Wait, How Did My Digital Girlfriend Become a Sword Immortal?
Author: 宇宙无敌暴龙烧鹅
Chapter 540: Jade Compassion's Ascension
Chapter 540: Jade Compassion's Ascension
Facing the descending Annihilation Lightning from the sky, Real Person Jade Compassion's mind was free of distractions, leaving only complete serenity.
She sat cross-legged, her spirit and body unified.
No longer obsessed with the desire for immortality, only the scroll of accumulated virtues from thousands of years slowly unfolded in her mind.
Year 11,340,420 of the Cangyun Calendar - The Cangyun Realm encountered a once-in-a-millennium disaster of earth veins.
She abandoned her secluded cultivation and used her True Essence as a guide, tirelessly channeling the violent Spiritual Energy day and night. Villagers still remember that emaciated Daoist nun whose hands were burned to the point of being unrecognizable by the earth vein's Spiritual Energy, yet she never stopped, ultimately saving the common people of five continents and preventing countless cultivation families from being destroyed.
Year 11,406,062 of the Cangyun Calendar - The Nine Nether Cold Poison swept through the Northern Continent.
When all Northern Continent cultivators were at their wits' end, she alone ventured deep into the source of the cold poison, gathered ten-thousand-year-old Mystic Ice Lotuses, and did not hesitate to expend five hundred years of cultivation to refine antidote pills.
That year, seven cultivation cities destined to be consumed by the cold poison were saved.
It was inscribed with the words "Compassion Saves the World" - carved from jade he obtained by exhausting his family's wealth, containing boundless gratitude.
Year 11,519,190 of the Cangyun Calendar - The Southern Sea Demon Race invaded coastal cultivation sects.
She employed the Heavenly Gang Water Technique, summoning nine-layered tidal waves that destroyed over twenty demon warships. That day she exhausted her True Essence and fell unconscious for seven days and nights. Upon waking, she found her cave abode piled high with resources sent by cultivators, each carrying the gratitude of a cultivation family.
Year 11,952,523 of the Cangyun Calendar - The Demon Sect flourished, shaking the five continents.
She led the Jade Pool Holy Land to battle Demon Sect Elder Xiao Fengmi. After months of fierce combat, severely wounded, she hid in the Hundred Thousand Mountains.
As soon as her injuries slightly improved, she rushed about evacuating young cultivators and fleeing mortals from various sects.
One stormy night, she draped her last remaining concealment robe over a mother holding an infant, exposing herself to the demonic cultivators' soul perception instead, leading enemies away... That mother would never know that seemingly ordinary cloth garment had once been Real Person Jade Compassion's protective treasure cultivated over a thousand years.
...
Thousands of years of cultivation - her life's deeds flashed through her mind like a revolving lantern.
Some mocked her for not understanding reality - the mortals she saved quickly forgot her kindness;
Some laughed at her foolishness - cultivators who benefited from her grace would slander her behind her back the next moment;
Demons denounced her hypocrisy, questioning why, as fellow beings of heaven and earth, she would exterminate the Demon Race and seal them in the Hundred Thousand Mountains.
Jade Compassion never dwelled on these criticisms.
This life, though as precarious as walking on thin ice, was lived according to her heart. Everything she did stemmed from her true nature, unconcerned with others, indifferent to worldly opinions.
If there were any regrets, it was only her failure to decisively stop her junior sister Real Person Yuyao and Monk Burning Karma.
This wasn't entirely her fault - her cultivation had already reached a critical point where any conflict would attract the Heavenly Dao's attention and bring down tribulation lightning. Regarding her junior sister's actions, she had the will but lacked the power.
Now reflecting, perhaps it was that moment of insufficient decisiveness that led to the Heavenly Dao's determination to completely annihilate her today.
"Heh..." A faint trace of self-mockery flashed across Jade Compassion's lips.
A lifetime of virtuous deeds, yet she hesitated when it came to her closest junior sister.
