Never Dies and Unrelenting Vengeful Spirit

"Then let's focus on this Divine Ability Realm..."

In the study, Yuan Gu lit a stick of incense.

With the help of the spiritual fragrance to forcefully stimulate his brain, Yuan Gu appeared energetic and kept turning the pages of his book.

When the explanation came to the part about the Cloud Soaring Technique and the Divine Ability Realm, Zhang Xuezhou and Rong Tianding, who were listening to the explanation, heard a slight knock on the outer door of the study.

As soon as Zhang Xuezhou had a thought, he saw Yuan Gu casually break off a bamboo strip from a scroll, mutter a few words, and then toss it out of the study. The knocking sound immediately disappeared.

A thud was heard; the other person had clearly collapsed.

"I'm old now, and some of my nephews come to check on me from time to time," Yuan Gu said. "They're like vultures chasing a corpse, they want to tear my body apart, to see if there's any treasure hidden inside!"

"Master, what if someone else comes to visit you in the middle of the night?" Zhang Xuezhou asked.

"What normal visitor would come at night?" Yuan Gu shook his head and said, "It must be that scoundrel!"

"I'll go check it out!"

While Zhang Xuezhou and Yuan Gu were talking, Rong Tianding quickly got up and then slightly opened the study door.

This led him to witness a familiar scene.

The old man that Li Shaojun transformed into using the aging technique lay withered on the ground, looking like a dead man, without any color in his face, without a heartbeat, and without any trace of life.

"He's dead again," Rong Tianding whispered.

"Again?"

As Yuan Gu paused for a moment, Zhang Xuezhou also stood up.

He glanced at Li Shaojun lying by the door, then had Rong Tianding bring him in.

"I don't know if he had some kind of substitute death method or some other wonderful technique to possess his soul, but he died quickly when he encountered danger," Zhang Xuezhou said, pointing at Li Shaojun's corpse.

"Why do you say that? It makes me vaguely remember this person." Yuan Gu asked suspiciously, "Who is he?"

"He said his name was Li Shaojun, but I don't know if that's really his name," Zhang Xuezhou said. "We met him on Mount Tai when we returned from the Immortal Court. At the time, we thought he was a robber, so we threw stones at him. But not long after we buried them, he caught up with us again. Then we rode our horses to Xi'an County, and he followed us!"

"So it was him!"

Yuan Gu nodded, indicating that he already knew where Li Shaojun came from.

"This Li Shaojun claims to be a descendant of the Dao Ancestor, but he does indeed possess some remarkable abilities," Yuan Gu said. "He has two nicknames: 'Eternally Immortal' and 'Unrelenting Vengeful Spirit.' Anyone who crosses him will have a headache!"

"Never to die, never to be forgotten, a vengeful spirit?"

Zhang Xuezhou had heard many nicknames, but one like Li Shaojun was rare, especially since the other person had two nicknames, which made Zhang Xuezhou marvel.

"This man has repeatedly claimed to be the orthodox Daoist, but how can the orthodox Daoist position be so easily seized?" Yuan Gu said, "Leaving aside the distant Immortal Court's Daoist lineage, the Daoist lineage of our Great Han Kingdom is firmly in the hands of that Empress Dowager in the Imperial Palace. It is virtually impossible for anyone else to seize it!"

Was the Empress Dowager a Daoist?

"The leader of the Purple Tenuity Sect number one Daoist sect in the world, is her son, Liu Wu, the Prince of Liang, and she also controls more than one Daoist sect," Yuan Gu said. "Shen Pei's attempt to establish Confucian School as the legitimate successor of the Great Han Dynasty based on righteousness will likely be met with a severe blow from this holder of the Daoist lineage. As for Li Shaojun..."

"Please say a few more words. Why did you stop talking?"

Yuan Gu said a few words, but then fell silent when Li Shaojun was mentioned.

After several seconds, Li Shaojun, who was lying on the ground, finally couldn't help but speak.

He touched his face, then turned over and stood up, showing no trace of his previous death.

