The Quest for Immortality

Late at night.

The Elders of Daoist Law from various sects gathered once again.

Still the same great hall.

Still the same Elders.

On the shadow-capturing screen, still Mo Hua.

However, the competition was different this time.

The ”victims” were different too.

On the shadow-capturing screen, it showed Mo Hua invisible in a small grove, teasing five disciples of the Longding Sect.

The five from the Longding Sect, each had a Peeping Mirror in their hand.

But in the mirrors, there was nothing to be seen.

The five looked at each other, like five ”big fools”...

”Shi Tiangang was wrongly accused, it’s not that he’s brawn over brains, unable to see through concealment; rather, this kid Mo Hua’s Concealment Technique is indeed strange...”

”The fact that the Peeping Mirror couldn’t reveal anything... indicates that the principle of this concealment magic differs from ordinary inheritances.”

”So, which one is it? Light Invisibility, Spirit Concealment, Visual Concealment, Five-colored Concealment, Five Elements Concealment, or Eight Trigrams Concealment Technique?”

”This... with the distance and the shadow-capturing screen, it’s hard to discern...”

”Only by being there in person, sensing the aura, or peering with Divine Sense, can one distinguish between true and false...”

”Mount of Tao has a fifth grade large formation, isolating all external Spiritual Power interference and Divine Sense prying, making it hard for us to intervene and distinguish anything...”

The fifth grade large formation isolated everything outside.

This kind of large formation isolation is to protect Sect Disciples, allowing them to use sect Cultivation Techniques, Superior Daoist Magic, and some other rare inheritances during the sword discussion, without being stolen by some ill-intentioned, skilled cultivators through Divine Sense detection, Law Calculation, or causal reverse tracking and other devious means.

After all, the Qianxue Debate is full of outstanding talents. What they learned is all superior Daoist Repository.

If someone really stole it through ”sensing,” ”reverse tracking,” or ”calculation,” it would surely lead to endless troubles.

But in this way, these Elders of Daoist Law temporarily could not figure out the details of Mo Hua’s Concealment Technique.

”Does the Taixu Gate have a unique concealment inheritance?”

”To my knowledge, there shouldn’t be any...”

”Then there must be a root source for his Concealment Technique, right?”

”Throughout the Qianxue State Boundary, is there a sect specializing in concealment?”

”There were some before, but most have disappeared, and now there’s no sect that specializes solely in such Concealment Technique, it’s too impractical...”

”So now the only way is to try different shadow-breaking spiritual artifacts?”

With the development of skills in the Cultivation World, the types of artifact refining have been subdivided.

Spiritual Artifacts are also of various kinds.

Shadow-breaking Spiritual Artifacts are subdivided into many types based on differences in concealment principles and methods.

There are those that break Spirit Concealment, those that break Water Concealment, those that break Color Concealment, those that break Light Concealment... and so on.

Unusual, niche, and rare Concealment Techniques are seldom inherited, hard to learn, and practitioners are few and far between, often not encountered.

Therefore, the Cultivation World still widely uses ”general” types of shadow-breaking spiritual artifacts.

For example, the Peeping Mirror used by the disciples of the Longding Sect is this type of general shadow-breaking spiritual artifact, and its grade is even high.

Generally speaking, even against rare Concealment Techniques, the Peeping Mirror used by the disciples of the Longding Sect would work; it’s impossible to really see nothing at all.

But Mo Hua is special.

His Minor Five Elements Stealth Skill, having undergone many years of honing and enriched with abundant concealment experience, was already flawless.

Especially now, his Divine Thought has already reached Core Formation, the Minor Five Elements Stealth Skill has undergone qualitative change, giving it a hint of reaching the state of perfection.

Therefore, unless there is a precisely targeted, top-grade shadow-breaking spiritual artifact for the Five Elements, his concealment simply cannot be breached.

”But trying one by one...” an Elder frowned, ”How long will that take?”

”A team of five, each with a different type of shadow-breaking spiritual artifact, each shines on him once, it won’t take many rounds, soon it can be figured out...”

”What if he doesn’t conceal?”

”This kid is clever, if he senses something is wrong, he will certainly ’hide his skills,’ he may not use his concealment again...”

”If he doesn’t conceal, what use is it to shine on him?”

”Then formulate tactics, carry out a siege, force him to conceal, and then find a way to use spiritual artifacts to break his concealment...”

”Is it worth so much effort, just to target one disciple, no... a single magic of a disciple?”

”With such tactics, such selection of spiritual artifacts, if innately restricted, how can one win?”

”I already said, it’s not about winning, but figuring out which stream of Concealment Technique this kid’s is.”

”So you mean... tactically abandon a few matches in the Mystical Character Sword Discussion, to give points to Taixu Gate?”

”That’s the only way.”

”But this is the Mystical Character Sword Discussion, fewer matches each time, just wasting like this?”

”You can’t catch the wolf without sacrificing the child.”

”The question is, whose child to sacrifice, whose wolf to catch?”

”Who are Taixu Gate’s opponents in the next few rounds of the sword discussion?”

”Xuanqi Sect, Sever Gold Sect, and Lingxiao Sect...”

”Xuanqi Sect and Sever Gold Sect are alright, but Lingxiao Sect, that’s not easy to deal with...”

”Nothing that’s not easy, offer more benefits, just that each sect must bleed a little...”

The group of Elders remained silent, evidently hesitating.

”You all might not have realized the seriousness of the issue yet...”

The presiding Elder looked solemn, ”Don’t underestimate this Concealment Technique, it might be more troublesome than you think...”

”This unique concealment, paired with his extraordinary Divine Sense and flawless Five Elements Spell mastery, in some respect, can truly stand in the ’invincible’ realm.”

”Especially in beheading matches, it’s basically unsolvable.”

”If you can’t see through his concealment, you absolutely can’t win.”

”If we don’t think of a solution early, if it drags to the Earth Character Round, or even the Heaven Character Round, it will be a big problem.”

”Every victory in the Earth Character and Heaven Character Round is extremely precious.”