She couldn't bring herself to kill the junior sister she grew up with, couldn't forget their master's earnest words before ascension entrusting the junior sister to her care.
"Perhaps this is why the Heavenly Dao must be ruthless - only ruthlessness can be selfless."
Jade Compassion raised her head, calmly meeting the gaze of the Thunder Eye in the sky.
She had long understood this truth, hence severing her Three Corpses before reuniting them.
As for whether the "her" after the Three Corpses reunion remained the original "her" - it no longer mattered.
"Enough..."
A soft sigh was drowned by the thunder's violent roar.
BOOM—!
When the Annihilation Lightning struck down, the immeasurable virtue accumulated over millennia suddenly transformed into dazzling golden light erupting from Jade Compassion's body!
Every life she saved, every selfless act, every drop of blood and tear shed for others became a faint yet indomitable ray of light. Billions of golden lights converged around her, forming a glorious golden barrier.
First lightning strike!
Second!
Third!
...
The golden Thunder Eye in the sky seemed to fall into furious agitation.
Without pause, the destructive thunderstorm poured down like an inverted heavenly river!
Ninety-ninth strike!
Even the golden Thunder Eye showed signs of exhaustion.
When this final tribulation strike containing ultimate annihilation will descended—
The immeasurable golden light protecting Jade Compassion suddenly erupted!
Like countless surging rivers of Spiritual Energy flowing upstream, it fearlessly met the world-destroying lightning!
Between heaven and earth, countless low yet devout voices of gratitude suddenly resonated - the collective prayers across time and space from all lives she had saved over millennia!
Her kindness wasn't buried.
Her efforts weren't forgotten.
Some might slander, some might scorn, but heaven and earth remember everything. Somewhere, someone, some living beings would always remember.
Annihilation Lightning clashed with the River of Virtue!
Contrary to expectations of mutual destruction, the annihilating power capable of destroying immortal bodies dissolved like melting snow upon contacting the vast golden light! The violent thunder transformed into sweet rain pouring down. The clear, sweet rain contained wisps of Dao essence, gently cleansing Jade Compassion's quasi-immortal body and soul.
Baptized by this virtuous rain, golden light continuously flowed around Jade Compassion.
Her body became more translucent and flawless, as if carved from glass; her soul became clear and bright like the moon, completely free of worldly stains.
The karmic dust that troubled her for millennia was stripped away strand by strand under the golden light's surge and rain's washing.
Even that final attachment and regret toward junior sister Yuyao quietly dissipated like morning mist, leaving only perfect serenity!
"So this is it..." Jade Comprehension suddenly realized.
"Compassion isn't attachment; letting go achieves true perfection. Saving the world also saves one's own heart."
Hum—
A clear, melodious immortal sound echoed between heaven and earth, like morning bell chimes.
The rain and golden light suddenly converged, gathering around her to form an immortal robe flowing with eternal golden radiance.
Above in the sky, the golden Thunder Eye that oppressed all things slowly closed and dissipated, replaced by auspicious clouds.
The thick clouds rolled apart, revealing a supreme immortal gate constructed from pure immortal light and profound runes.
The gate stood majestic, radiating brilliant light, exuding an awe-inspiring aura that all living beings revered yet yearned for.
Jade Compassion slowly stood up in the void, her body now completely free of mortal traces, possessing only transcendent immortal grace.
She took one last look at the Cangyun Realm's weathered lands below; one last glance at the Daoist nun guise of Real Person Yuyao; one final gaze toward the Moon Shadow Sect's flying boat direction - then smiled, exactly like that girl holding a divination banner at the Moon Shadow Sect's entrance long ago.
A brilliant smile.
An innocent smile.
Also a smile... completely free of attachments.
Then she took a step forward, her figure transforming into a stream of light that vanished into the open immortal gate.
The gate slowly closed, but its supreme radiance and Dao essence lingered between heaven and earth for a long time, resonating throughout the Cangyun Realm.
...
One person's ascension shook the world.
