When the old immortal master heard this, he could not help throwing back his head and laughing.
"You are already an arrow at the end of its flight. Bone-Eroding Ash Breath has entered your body, and your meridians are dying inch by inch. In half an hour, you will not even have the strength to self-destruct."
"Boy, you've lost."
"Wait!" Lin Heng suddenly spoke, gritting his teeth. "I have something to say."
The old immortal master froze, then looked at him with a frown. "What last words do you have?"
Lin Heng said, "Can we cooperate?"
"Cooperate?"
The old immortal master looked utterly puzzled, almost thinking he had misheard.
Lin Heng grinned, then suddenly raised his head and said, "I've actually already guessed what you people are up to."
"This so-called immortality is the bait the Medical Ancestor left for his descendants."
"I don't care what your name is, whether you're the old immortal master or some other thing. Your ultimate goal... is to resurrect the Medical Ancestor."
The old immortal master's expression changed for a hundred years...
Lin Heng continued, "I think... the Medical Ancestor left you conditions. Revive him, and he will give you the secret of immortality. This is a transaction."
"But while researching how to resurrect the Medical Ancestor, you discovered a byproduct... memory puppets."
"Long Yun was your test subject. You stuffed a former sage's memories into a specially cultivated shell, making the puppet believe it was the person himself. In the end, it succeeded, and you fooled those great fools of the Martial Path."
"You tasted the sweetness. You realized this method could not only resurrect the Medical Ancestor, but could also resurrect even more people in batches. So you let crooked thoughts stir."
"Collecting heaven's chosen of special bloodlines was not for some