My Journey to Immortality Begins with Hunting

Li Yuan’s vision cut out. He wasn’t too shocked. With the elites of the Lotus Cult and imperial army weaving through this region, even the most inconspicuous of scouts could be found.

Still, after many days of observation, he was starting to piece the puzzle together—

First, his martial cultivation technique didn’t contain its own ancestral seal.

Second, hungry to break through, his disciples had improvised their own ancestral seal shards—abnormal shards they were never meant to wield. The shards provided immense power, but the price was madness.

Third, when Li Yuan absorbed these shards, they slotted home and functioned properly. And because these shards shared the same origin, they could fuse without limit, not merely in threes.

In effect, every disciple contributed to completing the technique. Li Yuan supplied the framework, but lacking full insight he had no ancestral seal. The disciples, driven by their own visions, sketched their own ancestral seals in his stead.

Fourth, the Lotus Cult was exploiting the quirks of his martial cultivation technique to build an army of super soldiers. The stripped away memories and desires of the disciples were transformed into exotic beasts while the vegetative bodies were refitted by the Green Lotus Cult into fearless troops.

Li Yuan had bought and used fearless troops before, but he had never seen them being made.

Now he understood.

Red Lotus destroys.

White Lotus beguiles.

Black Lotus poisons.