Chapter 786: He’s a Xeno-Immortal

Chapter 786: He’s a Xeno-Immortal

It was a calm and peaceful night for many. But for others, the wind pierced deep into their souls.

For example, there was Seventh Prince. After returning to his mansion, he seemed to simply go into meditation. But the truth was that his heart pounded as if he had been possessed. He just couldn’t stop thinking about the content of that jade slip.

And then there was the patriarch of the Xeno-Immortal School, Chen Daoze. When the violet snowflake floated into his earthchild body, he experienced a dramatic proliferation in soul threads. His soul was stronger than the soul of any other person in the Xeno-Immortal School, and had long ago reached an astonishing level. That was why even the puny green snowflake had pushed his soul threads to the level of 300,000.

But now, with the violet soul seed, his soul thread count quickly climbed to 400,000. Then 500,000. And soon it approached 600,000.

The Xeno-Immortal schoolmaster activated a spell formation to keep the fluctuations concealed, otherwise it would have caused a big commotion. The schoolmaster had no choice but to cover those fluctuations. After all... this speed of cultivation was uncanny. When kept within reasonable bounds, fast cultivation would attract some attention. But heaven-defying speed could provoke terror. Thankfully, the schoolmaster was ensuring that no prying eyes noticed what happened.

Of course, he couldn’t block Xu Qing’s senses. That night, Xu Qing opened his eyes several times and looked in the direction of the Imperial University. His expression flickered between various emotions, and his heart was in turmoil.

I can’t believe Chen Daoze’s soul has reached a level like this....

By means of the soul seed, Xu Qing could sense the soul threads increasing in number. Of course, the godsource increase that he experienced as a result was also shocking.

Overnight, Xu Qing’s soul threads increased by tens of thousands.

The Xeno-Immortal schoolmaster also experienced a dramatic night. As he personally watched the patriarch power up, it gave him a deeper understanding of soul seeds, but at the same time, struck fear into his heart. Although his words from earlier seemed perfectly reasonable, and also very convincing, the reality was that he had known the truth about soul seeds from the beginning, thanks to Xu Qing. But in the end, this was a chance to truly revive the Xeno-Immortal School, so even if the soul seed had been pure poison, he still would have consumed it. Maybe his decision would create a rocky future for the Xeno-Immortal School. He had no way of knowing. He just knew that the place was quietly dying, and thus, he’d chosen to make a dramatic gamble.

Even still, what was happening right now was shocking and fear-inspiring. Slowly but surely, Chen Daoze’s earthchild form opened its eyes, and the schoolmaster suppressed his fear.

“This is godsource,” a profound and ancient voice said.

“Greetings, Patriarch!” the schoolmaster said, bowing excitedly.

“Someone... has tread the path ahead of us, and thus proven that our Xeno-Immortal School techniques are feasible on a theoretical level. We use soul threads to imitate godsource. But this person reverse-engineered our process. They used the result to determine the method. And in doing so, they used Xeno-Immortal School techniques as a personal blessing.

“Either a god or an immortal, determined with a single thought. Or perhaps... this is what a xeno-immortal truly is.”

Chen Daoze’s huge earthchild form blurred. Then rumbling sounds echoed out as the body became innumerable soul threads that shrank down and ultimately disappeared, revealing his true body, which hadn’t been seen for 5,000 years. He had deeply sunken eyes and a face full of wrinkles, a testament to the years of hardship he had experienced. His hair was light gray, and he was very skinny. Yet his eyes glittered with bright light; he had such indescribable wisdom that he could burn all souls and see through the substructure of humanity.

After speaking, he checked his body, and then a wistful look appeared in his eyes. He really had never imagined that he would wake up. He had long since resigned himself to slowly sinking away into death.

The chief student didn’t just have a green soul seed now. He also had a white snowflake, in the middle of forming.

As the other students clustered around the chief student and offered well-wishes and congratulations, Xu Qing left the tower.

The other longtime students left also. Among the group of students clustered around the chief student, some looked with disdain at those who were leaving. Others seemed outright hostile. Regardless, the Xeno-Immortal School now had a chief student, and that only attracted more attention. It also made one certain person even more determined than ever.

And that was Seventh Prince.

At the same time that the Xeno-Immortal student was forming 50,000 soul threads, Seventh Prince was in his mansion thinking about what the God-Merging schoolmaster had said about the Xeno-Immortal dao seeds.

“Evil....”

Seventh Prince’s eyes slowly closed, concealing the strange glow within them. He had made his decision. That night, he went to the northwest of the imperial capital.

There, in a building near Grand Prince’s mansion complex, faint lamp light flickered. A figure was there, seated cross-legged at a wooden table. He wore a voluminous black cloak that covered his facial features. At a certain point, he extended his arm, revealing a withered finger that toyed with the burning wick of the lamp. This person seemed like a black hole; the flickering light wasn’t capable of illuminating them, and instead, was sucked away. He sat there quietly. Waiting.

Sometime later, the sound of a breeze could be heard outside. Three people appeared outside the building. Pushing the door open, they entered, heads bowed, unspeaking.

A raspy voice spoke from the depths of the dark hood.

“One. Don’t try to figure out the identity of our employer. Not even I know.

“Two. Once this matter is concluded, all of you are free.

“Three. If anything unexpected happens, or if you’re discovered, you must self-detonate your fleshly body and reveal the Xeno-Immortal dao seed inside of you. All clues need to point to the Xeno-Immortal School. You can make your own decision about how to best make that happen.

“Four. Our employer wants 30,000,000 human souls. It doesn’t matter if they’re mortals or cultivators, as long as they’re human. Put them in these kettles and return them to me.”

The lamplight flickered as the cloaked individual disappeared into thin air, leaving behind three pitch-black kettles.

The three individuals looked silently at the kettles. Without a word, they picked them up, then vanished into the night. Each used their own ways of leaving the imperial capital, and going to other rings in the region, or even other regions....

Around the time they left, Xu Qing, who was currently in his private chamber focusing on the white snowflake, suddenly opened his eyes and looked off into the distance. He had just sensed three green soul seeds leaving the imperial capital.