Reborn as the Strongest Immortal Cultivator in Modern Times

Ye Yu looked around the room again. Apart from the jewelry and jade artifacts scattered around, only the male corpse in the corner caught her attention.

Like the female corpse lying in the coffin, this body showed no signs of life, its eyes closed as if it were asleep. However, there was a large, gaping hole in its heart.

Ye Yu stepped forward and examined the body closely for a moment, only to find that the corpse's right hand was tightly clenched, as if it were holding something.

Ye Yu scanned his right hand with her divine sense and was somewhat surprised to find that there was also a black and white bead lying in his hand, exactly the same as the bead on the female corpse's forehead.

How is this going?

Ye Yu pried open the corpse's hand and removed the ordinary black and white bead. As soon as the bead left the corpse, the body began to decompose at a visible speed, eventually turning into piles of white bones.

Seeing this, she scanned the bead with her divine sense again, but there was no reaction.

Ye Yu pondered for a moment, then channeled her spiritual energy through her two fingers holding the beads into the black and white beads.

To Ye Yu's surprise, the bead emitted a soft white light and frantically absorbed the spiritual energy within her body.

Because it absorbed the spiritual energy very quickly, Ye Yu immediately cut off the flow of spiritual energy into it.

She approached the female corpse with the beads in her hand and removed the black and white beads from the corpse's forehead. Strangely, the female corpse did not decompose this time and remained motionless, sitting there as if she were asleep.

Ye Yu poured spiritual energy into the bead she had taken from the female corpse, just as she had done before, but the bead still did not react.

This puzzled her. The corpse had decomposed as soon as it left the bead, which meant that the bead was the reason the corpse didn't rot.

However, the beads on the female corpse were ordinary, and the corpse remained unchanged after they were removed.

Ye Yu examined the black and white beads on the female corpse several more times, but found nothing unusual about them.

She walked back to the skeleton in the corner and saw the mural behind it.

There were no words on it, but Ye Yu could roughly tell from the murals that this so-called 'Holy Gate' was actually a tomb.

Legend has it that long ago, there was a tribe in the Khimanaya Mountains. The tribe’s chief and his wife were very much in love, but the wife was born weak and sickly and died before she was thirty years old.

The chief was filled with grief, so he sought out the tribe's shaman and asked him to help resurrect his wife.

The wizard told him that when the world was first created, there was a mountain that appeared first. It would rise about ten feet every ten thousand years. At the same time, a black and white bead appeared along with the mountain.

This bead gathers the power of nature. It sits atop the highest mountain, absorbing the essence of the sun and moon every day. If someone obtains it, they can draw upon the energy of nature through it and restore their vitality.

This mountain is the world's highest peak, 'Mount Zhumlangma'.

The tribal chief was overjoyed upon hearing the news, so he led his people up the mountain to search for the mysterious bead.

But reaching the summit is easier said than done.

The chief tried several times, and hundreds of his people sacrificed their lives, but all to no avail. Seeing that his wife's body was about to decompose, the chief decided to take her body up the mountain with him to search for the pearl.

First, the low temperature on the snow-capped mountain would preserve the body intact. Second, once the bead is found, it can be used immediately to save the lady's life.

As the saying goes, perseverance pays off. Three years later, after a search by many clansmen, the chief finally found the black and white bead.

But to the chief's great disappointment, the bead did not immediately revive his wife. The wizard told him that he must keep the bead on his wife's body for fifty years, after which she would naturally be resurrected.

Upon hearing this, the leader immediately made a decision: he would turn the temporary dwelling he had built over the past three years in search of the pearl into a tomb and bury his wife there.

He himself converted to Buddhism and stayed in this tomb.

However, two years later, his wife's body was still slowly decomposing. At first, her skin turned bluish-purple, then lividity appeared, and later, a faint stench began to emanate from her.

The leader couldn't help but doubt whether the bead was even effective. If his wife's body hadn't been buried inside this snow-capped mountain, she would probably have turned into a pile of bones long ago.

One day, when the chieftain received food from his tribesmen, he inquired about the situation of his tribe.

At first, the tribespeople were unwilling to talk about it, but when he pressed them, they learned that the current leader was the former shaman.

Since taking over the tribe, the shaman's magical power has suddenly increased for some unknown reason. He has killed any tribesmen who disobeyed his orders.

The shaman originally intended for this tribesman to completely block the stone doors of the tomb, trapping the chief inside to his death, but the tribesman couldn't bear to do it, so he had to sneak in each time.

The tribespeople initially intended to tell the chief about this, but seeing that he was devoted to Buddhism and had no interest in managing the tribe's affairs, and that the tribe was gradually expanding its territory under the shaman's management, they decided not to tell the chief about it.

Upon hearing that the wizard's power had suddenly increased dramatically, the leader immediately became suspicious. This was because, after obtaining the black and white beads, he had been the first to hand them over to the wizard for examination.

The wizard, under the pretext of studying how to use the beads, kept them in his hands for several days before finally making them into a headdress and putting it on the lady's body.

The mural ends here.

Ye Yu looked at the skeletons in the ground and pondered. According to the mural, the real black and white beads should have been in the hands of the wizard, but why did they end up in the hands of the chief?

Since the leader had already obtained the black and white beads, why didn't he save his wife? And why didn't he survive himself?

This left Ye Yu completely baffled.

However, she was certain that the black and white bead on the female corpse was fake.

She put the real black and white beads into a box and stored them away, and also put all the gold and silver jewelry in the room into her storage ring, before preparing to leave.

She had just reached the top of the stairs when she saw the two lamas who had been following her, even though they had already reached the large Buddha statue at the bottom.

Ye Yu narrowed his eyes, not expecting that these two lamas were quite capable. They hadn't been buried by two avalanches and had actually managed to find this place.

The two lamas went straight upstairs and saw Ye Yu waiting at the bottom of the stairs.

The two men, their faces grim, questioned Ye Yu, "You obtained the Heavenly Spirit Pearl?"

Ye Yu took the fake black and white bead in her hand, tossed it lightly, and then pinched it again: "Is this what you're talking about? It's called the Destiny Bead?"

One of the lamas, holding a vajra, revealed a greedy look in his eyes: "If you hand over this bead to us, we will lift the kill order against you. Otherwise, even if you leave here, you will not be able to leave Tibet."

Ye Yu snorted coldly: "You guys?"