[Map: Mountain of Origin] [Recommended entry level: 41-63]
Chu Mo's pupils contracted slightly. After so many years, he had finally made out the level hidden behind that map.
"Level sixty-three, mid-stage Spirit Transformation!" Delight stirred in his heart. With that name and level, this was almost certainly the [Life] realm he had been searching for!
Sensing the many "other-self aspects" falling toward the map, Chu Mo made no attempt to stop them. Instead, he secretly urged them on, accelerating their upward fall in the hope of entering it.
Meanwhile, in the Sect Master's Hall.
Xuanming's manifestation in the Present World sat at the head of the hall, speaking with the white-haired young man from the Enforcement Hall. Though his true body had gone to the Eastern Sea to help, his Remnant Husk remained in the sect.
After he subtly hinted at recruiting him, the white-haired young man's reply carried a trace of refusal. His expression remained indifferent as he changed the subject:
"Fellow Daoist Chen Feng, as an elder of the Enforcement Hall, shouldn't you give me an explanation? Huaqing was my dearest friend, a brother through life and death. Yet now he has been murdered without cause, killed by one of our own. Shouldn't you look into this?!"
Chen Feng's face soured, and he cursed inwardly. When Huaqing was alive, how come he never knew he was your dearest friend?!
He truly did not want to get involved. Aside from having a Dao Venerable backing him, Ji Heng possessed extraordinary strength himself and had a host of senior brothers protecting him.
Hold him accountable? Even punish him severely?
He feared that one day, the moment he left the sect, he would take several swords in the back and "commit suicide out of guilt."
He could afford to