A Mortal’s Journey to Immortality: Wang Yu’s Rebirth as the Reincarnation Dao Ancestor - Chapter 20

Chapter 20 Doctor Mo’s Encounters

Come on, come on, my dear baby…”

The Cloud-Winged Bird, still wary, pecked at the yellow chestnut pills and flew away.

Its vigilance remained.

On the third day, it was tempted by two more yellow chestnut pills.

This time, the Cloud-Winged Bird clearly relaxed its guard, even boldly standing on Han Li’s right hand, staring at each other.

Actually, at this point, the Cloud-Winged Bird had already been subdued.

Captured by the delicious food.

From now on, as long as the little guy didn’t touch Doctor Mo, it could be used by him.

But Han Li tightened his grip, grabbing the little creature with lightning speed.

“Chirp chirp…”

The little guy was terrified.

Its face was full of confusion and fear.

It didn’t understand; it was ready to serve, so why would this two-legged beast hurt it?

“Hmph, it’s true I successfully bribed you with the Yellow Chestnut Pill, but that also shows you can be bribed by anyone with the Yellow Chestnut Pill.” He could turn this bird into a traitor, but who could guarantee it wouldn’t be bribed and turned by the same tactics after encountering Doctor Mo?

Admittedly,

he could also lock up the Cloud-Winged Bird and slowly train it.

But he didn’t have the time or energy.

The next moment, without giving the little thing a chance to struggle and beg for mercy, he tightened his grip, ending the Cloud-Winged Bird’s legendary life in the bird world with a shrill, mournful cry.

“Without the Cloud-Winged Bird, Mo Juren, let’s see how you monitor me now.”

Without this dead bird, Doctor Mo had lost a pair of eyes that could remotely monitor him.

And now…

“You can go back.”

As the saying goes, the darkest place is under the lamp; the most dangerous place is the safest place.

Two days later, he returned to the Seven Mysteries Sect.

Practice makes perfect; he climbed the cliffs behind the mountain and returned to the mountain’s interior.

This time, he didn’t alert anyone.

Even Li Feiyu was temporarily unaware of his return.

“I’m just waiting for Senior Brother Li to get promoted and make a fortune this time, so he can use the intelligence network of the Seven Mysteries Sect’s Flying Bird Hall to help me find the Golden Light Temple right next to the barbarian territory.”

… The Seven Mysteries Sect’s   Rainbow Cloud

Mountain range is vast, spanning several miles in circumference.   This mountain range not only includes the main peak Sunset Peak and the remote Red Water Peak, nor just the Divine Hand Valley, but also many other peaks and unnamed canyons. Furthermore,   most of the mountain range is sparsely populated and uninhabited, with wild animals occasionally appearing.   In the northwest, far from Divine Hand Valley, at a much higher altitude, lies an extremely inconspicuous ravine. This ravine is far more secluded and hidden than the places where he and Li Feiyu secretly meet.   The terrain here is long and narrow, the entire ravine being sandwiched between two steep hills on either side, forming a straight line. Both ends of the ravine are completely blocked by dense thickets, thorny bushes, and miscellaneous rocks, making passage impossible. The only way out is to use a rope hidden among the vines to climb up and down the cliff face.   Inside the ravine, a dense thicket of thorns grows, practically a forest.   This thicket occupies a large portion of the land and space within the ravine, leaving only a small open area.   Han Li chose this location because, in the upper and middle sections of the ravine, there are several nets woven from countless unknown vines, layered upon each other to form a natural green canopy. With this vine canopy, he has no worries about anyone accidentally passing by and seeing him in the ravine below the hundred-foot-high cliff.   ”After all this time, I’ve found myself using this place again.”   Han Li in the book secluded himself here for four months, mastering the Blinking Sword Technique, the Luo Yan Step, and the accompanying Flexibility Skill, Breath Concealment Skill, and Concealment Technique in just four months.   If it were him, he would also need to seclude himself here for a while.   He already had a large stockpile of supplies in the ravine. During the year or two that Doctor Mo was away, he hadn’t been idle; he frequently transported dry rations and daily necessities like pots and pans, and also built foundations and simple houses along the recessed corners of the ravine. His decision to kill the Cloud-Winged Bird was also to prevent the location from being exposed.   ”This place is suitable for practicing the Luo Yan Step. With the help of the thorny forest here, I might be able to master it.”

As for cultivating the Blinking Sword Technique?

