The Quest for Immortality

The defeated blood is ebbing away, while the Yimu Qi is filling up.

The Blood Fang poison steadily pushes one from life towards death.

The Rejuvenation Formation gradually restores vitality, bringing someone back from death to life.

As these two forces intertwine, transitioning from death to life and back again, they engage in a tangled and strange causal relationship, mirrored in Mo Hua’s mirror-like eyes.

Mo Hua felt an indescribable shock in his heart, so much so that an obvious peculiarity appeared on his face.

”Mr. Witch?” Dan Zhu looked at Mo Hua, surprised, ”Is there a problem?”

Chi Feng and the others also looked towards Mo Hua.

Mo Hua put away the shock in his heart, collected his expression, shook his head, and slowly said:

”It’s nothing, I was just... marveling at the Divine Lord’s compassion and astounding divine power. With the holy patterns granted by the Divine Lord, these barbarian soldiers, whose blood flows ceaselessly, are saved...”

Upon hearing this, Dan Zhu expressed sincere gratitude:

”Thank you, Divine Lord, thank you, Mr. Witch.”

The surrounding Danque Tribe’s barbarian soldiers and the wounded all looked devoutly at Mo Hua, paying their respects, and praised:

”Divine Lord is eternal, Mr. Shaman is wise.”

Even Chi Feng, the barbarian general at the Golden Core Middle Stage, saluted Mo Hua to show respect.

Mo Hua, solemn yet gentle, accepted their reverence calmly, but the corner of his eye still watched the wounded soldiers, observing the alternation of blood qi and wood qi, the transition of death qi and vitality, and couldn’t help but silently be alarmed:

There is an issue...

This Wood Rejuvenation Formation absolutely has a problem!

This cannot simply be an ordinary Medical Dao formation.

But what exactly is the issue, and what differences are there from ordinary Medical Dao formations?

Mo Hua couldn’t quite figure it out.

Later, the injured of the Danque Tribe were successively placed on the Wood Rejuvenation Formation for treatment, using the Yimu Qi to alleviate the toxicity of the Blood Fang poison, and suppress the continuous loss of vitality.

The conditions of these injured gradually improved, all praising the Divine Lord’s great power, and remembering Mr. Shaman Mo Hua’s kindness.

Mo Hua, alone, found a quiet corner to secretly ponder over the Wood Rejuvenation Formation.

Somewhere in a quiet corner of the Stone Palace.

Mo Hua sat on the stone steps, using a branch he picked up to meticulously draw the Wood Rejuvenation Formation on the ground, stroke by stroke.

Then he compared what he drew with the original formation diagram on the Jade Slip rewarded at the Sword Discussion Conference, one by one.

He suspected that this Wood Rejuvenation Formation was definitely not an ordinary formation, there must be something amiss within.

First in the Qianxue Debate, rewarded by the Taoist Court and praised by the Heaven Shu Pavilion.

Qianxue, Taoist Court, Heaven Shu Pavilion.

These are all top-tier forces in the Cultivation World, involving immense causation, and the reward given by combining the three must not be ordinary.

Mo Hua had originally guessed this.

But when he first got his hands on the Wood Rejuvenation Formation, it really did look quite ordinary.

This made Mo Hua feel disappointed.

It was clearly with great hardship that he won the first place in the sword discussion, to obtain such a reward, yet it was very disappointing and far from reaching his expectations.

Therefore, this formation was sealed away by Mo Hua for a long time.

Now Mo Hua realized that he might have been ”shallow”.

This Wood Rejuvenation Formation just sounds ordinary, looks ordinary, learns ordinarily.

But when truly put to use, it is anything but ordinary.

Moreover, there’s something unspeakably strange and anomalous about it.

This anomaly should only be discernible to those who’ve really received the formation diagram, studied it earnestly, drawn it by hand, and personally used it to save lives.

But this ”anomaly” was something Mo Hua couldn’t quite figure out.

He also couldn’t distinguish whether this anomaly, which is nearly a kind of transformation of ”life and death”, was because there was a problem with the Wood Rejuvenation Formation itself.

Or was it simply because this formation is meant for healing people?

Once you heal people, it involves transformations of ”life and death”, irrelevant to the formation itself?

Mo Hua was not a Pill Master, and never saved people using medical techniques, thus he couldn’t discern between the two.

Mo Hua looked again at his portrayal of the Wood Rejuvenation Formation.

From the formation patterns, to the structure of the formation pivot, and the formation eye, there was nothing special, it was just a typical ”medical” formation at a glance.

From the perspective of the formation itself, no anomalies were visible either.

Mo Hua frowned.

Without a lead in either Medical Dao or formations, he looked from the angle of ”causation”.

A question floated in Mo Hua’s mind:

This formation, from whose hands did it originate, and who was it granted by?

The Taoist Court?

The Taoist Court is a broad concept; any organization or person operating within it would carry the title of ”Taoist Court”.

More specifically... the Heaven Shu Pavilion?

Who in Heaven Shu Pavilion?

Mo Hua didn’t know much about the Heaven Shu Pavilion, but he knew that many external orders of it were personally issued by the Supervisor.

A formation used as a reward for the sword discussion must have passed through the Supervisor’s hands.

The Supervisor knew.

Then besides the Supervisor, who else could it be?

The highest authority in the Heaven Shu Pavilion is the Pavilion Elder. Does the Pavilion Elder know?

Rumors say that the Pavilion Elder is a long-lasting, enigmatic elder, did he know the mysteries within this Wood Rejuvenation Formation?

Was granting this formation as a sword discussion reward approved by the Pavilion Elder?

Or even...

Was this a decision made by the Pavilion Elder himself?

Mo Hua’s heart skipped a bit, then he frowned:

”There shouldn’t be... the Pavilion Elder holds a high position of power, managing strategies, with many affairs at hand, how could they be concerned with such trivial matters?”