The Quest for Immortality

The merits are spent like running water.

The merits given by Mo Hua are not very many, but they still make them feel much more comfortable.

”By the way, Junior Brother...” Cheng Mo asked in a low voice, ”When exactly can you reach the late stage of Foundation Establishment?”

The group of ”Junior Brothers” around also looked eagerly at Mo Hua upon hearing this.

Mo Hua sighed.

He also wished he could...

Wasn’t it just stuck at a bottleneck? The hardships of cultivating the Heaven Yan Jue, these Junior Brothers just don’t understand.

”Eat.” Mo Hua waved his hand.

”Oh...” Everyone then sensibly buried their heads in their meals.

...

After lunch, Mo Hua went to the mountain gate, found Elder Song, and registered this blood-stained token, which was engraved with Monster Patterns and had ferocious fangs, clearly belonging to an Evil Demon Cultivator.

Elder Song did not make things difficult for Mo Hua; on the contrary, he was very kind and friendly to him.

Previously, when Mo Hua took leave, Elder Song would have quite a few words, but now, even if Mo Hua ”skipped classes,” Elder Song would probably praise him for ”not being confined to forms,” ”having his own rhythm in Tao cultivation,” ”not following the crowd”...

Mo Hua has always been one to show others a foot of courtesy when they show him an inch.

Elder Song was kind to him, and he was very polite to Elder Song in return.

Elder Song was even happier, and after Mo Hua left, he spoke to the nearby elders:

”Not arrogant, not discouraged, respecting teachers and elders, courteous and polite, he will surely become a great success in the future...”

The nearby elders nodded in agreement.

Yet, there was a familiar elder who teased him:

”Elder Song, you didn’t say that earlier. I remember a few years ago, you said that this child, relying on Elder Master Xun’s backing, would often take leaves, mischievous and troublemaking, and certainly would not become great?”

Elder Song kept a straight face and dissociated himself, ”That was the past me, has nothing to do with the present me.”

Everyone chuckled at his words.

...

After registering with Elder Song, Mo Hua took the Monster Pattern Token back to his Disciple’s Residence, intending to follow the routine and decipher the text inside after dismantling it. ŘÂ𝐍Ο₿Ɛṡ

Initially, Mo Hua was just going through the motions, not paying much attention.

But just as he used his ”skilled” dismantling technique to pry open the token’s lid, Mo Hua’s expression changed.

Under the Monster Pattern Token, with a framework of White Bone, it was constructed with extremely complex Yuan Magnetic Formation Patterns, and a token structure he had never seen before.

”This... is not a Letter Token?”

Mo Hua was stunned for a moment, then his pupils suddenly contracted.

”This is... a Sect Token?!”

Mo Hua took a sharp breath.

A Sect Token...

If he was not mistaken, those Evil Cultivators who were mutually devouring and sucking blood were disciples of the Demon Sect, which the Taoist Court was sieging.

That would mean this Sect Token is a token of the Demon Sect?

The ”Demon Sect Token” brought back by Cheng Mo and a few Junior Brothers was the real deal?

Mo Hua was shocked and found it hard to believe at first.

Then he couldn’t contain his joy.

A Demon Sect Token!

This is truly a once-in-a-lifetime treasure.

In every sect, the most symbolic and important token is the Sect Token.

Here in Qianxue State Boundary, it’s relatively relaxed because after all, it’s a ”teaching and disciplining” type of sect, with some rules that aren’t too strict.

But Mo Hua heard that many other types of sects, like ”Hidden Sects,” ”Family Sects,” ”Spiritual Merchant Sects,” ”Industry Sects,” and ”Extralegal Sects,” etc., have very strict rules on holding Sect Tokens.

Some sects can even be said to be ”as the token exists, so does the person; as the token vanishes, so does the person.”

If a sect disciple loses their Sect Token, it would be equivalent to losing their identity as a ”sect disciple” and would suffer severe punishments from the sect.

The extreme ones might even have their cultivation abolished and be expelled from the sect.

Moreover, losing a Demon Sect Token...

For a disciple holding a Demon Sect Token, dying swiftly might not even be an easy option.

The significance of this Sect Token is enormous...

Mo Hua’s heart was pounding, and he then began dismantling this Demon Sect Token with the utmost caution...

This Demon Sect Token is somewhat similar to the Xun Token.

It includes some ”Yuan Magnetic Communication” functionality, and from the surface, it indeed looks like an ordinary Letter Token.

But besides the ”communication” function, it must also construct a whole system for sect maintenance, organization, hierarchy, and might even have a task acquisition and reward-punishment system similar to the ”Merit Scroll” of the Taixu Gate.

The token may be small, but it encompasses all.

From the grade perspective, this Demon Sect Token is certainly not as high as the Xun Token.

But structurally, this Demon Sect Token is more complex than the Xun Token.

The Xun Token is too high-end.

Its internal Yuan Magnetic Formation System is likely a Fifth Grade Array and possibly based on a Yuan Magnetic Array.

The core part is either built deep in Taixu Mountain or enclosed within the Xun Token itself.

The Xun Token Mo Hua can see is just a surface.

And this Demon Sect Token, though constructed more crassly than the Xun Token, precisely because of its crudeness, the internal formations can’t be enclosed, so it appears more complex.

Mo Hua carefully dismantled the structure of the Demon Sect Token, separating the fixed and unfixed magnetic patterns, and began analyzing the fixed magnetic patterns.

But after quite some time of research, he still couldn’t make sense of it. .

This structure is more intricate, the unfixed magnetic patterns more variable, and a large portion of the fixed magnetic patterns he simply could not understand.

The biggest problem is, he could not figure out the core principle of the Sect Token, unable to distinguish between the ”Sect Token” and ”Letter Token,” what the biggest difference in underlying logic is.