marks a solid first step towards becoming the leader of the righteous path.

As they ventured deeper into the White Pagoda, Shen Yunshu's joyful expression gradually turned serious. She reached out and grabbed Yu Zhao, saying with considerable worry:

"Senior sister, something's really wrong with this place. Do we really want to go any further?"

"What did you discover?" Yu Zhao asked her.

"Look at this skeleton," Shen Yunshu said, pointing with her small hand to the skeleton sitting cross-legged on the ground. The skeleton was quite peculiar; the bones were golden. Shen Yunshu knew what it was, and she said with a serious expression:

"This skeleton possesses an indestructible golden body, one of the hallmarks of a Nascent Soul cultivator. In other words, Senior Sister, this skeleton was a Nascent Soul cultivator in life!"

A Nascent Soul cultivator died here. What lies deep within this white tower?

Shen Yunshu felt a chill run down her spine; this kind of opportunity was no longer something they could find.

As Shen Yunshu finished speaking, she saw her senior sister coincidentally approach the indestructible golden body and even intend to touch it. She exclaimed in surprise:

"Senior sister, stop!"

Shen Yunshu rushed over in three steps and grabbed Yu Zhao's hand. "My dear senior sister, can you stop courting death? You dare to touch the corpse of a Nascent Soul cultivator? Aren't you afraid that there is still some residual aura on it?"

"A Nascent Soul cultivator could kill us with just their aura!"

She just couldn't understand why her senior sister, who was usually so composed, would act so recklessly when faced with an opportunity.

They'd rather lose their lives than their money!

"Don't worry, there's no trace of life force on these remains."

Yu Zhao's spiritual sense was far stronger than Shen Yunshu's. Under her spiritual sense's probing, the skeleton was found to be completely dead, and it was also very old.

Over time, not only the remains of Nascent Soul cultivators, but even Deity Transformation cultivators will perish completely.

Therefore, Yu Zhao was not afraid at all. While comforting Shen Yunshu, she put the skeleton into her storage bag.

Although this corpse has lost its aura, it might be possible to extract some essence blood. The essence blood of a Nascent Soul cultivator is a treasure to demonic cultivators!

After collecting the remains, Yu Zhao pondered Shen Yunshu's words. She also realized that this place was unusual, and that retreating now was the safest course of action.

But then Yu Zhao thought that the path of cultivating immortality is like rowing against the current; how can one keep retreating?

If you don't even dare to seize the opportunity right in front of you, then what's the point of cultivating immortality?

If you pretend to be weak to outsmart others for too long, you might actually become a weakling.

Thinking of this, Yu Zhao made up her mind and her gaze became firm. When she looked at Shen Yunshu, a hint of madness flashed in her eyes. "Junior sister, we have been trying to play it safe, but people can't get rich without unexpected wealth. If we keep playing it safe, won't we become like tortoises?"

As you probably know, we've been manipulated and schemed against by a powerful being like puppets on strings all along. I've had enough. I have a feeling we'll regret missing this opportunity.

So, junior sister, are you willing to take this gamble with me?

Damn it! The worst that can happen is death!

Yu Zhao's long-suppressed frustration finally erupted at this moment. She wanted to take a gamble and screw her composure!

Her words silenced Shen Yunshu. Reason told her that she couldn't go along with her senior sister's crazy behavior, but she also felt aggrieved.

In a split second, Shen Yunshu made up her mind, "Then let's take a gamble. If it works out, I'll have one more trump card."

In a sense, the two women are very similar; they both have a kind of madness in their bones.

In order to survive and go further on the path to immortality, they spared no expense, even daring to gamble with their own lives.

Having reached a consensus, the two women no longer hesitated and subconsciously quickened their pace, continuing to venture deeper into the white tower.

On the way, Yu Zhao saw the remains of five more Nascent Soul stage experts, and she didn't stand on ceremony and collected them all.