The secluded elders of major cultivation sects and ancient families were all startled by these heavenly phenomena.
Some stood on mountain peaks, some sat on clouds, their gazes crossing thousands of miles to where the immortal gate disappeared.
The Zen Sect leader stood above the sea of clouds, his complex expression finally resolving into a deep sigh as he bowed toward that direction: "Immeasurable virtue finally proves the immortal path. Fellow Daoist Jade Compassion... safe journey." His tone held both respect and inexpressible emotion.
Sword Sect Leader Fu Hongyu stood with hand on sword, his piercing gaze crossing the void. After a moment's silence, he solemnly cupped his hands toward that sky. His sword heart perceived only the supreme majesty of pure Dao principles and the perfect state of compassionate origin.
Countless young cultivators who Jade Compassion had protected and evacuated during the Demon Sect calamity now emerged from seclusion, bowing deeply toward the direction they felt in their hearts. Many had never even seen Jade Compassion in person, but that life-saving grace had long been imprinted in their souls.
...
The mortal world, though less perceptive than cultivators, still benefited from the Dao essence permeating heaven and earth.
Post-rain air was exceptionally fresh; field crops stretched happily; rain-drenched plants displayed unprecedented vitality.
In what was once a village saved by Jade Compassion's channeling of earth veins with her True Essence - now after millennia, a prosperous town stood.
At the town center stood a featureless stone statue vaguely labeled "Daoist Nun" - erected by descendants based on ancient legends, commemorating that "Daoist Nun" who protected the land with her flesh and blood.
Now the rainwater on the statue shone particularly crystalline, as if with faint light. The town's eldest elders, witnessing this phenomenon, inexplicably felt long-lost peace and gratitude, unconsciously murmuring prayers toward both statue and clear sky.
In an ancient Northern Continent city, a carving family of unknown generations carefully held a jade seal revered as sacred.
The seal bore the ancient, vigorous words "Compassion Saves the World."
A story passed down through generations:
Millennia ago, their ancestor was an ordinary stonemason saved during the most desperate cold poison year by a female immortal's medicine.
The ancestor exhausted his family's wealth to find the finest jade, carving this seal to commemorate immortal grace. Now this long-dormant seal grew slightly warm in its box, glowing softly as if responding to the world's harmony. The current family head, sensing something, bowed deeply toward both seal and sky.
In mountains, spirit beasts paused, emitting long clear cries; in deep seas, giant whales surfaced, their spouts reflecting rainbow lights; in forests, spiritual plants stretched new leaves, releasing richer Spiritual Energy. The entire Cangyun Realm seemed to undergo an invisible baptism, its heaven-earth Spiritual Energy becoming more refined.
Dragon Spring Mountain.
Chen Huaian gazed at where the immortal gate disappeared, bowing deeply, his voice like muffled thunder resonating everywhere:
"Farewell, Immortal—"
Then like a chain reaction:
"Farewell, Immortal!!"
"Farewell, Immortal!!!"
From across five continents, countless voices joined this grand send-off.
...
However...
The Immortal Realm.
Jade Compassion stood in an... indescribable void.
The expected immortal music, dancing spirit cranes, jade palaces, immortal flowers everywhere...
None existed!
No majestic immortal palaces, no coming-and-going immortals, not even a wisp of immortal energy could be sensed.
Before her eyes stretched only endless, terrifyingly pure "emptiness."
This "emptiness" wasn't darkness, but an absolute void stripped of all color, form, energy, even sense of time.
As if "existence" itself had been extracted, leaving only eternal silence.
This bore no resemblance to the immortal realm she'd perceived through millennia of sensing the Heavenly Dao and divining ascension!
Even with her Three Corpses merged and heart-mind perfected, she now felt profound confusion and shock from her soul's depths.
"This... is the Immortal Realm?"
Jade Compassion's voice produced no echo in this void, like a stone sinking in the sea.
Just as this extreme emptiness threatened to consume her—
Her gaze suddenly fixed on a spot not far ahead.
