Rebirth of a Quasi-Immortal Spirit

Gao Zhun became the destined person that a Buddhist cultivator had been waiting for for many years. She twitched her lips and said that she had no intention of becoming a nun. However, what entered her mind was a stroke of luck. It turned out to be the complete inheritance of this Buddhist cultivator.

Originally, Gao Zhun, as a member of the Gao family, had his own set of inheritances, and obtaining other inheritances would be useless, but the Buddhist cultivation was not among them.

Those who cultivate Buddhism focus on cultivating their mind, and so do those who cultivate Taoism. Of the three thousand great paths, all ultimately lead to the same destination. The commonalities between Buddhism and Taoism are countless. What surprised Gao Zhun even more was that this Buddhist practitioner, after achieving great mastery of Buddhist teachings, subtly resonated with the Tao that Taoist practitioners diligently pursue. With this legacy left by the Buddhist practitioner, Gao Zhun believed that her future path to the Great Tao would be far smoother than that of ordinary people.

However, what troubled Gao Zhun now was the cause of the Buddhist cultivator's death. She truly hadn't expected that those evil cultivators would ambush and kill him here, even going so far as to build a Yin Sha Cave to nurture ghosts, their aim directly at the Yun family, one of the ten great lineage families. Just how much power did they have to dare to oppose the Yun family? Gao Zhun felt as if she had touched the tip of a great secret. She couldn't help but want to uncover it, but she also knew that her own power was weak, and she would probably be discovered and killed before she even reached the core.

After much deliberation, Gao Zhun decided to keep the matter a secret for the time being. Since the other side had spent tens of thousands of years dealing with the Yun family, it meant they weren't in a hurry. Besides, the lifespan of a Tribulation Transcending cultivator in the mortal realm was only around ten thousand years. Since the other side had spent the time of several generations of cultivators plotting something big, there was no need to worry about them attacking the Yun family again in the short term. In any case, given her friendship with Yun Mu Ning, she wouldn't stand idly by if the Yun family were in trouble, and by then, she might have the strength to intervene.

Thinking about it, Gao Zhun turned her gaze to the small mahogany box in her hand. If it weren't for the mention in the Buddhist cultivation inheritance, she would never have thought that this mahogany box was actually a medium space.

The so-called meson space is different from ordinary storage magic treasures. It is equivalent to carrying a personal space that can hold living things and can be used to escape danger. However, it is not very useful. After all, after a cultivator advances to the Nascent Soul stage, he will have the ability to tear space. Even if he hides inside, he will still be found by a high-level cultivator. This is why this Buddhist cultivator, despite possessing this treasure, could not escape the misfortune of being surrounded and killed.

However, this small mahogany box is not entirely without merit. At least it contains many of the Buddhist cultivator's belongings from his lifetime. The evil cultivators who surrounded and killed him probably did not expect that he had such a spatial storage space in addition to high-level storage magic treasures. Thus, it benefited Gao Zhun.

Despite possessing countless treasures due to acquiring the entire inheritance hall of the Gao family, Gao Zhun doesn't own any of the items in this interdimensional space. After all, it's filled with items used by Buddhist cultivators. Although Buddhist and Taoist practices lead to the same goal, the types of external objects used in cultivation are still different. Moreover, compared to the treasures obtained from the Gao family's inheritance hall, Gao Zhun finds the magical artifacts in this Buddhist interdimensional space more to her liking.

Buddhist practitioners advocate equality for all beings and refrain from killing easily. Gao Zhun, after all, comes from a society governed by the rule of law, and still has considerable psychological barriers to committing murder. However, when he goes out, he inevitably encounters people. Does he have to use a magical artifact to kill them every time?!

Gao Zhun knew she couldn't kill without blinking an eye like an ordinary person, especially a cultivator. Gaining cultivation was a blessing from heaven and earth, something hard to come by. Before she achieved cultivation, she was just a mortal. How could she act like the heartless heaven and earth? Such overstepping her bounds would inevitably hurt others.

In short, the Buddhist cultivation tradition and some of its magical treasures solved a major problem for her. I wonder what others think when they learn that Gao Zhun, a sword cultivator, avoids killing like the plague.

Even Gao Zhun herself didn't realize that it was that final battle in Yongcheng that made killing her inner demon, and now it has become an obsession. However, it is hard to tell whether this is a shackle or an opportunity.

On one side, Gao Zhun was still studying the methods and techniques for using the Buddhist cultivation techniques passed down through generations, while on the other side, the Yun family, along with Ah Zhong, were caught in a fierce battle.

After Gao Zhun, the fake Ah Zhong, revealed the situation of the Yin Corpse, the Yin Corpse seemed to go mad, gathering all the ghosts in the entire Yin Sha Cave in one place, wanting to kill all the cultivators who had already coveted its secrets.

