Mo Wen never imagined that he would see Xia Mu again, especially in such an abrupt way.
But the Xia Mu in front of them was clearly not a living person.
Or rather, it was only a small part of Xia Mu's body.
The old man from the Ten Directions used some secret method to collect some of Xia Mu's remains, and then reconstituted Xia Mu's body, placing it in this jade coffin to nurture it.
This body is only missing a soul. If it had a soul, Xia Mu might have been able to truly come back to life.
Mo Wen stopped and slowly took the jade coffin.
The old man secretly breathed a sigh of relief; his life was probably safe today.
He had made up his mind that, if he survived today, he would never again inquire about the God's Tomb or covet those treasures that he shouldn't have been thinking about.
While Mo Wen was in a daze, the old man quietly moved to the back. He moved very slowly, afraid of accidentally disturbing Mo Wen.
Mo Wen looked at Xia Mu in the jade coffin and was momentarily dazed.
He thought about it, and realized that after thinking about someone for so long, they felt somewhat like strangers when they met again.
Xia Mu, still wearing his police uniform in the jade coffin, with his neat short hair, eyes slightly closed, and a dashing and heroic demeanor, looked exactly like the person in Mo Wen's memory.
But Mo Wen deeply understood that the person before him was not Xia Mu.
Human lifespan is very short; very few people even live past 190. A thousand years have passed, and Xia Mu would probably be nothing but a handful of dust by now.
No matter how powerful the Ten Directions Elder is, he cannot find summer wood in a pile of yellow earth.
This means that the Ten Directions Elder had been plotting to trick him for hundreds of years. However, the Divine Tomb has always been a self-contained entity, and it has only gradually been revealed in the last hundred years. How did this old man know that he had become the tomb keeper?
This old man has a secret!
Thinking of this, he snapped out of his daze and looked up at the Ten Directions Elder who was about to escape his sight. He moved swiftly, shrinking the distance between them, and in a few breaths, he was already behind the Ten Directions Elder.
With a light wave of his hand, he grabbed the Ten Directions Elder.
What do you know?
The old man of the ten directions was greatly surprised. "What does the Divine Lord want to know? I will tell you everything I know."
Mo Wen's eyes narrowed slightly. "I don't believe you."
The art of soul searching is arguably the cruelest form of torture. It invades the consciousness of the victim, examining everything the victim knows in their mind. Those whose souls are searched will either lose their cultivation or become mentally impaired and lose all their life's power.
Mo Wen had never used the Soul Searching Technique on anyone else, but today, he used it on the Ten Directions Elder without hesitation. He had never hated anyone like this before.
The divine thought gradually invaded the soul of the Ten Directions Elder.
The old man was utterly desperate. Faced with absolute power, his resistance seemed like a joke. He could clearly feel a cold and indifferent consciousness churning in his mind, as if trying to turn his brain into a complete mess.
Pain gnawed at his thoughts. At that moment, he wished he could self-destruct his primordial spirit, but unfortunately, he didn't even have the ability to do so now.
His consciousness became increasingly scattered, and finally, his eyes lost focus.
Mo Wen's brows gradually relaxed as he stared at the dazed old man, Shi Fang, who was slumped on the ground, his eyes devoid of emotion.
There are heavens beyond heavens, people beyond people, and gods beyond gods.
The universe is amazing.
He never knew that ever since he won the battle in the Tomb of the Gods, his every move had been under the watchful eye of the Ten Directions Elder.
The Ten Directions Elder also wields a pen, a puppet of the Reincarnation Pen that writes the Book of Fate, called the Pen of Life and Death.
This pen cannot determine life or death, but it can copy other people's fate records.
The Life and Death Pen was something that the Ten Directions Elder painstakingly searched for that could deal with Cangwu, but unfortunately, Cangwu's level was too high, and the Life and Death Pen could not write down Cangwu's short life.
The old man was very annoyed, thinking that the pen was now useless.
Unexpectedly, by sheer coincidence, Mo Wen became the new tomb keeper. Mo Wen, who had just become the tomb keeper, was a mortal, and the Pen of Life and Death could easily copy his Book of Fate.
Mo Wen's Book of Fate is filled with Xia Mu.
Unable to find the location of the divine tomb, the Ten Directions Elder turned his attention to Xia Mu. He painstakingly found Xia Mu's remains and used Netherworld Water, Azure Spring, and Immortal Fruit to reconstruct Xia Mu's body, hoping to use it someday.
As for how to use it, he hadn't actually figured it out yet.
He had considered capturing a wisp of a ghost and forcibly inserting it into Xia Mu's body, raising her as his daughter.
But he was also reluctant to give it up. If something unexpected happened to him one day, he could use this body to start over. After all, the world of cultivation was unpredictable and accidents could happen. A good physical body was of utmost importance to him.
However, this would mean starting the cultivation process all over again, with everything starting from scratch.
Unable to make up his mind, the old man kept the jade coffin with him at all times.
Unexpectedly, it was presented to Mo Wen in this way today.
Mo Wen looked at the dazed old man Shi Fang in front of him, unable to hide his disgust. He channeled his Yuan energy into his hand and slowly pressed down.
The Ten Directions Elder let out a miserable cry as his body turned to ashes and vanished completely into the vast universe.
Mo Wen turned his gaze to the Netherworld Beast of the Ten Directions Elder.
The ghostly beast let out a low growl, trembling and paralyzed with fear on the ground.
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