Wait, How Did My Digital Girlfriend Become a Sword Immortal? Chapter 807: True Immortality

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"You think having infinite lifespan means you can rest easy without worries? What a joke!"

Deep within the eighth level of the Demon Sealing Pagoda.

With its form and Divine Soul fully regenerated, the Azure Dragon wrapped itself around the jade column, its expression etched with the weight of ages and a deep sadness. "Are zombies truly immortal and unkillable? Would you really wish to turn into one? For any cultivator, the key lies in maintaining a continuous flow of vital essence—what you might call life force.

As long as that life force stays intact, you'll naturally gain endless years and true immortality.

Yet should that life force break, even while breathing, you'd be no better than a shambling dead thing.

Clap if you've got it!"

Chen Huaian's lips quirked in a twitch.

Despite soaking up some cultural vibes in the Cangyun Realm, he remained puzzled by the Azure Dragon's point.

Upon discovering that Chenghuang had granted him eternal life, the dragon had shown nothing but contempt, droning on with lofty lessons right here.

Still, respect was due to the Azure Dragon.

Thus, he brought his hands together in applause.

"Inheritor of the Dragon Soul, that clap of yours feels half-hearted!" The Azure Dragon brought its head nearer to Chen Huaian, its voice booming low and profound. "Got any gripes with me?

I'm all ears—say it straight."

"This Venerable One simply can't grasp the real distinction..." Chen Huaian opened his palms wide.

The Azure Dragon proved quite chatty, outpacing the White Tiger, Black Tortoise, and Phoenix by miles, brimming with zeal and missing the awe-inspiring aura typical of a Divine Beast or Auspicious Sign.

"Tsk!" At those words, a hint of scorn flashed in the Azure Dragon's light golden gaze. It tweaked a drifting whisker idly, then stated evenly, "Think of it this way: Chenghuang gave you immortality for the flesh, while I grant immortality for the Divine Soul!

Chenghuang's gift renders your body unkillable and unbreakable; mine does the same for your soul.

Just two methods exist to end you.

One: wipe out both you and this world's very laws. Since you originated here, losing the base makes any rule-based immortality crumble away.

Two: you've risen above this realm entirely.

Your foes would then be transcendent beings too.

Against you, they'd ignore all rules.

—In other words, only the Celestial God Clans could pull it off!"

Now it clicked for Chen Huaian.

Still, a odd sensation lingered.

"You possess the ability to grant This Venerable One Divine Soul immortality, yet why do you..."

"Guess I didn't blend with Chenghuang myself." The Azure Dragon gave an eye-roll, its tone dripping disdain as it added, "Believe just any scrub could claim the Ancestral Dragon's legacy? Among us Auspicious Beasts—or even Fierce Beasts—our powers hardly ever merge.

Except for you. What won't combine in us fuses perfectly in you."

The Azure Dragon's eyes slitted. "Draw near—let me whisper!"

Chen Huaian complied, tilting his head as the Azure Dragon murmured secretively in a soft tone, "This isn't for just anyone's ears. Across endless cycles of rebirth, you're the sole one able to unite every Auspicious Beast's power...

Past inheritors of the Dragon Soul brought us back, and we'd battle Lingxiao, the Great Wasteland, and the Buddhist Kingdom side by side, but scattering the strength like that left it too diffuse, dooming us to defeat.

This round feels like a real shot!

Your power's feeble, yet the Ancestral Dragon picked you anyway.

Keep these confidences under wraps—don't share."

Chen Huaian eyed the ancient Fierce Beast Nine Infants perched meekly nearby, musing inwardly that the secret was out; with its nine heads, Nine Infants had overheard it nine times over, making ten knowers total including him.

"Ahem." The Azure Dragon thumped Chen Huaian's shoulder with intent. "The Ancestral Dragon suspects you're a Sage reborn, so it's betting everything on you. Don't let down us or its faith!"

"Sage... reincarnation..."

Chen Huaian gave a wry grin, his hand balling into a fist.

His recollections swirled in messy haze, mere shards floating by.

Not even fragments tied to Bodhi surfaced clearly...

"Enough from me—time to offer myself up!"

Solemnity overtook the Azure Dragon's features. It shot a look at Nine Infants, the sheer grandeur of its stare sending shivers through the beast, which hastily burrowed into Chen Huaian's Purple Gold Gourd.

Witnessing that, Chen Huaian let out a soft sigh.

Back when he first stepped into the eighth Demon Sealing Pagoda, Nine Infants had hunted him relentlessly. Without the Azure Dragon's timely intervention to hold it back, he'd likely have summoned Lin Fan or Zhang Mengchu for backup.

The Azure Dragon stood apart from the other four Divine Beasts, no doubt.

Its inborn Divine Ability had safeguarded its Divine Soul, sparing the physical form.

The rest left behind mere husks and lingering souls.

For it, the soul brimmed complete, but the body clung to scales alone.

Luckily, the Qilin's gifted pill recipe, at Celestial grade, mended every sort of lack, swiftly bringing the Azure Dragon back to life.

"Inheritor of the Dragon Soul, don't keep me hanging forever."

Chen Huaian's cultivation surged wildly, smashing through barriers nonstop. At last, the Void Shattering Realm's barrier gave way.

The eight Wells of Heaven unlocked, and Earth Star's limits on cultivators lifted just in time, freeing him fully.

Yet the Azure Dragon's form dissolved into myriad pale golden motes, drifting apart like wind-tossed grains, fading bit by bit.

A pang of grief struck Chen Huaian; he bowed low to the fading dragon. "Fear not—I, Chen, vow to meet all hopes, won't delay your wait... You'll witness it, the moment I, Chen, crush Lingxiao and the Buddhist Kingdom, cut down the Celestial God Clans."

Unexpectedly, the Azure Dragon merely rolled its eyes once more.

"None of that matters to me—my task's done."

"I hate the wait because I need you to hustle the Vermilion Bird into your dantian. I've hungered for her ages!"

Those words rang out amid bursts of lewd chuckles, and the Azure Dragon winked out of sight entirely.

Chen Huaian: "..."

Nearly slipped his mind—dragons by nature chase desires fiercely.

The Azure Dragon shared that trait fully.

Exiting the Demon Sealing Pagoda, fierce quakes and bellows hit him hard.

Chen Huaian squinted faintly. A shield of Void Shattering Realm True Essence sprang up instinctively. Blasts and grit whipped up by raging gusts failed to budge him at all.

Through the haze, a cultivator's shape zipped and twisted. Flying swords encircled him, shoaling like silvery fish in frenzied spins and leaps.

Beneath, Chen Niu's hulking form looked ragged rather than mighty. Sword blasts' ripples threw it off balance. Though it tunneled like a ground serpent for strikes, each lunge met a timely sword burst that hurled it back.

His Divine Sense unfurled threadlike. Chen Huaian noted the nearby Ascenders had thinned out sharply.

Some fell pulverized to powder in the fight's fallout.

The wiser had fled to huddle with the Kunlun Immortal Palace crew.

The Sanctuary folk and Cain's foreign band had pulled back ages ago. Lacking Hua Jin the True One's safeguard, nearing even a tad spelled instant death.

"Lin Fan's fight likely needs no aid from This Venerable One."

Chen Huaian sharpened his gaze.

At present, he could genuinely endanger Chen Niu's projection.

Green Lotus Sword Manual in Void Shattering Realm outshone its Unity Realm version entirely.

That said, his focus sharpened on Hua Jin the True One.

The woman sat in lotus position, deep in focus, her forehead creased tight. True Essence churned around her like surging ocean waves, as if coiling for a massive strike?

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