Chapter 1046: Not Eternal After All
After hearing what Zhang Qian said, Li Qingque nodded gently: "It's up to you to decide. When you finish practicing sword, I will make arrangements in advance. I'm sure many disciples will be interested in swordsmanship."

The two discussed for a while, and then Zhang Qian stood up and left the sect's main hall, turning into a rainbow light and flying straight to the sacred tree world at the edge of the galaxy.

Since Gai Xianfan was going to step down as the leader of the Tianjian Sect and leave the world in his palm, Zhang Qian naturally wanted to meet him.

After a while, he flew close to the world of the sacred tree. The world barrier did not prevent him from entering. The world of the sacred tree was now completely controlled by the world tree. Zhang Qian could enter and exit the world barrier freely.

After entering the sacred tree world, he flew towards the north above the nine heavens.

The holy land of the Tianjian Sect is now in the small world above the nine heavens, just like it was before.

When he was approaching the Tianjian Sect's small world, he suddenly saw dense rays of light flying from the Thirty-Six States below. Among the rays of light were cultivators. The clothes of these cultivators were different, and the Taoist ideas they exuded were also different. They were all cultivators from the various sects in the Thirty-Six States.

More than two hundred years have passed. Thanks to the fusion of the World Tree into the ancestral veins of the world, the spiritual energy inside the world of the sacred tree is extremely rich. Near the ancestral mountain, wisps of ancestral spiritual energy will occasionally emerge directly.

This allowed the hundreds of billions of cultivators in the Divine Tree World, which was almost a new beginning, to cultivate at an extremely fast speed. In just over two hundred years, many people achieved the realm of immortals and gods.

The Tianjian Sect is the only sect that survived the catastrophe, and was one of the original Nine Heavenly Sects. Now it has become the number one sect in the entire Shenshu World, and is supreme.

With such a succession of the sect's leader, naturally there would be countless cultivators going to watch the ceremony.

Zhang Qian just glanced at these escaping lights without paying much attention to them. When he entered the Tianjian Sect's small world, he found that this small world also regained its innate spiritual veins. However, compared with the outside world, the innate spiritual energy of this small world was not so strong. After all, there was half of the ancestral vein in the center of the land of the Thirty-Six States.

Swish!
Zhang Qian dispersed the rainbow light and revealed his true form, which was immediately recognized by many cultivators.

Not to mention, most of the cultivators nearby were acquaintances. The powerful ones from the Ten Emperors Family, the Nine Heavens Sect, and the ancient great sects had already recovered their memories of their previous lives after they were resurrected, so they naturally recognized Zhang Qian.

But now they can no longer face Zhang Qian with the same attitude as before.

Zhang Qian clearly saw these powerful beings who had transcended the catastrophe. Each of them looked at him with extremely complicated eyes, some grateful, some resentful, some envious, and some flattering.

Zhang Qian nodded silently without saying anything more. All the grudges, hatreds, and fights between him and these people had ended long ago in the transcendence of the catastrophe.

What's more, without his All-Knowing Strategies, none of these people would have survived, let alone been resurrected.

Thinking that he was about to leave the palm world like Gai Xianfan and go to the heavens and all realms to spread his swordsmanship, he thought that he might never see these people again.

After sighing for a moment, Zhang Qian met Gai Xianfan under the guidance of the sword cultivator of Tianjian Sect.

Zhang Qian was a little surprised by Gai Xianfan's condition. When he broke through in the starry sky before, Gai Xianfan seemed sharp and full of fighting spirit, with an extremely resolute attitude.

But now, the feeling that Gai Xianfan gave Zhang Qian was just two words - free and easy!

It was as if he would turn into the wind and disappear at any time. The whole person gave people the feeling that he had removed all the restraints and broken all the shackles. Nothing in the world could make him have any thoughts. It was more like a dust-free, cold and hidden divine sword. All the worldly entanglements and all the causes and effects were swept away like dust on the divine sword. Seeing such a charming Gai Xianfan, Zhang Qian understood that Li Qingque's guess had come true. Xu Miaoyin really ended up with nothing. All her affection and infatuation were cut off by Gai Xianfan himself.

It is often said that a wise sword can cut off the ties of love, but Gai Xianfan used his resolute sword heart to personally cut off Xu Miaoyin's feelings.

"You came."

Gai Xianfan's tone was indifferent, but this indifference contained endless arrogance. It was not an exaggeration to say that he looked down on everyone else. The only difference was that Gai Xianfan's arrogance was not pride, but an absolute self-confidence, a kind of self-confidence that made him look at everything with an indifferent heart.

"Have you decided?"

Gai Xianfan nodded.

"Well, you and I are both masters of the sword now. It won't be long before I leave this world in my palm and take a look at the magnificent world of the heavens and myriad worlds, and let my swordsmanship spread throughout the heavens."

Gai Xianfan was not surprised at all, as if he had known Zhang Qian's decision for a long time. He just smiled and said, "The further you go on the path of swordsmanship, the narrower the road becomes. Ever since I came into contact with swordsmanship, I have wanted to reach the top. This is not for ambition, nor for greed, nor for proving anything to anyone, but for my own belief. Maybe you will be my opponent in the end."

When saying this, Gai Xianfan remained calm and composed, without any determination at all, as if he was describing a trivial matter.

But from this insignificant tone, Zhang Qian understood Gai Xianfan's determination. He sighed silently in his heart and asked hesitantly: "Xu Miaoyin..."

Gai Xianfan shook his head: "From the time I was born till now, I have devoted my heart to the sword. Miao Yin's matter may be my destined love tribulation. I am very grateful to her for letting me know the taste of love. However, we are all cultivators, with a long road ahead and a long life span. The love and affection along the way will not last forever after all. She will figure it out in the future. Instead of being entangled, it is better to forget each other in the world!"

Zhang Qian was stunned. He understood that Gai Xianfan was not the same kind of person as himself after all. He could not be as decisive as Gai Xianfan, and he had never thought about it that way before.

Whether it was Li Qingque, Meng Lingsu, Zhan Taixuan and others, Zhang Qian had never thought of separating from them.

"I understand."

Zhang Qian didn't say anything more. He knew that once a person like Gai Xianfan made a decision, no outsider could change his mind no matter what.

After chatting with Gai Xianfan for a while, Zhang Qian handed Gai Xianfan a jade message slip and agreed to keep in touch with each other in the future, although this contact might be tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of years later.

After the monks from various sects in the Thirty-Six States arrived, the Tianjian Sect also began the succession ceremony.

Pan Dao Yu still looked dull, and his swordsmanship had improved a lot, but he was still a long way from Gai Xianfan. This was the difference in talent, and perhaps also the difference in swordsmanship.

Zhang Qian watched all this without any interest. In the end, Gai Xianfan handed over the Tianjian Sect's innate spiritual treasure, the Qiankun Leyin Sword, to Pan Daoyu, thus ending the succession ceremony.

However, Zhang Qian found it very interesting. The Tianjian Sect's innate spiritual treasure and also the sect's guardian spiritual treasure is the Qiankun Le Yin Sword. This sword has the word "Yin" in it, so doesn't it fit Gai Xianfan and Xu Miaoyin?
Xu Miaoyin did not show up from beginning to end. Maybe he was disheartened, or maybe he disappeared alone.

(End of this chapter)