A Record of a Mortal’s Journey to Immortality

Unsealing the Blood Curse

Marquis Nanlong stuck the last flag into a corner of the pool and wryly smiled. “How is it? Brother Lu should be almost done, right? With these spell formations completely enveloping this area, we should be able to deal with any problem. Furthermore, there is an 80% to 90% chance that we are wasting our time.”

Lu Weiying smiled and indifferently said, “Hehe! I would rather waste some time than have any mishaps occur. If there truly is an ancient cultivator’s secret treasure hiding behind this gate, then that would be for the best. If not, then it is better to make some preparations than do nothing. Although I covet treasures, I value my life even more.”

Marquis Nanlong shook his head and remained silent.

At that moment, the old man placed down the last formation plate in his hand and activated the restriction. A layer of white light faintly appeared around him.

The old man nodded with satisfaction before turning around to face the stone door that was shimmering with blood light.

Marquis Nanlong had been waiting impatiently for a long time. When he saw that the old man had finished, he immediately took off a storage pouch from his waist and tossed it into the air.

A burst of white light immediately swept forth, and the translucent skeleton of an ancient cultivator appeared on the ground.

Marquis Nanlong solemnly said, “This Blood Curse Gate is quite strange. To break through its restrictions, it requires the essence energy or flesh of the person who placed the curse. The flesh will definitely not be found, but there should be some cultivator essence energy left in this ancient cultivator’s corpse.” He then spat out the golden flying sword.

Soon after, he made a grabbing motion toward the ground, and the skeleton immediately floated into the air, reaching a height of around 60 feet above the ground.

Marquis Nanlong flicked his finger, and a white spell seal struck the small sword in front of his chest.

With a hum, the small sword trembled and a blinding sword light suddenly erupted from the tip of the sword.

The golden light was exceptionally dazzling!

Soon after, the streak of sword light grew brighter and brighter, transforming into a ball of golden light.

A short moment later, the ball of sword light shot forth from the small sword and struck the skeleton floating in the air, causing it to explode.

Countless sharp sword Qi crisscrossed through the air, engulfing the entire skeleton in an instant. In an instant, bone dust of about the same size fell from the sword Qi like sand.

Marquis Nanlong’s eyes lit up, and he swept his sleeve through the air, releasing a cloud of golden light that engulfed all of the translucent bone sand.

At this moment, the golden sword light in the air began to recede.

Seeing the shiny bone powder that had been minced by the golden sword light, Marquis Nanlong inwardly nodded and glanced at Lu Weiying.

When the old man saw this, he naturally understood Marquis Nanlong’s intentions. He immediately rubbed his hands together and summoned a white magic flag.

With a gentle shake, a hurricane appeared near the flag.

At that moment, Marquis Nanlong was sitting cross-legged as he formed an incantation gesture with his hands and chanted an incantation in a low voice. Then, various incantation seals flew out from his hands and struck the golden light enshrouding the bone powder.

The golden light was activated by these incantation seals, and the bone powder within it began to slowly roll and revolve.

The semi-transparent powder glowed with various colors of spiritual light and flickered intermittently, creating an exceptionally gorgeous sight.

At that moment, Lu Weiying tentatively attacked the stone gate.

He didn’t panic and use the magic flag in his hand to attack. Instead, he casually raised his hand, and with a flash of red light, several fist-sized fireballs shot towards the stone gate.

Puff! Puff! A few muffled sounds rang out.

As soon as the fireball approached the stone door, crimson light wildly flashed several times before suddenly coming to life. Large swaths of crimson light converged at the center and intertwined to form a huge ghost face that was exactly the same as the ghost head carved into the stone door. It was around three meters in size.

The ghost face swallowed the fireballs into its mouth, and they immediately disappeared after a few flashes. The stone gate had returned to its original state.

Lu Weiying’s heart stirred upon seeing this, but after a moment of hesitation, he pointed the flag at the stone gate.

The hurricane that had already appeared on the flag immediately transformed into a wind dragon that howled as it attacked the stone gate.

The ghost face appeared once more and opened its mouth, spitting out a large expanse of red light. The tornado was sucked into the crimson light and into the ghost mouth. The ghost face then disappeared amid the old man’s shock and fury.

Lu Weiying and Marquis Nanlong glanced at each other and couldn’t help but look at each other in dismay.

Marquis Nanlong sighed and slowly said, “As expected, the Blood Curse Gate is somewhat strange. It is best to dissolve it according to Master Cang Kun’s method.”

Lu Weiying stroked his chin and could only nod his head.

Although he still had more powerful attacks, the ghost face on the stone door was truly a little strange. He was unwilling to mess up this matter. With Master Cang Kun’s great reputation in the past, he should’ve been able to find a way to break it.

“Go!” Marquis Nanlong shouted and pointed at the light in the air.

