The Quest for Immortality

Xun Ziyou and Xun Zixian also noticed, their gaze darkened immediately.

Having such a chair here means that behind the Valley of Ten Thousand Demons, there’s still a figure of high status working behind the scenes.

The two figures flashed, breaking through the screen and lifting the bead curtain, entered the upper part of the great hall.

The surroundings were empty, with no one around.

At the same time, not a trace was left behind.

Mo Hua’s Divine Thought moved slightly, secretly using a bit of Heavenly secret Calculation, able to see a thread of causality lingering nearby.

These remnants of causality were faint, not yet completely dispersed.

This indicates that someone was here just now.

Soon, Elder Xun Zixian’s gaze focused, looking toward a seemingly ordinary screen in the corner, painted with a beautiful landscape. He slapped his palm, letting Spiritual Power seep through.

The screen was under force, and the formation patterns on it flickered, supporting for only a moment before completely shattering, revealing an entrance.

”Quick! Go check it out!”

Xun Zixian said in a deep voice.

Then he was the first to step into the entrance.

Xun Ziyou and Mo Hua followed behind.

But after taking a few steps, they reached a dead end, and everyone looked up in surprise.

In front was a secret chamber, over two zhang in length and breadth.

It clashed with the atmosphere outside in the great hall.

The great hall was gloomy and oppressive, but inside this secret chamber, it was luxurious and elegant, with sandalwood incense burning, feeling more like a young master’s ”study room” rather than a demon valley’s secret chamber.

However, there wasn’t a single book or Jade Slip inside the study room at this time.

It seemed that, to avoid being tracked, everything had been destroyed cleanly, without leaving a trace.

All that lingered was a faint scent of sandalwood incense.

”Escaped?”

Xun Zixian frowned.

Xun Ziyou snorted coldly, ”He escaped really fast.”

Mo Hua wasn’t surprised.

He guessed that this young master had already escaped long ago.

In the Valley of Ten Thousand Demons, the only chance to capture this mysterious young master was in a nightmare, capturing his Divine Soul, using the Divine Lock Array to seal him, making him a ”plaything” in his grasp.

Once the young master managed to escape from the nightmare, there would be no chance to capture him.

Unless this ”young master” was a fool. .

But that was certainly impossible.

Since he was revered as a ”young master,” his origins must be notable, with extraordinary talent, intelligence, and skills.

Otherwise, he would never be chosen by the Great Wilderness Evil God, nor feared by so many monster cultivators, earning the admiration of so many sect disciples who have fallen into demonhood.

Even Mr. Tu would destroy his remnant soul to protect him.

The young master’s true origins must be extraordinary.

Of course, to truly capture the ”young master” in a nightmare, there is one prerequisite:

That in the nightmare, the ”young master’s” Divine Thought is not protected by the special Eternal Life Rune.

Otherwise, Mo Hua would have no way to deal with him.

But on this matter, Mo Hua was quite uncertain.

After all, he was a loose cultivator, not of a great family’s direct lineage, had no Heaven Void Realm ancestor, and no ancestor willing to implant a special Eternal Life Rune for him.

His understanding of the Eternal Life Rune was very limited indeed.

”If there’s a chance in the future, I should ask Elder Master Xun about the Eternal Life Rune.”

”In case I really face a similar situation in the future, encountering someone with a significant background, one with the special Eternal Life Rune, I’d better be prepared...”

Mo Hua pondered intently.

Meanwhile, Xun Ziyou and Xun Zixian searched the study room again, still finding nothing.

”The gecko escaped by severing its tail, really clean...”

Xun Ziyou shook his head with a cold smile and said in a deep voice, ”Let’s go back first, later we’ll call people from the sect over, dig three feet into the ground, and search inch by inch. I refuse to believe that we can’t find other clues...”

”Hmm.”

Xun Zixian nodded slightly.

But Mo Hua suddenly said, ”No, something’s not right.”

Xun Ziyou paused for a moment, ”What’s not right?”

Mo Hua pondered, ”There should be some sort of ’secret passage’...”

From when he scared away the ”young master” in the nightmare, to when he left the nightmare, helped Little Wood and the others ”restore their souls,” to breaking through the mural, entering the great hall, and finding the study room...

These matters altogether took about an hour.

In that hour, if the ”young master” wanted to escape, he must have left a hidden passage.

This secret passage that could leave the Valley of Ten Thousand Demons and avoid the Golden Core cultivators, led by Elder Xun, who had already entered the valley...

It’s just that Mo Hua didn’t find this secret passage earlier.

”Secret passage...”

Xun Zixian’s gaze was stern. He unleashed his Divine Sense to sweep through again, suddenly noticing something, he walked to a wall on the right side of the study room with nothing on it, wielded Spiritual Power, letting a faint white crystalline light flash in his palm, then struck it with a slap.

But the wall didn’t even budge.

Xun Zixian’s expression changed, and immediately said, ”Call people! Summon the other Late-stage Golden Core Elders as well!”

Xun Ziyou didn’t delay, immediately using Transmission.

Within a few minutes, a few more Taixu Sect Elders walked in.

Most of them Mo Hua knew.

There were also a few who looked unfamiliar to him, probably newly promoted elders.

These elders, however, all knew of Mo Hua.

After all, in the Taixu Sect’s hundreds of years, there were disciples that Ancestor Xun was biased towards, but none to the extent of Mo Hua.

A group of elders came in, all first silently glanced at Mo Hua, and then began to discuss with the two Elder Xun Zixian.

Xun Zixian said, ”There’s a high-grade formation behind this wall.”

Everyone was taken aback upon hearing this.

Mo Hua was also stunned.

Even Elder Xun, a Third Grade Formation Master, called it a ”high-grade formation”...

An elder asked, ”What grade?”

Xun Zixian shook his head, ”It’s hard to say.”

”What do we do now? Break the formation?”

”Can’t break it.”

”Then... break the formation?”

”Can’t break it... This formation is very strong, and the disturbance would be too great. If forcibly broken, the outcome is unpredictable.” Xun Zixian said.