The First Immortal of Destiny

Chapter 470: Chapter 470: The Golden Coffin Appears_1

With a flash, Shen Mo appeared next to Yuxin Sword Master and the others, looking puzzled. ”Who is this old man...?”

He didn’t remember such a character among the Sect Disciples sent by the Five Great Sects; apparently, Chou Jiuyian and the others had specially invited him while he and Zhao Lingyin were in seclusion.

”He is Xuanzhu Zi, a fellow daoist from the Seven Stars Altar, and he has made significant contributions in the field of divination!” Giant Corpse Master explained.

At this point, of the remaining Prohibition obstacles within the tomb, only the Star Observation Deck remained unbroken.

After the disciples of the Seven Stars Altar failed to break this test, Chou Jiuyian reported to the sect and brought in Xuanzhu Zi, a cultivator proficient in divination!

Despite his frail appearance, this man was only a little over two hundred years old, more or less the same age as Yuxin Sword Master and the others.

However, Xuanzhu Zi was obsessed with the art of divination, and each calculation consumed a portion of his Lifespan.

Over time, despite cultivating to the Spirit Sea Realm and originally possessing a Lifespan of five hundred years, it had now been reduced by more than half. Only forty or fifty years remained for him to live!

Because of this, Xuanzhu Zi had become the most skilled person in the Seven Stars Altar at divination. After all, even a Golden Core Realm patriarch, with only a thousand years of Lifespan, would be utterly unwilling to waste two hundred and fifty years delving into the path of divination.

Originally, the higher-ups of the Seven Stars Altar had not wanted Xuanzhu Zi to step forward.

Firstly, he did not have much Lifespan left. If it was not a significant event, it would not be worth him consuming his remaining Lifespan to perform a divination.

Secondly, due to excessive consumption of his fortune, Xuanzhu Zi was plagued by misfortune.

The moment he left the sect, he might encounter evil cultivators and demon heads. Even when traveling by escaping light, he could encounter falling meteors. The Seven Stars Altar regarded him as a treasure and naturally did not want him to meet with any accidents!

However, this time, the Five Great Sects had joined forces to break the core of the tomb, and the Seven Stars Altar’s performance had been mediocre.

Even the challenge involving the Talisman Path had been broken first by an Elder of the Profound Moon School. Only the Star Observation Deck remained, a challenge requiring calculation skills. This was precisely what the disciples of the Seven Stars Altar excelled at, so they could not refuse.

Left with no choice, Chou Jiuyian, the Deputy Sect Master of the Seven Stars Altar, asked Xuanzhu Zi to step forward.

He even personally returned to the sect, carefully protecting Xuanzhu Zi along the way to prevent any accidents from befalling the misfortune-plagued man!

”I see,” Shen Mo lamented.

After suffering a setback in the Heaven Patrolling Zone, he had originally planned to acquire the middle-grade spiritual level magic, *Divination Treasure Mirror*, from the Magic Tower to cultivate. However, seeing Xuanzhu Zi master the art of divination at the cost of so much Lifespan and fortune, Shen Mo’s enthusiasm for studying divination-type magic had faded considerably!

Currently, on his Destiny Disc, the information for Lifespan and Fate, two of the seven Basic Destinies, had not yet manifested. Shen Mo roughly understood that these two were different from the other Basic Destinies. They were constantly changing and could not be improved with Destiny Points!

Take Lifespan, for example. After he entered the Qi Gathering Realm, his Lifespan increased from nearly one hundred years to two hundred. After opening up his Spirit Sea, it further increased to five hundred years. If he could form a Golden Core one day, he could enjoy a Lifespan of a thousand years! But if he practiced divination-type magic, swapping his Lifespan and fortune for the ability to peek into the secrets of heaven, it would result in the loss of fortune and Lifespan. Fate was similar, changing with his Cultivation Realm and status, creating a sense of destiny’s unpredictability!

