The Road To Immortality

The Ritual Begins

The next day, Nang In performed a ritual inside the forest, of course with Zhou Jin and Lin Yue.

Each ritual has its own way depending on the purpose of the ritual performer, for the ritual to be performed by Zhou Jin is to move the sealed Divine Beast in it and then bequeathed to Nang In.

This ritual has two stages, the first and the last. Zhou Jin's first stage passed down the Divine Beast's soul to Nang In through a soul intermediate, this stage was completely harmless even very easy, whereas the last stage?

Zhou Jin and Lin Yue did the merging between Nang In's soul and the Divine Beast's soul, this process would make him feel pain like a lost mind and rampage like a savage beast.

This final stage will be the most painful suffering!

Right in the middle of the woods.

There is a mysterious magic circle with a hexagram emblem composed of several strange runes, on the edge of the circle there are twelve burning candles and a black dagger at each corner of the hexagram.

In the middle of the magic circle, Nang In and Zhou Jin were sitting bare-chested, both holding small knives in their hands. Right in Zhou Jin's stomach, there was a circular ancient inscription-shaped seal and in the middle of it an ancient seal that formed three black claw blades.

"I'm starting..."

Outside the circle, Lin Yue recited a strange spell then injured her fingertips with a dagger, fresh blood dripping in the magic circle, along with Zhou Jin and Nang In doing the same thing, they cut their fingertips and let their blood drip to the ground.

After Lin Yue did the hand seal, the magic circle along with the strange runes emitted a red glow, along with it the hexagram in the middle of spinning - swivel it tightly to cause a slight vibration on the ground surface.

Even so, Zhou Jin and Nang In still remained closed as if unaffected by the tremors. As if moving to another realm, the souls of Nang In and Zhou Jin were now dissolved into a different dimension.

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"Where am I?"

As far as the eyes could see, Nang In only saw boundless darkness, silent, desolate, there was nothing there other than black, suddenly his body was pulled down and washed away by the flow of water that led him to a hallway lit by blue torches of fire, even though the hall was filled with water, but the fire was not extinguished at all.

Nang In held his breath and drifted into the hallway, he saw a carving that seemed to tell the story of the past, after a while, he finally arrived at a giant door with ancient carvings.

When Nang In touched it, the door opened and sucked him in. Nang In realized that even though he was in the water, he could still breathe.

Again, he was in the sea of darkness!

After a while in the sea of darkness, suddenly blazing blue flames were so hot. The atmosphere became more tense when the depth of the water turned blood red, bubbles rose upwards as if in boiling water.

Highlighted in blue flames, in front of Nang In's face was seen a giant white-haired tiger, two sharp fangs coming out of its mouth, the stocky body with black stripes that adorn is sleeping soundly on a throne decorated with torches and animal skulls.

Around the throne were scattered countless gigantic bones. Despite his slumber, it did not diminish his aura of majesty and arrogance as a King.

Seeing the creature in front of him made Nang In's knees go limp, after all, this time he saw a living creature that big!

"Ja - So he's one of the 7 Divine Beasts?" said Nang In with a face full of sweat out of fear.

From behind, someone massaged Nang In's shoulders, "Loose your shoulders Son"

Nang In looked back, "Teacher Zhou?"

"No need to fear, this friend of mine is still in his long sleep" Zhou Jin floated towards the giant tiger then gently stroked its fur.

"Friends?" Nang In tilted his head.

"Of course, after all, he's been fighting with me for centuries, isn't it weird that I call him a friend?" Zhou Jin tilted his face.

"Truely, he has many nicknames such as Lord Of The West, Lord Of The South Pole, True King Of Ice, King Of Demon Beasts, generally he is famous as Ruler Of Ice, but his real name is..." Zhou Jin stopped his words and stroked his beard like trying to remember something.

Nang In waited for the continuation of Zhou Jin's remark, "His name?"

"The name is of course you have to find out for yourself hehe" Zhou Jin laughed as he patted Nang In's shoulder.

Nang In looked at Zhou Jin with a flat gaze, he actually knew why Zhou Jin did not want to tell him.

The important thing needed to become a Heaven Seal other than strength was the ability to be trusted or acknowledged.

Why so?

Although Heaven Seal was roughly the master and Divine Beast was a slave, it was certainly not easy to obtain the power of a Divine Beast just like that, it needed the trust of the Divine Beast to be able to obtain its power.

Although in some history it was said that there were some Heaven Seals that forcibly took away the power of the Divine Beast, it was clearly the wrong way and certainly not easy!

The Divine Beast's form of belief usually took the form of name recognition, Because names according to them were something very vital, it could even be said to be self-esteem!

If the Divine Beast gave its name, it signified that the Divine Beast had believed in the Heaven Seal and had acknowledged being their master or friend. Otherwise, then the Heaven Seal had not gained recognition and would not have been able to bring out the true power of a Heaven Seal.

"So how much longer will he wake up Master?" Nang In ventured to get closer towards the giant monster.

"Hmmm that's something In'er can't guess, but one thing you should remember, you better be careful because my friend is a little unfriendly to new people"

Somehow hearing the phrase 'slightly unfriendly' made Nang In interpret the opposite meaning!

"So what should I do for him to treat me kindly?"

"Comforted"

"Meng - Entertaining him? do I have to make a funny joke for him to laugh? or dance - nari while wiggling pa-tat to make her blush?" asked Nang In in a joking tone.

"Hahaha what a good idea, son, but the point of entertaining is that you have to give an interesting spectacle for him, after all he is very easily bored"

"Hmm so" Nang In stroked his chin looking to understand something.

"But Master, if I'm not able to provide an entertaining spectacle?"

"Of course" Zhou Jin's countenance turned serious, then continued, "He will take your place!"

The deg!

Nang In's body was immediately jolted, because Zhou Jin who usually put on a cheerful face now showed a figure that made him feel afraid, that means that Ruler Of Ice who replaces her is a nightmare that should not happen!

"Of course I'll teach you to be a good entertainer" Zhou Jin's expression was cheerful again.

"Thank God" Nang In stroked the chest.

"Give me your hand, we'll start the transfer process" Zhou Jin thrust his hand.

"Good Master", Nang In shook Zhou Jin's hand.

From the shaking hands came a holy light that slowly grew and illuminated the sea of darkness to turn it into a white dimension.