Eternal Life Begins with Learning

Chapter 348: Chapter 320: Yin and Yang Complement Each Other, Soul Searching Technique

In just a few hours, a single curtain of light had split the entire Chu Capital City into two different worlds.

On one side of the light curtain was chaos, where Cultivators in the Magic Robes of the Longevity Sect formed ranks outside the Imperial Palace.

And the once-secular Imperial Palace was now bristling with Grand Arrays, shielding it from harm.

Despite the relentless Attacks, the Grand Array within the Imperial Palace, with its surging Banner Flags, remained completely unaffected.

Meanwhile, the sealed-off half of the Chu Capital Inner City had descended into utter chaos.

Demon Cultivators, whom Chu Mu had previously struggled to even detect, now roamed the North City in droves.

Amidst the Mysterious Demonic Qi, they captured one Cultivator after another. Squads of Demon Cultivators had also reached the area outside the Imperial Palace, clashing with the Longevity Sect disciples gathered in the North City.

Half of the Chu Capital had been completely plunged into a maelstrom of blood and chaos.

But the half of the Chu Capital Inner City still under the Longevity Sect’s control was a completely different scene.

As if in a sudden war, one Summoning Order after another was issued, setting a war machine in motion.

Before the curtain of light that split the Chu Capital Inner City in two, there was an endless, brilliant spectacle.

Dazzling lights flared and the light curtain rippled. Beneath a continuous roar, formations of Cultivators, rows of Spiritual Energy Cannons, and various other offensive Artifacts all unleashed a torrent of firepower at the barrier.

As for the Demon Cultivators remaining in this half of the Inner City...

Under the draconian Summoning Orders, the city was under strict martial law, leaving no room for any Demon Cultivators to survive.

But no matter how strict the order was, it could not affect the fall... of the half of the Inner City on the other side of the light curtain.

And the consequences of its fall were already becoming tangible.

At Moon Viewing Tower, Chu Mu stood before a window. With a wave of his hand, a faint wisp of Demonic Qi swirled in his palm.

The Spirit Vein’s Demonization was already taking effect.

The Chu Capital’s Tier Three Spirit Vein was no longer expelling just pure Spiritual Qi. Or rather, the pure Spiritual Qi was now laced with threads of Demonic Qi.

And this was the result of only a few short hours.

Suddenly, Chu Mu couldn’t help but recall the anomaly he had noticed before—the Spiritual Qi in the Marketplace had abruptly grown richer.

’Perhaps even back then, all these changes were already fully prepared.’

’Luring me out of the city, forcing me to reveal my location, compelling Xu Changqing to activate the City Defense Array... perhaps that was all part of their plan, too.’

Chu Mu gazed at the sky-piercing curtain of light in the distance. After hours of bombardment and countless brilliant flashes, the curtain remained stable, aside from the rippling shimmers. The day it would break was clearly still far off.

As his thoughts churned, a flicker of True Flame appeared on his fingertip, incinerating the Demonic Qi.

Just then, a sound came from behind him. Chu Mu turned to see Xu Changqing pushing the door open and walking in.

"There is a matter that requires your assistance, Fellow Daoist."

Xu Changqing tossed a bloody, mangled heap onto the floor, looking somewhat exhausted.

Looking at the mangled heap, Chu Mu’s brow furrowed slightly. If he remembered correctly, this bloody mess was supposed to be the so-called Venerable who had attacked him.

After Xu Changqing captured him, he had said he would ask a Perfected Being to perform a Soul Search.

’So why bring him to me now...?’

Chu Mu said nothing, looking at Xu Changqing and waiting for him to state his purpose.

"I have a Soul Searching Technique that can break the Restriction in this person’s Sea of Consciousness, but I need the help of your Supreme Yang and Firm Method, Fellow Daoist."

"The Perfected Being is occupied with the Grand Array and cannot get away."

Chu Mu was a little puzzled, but he nodded nonetheless.

"How do you require my assistance, Fellow Daoist?"

"This is the Soul-Searching Technique. Please, have a look, Fellow Daoist."

Xu Changqing handed him a Jade Scroll.

Chu Mu took the Jade Scroll and extended his Divine Sense into it. The text of a Soul-Searching Technique appeared before him.

