Eternal Life by Daily Divination

Before the Tier Four Array.

Li Chang’an stood for a long time.

His eyes were deep as he gazed at the blurry passageway beyond the Tier Four Array, faintly sensing a scorching aura.

It was as if countless Fire Cloud Crystals were beckoning to him.

But he did not make the Withered Spirit Flower bloom right away.

’Secret Realm Worlds have always been fraught with peril, full of many incomprehensible and bizarre things.’

Li Chang’an was worried.

On the other side of the passage, there might be some incredibly powerful monsters.

For this reason, he was not in a hurry.

’I’ll check the Divination before I do anything else.’

He had waited for so many years; he didn’t mind waiting a few more hours.

He sat down cross-legged and began to cultivate.

「Time flew by.」

In the blink of an eye, it was Midnight.

A golden light appeared before his eyes.

[Divination has been refreshed]

[Today’s Divination: Peaceful]

[You use the Withered Spirit Flower, causing the Tier Four Array guarding the Secret Realm’s entrance to collapse. You successfully enter the Fire Cloud Secret Realm without encountering any mishaps.]

”A Peaceful Trigram. Neither inauspicious nor auspicious. Not bad!”

Li Chang’an breathed a sigh of relief.

To him,

a Peaceful Trigram was as good as an Auspicious Trigram. As long as nothing unexpected happened, it was fine.

He calmed his mind and Qi, levitated the Withered Spirit Flower before him, and slowly infused it with his Evergreen Magical Power.

Gradually, glistening points of light appeared on the withered and gray petals.

As time passed, more and more points of light appeared, connecting until every petal looked translucent and sparkling, as if carved from crystal.

HUMMM...

The Withered Spirit Flower trembled lightly, its brilliantly glowing petals slowly rising.

It was blooming!

In that instant,

the Magical Power in Li Chang’an’s body rapidly dissipated, and even his Immortal Golden Core dimmed considerably.

The surrounding Heaven and Earth Spiritual Power vanished without a trace in an instant.

This small space...

...had become a Land of Absolute Spiritlessness in a flash!

The Tier Four Array ahead of him suddenly froze. The dangerous aura it emitted was gone. Countless complex Array Patterns appeared as Array Treasures fell from the void.

”Collect!”

Li Chang’an didn’t hesitate in the slightest.

With a wave of his hand, he instantly collected the numerous Array Treasures.

Then, his figure flickered into a series of afterimages as he swiftly erased the Array Patterns that had appeared around him.

Furthermore, at the center of the Array were tens of thousands of Top Grade Spirit Stones used to sustain it.

He took all of them as well.

At this point, the Tier Four Array was completely broken, never to operate again.

After just a few breaths,

the Withered Spirit Flower slowly wilted. Its petals once again turned gray and withered before turning to nothingness and dissipating between heaven and earth.

The surrounding Heaven and Earth Spiritual Power gradually returned to normal.

’A pity it can only be used once,’

Li Chang’an lamented silently.

He naturally wished he could use such a Treasure a few more times.

’Of course, as good as Treasures are, they’re ultimately not as reliable as one’s own Skills. It would be best to obtain a Tier Four Array inheritance as soon as possible.’

He put away these thoughts and began to inspect the numerous Array Treasures.

Most of these Treasures had already decayed.

The only reason they could previously maintain the Array was because they were supported by Spiritual Power.

Now that the Spiritual Power had dissipated, most of the Treasures lost their final trace of Spiritual Energy and emitted an aura of decay.

”Even the finest Treasure cannot withstand the Power of Time,”

Li Chang’an sighed, sorting the numerous Treasures into categories.

About a quarter of an hour later, the inventory was complete.

After that, he set up several new Quasi-Tier Four Grand Arrays at the entrance of the Secret Realm.

Once he finished, Li Chang’an looked into the depths of the passageway.

He sent out a Quasi-Tier Four Puppet wearing a disguise that looked like him, ordering the Puppet to step forward.

The farther it went, the more intense the scorching sensation became. The rocks on the tunnel walls had taken on a dark red hue.

At the end of the passage was a massive boulder, several dozen feet high, blocking the entire exit.

Li Chang’an did not move it. Instead, he used an Escape Technique to pass through the boulder.

「A moment later.」

A strange Secret Realm World appeared before his eyes.

As far as the eye could see, the world was a sea of fiery red, and a scorching Fire Element aura washed over him.

To Li Chang’an’s surprise, he sensed the auras of many Cultivators in this vast world.

Not just Qi Refining and Foundation Establishment Cultivators, but even Golden Core ones!

’Could they be descendants of the Cultivators left behind by the Great Jin Immortal Dynasty?’

Li Chang’an pondered silently.

This Secret Realm was once a place where the Great Jin Immortal Dynasty mined for Fire Cloud Crystal Ore.

Later, the Great Jin Immortal Dynasty underwent its Ascension, and the Emperor, along with numerous Princes, Ministers, and other important figures, all vanished.

Without the Great Jin Immortal Dynasty to keep order, various powerful figures rose up, and the Cultivation Immortality Realm instantly descended into chaos.

The Great Jin Soldiers stationed in various places also established their own factions.

In that chaotic situation,

the miners and their overseers in this Fire Cloud Secret Realm might have been forgotten by the outside world.

’I can’t be careless. I need to get a basic understanding of this world first.’

Li Chang’an was currently in a desolate mountain forest.

He gazed into the distance.

In the central region of this world, there seemed to be an extremely powerful Cultivator who gave him a faint sense of threat.

’A Nascent Soul True Monarch? No, the sense of threat isn’t as strong as what a Nascent Soul would give off. It should be a special Golden Core Cultivator, whose strength far exceeds the Golden Core Limit. I can’t underestimate them.’

Li Chang’an’s figure flickered as he left the mountain forest, heading toward the nearest gathering of Cultivators he could sense.

Halfway there, he suddenly detected the auras of several Qi Refining Cultivators.

Those auras were rapidly approaching his position.

Before long, he saw two young Cultivators.

A man and a woman who bore a slight resemblance to each other, likely a brother and sister. Both had a Cultivation at the Qi Refining Fourth Layer.

At that moment, the two of them had pale faces and were fleeing desperately.

Behind them, several figures were in hot pursuit.

One of them shouted, ”Yao Family Siblings, hand over the Fire Cloud Crystal, and I will spare your lives!”