After about the time it takes for an incense stick to burn, Yu Zhao discovered that there were no more corpses ahead; instead, there was a path paved with white bones.

She and Shen Yunshu walked along this path of bones. When they reached the end of the path, a throne of bones came into view. This throne was extremely luxurious.

How luxurious are they? They're all forged from indestructible golden bodies!

Behind the throne stood a flagpole, its entire body emerald green, about nine feet long, with a spearhead at the top. Below the spearhead was a black flag with a blood-red pattern on it.

The image is extremely bizarre. It depicts a woman sitting cross-legged, with her left half of body turned into skeletons and her right half remaining normal.

The expression on her face was neither a smile nor a cry, yet it inexplicably drew the eye.

As Yu Zhao watched, she became so engrossed that she unconsciously sat down and began to meditate and breathe, mimicking the posture of the woman on the flag.

Suddenly, lightning crackled around Yu Zhao. She snapped back to reality and immediately realized that there was something wrong with the flag. She saw that Shen Yunshu was also bewitched and had entered a meditative state.

"Shen Yunshu, wake up!"

Yu Zhao shouted loudly, and the sound was accompanied by a thunderous explosion. Shen Yunshu suddenly woke up. She was not stupid. After waking up, she quickly mobilized her Azure Dragon bloodline to protect her spiritual platform.

What a strange magical artifact! I was affected just by looking at it.

Now the two women understood what those skeletons outside had gone through before they died. They were most likely bewitched by this strange magical artifact and died in the white tower.

Yu Zhao let out a long breath, still shaken, thinking how lucky she was to know the Five Thunder Technique, otherwise she would have really fallen victim to it today.

She obtained the Five Thunder Technique by purifying the demonic spells she originally knew through her strange light screen cheat. After obtaining it, Yu Zhao never had the chance to use it.

This is because the Five Thunder Technique is too powerful, extremely strong and yang, acting on behalf of Heaven to punish evil spirits.

This kind of technique didn't seem like something a Qi Refining cultivator like her could possess. Fearing it would attract covetous eyes, Yu Zhao had never used it and planned to keep it as a trump card.

Today's unexpected turn of events allowed her to survive only thanks to the protection of the Thunder Magic. Yu Zhao felt that the Five Thunder Technique was even more miraculous than she had imagined.

I'll have to find time to study it carefully later.

While Yu Zhao's thoughts were racing, Shen Yunshu kept secretly watching her. Shen Yunshu was very puzzled. Her senior sister was clearly a demonic cultivator, so how could she know lightning magic?

Thunder Technique! This is the most mysterious method in the cultivation world today. It is a closely guarded secret of the Dragon Tiger Holy Land, one of the five holy lands. Why does my senior sister know it?

Could it be that my senior sister is actually related to the Dragon Tiger Holy Land?

Thinking of this, Shen Yunshu couldn't help but ask:

"I've never heard you mention your family before, Senior Sister. Are you a native of Qingfeng Town?"

"Why are you suddenly asking this?" Yu Zhao found the question very strange.

Shen Yunshu hesitated for a moment, but finally decided to tell the truth: "I saw that Senior Sister used lightning magic. Does Senior Sister know that this lightning magic is a closely guarded secret of the Dragon Tiger Holy Land, one of the five holy lands?"

"what?"

Seeing the blank look in her senior sister's eyes, Shen Yunshu knew that she definitely didn't know, so she warned her, "If you have no connection with the Dragon Tiger Holy Land, you must keep your thunder techniques hidden from now on. The Dragon Tiger Holy Land is considered the top of the five holy lands. If they find out that your thunder techniques have been spread outside, you will be in danger."

Yu Zhao: "!!!"

Holy crap! This is outrageous! The lightning magic has such a huge impact?

Yu Zhao suddenly felt uncomfortable, and wondered if he should try to get a Dragon Tiger Holy Land identity for himself in the future.

