Master of Strange Dao

He closed his eyes and searched inside for a long time. Finally, he raised his head and shook it.

"No, nothing on me is a sealed item. If I had obtained a sealed item, I couldn't possibly fail to notice it."

Yu Ziqing saw Zhong Shouzheng so determined and was a bit puzzled.

Zhong Shouzheng thought for a moment. To be safe, he gritted his teeth and took out all sorts of miscellaneous things he had collected one by one for Yu Ziqing to examine.

If there were a devil, it could not possibly escape Yu Ziqing's sensing.

However, after working a whole day and checking everything, Yu Ziqing still found nothing.

Yu Ziqing was deep in thought when he saw Zhong Shouzheng's expression suddenly become extremely grim.

"Elder, what's the matter?"

"I... I think I understand now."

"What does Elder understand?"

"I realize that the devil won't stop pursuing me." Zhong Shouzheng gritted his teeth, his eyes bloodshot with rage, looking ready to kill.

"Elder, please calm down. What's going on?"

"My current body might just be the head of the Old Emperor Zhen."

"What?!" Yu Ziqing was greatly shocked.

In an instant, numerous events flashed through Yu Ziqing's mind.

Back then, the head of the Old Emperor Zhen was taken away for suppression. However, the people who went to suppress the head fell and left no news.

Later on, someone even told him that the chief director once said that no one should expect to find the head of the Old Emperor Zhen.

Yu Ziqing stared at Zhong Shouzheng, his eyes filled with astonishment.

If Zhong Shouzheng's body was indeed the Old Emperor Zhen's head,

Then with Zhong Shouzheng's ability to tend to the good and avoid the evil, almost maxed out, it was likely no one could possibly kill Zhong Shouzheng.

As long as Zhong Shouzheng lived, no one could hope to uncover the truth.

This was far more secure than sealing it in a metal box and suppressing it in some dangerous place.

"I am this sealed item, undoubtedly."

Zhong Shouzheng gritted his teeth, his eyes flashing with fierce light.

"When back then, my body was destroyed, leaving only the Primordial Spirit, Dean Wu of the Langya Institute asked me to do him a favor,

The reward was to give me an excellent body.

He even provided the body in advance to make me agree.

That body was excellent, with a particularly good foundation. Most importantly, though the body clearly had no Divine Soul and not a trace of Divine Soul marks, it was still alive.

It was indeed the most suitable body for me.

That time was my one instance of harboring any luck, resulting in the body being destroyed, and the Primordial Spirit heavily damaged.

The price Wu offered, I could not refuse. Delaying further, I could not find a more suitable body, so I agreed.

He claimed it was to eliminate a few enemies within the Langya Institute for him.

In reality, I saw through those people's little tricks very clearly. Several of them, ostensibly killed by my hand, actually faked their deaths and went into hiding.

These bastards planned to use my Primordial Spirit as a sealed item to suppress the Old Emperor Zhen's head.

From the start, they intended to pit me. So, they shouldn't blame me for breaking my word.

Everything they did, I'll expose it all!"

"Elder, didn't you find that body too strong?"

"Strong? I verified it myself; that body's at most fifth-sixth tier Body Refinement. It's just a pure body, never having undergone Qi Refinement, with no Refining God traces, and the Divine Soul had utterly dissipated, yet its vitality had not ceased. It's the most suitable shell for me.

Looking back now, I vaguely understand why I felt weird then, clearly thinking the body was strong, yet it did not seem like a proper Body Cultivator.

Apparently, that body was strong because the Old Emperor Zhen's Body Refinement was too powerful. Even with only a head, the weakest in Qi-Blood, it could independently regenerate the entire body.

And even with no Qi-Blood circulation, that body could achieve fifth-sixth tier Body Refinement."

"Elder, did you sense the devil's aura back then?"

"No, not only was there no devil's aura, there was no Divine Soul aura either, just a pure shell."

"Elder, do you still remember the appearance of that shell back then?"

"I remember." Zhong Shouzheng extended a hand, an invisible force circulating at his fingertips, continually adjusting until it formed a face with closed eyes.

"Ha..." Upon seeing the face, Yu Ziqing burst out laughing, "It truly is Freedom Heaven."

After getting Yu Ziqing's confirmation, Zhong Shouzheng's face darkened like charcoal, and he realized too.

He had been used. The head of a person, even in the most pure Body Cultivation, was the strongest aspect in the Divine.

Back then, those people used some method to seal the Divine within that head, along with the Heavenly Demon, making it so he, even as a Primordial Spirit Realm, couldn't detect anything wrong.

Giving him that body meant that, over the years, he had been unwittingly using his Primordial Spirit to suppress and seal on their behalf.

What sealed land could compare to him, a live Primordial Spirit Realm with the ability to tend to good and avoid evil and equally strong?

So many years had passed, and he was still alive and well, which demonstrated that the sealing had never failed.

Zhong Shouzheng even speculated whether his past calamity, the destruction of his body and the severe damage of his Primordial Spirit, was something done intentionally by those people.

It was all to make him become this living sealed land.

"Elder, what do you plan to do?"

"I don't want this body anymore. It is of no significant use to me. I'll just swap it for another."

Saying this, Zhong Shouzheng took out a sealed coffin.

After opening the coffin, there lay a slumbering young man.