The First Immortal of Destiny

The information regarding Lady Yu was collected by Qin Zhen.

It is said that centuries ago, this Mechanic Path Immortal Master was the favorite consort of the King of Zuoli Country!

After the king’s death, other consorts, driven by jealousy and old grudges, forced her to be buried alive with the deceased king. Lady Yu was buried alive in the imperial tomb.

No one knew how she escaped from the tomb, nor did anyone know under what circumstances she embarked on the path of cultivation. However, by the time she reappeared in the royal city, she was already a Golden Core Realm powerhouse!

Furthermore, this female cultivator advanced rapidly, crossing the Divine Bridge in less than five hundred years.

Among the cultivators of Zuoli Country, Lady Yu had an excellent reputation. She was known to be kind and benevolent, not cruel or bloodthirsty. After her cultivation advanced, she did not even retaliate against the former king’s consorts who had forced her to be buried alive.

Currently, this powerful female cultivator resided in seclusion on a famous mountain near the imperial tomb.

She maintained a good relationship with the Zuoli Country’s royal family, accepting cultivation resources from them while providing them protection.

Compared to other Divine Bridge Immortal Masters and Class V big demons, Lady Yu is undoubtedly the best person for outsiders like Shen Mo to contact.

”Let’s choose her!”

Shen Mo reached out, plucked a jade slip suspended before him, and placed it in his sleeve.

Previously, in the Capital of Zuoli Country, he had sensed the faint auras of several Divine Bridge Realm cultivators, one of which he believed to be this woman.

”I will first contact this Lady Yu,” Shen Mo said to the other three, cupping his fists. ”I’ll see if I can persuade her to assist in refining the forbidden land and breaking free from the constraints here. This should disrupt the balance of this Evil Spirit and help us escape!”

”Fellow Daoist Fulong, Fellow Daoist Qin...”

”You may continue searching for a way out. If I require your assistance, I will notify you via a message talisman.”

”Alright, Fellow Daoist Qingyun. Please tread with caution, and I wish you a safe and smooth journey.”

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For high-class cultivators who walk the Mechanic Path, even if they perish, their corpses contain a large amount of extraordinary spiritual materials such as Gold, Wood, Jade, and Stone. Their bodies can be preserved without decay for thousands, even tens of thousands of years, and can be used by low-class cultivators for cultivation.

Therefore, even though Zuoli Country faced no significant natural or man-made disasters and its spiritual material resources were not scarce, there were still many cases of ’robbing the tombs of the powerful’ and ’excavating the bodies of the powerful.’ This was no different from the Primordial Realm and the Universal Realm.

This phenomenon, in this land plagued by an Evil Spirit, appeared normal but was actually absurd and utterly senseless.

Throughout the history of Zuoli Country, many members of the royal family had cultivated to the Spirit Sea Realm or Golden Core Realm. Consequently, many powerful corpses were buried in the imperial tomb, so it was not uncommon for these tombs to be dug up or robbed.

In the cultivation world here, there was even a rumor. It claimed that after Lady Yu was buried alive, she unintentionally obtained a high-class cultivation method from the previous king’s burial items and used his corpse for her cultivation. This supposedly set her on the path of Immortality, enabling her to crawl out of the imperial tomb and cultivate step by step into a Divine Bridge Realm powerhouse.

Shen Mo traveled by escaping light, quickly appearing near the Capital. He continued north for several hundred miles, toward the Spirit Deer Mountain Range where the imperial tomb was located.

Lady Yu resided in this mountain range, dwelling in a humble hut, absorbed in understanding the Great Path alone. She could be considered a semi-guardian of the imperial tomb.

Upon arriving in the Spirit Deer Mountain Range, Shen Mo removed the heavy armor he wore, storing it back in his Sword Zone. He then unhesitatingly activated his Mana, his sense sweeping out powerfully.

The next moment, a brilliant escaping light shot up from somewhere in the mountain range. In just a few breaths, it appeared before Shen Mo.

As the light faded, a woman with a graceful figure and beautiful face slowly emerged. She appeared to be in her late twenties. Her Dao Body, however, was no longer made of flesh and blood; her facial features, limbs, bones, skin, and even internal organs had all been replaced by various extraordinary materials, causing her entire form to emit a faint glow.

Yet, her overall appearance still closely resembled that of a living person rather than a cold, metallic puppet.

This woman was Lady Yu, a Divine Bridge Realm powerhouse who had transformed her entire flesh-and-blood body into a construct of artifice.

Her azure eyes continuously examined Shen Mo. Then, in a clear and ethereal voice, she questioned, ”Your body is entirely made of flesh and blood. Normally, you shouldn’t possess any cultivation Talent at all. How did you manage to cultivate to such a profound Realm? Who exactly are you, where are you from, and why did you deliberately lure me here?”

In Zuoli Country, many newborns were born with bodies entirely of flesh and blood, lacking any extraordinary materials.

However, in the eyes of Mechanic Path cultivators, these newborns were deemed ordinary people without any cultivation Talent or potential. Even stepping onto the path of Immortality was incredibly difficult for them, let alone reaching the Divine Bridge Realm.

”Boundless blessings to you, Fellow Daoist!”

Shen Mo greeted Lady Yu with a cultivation salute, then replied with a smile, ”I am not a cultivator from Zuoli Country but from the Universal Realm. Due to certain unspeakable reasons, I fell into this mortal world. I cultivate the way of justice, which is naturally somewhat different from the cultivators of Zuoli Country.”

Upon hearing this, Lady Yu’s beautiful eyes widened, clearly taken aback. A flicker of annoyance crossed her azure eyes as she retorted coldly, ”Nonsense! Do you truly take me for a three-year-old child, easily fooled by a few lies? The so-called Immortal Realm is nothing more than an ethereal legend.”

”If you do not wish to reveal your identity and origins, I will not insist. I am unaware of your intentions in luring me here, but I advise you to harbor no ill designs.

”If you have no other business, please leave immediately, lest you disturb the peace of the departed!”

As the intelligence had stated, this woman was indeed as kind and gentle as suggested.

Seeing this ’unconventional cultivator,’ she did not probe too deeply into his background. Suspecting Shen Mo of mockery, she merely refuted him and bid him leave.

Of course, it could also be that Shen Mo had revealed his mid-stage Divine Bridge Realm cultivation. Even though he was suppressed by the inexplicable power of the True Immortal’s cave mansion and couldn’t exert his full strength, his cultivation level was genuinely perceptible to cultivators of the same realm.

Cultivators who reach such a realm naturally do not engage in conflict at the slightest provocation, lest they needlessly make a powerful enemy.

Then again, as a patriarch of the Zuoli Country’s royal family, Lady Yu must know many Divine Bridge Immortal Masters. If she truly harbored malicious intent, she would have countless ways to scheme against Shen Mo and would not have openly told him to leave.

Lady Yu had no convoluted thoughts, but Shen Mo had come with ulterior motives; he was not about to be dismissed with a few polite words.

Seeing her disbelief about his origins in the Immortal Realm, Shen Mo immediately gathered his Mana. He drew forth a wisp of Clear Spirit Qi from within his body—about the thickness of a baby’s little finger and shimmering with an extraordinary silver luminescence—and toyed with it between his fingertips. ”This is Immortal Qi,” he said. ”Fellow Daoist, you may examine it. See for yourself how this Immortal Qi differs from the Spiritual Qi you usually refine!”

Lady Yu extended her sense, half-doubting, and cautiously touched the Clear Spirit Qi. The next moment, her expression changed dramatically, her eyes filled with utter astonishment.