Eternal Life by Daily Divination

’Are they secretly trying to rebuild the Nine Ancient Major Sects?’

Li Chang’an couldn’t help but think of the Yin Soul Sect.

The Yin Soul Sect was a Sub-Sect of the Nether Soul Sect, a Nascent Soul Demon Sect.

Many of the Nether Soul Sect’s methods came from the Nether Prison Sect, one of the Nine Ancient Major Sects.

Li Chang’an suspected that the person who established the Nether Soul Sect back then was very likely a revived Ancient Cultivator from the Ancient Nether Prison Sect.

’If I encounter any revived Ancient Cultivators in the future, the identities from my two dreams might come in handy.’

Li Chang’an mused to himself.

As he was now, he could perfectly disguise himself as Li Tai’an or Li Ping’an without revealing the slightest flaw.

Just as he was thinking this, he arrived at the entrance to the Ancient Wood Secret Realm.

Without hesitation, Li Chang’an passed through the entrance and re-entered the Ancient Wood Secret Realm.

He was just about to head for those Sect ruins.

But just then, a familiar woman’s voice suddenly rang in his ears.

"Didn’t I tell you to leave? Why are you back again?"

Hearing this, Li Chang’an froze for a moment.

He subconsciously called out, "Senior Sister?"

The voice was identical to his Senior Sister’s from the dream.

But as he looked around, he didn’t see the familiar figure.

The area was completely empty. There was no one around, as if the voice he’d heard was just an illusion.

Li Chang’an spread his Golden Core Divine Sense, searching the surroundings, but found nothing.

He couldn’t help but recall that he had heard these exact words the first time he entered the Ancient Wood Secret Realm.

Back then, he had thought it was an illusion.

Such things were not uncommon in the Ancient Wood Secret Realm; many Cultivators had seen illusions or heard strange voices.

But hearing it on two separate occasions could not be explained away as an illusion.

’What’s going on?’

Li Chang’an stopped in his tracks, his mind filled with all sorts of doubts.

In the dream, the Senior Sister had struck Li Tai’an with a single palm, sending him out of the Secret Realm and telling him never to return.

If his Senior Sister were still alive, it would be perfectly normal for her to ask such a question upon seeing Li Tai’an return to the Secret Realm.

But he wasn’t Li Tai’an.

And there was no way his Senior Sister could still be alive.

’It shouldn’t be an illusion, nor a coincidence...’

After a moment of contemplation, Li Chang’an shot into the sky, positioning himself high under the vast firmament to look down upon the expansive Secret Realm World below.

He could see countless towering ancient trees covering the land.

The trunk and branches of every ancient tree were exceptionally twisted, looking at first glance like thousands upon thousands of human figures struggling in agony.

It was because of these ancient trees that the Secret Realm had been named the Ancient Wood Secret Realm.

But Li Chang’an remembered that while the Secret Realm in his dream had its share of dangers, it did not have these twisted trees.

He went up to one of the ancient trees and stared at it for a long time, but he couldn’t see anything unusual about it.

’Forget it. This Secret Realm is filled with countless oddities that I can’t yet comprehend. When I’m strong enough, I’ll naturally understand everything.’

Li Chang’an suppressed all his stray thoughts, transformed into a streak of light, and left, heading straight for the Ancient Sect Ruins.

「A few days later.」

He arrived at the location of the Cold Evil Well.

Since the opportunity within the well had already been taken, and it would take thirty years for new Earth Cold Evil Qi to form, the area was deserted, with no Cultivators waiting around.

Li Chang’an used an Escape Technique to enter the depths of the ruins, and he soon saw the collapsed underground palace.

Following the scene from his dream, he made his way to Li Tai’an’s immortal cave.

On the way, Li Chang’an passed by an herb garden.

This herb garden was very well hidden and hadn’t been discovered by outsiders. Back then, he had found some Quasi-Tier Four Spiritual Earth and a few stalks of Red Blood Bamboo inside.

In addition, there was a legacy left behind by a senior.

On the table in front of that senior was a line of very elegant, carved text.

Senior Brother, can we meet again?

Thinking about it now, that senior must have been the junior sister from his dream.

The senior brother she could never forget was, naturally, Li Tai’an.

’This herb garden is very well hidden, and the concealing Array is quite ingenious. Since the junior sister was able to leave a legacy, it means the garden wasn’t discovered by the enemy. But why didn’t she leave? Could she have been waiting for Li Tai’an to come back for her?’

Li Chang’an recalled the contents of the dream.

The junior sister had found Li Tai’an and asked him to go to the herb garden to hear a secret she had to tell him.

However, the enemy’s attack was too sudden.

She was fated to never see Li Tai’an come for her.

’Could she have waited her entire life?’

Li Chang’an thought of the skeleton sitting cross-legged beneath the Red Blood Bamboo.

Perhaps influenced by Li Tai’an’s memories, he felt an inexplicable sense of melancholy.

With a flicker of his body, he left the place, suppressing his various emotions. He stopped thinking about the herb garden and headed straight for Li Tai’an’s immortal cave.

Before long, he arrived at a patch of ruins.

This was the very location of Li Tai’an’s immortal cave.

Li Chang’an slipped inside and searched carefully among the endless rubble and debris. He soon found the object of his quest.

A green brick!

The key had been hidden by Li Tai’an inside a special green brick.

’This should be the one.’

Li Chang’an used his Tier Three Body Power and forcefully crushed the green brick. A wooden key immediately fell out.

His eyes lit up. With a swift movement, he snatched the key and examined it closely.

On the front of the key was the clearly carved character for "Ancient."

It was the exact same key Li Tai’an had obtained in the dream!

If all went as expected, there were three more keys to be found, corresponding to the characters for "Wood," "Ever," and "Green."

Just then, the Evergreen Magical Power within Li Chang’an’s body began to circulate rapidly, surging crazily into the key and causing it to grow slightly warm.

In an instant, he felt a connection and sensed the location of the second key.

’That place is...’

Li Chang’an followed the sensation, comparing it with the map of the Zhao Country’s Cultivation Realm in his mind, and quickly determined its exact location.

The original border between the Western Domain and the Southern Domain!

Now, due to the Southern Domain’s repeated defeats in battle, this border region had already been annexed by the Western Domain and had become a part of its territory.

If Li Chang’an wanted to go, he certainly couldn’t go as a Southern Domain Cultivator; he would have to disguise himself as a Western Cultivator.

Fortunately, he was quite skilled at disguise.