Eternal Life by Daily Divination

If the Liu Family had hired a Foundation Establishment cultivator, this matter would not be easy to handle.

Hu Ke simply wanted to enjoy the power and status that came with his Foundation Establishment Power. He was unwilling to engage in a life-or-death battle with another cultivator of the same realm.

"Since they don’t have anyone at Foundation Establishment, there’s no need to panic. It doesn’t matter how many Qi Refining Cultivators they have; they’re useless. I can crush them with a single hand!"

He slowly rose to his feet, his gaze fixed in the direction of the Liu Clan Territory as killing intent surged from him.

Hu Chang cried out in panic, "Ancestor, it’s a Golden Core! The Liu Family hired a Golden Core Master!"

"What?"

Hu Ke trembled and collapsed back into his seat, the killing intent around him vanishing in an instant.

He couldn’t believe it, thinking he must have misheard.

"You... What did you say? A Golden Core?"

"Yes!"

"How is that possible? The Liu Family is just a Qi Refining Clan. How could they possibly hire a Golden Core Master?"

With a wave of his hand, Hu Ke took out a scroll of portraits.

It depicted every Golden Core Master in the entire Southern Domain.

"Quick, see which Golden Core Master the Liu Family hired."

"It’s... it’s this one..."

Hu Chang spotted Li Chang’an almost instantly and pointed him out with a trembling finger.

"It’s Changqing Ancestor!"

Hu Ke went cold all over. He couldn’t believe the Liu Family had actually managed to hire a Golden Core Master.

To his relief, rumor had it that this Changqing Ancestor wasn’t a bloodthirsty man. He was known to be kind-hearted, rarely engaging in Magical Combat, and was a very friendly senior.

’If I apologize with the utmost sincerity, Changqing Ancestor should spare me.’

But in the next instant...

Hu Chang pointed to another person. "And... there’s also this one..."

"What? Ancestor Ye Hao is here too?"

Hu Ke’s scalp went numb with terror.

This ancestor was a former Tribulation Cultivator, a ruthless killer with an infamous reputation and hands stained with blood.

Before he could even think of a plan, Hu Chang pointed out several more people in succession.

"This one... and this one, and also..."

"Elder Zheng, Elder Mo..."

Hu Ke’s face turned ashen, the light in his eyes dimmed, and he stared blankly, slumping onto the clan throne.

After a long while,

he struggled to his feet from the throne and looked in another direction.

"My Hu Family is facing annihilation. I can’t handle this alone. I must ask *that person* to intervene..."

With that, he transformed into a streak of light and vanished from the Hu Clan Territory.

...

「Meanwhile.」

In the Liu Family’s ancestral graveyard.

Li Chang’an, Ye Hao, and the others had all come to pay their respects.

"It’s been many years, Third Brother."

Li Chang’an was filled with emotion as he burned some joss paper for him.

His third brother’s life story was almost identical to that of his second brother, Xu Yang.

He was rejected by the Immortal Sects and became a Loose Cultivator. He then founded a clan with another female Loose Cultivator and spent the rest of his life fighting for it.

The maximum lifespan for a Qi Refining Cultivator is one hundred and twenty years.

But he only lived into his sixties.

His life was filled with hardship and countless struggles.

People like him were the epitome of countless low-level Loose Cultivators.

After they finished paying their respects,

Li Chang’an summoned the current Patriarch of the Liu Family and used an Illusion Technique to test his character. Finding his disposition to be good, he gave him superior Cultivation Techniques and Magic.

Ye Hao was even more direct, producing a pile of Foundation Establishment Treasures with a grand wave of his hand.

With the help of these Treasures, reaching Foundation Establishment would not be difficult for the man.

Afterward,

the masters each shared some of their Cultivation Insights with the juniors of the Liu Family.

Before they knew it, it was already Midnight.

A golden light materialized before Li Chang’an’s eyes.

[Divination Refreshed]

[Today’s Divination: Auspicious]

[You will merge two Stone Eyes, obtaining one of a higher Tier and learning the origin of the Stone Eyes.]

’Oh? The origin of the Stone Eyes?’

Intrigued, Li Chang’an immediately took out the two Stone Eyes.

When he had first seen a Stone Eye, he had thought it was rather strange.

The Stone Eye didn’t seem to be a Treasure refined by an Artifact Refiner.

Instead, it seemed to have been plucked directly from someone’s eye socket.

Now that he was a Quasi-Tier Four Artifact Refiner himself, he was more certain than ever of this idea.

’Let’s see where this Treasure came from.’

He left a Blood-Dripping Incarnation behind as his true self quietly departed the Liu Clan Territory. He delved deep underground, using the Power of Earth Element to open up an Underground Space.

After setting up a protective Array,

Li Chang’an wore a solemn expression as he placed the two Stone Eyes together.

In the next instant,

the fine, dense blood vessels on the two Stone Eyes seemed to come alive, beginning to squirm one after another.

They seemed to attract each other, and as they touched, they began to merge.

Under Li Chang’an’s watch, the two Stone Eyes slowly fused into one.

During this process,

its aura steadily increased, rising from Tier Three Middle Grade to Tier Three Top Grade, and then to Quasi-Tier Four.

After about a quarter of an hour,

the two Stone Eyes completely fused into one. Their aura suddenly surged, reaching Tier Four Middle Grade!

Its gray-white pupil twitched slightly, transmitting a sliver of consciousness.

Li Chang’an immediately connected with this consciousness.

In the next instant,

unfamiliar memories flooded his mind.

These memories finally allowed him to understand the origin of the Stone Eye.

’So that’s how it is.’

After absorbing all the memories, understanding dawned on Li Chang’an.

All his past questions were answered in that moment.

The Stone Eye had, indeed, been gouged from a Cultivator’s eye socket!

The memories Li Chang’an had just received belonged to its original owner.

This person had been a genius.

He was born with the Treasure Eye!

His eyes were unique. From a young age, he could see the auras of treasures.

Relying on these eyes, he found countless treasures. His cultivation progressed at an astonishing speed, and he quickly became a Celestial Pride of his generation.

He frequented places like Treasure Appraisal Towers and Gambling Stone Workshops, almost always walking away with a fortune. He became a master whom countless people envied and admired.

His cultivation journey was one of smooth sailing.

In less than three hundred years, he broke through to the Nascent Soul Realm and became a powerful Nascent Soul True Monarch.