Longevity, starting from being a chicken raising servant

"It's really him!"

Hearing Zhao Jie's voice, Wang Ba's heart tightened.

He couldn't help but carefully observe the White Eyebrow Old Monk, who was sitting cross-legged with closed eyes at the source of the glazed golden light.

This old monk wore a plain white checkered cassock, his face full and round like a moon, with an auspicious mole at the center of his brow, a head with a meat bun, ears hanging past his shoulders, benevolent and peaceful, like a reawakened Buddha, yet also as if still in a deep sleep.

Back in the Eightfold Sea, Wang Ba had heard from the monk Ci Wu that during the great flood, the only Refining Void Cultivator in Xituo Continent, Master Xinyuan, had once used his body to suppress the eye, ultimately disappearing without a trace.

Considering the location of the Truth Membrane Eye was right here, the identity of this old monk before him was naturally self-evident.

However, what puzzled him was that if this monk was truly Xinyuan, supposedly using his body to block the eye, he should have long since fused with the realm membrane, inseparable; why was it that he could still see him now?

Is he dead or alive?

What shocked Wang Ba even more was that upon arriving here, the force pulling on the mana had become so strong that he had to release the Yellow Dao Domain to isolate this power.

And the source of this power was unmistakably this Master Xinyuan before him.

"What is going on?!"

Wang Ba's heart slightly tightened, but he soon noticed Zhao Jie's face slightly reddened, showing a look of struggle, with a spherical Buddha Light Dao Domain supporting all around him.

"Master!"

Before he could finish speaking, Zhao Jie could no longer hold on, and under the force of the pull, the Buddha Light Dao Domain swiftly deformed, like a squashed egg, quickly tearing open a gap.

Then, a massive amount of mana immediately poured out and surged directly towards the cross-legged, closed-eyed old monk!

Zhao Jie's Dao Domain quickly collapsed like a deflated ball.

The surface of his body also manifested a shimmering phantom of a colorful relic, violently trembling!

"This isn't good!"

No matter how Zhao Jie resisted, he could only watch helplessly as the mana he had cultivated for years was swiftly drained away!

Almost in the blink of an eye, most of his mana had been siphoned off!

Although a Class V stage cultivator focuses their cultivation on the Dao Domain, if their mana truly becomes entirely depleted, no matter how formidable the Dao Domain, it would merely become a rootless weed.

Zhao Jie's complexion changed drastically.

At this moment, a Yellow Dao Domain suddenly enlarged, immediately enveloping Zhao Jie entirely.

That powerful suction force was instantly isolated outside.

'Phew—'

The mana immediately ceased its outpouring, and Zhao Jie hurriedly stabilized his Dao Domain, a look of relief and lingering fear flashing across his face, as he quickly bowed to Wang Ba:

"Thank you, Tan Yue, for your assistance!"

Wang Ba slightly shook his head, his expression solemn as he looked at the old monk in front of him.

Zhao Jie, previously overwhelmed, naturally didn't notice, but as a spectator, Wang Ba clearly saw that after Zhao Jie's mana was extracted, it was absorbed by the Master Xinyuan before him.

Yet even after absorbing Zhao Jie's immense mana, Master Xinyuan showed no sign of change.

At least with his eyes, he couldn't detect any abnormality.

The Ten Thousand Buddhas Relic Pagoda, radiating a purple-gold brilliance, stood motionless not far away.

For a moment, Wang Ba was uncertain of the mystery behind this.

After pondering for a while, feeling the increasing waves of massive suction, he quickly made a decision:

"Master, this place is dangerous, perhaps we should retreat first!"

"This..."

Zhao Jie's gaze swept back and forth between Master Xinyuan and the Ten Thousand Buddhas Relic Pagoda, then could only nod helplessly:

"Indeed, this place is perilous, alas! Let's withdraw first and plan carefully."

As the two were about to leave, it seemed the retreat of the Yellow Dao Domain triggered something. Wang Ba, sensing this, scanned with lightning-like eyes, and saw Master Xinyuan, sitting in midair, with a slight tremor in his fingers.

Immediately, under Wang Ba's astonished gaze, those closed eyelids slowly opened.

A pair of eyes, clear like mirrors, after a brief moment of confusion, seemed to notice his gaze, and slightly shifted to look quietly at Wang Ba.

Four eyes met.

Yet it was broken by Zhao Jie's exclamation:

"Master... you're still alive?!"

Master Xinyuan, hearing this, slightly shifted his gaze towards Zhao Jie, with a hint of recollection, without speaking, both heard a warm and gentle voice like a warm sun:

"Amitabha, are you the Monk King of Jieluo Kingdom, Zhao Jie?"

Upon hearing this voice, Zhao Jie was momentarily stunned, then overjoyed, seemingly not expecting the other to remember him, or perhaps happy that the other was still alive:

"It is I, it is I! I met the Master at the Lotus Dharma Assembly eight hundred years ago..."

Wang Ba was similarly stunned, followed by a surge of shock in his heart!

"The Refining Void Cultivator of Xituo Continent is actually still alive!"

"Could it be that he didn't actually use his body to fill the eye?"

"Or does he have another way to escape?"

When the Dao Domain fills the Truth Membrane Eye, it quickly merges with the realm membrane. Daoist Yuanci was able to persist until now because he had formations protecting him, delaying this process. If Master Xinyuan really used his body to fill the eye, under normal circumstances, he should have long lost consciousness like many forebears on Fenglin Continent who mended the sky, with the Dao Domain also merging with the realm membrane.

"But Refining Void Cultivators stand at the pinnacle of cultivation in the Little Cang World, perhaps having some special means, like Han Yanzi..."

Though Wang Ba was puzzled, with Han Yanzi's precedent, he could accept the other's 'resurrection.'

Master Xinyuan's gaze slightly shifted again, looking at Wang Ba, showing curiosity, and with a gentle smile, asked:

"Who might this young friend be..."

Zhao Jie quickly explained:

"This is the Deputy Sect Master of the Wanxiang Sect of Fenglin Continent, His respectable name Wang, styled Ba."