If he were to delve into divination-type Immortal Laws, his Special Destiny, [Martial Performance], could assist him. However, he would likely consume a vast amount of Lifespan and fortune in a very short time. Not only would his Lifespan be shortened, but his Fate would also be ruined. This situation was almost inevitable. Even if he spent a fortune in Spirit Stones to use [Martial Performance] for its exceptional deductive capabilities, advancing the *Divination Treasure Mirror* to the next stage and making his divinations more precise, it still wouldn’t negate the effect of reducing Lifespan and ruining Fate.

In the final analysis, the foundation of divination-type Immortal Laws was to exchange a cultivator’s fortune and Lifespan for the ability to glimpse a hint of heaven’s secrets!

For Shen Mo, in most situations, the Special Destiny, [Danger Perception], was usually enough.

If he had sufficient Destiny Points, he could upgrade it to Orange or even Gold quality. Then, without any cost, he could gain insight into more situations that were dangerous to him. And even if that wasn’t enough, he could attempt to draw more Destinies from the Destiny Pool. Perhaps he might even draw out a Destiny associated with divination! Practicing the *Divination Treasure Mirror*, exchanging Lifespan and fortune for divination skill, simply wasn’t cost-effective.

Half a day later, the extraordinary power enveloping the Star Observation Deck receded. When Xuanzhu Zi reappeared before everyone, Shen Mo became even more resolute in his thoughts!

This disciple of the Seven Stars Altar, who had reached the middle-stage of the Spirit Sea Realm, looked noticeably more aged. When leaving the Star Observation Deck, he even stumbled, lacking the bearing of a Spirit Sea Realm expert. Instead, he strongly resembled an ordinary mortal man nearly a hundred years old!

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Thankfully, Xuanzhu Zi’s sacrifices were not in vain.

As the last difficult Prohibition was broken, the entire tomb seemed to RUMBLE and tremble.

This was, in fact, an illusion experienced by everyone; the tomb’s location had not shifted at all.

It was just that the extraordinary power shrouding this place was fluctuating so intensely that it made everyone present feel as if the tomb, including the Heavenly Monarch’s mansion, was shaking!

Simultaneously, a palace silently manifested...

Based on the mansion’s layout, this area was originally the Heavenly Monarch’s sleeping palace. Previously, however, it had been empty, as if a corner had been torn from a scroll painting.

With the numerous difficult Prohibitions at the tomb’s core broken one after another, this missing corner of the scroll painting had been filled in.

Immediately, Shen Mo, Yuxin Sword Master, Giant Corpse Master, Chou Jiuyian, Chu Zhen, and the other top experts from the Five Great Sects swiftly communicated via Divine Sense. Then, they all flew into the palace together.

The palace’s furnishings and layout were no different from those of a living person’s bedchamber.

There was only one difference: where the bed should have been, a massive, floating gold coffin was placed!

Eight thick iron chains were attached to the corners of the gold coffin at one end, while the other ends were connected to the palace’s beams. Numerous scenes were painted on the coffin’s body using various colored spirit gold materials.

These likely depicted significant, memorable experiences from the Unnamed Heavenly Monarch’s youth as he embarked on the path of cultivation and sought the Dao.

These included: becoming an apprentice, learning arts, his first demonic beast kill, his first duel, life-and-death crises, and significant fortuitous encounters. The final scene depicted his ascension to immortality and journey to the Immortal Zone!

”Huh?”

Shen Mo let out a soft gasp, his gaze fixated on the final scene of ascension, only to find that the entire image had begun to distort and change.

Before long, it transformed into a scene depicting over a hundred cultivators from the immortal sects entering the mansion and breaking the Prohibitions.

Without Yuxin Sword Master and the others needing to speak, Shen Mo knew from the astonished expressions on their faces that they had all witnessed this change as well.

”What... what does this mean?”

Yuxin Sword Master’s gaze shifted uncertainly before finally settling on Giant Corpse Master.

After all, Ghost Corpse School cultivators excelled at excavating the tombs of powerful individuals. Having dealt with corpses year-round, they should possess more experience in handling such phenomena than other cultivators!