"Li Shaojun, what brings you here?" Yuan Gu asked in a deep voice.

"This isn't just a coincidence; I came to check things out. I was hoping to pay you a visit, but I got stabbed to death with a bamboo skewer before we even met. What a horrible death!" Li Shaojun complained.

"Knocking on the door in the middle of the night is hardly the proper etiquette for a visitor," Yuan Gu rebuked.

"I didn't even have time to formally enter; I just knocked," Li Shaojun said. "I'm already here, and I know both of them. You wouldn't want to kick me out, would you?"

"I know the drawbacks of your substitution method, and I know how to deal with you," Yuan Gu said. "Don't bother them, I'll pretend I never saw you!"

"Don't ruin the harmony. You Confucian School value harmony above all else, so let's not hurt each other's feelings," Li Shaojun emphasized repeatedly. "I didn't bother them. I just converted their cloud-riding technique for them, and they came to you to verify it right afterward. Coincidentally, there were some things I didn't understand, and I wanted to listen in on them."

"Oh?"

Yuan Gu looked at Zhang Xuezhou and Rong Tianding with a puzzled expression, which made both of them nod.

"The slopes down the mountain were steep and numerous, and we thought that learning a flying technique would prevent us from falling off the cliff. Unexpectedly, he followed us, eavesdropping on quite a bit, and later even offered some corrections," Zhang Xuezhou said. "If he can lend a hand in interpreting the cloud-riding technique, we won't hesitate to share our Technique Method!"

"Hey!"

Li Shaojun smiled.

Zhang Xuezhou's words sound nice, but he has already paid the price for his aging technique, and the cloud-riding technique he desires is not yet complete.

Li Shaojun had no choice but to come to Xi'an County this time, whether he wanted to or not.

Zhang Xuezhou and Rong Tianding were riding their BMWs at breakneck speed, while he was desperately trying to catch up behind. Before he even met them, he was stabbed to death with a bamboo skewer.

If Li Shaojun hadn't been so prone to courting death, he would have been dead long ago.

At this point, it can be said that Zhang Xuezhou and the others had a conscience and did not take advantage of Yuan Gu's power to drive him away.

"The Eastern cultivator is magnanimous!"

Li Shaojun did not refute Zhang Xuezhou's words, while Yuan Gu thought Zhang Xuezhou and the others were remarkable, allowing others to listen in on such important matters so readily.

Even the Confucian School school, which is known for its openness, has its own internal factions. These factions are constantly vying for power and engaging in exclusion, let alone openly sharing their Technique Method.

Seeing that Zhang Xuezhou and the others didn't mind Li Shaojun listening to the lecture, Yuan Gu felt that many great Confucian School scholars were not as broad-minded as these young people in this respect.

"Since you want to hear it, then listen carefully, lest you cause trouble and lose your life later," Yuan Gu said.

"This is still my Dao Ancestor..."

"What do you mean, 'your family's Daoist ancestor'? Are you suggesting that all the Daoist arts in the world belong to your ancestor, or that we, who claim to be descendants of Confucius and Mencius, can consider all of Confucian School as our own?"

Yuan Gu reprimanded him, which made Li Shaojun's face, which had aged prematurely due to the magic, turn as red as a monkey's bottom, and he dared not make a sound anymore.

He sat down obediently, and Yuan Gu began to explain the Divine Ability Realm part of the Cloud Soaring Technique.

Glancing at the three different colored incense sticks burning in the study, Li Shaojun knew very well that Yuan Gu was risking his life to tell the story, and the price he paid was considerable.

Li Shaojun couldn't help but wonder whether the price Zhang Xuezhou and the others had offered truly involved the elixir of immortality.

"Are there really people in this world who wouldn't even risk their lives?!"

His thoughts were complicated. It wasn't until Yuan Gu made a clear mistake when describing the cultivation of cloud-riding techniques in the Divine Ability Realm that Li Shaojun quickly realized his mistake and refuted and corrected him.