That depends on comprehension and understanding.

This sword technique was a design he created to emulate the “Nine Swords of Dugu.” It belongs to external martial arts, requiring no internal martial arts strength to learn or even master. The sword moves are complex and varied; those lacking memory or comprehension will find it difficult to even begin.

Even if his subsequent seclusion doesn’t allow him to fully master the sword technique, it will at least allow him to use it more skillfully and refinedly.

After all, this sword technique itself requires time to mature.

…

Meanwhile.

Ten thousand miles southeast of the Seven Mysteries Sect, Doctor Mo

suddenly felt uneasy.

“Strange…”

“What’s with this sudden urge?”

Putting down the black-covered Longevity Scripture and two other books, Mo Juren’s gaze fell on the five boys in the arena.

The two new books were obtained by him, under Yu Zitong’s guidance, after he tricked and killed two other low-level cultivators from the Yu family who had settled in the mortal world.

Like Yu Zitong, the two boys had once been cultivators of the Yu family.

However, one possessed five spiritual roots, and the other four—both were pseudo-spiritual roots, inferior even to ordinary rogue cultivators with three spiritual roots. At forty or fifty years old, their cultivation was still stuck at the third level of Qi Refining. They had never been valued by their families and were sent to the mortal world by their clan leaders and uncles with three spiritual roots to manage their family businesses.

One of them, like him, cultivated the Everlasting Spring Technique, a basic wood-attribute cultivation method, but the other lacked a wood-attribute spiritual root and cultivated a fire-attribute basic cultivation method. Furthermore, from the latter, Doctor Mo had unexpectedly obtained a basic earth-attribute immortal cultivation method.

Better to sacrifice a friend than himself.

Yu Zitong, for Mo Juren and for himself, clearly disregarded even family ties.

After ambushing the two members of the Yu family in the mortal world and stealing a batch of low-grade spiritual herbs they had plundered or cultivated, Mo Juren didn’t forget to abduct several three- to five-year-old children from the Yu family who hadn’t yet reached the stage of spiritual root testing.

Normally, if a child from the mortal Yu family is found to have the aptitude for three spiritual roots, they can be sent back to the cultivation family, the Yu family, for

further study.

However, this time, they were all captured by Mo Juren.

Afterwards, Mo Juren did not return to the Seven Mysteries Sect, but instead took several children to a former secluded hiding place.

In that secluded place, he had trained hundreds of kidnapped children to cultivate the Everlasting Spring Technique.

Unfortunately, none of them succeeded.

While out searching for more children, he encountered the severely injured Sect Master Wang of the Seven Mysteries Sect, which led to his later role as Doctor Mo of the Divine Hand Valley of the Seven Mysteries Sect.

The five children present, under Doctor Mo’s guidance and care, all developed very well; some had reached the age to be tested for spiritual roots half a year prior.

After two months of teaching them the Everlasting Spring Technique, no Qi sensation was generated. However, in the second month of teaching them the basic fire-attribute techniques, Qi sensation was generated, and a trace of fire-attribute magical energy naturally appeared within their bodies.

Moreover, this child’s cultivation speed, aided by the same medicinal liquid, was far faster than Han Li’s.

This discovery filled Doctor Mo with elation,

a feeling of unexpected joy.

It also stirred different thoughts in Yu Zitong, who resided within Doctor Mo.

After all, possessing Han Li was clearly less promising than possessing this child who was highly likely to have three spiritual roots!

Therefore,

both Mo Juren and Yu Zitong gradually reduced their focus on the Seven Mysteries Sect.

Especially when the six-year-old boy, cultivating fire-attribute techniques, reached the peak of the second level of Qi Refining after only half a year, just one step away from the third level, the wavering was extremely strong.

Now, more than half a year later, the boy had reached the third level of Qi Refining.

Furthermore, two of the remaining four children had reached the age for testing spiritual roots, and one of them, cultivating earth-attribute basic techniques, had developed Qi sensation and magical power. Undoubtedly, this child was also a promising immortal with spiritual roots.

This made Doctor Mo even more reluctant to leave.

He couldn’t very well take the little ones back to the Seven Mysteries Sect openly, could he?

“Speaking of which, it seems like the Cloudwing Bird hasn’t flown back to collect its Yellow Chestnut Balls for quite some time…”

Perhaps it’s gotten used to being out in the wild?

(End of Chapter)