Invincible Dad
Chapter 874: Only Seeking a Clear Conscience
Xu Lai is unsure whether Snowflower has special effects on Karmic Tribulation.
It’s not even necessary to find out.
As long as there’s even a tiny possibility of effectiveness, other Emperor Realm beings would consume it without hesitation to save their lives.
And Xu Lai, to prevent the Fallen Emperor Epoch from arriving early, used two formations to obliterate all the souls attracted by the Realm Gate, causing countless karmic debts.
It might not be the most significant Karmic Tribulation in history, but it’s close.
Regarding the Immortal Domain, Xu Lai feels he has a clear conscience.
He has done right by the world, except for failing his wife and daughter.
If he could, he wishes to live, using the rest of his life to make up for what he owes his wife and two children.
"Ah."
A soft sigh is heard: "Daoist Qingfeng, does the promise between us still hold?"
"Naturally, it does."
"Heh."
Bai Xue laughs self-mockingly.
She originally took root in the Boundless Sea of the Southern Immortal Domain, through a deal with Xu Lai.
The cost was significant.
She provided fruits and Lifebound Essence, and Xu Lai protected her during the Fallen Emperor Epoch.
But today, intense unease and a terrifying killing intent have awakened her from slumber, prompting her to actively inquire if the promise with Xu Lai still holds.
Men.
Are ultimately unreliable and untrustworthy.
She gradually recalls being cleaved into three by Gu Yan from The Other Shore a cycle ago, forced to recuperate in the Boundless Sea.
After finally escaping that cage, she is still unable to avoid the fate of being consumed.
For a moment.
Bai Xue speaks no more, resigning herself to closing her eyes.
She had long accepted this outcome, so it is not surprising now that the day has arrived, only somewhat regretful.
Regretful that her days on Earth were too short.
How great it would have been to come earlier.
To see more sunrises, to stroll down more gourmet streets, to buy more beautiful clothes, even if Ruan Lan would tease her again.
Beauty is ultimately too fleeting, fleeting like the momentary brilliance of fireworks.
In the blink of an eye, the magnificence turns into endless darkness that grips the heart.
Feeling Xu Lai approaching on the water surface, Bai Xue’s initial tension gradually relaxes. She opens her eyes to look.
Playfully blinking: "Can you swallow me in one bite? Please don’t cook, stew, roast, steam, or anything like that, I’m scared."
Xu Lai nodded.
Bai Xue breathed a sigh of relief, once more lamenting: "It’s a shame I couldn’t come to Earth sooner."
Finished speaking.
She raised her head to await death.
One breath.
Two breaths.
Ten breaths.
Until twenty breaths passed, Bai Xue still hadn’t met Xu Lai’s bloodthirsty maw, suddenly annoyed:
"Could it be that Daoist Qingfeng has a twisted hobby of watching prey gradually despair?"
Xu Lai said nothing, reached out his hand.
Instead of gripping the snow-white and fragile neck, he flicked Bai Xue’s forehead.
"Snap!"
The force was so strong that Bai Xue clutched her forehead with tearful eyes: "Xu Qingfeng, what are you doing!"
"I, Xu Qingfeng, have few merits, but I never repay kindness with ingratitude."
Xu Lai spoke calmly: "In this lifetime, I seek only a clear conscience."
Bai Xue had given Xu Lai essence blood and fruits, assisting him in venturing into the deepest part of the Boundless Sea to find the Realm Gate, further aiding Shan Baiwan in refining the Emperor’s Elixir, and helped the giantess from The Other Shore awaken, revealing extremely important information and intelligence.
Once the male giant Gu Yan awakens, Bai Xue would be one of the greatest contributors.
Return a favor with tenfold gratitude.
To repay kindness with malice?
Xu Lai couldn’t commit such a despicable act.
Xu Lai spoke: "I’m about to face the Karmic Tribulation."
"I’ve seen it."
Bai Xue bit her lip hard: "So, you intended to eat me."
