Chapter 964 - 418: Shangguan Shengxian’s Child_2

Chapter 964: Chapter 418: Shangguan Shengxian’s Child_2

Therefore, Li An’s bow is indeed warranted.

...

Subsequently, Li An left his abode and arrived at the place where Wu Ming had died moments earlier.

He examined it closely, but Wu Ming had already turned into a pile of ashes, leaving nothing discernible.

"The true Dao Fruit is hidden within the gray substance, yet he uses a myriad of main body avatars to attract the world’s attention, simultaneously comprehending life and death—what a brilliant scheme."

Li An couldn’t help but express admiration.

This matter concerns Evergreen Immortal Venerable, so the whole sequence of Wu Ming’s death was crystal clear to him.

When Wu Ming died, the balance between life and death was disrupted. He saw some trace circulating between life and death, transferring from Wu Ming’s body to another direction, eight million miles outside Cyan Ridge Mountain.

This signifies that... the experiences concerning life and death of Evergreen Immortal Venerable’s reincarnations haven’t vanished; instead, they accumulate mutually.

Obviously, Evergreen Immortal Venerable too realized that the balance of life and death might be the true key to mastering immortality. However, being an Immortal Venerable, he has never truly experienced death in this life and fundamentally lacks control over the power of death. Therefore, he deliberately resorted to the scheme of the Heavenly Court, creating numerous reincarnations, specifically to personally witness death.

Whether the main body Wu Ming died or other reincarnations perished, it had no impact on Evergreen Immortal Venerable. In fact, it was a marvelous thing, aiding his enlightenment!

At the core, when Yunluo Immortal Venerable, the Heavenly Court, and even the hidden hand that orchestrated Wu Ming’s assassination all concentrated their efforts on Evergreen Immortal Venerable’s reincarnations, his plan truly succeeded.

Because the hopeful return and the seed of Evergreen Immortal Venerable’s Dao Fruit actually resides within Gu Xuening and others.

Those who once obtained the Longevity White Mist, unaware of being infected and eroded by the gray substance.

Evergreen Immortal Venerable is indeed a clever schemer.

All who enter the game are manipulated by him as he pleases. If it weren’t for Li An’s return from the Realm of Passing, grasping the true meaning of the balance of life and death, he wouldn’t be able to see through all of this either.

"Who could it be?"

Li An was quite curious; Wu Ming’s death was rather suspicious, as someone orchestrated in secret, drawing the Great Monarch Qiongqi to attempt to kill Wu Ming through his means.

With a thought, he executed the Daluo Skill, directly traversing through the void. In the next instant, he appeared several million miles away.

Here lay a barren mountain without spiritual veins, so humans seldom ventured, leaving only ordinary beasts like tigers and leopards.

He observed the circulation between Wu Ming’s life and death, indicating the foothold.

He searched everywhere, yet everything had vacated, and before departing, every trace was meticulously erased. Even a Daluo Golden Immortal arriving wouldn’t be able to find any remains.

Except Li An.

He operated his black-and-white millstone, repeatedly sensing the changes in life and death here. Before his eyes, it seemed he could see every blade of grass in the forest sprout and wither, witness a doe giving birth to a fawn, see crocodile eggs hatch in the pond, tiny crocs crawling out from the sand...

Then, faintly, he heard the cry of a baby.

A force of new life emerged here.

Moreover, extremely strong!

Li An opened his eyes abruptly. He suddenly turned, heading towards a particular direction.

His speed was rapid, closely pursuing that new life force born amidst the barren mountains. Soon, he reached the boundary between the Tenth and Ninth Celestial Realms.

The person entered the Ninth Celestial Realm!

Li An didn’t hesitate, crossing the boundary and entering the Ninth Heaven.

Within the Ninth Heaven, starkly different from the Tenth Celestial Realm, celestial cities thrived everywhere, each accommodating countless beings from the Tenth and Eleventh Heavens, bustling in the extreme, with numerous towns established around the cities.

Li An blended into a densely populated town.

In the town, many were cultivators; the strongest was in the Harmony Stage, alongside some Nascent Soul and True Core cultivators, mainly mortals.

Li An took care not to startle, concealing his presence, transforming into a small cultivator possessing Foundation Establishment cultivation, hiding among the crowd.

In fact, by tracking the new life force, he could already confirm the other’s exact hideout in the town. Yet, Li An refrained from actively searching.

Even if he possessed unique cultivation, mastering the Dao of Life and Death, getting too close and being overly intent could trigger unnecessary karmic ripples, still slightly possible for the other to detect.

Rather than actively searching, he stayed hidden, awaiting the other’s proactive appearance in his view—this town wasn’t large, encountering them wouldn’t be hard.

This way, it was most prudent.

Thus, Li An settled in the town, even apprenticing under a small cultivation force within, becoming an Inner Sect Disciple, stationed in a Spirit Pharmacy in the town, performing trivial tasks like guarding and selling Spirit Medicine daily.

Having managed a shop in the Qingyang market under the Profound Yang Sect, Li An naturally handled it with ease, without a single flaw.

In the blink of an eye, half a year passed.

On this day, early in the morning, Li An opened the shop as usual, attending to customers. From the bustling crowd outside, an ordinary-looking, corpulent middle-aged woman in a plain dress approached, saying:

"I need some medicine for blood replenishment and vital energy enhancement."

Li An calmly replied, "Our shop offers plenty of Spirit Medicine for blood replenishment and vital energy enhancement, including mother-child grass, Dragon Blood Flower..."

"I need the best."