At this point, although the corpse still remembered some things from its previous life, it was far removed from its identity as a Buddhist practitioner and could no longer turn back.

However, what the Yin Corpse regretted was that the girl who had truly deciphered its secrets was nowhere to be found. Otherwise, it would have ordered its ghosts to attack it en masse, and it would not be able to vent its hatred until it was reduced to ashes.

However, although the entire cavern belonged to it, Gao Zhun was nowhere to be found in its senses. After all, he was just a Yin Corpse with incomplete memories. It had long forgotten that a bomb was hidden in its own lair, which could blow it to pieces at any time, never to see the light of day again.

Among the crowd, forty-nine Mahayana cultivators methodically killed the ghosts that attacked them. Although Yun Mu Ning and Ah Zhong could not see these ghosts, they both protected their bodies with a faint spiritual energy shield. Occasionally, they could kill the ghosts that came close by by launching attacks based on their intuition.

These ghosts would reveal their forms after being killed, so in just an hour, Yun Zihan and her group had already made their way into the cave. The ghost corpses on the ground were still piled up layer upon layer, making Yun Muning's face turn pale and feel nauseous.

"Miss Mu Ning, are you alright?" Ah Zhong took the initiative to use his Vajra Body to protect Yun Mu Ning. He knew that Yun Mu Ning was his master's good friend, so he protected her without making a sound. After all, the Yin Sha Qi and corpse Qi carried by those ghosts were no small matter. Didn't Gao Zhun fall into their trap before?

Upon hearing this, Yun Muning shook her head but still thanked him, showing none of the airs of a noble lady towards her servant. Ah Zhong was used to this attitude; wasn't Gao Zhun the same way towards him? Perhaps he knew that he was far more than just a servant to Gao Zhun, but he didn't want to overstep his bounds. His old master's task for him was to protect Gao Zhun's safety, not to become friends with Gao Zhun or call him brother.

"This can't go on. The only way now is to use the priest's power to find where the Yin Corpse is hiding, and then make a plan before we act!" As soon as Yun Zihan finished speaking, one of the five-person teams stopped and halted the formation of the Heavenly Eye Array. Instead, they formed the Heavenly Evolution Array, which could only be activated by those who had awakened the Yun family bloodline.

The so-called Tianyan was the name of the first head of the Yun family. He even said that under this formation, even the secrets of heaven would be exposed. Now, using it to deduce the location of a Yin corpse is not a difficult task.

Seeing this, Yun Mu Ning wanted them to deduce Gao Zhun's whereabouts even more, but it was just a thought. At this moment, the petite figure in her mind became very clear. If that person were here, with the Yun family's unparalleled intuition, they would definitely be able to find out Gao Zhun's location very easily. However, that person could not possibly be in this cave at this moment.

"Achoo~" Far away on the northwestern border of the Yatian City Domain, Wuya Qiubai touched her nose, looked at the sky and laughed, "Is it Xiao Ning'er talking about me? It's been a long time since we last met. It wouldn't hurt to go to the Yun family." She paused, then the smile on her childish face vanished. "No, I can sense that Xiao Ning'er is no longer at the Yun family. She should be in an extremely dangerous place right now..."

Suddenly, a very familiar feeling arose in her heart, and then the child-faced devil put on a profound look and muttered to himself, "I was just worried about who would take care of these little guys at home when I left, but I didn't expect that an acquaintance would come here. It would be a disservice to my reputation if I didn't grab some men."

So, a certain unlucky child was conscripted by Wuya Qiubai and made to miserably look after her younger sisters in her home.

"Hmm... Buddhism is indeed profound, even more obscure and difficult to understand than what is on Earth. Fortunately, I awakened my soul talent in the Gao family's inheritance pool, and my comprehension has improved. Studying Buddhism is much more efficient. Otherwise, I don't know when I would be able to fully understand the inheritance left by this Buddhist cultivator and break through the barrier."

The person muttering to himself while studying Buddhist teachings in a stone chamber surrounded by walls with no way out was none other than Gao Zhun, who had voluntarily entered the spatial rift and arrived at a Buddhist hall many days ago.

However, at this moment, Gao Zhun was sitting casually on a cushion without any regard for his image. He wasn't in a proper cross-legged meditation posture. Instead, he had one leg fully extended and the other bent, and then he put all the weight of his upper body on the bent leg. This was one of Gao Zhun's ways of relieving his boredom. Being locked in a standard secret room all day long, he could only find some novelty to avoid being driven crazy by the boring cultivation.

At this moment, Gao Zhun felt immense respect for those cultivators who would seclude themselves for decades at a time. She herself lacked such resolve; she preferred self-improvement through exploration and adventure. She doubted she would ever engage in such secluded cultivation to seek breakthroughs many times in her lifetime. (166 Reading Network)