The Undying Immortal System

After disappearing from Mount Jiang, I immediately headed north. Our attackers wouldn’t have had time to scour the surrounding villages yet, and I needed to work fast before that happened.

My first stop was the small city where we had resettled SuYin’s family. I wanted to talk to them, to explain what was going on, but I wasn’t willing to spend the time that would require. I simply shoved sleeping pills into everyone’s mouths and threw them into my storage space.

Following this, I used my wind horse to make a quick circuit of the Wastes.

Once the invaders learned that we were missing, I was certain that they would go looking for people’s families to try to find out where we had gone. If possible, I wanted to prevent that from happening. So, I ran around the Wastes and grabbed all of them that I could.

With each group I grabbed, I didn’t stop to ask questions or explain why I had come. I just sent everyone to sleep and shoved them into one of the subterranean chambers of my storage space. They might not thank me for this, but they would at least survive to be angry with me.

Was all this necessary? Wouldn’t all these people vanish and come right back after my death?

I didn’t know.

Did the world end when I died, or did it persist? Based on what I had seen from Mei’s and Emperor Li’s blessings, I had begun to believe it was the former, but I was not willing to take that risk without being certain. Saving these people might have been meaningless, but it was what I needed to do.

Once these families were accounted for, I turned north and headed for the Verdant Forest Sect.

As I departed the Wastes, I had an unreasonable fear that an Emperor or a Sovereign would suddenly pop out and capture me. While no one should have had any understanding of my plans or motivations, there were powerful information blessings in this world, and it seemed likely that the Sovereigns would have subordinates capable of tracking my movements.

If a powerful cultivator appeared, I would have to commit suicide immediately, losing years of SuYin’s memories and dooming many of those that I had tucked away in my storage space to an instant death.

Fortunately, this didn’t happen. Even though I was nervous the entire time, no one stood out to stop me, and I could only begrudgingly give my thanks to the Earthly Dao. While I didn’t know how much influence it had over blessings after they had already been handed out, I knew that it almost certainly had ways to reveal my location if it had wanted to.

With no one blocking my path, I quickly made my way to SuYin’s city. While I hadn’t had a chance to speak with her in recent years, she had kept me abreast of her activities through messages sent via the Blue Wind Pavilion.

After becoming a core disciple of the Verdant Forest Sect, she had been granted the lordship over one of its smaller cities, and she had already been able to advance to Martial Lord 4. However, Young Master Wang’s preparations for entering the Nine Rivers Sect were nearly complete, and she would soon be relinquishing her position to join him there.

Thankfully, this hadn’t happened yet.

After reaching SuYin’s city, I quickly rushed to the lord’s manor.

Her guards moved to stop me, but I held up the banner that SuYin had given me the last time we had met. It was made of undyed, white silk, and both sides displayed the image of a large golden leaf.

When her guards saw this banner, they narrowed their eyes, but they immediately stepped aside.

Inside the manor, upon seeing the banner in my hand, the manor’s steward quickly led me to a small sitting room, sat me down, and served me tea. Moments later SuYin arrived.

After setting up an anti-eavesdropping formation, I gave her a quick rundown of the situation. Once it was complete, I looked at her, hoping that she might have an idea for what I should do now.

“Your family is asleep in my… ‘inner world.’ If they remain there, then when I revert back in time, those who were alive at the start of the loop will die. I need a safe place to put them before that happens. Somewhere unconnected to the troubles in the Wastes.”

“That… I…”

SuYin’s head dropped, and her eyes started roaming the room. She looked nearly as lost as I was. Saving these families had seemed like the right thing to do in the moment, but now, after the fact, I had no idea what to do with them.

SuYin might be able to provide for them while she was a city lord, but she was planning to leave and enter the Nine Rivers Sect. Was she just supposed to leave so many outsiders here and hope that no one was able to connect them to what had just happened in the Wastes?

Suddenly, her expression firmed.

“Let me contact Young Master Wang.”

The young master arrived at SuYin’s manor two days later. He hadn’t even questioned her about why she had asked him to come, and a simple request was all that it took to get him to enter an anti-eavesdropping formation with us.

Once we were seated, he looked at me.

“What is this about?”

I took a breath. There was no reason to hide anything. The more he knew, the more he would be able to help, and soon, he wouldn’t have any way of harming me.

“I have around a hundred refugees from the Wastes that need a safe place to live. They are related to the people who escaped from Mount Jiang. I am worried about what will happen to them if the Zhuge Clan, or someone else, finds them.”

Young Master Wang’s face twitched furiously as a riot of emotions passed through him. Needing time to think, he used the excuse of taking a sip of tea to pause the conversation. Then, after several moments, he set his cup down and looked me directly in the eye.

“What is your offer?”

I took out a scroll and placed it on the table. “This is what the armies were looking for in the Wastes. It contains everything one needs to know to concoct a Rank 2 Body Tempering Pill. It might be a good idea to simply destroy it, but I will let you decide what to do with it yourself. Also, I will instruct my disciple, Bao, to join you in the Nine Rivers Sect. You will find that his grasp of herbalism is exceptional, and I can almost guarantee that he will be able to lead a successful group on the path to Heaven City for you. Finally… I will owe you a debt. This might not mean much to you now, but it will in the future. In short, I will help you out a single time.”

