Mu Yingluo gently shook her head, then said, "Thank you for your kindness, Fellow Daoist Su, but I must walk the road ahead myself. As for you... are you interested in the path of the Loose Immortal?"
With his thoughts laid bare, Su Shi'er did not deny it. He nodded directly. "I am somewhat curious."
"The path of the Loose Immortal is by no means the proper path to immortality."
"The myriad methods of this world follow different roads to the same destination. One more contingency means one more measure of hope. The affairs of the world are unpredictable. Who can know what will happen in the future? If you find it inconvenient, Miss Mu, there is no need to say more."
"You certainly are open-minded, Fellow Daoist Su. The path of the Loose Immortal is no secret, though. There is nothing I cannot tell you."
Su Shi'er looked momentarily taken aback. He watched Mu Yingluo without speaking again, quietly waiting for her to continue.
After a brief moment of thought, Mu Yingluo continued, "The so-called path of the Loose Immortal involves a cultivator abandoning their physical body and continuing to cultivate and nurture themselves for a thousand years in their Nascent Soul form, then using sea agate, a wondrous substance from the East Sea, to reconstruct their body."
"Anyone who reconstructs their body will inevitably face a heavenly tribulation. If they are fortunate enough to survive it, they can completely fuse their Nascent Soul with their reborn body and transform the true essence within them into a higher form of energy-the legendary immortal essence."
"At that point, they will have taken the first step on the path of the Loose Immortal and become a First Tribulation Loose Immortal."
Su Shi'er nodded as he listened, then asked at an appropriate