Pay to Cultivate Immortality? My Sect is Completely Free - Chapter 39

Chapter 39: If One Becomes an Immortal, There May Be a Way to Reverse Life and Death

In the snowstorm, a middle-aged couple returned home, struggling through the snow. Judging by their appearance, they seemed to be a physician returning from seeing a patient.

“Oh no, whose child is this? Where are her parents?”

The woman was immediately terrified upon seeing the little girl lying outside the door and rushed over to pick her up.

“She’s burning up!” As soon as she held the little girl in her arms, her hands felt scalded.

The middle-aged man approached, touched the little girl’s forehead, and was alarmed: “She has a high fever; if this continues, she won’t survive!”

The woman rushed into the house with the little girl in her arms, while the embroidered curtain fluttered in the cold wind.

The middle-aged man took out silver needles from his medicine box, but when he touched the child’s skin, he was startled to find the needle tip turning red—not from a high fever, but from the demonic flames surging from the depths of her bloodline.

“Dear, this needle…” Before the woman could finish her sentence, the silver needle had melted into a puddle of molten iron.

Fortunately, perhaps because little Mu Lingxian felt the warmth of an embrace and found solace in her spirit, her temperature gradually decreased.

Eventually, since no one claimed her, she was taken in by this couple, who named her Mu Lingxian.

Her adoptive father was a well-known physician in the city who treated the poor for free, earning high respect.

Her adoptive father taught her to read while her adoptive mother held her in her arms, and the three of them lived happily together.

If she had been an ordinary person, this happiness would have lasted indefinitely.

Fragments of memory began to distort as time stretched. Little Mu Lingxian, unaware, was already nearing ten years old.

Su Bai watched as little Mu Lingxian chased butterflies in the courtyard, her fingertips accidentally brushing against the locust tree.

The withered yellow leaves suddenly ignited into bright red flames, the fiery tongues racing up the trunk toward the sky. By the time her adoptive parents rushed over with buckets of water, the ancient tree had already turned into a charred skeleton.

This was the first time the demonic flames within her had gone out of control, but fortunately, no one was hurt.

That time, she was clearly frightened, which led to her becoming reclusive; she kept her distance from everyone, even from her adoptive parents, who no longer dared to approach her.

She didn’t want to hurt anyone.

Since the first incident of the chaotic flames, the demonic fire within her had become increasingly uncontrollable.

The second, third, fourth… instances occurred with greater frequency and intensity.

“You are a monster!”

“You’ll harm everyone like this!”

“Get out…”

Each time the flames lost control, chaos erupted, and those around her were filled with fear, even banding together to try to drive her away.

However, her adoptive parents withstood all the pressure and chose to keep her, though she could no longer go outside and could only stay alone at home.

She could only climb the wall and watch the outside world, observing the laughter and joy of those humans, witnessing their happiness while she could only hide in a corner and lick her own wounds.

She longed to be one of them, but that was utterly impossible!

She was a harbinger of disaster, a demon, only deserving to survive in a dark world without light, forever unable to bask in the sunshine.

Her adoptive parents, who had to go out to practice medicine every day, sometimes returned late at night, which meant they spent less and less time with her.

But what was meant to come would eventually arrive.

At the age of sixteen, a great fire consumed everything, devouring her home…

Reality and illusion overlapped at that moment. Mu Lingxian looked at the raging fire before her, her face pale, and tears streamed down her cheeks as she cried out painfully, “No…”

“Don’t be afraid.” Su Bai reached out to touch the flames from her memories, and golden runes swirled in the palm of his hand.

The demonic flames that should have consumed the house suddenly became gentle like silk, wrapping around his fingers. At that moment, the spiritual world shattered; Mu Lingxian still stood on the steps of the Fifty-ninth Layer, while Su Bai, she didn’t know when, appeared on the Sixtieth Layer.

“I understand your past. Join the Heavenly Dao Sect, and I will teach you how to control that flame so it will never harm anyone again and even become your strength,” Su Bai’s voice slowly came through.

Mu Lingxian looked up at Su Bai. This immortal brought her a profound impact every time he acted; she had never seen such a powerful being. Those years, her adoptive father had also taken her to seek out immortals, hoping to suppress the flames inside her, but each one merely shook their head.

However, in the moment her parents died, she too had died. Because in this world, there was no one left whom she cared about. Yet, after witnessing Su Bai’s various miraculous abilities, a glimmer of hope reignited in her heart.

She took another step forward, truly stepping onto the Sixtieth Layer. This step not only represented her passing the assessment of the Heavenly Dao Sect but also indicated her willingness to join it! Moreover, her steps didn’t stop, as she moved toward higher levels.

Sixty-first Layer, Sixty-second Layer, Sixty-third Layer…

Scenes from her childhood also floated up in her mind.

“Daddy, what are you looking at?”

“Daddy is reading a medical book!”

“Mommy said that learning medicine can save many, many people, right?”

“Learning medicine is a very great profession! Just like your daddy has saved many people already. So, does Little Lingxian want to learn too?”

“Mm-hmm, I also want to grow up to be a respected doctor like Daddy!”

…

Seventy-first Layer, Seventy-second Layer, Seventy-third Layer…

“Mommy, they all say I’m a disaster star. Boo hoo, am I really a disaster star?”

“How could Little Lingxian be a disaster star? Don’t listen to what they say.”

“But, but I have strange flames on me, and no one dares to play with me.”

“Don’t you have Mommy playing with you?”

“But they’re all scared of me…”

“Little Lingxian is the best child! Please don’t cry!”

“Okay…”

………

Eighty Layer!

At this moment, Mu Lingxian had actually stepped onto the Eighty Layer!

That means her loyalty to the Heavenly Dao Sect had reached a high point of “eighty”!

Moreover, this didn’t seem to be her limit!

She was simply pausing here, not stopping because she couldn’t climb higher.

“Immortal Master, is it true that powerful immortals can bring the dead back to life?”

Mu Lingxian looked at Su Bai and asked.

Su Bai nodded slightly and replied, “Indeed, when one’s strength reaches a certain Realm, there is nothing unimaginable that cannot be achieved.”

Hearing this answer, a sense of belief inexplicably rose in Mu Lingxian’s heart as she said, “Can the dead really be resurrected?”

Su Bai neither nodded nor shook his head but instead looked up at the sky.

Bringing the dead back to life was beyond what ordinary reasoning could describe.

“At least at the Nascent Soul and Divine Transformation levels, it’s impossible to achieve that. However, that doesn’t mean it cannot be done at higher realms!

“If one ascends to immortality, there may be a way to reverse life and death. At that time, even time and space cannot stop you,” Su Bai said slowly.

Mu Lingxian showed a hint of a smile and murmured, “Father, mother, Little Lingxian will definitely revive you.”

Then, she stepped onto the Eighty-first layer of the ladder and knelt before Su Bai.

“Master, please accept your disciple’s bow.”