Only three seconds? He's already the Lord of All Realms, so it doesn't matter.

Chapter 88: Short Life, Long Life

The moment the golden core condensed within his body, Ye Xuan's Daoist robe also underwent some changes.

Originally, the Taoist robe had no patterns, but now some willow-like ripples gradually appeared, with an overall emerald green color, which adorned the sleeves of the robe.

"Longevity, bathing, crowning..."

Ye Xuan recalled the three stages of "The Immortal Willow of Immortality," which corresponded to the three stages of human cultivation: Qi Refining, Foundation Building, and Golden Core.

The experiences he and the willow tree went through at each stage were different; simply put, each stage represented a different stage of life's journey.

"Longevity" corresponds to the infant about to be born, "Bathing" symbolizes the cleansing and nakedness of life in the process of growth, and "Crown and Ribbon" naturally represents the boy coming of age and beginning to wear clothes.

"Looks like my superpowers have helped me skip some processes again."

Looking at the Taoist robe he was wearing, he realized that when the Heavenly Dao Body was formed, it had allowed him to jump to the stage of wearing a crown and robes, which explained why there were no major changes this time, nor any unusual phenomena in the heavens and earth.

Entering the Golden Core Realm for the first time was quite a strange experience for Ye Xuan. In addition to being full of power, he also felt a faint suction force pulling him.

The direction of this suction force was directly towards the sky above his head...

Looking towards Shuitian Village, thousands of miles away, the willows are now growing rapidly, reaching nearly 100 meters in height, and quite towering.

However, if one wants to rely on the willow tree to travel from the short-lived realm to the long-lived realm, this height is probably far from enough, unless one can truly reach the realm of penetrating heaven and earth.

He looked up at the sky again, but the suction force on his body was not enough to pull him into the realm of immortality...

"Heavenly body!"

A sudden inspiration struck Ye Xuan. He sat down to meditate by the spiritual spring again, his consciousness drifting away into the real world.

In his own bedroom, an illusory Heavenly Dao Body remained on the bed, and all he had to do was travel back in time.

The moment the perception probed into the real world and connected with the Heavenly Dao Body there, time in the entire world began to flow, and the attraction between the two worlds began to pull each other together.

Ye Xuan felt as if his entire body, including his skin and flesh, was being pulled into a vortex.

Time passed quickly, and his body became increasingly illusory, his consciousness gradually blurred, as if he had already left the world of short life and long life.

When he opened his eyes again, he saw not his own bedroom, but a vast wasteland.

"We have indeed arrived at the Realm of Immortality."

Ye Xuan was not surprised by the failed attempt to travel through time, as he had tried before. Each time, he would be pulled by a force and left behind in the Realm of Immortality. At that time, he was only at the Foundation Establishment stage and would quickly sever the connection.

However, he is no longer a short-lived species with only Foundation Establishment. Looking at his increasingly solid physical body, Ye Xuan began to use his senses to explore the vicinity of this wasteland.

On this barren plain, where even birds and beasts cannot be seen, the sky and earth are of the same color.

Even if Ye Xuan's perception expanded to ten miles, a hundred miles, or even several hundred miles... he still couldn't see any signs of human habitation.

"No wonder there are no Taoist traditions or immortals here; it's even more impoverished than the old Shuitian Village."

As I was pondering this, my senses suddenly detected a strange color appearing on the distant horizon.

In the hazy sky, a crimson streak of light streaked across the southeast, trailing a long tail of flame, like a falling meteor.

Where the streak of light passed, the faint sound of metal clashing could be heard. To Ye Xuan's surprise, this sudden change was heading towards his location!

With a flash, Ye Xuan disappeared from his original spot, reappearing three hundred feet away behind a mound.

He concealed his aura, gathering the blue and white energies within his golden core. A few breaths later, a crimson stream of light fell thirty miles away, kicking up a cloud of dust.

Two figures walked out steadily through the smoke and dust.

They were all young people of different heights and builds, dressed in matching red and white Taoist robes.

"Hmm? That slight fluctuation of spiritual energy has disappeared..."

One of them took a step forward, constantly waving a feather fan in his hand, looking around the landing point.

Beside him was a short, fat man, who also looked surprised. The two of them searched the vicinity for a while, but returned empty-handed.

"Is there really an earthworm roaming in this godforsaken place?"

The fat man looked exhausted and kept complaining, but as soon as he started complaining, the young man beside him remembered the past and burst into curses:

"***"

"How dare you say that! If you hadn't been hoarding the Blood Pill, would I be implicated here?"

The fat man immediately felt guilty and dared not refute, so he could only let his companions hurl insults at him.

Ye Xuan withdrew his senses at this moment. These two were acquaintances to him. They were the two people who were using the essence blood of short-lived species to refine pills when he was spying on the Longevity Realm that day.

But how did they end up here?

The place they chose was quite far from the capital, even close to the edge of the county seat. And what was this "earth dragon" they were talking about?

Ye Xuan had just explored the wasteland and found no living beings on the surface...

Just as he was pondering this, the two began talking again—

"This desolate place doesn't even have a single spiritual vein. I'm afraid it's just something they said casually, and they're actually exiling us here."

"It's just touching a blood pill... how could it be this serious?"

The tall, thin young man sighed deeply, his expression complex as he gazed at the endless wasteland in the distance, the path he had come from once again leading to the sect's territory.

He seemed to have already envisioned himself spending his entire life in this wasteland, searching for a fictitious mythical beast, and wasting his entire life in the process.

"What do you know! I heard that a huge change has occurred in the world of short-lived people, and I'm afraid there will be no more sperm to use in the future."

The fat man was speechless for a moment upon hearing this, "No wonder."

This makes sense. He initially thought that although the Blood Pill was precious, keeping one for himself wouldn't be such a serious crime. But now, the Blood Pill has become an extremely rare item, indeed worth their lives.

"Sigh, let's keep looking."

The young man took out the only two talismans he had left from his pocket. "I only have two left, and you have one more."

"If we can't find it by noon tomorrow, a natural disaster will strike, and we'll probably die a miserable death in the wilderness."

The fat man nodded, and the two of them activated the talismans in their hands. An explosion rang out, raising a cloud of dust.

Looking back at the original spot, the two had already transformed into two shooting stars, each drifting away and going their separate ways.

Ye Xuan remained hidden in the shadows, observing that the two men's cultivation levels were not high, both being at the Foundation Establishment stage.

Having just arrived in the Realm of Immortality, it would be wonderful to have a guide.