The Extreme Alchemist of the Mighty Cauldron

Chapter 1897: Chapter 1994: Transcendent One

Mother, I have come to protect you.

A simple sentence, yet it struck the softest part of Bai Qingxue’s heart like a heavy hammer, allowing her to finally see the face of the person before her clearly.

"Lin’er!" Though his appearance had changed, Bai Qingxue still recognized the person before her as her son, Fang Lin.

However, this was not the Fang Lin of this life, but rather the Fang Lin of a future life.

Fang Lin had finally appeared!

Hidden in the shadows, he witnessed countless battles, saw the tragic death of the Old Demon Saint, and also watched Bai Qingxue being forced into a corner.

In the moment Bai Qingxue was in mortal danger, Fang Lin chose to reveal himself, even though he knew that doing so was tantamount to offering himself to death.

But Fang Lin still appeared; he could not stand idly by and watch his mother die at the hands of the first Demon Saint. Fang Lin would rather die before Bai Qingxue.

At this moment, Fang Lin’s heart was overwhelmed with complexity and emotion. The blank spaces in his past life memory were finally filled after witnessing all this.

It turned out, while he was solely focused on refining the Life and Death Reincarnation Pill, his father was carrying the fate of all living beings on his shoulders, and his mother was plunged into a deathly ordeal to protect him. The whole world turned unpredictable because of the Life and Death Reincarnation Pill he refined.

It was all because of him. Fang Lin felt both regret and confusion in his heart.

If given a choice, Fang Lin would rather his past life not have refined the Life and Death Reincarnation Pill, and that his family of three not bear any burdens.

Yet everything had already happened. Fang Lin was not a person of this time; he could change nothing, what was meant to happen would happen, and what was meant to end would end.

There was only one thing Fang Lin could not tolerate, and that was his mother must not die, especially not before his eyes.

No matter who, even if it was a supreme powerhouse, if they wanted to harm his mother, they must first step over his dead body, Fang Lin’s corpse.

This thought was exactly the same as when Bai Qingxue was protecting the Fang Lin of this life. The bond between mother and son, even across countless ages, had not changed.

When the first Demon Saint looked at the person who suddenly appeared, he furrowed his brows slightly. Although he had long sensed someone hiding in the dark, he paid no mind since it was just a Human Warrior.

However, the first Demon Saint did not expect this Human Warrior to suddenly come forth to protect Bai Qingxue, and this person gave the first Demon Saint a very unusual feeling.

"No, something is off! You have the aura of transcendence!" The first Demon Saint’s eyes changed drastically, staring intensely at Fang Lin, finally sensing something amiss.

As an Ancient Spirit Incarnation, the first Demon Saint understood the meaning of transcendence, and he perceived the aura of transcendence on Fang Lin.

It was like the faint strands of aura that came from the chamber, Fang Lin carried the same aura as the Transcendental Elixir.

"Impossible! No being can transcend, and the very first Life and Death Reincarnation Pill has not yet truly been completed, so how can you transcend?" The first Demon Saint roared, unable to believe there was someone before him who had already transcended.

As a part of the ancient spirit of Mountain Tu, even that ancient spirit could not transcend the cycle of life and death, so how could this Human Warrior of merely the Heavenly Mandate realm achieve such a feat?

On the contrary, Fang Lin and Bai Qingxue were puzzled upon hearing the first Demon Saint’s words. What transcendence aura was he talking about?

Bai Qingxue could not understand, but Fang Lin suddenly thought of something, his expression shifted dramatically, and many things that had been difficult to connect suddenly became clear.

"Could it be that the Life and Death Reincarnation Pill I refined in my past life did not fail, but was used by me?" Fang Lin thought to himself, deeply shocked in his heart.

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"Alas, there is no other way." A figure approached and entered the Pill Saint Palace.

The first Demon Saint abruptly turned his head and roared, "Do you intend to interfere?"

A black umbrella appeared, but did not linger, quickly passing by, leaving a sentence: "I wouldn’t call it interference, just delaying what is meant to happen slightly."

After speaking, the umbrella-wielding person entered the chamber for refining the Life and Death Reincarnation Pill like a phantom. Bai Qingxue and Fang Lin both witnessed this scene and heard what the person said.

"How dare you!!!!" The first Demon Saint immediately made a move, aiming to stop the umbrella-wielder’s actions.

Bang!!!!

At this moment, Hou Yi finally arrived, pushing the first Demon Saint back with a punch, saving both Fang Lin and Bai Qingxue’s lives.

In the chamber, Fang Lin was extremely weak, but there was a hint of excitement and relief; the Life and Death Reincarnation Pill had already been completed!

Just then, a shadow suddenly appeared, and Fang Lin had no time to react before the shadow struck the Furnace of Heaven, Earth, Sun, and Moon.

The Pill Furnace was destroyed, and the one refining the pill likewise perished.

A terrifying aura burst forth from the chamber, affecting everyone outside and instantly obliterating half of the Pill Saint Palace.

Fang Lin was also swept into the terrifying turmoil, his body being torn apart as if feeling the sensation of crossing the end of time to return to this era.

At the moment Fang Lin was about to be ripped apart, the umbrella-wielder appeared once again, pulling Fang Lin and hurling him towards a location.

There, another vague figure stood in a trance, gazing at the scene before them, shocked and in a daze.

Fang Lin saw that figure and stood frozen; that was actually himself.

In an instant, Fang Lin recalled when he was at the North Town Hall of the Pill Alliance, being punished and locked in the Abyss Pill Well, inexplicably witnessing the scene of his past self failing in pill refining.

And now, Fang Lin saw the self that came from the Abyss Pill Well at that time.

"Return!" the umbrella-wielder’s voice echoed, and Fang Lin’s figure directly entered into a point of light.

Passing by the self from the Abyss Pill Well, Fang Lin saw him unresponsive, clearly unable to see himself.

Fang Lin finally understood that the guide from the future that Xuanyuan Ya spoke of was actually his former self.

And the only way to return to the future was through the Abyss Pill Well.

Before disappearing, Fang Lin glanced back, a nebulous entity fused into a soul and became one with it.

At the same time, Fang Lin felt a resonance within himself, as if responding from the soul.

Fang Lin finally realized that the Life and Death Reincarnation Pill had not been destroyed, but had merged with his soul; hence he did not die from the destruction of the Furnace.

It was precisely because of the Life and Death Reincarnation Pill that Fang Lin could awaken in the Nine Countries Seven Seas era after countless ages and retain all his past memories.

In other words, he never actually died, there was no so-called past and present life, because the concept of reincarnation itself did not exist, and he had become an unprecedented transcendental being by merging with the Life and Death Reincarnation Pill.