No hope for eternal life

Mu Changsheng did not take these to heart. He once told You Wushuang in desperation that he wanted to kill You Hengzu, but now he has let it go. As long as the You clan does not cause trouble again in the future, he will not deliberately treat them harshly.

"I can help him give it a try." Mu Changsheng said to You Wushuang, "But before that, I need you to tell me everything you know about the underworld and resurrection."

"I understand." You Wushuang seemed to have expected it, and she told the past slowly: "About those, what I know actually comes from the Black Demon. It all started from ten thousand years ago, when the Black Demon's cultivation was still at the Divine Sea Realm. At that time, I was still faking my death. Of course, the Black Demon didn't know that I was faking my death. He had a way to resurrect, but he lacked cultivation resources, so he wanted to ask Wuye for resources on the condition of resurrecting me. Wuye took advantage of the situation and wanted to take the opportunity to gain the trust of the Black Demon and lure out the Black Demon's true body, and then the two of us would join forces to kill the Black Demon, but you all know the result later. The Black Demon was extremely cautious, and his true body never showed up. In the end, we only killed one of the Black Demon's clones, but the Black Demon took this opportunity to become the Ninth Realm and killed Mo Xuansheng and a large number of cultivators from the Demon Clan."

"So that's how it is." Mu Changsheng, Xiao Niansheng and others sighed when they heard this. You Wuye's starting point was indeed good, but the black devil was more cunning.

You Wushuang felt relieved after revealing the secret that had been hidden for so many years. He continued, "So our understanding of the underworld all comes from the Black Demon. I judge that the underworld is definitely not a good place because of the conditions required to bring the dead back to life."

"What conditions?" Mu Changsheng asked hurriedly. This was what he cared about most.

"Sacrifice." You Wushuang said in a deep voice: "If you want to revive a dead monk, you must first sacrifice one or more living monks, and the cultivation level of the monks being sacrificed must not be lower than that of the dead. Therefore, the so-called resurrection is essentially a transaction with the underworld, using a stronger life in exchange for a weaker life."

"Moreover, after the resurrection is completed, it does not mean that everything is fine. The first problem is the life span of the resurrected monk. The life span of the resurrected person has nothing to do with his cultivation level before his death. It is generally only about a hundred years. When the time is up, he will die immediately. Then there is the problem of the cultivation level of the resurrected monk. The soul of the resurrected person is extremely weak, and his cultivation level can hardly move forward. Finally, the only good news is that there is no limit to the number of resurrections. Theoretically, as long as you have mastered the method of resurrection, and have corpses and enough sacrifices, you can resurrect the person you want to resurrect an unlimited number of times."

Upon hearing this, Mu Changsheng's heart sank. What a terrifying underworld, what an accurate calculation, using the affection and bonds between cultivators to lure the cultivators to sacrifice others to revive their relatives and friends. The underworld gained a more powerful life from this, and in this process, the underworld only had to sacrifice a life that was already dead. This was simply a business that made a lot of money with no investment!

As the saying goes, a single glimpse of the leopard in the tube and a single leaf can tell the coming of seasons, just by looking at the conditions required to bring the dead back to life, Mu Changsheng can conclude like You Wushuang that the so-called underworld is definitely not a good place!

When he thought of his parents who were currently in the "den of tigers and wolves" in the underworld, Mu Changsheng felt even more uneasy. He wished he could resurrect his parents immediately and rescue them from the underworld.

So, Mu Changsheng stared at You Wushuang's eyes intently and asked You Wushuang again: "One last question, have you also mastered the method of resurrection?"

"No." You Wushuang answered straightforwardly: "Since we learned about the existence of the method of resurrection, Wuye and I have conducted a lot of research over the years, but with little success. The biggest problem is that if we want to revive the dead from the underworld, we must at least have a way to communicate with the underworld."

Mu Changsheng nodded slightly upon hearing this. What You Wushuang said was indeed a very realistic problem. Although he now knew about the existence of the underworld, even though he had reached the tenth realm, he still didn't even know what form the underworld took or where it was, so how could he communicate with it?

Afterwards, Mu Changsheng abided by the prior agreement and helped You Hengzu check his body. Now he could look at people like looking at leaves, and could see the veins of the other person's body at a glance, which naturally included the veins of the soul. He just used this to see through the black devil's clone hiding in the crowd.

After seeing this, Mu Changsheng quickly discovered the problem. The black devil had indeed tampered with You Hengzu's body, and he had tampered with his soul.

In a corner of Youhengzu's soul, there was an additional soul power that did not belong to Youhengzu. It was obviously left by the Black Demon. However, Mu Changsheng had no attainments in the way of soul, so he could only discover the problem, but did not know what the use of this power left by the Black Demon was.

However, even if he didn't know the effect, Mu Changsheng still had a solution. He said to You Hengzu: "The left thumb of your soul has been invaded by the power of the black devil. The only solution I can think of is to directly remove that part of the soul. Of course, whether to remove that part of the soul and how to remove it are all up to you to decide. There is no need for me to do anything."

Upon hearing this, You Hengzu remained silent, but secretly he had decisively cut off his entire left hand. He did not choose to cut off only the thumb, perhaps because he was worried that the cut would not be clean enough.

Seeing this, Mu Changsheng admired You Hengzu's decisiveness. If Xiao Niansheng and You Hengzu had not divorced and had no relationship, he would still call You Hengzu "Master".

Afterwards, You Wushuang and You Hengzu said goodbye and left.

On the other side, Xiao Niansheng, Yang Wuque, Lin Yu and others began to enter Mu Changsheng's inner world one after another. Mu Changsheng also moved the foundation of Taoist Master's formation into his own inner world, so that he could ensure Taoist Master's safety.

Moreover, for the sect today, having Mu Changsheng here will be more useful than any other protective formation.

After the monks' relocation work was basically completed, Mu Changsheng said to Xiao Niansheng's clone who stayed in the sect: "Master, please wait a moment. I will go to tour the Nine Realms first."

Mu Changsheng has now reached the Tenth Realm. The only threat he has is the unknown danger that is rumored to have caused Lin Li to be seriously injured or even killed. Given Mu Changsheng's character, he will naturally not wait for the danger to come to him slowly, so he plans to take the initiative and explore the Nine Realms carefully to see if there are any potential dangers hidden in these Nine Realms.