A Mortal’s Journey to Immortality: Wang Yu’s Rebirth as the Reincarnation Dao Ancestor - Chapter 40

Chapter 40 The End of an Era for a Tycoon

Having said that, he waited quietly for Han Li’s reply.

But Han Li’s gaze remained dangerous.

First, Doctor Mo had to die; this man was the only one who knew his background. If he wasn’t eliminated, the possibility of his family being targeted would greatly increase, and the possibility of him being manipulated by those with ulterior motives would also increase.

Secondly, he didn’t believe what Mo Juren said.

Or rather, even if what Mo Juren said was true, he couldn’t gamble with his family’s lives.

If he lost the gamble, his family would face retaliation from the Mo family, and the Han family of Wuligou in Jingzhou might be annihilated.

In short, his parents who had been so good to him, his beloved younger sister, his brothers who had taken such good care of him in the past few years, and his third uncle who had been so kind to their family—all the Han family members of Wuligou—must not be implicated and destroyed because of his momentary mercy.

Moreover, if his family were to face retaliation from the Mo family because of his mercy, this mercy today would inevitably become a stumbling block on his path to immortality.

It would become his inner demon.

This would be detrimental to his cultivation.

Logically and emotionally, he had no reason to spare the entire Mo family.

Mo Yuzhu, Mo Fengwu, Mo Caihuan… they all had to die! They

absolutely had to die!

Before the immortal path, these were nothing but skeletons.

Just as Han Li’s gaze grew increasingly dangerous and resolute, a ball of green light suddenly shot out from the child, heading straight for Han Li!

The attack was sudden, and the green light was incredibly fast. Coupled with Han Li’s momentary hesitation and distraction, he was caught off guard and the green light entered his body.

“Not good!”

“This is…”

“A possession that abandons everything?” That

couldn’t be right.

Mo Juren had already possessed him once; there was no way he could do it a second time. Moreover, this guy’s magical cultivation was far inferior to his own, only at the peak of the fourth level of Qi Refining, while his cultivation was at the peak of the seventh level of Qi Refining, with his primordial spirit and magical power several times stronger. Besides, the battlefield for possession was his sea of consciousness, his home turf. What right did Mo Juren have to forcibly possess him?

Was he just offering himself up for suicide?

Within Han Li’s sea of consciousness, two orbs of light, one large and one small, met his gaze.

The larger one, the size of Han Li’s fist

, belonged to him. The smaller one, the size of Doctor Mo’s egg, belonged to him.

Upon seeing the invading smaller orb of green light, the larger orb of golden primordial spirit light instinctively generated an extremely strong desire to devour it. However, before the golden orb could pounce on and devour the smaller orb of green light, the green light exploded first.

This triggered one of the three taboos of possession: one cannot possess a body twice.

Human cultivators can only possess a body once. A second possession will inevitably fail. Even those at the Core Formation or Nascent

Soul stage will fail, let alone minor cultivators at the Qi Refining stage. Doctor Mo’s forced second possession resulted in the immediate collapse of his primordial spirit.

“What is Mo Juren thinking?”

Just as Han Li was wondering, fragments of memories flashed rapidly through his mind like a revolving lantern, causing his vision to go black.

These were fragments of Doctor Mo’s memories.

A person’s life is but a fleeting few decades.

Everything Doctor Mo experienced in his life was contained within these fragments of memories.

“Why are you showing me these memories?”

Han Li was filled with doubt.

Countless fragments of memories flooded in, making his head spin. After a quick, involuntary review of Mo Juren’s memories, he decisively deleted all the scenes before Mo Juren returned to the Mo residence, leaving only the moments during his time there. This was to prevent memory contamination and its impact on his mind.

As Mo Juren had said, during his time at the Mo residence, he hadn’t told anyone in the Mo family about Han Li’s affair with the Seven Mysteries Sect, nor had he recounted his own experiences to his former lover.

Everything was casually glossed over.

At least, that’s how it appeared in these memory fragments.

Only now did he understand the true purpose of his cheap master’s forceful “possession” of him.

It wasn’t actually about possession.

It was about sharing and displaying his memories.

After all, a second possession was destined to fail.

In other words, this desperate attempt wasn’t to harm him or drag him down, but to prove that what he had said before was true, that he hadn’t lied. It was to prove that he hadn’t told anyone in the Mo family about the Seven Mysteries Sect and his affair.

“Is this your last effort for your family?”

Han Li was slightly moved.

The next moment, he noticed a subtle change in himself.

“Huh? This feeling…”

“Why do I feel like my five senses are more acute?”

As Doctor Mo’s primordial spirit perished, a portion of its most fundamental energy spontaneously flowed into his own, becoming nourishment, a small tonic.

This nourishing energy, though very subtle, only a trace, undeniably benefited him.

“You showed me your memories, and now you’re giving me this primordial spirit as payment…”

“Mo Juren, you’ve truly gone to great lengths.” He was really

going all out for his family’s chance of survival.

“…”

“Fine, it took you years to cultivate me so I had a foundation for immortality. You are ultimately my mentor. Besides, you’ve proven yourself by speaking the truth for once…”

In Mo Juren’s memories, he actually saw another idea:

if Han Li and Zhang Tie also lacked spiritual roots, he would treat them as true successors and cultivate them with utmost care. This could be considered a contingency plan for the women of the Mo family.