There wasn't nothing there after all.
A figure stood with back toward her, silently at the center of this void.
A white-clothed swordsman.
...
Facing the descending Annihilation Lightning from the sky, Real Person Jade Compassion's mind was free of distractions, leaving only complete serenity.
She sat cross-legged, her spirit and body unified.
No longer obsessed with the desire for immortality, only the scroll of accumulated virtues from thousands of years slowly unfolded in her mind.
Year 11,340,420 of the Cangyun Calendar - The Cangyun Realm encountered a once-in-a-millennium disaster of earth veins.
She abandoned her secluded cultivation and used her True Essence as a guide, tirelessly channeling the violent Spiritual Energy day and night. Villagers still remember that emaciated Daoist nun whose hands were burned to the point of being unrecognizable by the earth vein's Spiritual Energy, yet she never stopped, ultimately saving the common people of five continents and preventing countless cultivation families from being destroyed.
Year 11,406,062 of the Cangyun Calendar - The Nine Nether Cold Poison swept through the Northern Continent.
When all Northern Continent cultivators were at their wits' end, she alone ventured deep into the source of the cold poison, gathered ten-thousand-year-old Mystic Ice Lotuses, and did not hesitate to expend five hundred years of cultivation to refine antidote pills.
That year, seven cultivation cities destined to be consumed by the cold poison were saved.
It was inscribed with the words "Compassion Saves the World" - carved from jade he obtained by exhausting his family's wealth, containing boundless gratitude.
Year 11,519,190 of the Cangyun Calendar - The Southern Sea Demon Race invaded coastal cultivation sects.
She employed the Heavenly Gang Water Technique, summoning nine-layered tidal waves that destroyed over twenty demon warships. That day she exhausted her True Essence and fell unconscious for seven days and nights. Upon waking, she found her cave abode piled high with resources sent by cultivators, each carrying the gratitude of a cultivation family.
Year 11,952,523 of the Cangyun Calendar - The Demon Sect flourished, shaking the five continents.
She led the Jade Pool Holy Land to battle Demon Sect Elder Xiao Fengmi. After months of fierce combat, severely wounded, she hid in the Hundred Thousand Mountains.
As soon as her injuries slightly improved, she rushed about evacuating young cultivators and fleeing mortals from various sects.
One stormy night, she draped her last remaining concealment robe over a mother holding an infant, exposing herself to the demonic cultivators' soul perception instead, leading enemies away... That mother would never know that seemingly ordinary cloth garment had once been Real Person Jade Compassion's protective treasure cultivated over a thousand years.
...
Thousands of years of cultivation - her life's deeds flashed through her mind like a revolving lantern.
Some mocked her for not understanding reality - the mortals she saved quickly forgot her kindness;
Some laughed at her foolishness - cultivators who benefited from her grace would slander her behind her back the next moment;
Demons denounced her hypocrisy, questioning why, as fellow beings of heaven and earth, she would exterminate the Demon Race and seal them in the Hundred Thousand Mountains.
Jade Compassion never dwelled on these criticisms.
This life, though as precarious as walking on thin ice, was lived according to her heart. Everything she did stemmed from her true nature, unconcerned with others, indifferent to worldly opinions.
If there were any regrets, it was only her failure to decisively stop her junior sister Real Person Yuyao and Monk Burning Karma.
This wasn't entirely her fault - her cultivation had already reached a critical point where any conflict would attract the Heavenly Dao's attention and bring down tribulation lightning. Regarding her junior sister's actions, she had the will but lacked the power.
Now reflecting, perhaps it was that moment of insufficient decisiveness that led to the Heavenly Dao's determination to completely annihilate her today.
"Heh..." A faint trace of self-mockery flashed across Jade Compassion's lips.
A lifetime of virtuous deeds, yet she hesitated when it came to her closest junior sister.
She couldn't bring herself to kill the junior sister she grew up with, couldn't forget their master's earnest words before ascension entrusting the junior sister to her care.
