PS: This chapter was specially updated thanks to the reward from Alliance Leader A Red Beauty in the Yellow Springs (1/9)
Ji Haodian looked well at the moment. His face had usually been tinged with illness, but now a flush of excitement colored his cheeks. Perhaps the White Jade Tablet had given him hope of attaining eternal life, and that had even nearly cured the sickness in his heart.
Looking down at the people below, Ji Haodian smiled. "My dear ministers should all know why I've summoned you here. The secrets of the White Jade Tablet have been deciphered through the joint efforts of the formation masters of Great Zhou and several Esoteric Sect gurus. This will also strengthen Great Zhou."
Listening to Ji Haodian, the others were privately unconvinced.
Great Zhou had investigated the secrets within the White Jade Tablet, and as the true power holders of Great Zhou, they naturally knew what those secrets were.
So none of them had much interest in that wretched method of prolonging one's life.
Besides, eternal life didn't mean immortality. The reason those dried corpses in the Nine-Layer Sword Pavilion had lived forever was that no one could kill them. And in that desolate place, there was indeed little worth fighting over, which was why they had survived for nearly ten thousand years.
But if anyone among them used this method to attain eternal life now, setting aside whether they could bear to relinquish the formidable power they had spent their whole lives cultivating, their enemies would surely do everything they could to kill them if they learned that they had gone from powerful experts to useless husks whose only remnants were their primordial spirits.
Unless they found an uninhabited place and stayed there for the rest of their lives, even if