This Soul-Searching Technique wasn’t too different from an ordinary Soul Searching Secret Technique. The only distinction was that this particular technique seemed to be designed specifically for beings whose memories were sealed by a Restriction.

It could, to a certain extent, bypass the seal and glimpse the core memories.

However, the conditions for its use were extremely demanding.

One needed to inscribe a dedicated Soul-Searching Array in advance, and this array had to be presided over by a Cultivator who practiced a Supreme Yang and Firm Method.

Furthermore, this Soul-Searching Array required a Celestial Trace Crystal Stone as its core, supplemented by Tier Four Fire Marrow.

The purpose was to use Supreme Yang and Firmness to throw the target’s consciousness into disarray, then pull that disordered consciousness into an Illusion Realm.

The Celestial Trace Crystal Stone would then act as an external repository to inscribe the memories of the person trapped in the Illusion Realm, thus bypassing the barrier of the Restriction.

The most crucial part of this process was to disrupt the target’s consciousness to such an extent that they mistook the Illusion Realm for reality.

Only then would it be possible to bypass the Restriction’s limitations.

And this was precisely the role of the Supreme Yang and Firm Method.

After all, the Divine Soul is yin in nature, while that of Supreme Yang and Firmness is yang.

Only when Yin and Yang Complement Each Other could this be achieved.

"Give me one day."

Chu Mu said slowly, putting down the Jade Scroll.

"Alright. I’ll have to trouble you with this, Fellow Daoist."

Xu Changqing nodded. After placing a Storage Talisman on the table, he stood up. He paused at the door, however, and suddenly added, "I, Changqing, will stand guard for you, Fellow Daoist."

Chu Mu was slightly taken aback, but in the next moment, Xu Changqing had already pushed open the door and walked out.

With his Divine Sense Perception, he could clearly sense Xu Changqing sitting cross-legged just outside the door.

Chu Mu looked down at the bloody, mangled heap, his brows tightly knitted.

’Standing guard for me...’

’This is probably going to be... a huge pain!’

"So be it!"

Chu Mu shook his head and sighed softly. When you accept a task, you see it through to the end.

Besides, he had brought this huge pain on himself.

With a sweep of his sleeve, the mangled heap on the floor instantly levitated into the air.

The Storage Talisman on the table moved without any wind. As his Divine Sense flowed, one Spiritual Material after another floated out. Following the existing template for the Soul-Searching Array, a series of complex Array Prohibition Patterns visibly began to evolve across the floor, arranging themselves around the Celestial Trace Crystal Stone.

This process continued for nearly an hour.

In the end, what appeared was an Array that covered the entire floor of the room. Countless complex, blood-red Array Patterns coiled around the Celestial Trace Crystal Stone, circle after circle, creating an exceptionally eerie sight.

With a slight thought, his Magical Power surged, pouring into the Array before him.

Amidst the dim crimson light, a streak of fiery red appeared, spreading with extreme speed along the Array Prohibition Patterns. Finally, the brilliant red plunged into the Celestial Trace Crystal Stone, and a blush of red appeared within its azure depths.

Chu Mu raised his hand and made a grasping motion. The bloody, mangled heap descended directly over the Array, coming to a steady halt about an inch above the Celestial Trace Crystal Stone.

At that moment, fiery red light erupted, and a surging torrent of it completely enveloped the mangled heap.

Pained wails became faintly audible. The man’s consciousness, already on the brink of death, grew even fuzzier under the continuous assault, his sanity weakening by the second.

Chu Mu was very careful. He himself had wounded this man, who then used Blood Escape, suffered even heavier injuries, and was subsequently captured by Xu Changqing, which undoubtedly involved another round of torment.

The man was already at death’s door. If Chu Mu was even slightly careless while disrupting his mind now, his Divine Soul would be annihilated, making the Soul Search an impossibility.

As if peeling a cocoon thread by thread, Chu Mu meticulously disrupted the man’s rational consciousness. Only when it was on the verge of complete collapse did he fully activate the Soul-Searching Array, pulling the man completely into the illusion.

In reality, his life was fading, and he was being ravaged by the Soul Search.

But in the illusion, the man was still an ignorant child, from his birth in the womb to his first babbling words...

The man’s entire life was replaying itself within the illusion...

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