The Quest for Immortality

Lu Chengyun walked into the altar and opened the bronze coffin to start drawing the Formation.

As the Family Head, Lu Chengyun was busy on normal days. If something came up during the day and he got delayed, he would return to the altar at night to draw the Spirit Pivot Blood Formation.

Mo Hua, seeing that he hadn’t been discovered, let out a slight sigh of relief.

It seemed that Lu Chengyun’s Divine Sense was indeed weaker than his own. Without vigilance, he easily failed to see through his concealment.

However, he couldn’t afford to be careless and give himself away.

Otherwise, should Lu Chengyun discover him sneaking into the altar in the dead of night, no amount of explanations would make him trust him again.

He would likely kill him and refine him into a small zombie.

Mo Hua conscientiously hid behind the altar.

Lu Chengyun was still drawing the Formation.

He couldn’t possibly imagine that at this moment, another person was in the altar.

In the silent altar, there was only the extremely faint sound of the brush wet with ink and the rustling of strokes.

Once Lu Chengyun began drawing Formation, he would be completely engrossed.

Mo Hua used his peripheral vision to sneak a peek at him.

Lu Chengyun didn’t notice.

Mo Hua nodded slightly.

The Spiritual Pivot Formation was very difficult to draw.

Drawing the Spiritual Pivot Formation required intense concentration, a large consumption of Divine Sense, and all thoughts to be focused on the Formation Patterns, so he wouldn’t get distracted by anything else.

But Mo Hua didn’t dare to be too brazen. He simply gathered his spirit and focused his mind without any emotion, devoid of murderous intent or any miscellaneous thoughts, using a vacant and tranquil gaze to secretly watch Lu Chengyun drawing the Formation.

With Divine Sense that was empty and clear, he was less likely to be detected.

The Formation Lu Chengyun was drawing, although also an Evil Formation of the Spiritual Pivot, differed from his daytime techniques.

Lu Chengyun was suspicious by nature.

Despite thinking Mo Hua couldn’t understand or learn it, when drawing the Spiritual Pivot Formation in front of Mo Hua, he still held back.

He included some unnecessary Formation Patterns and altered the structure of the Formation Pivot.

Certain sinister techniques also had differences in the details.

Mo Hua suddenly understood.

Previously, when he watched Lu Chengyun drawing the Formation and noticed oddities in the Patterns, he thought Lu Chengyun had made a mistake, or that the methods of the Evil Formation were different from the standard ones.

Only now did he realize.

Lu Chengyun had been misleading him all along.

”Truly cunning...”

What Lu Chengyun didn’t know was that Mo Hua had already learned most of the Spiritual Pivot Formation beforehand.

Later, when Lu Chengyun demonstrated the Spirit Pivot Formation Chart in front of Mo Hua, in just those few moments, Mo Hua had memorized the remaining parts of the Spiritual Pivot Formation.

He didn’t need to watch him draw, because Mo Hua had already learned it.

Mo Hua watching him draw the Formation was purely to learn and improve, to check for any oversights and see if he left any back doors, not because he actually wanted to learn from him.

Lu Chengyun’s petty tricks were like casting flirtatious glances at the blind—a completely futile effort.

Mo Hua furrowed his brows again.

Lu Chengyun’s carefulness was a wake-up call for him.

The Soul Pivot Ultimate Formation was Lu Chengyun’s core secret.

He planned to use the Spiritual Pivot Formation to control the Corpse King and command the horde of zombies.

The Spiritual Pivot Formation was his lifeline.

He would never teach it to anyone, including Mo Hua.

Promises of teaching him the Spiritual Pivot Formation were nothing but empty words.

Mo Hua felt a chill in his heart.

Up to now, Lu Chengyun probably believed that in the entire Minor Wilderness State Boundary, he was the only one who knew the Spiritual Pivot Formation.

The complete set of Spiritual Pivot Sequences could also only be understood by him alone.

He was the king among kings, controlling the Corpse King.

Therefore, the fact that Mo Hua had learned the Spiritual Pivot Formation could absolutely not be known by Lu Chengyun.

Once he found out that Mo Hua had mastered the Spiritual Pivot Formation and could destabilize his control over the Iron Corpses and Walking Corpses by altering the Sequential Formation Pattern,

He would definitely kill him!

Under no circumstances would he spare his life.

No matter how talented he was or how useful to him—none of it would matter.

”Even if I were his father, I guess it wouldn’t matter—he would still find a way to kill me...”

Mo Hua silently mused.

Someone who could kill his master and ancestors and refine corpses certainly couldn’t be expected to have any conscience...

Mo Hua took the opportunity to observe Lu Chengyun’s technique in drawing the Formation again.

At this moment, there were no outsiders in the altar, and Lu Chengyun no longer kept secrets; he devoted himself fully to drawing the Evil Formation of the Spiritual Pivot.

He was still using a Bone Pen, dipped in human blood, to draw on the bronze sarcophagus.

His eyes shone with a green light, as if he was using some sinister type of Divine Sense.

Thanks to this, Lu Chengyun was drawing skillfully, and the speed was not slow either.

Mo Hua was somewhat surprised.

Indeed, the techniques of the Evil Formation were useful.

A Formation Master who couldn’t realize it fully on his own, unable to complete the Formation Patterns, would use some unconventional means to help himself draw the Formation.

Human skin, human blood, human bones, and so on.

Cultivators are naturally attuned to Spiritual Power.

Using human materials for drawing, serving as a medium for the Formation, could reduce the difficulty of drawing the Formation and increase its power.

But these were merely methods to lower the threshold.

Simply put, it was cheating.

