Using entries to cultivate immortality in chaotic times

"Immortals, save me!!!"

The Li Family Master's eyes brimmed with fear as he unleashed an unprecedented speed in his life, no longer taking any shortcuts but instead running straight ahead, ramming into artificial hills and walls as he sprinted towards the outside of the Li family courtyard!

When the Li Family Courtyard was initially constructed, Feng Shui was taken into account, and all the small paths between the woods were winding, not straight.

There were artificial mountains, water, flowers, and trees.

The living environment was quite nice and pleasing to the eye, but when it came to escaping for one's life, all these became irrelevant—the shortest distance between two points is a straight line.

The Li Family's servants, standing around, looked anxiously and blankly at their master running away frantically, not knowing what had happened.

Meanwhile, the Li Family Master's wife stood calmly in her spot, watching the retreating back of her husband without any additional action or word, quiet and still.

...

"Immortals, save me, save me!!!"

The Li Family Master, having rushed out of the courtyard, abruptly realized that these Immortals hadn't traveled far and were actually floating in the air, overseeing the Li Family, which had somehow been separated from "Hong City" and taken to a great height above the ground.

The Li Family Master came to a screeching halt in place, his throat moving slightly as he looked at the earth torn open before him and the dense clouds below, his eyes filled with astonishment.

When had the Li Family been severed from Hong City and why hadn't he felt anything?

There was not the slightest tremor on the ground.

The Li Family's defensive array showed no reaction, nor was there any noticeable difference in bodily perception—what vast power this must be.

"Immortals..."

Without time for further thought, the first thing the Li Family Master did was to kneel on the ground, about to say something with fear filling his eyes.

But then he heard the leading Immortal, with an indifferent expression, softly say, "Step aside. This matter is not for you to be involved in."

"Yes."

The Li Family Master immediately took a deep breath and, full of anxious fear, walked behind the group of Immortals. It was clear that the Immortals were not unaware of the strangeness within the Li Family; they had detected it early on and were already prepared.

If that was the case, then his suspicions were not wrong—the people resurrected through sacrifice were truly amiss.

...

"Come out."

With one hand behind his back, suspended in the air, Chen Qiu, holding the Heavenly Mechanism Umbrella and looking down at the Li Family Courtyard, said with a smile, "I'm personally inviting you for a chat. You should give me this much face, shouldn't you?"

In reality.

He had felt something was amiss as soon as he entered the Li Family Courtyard—an extremely rich and foul aura circulated beneath the land, similar to what he had sensed in the vast Earth Cave beneath Fat Long in Da Xia Country.

The reason that Earth Cave had such an aura was due to the endless number of resentful spirits continuously emitting resentful energy day and night.

Yet the Li Family, situated in a bustling city teeming with life, how could it emit a similar aura?

Especially after learning that the Li Family Master had resurrected his deceased family members by sacrificing flesh and blood, his feeling of unease grew stronger. If it were an ordinary person, they might at most express their envy saying, "The world is so vast, there are wonders everywhere."

But he was different; his horizons were higher, his knowledge far surpassing the people of the First Grade Continent.

He knew well that resurrection was not entirely impossible in this world.

For instance, some entry could resurrect, but only by transforming into a Yin Soul and awaiting tens of thousands or thousands of years, needing to extend the timespan to the extreme, or resurrecting through a loophole when the underworld collapses.

The former follows the rules of the Heavenly Dao, the latter is a loophole in the Heavenly Dao.

But resurrection through the sacrifice of flesh and blood clearly did not fit the former, as the price paid is not equivalent, and obviously it is not the latter either. If it's neither, there must be something sinister at play.

However, he initially did not intend to get involved in this matter. After all, he was just passing by and didn't want to meddle in affairs that didn't concern him. But when the Deceit Buddha gave the answer that only the "Seven Maiden Continent" was experiencing underworld collapse, he felt something was wrong.

It was just a feeling of wrongness, without giving it much thought.

After leaving the Li Family Courtyard, it was the Bai Family Patriarch who first transmitted via Divine Sense that he knew of three First Grade Continents that were experiencing underworld collapses in recent days, yet he did not voice it out in the hall, fearing it might invite chaos.

Between the Deceit Buddha and the Bai Family Patriarch, he naturally trusted the Bai Family Patriarch more.

Since that was the case.

It indicated that the Deceit Buddha had lied, but why would the Deceit Buddha lie? Was it to make him go to the "Seven Maiden Continent"? What was the purpose? He wasn't clear, but he was certain of one thing—that he was being calculated by the Deceit Buddha.

Given this, the matter did concern him.

Several breaths after Chen Qiu's words fell, there was no response from within the courtyard.

A moment later.

Storm winds howled in, and the sound of Heavenly Thunder echoed; Chen Qiu held the Heavenly Mechanism Umbrella, allowing his clothes to flap loudly in the fierce winds as he overlooked the Li Family Courtyard below and said indifferently, "Since you don't wish to come out for a chat, then I'll have to invite you out myself."

Just then—

"Boom!"

The great doors of the Li Family Courtyard were suddenly blasted open by a powerful shockwave. An assembly of pale-faced, red-eyed servants appeared out of nowhere, holding blades, having bound all the Li Family members together and placed them in front, with great swords held to the necks of these Li Family members.

A woman dressed in a red gown slowly made her way to the front, surrounded by servants. She looked emotionlessly at the Li Family Master standing behind Fat Long and said coldly, "My husband, why the need for such a commotion?"