The Quest for Immortality

Bai Zisheng said, ”You should take a walk after eating to aid digestion, don’t just lie down.”

”Oh.”

Mo Hua responded with a somewhat lazy tone, but still remained lying down without moving.

Bai Zisheng shook his head. After a moment, he seemed to remember something and asked,

”Are you going to see your master again?”

Mo Hua blinked and replied, ”After sorting out the matters here, then I’ll go back to see Master!”

Bai Zisheng’s eyes brightened, ”Are you going to take out Lu Chengyun?”

He couldn’t stand those who were sanctimonious, bullied with their power, practiced Demon Skills, murdered, and bullied his sister and little junior brother.

And Lu Chengyun had nearly all these traits.

”Hmm.” Mo Hua nodded.

Bai Zisheng thought for a while, then frowned slightly, ”It’s not easy to make a move, is it? There are so many Walking Corpses, Iron Corpses, and the Corpse King…”

Mo Hua sat up and said in a low voice,

”Step by step. First, we will weaken Lu Chengyun’s power, push him into a tight spot, and then get close to that Corpse King… and he will be doomed!”

”Corpse King?” Bai Zisheng was taken aback, ”Did you do something to his Corpse King?”

Mo Hua shook her finger, corrected him, ”It’s not ’his’ Corpse King…”

”What do you mean?” Bai Zisheng didn’t understand.

Mo Hua played coy, whispering,

”It’s top secret. You’ll find out when the time comes.”

Bai Zisheng was not very happy.

After contemplating for a moment, Mo Hua relented slightly and said, ”When the time comes, I guarantee you’ll get the chance to take down Lu Chengyun.”

”Really?”

Bai Zisheng was skeptical.

”Hmm,” Mo Hua nodded, ”You are my senior brother, I wouldn’t lie to you!”

Bai Zisheng immediately became happy again.

Bai Zixi glanced at her older brother, shaking her head slightly with a hint of helplessness.

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The next day at 6 A.M., the Taoist Soldiers began their assault on the Stone Palace.

Yang Jishan led the charge from the front, tying up most of the Iron Corpses, but this was merely a feint.

The other two elite teams of cultivators, following Mo Hua’s guidance, took a detour to sneak in and broke through the defensive formation of the storeroom, penetrating the stone walls. As expected, they found a storeroom filled with blindingly brilliant Spirit Stones.

Under military orders, they did not hesitate. Using Spiritual Artifacts, Runes, and Taoist Skills, they destroyed the large store of Spirit Stones within the storeroom.

The destroyed Spirit Stones turned into a vast surge of Spiritual Energy that spilled out from the Corpse Mine, pervading the surroundings before returning to nature.

Even outside the Corpse Mine, Mo Hua could sense this thick presence of spiritual power.

”So this is Spiritual Energy…”

Mo Hua murmured pensively, her mind slightly stirred.

It’s said that over twenty thousand years ago, nature was teeming with dense Spiritual Energy.

However, once the Taoist Court united the Cultivation World, the rapid development led to the reckless extraction of Spiritual Energy, which gradually depleted its presence in nature.

Only Spirit Stones mined from the spiritual mines below ground remained.

Cultivators relied on Spirit Stones to practice cultivation.

Places with remnants of nature’s spiritual energy, like secret mountain sanctuaries, were rare, the stuff of legends. They were occupied by the Cultivation World’s powerful forces.

It was the same situation with Spirit Stones.

Over the twenty thousand plus years of the Taoist Calendar, nearly all of the Cultivation World’s spiritual mines had been carved up and seized by the Taoist Court, the Noble Clans, and the Great Sects.

The vast majority of Spirit Stones also ended up in their hands.

The majority of the lower-class cultivators actually had access to very few Spirit Stones.

Let alone breathing in the real nature’s spiritual energy…

Now the Spiritual Energy that overflowed from the Corpse Mine, although dense, was ephemeral, dissipating in mere moments.

Although it was Spiritual Energy, it was not quite the real thing.

After it dissipated, the world was still left dry and barren of Spiritual Energy.

Mo Hua felt somewhat moved.

She looked up at the sky, silently pondering,

”I wonder if there will ever be a day when this world sees the revival of Spiritual Energy…”

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As the storeroom was blasted open, the Spirit Stones destroyed, and the Spiritual Energy diffused into the world, Lu Chengyun felt it too.

His heart ached sharply as if pricked by needles.

These were Spirit Stones! Collected through hard labor, enslaving Mining Cultivators, controlling zombies, mining, and his accumulated wealth!

With these Spirit Stones, he could bribe officials of the Taoist Court, buy support from various powers, strengthen the Lu Family, obtain various Cultivation World resources, and elevate his own cultivation level!

Yet now, they were all destroyed!

What was even harder for him to accept was the situation with the Formation of Ten Thousand Corpses!

With the Spirit Stones destroyed, the Formation eye of the Formation of Ten Thousand Corpses would be cut off from its supply.

Although it could still barely operate on the remaining Evil Power, within ten days, as the Evil Power was exhausted, the Formation of Ten Thousand Corpses would halt.

Without the Formation of Ten Thousand Corpses running to continuously refine zombies, how could he contend with the Taoist Soldiers?

Lu Chengyun’s gaze turned icy. ”It looks like I need to find another solution…”

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But then he was puzzled.

How did the Taoist Court figure out that he powered his Evil Formation with Spiritual Power?

And how did they learn that his Spirit Stones were hidden in the secret storeroom?

Was there a traitor within the Corpse Mine who leaked all its secrets?

”Impossible…”

Lu Chengyun shook his head.

Those in the know had either been killed by him or sacrificed by him.

The rest were just Corpse Cultivators.

These Corpse Cultivators had been with him for a long time, killing and refining corpses, with blood-stained hands.

As long as they practiced Corpse Path cultivation techniques, they would have fallen into the Demon Path, and it was impossible for them to switch allegiance to the Taoist Court.

Even if they did switch sides, it would be a death sentence.

They couldn’t have leaked secrets…

”So, someone at the Taoist Court saw through the bluff of the Corpse Mine and also through the Formation I laid out?”

A cultivator with such capabilities and Formation attainments must be a remarkable person.

But who could this person be?

When did they set their sights on him?

Lu Chengyun furrowed his brow.

A sudden premonition came over him.

It was as if someone had long ago spun a web around him, tightly ensnaring him, and was now watching him eagerly, closing in step by step…

Who was this person?

And what exactly was this web?

Lu Chengyun was confused.

Behind him, the fierce and majestic Corpse King remained silently loyal.