The Undying Immortal System

I wasn’t sure what my trip to the Brilliant Sun Empire would entail, so I made thorough preparations beforehand. I needed to stock my storage space well just in case the journey proved to be fatal.

Pill Emperor Li had left me with three items. A book, a box, and a coin. The first two were too large to keep, but the coin was by far the most important to me anyway. I didn’t know what its significance was, but it was the first thing I stored away to take with me.

Another important treasure I needed to keep was the small pouch of seeds given to me by SuYin. I didn’t know what they were, but if Mei wanted me to have them, I felt that they must be important.

Next were pills. In the past, I always took cultivation resources back with me, but I had never needed them. Getting basic herbs for cultivation pills was easy, so they were just taking up space. Instead, the most important pill to take with me was the Nutrition Pill. The original Su Fang’s body was a mess, and I had relied on a Rank 1 healing pill to fix it. It did a decent job, but a Nutrition Pill could help further heal my body during those early stages.

The only other pills I decided to take with me were poison pills. I needed to be able to die as quickly as possible, no matter the situation. I had no idea how much effect the Rank 3 poison I had made in the past would have on a Lord or King, so I reformulated it with the most powerful Rank 4 herbs I could. I didn’t have a Lord to test it on, but I was confident it would do the job.

I went through everything else I had or could get, and there was nothing else I thought I needed to take. Spirit stones would be nice, but with access to the right herbs, I could earn them easily enough. I pocketed a little loose change, just to be safe, but other than that, I didn’t think there was anything I really needed.

So, it was time to start on Emperor Li’s book. My first idea was to try and copy down all of its information onto small, thin pieces of paper that I could safely place in my storage space. When I tried that though, my writing became smudged and illegible. No matter how many times I wrote down the information, no matter how careful I was, the final result was an illegible mess.

This strange effect seemed to only apply to the parts of the book I couldn’t understand. Everything from the simplest parts to the most difficult passages I had memorized were able to be copied without issue, but the parts of the book beyond my understanding would twist and turn as I tried to write them.

I could copy things I didn’t know, but I couldn’t copy things I was incapable of understanding.