"Perhaps this is why the Heavenly Dao must be ruthless - only ruthlessness can be selfless."
Jade Compassion raised her head, calmly meeting the gaze of the Thunder Eye in the sky.
She had long understood this truth, hence severing her Three Corpses before reuniting them.
As for whether the "her" after the Three Corpses reunion remained the original "her" - it no longer mattered.
"Enough..."
A soft sigh was drowned by the thunder's violent roar.
BOOM—!
When the Annihilation Lightning struck down, the immeasurable virtue accumulated over millennia suddenly transformed into dazzling golden light erupting from Jade Compassion's body!
Every life she saved, every selfless act, every drop of blood and tear shed for others became a faint yet indomitable ray of light. Billions of golden lights converged around her, forming a glorious golden barrier.
First lightning strike!
Second!
Third!
...
The golden Thunder Eye in the sky seemed to fall into furious agitation.
Without pause, the destructive thunderstorm poured down like an inverted heavenly river!
Ninety-ninth strike!
Even the golden Thunder Eye showed signs of exhaustion.
When this final tribulation strike containing ultimate annihilation will descended—
The immeasurable golden light protecting Jade Compassion suddenly erupted!
Like countless surging rivers of Spiritual Energy flowing upstream, it fearlessly met the world-destroying lightning!
Between heaven and earth, countless low yet devout voices of gratitude suddenly resonated - the collective prayers across time and space from all lives she had saved over millennia!
Her kindness wasn't buried.
Her efforts weren't forgotten.
Some might slander, some might scorn, but heaven and earth remember everything. Somewhere, someone, some living beings would always remember.
Annihilation Lightning clashed with the River of Virtue!
Contrary to expectations of mutual destruction, the annihilating power capable of destroying immortal bodies dissolved like melting snow upon contacting the vast golden light! The violent thunder transformed into sweet rain pouring down. The clear, sweet rain contained wisps of Dao essence, gently cleansing Jade Compassion's quasi-immortal body and soul.
Baptized by this virtuous rain, golden light continuously flowed around Jade Compassion.
Her body became more translucent and flawless, as if carved from glass; her soul became clear and bright like the moon, completely free of worldly stains.
The karmic dust that troubled her for millennia was stripped away strand by strand under the golden light's surge and rain's washing.
Even that final attachment and regret toward junior sister Yuyao quietly dissipated like morning mist, leaving only perfect serenity!
"So this is it..." Jade Comprehension suddenly realized.
"Compassion isn't attachment; letting go achieves true perfection. Saving the world also saves one's own heart."
Hum—
A clear, melodious immortal sound echoed between heaven and earth, like morning bell chimes.
The rain and golden light suddenly converged, gathering around her to form an immortal robe flowing with eternal golden radiance.
Above in the sky, the golden Thunder Eye that oppressed all things slowly closed and dissipated, replaced by auspicious clouds.
The thick clouds rolled apart, revealing a supreme immortal gate constructed from pure immortal light and profound runes.
The gate stood majestic, radiating brilliant light, exuding an awe-inspiring aura that all living beings revered yet yearned for.
Jade Compassion slowly stood up in the void, her body now completely free of mortal traces, possessing only transcendent immortal grace.
She took one last look at the Cangyun Realm's weathered lands below; one last glance at the Daoist nun guise of Real Person Yuyao; one final gaze toward the Moon Shadow Sect's flying boat direction - then smiled, exactly like that girl holding a divination banner at the Moon Shadow Sect's entrance long ago.
A brilliant smile.
An innocent smile.
Also a smile... completely free of attachments.
Then she took a step forward, her figure transforming into a stream of light that vanished into the open immortal gate.
The gate slowly closed, but its supreme radiance and Dao essence lingered between heaven and earth for a long time, resonating throughout the Cangyun Realm.
...
One person's ascension shook the world.
The secluded elders of major cultivation sects and ancient families were all startled by these heavenly phenomena.