So, what exactly was the original owner's identity?

She had no memories of the original owner of the body. When she transmigrated to this world, she was begging on the streets. She had no idea what the original owner's name was or who her family was.

Even her age was unknown to Yu Zhao. When Qingfeng Laodeng found her, he said her bone age was sixteen. But later, Yu Zhao cultivated immortality and was able to feel her bone age. She discovered that the bone age of this body did not seem to be as Qingfeng Laodeng had said.

Putting everything else aside, it's been almost two years, and the body's bone age is still sixteen, which is very strange.

Forget about that, the most important thing right now is the baby!

Pulling herself back to reality, Yu Zhaochong thanked Shen Yunshu for the reminder and then walked towards the bone throne and the flag.

With the protection of thunder magic, there's naturally no need to worry about these two magical treasures being strange.

Seeing Yu Zhao approach, Shen Yunshu quietly followed.

The two women stood before the two magical treasures, examining them. Yu Zhao asked Shen Yunshu, "Junior Sister, do you know what these two magical treasures are?"

Shen Yunshu shook her head, feeling rather helpless. She felt that her senior sister seemed to have some misunderstanding about her. She wasn't some old monster; how could she know everything?

Seeing her shake her head, Yu Zhao was quite surprised. In her mind, the little green tea was already equivalent to an encyclopedia, and now there were things she didn't know.

"Then, junior sister, you choose one."

Yu Zhao was always generous to his own people; here were two magical treasures, one for each of them.

That's right, Shen Yunshu is already one of her own in her heart. This little green tea knows a lot, has a strong aura, knows how to behave, and speaks very nicely.

This is simply the perfect teammate. Yu Zhao even planned to find time to have a drink with the little green tea girl and then directly worship heaven... no, I mean, become sworn brothers.

From now on, we'll be brothers and sisters!

For the sake of long-term development, even if Yu Zhao was greedy and reluctant, he still had to give away one of the magical treasures.

If we can appease that little green tea b*tch, with her strange luck, will she ever lack magical treasures or opportunities again?

This is called investment.

Shen Yunshu was naturally unaware of the chaotic thoughts in Yu Zhao's mind. After hearing her senior sister say to choose one item, her little face became troubled.

She didn't actually want to choose either of them; she thought they were both ugly.

But Shen Yunshu knew very well that if she didn't choose, her senior sister would not be at ease. Her senior sister didn't trust anyone; she only believed that mutual benefit was the best way to maintain relationships.

If she doesn't choose, her senior sister will definitely not tolerate her and will be afraid that she will leak the secret.

Thinking of this, Shen Yunshu could only obediently comply, suppressing her nausea, and pointed her small hand at the bone throne, "I choose this."

Although the Bone Throne is ugly, at least it's not as bad as that flagpole, which is terrifying.

Shen Yunshu didn't think that she, without thunder magic, could suppress such a strange magic weapon.

After making her selection, Shen Yunshu began to use her blood to bind and refine the magic weapon. During the refinement, she was astonished to find that the magic weapon was far more powerful than she had imagined.

This is definitely not an acquired spiritual treasure, an innate spiritual treasure, or a top-grade spiritual treasure. This magic weapon is far superior in grade to even top-grade spiritual treasures.

There are as many as 100,000 internal restrictions alone. With her current strength, she simply cannot fully control them. At most, she can only initially recognize them as her master. As for controlling them, that's out of the question.

Shen Yunshu suspected that this thing might have reached the level of a celestial treasure. If it were known to the outside world, even Mahayana cultivators would probably go crazy.

This is truly a stroke of incredible luck!

Little Green Tea's forehead was covered in fine sweat, clearly indicating that the ritual was not going smoothly.

"Is it that difficult?"

Yu Zhao muttered something under his breath, and a drop of his blood fell into the flagpole.

Let her see what's going on.

