“Looks like you don’t dare to say,” Xu Zimo said.
He was somewhat curious about the identity of the white-dressed woman, but from the looks of it, she had quite a background.
Even his Senior Brother didn’t dare to answer him.
“Junior Brother, I’m just a blacksmith, I don’t know anything,” Rock Solid quickly shook his head.
Xu Zimo didn’t press further and walked straight toward his own cave dwelling.
Because no one had been living in the cave on Vermillion Bird Island, it was rather simple.
Inside there was only a stone bed, a stone stool, and a stone table.
A few clothes and some weapons hung on the walls.
The weapons were all gifts from Rock Solid.
When Xu Zimo sat down on the stone bed, the white-dressed woman followed closely and sat on the stone stool beside him.
“What exactly do you want?” Xu Zimo asked, frowning.
“I want to get to know you,” the white-dressed woman said.
“Now you know me, can you stay a little farther away?” Xu Zimo said calmly.
“I want to make a deal with you,” the white-dressed woman said.
“Not interested,” Xu Zimo waved his hand directly.
“You won’t even hear what the deal is about?” the woman said with a smile.
Xu Zimo frowned slightly, a little impatient.
A blade intent condensed between his fingers and shot straight toward her.
The blade intent tore through the silent air, carrying a chilling might.
Seeing the blade intent coming, the white-dressed woman smiled slightly and flicked her finger, making it disappear without a trace.
“Are you always this unromantic to all girls?” the white-dressed woman laughed lightly. “I have no ill intentions.”
“I’ll give you ten seconds to say what you have to say, then get out,” Xu Zimo said indifferently.
“I’m here on behalf of the academy to talk to you,” the white-dressed woman said seriously. “If you need anything, you can tell the academy. The academy only hopes that in times of crisis, you’ll lend a hand.”
“I’m just one person with little power, what help could I give?” Xu Zimo said.
“Your True Martial Sacred Ground behind you...” the white-dressed woman said.
Before she could finish, Xu Zimo interrupted her directly.
“Stop right there,” Xu Zimo waved his hand. “If it’s about the True Martial Sacred Ground, go talk to them. I can’t make the decisions.”
“In any case, think about it carefully. I’ll be back,” the white-dressed woman said, then left.
Xu Zimo frowned slightly.
He had some idea of her purpose now, the Heavenly Dao Academy was facing trouble soon, and she knew he was a Holy Son of the True Martial Sacred Ground.
So they wanted to get the sect’s help.
But Xu Zimo couldn’t be bothered.
If the True Martial Sacred Ground had ties with the Heavenly Dao Academy, helping wouldn’t be a problem.
But the key was that in the sect’s history, none of its four Grand Emperors had ever come to train at the Heavenly Dao Academy.
So he had no say in the matter.
He sat cross-legged on the stone bed and began cultivating.
Now his cultivation was all about building a solid foundation before breaking through.
Morning light and dew, the first sun rising.
Xu Zimo only awoke from cultivation then. When he stepped out of his cave dwelling, he found that Venerable Nu was actually waiting outside.
Venerable Nu sat at the top of the valley, at that moment swallowing and exhaling the essence of sun and moon. The time when darkness and dawn intertwined was also when spiritforce was the most concentrated.
Seeing Xu Zimo come out, Venerable Nu stopped.
“Teacher, why are you here?” Xu Zimo asked.
No matter what, the other was his teacher in name.
“I came here specifically for you,” Venerable Nu said with a smile. “To take you somewhere.”
“Where?” Xu Zimo stepped forward and asked.
“You’ll know when we get there,” Venerable Nu said with a smile.
Following behind Venerable Nu, the two rose into the air.
They headed north from the Heavenly Dao Academy, traveling for about half an hour.
Xu Zimo noticed that in the distance, the sky and earth seemed to change color.
From the original blue, it turned into black and white.
Like two black and white fish, it formed a yin-yang pattern reflected between heaven and earth.
Their figures stopped in front of a great gate.
The surface of the gate was also engraved with a yin-yang wheel, slowly rotating.
Endless yin and yang energy poured out.
“What is this place?” Xu Zimo asked in confusion, looking at Venerable Nu.
“The Land of Life and Death,” Venerable Nu said. “Since the academy made you my student, as your teacher I should at least take some responsibility.”
Seeing Xu Zimo’s puzzled expression, Venerable Nu continued.
“I’ve observed you carefully. With your current strength, so-called divine medicines, martial arts, or secret techniques won’t help you much anymore. After thinking it over, perhaps only this place can be of some help. So that in the battle for Heaven’s Will, you can go one step further.”
“The Land of Life and Death,” Xu Zimo murmured.
He felt like he had seen this aura somewhere before.
But he couldn’t quite recall it.
“Our Heavenly Dao Academy was founded by the Ten Sages, built in the Desolate Era, you should know this,” Venerable Nu said.
Xu Zimo nodded slightly. In fact, of the Ten Sages, he only knew the One-Force Sage and the Azure Tiger Sage.
“One of the Ten Sages, the Yin-Yang Sage, once ascended to the Outer Heavens. What he cultivated was the Dao of Life and Death within the Yin-Yang Dao,” Venerable Nu said.
“This Dao of Life and Death is extremely profound, and many people can’t even enter its threshold in a lifetime. Back then, the Yin-Yang Sage perfected the Dao of Life and Death, but unexpectedly was struck down and killed in the Outer Heavens. Countless years later, no one expected the Yin-Yang Sage to actually revive within the Heavenly Dao Academy.”
“Revived?” Xu Zimo was a little surprised.
Aside from himself, this was the first time he’d seen someone return from the dead.
“This is something many people already know, so it’s not surprising,” Venerable Nu said with a smile.
“After reviving, the Yin-Yang Sage began cultivating again. In less than a hundred years, he had already stepped into the Immortal Path. According to the Sage, the reason he was struck down in the Outer Heavens back then was because he had obtained a treasure from the Realm of Life and Death.”
“And then?” Xu Zimo asked.
“The Sage brought that treasure from the Realm of Life and Death back here and cultivated in this place. In a hundred years, not only did he himself step into the Immortal Path and return to the Outer Heavens, but even the place where he cultivated turned into the Land of Life and Death,” Venerable Nu said. “I sensed the aura of the Land of Life and Death on you, so I thought this place might be useful to you. In the entire Primordial Heartlands, in terms of life-and-death energy, our Heavenly Dao Academy’s Land of Life and Death ranks in the top three.”
“Life-and-death energy, what does that have to do with me?” Xu Zimo frowned.
If it was infernal energy, he could accept that it was related to him.
But life-and-death energy was something he had never dealt with before.
“My cultivation method is special, with particularly sharp perception,” Venerable Nu said.
“Besides infernal energy, there is a very pure life-and-death energy in you.
There’s no mistake.”
Xu Zimo pondered for a long while before suddenly realizing.
“That’s right, the Codex of Life and Death.”
Back when he was in the True Martial Sacred Ground’s Abyss of Life and Death, with the help of the various ancestors, he had taken this Codex of Life and Death.