I Seek Immortality Through Serendipity

Copper Hammer Mountain.

This mountain has a unique shape, resembling a giant iron hammer, spanning heaven and earth.

There is a gold copper mine on the mountain, rich in resources, the rocks on the mountain are all copper-colored, and when the sun shines, the entire peak sparkles magnificently.

However, this mountain has no spirit meridian, it’s just a mortal mountain.

Therefore, there are no cultivators or sects within the mountain, only a few mortal miners working to excavate the copper mines.

At this moment, two escape lights, one in front and one behind, descended on the mountain.

The escape lights were concealed, and the mortals on the mountain were unaware, still busy with their tasks.

”What a truly hidden array. If these two had ambushed me with this array back then, I truly wouldn’t have noticed...”

At the peak of the Copper Hammer Mountain cliff, Gu Yuan looked at the realistic forest before him and couldn’t help but sigh.

”Open!”

Then he waved his hand, and a piece of jade-green token, like emerald, floated out, casting a cyan-green radiance onto the forest in front of him.

The forest was lifelike, with dense leaf patterns and a real wood grain feel to the touch.

Ordinary cultivators coming here would never guess, even till their death, that this forest was an illusion.

This wasn’t a simple illusion technique; it had nuances of transforming the world.

”Pop!”

With the brilliance emitted from the token, the forest slowly disappeared like melting snow.

In its place appeared a crimson gold cave.

On both sides of the cave, thirty-six array banners, with strands of spiritual light, were inserted between the rocks in a mysterious pattern.

This array was exactly the Mirage Forest Sea Mountain Array that the Yin Yang Double Fiend spent a fortune to set up to prevent others from discovering the opportunity here.

This array had no other capabilities; its only marvelous use was to conceal its presence and hide its traces.

Cultivators below Golden Core, unless they had a targeted method, would absolutely fail to see through it.

”This array can be used by me...”

Gu Yuan looked at the array banners surrounded by cyan light, contemplating in his heart.

The path of arrays was vast and profound, linking earth veins, invoking heavenly stars, with immeasurable power.

Every sect, when founded, must exhaust countless efforts to craft an incredibly powerful array to protect the sect.

The Mountain Protection Array of the Cyan Peak Daoist School is a Tier Four Grand Array, the Melting Sun Golden Array!

If this array is fully unleashed, even someone of Daoist Embryo status could not break it; it’s extremely powerful.

In fact, with full force, it might even directly slay a Daoist Embryo, being one of the trump cards of the Daoist School.

However, array setup is time-consuming and labor-intensive, and once set up, it cannot be moved, so it basically can only be used for defense.

But after Gu Yuan broke through to Foundation Establishment, he obtained the Azure Roaming Heaven-Evading Seal. This seal is of golden nature, even if its gold attribute is greatly damaged, ordinary Tier Two arrays couldn’t trap him.

An evasion, and he can roam and escape.

Therefore, he wasn’t much concerned about arrays.

But the Mirage Forest Sea Mountain Array, which conceals Qi and tracks, has its unique use.

”Close!”

After entering the array, Gu Yuan lightly called out, and the cyan-green token cast another cyan light.

The entire grand array slowly closed up.

Within the array, everything was as usual for Gu Yuan, with the crimson gold cave in front of him.

But in the eyes of the external world, he had disappeared, leaving only a realistic forest at the original spot.

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Gu Yuan didn’t stay long at the cave entrance, only briefly inspecting the array banners before stepping towards the cave.

This cave was deep, seemingly connected to the underground.

After walking for about a quarter of an hour, he came across a restriction.

This restriction was carved into the cliff, like a gateway, shielding ordinary people’s view.

However, at this moment, the restriction had been destroyed, revealing a cave mansion hidden deep in the cliff.

The cave mansion was empty, everything had been moved away.

But on the ground, there were large remnants of blood.

Within the blood, there was an extremely faint remnant of spiritual qi, evidently left by cultivators.

”So fierce, it seems there was a fierce battle here...”

The aura of this blood belonged to different cultivators. Gu Yuan took a brief glance and noted that at least five or more cultivators had battled here.

This place had evidently been thoroughly searched; Gu Yuan did not linger and directly headed to the deepest part of the cave mansion.

In the deepest part of the cave mansion, there was a green stone door.

Above the stone door, there was a golden light barrier, countless tadpole-like runes flowing continuously within, firmly guarding the stone door.

Moreover, a wisp of golden light, like a roaming dragon, leaping within.

This golden light was extremely faint, barely visible, but incredibly dazzling, seemingly more brilliant than all the tadpole runes combined.

Gu Yuan looked at it for a couple of moments and felt a slight sting in his eyes.

”Is this... gold attribute?”

He couldn’t help exclaiming in surprise.

In his Dantian were two Golden Seals, making him quite familiar with this wisp of golden light.

It was precisely a wisp of gold attribute that only Golden Core cultivators could condense!

”However, this gold attribute is too weak, without the thought of immortality, it should just be ordinary gold-attribute mana...”

After sensing it for a long time, Gu Yuan finally breathed a sigh of relief.

A Foundation Establishment cultivator, upon successful realm-breaking, at the moment of forming the Golden Core, will undergo two mysterious changes.

The first is that a wisp of immortal gold attribute will be born within!

This gold attribute is generated by heaven and earth, carrying a trace of the thought of immortality, able to forge the Lifebound Golden Seal.

As long as it isn’t shattered by powerful external force, it remains immortal in the world.

In addition, the cultivator’s mana will be completely converted to gold-attribute mana.

Only gold-attribute mana can drive artifacts, wield various peculiar mysterious techniques.

This is exclusive to Golden Core cultivators, possessing immensely powerful and inexplicable strength.

If a Tier Two array or Foundation Establishment Seal is activated by gold-attribute mana, the power of the array and seal would surge greatly.

Gold-attribute mana inherently carries strength, able to persist in the world, immensely mysterious.

Compared to Foundation Establishment cultivators, one’s mana is akin to a wooden stick, the other like a steel bar; the same structure, different supports, resulting in vastly different built quality.

And this restriction in front, although just a Tier Two High-grade Restriction, was injected with a wisp of gold-attribute mana, its power instantly immensely strengthened.

”How strange, if it’s a Golden Core cultivator, they would never set up a Tier Two restriction, yet if not, how could there be gold-attribute mana?”

Gu Yuan frowned, deeply puzzled.

Restrictions are different from arrays.

A restriction is equivalent to the caster embedding one of their techniques into something, like a lock, sealing what’s inside.

Breaking a restriction means breaking this technique.

An array, however, engages the power of heaven-earth, leveraging external force.

Breaking an array requires breaking the array hub, severing the connected power of heaven and earth.

Not all Golden Core cultivators are Tier Three Array Masters.

Sometimes setting up a Tier Two array isn’t unusual.

But they would never set up a Tier Two restriction.

”No wonder the Yin Yang Double Fiend was so urgent, willing to offend the Cyan Peak Daoist School to break the restriction quickly. The opportunity within is indeed enticing...”

Seeing this, Gu Yuan couldn’t help but sigh as well.

His curiosity was piqued as well.

Yet, to understand the reason within, this restriction must be broken.

”Bang!”

Gu Yuan raised his hand, and thirty sword lights spun up, suddenly stabbing towards the restriction in front.

But that strand of gold-attribute mana slightly trembled, and a surge of tremendous power surged out, causing the entire restriction light barrier to radiate, directly bouncing the sword lights away.