The Quest for Immortality

Just as the disciples were feeling anxious, a cultivator in green robes hurriedly entered from outside, bowed and clasped his hands, saying: ”Chief Elder.”

Great Elder Zhang glanced at him and asked, ”Where did you go?”

Zhang Lan hung his hands down and said, ”I went to visit a... Taoist Friend...”

Great Elder Zhang was preoccupied and didn’t think much, just waved his hand, ”Alright, come back earlier next time to avoid trouble.”

”Yes.” Zhang Lan breathed a sigh of relief.

After that, everyone dispersed and returned to their rooms to rest.

Great Elder Zhang returned to his room, sat down to meditate and rest, but couldn’t calm his mind, so he got up, sat at the table, lit a candle, and began flipping through some ancient books and broken jade slips, searching for an answer.

However, the disaster of the ”Underworld” is hard to distinguish between true and false, and its records are hidden in ancient texts, rare and mysterious.

Great Elder Zhang flipped through the books but gained little, unable to find the origin, not to mention a method to suppress it, causing him to sigh and mutter to himself:

”May our ancestors protect us, and may this journey to Qianxue yield clues to suppress the ’Underworld’ and resolve the calamity of Kan State...”

But he also knew the hope was too faint.

Great Elder Zhang shook his head and continued to read and ponder. But the more he thought, the more his mind felt drained and chaotic.

At that moment, scenes from the Sword Discussion Conference during the day inexplicably resurfaced in his mind.

On the phantom scroll, that figure, as if a startled swan, like a wandering dragon, under the impenetrable sword light of the Feng family’s genius, entered and exited smoothly like flowing water, not touched by a single sword blade...

His name, Great Elder Zhang remembered very clearly:

Mo Hua.

Great Elder Zhang was stunned for a moment, didn’t think deeply, but felt a sense of admiration:

”Truly worthy of Qianxue’s genius, a young boy with unparalleled grace, whose movement technique surpasses even the talents of the Feng family from the Carefree Sect, truly incredible...”

Especially his movement technique.

Great Elder Zhang is of the Feather Transformation, and his family has generational inheritance of movement techniques.

He could see better than anyone the extraordinary details and the exquisite flow of Mo Hua’s water system body skill.

Such a marvelous movement technique could not be forged without undergoing extensive and intense training, investing a great deal of effort.

High talent, high comprehension, willing to put in hard work, exquisite movement technique.

”Such a young genius, if he were truly a disciple of my Zhang Family, how wonderful would that be...”

Even Great Elder Zhang felt a keen desire for such talent, deeply envious.

But after a moment of envy, he suddenly froze again.

Those words from Elder Feng during the day hovered in his mind.

Now, in the deep night, Great Elder Zhang calmed his thoughts, and silently recalled the image of Mo Hua’s movement technique over and over again in his mind.

Every move, he pondered carefully.

Every action, he thought deeply.

In anything, the fear is in being serious.

Even more in pondering.

Great Elder Zhang turned and mulled it over at least dozens of times, finally inhaling sharply:

”The boy’s movement technique seems to resemble... my Zhang Family’s Water Passing Step?”

Only his technique was used too proficiently. .

More exquisite than even the Zhang family disciples.

And many moves, delicately controlled with strong Divine Sense, are beyond what ordinary cultivators can achieve.

Moreover, it fused with several other intricate movement technique moves.

In addition, there was some dreamy water mist.

Therefore, at first glance, it’s hard to distinguish.

But then Great Elder Zhang dissected the movement technique image, shattered it, considered it repeatedly, and finally noticed some traces of the orthodox Water Passing Step within.

”But... this is impossible...”

”How could a prodigy from Taixu Gate, one who is distantly unrelated, possibly have learned the Zhang Family’s never publicly taught ultimate technique, Water Passing Step?”

Great Elder Zhang frowned in confusion.

”It makes no sense...”

”Could it be possible that within my Zhang Family, there’s truly a descendant who broke the ancestral teachings?”

Great Elder Zhang’s gaze gradually became threatening.

...

Next door.

Zhang Lan, who was lazily lying down, suddenly felt a chill rise, his heart pounded wildly, almost jumping up.

”Is there danger?”

Zhang Lan’s face changed dramatically, seeing the serene night around him, the tranquil moonlight outside the window, with no abnormality, finally easing his mind slightly, contemplating the cause and effect.

”Mo Hua, this child, is somewhat in danger.”

”Currently, he is quite hated.”

”Perhaps because I interacted with Mo Hua during the day, when he was hated by others, it implicated me...”

Zhang Lan nodded, feeling it made some sense, then lazily laid down again.

But this time, he felt somewhat uneasy as he slept.

...

Taixu Gate.

Elder Master Xun was also unable to sleep.

At the Qian Learning State Boundary, during the Sword Discussion Conference, ancestors usually don’t appear, but it doesn’t mean he doesn’t need to labor behind the scenes.

Since the start of the Sword Discussion Conference, there have been turbulent undercurrents throughout the Qian Learning State Boundary, with complicated matters, and he, the sect’s ancestor, had long not truly rested.

And now, the most troublesome issue to him is Mo Hua.

The development of events was somewhat out of his expectations.

He didn’t anticipate, Mo Hua, this child, having a ”handsome” face, could attract so much animosity.

Just using basic low-level Five Elements Spell could make a group of sect’s genius disciples gnash their teeth in hatred towards him.

With so many sessions of the Sword Discussion Conference, so many geniuses discussing swords, Mo Hua indeed set a unique precedent.

This was something Elder Master Xun truly hadn’t anticipated.

Moreover, the situation is gradually becoming somewhat uncontrollable.

Elder Master Xun frowned, after a long time, couldn’t help but sigh:

”Perhaps... this is fate?”

Back in the days, that boy surnamed ”Zhuang”, was similarly stunningly talented, arrogantly overshadowing all, provoking jealousy from rivals everywhere, ending with enemies everywhere.