Brilliant golden light erupted and swept toward the stone gate without any hesitation.

In a flash of crimson light, the ghost face emerged from the door once more. However, this time, as soon as the ghost face came face to face with the golden light, the bone powder that was mixed with the light suddenly turned into white specks of light the size of rice grains, desperately trying to stick to the ghost face.

As soon as the ghost face came into contact with the specks of light, a burst of greyish-white mist suddenly appeared, and the ghost face instantly dissolved. A short moment later, the entire stone door was enveloped in grey mist.

Ghostly wails erupted from within the mist as crimson light flashed.

Soon after, one thick blood-red tentacle after another rushed out of the mist and struck the stone floor with all their might, as if the entire stone door had come to life. However, in the blink of an eye, the tentacles were enveloped by the grey mist and immediately melted away.

When Marquis Nanlong saw this, he shouted without the slightest hesitation, “Now! Attack!”

Soon after, he pointed at the golden sword in front of him and formed an incantation gesture with his hands. All of the spiritual power in his body was poured into the flying sword through an incantation gesture.

The golden flying sword instantly transformed into a blinding streak of golden light as it tore through the air.

The old man at the side wore a gloomy expression as he poured most of his spiritual power into the flag and tossed it out.

In a flash of white light, the flag transformed into several wind dragons that pounced toward the stone gate again.

In the blink of an eye, the golden streak and the wind dragon plunged into the grey mist.

An earth-shattering boom erupted from within the mist. Golden light, crimson light, and tornadoes intertwined within the mist before splitting apart.

After a gust of wind, the stone door became clear and the grey mist was completely dispersed. Marquis Nanlong narrowed his eyes when he saw this.

The stone door was completely devoid of blood light, as if all of its restrictions had disappeared.

Marquis Nanlong glanced at the small golden sword that had been inserted halfway into the stone door.

With a wave of his spiritual sense, the small sword suddenly flew out from the stone gate, transforming into a three-meter-long streak of golden light as it slashed at the stone gate in a crisscross pattern.

A series of chaotic rumbling sounds rang out, and brilliant golden light erupted as the entire stone gate was reduced to rubble by the flying swords.

An extremely pungent smell suddenly spread through the air.

However, Marquis Nanlong and Lu Weiying’s expressions changed drastically when they saw the fragments of the stone door.

Dark red blood was gurgling out of the stone chips like a human’s, and the putrid smell was coming from the black-red blood.

This situation was truly indescribably strange!

Although the stone gate had been shattered, Marquis Nanlong and Lu Weiying didn’t see anything astonishing. Behind the stone gate was a pitch-black staircase that extended downwards.

Looking at the channel that seemed to be leading to the netherworld, Marquis Nanlong licked his lips and sneered, “Let’s go! I’d like to see what kind of treasures the Blood Curse Gate has. It’s so mysterious.”

Afterwards, he didn’t call out to Lu Weiying and walked forward with large strides. After a few steps, he entered the passage.

Lu Weiying stood in place for a moment.

He glanced at the remains of the Blood Curse Gate on the ground, which was oozing black blood, and then at the exposed passage. He couldn’t help but frown.

All of a sudden, he heaved a long sigh of relief and walked into the passageway.

To the old man’s surprise, the passage was extremely short. After traveling over 200 feet underground, they arrived at an underground hall.

The hall wasn’t very large, only about 70 to 80 feet wide.

Apart from a table, the entire hall was empty.

When the old man entered, Marquis Nanlong was standing in the middle of the hall, staring blankly at the items on the table.

The old man walked over with bewilderment and looked in the same direction. His heart trembled.

“Heaven Origin Fruit! Am I seeing things? This is a Heaven Origin Fruit that can extend one’s lifespan by a hundred years. Could that purple ganoderma be the legendary Heaven Mending Ganoderma? From the looks of it, it should be over ten thousand years old. Even if one eats it raw, one would be able to save several tens of years of bitter cultivation. And this shining golden bamboo, could it be the Golden Lightning Bamboo among the three great divine trees! And this…” When Lu Weiying clearly saw the six or seven types of flowers and plants on the table, he was first stunned. Soon after, his face revealed an incoherent expression of shock. He almost didn’t dare to believe what he was seeing and couldn’t help but take two steps forward, intending to take a closer look.

Marquis Nanlong coldly said, “Fellow Daoist Lu, if I were you, I wouldn’t be so impetuous. Do you truly believe that these spirit medicines are placed here for us to take? Do you want to carefully look around?”

“Brother Nanlong, what do you mean?” Lu Weiying felt as if a bucket of cold water had been poured over his head. His mind cleared and he hastily examined his surroundings in bewilderment. “Huh! This seems to be the legendary Minor Sumeru Vajra Formation. Why would a Buddhist spell formation appear here?”