The three different terms had three very different effects on the young man. The scroll sparked a hint of avarice, my knowledge of Heaven City made him wary, and my offer of a debt just seemed to confuse him. Still, after everything was combined together, he gave me a nod.

“Fine. I will help you this once, and you will help me once in the future.”

With the young master’s agreement, we got to work.

After being taken to a secluded courtyard, I set up a defensive formation and took out everyone’s families. Then, I took out the members of my clan to give them a chance to say goodbye.

When these young cultivators first appeared, they looked like they wanted to give me a serious talking to about the various issues they were having with my storage space, but upon seeing their families and hearing that they needed to say goodbye, these complaints were forgotten.

With hundreds of people involved, this process was rather slow, but I did my best to hurry it along. I wanted to give everyone as much time as I could, but we were exposed here, and we needed to vanish as soon as possible.

When everything was over, I stood alone in a room with Bao and SuYin. I handed both of them an orb, and after they imprinted their memories onto it. Then, we said our goodbyes, and I departed.

Most of what I had wanted to accomplish in this life was complete, but I had left the Wastes in a bit of a hurry. I still needed to visit the Rosehill Hot Springs and collect my belongings.

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When I entered Rosehill, it was clear that something was amiss. No one was wandering the streets, and there were no sounds of busy people going about their daily lives. The once lively tourist destination had been turned into a ghost town.

It didn’t take much effort to guess the reason for this. The fact that I had leased this land from the Su Clan was public knowledge, and I was certain that the armies that had attacked Mount Jiang had come here as well.

It was likely that they had even stationed soldiers to stand guard and wait for us in case we decided to return. That was fine. They could wait around for as long as they wanted.

After understanding the situation, I ignored the city completely and rushed straight to the center of the hot springs that the city was named after.

Without pausing for even a second, I used my earth qi to drill down into the ground below me.

Similar to what had happened when I had tried doing this around Mount Jiang, groundwater tried to infiltrate the hole I was creating, but I was able to harden my tunnel’s walls and stop it.

Similar to when I had dove into the hole in the Verdant Fields Sect, the ground around me grew hotter and hotter with each meter that I descended. Unlike then, however, this time, I had access to fire qi, and I was able to channel the heat away from me.

At 100 meters, the ground around me was scorching, but that was all. It was hot, but… normal.

At 200 meters, however, the rocks surrounding me were so hot that they had become soft and pliable. While fire usually makes earth stronger, too much fire can overwhelm it.

At this point, my fire qi wasn’t strong enough to handle the intense heat of my surroundings, so I instead channeled a portion of my qi into a water-based spirit fire I could only hope would be enough to keep me cool. If the temperatures around me continued to rise, however, then I would have to give up and come back later.

At 250 meters below the surface, the rocks below me disappeared, a wave of heat blasted me in the face, and I was greeted by the sight of a massive underground cavern.

The floor of this cavern was covered by a lake of lava which exuded the faint stench of sulfur.

At the center of this lake, a small, perfectly round stone island rose from the molten rock surrounding it. The island was nearly 20 meters across, and the closest cavern wall was over 40 meters away from it.

Looking in energy vision, I saw that this island was covered by four concentric rings of formations, with each ring being more powerful as they neared the center. From what I could tell, the outermost ring was a Rank 4 formation. The inner ring, however… Based on the amount of energy that it contained, the innermost ring had to be at least Rank 7.

How long had this formation been down here? Who had created it?

While I had zero information on what this formation did or why it was down here, its importance was obvious, so I copied it down in my mental journal for later study. However, while copying the outer ring wasn’t much of a problem, the inner rings were hidden by a layer of energy that made them hard to decipher. I could only make out a few of the details of the Rank 6 ring, and the Rank 7 ring looked like nothing more than a solid white line.

Once my drawing was as complete as I could make it, I allowed my eyes to drift to the edge of the island, to the small slice of land between the Rank 4 formation and the lake of lava that surrounded it. On this small ring of stable soil, several plants had taken root, and all of them appeared to be powerful herbs. I didn’t recognize most of them, but the sight of the Metal Dragon’s Tongue Fruit was unmistakable. This was enough to make me utterly convinced that the Su Clan had gained access to the earth formation and that the Twin Mountains Sect had gained access to the fire formation.

This entire cavern looked to be an untapped treasure trove, but with a lake of lava preventing me from moving forward, I didn’t know if I could loot it.

While studying how energy was flowing through the cavern, my eyes were drawn upward, toward the ceiling.

I didn’t understand even half of what the formations on the island were doing, but I knew one thing. A portion of the inscriptions were acting as a massive Metal Essence Gathering Formation, and they were channeling all the essence they gathered into a spot about 30 meters above the exact center of the island. They were channeling all of it directly into the seed of a spirit fire.

As essence entered this seed, it was transformed into water and heat. The water shot up, toward the surface. The heat poured down, into the lava below.

The herbs on the island were interesting, but I didn’t need them. I could come back for them later. The seed, though… I wanted that seed. It was the key to providing the inhabitants of my storage space with endless, clean drinking water.

