Eternal Life: Talent Grows with Age-Chapter 142 - 115: Immortal Fate

"Dummy, if you become immortal and pull me up too, wouldn’t that mean we could be together for way longer?"

These two had been husband and wife for ages; naturally, they spoke without restraint.

Li Nangua felt he was making sense, so she nodded.

"Whatever you say, Chang’sheng."

"But we can’t let our guard down with an Immortal Worship Ceremony held by a demonic entity. When the time comes, we’ll have to make some changes to the ritual."

Lu Chang’sheng was worried something might go wrong, and thought deeply.

In the blink of an eye, half a year had passed.

During these six months, aside from focusing on his own cultivation, Lu Chang’sheng hadn’t forgotten to test Li Nangua’s progress.

That’s when he noticed Li Nangua was advancing even faster than he’d imagined—she’d already broken through to the Innate Realm.

Compared to his own Late Innate level, she was only two minor stages behind.

"So it turns out that someone with a Spirit Root gets a special boost even in martial arts?"

Once he learned about Li Nangua’s pace in Martial Dao, Lu Chang’sheng’s mind was set at ease.

Soon after, he received word from Hong Yuan—the immortal object able to suppress the demonic fluctuations had already been borrowed.

He took Li Nangua and hurried to Black Mountain Prefecture right away.

A few days later, the group gathered on a desolate patch of land outside Black Mountain Prefecture City to perform the Immortal Worship Ceremony.

Cai Daoren, Guan Hongxiu, Daoist Ruyi, Hong Yuan, and their disciples were all present.

After more than ten days spent carving the Spirit Array, Lu Chang’sheng and Li Nangua stepped onto the formation.

As the main participants in the ceremony.

Originally, the Immortal Worship Ceremony only required one person as the lead, but Lu Chang’sheng wasn’t about to let Li Nangua take this risk alone, so he entered the array too.

Moreover, he tied a rope around himself and Li Nangua to keep their bodies together.

Everything was set.

The Immortal Worship Ceremony began.

As soon as the Immortal Worship Incense was lit, everyone saw waves of mist billow outward.

Right then, a fissure split open ahead.

One mountain wolf after another came crawling out of it.

Lu Chang’sheng suddenly recalled what he’d seen in the woods behind Zhao Family Village that time.

A pack of mountain wolves stood all around, their eyes glued to them like hungry predators.

"I remember now—wasn’t it just like this that day?" Li Nangua pointed at the pack, whispering.

"But... Something feels missing."

As soon as she finished speaking, the mist tumbled and a silhouette emerged.

It looked just like Lu Chang’sheng.

"Wife, what are you doing here? Quick, come with me."

The figure kept talking as it approached. 𝑓𝑟𝑒𝘦𝓌𝑒𝑏𝑛𝑜𝘷𝑒𝘭.𝒸𝘰𝑚

But the moment he saw the real Lu Chang’sheng beside her, he flinched, and his eyes flashed with confusion—and a glint of blood.

A Blinding Technique?

Lu Chang’sheng and Li Nangua stared at the bizarre scene.

In the surrounding white fog, they could vaguely see the mountain wolves watching them like prey.

And one of the wolves had morphed to look just like Lu Chang’sheng.

If she didn’t know the real Lu Chang’sheng was next to her, Li Nangua might’ve genuinely hesitated.

She thought back to the time outside Zhao Family Village, when she’d met Lu Chang’sheng and followed him towards the woods without a second thought—almost getting dragged into the fissure back then.

Now, as a Martial Artist at the Innate Level, she understood what had happened.

The mountain wolf disguised as Lu Chang’sheng, its words seemed laced with some kind of temptation.

Right now, the turbulent blood and energy in her body was proof enough.

Lu Chang’sheng realized the area was shrouded in an illusionary mist; the others, Hong Yuan included, were hidden from view.

Thankfully, with their prowess in Martial Dao, everyone quickly broke free from the haze.

The fake Lu Chang’sheng in the mist shifted into a man-shaped wolf, making Lu Chang’sheng’s heart skip a beat.

"Should we attack?"

