The Quest for Immortality

Mo Hua eradicated the zombie disciple, ”ate” its evil thoughts, and then began to sit in meditation to refine them.

Within the evil thoughts, there were some mottled memories.

All were about corpse refinement, corpse raising, and corpse control.

The Zhang Family’s legacy throughout the generations was all about such sinister activities, ostensibly selling coffins but secretly practicing corpse refinement.

This disciple was the same.

He was also an ancestor of Zhang Quan.

But his talent was mediocre; he was only in the Qi Refinement Realm, and he hadn’t been exposed to zombies for long before the corpse poison seized his heart and turned him into a Walking Corpse.

Fearing exposure, the Zhangs killed him and sealed his Divine Thought in the Ancestral Master Picture.

Just like many other ancestors of the Zhang Family.

While it was alive, it became a Zombie, and in death it remained a Zombie; thus, the evil thoughts it manifested posthumously were also those of a Zombie.

The Zhang Family members themselves were half-human, half-zombie.

As Mo Hua refined its evil thoughts, a cold, putrid, and deathly desire also tainted his Divine Sense.

Mo Hua felt a bloodthirsty desire awaken in his heart.

It was as if he had become a zombie himself, craving flesh and blood, with an urge to consume a living person.

Once the evil thoughts entered his heart, Mo Hua immediately entered a state of Mental Concentration, meditated in stillness, and discarded all worldly desires.

Mo Hua was far from panicked.

As Mr. Zhuang had said, every time evil thoughts intruded, it was a test of one’s Taoist Heart.

Whether one can uphold their original intentions and maintain their Taoist Heart amid worldly desires and entanglements of evil thoughts is crucial for a cultivator.

Once the Taoist Heart is breached and the original intentions are extinguished, it’s easy to stray and deviate from the Heavenly Dao.

People aren’t born resistant to all evils.

The Taoist Heart also needs to be strengthened bit by bit.

Mo Hua planned to start with the smaller evil thoughts, to cultivate his will, enlighten his mind gradually.

Bit by bit, to firm up his Taoist Heart.

Until one day, he would be impervious to all evils.

Even if an Evil God invaded his brain or a Heavenly Demon disrupted his mind, he would remain clear and untainted, like a flawless mirror.

The zombie disciple was quickly refined by Mo Hua.

Its minor evil thoughts were also discarded by Mo Hua.

Mo Hua’s Divine Sense had also noticeably increased.

This was the most pronounced increase in Mo Hua’s Divine Sense in the past few months.

But it still wasn’t enough.

Mo Hua smacked his lips with a sense of incompleteness lingering.

The zombie disciple was only in the Qi Refinement Realm, and its Divine Thought wasn’t strong; after refining out the evil thoughts, the Divine Sense obtained was minimal.

That amount of Divine Sense was hardly enough to fill the gaps between his teeth.

Mo Hua felt it was a pity, so he opened his eyes.

Bai Zisheng was staring at him intently and promptly asked when Mo Hua opened his eyes,

”How’s it going?”

Mo Hua replied, ”It’s fine.”

Bai Zisheng let out a sigh of relief and then asked,

”What’s next?”

Mo Hua thought for a moment and said, ”Let me take another look, and you do what I told you earlier...”

”Mhm mhm.” Bai Zisheng nodded and said, ”Knock you out, call for the master, burn the drawing, and scatter the ashes...”

Although it differed slightly from what Mo Hua had said, it was more or less the same.

Mo Hua then reopened the Contemplation Map, which appeared to be the Ancestral Master Picture on the surface, but was actually the Zombie Image.

He looked at it again.

The same figure in the picture looked back at him with a zombie’s face.

Similarly, the zombies left their seats and leaped out of the painting, entering Mo Hua’s Sea of Consciousness.

This time Mo Hua released two zombies and then closed the drawing again.

These two zombies were still only in the Qi Refinement Realm; regarded as Disciples of the Zhang Family in human terms and only as Walking Corpses in zombie terms.

After leaping into Mo Hua’s Sea of Consciousness, the two zombie disciples looked at each other, both showing ecstatic expressions.

This Sea of Consciousness was too vast.

The Divine Sense inside was too rich.

Enough for them to feast on for a long time.

They might even be able to evolve to Foundation Establishment directly by feeding here!

Who would have thought that the Sea of Consciousness of this young cultivator would be a paradise for feeding?

But their joy didn’t last long.

A Fireball Technique came whizzing in, exploding in an instant.

It blasted one Walking Corpse away, the bright flames burning its body, causing it to suffer and struggle on the ground.

The other Walking Corpse froze.

What was that just now?

Fireball Technique?

Where did a Fireball Technique come from in the Sea of Consciousness?

It quickly found out where the Fireball Technique came from.

Because not far away, a young cultivator with delicate features was staring with profound eyes, revealing neither joy nor anger, casually pointing at it.

Before the Walking Corpse could react, a fireball condensed between the fingers of the young cultivator.

The fireball was incredibly fast, accurate, and vicious.

In an instant, it flew in front of the zombie.

The undead white pupils of the Walking Corpse were filled with the red glow of fire, and then its entire body was also blown away by the Fireball Technique, landing on the ground, enduring the agony of being incinerated.

This pain was very real.

The Walking Corpse almost forgot that it was already dead, no longer possessing a physical body.

It was terrified in its heart.

Who exactly was this young cultivator?

But Mo Hua wasn’t interested in wasting words.

Time was limited, so a quick resolution was needed.

This time, he wouldn’t play the cat-and-mouse game; Walking Corpses at the Qi Refinement Realm wouldn’t probe the depths of the Zhang Family’s Ancestral Master.

Mo Hua simply and brutally used the Fireball Technique to obliterate the two Walking Corpses.

After their annihilation, he refined the evil thoughts and strengthened his Divine Sense.

Thereafter, Mo Hua replicated the process, opening the picture to release corpses, bombarding them with fireballs, and refining the evil thoughts.

Although the evil thoughts from the Qi Refinement Realm were not strong, their cumulative effect meant that after ”consuming” several Walking Corpses, Mo Hua felt his Divine Sense had significantly increased once more.

But it still wasn’t enough.

This time, he set his sights on a few of the higher-ranking ancestors of the Zhang Family.

Those sitting in the front were also prominent, at least among the Zhang Family Elders.

The evil thoughts of Elders should also be stronger.

But how to lure them into his own Sea of Consciousness?

Mo Hua thought for a moment, and his eyes sparkled slightly.