Re-establishing the Immortal Path

In the Immortal Court, Ancestor Hidden Dragon lay on a sickbed in Yuanting Palace, his aura withered and his complexion pale.

Scores of immortal doctors surrounded the sickbed to study his injuries and treat him. However, his wounds extended across his physical body, Primordial Spirit, and even every aspect of the immortal path, leaving these immortal doctors immensely troubled and struggling to provide a cure.

Chen Shi had bowed to Hidden Dragon six times in succession. The first two times caught him off guard and left him injured.

By the third time, the ancestor mustered all his cultivation to block the blow, but the backlash instead shook Chen Shi to death.

The Dao of Curses was unlike other arts—coming without a shadow and going without a trace, impossible to guard against. Because it was impossible to guard against, even someone with a cultivation higher than the caster would be cursed to death. Yet if it was successfully defended against, the caster would suffer a backlash and die with absolute certainty.

Precisely for this reason, Ancestor Hidden Dragon assumed the caster was already dead and let his guard down against subsequent attacks, causing him to fail to block the fourth and fifth bows.

He should have blocked the sixth bow, but by then he had already suffered grievous injuries and lacked the strength to strike back.

Had Chen Shi not been shaken to death by him right after the sixth bow, a few more bows would likely have caused this great expert at the Primordial Unity Golden Immortal realm—the wise and all-knowing Right Heavenly Master of the contemporary Immortal Court—to perish at the hands of Chen Shi, mere Golden Immortal.

More crucially, Ancestor Hidden Dragon still had not figured out just who had used the Dao of Curses to launch a