“Killing me is meaningless. I’m not the only one hunting you. Your Path resonance has been spread, and now everyone in the Land of Eternity is after you. If you kill me, you’ll only force me to spend more time reconstructing my soul fragment. But if you spare me, you’ll gain my friendship and my gratitude,” a relatively solid primordial spirit rose from the blood mist of Jin Hua’s body. His tone was calm, as if unconcerned about what Lan Xiaobu might do to him.
Lan Xiaobu ignored Jin Hua entirely. His Longevity Domain bound Jin Hua, and a finger landed on Jin Hua’s primordial spirit. In the next moment, an overwhelming flood of fragmented information surged into Lan Xiaobu’s mind. Even with his formidable sea of consciousness and soul sense, the chaotic influx left him dizzy.
“You…” Jin Hua glared at Lan Xiaobu in fury. He never imagined Lan Xiaobu would search his soul.
Generally, once someone reached the Saint realm, soul-searching was avoided. The jumbled memories, information, and Path resonances could disrupt a cultivator’s foundational Great Path. Soul-searching was often more harmful than beneficial, and it wasn’t rare for cultivators who frequently soul-searched to fall into madness.
Jin Hua couldn’t fathom why Lan Xiaobu would soul-search him—an act that harmed others without benefiting himself. Who in this era of cultivation would do something so pointless?
But that wasn’t what enraged him most. His still-intact primordial spirit watched as Lan Xiaobu tore open his world. If regret were possible, Jin Hua would have never provoked this lunatic. A mere ant, not yet an Eternal Saint, not only killed him but soul-searched him and accessed his world. What could be more terrifying?
Even if he reincarnated and sought revenge, he’d wait until his strength far surpassed this maniac’s.
Yet it didn’t end there. Jin Hua watched as Lan Xiaobu swept everything from his world. A void vortex appeared above, with endless spatial laws swirling within. Soul fragments Jin Hua had left in other realms were drawn into the vortex, annihilated amidst anguished screams.
Jin Hua’s primordial spirit, not yet fully extinguished, froze. His thoughts halted. Not only had his soul been searched and his world opened, but his very existence was erased—every soul fragment in other planes destroyed. How could someone be so ruthless?
Jin Hua wasn’t a Fortune Saint. He hadn’t condensed his own world or earned the right to leave soul fragments in the Chaos Lands.
This meant that, from this day forward, Jin Hua no longer existed in the vast cosmos.
“No…” Jin Hua’s primordial spirit let out a final,撕裂 scream before everything fell silent. The space returned to calm, as if nothing had happened.
This time, Lan Xiaobu didn’t use his Ruleless Escape Technique. Instead, he summoned the Reincarnation Cauldron and stood atop it. The cauldron sped aimlessly forward, its surrounding restrictions already removed by Lan Xiaobu.
At this moment, Lan Xiaobu was enveloped in an endless array of Path resonances—those of his Longevity Path and the Land of Eternity’s Great Paths.
Only Lan Xiaobu knew exactly what he was doing. Before, he had strived to integrate his Longevity Path principles into the Land of Eternity’s universal laws to make his resonance less conspicuous.
Now, the Land of Eternity’s various Great Path laws were continuously merging into his Longevity Path principles. The overflowing resonance of his Longevity Path grew fainter, and as the Reincarnation Cauldron pressed forward, it eventually vanished entirely.
At this point, even if Lan Xiaobu found a place to seclusion in peace, no one would find him.
His heart surged with excitement. After his Longevity Path incorporated the Land of Eternity’s universal laws, his strength multiplied exponentially. No wonder Mo Wuji didn’t fear Path Creation Saints—now, Lan Xiaobu felt the same.
With his current strength, he could kill one Path Creation Saint with ease and take down two just as handily. Use the Cosmic Mill? No need.
For Lan Xiaobu, who cultivated his own Great Path, fully integrating the Land of Eternity’s universal laws into his Longevity Path would only require a few months of secluded cultivation. But it had taken him over a decade to grasp this truth.
Now, Lan Xiaobu believed he could step into the Path Creation Saint realm at any moment, but he had no intention of rushing to achieve Eternal Enlightenment.
