Xu Feng immediately pressed the second jade slip to his forehead, unable to wait.
The instant his spiritual power sank into it, a flood of text poured into his consciousness sea.
This slip contained far more detail than the first. Dong Guxu's strokes remained neat and forceful.
But there was a new urgency between the lines, as though he had been anything but calm when he wrote them.
"Senior, please allow me to start from the beginning. After you left, I followed your instructions and led our people into the Holy Mountain.
The documents the Thirty-Three Palaces left behind in the Holy Mountain were vast as an ocean. It took me a full fifty years to organize and archive them all.
Most concerned the daily operations of the Void Guards, including maintenance records for the Sealing Formation, duty rotations for the Void Guards, and access permissions for the Holy Mountain's various regions.
But one collection of documents caught my attention.
They were stored in a separate secret chamber deep inside the Holy Mountain, protected by restrictions far stronger than those anywhere else.
It took me three years to break through them. What I found afterward kept me awake all night."
"First, the Reaper was not a naturally born creature, but a weapon of war created by the Thirty-Three Palaces themselves.
Second, the materials used to create the Reaper included five laws: dragon blood, phoenix fire, extreme cold, space, and spirit.
Third, and most importantly, a special symbol appeared on the Reaper's blueprints.
This symbol also appeared repeatedly in other documents on the Holy Mountain. After consulting a great deal of material, I confirmed its meaning.
It represented the Thirty-Three Palaces' most closely guarded secret, code-named the 'immortality plan.'"
Xu Feng's heartbeat suddenly quickened as he read this.
The immortality plan.