Chapter 1864 — 1864: Leaving Han Zexian's Cavern

After returning to the cavern, Tian Yang's body was immediately drenched in sweat. A crushing exhaustion weighed down on him, as if every fiber of his being had been wrung dry.

His breath came in ragged gasps, his limbs trembling uncontrollably. Despite having accumulated over a million years of longevity, his brief encounter with the Outer God had drained nearly all of it away.

Tian Yang, ignoring his exhaustion, hurried to the shelf and snatched the only spatial ring that still contained longevity pills. Inside, only about a hundred pills remained, enough to increase his longevity by another 10,000 years.

Without hesitation, he popped a pill into his mouth. As it dissolved, warmth spread through his body, and his vitality slowly stabilized.

"So that was an Outer God, huh? Unbelievable…" Despite just meeting one himself, Tian Yang still found it difficult to believe such a powerful entity could exist.

"Wait a second… that Outer God claimed I was the first human to decipher its engravings. What about Han Zexian? What happened to him?"

Tian Yang had originally believed that Han Zexian had deciphered the engravings and successfully contacted the Outer Gods long before him, but he turned out to be wrong. This made Tian Yang wonder about Han Zexian's mysterious disappearance.

However, Tian Yang didn't dwell too long on Han Zexian.

As intriguing as the mystery was, there was something far more pressing at hand—his own predicament. Even after contacting the Outer God, he was still stuck inside the cavern with no way out.

With no other options, Tian Yang started searching every nook and cranny of the cavern. Though he had taken a quick look when he first arrived, he had only checked the obvious spots. Now, with no choice but to be thorough, he began a more careful search, hoping to find something he had missed before.

However, even after looking through the entire place not once but twice, Tian Yang was unable to find anything.

Just as he was about to give up, Tian Yang's gaze suddenly turned toward the only entrance to the cavern.

"There's no way, right?"

After a brief moment of stillness, Tian Yang turned toward the cavern's entrance. As he crossed the threshold, he found himself once more on the dark, winding path—the very same passage that had first led him into the cavern. However, there was something different about it.

Sensing this, Tian Yang turned around and returned to the cavern. He started packing up just in case, taking the spatial rings and herbs he hadn't touched since arriving at the cavern and tossing them into the spatial ring. He wanted to take the cultivation bed with him, but with it firmly rooted into the ground. Regrettably, there was nothing he could do but leave it behind.

Once he was prepared, Tian Yang returned to the passage and began traversing it without looking back.

After several days, Tian Yang finally reached the end of the passage, where a brilliant light pierced through the darkness. A slow breath escaped his lips as relief washed over him, his steps quickening toward the long-awaited escape from the cavern's suffocating embrace.

Meanwhile, outside the mountain, two Spirit King cultivators guarded the sealed entrance to the mountain that Tian Yang had disappeared into several decades ago.

"I don't get it. Why do the Immortal Clans insist on guarding this mountain? Do you know why?" one of the guards suddenly asked, as he was never given the reason he needed to guard it.

"They didn't tell you? And why are you asking this now? We've been here for almost a decade!"

"I don't know…"

"Unbelievable… Anyway, there is someone inside this mountain that the Immortal Clans want to capture."

"What? There's a person inside this mountain? I heard this place hasn't been open for decades! And for the Immortal Clans to guard this place just to capture him… I can't imagine how he'd offended them."

"I can't either, but we will most likely never see this individual. Hell, I wouldn't be surprised if he'd already perished inside—"

The guard halted his words but kept his mouth wide open when the sealed entrance to the mountain suddenly opened for the first time in decades.

"T-t-this—!"

Tian Yang stepped out of the mountain the following moment, his eyes adjusting to the open sky as he raised an eyebrow at the sight of two cultivators standing before him with shocked expressions.

He had entertained the possibility that the Immortal Clans might be lying in wait, yet it did nothing to deter him. If anything, he wanted them to be there so he could immediately begin his revenge.

"Are you two with the Immortal Clans or the Seven Divine Sword Peaks?" Tian Yang calmly asked them.

In response, the guards unsheathed their weapons, the cold steel gleaming under the light as they leveled them at Tian Yang. Their expressions were tense, their stances rigid.

"Under the Immortal Clans' orders, we are to capture you! Do not resist, or we will take you in by force!"

"I see. Alright, you can take me."

Tian Yang raised his hands and surrendered himself.

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The guards were pleasantly surprised by how smoothly it went. However, as they took a step toward him, Tian Yang suddenly activated Limitless Sword Domain, killing the two guards before they could even react.

"So they won't let me go even after so many years, huh? Good! Very good! This will make hunting them down even more satisfactory!" Tian Yang laughed as he flew away from the scene.

Meanwhile, within the grand halls of the Immortal Gu Clan, a lone servant stood vigil over two luminous jade slips, their glow pulsing faintly in the dim chamber. For years, they had remained undisturbed, carrying the essence of their owners—until now.

Without warning, the light within them flickered, faded, and then vanished entirely. A heartbeat later, both jade slips cracked, the fractures spreading like veins of death before they shattered into countless fragments.

When the servant, who was half asleep, saw this, he hastily ran out of the room to report the news.