The moment the blood oath was performed, the strange light screen that had been dormant for so long stirred again:

[Detected: Demonic Treasure Myriad Soul Banner (Fragment), Grade: Top-Tier Immortal Treasure. Purification initiation... Purification complete. Myriad Soul Banner purified into Human Emperor Banner (Fragment)]

At the same time, the banner of ten thousand souls underwent a dramatic change in form. The emerald green flagpole turned golden yellow, and the flag surface turned purplish-gold. The strange pattern of half-white bone and half-human on it transformed into complex runes.

This magical artifact, which originally exuded an eerie aura, instantly became full of righteousness, and the pale golden light it emitted nourished its master, Yu Zhao.

At this moment, Yu Zhao was unaware that the pale golden light was the golden light of merit. Such a large amount of golden light of merit was rare not only in the current cultivation world, which had entered the Dharma-ending Age, but also in the True Immortal Realm.

As for the use of the golden light of merit?

It has many uses. The most basic use is to nourish the body and soul, but the greatest use is that it is equivalent to having a death-exempt token given by the Heavenly Dao.

When the golden light of merit accumulates to a certain level, anyone who dares to kill a cultivator possessing this golden light will die.

Merit and virtue are a panacea.

Of course, Yu Zhao was unaware of these things at the time, but even so, she could still feel the benefits of the pale golden light.

Without hesitation, she quickly stored the Emperor's Banner in her sea of ​​consciousness. Since her current strength was insufficient to fully unleash the power of this magical artifact, Yu Zhao planned to resolutely avoid using it unless absolutely necessary, and instead keep it in her sea of ​​consciousness to nourish her soul and body.

Even if it can't unleash its full power, it's enough to protect him. With the Emperor's Banner protecting him, Yu Zhao is no longer afraid of being secretly observed by cultivators with profound cultivation, nor does he have to worry about being slapped to death by a powerful being one day.

The power of the Human Emperor Banner itself was equivalent to adding a layer of fame to her sword.

At this moment, Yu Zhao finally felt truly safe. She raised her hand and touched the petal mark on her forehead, which appeared after the Human Emperor Banner entered her sea of ​​consciousness.

Touching this spot, Yu Zhao smiled unconsciously, a smile so bright and unrestrained.

"Hahahaha! My cheat ability is amazing! It can even purify magical artifacts! I, Yu, have finally stood up!"

This was a wonderful surprise for Yu Zhao, and she was overjoyed. If it weren't for the fact that Shen Yunshu was still refining the magic weapon and she didn't want to disturb her, Yu Zhao would have burst out laughing.

"Speaking of which, why didn't the light screen cheat purify my magic weapon before? Did it think its level was too low? No way!"

Thinking of this, Yu Zhao suddenly realized that her previous magical treasures did not belong to her; they were all relics of her senior brothers and sisters. Even the bone sword that Little Green Tea gave her was a relic of her junior brother.

Thinking about it more carefully, although she signed the artifact with her blood, doesn't the artifact still have the original owner's hidden features, so it doesn't completely belong to her?

But my senior brothers and sisters are all dead... Could it be that Old Qingfeng left some kind of backup plan? That's right, it must be him, otherwise why would he let me pick up those magic treasures?

Yu Zhao initially thought he looked down on it, but she remembered Shen Yunshu's words. Shen Yunshu said that the natural materials for forging magic weapons were very rare, which meant that every magic weapon, even a low-level one, was priceless.

How could Qingfeng Laodeng dislike it? It would be good to use it as material for recasting.

Thinking of this, Yu Zhao's joyful mood sank again. If her guess was right, then the cultivators in this world were truly terrifying. Even a Foundation Establishment cultivator was so cunning. If she hadn't made this discovery today, Yu Zhao didn't dare to imagine how she would die one day.

They probably won't even know how they died.

"We still need to find another opportunity to try it out; maybe I'm just overthinking it."

She secretly comforted herself, but in reality, she already believed her own guess.