Some stood on mountain peaks, some sat on clouds, their gazes crossing thousands of miles to where the immortal gate disappeared.
The Zen Sect leader stood above the sea of clouds, his complex expression finally resolving into a deep sigh as he bowed toward that direction: "Immeasurable virtue finally proves the immortal path. Fellow Daoist Jade Compassion... safe journey." His tone held both respect and inexpressible emotion.
Sword Sect Leader Fu Hongyu stood with hand on sword, his piercing gaze crossing the void. After a moment's silence, he solemnly cupped his hands toward that sky. His sword heart perceived only the supreme majesty of pure Dao principles and the perfect state of compassionate origin.
Countless young cultivators who Jade Compassion had protected and evacuated during the Demon Sect calamity now emerged from seclusion, bowing deeply toward the direction they felt in their hearts. Many had never even seen Jade Compassion in person, but that life-saving grace had long been imprinted in their souls.
...
The mortal world, though less perceptive than cultivators, still benefited from the Dao essence permeating heaven and earth.
Post-rain air was exceptionally fresh; field crops stretched happily; rain-drenched plants displayed unprecedented vitality.
In what was once a village saved by Jade Compassion's channeling of earth veins with her True Essence - now after millennia, a prosperous town stood.
At the town center stood a featureless stone statue vaguely labeled "Daoist Nun" - erected by descendants based on ancient legends, commemorating that "Daoist Nun" who protected the land with her flesh and blood.
Now the rainwater on the statue shone particularly crystalline, as if with faint light. The town's eldest elders, witnessing this phenomenon, inexplicably felt long-lost peace and gratitude, unconsciously murmuring prayers toward both statue and clear sky.
In an ancient Northern Continent city, a carving family of unknown generations carefully held a jade seal revered as sacred.
The seal bore the ancient, vigorous words "Compassion Saves the World."
A story passed down through generations:
Millennia ago, their ancestor was an ordinary stonemason saved during the most desperate cold poison year by a female immortal's medicine.
The ancestor exhausted his family's wealth to find the finest jade, carving this seal to commemorate immortal grace. Now this long-dormant seal grew slightly warm in its box, glowing softly as if responding to the world's harmony. The current family head, sensing something, bowed deeply toward both seal and sky.
In mountains, spirit beasts paused, emitting long clear cries; in deep seas, giant whales surfaced, their spouts reflecting rainbow lights; in forests, spiritual plants stretched new leaves, releasing richer Spiritual Energy. The entire Cangyun Realm seemed to undergo an invisible baptism, its heaven-earth Spiritual Energy becoming more refined.
Dragon Spring Mountain.
Chen Huaian gazed at where the immortal gate disappeared, bowing deeply, his voice like muffled thunder resonating everywhere:
"Farewell, Immortal—"
Then like a chain reaction:
"Farewell, Immortal!!"
"Farewell, Immortal!!!"
From across five continents, countless voices joined this grand send-off.
...
However...
The Immortal Realm.
Jade Compassion stood in an... indescribable void.
The expected immortal music, dancing spirit cranes, jade palaces, immortal flowers everywhere...
None existed!
No majestic immortal palaces, no coming-and-going immortals, not even a wisp of immortal energy could be sensed.
Before her eyes stretched only endless, terrifyingly pure "emptiness."
This "emptiness" wasn't darkness, but an absolute void stripped of all color, form, energy, even sense of time.
As if "existence" itself had been extracted, leaving only eternal silence.
This bore no resemblance to the immortal realm she'd perceived through millennia of sensing the Heavenly Dao and divining ascension!
Even with her Three Corpses merged and heart-mind perfected, she now felt profound confusion and shock from her soul's depths.
"This... is the Immortal Realm?"
Jade Compassion's voice produced no echo in this void, like a stone sinking in the sea.
Just as this extreme emptiness threatened to consume her—
Her gaze suddenly fixed on a spot not far ahead.
There wasn't nothing there after all.
A figure stood with back toward her, silently at the center of this void.
A white-clothed swordsman.
...