The professor's daughter had died many years ago in a feud between cultivators. He had killed her murderer with his own hands, crushed their bones, and scattered their ashes, but his daughter would never return.
Over the years, he had founded the Superpower Organization, gathering superpowered individuals from across the world and tirelessly researching their abilities day after day, all to find some hope of bringing his daughter back to life.
Yet reversing life and death was taboo. Throughout history, countless emperors, generals, and cultivation titans had sought to achieve it, and none had succeeded. His research had once reached a point where even the slightest progress was agonizingly difficult.
Heaven rewarded those who persevered. At last, he had found a glimmer of hope for resurrecting his daughter.
At that thought, the professor turned his gaze toward a jade coffin.
The jade coffin clashed with the style of the entire laboratory. Ancient and imposing, it bore no seams anywhere, having actually been carved from a single block of uncut jade. Its sides were engraved with exotic creatures from the Classic of Mountains and Seas, such as Zhu Yan and Light Beast, along with small-seal script reproducing passages from the classic itself. Its scholarly value was immense; at auction, it would likely fetch an astronomical price.
But what truly moved the professor was not the jade coffin itself.
The professor slid open the coffin, revealing its occupant: a breathtakingly beautiful woman. Dressed in a blue-green Daoist robe, she exuded peerless grace. Her eyes were closed, her hands crossed over her chest as she lay quietly in the coffin, as though asleep.
The professor had discovered the jade coffin during an underwater salvage operation. He had only intended to search for relics left behind by cultivators, never expecting to haul up a