Approaching it from below wasn’t going to happen. The heat it was putting out was too much for me to endure, but approaching from above wouldn’t be much better. The jet of water gushing out of it would be enough to pulverize my bones to powder.

I had to approach from the side and slip in through the gap between the jets of fire and water.

Using my earth qi, I extended a bridge from the wall of the cavern and headed toward the fire seed.

This strategy seemed to be working, but the moment my bridge passed over the edge of the island, it crumbled to dust.

I tried again, but the situation soon became clear. Whenever my qi passed over the island, I would lose control of it.

Upon learning this, I extended my bridge as far as possible. Then, I stuck out my right arm, allowing it to enter the island’s airspace.

Searing pain shot through me as the skin of my arm turned black and the scent of cooked meat reached my nostrils. The moment my hand had passed over the island, it had lost the protection of my fire qi, and the intense heat of the cavern had started burning it to a crisp.

Without retracting my arm, I quickly tried to summon a healing pill, but nothing happened. I had lost access to my storage space.

With my worst fears confirmed, I pulled my arm back and darted to the edge of the cavern.

The formations on this island possessed the same properties as the Path of the True Chosen in the Nine Rivers Sect. Entering their range would block me from accessing both my qi and my soul.

Staring at the fire seed in front of me, I knew that there had to be some way to retrieve it.

The Twin Mountains Sect’s fire seed was not hovering above a formation like this. It sat alone in an empty cavern. Someone had been able to remove it from above the formation.

If someone from the Twin Mountains Sect could figure out how to move one of these seeds, then I could as well.

My first thought was of ShouLi. With her blessing, she might be able to survive in this environment. If there was an intended solution to this problem, some form of body blessing or body cultivation was likely it.

I could try asking ShouLi to help me, but this situation was far too dangerous. I wasn’t willing to let her risk her life just to nab a new fire seed. I needed another solution.

Taking a deep breath, I knew what I had to do.

While cultivating the Wood-Burned Earth technique, I had experienced a pain that simulated the feeling of burning alive. Now, it was time to experience it for real.

I reached into my storage space and pulled out a large jade box inscribed with the formations necessary to contain a spirit fire seed. Then, I pulled out one of my most powerful poison pills and held it between my teeth. Finally, I took a tendril of a water-based spirit fire and wrapped it around my body. The island’s formations would cause me to lose control of this fire, but in this situation, an uncontrolled spirit fire was better than no spirit fire at all.

I took a deep breath of the scorching, sulfurous air and then ran forward.

The moment I reached the end of my stone bridge, I leapt directly toward the fire seed.

Pain lanced through every inch of my body.

I wanted to scream, but I kept my jaw locked in position, not allowing the poison pill to escape from between my teeth.

My robes began to crackle and burn, and my hair burst into flames.

I concentrated my entire mind on my task and held the jade box in front of me in steady hands.

I passed through the outer corona of the fire seed, and then, at the center of the flames, I saw a small, bright blue orb. I adjusted the positioning of the jade box slightly, and a second later, I slammed into the seed and ripped it from its position above the formation.

I immediately closed the box, but its formation didn’t activate. I was still above the island.

Even though the seed was no longer being fed an endless stream of essence, it was still filled with energy, so it was still producing both water and heat. As the box began heating up and water began seeping out of it, I frantically tried to shove it into my storage space, but nothing happened. I was still over the island.

Just as I was worried that the seed might burst free from its confines, the box vanished.

The moment it did, I swallowed a poison pill, ending my agony.

You have died. Calculating…

You died as a Martial Master Peak – 10,000 credits awarded.

Total Credits: 539,755,440,897

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Affinities

Peak Four-Star – Earth, Metal, Lightning

Peak Five-Star – Wood, Fire, Water, Wind, Light, Dark

Peak Seven-Star – Karmic Energy

Low Six-Star – Space

Resistances

Mental Effects (Cultivation Techniques) – 25,000,000 credits

Mental Library

Capacity – Rank 6

Journal (with Mental Input) – Rank 6

Perfect Transcription – Rank 6

Touch Reading – Rank 6

Scribe – Rank 3

Comprehension Boosts

Cultivation:

Cultivation Techniques – 100 billion credits

Soul Techniques – 100 billion credits

Qi Control – 100 million credits

Teaching – 100 million credits

Professions:

Alchemy – 1 billion credits

Formations – 100 billion credits

Herbalism – 10 billion credits

Refining – 10 billion credits

Martial – 1 billion credits

Social:

Reading Emotions (True) – 25,000,000 credits

Skills

Mastery of Cold Mountain Fire, Expanding Realms Fire

Talisman Artistry – Rank 4 (Continent-Wide Expert)

Soul Formation Concealment – Rank 6

Enhanced Soul Growth – 20,000 credits

Pill, Formation, Herb, Talisman, Demon Beast, Refined Item, Illusion, and Gu Appraisal – Rank 3 (Comprehensive, Detailed)

Technique Appraisal – Rank 3 (Earth)

Fire Seed Appraisal – Profound

Language (Western Han)

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