Otherwise, knowing her days were numbered, would she have only chosen Zhang Tie and Han Li?

If she truly wanted to focus on selecting those with spiritual roots, she would have been training hundreds of boys simultaneously, just like two years ago!

…

“Whoosh…”

The corpse, devoid of its primordial spirit, was reduced to ashes with a flick of a finger using a fireball technique.

The life of Doctor Mo, a man of great ambition, thus became a speck of dust in this chapter of history.

Another familiar face was gone.

Then, using a special method, he smeared some blood on the corpse puppet Iron Slave to re-establish its master, and from then on, a burly figure appeared beside Han Li.

“Iron Slave” was renamed “Qu Hun.”

Afterwards, he carefully examined Doctor Mo’s storage bag. It contained

basic fire-type techniques, the Everlasting Spring Technique of the wood-type, earth-type techniques, and another undamaged low-grade magic weapon…

“Huh? The Blood Spirit Grass is still here?!”

The Blood Spirit Grass is the main ingredient for refining Blood Spirit Pills.

Although Blood Spirit Pills are only for Qi Refining stage cultivators, their potency is potent, significantly increasing the mana of late-stage Qi Refining cultivators.

It is a high-quality ancient pill.

If used properly, this one could yield at least two bottles of pills.

Two bottles of Blood Spirit Pills are more than enough to raise the cultivation level of an ordinary Qi Refining cultivator from the eighth or ninth level to the tenth level.

With his peak Qi Refining seventh level cultivation, taking them would easily get him to the ninth level.

Of course,

he didn’t plan to take them too early. He would wait

until he had finished the Yellow Dragon Pill and the Golden Marrow Pill and their effects were almost gone before taking the Blood Spirit Pills.

“After returning to the sect, I can gather the remaining ingredients and ask a skilled alchemist in the sect to help me refine a batch.” Han Li immediately made up his mind.

With this Blood Spirit Grass, his cultivation progress should be able to improve considerably.

“Let’s go, Qu Hun.”

The spirit beast pouch flashed, and Qu Hun entered it.

Speaking of which, two whole days have passed since Mo Juren forcibly possessed him.

Quickly sorting through his memories was also very time-consuming.

“Right, I also need to see Sun Er Gou, cure his poison, and leave a good impression…” He still really liked one of Er Gouzi’s descendants.

…

Continuing downstream, and also flying through the air,

Han Li traversed tens of thousands of miles over several days, finally arriving at Guanggui City, the southernmost city of Lanzhou.

Guanggui City was only a medium-sized city, about one-fifth the size of Jiayuan City,

with a population of five to six hundred thousand.

It was surrounded by mountains on three sides and bordered a lake on the other, with a tributary of the Xianglu Grand Canal passing through it.

The environment was beautiful, the climate was pleasant, and it produced several kinds of highly nutritious fruits. Transportation was also very convenient. Therefore, it was a popular leisure and vacation destination for many wealthy families.

Tainan Mountain and Tainan Valley, where the Tainan Small Gathering was held, were not far to the west of Guanggui City.

The mountain was three to four thousand meters high, and from a distance, it looked like a giant beast lurking on the earth.

This mountain was shrouded in mist all year round. Mortals did not know the reason, but cultivators did. This was because a cultivation family had set up an array here to generate endless mist. The perpetual mist in the mountains effectively prevented mortals from accidentally entering.

Han Li arrived at a strange hillside shrouded in dense fog, where one could easily lose their way. He then took out a low-level communication talisman, chanted a few words, and sent it into the depths of the fog.

Soon, most of the fog dissipated, revealing a secluded path.

The path seemed very long, but when Han Li stepped onto it, he quickly reached its end.

The entrance was just ahead.

As he stepped forward, his vision brightened, and the view opened up dramatically.

Before him lay a green valley filled with exotic flowers and rare herbs. The valley was surrounded by mountains on three sides, with the only exit being the hillside he had entered through which the fog had blocked his way.

The valley was vast, covering two to three hundred acres.

Near the central plaza, there were carved railings and jade-like structures, and numerous palaces—at least thirty or forty three- to forty-story buildings. Some of these buildings were nestled against the mountainside at the valley’s edge, while others seemed to have parts embedded within the mountainside.

On the blue-brick plaza, many people dressed in strange clothes set up stalls like small vendors.

At the stalls, people frequently stopped to examine the goods. Some asked prices, others turned away, and still others bid against each other for a particular item. There were quite a few people of all kinds, easily five or six hundred.

And this was just in the open space of the square.

Nearby, there were many shops, with people coming and going as well.

In addition, there were more than ten inns for cultivators to stay in, and many people were certainly staying there as well.

“So many independent cultivators and cultivators from immortal cultivation families,”

Han Li sighed inwardly.

“Most of them are so young, generally teenagers or young adults in their twenties, and I hardly see anyone over thirty.”

“And there are quite a few junior experts among them…” There were many teenagers

at the eighth or ninth level of Qi Refining, and even some at the tenth or eleventh level. Those at

the ninth level of Qi Refining were only considered to be of average skill.

Someone like him at the seventh level of Qi Refining could only be considered to be of lower-middle level in the arena.

“No wonder it’s the Tai Nan Small Gathering held once every five years.”

He felt a bit of pressure.

Chapter 40 slightly adjusted the ending. Life is hard enough as it is, let’s not make it any more depressing.

(End of Chapter)