The Quest for Immortality

Xiao Tianquan’s face paled, feeling that his dignity had been swept away, and a hint of obscure resentment surfaced in his eyes.

Gu Changhuai saw it all clearly and slightly shook his head.

There really is no hurt without contrast...

Mo Hua, this boy, even if full of schemes, isn’t as annoying.

On the contrary, it’s these sons of noble families, superficially hypocritical, unable to suppress their grievances once contradicted, inexplicably irritating to look at.

Gu Changhuai sneered in his heart, but after a while, seemingly recalling something, he nodded and said,

”However, your initiative to volunteer is commendable. The task of breaking through the door is yours.”

Xiao Tianquan suppressed the resentment in his eyes and gratefully said,

”Thank you, Supervisor Gu.”

He then began issuing orders, directing the Xiao family’s Enforcement Leaders with the support of the Gu family and other Enforcement Leaders to set and break Formations while forcefully attempting to breach the Formation to open the gate of the Demon’s Cave.

Gu Changhuai stood by with his hands folded, watching.

Mo Hua stayed by Gu Changhuai’s side.

This time, Mo Hua didn’t stay hidden.

Since they were to attack the Demon Palace and capture the Fire Buddha, it was necessary for him to show himself, just keeping a low profile and pretending to be an ”idler” would suffice.

Others wouldn’t pay him much attention.

Even if they did, as long as he was by ”Enter No One’s” Uncle Gu’s side, they wouldn’t dare to question.

Xiao Tianquan, intentionally or unintentionally, also glanced a few times at Mo Hua.

But seeing that Mo Hua only had a Mid-Lower Grade Spiritual Root, his gaze automatically overlooked him.

The door was breached smoothly.

Because earlier, Mo Hua had already tampered with the Formation of the gate from the inside.

The Xiao family had certainly made a great investment, having their Formation Masters draw up Formations outside the gate of the Demon Palace, utilizing many precious Spiritual Artifacts and Runes to forcefully blast open the gate.

The Formations drawn by the Xiao family’s Formation Masters were useless.

Mo Hua knew this clearly.

What worked were the Spiritual Artifacts and Runes.

But the Xiao family’s Cultivators didn’t know this, seeing the Demon’s Cave blown open, the evil-eyed stone door cracked open and the fanged stones around the door broken, and inexplicable blood leaking out.

They all praised enthusiastically, ”Xiao Zhisi is brilliant!”

”His leadership is impeccable!”

Some Enforcement Leaders from small families, without major backing, followed suit despite feeling uneasy,

”Xiao Zhisi is promising from a young age…”

”He is bound to achieve great things!”

Xiao Tianquan appeared calm, as if accustomed to such flattery.

However, after some time, Cultivators began to exclaim,

”The blood on the door... it’s poisoned!”

Xiao Tianquan immediately dodged away, while several closer Enforcement Leaders were contaminated, their aura turning filthy and their expressions drastically altered.

The surroundings turned chaotic instantly.

A moment later, things settled down.

The ten or so poisoned Enforcement Leaders took Pills and rested aside.

These Pills, provided by the Xiao family, would externally claim they were unharmed, to avoid any stain on ”Xiao Zhisi’s” record.

This was stated by Gu Changhuai.

Mo Hua listened, dumbstruck.

These families are indeed very scheming...

With the gate breached, they arrived at the outer hall.

The expected resistance was absent; the outer hall was empty, not a single Demon Cultivator in sight.

The middle hall was the same.

And the inner hall’s gate was tightly shut.

As anticipated, the Demon Cultivators were defending the inner hall, unknown what they were doing inside.

Xiao Tianquan scoffed, ”Defending the inner hall, waiting for us to fall into the trap? How foolish!”

Xiao Tianquan intended to say more but glanced at Gu Changhuai somewhat apprehensively.

Gu Changhuai, unfazed, simply nodded slightly.

Meaning, let him act as he wished.

Xiao Tianquan then felt reassured.

Still, he wondered why his uncle and elders in the family had warned him to be wary of Supervisor Gu.

Following that, the Xiao family’s Enforcement Leaders began breaching the inner hall.

Their methods were similar to the outside.

Mo Hua stood at the back, hands folded, not intervening.

This matter wasn’t his turn to step forward.

He also didn’t want to show off his Formation skills in front of so many Taoist Court Cultivators.

Especially this Howling Celestial Dog, who was rather petty.

If he outshined him, stealing his credit, he would definitely bear a grudge.

It was a thankless task.

However, the talent of the Xiao family’s Formation Masters was truly limited, relying on the force of Spiritual Artifacts and Runes, and their progress was painfully slow.

Mo Hua could only stand by patiently.

It had already been three and a half days, with three and a half days left.

There was barely enough time.

The inner hall was similarly locked by a Formation.

To breach the inner hall, they needed to either solve the Formation or break the door.

Mo Hua glanced at the Formation, realizing it was difficult to solve, involving a Second Grade High-Level Formation which he didn’t know.

Thus, the inner hall had to be forcibly breached.

The Xiao family lacked neither people, Spirit Stones, Spiritual Artifacts, nor Runes, so they prioritized breaching while solving the Formation was secondary.

Mo Hua then saw bursts of five-colored lights.

Precious Second Grade Runes were used up.

Enforcement Leaders took turns, applying their Taoist Skills to forcefully blast the inner hall’s door.

Mo Hua also witnessed for the first time how ”Formation Blinds” who didn’t understand Formations dealt with them...

After almost half a day, with a loud ”boom,” the door of the inner hall slowly collapsed.

”It actually broke through...”

Mo Hua was somewhat surprised and looked at the Formations around the door slit, then somewhat realized.

This Demon Palace was uncompleted.

Near the door, some neighboring Formations were relatively weak.

By chance, Xiao Tianquan led his people to inadvertently break some of these inner Formations, causing the overall Formation to loosen.

This allowed them to breach the inner hall’s door within half a day.

Xiao Tianquan didn’t understand any of this.

He really thought it was through his own, the Xiao family’s strength, that they directly breached the door.

”Just a mere Demon Palace, that’s all!”

A group of Enforcement Leaders adeptly offered a series of ”Xiao Zhisi is brilliant” flatteries.

Mo Hua couldn’t be bothered with them.

He eagerly glanced inside the inner hall.

At this look, Mo Hua was somewhat stunned.

Inside the inner hall, there were densely packed, towering stone walls.

These stone walls, interconnected in arrangement, formed a… maze…

A maze?

Mo Hua frowned, releasing his Divine Sense to carefully sense and suddenly discovered that this maze was actually Formation media, with another Formation constructed upon it.

”This Formation...”

Mo Hua felt... very strange, yet oddly familiar.

As he observed, his pupils slowly widened, his heart trembling.

Isn’t this...

The Mysterious Heaven Great Formation?!