The deeper his understanding of the Great Path, the clearer it became: the sooner he entered the Path Creation Saint realm, the more limited his Path would be.
He hadn’t yet visited the Burial Path Plains, and as long as he remained in the Land of Eternity, sensing its universal laws, his Path would continue to advance. Why rush to break through to Path Creation Saint?
Lan Xiaobu also understood why Mo Wuji hadn’t yet entered the Path Creation realm. Mo Wuji knew this principle too. Or perhaps, Mo Wuji was searching for something he still lacked.
Lan Xiaobu halted the Reincarnation Cauldron and wiped his face. In the next moment, he transformed into a red-clad youth—Jin Hua.
This was why he soul-searched Jin Hua. He needed a public identity to move freely in the Land of Eternity. His first task was to investigate the disappearance of Zhen Changyuan and others, then head to the Burial Path Plains to perfect his Path, and finally, achieve Eternal Enlightenment.
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In the Land of Eternity, the most renowned Fortune Saint was, naturally, Saint Eternity.
There was also a city called Eternity City. However, Eternity City had no connection to Saint Eternity. Its master was another Fortune Saint, Saint Heaven and Earth.
If any other Saint dared name their domain after Eternity, Saint Eternity would have flayed them alive. But when Saint Heaven and Earth named his dojo’s city Eternity City, Saint Eternity could only grit his teeth and accept it.
Because Saint Heaven and Earth wasn’t just a Fortune Saint—he possessed an invincible primordial treasure, the Wheel of Time. The Wheel of Time was rumored to be one of the nine primordial treasures of the vast cosmos.
Even for a Fortune Saint, stopping or reversing time was impossible. But legend held that the Wheel of Time could do it.
Imagine facing Saint Heaven and Earth, only for your Path and domain to be locked by the Wheel of Time. How could you win? The Wheel of Time could lock your divine abilities or even reverse time, rendering your powers useless. This single treasure not only secured Saint Heaven and Earth’s position as one of the seven Fortune Saints but made Eternity City untouchable.
Today, a gray-robed, unremarkable Path Creation realm cultivator entered Eternity City. His Path resonance was mottled, marking him as no great powerhouse. Outside the Land of Eternity, he might never have reached Path Creation. Such cultivators entered and exited Eternity City daily in countless numbers.
If anyone knew who this cultivator was, the major Fortune Saints would likely swarm Eternity City to hunt him down.
This was Mo Wuji. His sole purpose in coming to Eternity City was Saint Heaven and Earth’s primordial treasure, the Wheel of Time.
Since entering the Land of Eternity, Mo Wuji had been relentlessly hunted. These years of pursuit had fueled his rapid growth. Let alone Path Creation Saints, even Realm Derivation Saints who faced him alone were more likely to die than survive.
If he wanted to achieve Eternal Saint status, he could have done so long ago. The reason he hadn’t was the Wheel of Time.
After witnessing its power once, Mo Wuji resolved to obtain it.
He sensed that when he achieved Eternal Saint status, his divine abilities would undergo a dramatic transformation. Other abilities aside, his greatest concern was the Wheel of Life and Death.
Mo Wuji rarely used the Wheel of Life and Death, but its power was no less than the Seven Realms Finger—perhaps even greater. He had created this ability when he first entered the Immortal Realm.
He seldom used it because it showed signs of developing sentience. Fearing it might one day backlash, and with his abundance of other abilities, he hadn’t bothered to refine it further.
But years in the Land of Eternity taught him a truth: once he entered the Eternal realm, the Wheel of Life and Death would become a supreme ability. Even if it gained sentience, it would only enhance its power, no longer posing a threat to his Path.
However, before achieving Eternal Saint status, if he could find a top-tier treasure to anchor the Wheel of Life and Death, it wouldn’t lose its sentience during his breakthrough. Moreover, the ability’s power would multiply manyfold.
Years later, Mo Wuji found that treasure—Saint Heaven and Earth’s Wheel of Time. In his view, the Wheel of Time was practically made for the Wheel of Life and Death. Even though Saint Heaven and Earth was a Fortune Saint, Mo Wuji couldn’t wait until he could overpower him. He needed the Wheel of Time now, then he’d step into the Path Creation Saint realm.
