The Quest for Immortality

It was a silent night in the Disciple’s Residence.

Mo Hua’s thoughts were in turmoil.

Why did Hidden elder-second say that the Five Hidden Gate had been wiped out?

Why had it been wiped out?

And who was the one who had executed the deed?

When the Five Hidden Gate moved out of the Qianxue State Boundary, was it really because of poor management and inability to recruit disciples, or was there some hidden reason?

Mo Hua furrowed his brows, then suddenly paused.

This seemed to have nothing to do with him...

He was just a minor disciple of the Taixu Gate, unfamiliar with Qianxue State Boundary, and he had had little contact with the many sects.

He had only just heard of the Five Hidden Gate.

Even if he wanted to inquire, he wouldn’t know where to start...

Besides, he was very busy—attending classes, undertaking tasks, accumulating merit points, cultivating, studying Formation, and also learning Spells...

Where would he find the time to inquire about such matters?

As long as he mastered the Minor Five Elements Stealth Skill, the affairs of the Five Hidden Gate, even if true, seemed irrelevant to a minor cultivator like him...

Mo Hua shook his head.

He then pulled out Boss Jiang’s diary, broke the Secret Pattern, and flipped through the list inside, pondering another matter:

Boss Jiang was a traitor of the Sever Gold Sect.

Hidden elder-second was a traitor of the Five Hidden Gate...

...

Then, could the other people on this list... be traitors of the sects in Qian State?

Was this a ”traitor’s” list?

Mo Hua pondered for a moment, and the more he looked at it, the more likely it seemed.

In that case, were the legacies of these Sin Cultivators originally from the top sects, the Eight Great Gates, the Twelve Streams, and the numerous large and small sects in the Qianxue State Boundary?

Wool comes from the sheep.

Speaking of shearing wool from Sin Cultivators, but in essence, it was shearing from these sects of Qian State...

With that thought...

Mo Hua was startled.

Was the Spell-craft he was learning derived from ”diverse sources”?

Inheriting from many schools, converging into one stream, with all Spells comprehended?

As long as he kept on learning, there might come a day when he could master the spells from all schools, use his strong Divine Sense, command myriad spells with ease, use others’ methods against them...

And become a true master of all Spells!

Mo Hua was overjoyed.

Then, looking at the Jade Slip in his hand, he was somewhat puzzled:

Why were there so many sect traitors in the Qianxue State Boundary? And why had they gathered together? Why had they left a list in the hands of Boss Jiang?

To huddle together for warmth?

Or did they feel that, although they had become Sin Cultivators, they were originally legitimate sect disciples, and thus different from other Sin Cultivators, wanting to establish a separate organization?

Mo Hua was puzzled, and his mind slightly shifted as he did a brief Calculation.

But he had only calculated briefly when an intense chill invaded his whole body.

Mo Hua’s pupils dilated.

In the midst of Chaos and ignorance, he glimpsed a vast, evil, Poppy-like Karmic net filled with desires that led to corruption.

This karmic chain was dark purple, distinctly ugly, yet it seemed to emit a sweet, rotting scent, teasing one’s desires, causing cultivators to deeply indulge in it.

This was...

The true great Karmic consequence of evil desires!

It was already formed, with the sin deeply sedimented, evil patterns deeply rooted, and the Karmic chains massive and corrupted—a depraved Heavenly secret!

Mo Hua felt a stabbing pain in his eyes and a cold sweat broke out on his back.

He hurriedly closed his eyes and when he reopened them, everything had vanished without a trace.

As if it was all a hallucination...

But Mo Hua knew, the implications of the Heavenly secret were far from illusory.

This sort of Poppy-like Karmic consequence was definitely real.

Moreover, such a powerful and profound net of karma, laden with sin, was not something he could see with his current level of Divine Sense.

It was more like a revelation from the unknown.

Or perhaps...

It was shown to him by someone...

Mo Hua’s mood suddenly became solemn.

All the events after coming to the Qianxue State Boundary, like a zoetrope, rose in his heart and then, like a mirage or the moon reflected in the water, shattered into broken ripples.

Qianxue State Boundary.

The very pinnacle of the Cultivation World, a place for seekers of knowledge...

Now, in Mo Hua’s mind, the impression had completely changed.

Although on the surface, it still sported the thriving appearance of Tao Cultivation, with sects standing tall and geniuses abound, prosperity everywhere, there was something rotten hidden beneath...

Mo Hua furrowed his brows and muttered in his mind:

”This is somewhat dangerous...”

Mo Hua understood that within this karmic consequence lay great dangers.

The great Dao is unpredictable, and the Heavenly secret flows.

Heaven and earth like a chessboard, all living beings as chess pieces.

Something in the unknown was already beginning to breed...

At such times, it’s best to avoid these grand, unknown conspiracies if possible.

Moreover, he still bore the karma of his master and uncle...

Mo Hua sighed and once again thought of his master...

The immense conspiracies surrounding his master, of which he knew nothing.

Even if he came to know of them, he, a mere Foundation Building Cultivator, though willing, would be helpless and unable to intervene.

Then there was his uncle...

Mo Hua still remembered how his uncle, with a dao heart planting the Devil, could slay Golden Cores and Feather Transformations as easily as chopping vegetables. Let alone himself, such an inconspicuous Foundation Building entity.

Without his master’s Heavenly secret Calculation to check, his uncle was truly terrifying...

Moreover, between him and his uncle, there were still some ”misunderstandings.”

He had secretly learned his uncle’s Tricky Calculations, surreptitiously absorbed his uncle’s Demon Thought, and even eaten his uncle’s bowl of noodles...

Though the Tricky Calculations were learned legitimately!

The Demon Thought was consumed out of necessity!

The noodles were bought with his own Flower Spirit Stones...