The Quest for Immortality

”...His little head was always a bit naughty...”

”Let’s have a look...”

”Yeah.”

Mo Hua’s Divine Sense was unceasing.

Bai Zisheng and another were perceptive of Mo Hua’s Divine Sense. Cloaked with a concealing cape and with their figures hidden, they found the secret chamber amidst the chaos of the Stone Palace.

The secret chamber was cramped but exquisitely crafted, with a sinister sacrificial altar situated above.

Atop the altar lay bones, burning white candles dripped with corpse oil, casting a ghostly light.

Below the altar was a white coffin.

The Divine Sense of Mo Hua emanated from within the coffin.

When Bai Zisheng saw the white coffin, his expression was one of astonishment. Then, with a pained look, he cried out:

”Little junior brother, he’s dead!”

Bai Zixi shot him a glance, ”How could his Divine Sense emit from him were he dead?”

Bai Zisheng paused, his pained expression faded as he scratched his head and begrudgingly said:

”Oh, right...”

In a clear voice, Bai Zixi said:

”Open the coffin.”

Bai Zisheng nodded. After inspecting the coffin for a moment and understanding its structure, he pulled out the nails from the four corners with brute strength. Then he broke the fastenings of the lid and slowly lifted it.

Inside the coffin lay a familiar figure.

It was indeed their junior brother, Mo Hua!

Mo Hua’s complexion was somewhat pale, his eyes deeper than before, and there seemed to be a lustrous light within them, both familiar and somewhat strange.

Bai Zisheng’s face first showed joy, then became stern:

”How can you prove you’re my junior brother?”

Mo Hua gave him a look, ”Idiot!”

Bai Zisheng heaved a sigh of relief and calmed down.

That demeanor and the familiar tone were indeed those of his little junior brother...

In a soft voice, Bai Zixi said, ”Are you alright...?”

Her expression was calm, but her eyes shone like a brook under the autumn sun, warm and radiant.

Mo Hua was momentarily lost in thought, then replied with a bright smile:

”I’m fine.”

Bai Zixi blinked and nodded her head.

Curious, Bai Zisheng asked, ”How did you end up locked in there?”

”Lu Chengyun wanted to dispose of me once I’ve served my purpose,” Mo Hua said.

Bai Zisheng became furious, ”That’s outrageous! Bullying my junior brother is bullying me, trying to kill my junior brother is akin to trying to kill me!”

He pounded his chest and assured Mo Hua:

”Don’t worry, I’ll slaughter him for you!”

”He’s at Foundation Establishment...”

”Foundation Establishment, still slaughter!”

”Alright then...”

Mo Hua wasn’t sure if he was bluffing, but he still felt grateful at heart.

”But what does ’dispose of me once I’ve served my purpose’ entail?” Bai Zisheng asked, curious again.

”It means using me as a sacrifice, feeding his Contemplation Map with my Divine Sense,” Mo Hua explained succinctly.

”Where is that map?”

”I ’ate’ it...”

”How did you ’eat’ again...”

Bai Zisheng uttered with a mix of frustration and resignation, then muttered, ”I can’t decide if you’re the offering, or if the map is your offering...”

”So has your Divine Sense grown stronger again?” Bai Zisheng asked.

”Yeah.” Mo Hua nodded modestly:

”Got a bit stronger, thirteen stripes...”

Even Bai Zixi was taken aback by this revelation.

Bai Zisheng opened his mouth wide in astonishment and said helplessly:

”If this keeps up, you’ll truly become a little monster...”

Qi Refinement at the eighth level, Foundation Establishment with thirteen stripes Divine Sense...

Even among the Bai Family’s ancestors, he had never come across such a record.

Bai Zixi’s eyes flickered as she cautioned, ”Don’t tell anyone...”

Bai Zisheng also came to his senses, nodding as he said:

”Right, you mustn’t tell anyone. Otherwise, there are those who’d want to crack open your head to see what’s inside... People can be very malevolent.”

Mo Hua was shocked and nodded repeatedly, ”Yeah, yeah!”

Bai Zisheng had more to say, but Bai Zixi spoke up, ”Let’s leave this place first.”

The Corpse Mine was no place to linger in.

She and her brother had come here to find Mo Hua, and now that they had found him, naturally, they wanted to leave as soon as possible.

”Alright!”

Within the Corpse Mine, cultivators and zombies battled fiercely.

Swords were blind, spells were aplenty, the ground was rife with Corpse Poison... There were even Foundation Establishment cultivators fighting hand-to-hand with Iron Corpses.

Getting caught in the crossfire was still very dangerous.

The three of them cloaked themselves with invisibility and left the secret chamber.

Before leaving, Mo Hua thought for a moment and set up an Earth Fire Formation around the secret chamber, blowing it up, destroying the entire altar and the coffin with it.

Although he hadn’t died, he still needed to destroy the ”corpse” and erase the traces.

Or rather, because he hadn’t died and wanted to be cautious, it was necessary to ”destroy the corpse and erase the traces.”

At the same time, he also took the blank Contemplation Map with him.

All the ancestors of the Zhang Family that had been within the Contemplation Map were ’eaten’ clean by Mo Hua.

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But Mo Hua felt that the map was very peculiar, capable of containing the spirits of the Zhang Family’s deceased, who, after death, became evil spirits manifesting in bodily form and living within the map.

Clearly, this was not a feat that ordinary Tao Cultivation items could achieve.

Mo Hua kept the blank Contemplation Map with him.

He would study it himself later or ask his master for advice.

...

The Taoist Court was still attacking the Stone Palace, with the Taoist Soldiers leading the charge and the other cultivators providing cover.

With a way to restrain the Corpse Soldiers, the threat was reduced.

Lu Chengyun then used the Formation of Ten Thousand Corpses for Corpse Raising and Corpse Refinement, constantly replenishing his forces, engaging in a war of attrition against the Taoist Soldiers.

Both sides were in a stalemate, with the situation inside the Stone Palace chaotic.

Foundation Building Cultivators, Qi Refining Taoist Soldiers, Iron Corpses, and Walking Corpses fought to the death...

Such a situation was momentarily beyond the resolution of the three Qi Refinement cultivators.

The immediate priority was to escape the Corpse Mine, and plan for the long term thereafter.

The three of them, invisible, circled around the edge of the battlefield and retreated towards the outside of the Corpse Mine.

Despite their caution, the Corpse Mine was too chaotic. There were many cultivators, even more zombies, and in a moment of inattention, they inadvertently revealed themselves and were discovered by a Corpse cultivator.