Old Mo was shrewd and adept at reading people. Seeing the change in Mo Hua's expression and the fluctuation in his tone, he asked in surprise:
"Young Master Mo... do you care that much about resurrection from the dead?"
Mo Hua reined in his emotions and replied calmly, "I was merely curious... After all, bringing the dead back to life is far too mysterious. I had never encountered anything like it before..."
Qian Jin said speechlessly, "You say that as though anyone has..."
"In the end, such things are only rumors." The scholar shook his head as well. "How could there truly be resurrection from the dead in this world... Even if there were such a thing, it would be nothing more than demonic methods like corpse transformation, ghostification, or reincarnation. In the end, one would become half human and half ghost, their original nature extinguished. Calling that 'resurrection from the dead' would be worse than dying cleanly..."
Dashan also said with a solemn expression, "All living things between Heaven and Earth are governed by the destiny ordained by the Heavenly Dao. Whoever dares disrupt that destiny will surely suffer Heavenly Retribution. It is hard for them to meet a good end..."
Mo Hua frowned. "If there truly were not the slightest possibility, why would the Earth Sect devote so much effort to studying resurrection from the dead?"
Old Mo shook his head. "Who can say for sure... Perhaps it has been exaggerated, perhaps it is merely a smokescreen concealing some other scheme."
"Of course, it may also simply be rumor piled upon rumor. Revival, rejuvenation, spiritual restoration... and so on. In the cultivation world's Dao Methods, one word off can send things a thousand miles astray. In the end, they may refer to entirely different things. Outsiders like us