Cai Daoren gripped his sword hilt.

"Hold on!"

But just then, Hong Yuan stopped her.

"Chang’sheng told them not to interfere yet."

They saw that on the other side, real Lu Chang’sheng, with his hand still linked to Li Nangua’s by the rope, was gesturing behind his back to keep them back.

So the group held off and watched as the man-shaped wolf kept up its act.

It didn’t take long for Lu Chang’sheng to see what the wolf was after.

It didn’t want to devour Li Nangua outright; instead, it used its beguiling power, trying to lure her into the fissure behind it.

Maybe it was intelligence, or something else—the man-shaped wolf hadn’t caught on that the group was onto it.

"Probably because our Martial Dao is way too high."

If it were ordinary people, they’d never be able to resist the spell’s fluctuating influence.

Lu Chang’sheng felt the pounding energy in his veins—a sign the beguiling power was constantly in play.

But all of them could repel it with their own blood and energy.

The man-shaped wolf seemed oblivious; to Lu Chang’sheng, it was more like a mindless avatar than the real deal.

"Could it be that something’s odd about this world—maybe the real man-shaped wolf can’t enter directly, so it tries to lure prey only?"

"But—this man-shaped wolf doesn’t seem quite the same as the one I saw before."

Lu Chang’sheng decided to go along, heading into the fissure to see what would happen.

He lightly tapped Li Nangua’s hand.

Li Nangua nodded to show she understood.

"Come on, come on! Follow me," the man-shaped wolf, thinking it still looked like Lu Chang’sheng, waved its ’hand’ at Li Nangua.

But to everyone else, it was clearly waving its claw.

It looked creepy as hell.

Soon, they reached the fissure.

The man-shaped wolf stepped inside without hesitation.

Then peeked its head out, calling to Li Nangua: "Hurry, come in."

Lu Chang’sheng’s vision blurred; for a moment, he saw a house door.

The surging energy inside his body made the door vanish—revealing the truth underneath.

Everything clicked in his mind.

By rights, Li Nangua should have seen ’Lu Chang’sheng’ lead her into a house, thus fulfilling the wolf’s plot.

But behind that fissure—what was really in there?

The true man-shaped wolf? The Immortal Realm? Or something else, even more deadly?

Lu Chang’sheng was much more inclined to believe that what lay beyond the fissure was some unknown threat.

Because he could sense pure malice.

"Aren’t you coming out to explain? If it’s like this, there’s no way we’re pressing forward!"

Lu Chang’sheng suddenly spoke up.

He just wanted to test it—to see if the ’Old Wolf’ would show itself. He hadn’t expected that, in the next moment, a voice echoed from the fissure.

"Come inside. I swear it won’t harm you."

But neither Lu Chang’sheng nor Li Nangua advanced an inch.

"Sigh~ Fine, let me just talk to you here. It’s a waste of resources, though, and it pains me a little."

"Let’s keep it brief; first, about what lies beyond the fissure."

"Just as you guessed, there’s nothing good beyond it. The demonic entity is the key the fiends use to enter the world. Open that door, and you’ll be face to face with the true fiend right away."

Everyone’s hearts seized as they listened.

"So that’s it... Demonic entities really are bad news."

Hong Yuan exclaimed, deeply relieved they hadn’t tried to conduct the Immortal Worship Ceremony using a demonic object.

"Still, for now, it’s the only way to step into the Spirit Realm. Without help from the fiend, I couldn’t bring her in—even if I wanted to."

"So you want to use this method to take Nangua over to your side?"

"That’s right. Your world has already split off from the Spirit Realm, and though it’s slowly drifting back, that won’t happen for a long while. If you wait till then, you wouldn’t need this method. Too bad, at this moment, there’s no other way I can do it."

"Nangua, is it? You’ve got a fine Spirit Root; if you come with me to Fuyun Mountain, you could go far."

"But you need to understand—Immortal Fate doesn’t come around all the time. At your bone age, in five more years, you’ll be far less valuable. At that point, even with my recommendation, it’ll be hard to gain a foothold at Fuyun Mountain."