The Quest for Immortality

Taixu Gate, the ancestral grounds at the back mountain.

In an elder’s cave mansion.

Mo Hua lay on the Heavenly Mechanism Jade Bed, eyes tightly shut, face full of darkness, body icy cold, emanating an extremely intense aura of ”death”.

Endless evil qi emerged from karma, constantly rushing into Mo Hua’s forehead, eroding his life chart.

A cultivator’s life chart is usually obscure, difficult to be perceived.

Unless one is an expert in heavenly secrets, with profound understanding of karma, aided by heavenly treasures or karmic secret techniques, they can glimpse a person’s fate.

Otherwise, ordinary cultivators cannot discern others’ life charts.

But there is a special situation where a person’s life chart becomes visible, emerging from the palace of life.

That is when a person’s life chart encounters extreme upheaval.

When great calamities and disasters befall, testing life and death, or facing astonishing changes, or committing significant karmic debts, a person’s fate undergoes drastic transformation.

At such times, a life chart forged by one’s life karma reveals its true form from the sealed palace of life.

Even an ordinary cultivator can see it with the naked eye...

Now, Mo Hua’s life chart vaguely presents itself before Elder Master Xun and True Man Situ.

His life chart is now filled with pitch-black death evil qi.

This evil qi’s strength, scale, quantity, viciousness, depth of murder and karma, even Elder Master Xun of the Heaven Void Realm and True Man Situ from Mystery Valley, have seen it for the first time in their lives, feeling horrified.

They dared not relax in the slightest, exhausting all means to suppress the evil qi on Mo Hua.

Sandalwood incense calming the mind burned inside the room.

True Man Situ set up the Little Xuantian Seven Stars Formation, using the light of the seven stars to protect Mo Hua’s life chart.

His Qiankun Clear Light Lamp was gone, the Six Yang Red Gold Lamp shattered, so he found another Bright Lamp Calming God Lamp, lighting a soul lamp to stabilize Mo Hua’s divine sense.

Elder Master Xun used the Taixu Celestial Mechanism Compass, activating the Taixu Eryi Heavenly Mechanism Lock on Mo Hua’s neck to resist the endless evil qi, intending to resolve Mo Hua’s plight.

But the situation is dire.

Mo Hua kept his eyes closed, lips turning white, his face looking harder and harder to bear.

His limbs grew colder, the evil qi more intense.

Elder Master Xun watched, feeling heartache.

True Man Situ also felt reluctant and simultaneously astonished.

Ordinary cultivators, even some skilled heavenly mechanism cultivators, enduring this ocean-like evil qi backlash, would have long had twisted minds, the evil qi invading their bodies, shattering their Sea of Consciousness and dying.

Or be devoured by the evil qi backlash from karma, resulting in death and dissipation of the Dao.

But Mo Hua, young and at the Foundation Establishment, could sustain this long.

His Taoist Heart was remarkably resilient.

His life chart was indeed remarkably ”hard”...

Thinking about Mo Hua’s numerous implausible performances in the Evil God’s nightmare and his divine thought power comparable to deities, True Man Situ felt slightly relieved.

But soon, he furrowed his brows tightly again.

No matter how strong the divine thought, how hard the life chart, it absolutely couldn’t withstand the overwhelming, continuous erosion of death evil qi.

This evil qi was too overpowering; even true deities of heaven and earth might be ”corrupted” and fall into wicked evil spirits.

The situation was anything but hopeful.

True Man Situ and Elder Master Xun furrowed their brows, worried.

The Seven Stars Formation, the God Calming Lamp, the Taixu Eryi Heavenly Mechanism Lock, if against ordinary wickedness, would not be scary.

But the current ”wickedness” was boundless, immeasurable, extremely perilous.

And though Mo Hua had strong divine thought, his cultivation was too low, his Taoist Foundation too shallow, making the more domineering heavenly mechanism methods unusable.

Elder Master Xun and True Man Situ could only join forces, using all possible means to suppress the evil qi on Mo Hua, alleviate his ”fateful evilness”, and sustain his ”life”.

The process was extremely perilous and extremely prolonged.

Long-term execution of the Heavenly Mechanism Skill to ”disaster resolve and evil transform” for Mo Hua also started to drain both Elder Master Xun and True Man Situ spiritually, drying their divine thought while cold sweat soaked their backs.

But to save Mo Hua, Elder Master Xun and his companion still gritted their teeth and persevered.

The evil qi on Mo Hua’s body also got suppressed to a certain extent.

The situation slightly stabilized.

But before Elder Master Xun and his companion could catch their breath, sudden changes arose.

Overwhelming slaughters invited evil qi into destiny. External evil qi kept pouring into Mo Hua’s life chart, disturbing Mo Hua’s original life chart, and triggering more terrifying variables within it.

Sinister scarlet seeped from within Mo Hua’s life chart.

Ancient evil thoughts also shrouded Mo Hua’s fate.

The true ”great terror” in Mo Hua’s life chart began to reveal a grim aspect.

The domain of karma of corpse mountains and blood seas spread.

A Corpse King entwined with Taoist Demon aura reigned over countless corpses, inhaling and exhaling immeasurable pitch-black evil qi, letting out an earth-shattering roar.

And underneath the corpse mountain and blood sea, a ”evil embryo” with a pitch-black color, resembling Mo Hua’s face, nourished by evil qi, began to open its eyes.

Ancient evil thoughts began to metamorphose...

Corpse mountain and blood sea, Taoist Demon manifesting, Corpse King roaring, evil embryo opening eyes.

True Man Situ was so shocked his soul nearly fled realm.

Elder Master Xun also felt chills across his whole body, his palms uncontrollably trembling.

”What are all these... things?”

”How could this child Mo Hua’s life chart conceal... so much terrifying karma of the fiercest calamity of heaven and earth?!”

”This is... not good!”

Elder Master Xun’s expression changed abruptly.

Almost instantly, triggered by the slaughter and death evilness, all corpse qi, evil qi, and evil qi gathered in Mo Hua’s life chart, converging and merging, condensing into one.

The life chart began to metamorphose.