now, they were all targeted for retribution.

"Too tyrannical!"

"Keep your voice down, don’t let anyone hear you, or you’ll be considered Xiao Huai’s associate."

"Luckily, I never crossed paths with him."

"Alas, who knows where Xiao Huai is hiding."

"He’s afraid to show himself now, but the people implicated by him are too innocent."

"Exactly, if he hadn’t stepped in rashly back then, those people maybe would just suffer a loss, not be killed."

"Lacking strength but still meddling, hosting justice, bah!"

These discussions filled various areas of the Immortal City.

Unless Xiao Huai withdrew his perception, he could hear them anytime.

The last ambush and siege by the Celestial Wolf Sect did not crush his beliefs, but now these rumors finally made him start self-doubting.

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Survival of the fittest is the law of survival.

And the justice and order he insisted on protecting were nothing but jokes.

Even those he had helped despised him!

Could it be... was he wrong?

If he didn’t meddle so much back then, maybe he’d be much more carefree?

In the dark room, divine light flickered, and the Immortal Mother appeared before him again.

"Now... do you still hold onto your previous persistence?"

Xiao Huai’s lips moved slightly, unable to utter a word for a long time.

The Immortal Mother slightly shook her head, about to leave when she finally heard a resolute voice behind her.

"Yes, I still persist, I was not wrong!"

"What’s wrong is this era!"

The Immortal Mother turned around, finding that his gaze had become more determined than ever before.

"I can’t change much, but it’s better than going with the flow."

The Immortal Mother said calmly: "Helping others might harm them instead, they would be retaliated against."

"Then make those who want revenge dare not seek it, make those who want revenge incapable of revenge."

"You do not have that power."

"Indeed, I do not..."

Xiao Huai once again fell into despondency. freёweɓnovel.com

Afterward, a stone brush only a foot long floated before him.

Feeling the aura of this brush, seemingly ancient and distant, yet somewhat ethereal and illusory, as if it does not belong to this world.

He cast a questioning glance at the Immortal Mother.

From this brush, he felt no powerful law fluctuations.

"This is the Life Essence Brush."

The Immortal Mother’s brief words detonated a shocking thunder in Xiao Huai’s mind.

Though he is only at Emperor Realm Sixth Layer, far from qualified to participate in the Heavenly Dao struggle, he is not lacking common knowledge like Brother Cheng.