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Tan Shuchang had been cultivating for seven years, losing track of time as the cultivation didn't account for years, gradually forgetting what time it currently was.

He had intended to have a long and detailed conversation with the Demon Cultivator next door about the secrets of ascending to immortality, but in the end, he decided to cut the long talk short, and to not speak of short conversations.

This was the ever-present rule for lengthy discussions.

Next door, the Demon Cultivator thought I was playing her and drew her sword to strike, her figure vanishing into the distance with the sword light. And judging by her demeanor, if she hadn't been sure she couldn't defeat me, that sword light would have been aimed at me.

Indeed, that Demon Cultivator was just a disguise for a Sword Cultivator.

The Demon Cultivator was truly cunning.

...

After drying the ink, Tan Shuchang wrote a long-overdue journal entry and casually placed the sheet of paper documenting this entry into his sleeve.

For he had more pressing matters to attend to.

However, at that moment, Tan Shuchang noticed that the journal he held had disappeared without a trace, and upon closer inspection, he saw it being pulled by two unseen forces in a far-off place.

Then, the journal was abruptly split "in two".

Not torn in two, but duplicated and pasted in two, like a copy.

After splitting into two, both copies of the journal vanished abruptly.

But they reappeared almost instantly, in the span of a breath, both identical journals spontaneously returning to Tan Shuchang's hands.

At that moment, one of the journals emitted a flickering light and then transformed into a scripture.

"Master Zhuo says— 'Travel through the Land of Yin and Darkness, force your way to the Land of the Four Pillars'."

As the name of this technique suggests, it is a method that allows a cultivator who has not yet reached the three confirmations to travel through the Land of Yin and Darkness and proceed from there to the Land of the Four Pillars.

And in the end, there is a word of encouragement: "Wishing to revise the Mahayana scriptures, we specially invite you to be the editor. May you strive harder."

"..."

To this scene, Tan Shuchang was not unaccustomed.

This was the power of the Ghost Heavenly Way of Master Zhuo.

He hadn't expected that the Ghost Heavenly Way would still be responding to him; it seems the "Li Yu" city he had previously visited must indeed be another Ghostly City in the Land of Yin and Darkness.

Because, at this moment in the Jiawu Realm, Tan Shuchang had not sensed the power of the Ghost Heavenly Way.

Therefore, the only possibility was that the other party was remotely projecting power through the pathways of the Land of Yin and Darkness in the Jiawu Realm.
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Then, what sort of existence was competing with the Ghost Heavenly Way for the journal?

Tan Shuchang couldn't help but think of that pale white hand.

And as this thought arose, sure enough, the pale white hand appeared; the hand descended, scattered the text, and then a fingertip touched down, starting to write anew.

Before long, a new scripture had emerged.

But this scripture was nameless.

Yet, its content was almost identical to "Master Zhuo says— 'Travel through the Land of Yin and Darkness, force your way to the Land of the Four Pillars'".

However, it included many more details!

For example, it explicitly mentioned that by striking down cultivators who falsely ascended three hundred years ago, one could get help from the Jiawu Realm when traveling through the Land of Yin and Darkness to reach the Land of the Four Pillars.

The more one struck down, the greater help the Jiawu Realm would provide.

In the end, it left Tan Shuchang a message with a clearly significant, but currently incomprehensible meaning—"Every mundane being promoted to the heavens is unusual. The will of heaven may regard them as possessing divine intellect, or as lacking it."

Tan Shuchang compared this scripture with "Master Zhuo says— 'Travel through the Land of Yin and Darkness, force your way to the Land of the Four Pillars'" thoroughly, finding that the former suggested a righteous path through the Land of Yin and Darkness, while the latter required sneaking around.

As if one were becoming a stowaway to the Land of the Four Pillars.

Thus, Tan Shuchang chose the scripture left by the pale white hand.

After all, the mentioned striking down of "falsely ascended cultivators" aligned perfectly with his own interests. He would never let go of these opponents who, once killed, would become prime cultivation resources.

"Rather than waiting for their arrival, better to let them come down to the Lower Realm themselves!" In an instant, Tan Shuchang manifested his immortal blood form and summoned the Blood Pool.

Subsequently, four Yin Gods descended below the Lotus Platform, as Tan Shuchang prepared to cultivate a new technique.

This was a technique he had accidentally discovered in the memories of the three ancestors of Sword Disciple Mountain, nameless but known to erase part of someone's memory upon mastery.

The Lotus Platform rose.

Tan Shuchang thus mastered this nameless technique.

Immediately after, he stepped out of the Blood Pool and casually pulled out the head of the Immortal Sect from the Blood Pool.

Then, after pressing down in the air above his third eye, Tan Shuchang tossed the head of the Immortal Sect into a desolate mountain range.

At first, the head of the Immortal Sect showed no reaction, but as he sensed changes in the natural qi of heaven and earth, the protective immortal support that had always shielded him finally began to dissipate slightly.

The Immortal Sect's head began to regain consciousness and, sensing his surroundings and realizing he was in a forest, he didn't immediately end his current state.

Only when he sensed the call of his fellow sect members from the Land of the Four Pillars did he truly relax.

After communicating with his fellow sect members and learning that three of his brothers had come to the Jiawu Realm to find him, the head of the Immortal Sect cautiously retracted the immortal support.

"I'll contact Sister Lin and the two junior brothers right away," the head of the Immortal Sect responded to his fellow sect members from the Land of the Four Pillars and began using the Sword Disciple Mountain's communication method to search for his three fellow sect members.

But, of course, he found none of them.

He then went to the Sword Disciple Mountain, only to discover that the entire mountain was now desolate and empty.

The entire Immortal Sect had been sealed off by a great formation.

And the precious magic artifacts and such had been removed.