The Quest for Immortality

In the Tai Xu Sword Tomb, the Elder’s gaze shifted.

”Since ten thousand years ago

”Heavenly secret tainted, the Divine Thoughts of the common people weakened, it’s unlikely there are any Divine Beasts left

”What exactly… happened?”

A fog of confusion enshrouded his mind.

The Elder’s Divine Thought transformed into a sword, tracing the root of the Evil’s disappearance.

Divine Thought like a sword, instantly pierced through the fog, and the scenery changed abruptly, a blood-red vision unfolded.

At the horizon, blood-red as if soaked in blood, amongst a Corpse Mountain, a ferocious and imposing king of corpses, bound all over by chains, slowly opened its eyes.

Those eyes, brimming with tyranny, bloodthirstiness, and twisted Taoist Meaning.

”Taoist Demon!”

The Elder’s gaze turned frightened.

In an instant, a cold wind arose.

Countless Walking Corpses and Iron Corpses, like a tide, invaded his Sea of Consciousness, fiercely gnawing at his Divine Sense.

The Elder paused in shock, then a trace of pride appeared on his gaunt face.

His Divine Thought solidified into a bone-chilling Sword Intent, resembling the Chaos of Eryi, the flow of Taixu, and the profound light of the sword, which burst forth in an instant, slaughtering everything in its path.

All Walking Corpses and Iron Corpses that touched the sword light were ground into dust, completely annihilated.

Seeing the Corpse Tide obliterated by the sword light, the Corpse King roared, the Karmic chains around it trembling.

In the blink of an eye, it followed the obscure Karmic chains, closed in on the Elder, and opened its bloody mouth, biting down on the Elder’s arm.

With a determined face, the Elder’s Divine Thought turned into a sword, slashing down.

The sword struck the Corpse King.

But it was as if it struck empty air.

The Corpse King, surrounded by Karmic entanglements, seemed to exist in another false realm.

The Elder frowned and swung his sword again.

This sword, targeted at Karmic laws.

Tai Xu Sword Intent, vast and mighty like the nine heavens’ Milky Way, a single slash severed the Karmic chains, and also severed the Corpse King’s sea of blood and Taoist Demon form.

Corpse Mountain and blood sea vanished in an instant.

The Back Hill was silent, the Sword Tomb desolate, and broken swords littered the ground.

As if nothing had ever happened.

But the Elder knew that in his Divine Sense, there was a bite mark.

The injury was not severe, but a trace of bloodthirsty Evil Thought had infiltrated his Sea of Consciousness, eroding his Taoist Heart, creating a chilling intent to kill.

Meanwhile, in Elder’s Residence, Elder Master Xun was still up at night studying Formation Books, his expression suddenly changed.

”Killing intent trembles, Divine Thought into sword!”

Elder Master Xun, with a grave expression, stretched out his hand, drawing a dark rift from the void and stepped into it, reappearing at the Back Hill Forbidden Area’s Sword Tomb.

The sprawling Sword Tomb showed no abnormalities.

Only the Elder in the center seemed unstable in his Taoist Heart, his Divine Sense overflowing, harboring a Sword Intent filled with terrifying killing aura, latent yet chilling.

But such a Sword Dao killing intent, ordinary Cultivators couldn’t detect.

The entire Taixu Mountain’s Elders and Disciples still slept soundly, unaware of what had transpired in the Forbidden Area.

But Elder Master Xun knew.

He looked towards the Elder in the Sword Tomb, his eyes showing complex emotions, and then he sighed, “Senior brother, you have drawn your sword again

The white-haired, bearded Elder’s face was pale, as if restraining something, his face marked by crisscrossing Sword Qi and circulating intent to kill.

After a long while, he managed to stabilize his Taoist Heart and suppress the killing intent with his profound Cultivation, returning his expression to normal, but his Divine Sense still suffered from the pollution of the Karmic “corpse poison.”

Bits of twisted, blood-red Taoist Meaning intertwined around him.

Seeing this, Elder Master Xun sharply inhaled.

”What is this?!”

The bearded Elder looked up at Elder Master Xun and smiled bitterly,

”Unexpectedly, it turned out to be… a Taoist Demon.”

Elder Master Xun replied with a stern expression,

”What exactly happened?”

The bearded Elder shook his head, “Minor Evils invaded Taixu, I intended to trace their Karmic cause with one sword slash, but somehow, mysteriously, I ended up slashing out a Taoist Demon

”If it weren’t for the fact that this Taoist Demon was low in realm, only at the Half-step level, and hadn’t fully formed

”Otherwise, with my residual Divine Sense and the flawed Taoist Heart, I might have already been contaminated, turned into a puppet of the Taoist Demon; body human, Taoist Heart a corpse

The bearded Elder took a deep breath and felt a chill.

Elder Master Xun gazed intently, “Is someone orchestrating this, cultivating a Taoist Demon?”

The Elder pondered for a moment, then shook his head, “Doesn’t quite seem like it, it doesn’t seem like a premeditated cultivation of a Taoist Demon, more like

”I unintentionally struck upon something forbidden with my sword slashing through Karmic causes, violated a taboo, attracting this calamity

Elder Master Xun puzzled, “Karmic Taoist Demon?”

The bearded Elder nodded, “This Half-step Taoist Demon… seems to have already ‘died’, but its resentment lingers, residing in some ‘thing

”The Taoist Demon… already died?” Elder Master Xun’s eyebrows furrowed tighter, “In a world under the Heavenly Dao Laws, how could a Taoist Demon die so easily?”

”Who in the world is so capable, to bypass the Heavenly Dao Laws and slay a Taoist Demon?”

The bearded Elder closed his eyes, took a deep breath, then opened his eyes, his expression solemn, and slowly said,

”Everything in the world has life and death.”

”A Taoist Demon is just a malformed product of the Great Dao, invincible in one realm under the Heavenly Dao Laws, but that does not mean it is immortal

”It can live, naturally, it can also die.”

”I just never thought, guarding the Sword Tomb, shutting myself away from the world, I would mysteriously get bitten by a Taoist Demon

The bearded Elder looked up at the starless night sky and sighed,

”That person died, the Back Ruins Heaven Burial’s celestial fate manifested, the Heavenly secret quietly shifts, and more and more unfathomable events unfold