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Chapter 789 - 663: Final Rites or Sublimation?!【Seeking Subscriptions, Seeking Monthly Tickets】

Chapter 789: Chapter 663: Final Rites or Sublimation?!【Seeking Subscriptions, Seeking Monthly Tickets】

"Uh..."

Although Wang Zijia had some speculation about what he was going to see due to the abnormal mana in his body, he was still slightly taken aback when he truly saw the target, or rather, multiple targets.

Behind the door, there was a huge Dome Hall.

It looked like it had been altered from a natural cave.

On the ceiling, various stalactite-like sharp pillars still maintained their original appearance.

Apart from that, the entire Great Hall was built grandiose and magnanimous. However, strange black runes filled the ground, the surrounding, and even the dome and those inverted sharp pillars above.

The entire Great Hall was quite vacant. Only at the center stood an irregular honeycomb-shaped thing about ten meters in size, and nothing else.

What made one’s scalp tingling was that at this moment, white worm-like creatures about two meters long were shuttling and entangling in the holes of the honeycomb-shaped thing.

The worms didn’t look healthy, as if they were suffering from a severe disease.

The honeycomb floated a few meters above the ground. Right underneath it, a group of extremely listless, dying white worm-like creatures was wriggling and intertwining on the ground, as if they were going to die collectively.

The worm-like creatures were plump and about two meters long. Their bodies were serpentine but flattened, looking like a giant centipede’s meat strip that has been stripped of its shell and legs.

As they entangled with each other, there was a mucus-like sticky fluid crossing between each other. It was kind of disgusting.

Quite disgusting indeed!

"So this is your clan’s patriarch who is at the Tribulation Crossing Peak?" Wang Zijia asked while looking at the group of dying unknown Gu with a twitching expression.

"Yes, senior!" Zhu Fazheng answered sorrowfully while looking at those worm-like creatures.

Wang Zijia had seen a fair share of cultivators who had cultivated themselves into being neither human nor ghost, but this was the first time he had seen someone who had cultivated themselves into ground spicy strips!

So Wang Zijia didn’t respond, waiting for the other party to continue.

Zhu Fazheng took the time to choose his words, and didn’t answer directly. Instead, he used a question to start, "Senior, are you preparing to become an Immortal?"

’Become an Immortal? Does he mean······’

Wang Zijia paused, looking at those bunch of Gu insects in astonishment.

Under Zhu Fazheng’s gaze, he nodded without showing any expression.

"Then, senior, you must know that apart from using cultivation spiritual objects to fill up your spirit mechanism and carrying dao consistency to become an immortal through the orthodox path, there are many other alternatives, right?" Zhu Fazheng asked again.

Wang Zijia nodded again, and he already had a guess in his mind. "So, this one from your family wanted to cultivate into a Gu Immortal, but he failed before the Thunder Tribulation even arrived?"

Zhu Fazheng looked sad, didn’t reply to Wang Zijia’s words, but said sentimentally,

"Indeed, it has been over five thousand years since someone from our family had successfully crossed the tribulation, but we didn’t have any broken spiritual beings. What you see is our Zhu Family’s only remaining Great Cultivator who had crossed the tribulation."

Wang Zijia was stunned. He remembered the Zhu Family’s material he had skimmed through on his way here. It mentioned their last Tribulation Crossing Cultivator, from over five thousand years ago.

"Zhu Qi?" Wang Zijia asked.

Zhu Fazheng nodded and said, "About five thousand years ago, our Patriarch had reached the Tribulation Crossing Peak and happened to obtain the ancient centipede shedding Gu. He had the possibility of becoming an Immortal by cultivating his body into Gu."

"We should have gone to the Central Immortal Domain to seek possibilities, but our family couldn’t even make a name in the Northern Region, not to mention crossing the realms."

"Yet, cultivating Gu and nurturing Gu cannot be done in an instant. With no other choice, our Patriarch could only choose to cultivate into an Immortal within the clan."

"For five thousand years, our family has almost put all our efforts in nurturing Gu. All high-end resources were used to support the Immortal Gu, which led to the embarrassing situation of no one being able to have a breakthrough in Tribulation."

"This was not a big deal as long as our patriarch successfully became an Immortal. Even if he became a Turbid Immortal, the family was going to witness a massive change."

"But five thousand years passed, despite our relentless efforts, his efforts eventually······ we underestimated the restrictions imposed by the East Wilderness on nurturing an Immortal Body."

"As senior, you can see, the Immortal Gu failed to nurture without even witnessing the Immortal Thunder Tribulation. The patriarch’s Dao Body was chaotic, which eventually collapsed and turned into these Gu."

"The clan tried methods for a few hundred years, but there was no improvement, and it is now completely irreversible. The patriarch is also approaching his end, so he asked us to look for Heritage Masters while he can still do something, to leave some possibilities for the clan."

"To avoid the declination of our family due to his procrastination of five thousand years."

"The reason for being so cautious is that our family has already been recognized as a broken spiritual family. We think that it should continue in this manner until someone succeeds in crossing the Tribulation."

With just a few sentences, Wang Zijia understood the causes and consequences.

Looking at the Gu in front of him, Wang Zijia’s face was inexplicably emotionless.

Turning oneself into an Immortal Gu to seek Immortality is not unusual.

But it’s another story if your Immortal Tribulation hasn’t even arrived yet and you not only failed, but also ended up in such a situation... Who gave you the confidence that you could try to become an Immortal in the first place?

Although he was complaining in his heart, there was no expression on his face. He asked, "So you want to condense an Inheritance Treasure in hopes of quickly producing a Tribulation Crossing Great Cultivator?"

Zhu Fazheng didn’t immediately answer Wang Zijia. Instead, he suddenly opened his mouth and spit out a worm the size of a finger.

Also plump and white, it resembled a small centipede that has lost its shell and feet. Apart from being smaller than those in the Great Hall, it looked completely similar.