Mo Hua nodded to himself.

This Lu Chengyun, in terms of Formation skills, was still not as good as himself.

After all, he, Mo Hua, had drawn the Spirit Pivot Formation earnestly without cheating!

”It seems that I am still very impressive...”

Mo Hua felt a smidgen of self-satisfaction in his heart.

Lu Chengyun was still working on the Drawing Formation.

From the corner of his eye, Mo Hua continued to stealthily watch him.

As he watched, Mo Hua began to ponder another question with a hint of confusion:

How exactly did Lu Chengyun refine the Corpse King?

If the offering on the altar was the corpse of the Lu Family Old Ancestor, ”Capitalist Lu,” then what was sealed within this bronze sarcophagus?

Lu Chengyun was drawing the Spiritual Pivot Evil Formation on the bronze sarcophagus.

Over and over again.

It must be that during the Corpse Refinement, he was deepening the Formation continuously.

But with the corpse laid on top, where was the Formation he was intensifying on the coffin applied?

Or could it be that the Corpse King was somewhat special?

Was this a unique method of Corpse Refinement?

As Mo Hua was contemplating, Lu Chengyun had finished a Formation, his Divine Sense exhausted, and he took a break.

In the empty altar space, Lu Chengyun meditated to recover, and after just a short while, he suddenly furrowed his brows, abruptly opening his eyes with a piercing look, and coldly said:

”Are you watching me again?”

Mo Hua jumped in fright.

”Was I discovered?”

Lu Chengyun abruptly turned his head, his gaze icy cold, locking onto the altar.

Mo Hua curled up his small body, calming his mind, concealing his breath, and remained silent.

At the same time, Lu Chengyun slowly got up, walked to the altar, and with a sneer said:

”You just won’t rest in peace, will you?”

Mo Hua was momentarily stunned.

Won’t rest in peace? He’s not talking about me?

That is to say, Lu Chengyun hadn’t discovered him…

Mo Hua slowly exhaled in relief.

”Watching me again… won’t rest in peace… the altar…”

Mo Hua instantly understood.

Lu Chengyun thought the Lu Family Old Ancestor was watching him!

The one offered upon the altar was indeed the Lu Family Old Ancestor, and this Old Ancestor, having been duped by Lu Chengyun, indeed died with his eyes unshut.

”Old undying thing!”

In the midst of the altar, where there was no one else, Lu Chengyun ripped away his cultured and genteel facade and suddenly became fierce and hysterical.

”Greedy fool!”

”Old beast!”

”You looked down on me because of my marital entry into the family?”

”You belittled me!”

”In front of all the Elders, you cursed me as a dog raised by the Lu Family, an ungrateful cur…”

Lu Chengyun’s face revealed a sneer, ”But the Spirit Stones I mined with Corpse Refinement, you still took them, didn’t you?”

”The ’dead meat’ fetched by this hound of yours, you old beast, you still ate it, didn’t you?”

”Never content in your greed…”

”Even as your death approached, when I deceived you, saying you could attain transcendence through Corpse Transformation, living a thousand years, you actually believed it?”

”The Heavenly Dao is constant, there are limits to life and death, how could they be so easily deceived?”

”Thinking you could become immortal as a Zombie? Dream on!”

After cursing a good deal and venting his emotions, Lu Chengyun then laughed coldly and darkly.

”Come to think of it, I should thank you.”

”Thank you for incestuously birthing that bad and stupid daughter.”

”Thank you for your greed, which allowed me to become the Family Head of the Lu Family.”

”Otherwise, even if I had learned the Spirit Pivot Formation, I couldn’t have built the Corpse Mine, couldn’t have constructed the Formation of Ten Thousand Corpses, couldn’t have refined the Corpse King…”

”This Corpse Mine was built with the manpower of your Lu Family, this Formation of Ten Thousand Corpses was also made with your family’s wealth.”

”Now, it all serves as a bridal gown for me!”

Lu Chengyun couldn’t help but let out a gloomy laugh.

”You never imagined, did you…”

”In life, you wielded great power, I listened to you, labored for the Lu Family, submitting to your word as law.”

”But in death, refined into a Zombie by me, you have to listen to me, becoming my servant, under my command, forever without the chance of revolt.”

”The Lu Family still bears the name Lu, but it’s no longer the ’Lu’ of Lu Tianliang, it’s the ’Lu’ of me, Lu Chengyun!”

Having finished speaking, a slight tremble passed over the altar.

Below the yellow cloth, the Corpse Qi was intense.

It seemed as if a violent energy surged within it.

The Lu Family Old Ancestor was dead, this violence merely the remnants of primal consciousness, the residue of Divine Thought.

Lu Chengyun was not only unafraid but was also overjoyed and laughed:

”Good!”

”The angrier you are, the more intense the Corpse Qi, the more the refined corpse aligns with my desires!”

The Corpse Qi surged, then seemed to contain a reluctance that gradually subsided.

Lu Chengyun sneered softly:

”Your time is up, once refined into a corpse, controlled by the Spiritual Pivot Formation, you can only be my servant, forever at my mercy.”

After that, Lu Chengyun ”hmphed,” brushed his sleeves, and left the altar to return to the bronze sarcophagus to meditate and recover his Divine Sense.

His words, without omission, were all overheard by Mo Hua, who was hidden behind the altar.

Mo Hua sighed inwardly and couldn’t help but admire:

Lu Chengyun was indeed a ”talent.”

The Lu Family Old Ancestor truly picked up a ”gem.”

Lu Chengyun and the Lu Family, such a perfect match, a white-eyed wolf entering a den of wolves, truly a match made by heaven.