"Snap!"
Xu Lai flicked her again, causing the Spirit Plant girl to angrily protest: "If you hit me again, don’t blame me..."
"Snap!"
"..."
Bai Xue dared not retort further, sullenly said: "I’ve seen five Emperor Realms face the Karmic Tribulation, but their tribulation thunders weren’t as strong as yours."
"Seen five? They all died, right?"
Xu Lai was somewhat surprised, there were quite a few of them.
"Four died on the spot, and another... barely alive. Um, it was Emperor Wanyun, the one lying in a coffin, with just a trace of obsession remaining."
"Wan Yun!"
Xu Lai’s pupils deeply contracted.
An inexplicable excitement surged within.
So, under Karmic Tribulation, isn’t it certain death?
As long as a thread of soul remains, he can return to his peak, even if it’s the Fallen Emperor Epoch now, Xu Lai still has this confidence.
"She was protected by a strange treasure at the time," Bai Xue added.
"That coffin?"
"Yes."
"A magical treasure from The Other Shore, crafted by Jing Ke."
Xu Lai’s thoughts stirred, and a sword appeared beside him, this was the Demon Sword No Righteous, hailing from the male giant Gu Yan, towering tens of thousands of feet.
Could the No Righteous Sword have the same effect?
In hesitation.
Bai Xue softly said: "Daoist Qingfeng, I give you ten drops of Lifebound Essence, hoping you overcome this tribulation. The Immortal Domain cannot be without you."
Xu Lai did not respond, nor was he courteous, accepting the ten drops of Lifebound Essence Bai Xue offered, any hope in the Karmic Tribulation is good.
The visibly weakened Bai Xue, after giving away the ten drops of Lifebound Essence.
After all, she had hurt her foundation when refining the Emperor’s Elixir and White Crane Elixir before, and now the injuries compounded, it would be impossible to fully recover without one or two eras.
But, at least life remains.
Bai Xue murmured in her heart: "Coming to Earth was the right decision."
If she hadn’t come, there would be no karma between the two, and she might have been eaten by Xu Lai today.
... 𝑓𝑟ℯ𝘦𝓌𝘦𝘣𝑛𝑜𝓋𝑒𝓁.𝑐ℴ𝓂
Return to Haitang Court.
Xu Lai guided his daughter’s and others’ cultivation, as if the impending great calamity overhead did not exist, nor had he seen it.
Time slowly passed.
One day, two days, ten days, in the blink of an eye half a month had gone by, Xu Lai accompanied his wife and children every day.
In these short twenty days.
Xu Lai yearned to use a single minute as if it were a year, but despite being in the Emperor Realm, he couldn’t achieve such wishful thinking.
On this day.
East Sea City was gloomy, rain engulfed the entire city.
"Splash"
Torrential rain fell on the eaves, making a very dull sound.
Xu Yiyi and Xu Pingan were cultivating upstairs.
Xu Lai sat on the living room sofa, holding Ruan Tang and looking through the large floor-to-ceiling window towards the backyard, where various species of Haitang flowers were swayed incessantly by the pouring rain.
Ruan Tang, looking at Xu Lai in a daze, squeezed his hand tightly: "Are you... leaving?"
Xu Lai hesitated a bit, then nodded.
During these twenty days on Earth, Li Shenhuang had completed his promise with Xu Lai, fully compensating the missing part of the Immortal Domain’s Heavenly Dao.
That is to say, having destroyed enough Holy Lands.
The new Land of Reincarnation had emerged.
Still in its original location, but it was not the Samsara Sea, rather a slowly rotating black hole that swallowed all nearby souls.
Souls entering here would undergo reincarnation.
Xu Lai also lifted the Zhoutian Star Fighting Formation enveloping both Earth and the Heavenly Court, so that the Fallen Emperor Epoch hadn’t arrived early.
However, Great Emperor Tiangui Yuan Ying’s plan has succeeded halfway.
Because of the Karmic Tribulation.
It is about to descend.