166: Enter the Hall of Seeking Immortality and become...

This world, for Chen De, was ultimately too complex.

A small auction had given Chen De too much shock.

Especially the origins of those female corpses… they were truly bizarre.

Let's put it this way: most of those sold on the market weren't wild, ownerless ones dug up from the ground.

After all these years, where would you find wild ones to dig up?

They had long since been cut down and cultivated by previous generations.

But why were there still so many fresh ones appearing on the market?

It's simple: even those with owners could be sold!

For example, the descendants of some powerful female expert might, one day, dig her up and sell her.

After all, the bonds of kinship between people usually only last about three or four generations.

If it goes beyond five generations, even if your ancestor stood before you and asked you to chop them down, you wouldn't hesitate.

It was the same here; these were ancestors from who knows how many generations ago.

They were practically strangers with no connection.

Digging up a few and selling them could still fetch some good resources.

Many people didn't sell, not because of any sentiment, but mainly because they couldn't bring themselves to do it, couldn't lose face.

But in reality, those families whose fortunes were declining had already secretly, clandestinely, sold them.

If anyone found out, they would just say it was stolen.

Just like Feng Zhe's Myriad Transformation Realm ancestor, the wife of that Myriad Transformation Realm ancestor in Feng Zhe's lineage was also a Myriad Transformation Realm expert.

Counting from then until now, who knows how many generations it had been.

In this world, with its changing fortunes, it was hard to guarantee that something like a family's decline wouldn't happen.

By a certain generation, the family had practically sold everything they could.

They even dug up and stripped the tomb of that Myriad Transformation Realm ancestor.

By their time, there really wasn't anything left to sell.

At this point, Feng Rin, a creative member of the family, spoke up.

He claimed he had a connection outside who could sell the corpse of the ancestor's wife.

Nowadays, there were quite a few people outside who had a taste for such things.

Initially, everyone was a thousand times against it.

After all, she was not only their own ancestor's wife but also the source of their lineage's bloodline.

How could such a thing be done?

It was simply unfilial!

But soon, they were struck by the harsh reality and compromised.

During a meeting, someone quietly suggested, "How about we just sell a little bit, and then buy her back once the family recovers financially?"

This proposal was met with approval from all members.

They all declared that a small sale wasn't really selling, and they were still filial descendants.

So, they quietly sold her.

It wasn't until the elder with the connection returned with his party after going out.

When he brought back the proceeds of their trip, everyone was stunned.

They hadn't expected that a mere corpse could be so valuable.

They immediately had the idea of selling the other founding ancestor's corpse as well.

However, having just obtained so many resources, bringing up this matter now felt a bit inappropriate.

As for when to redeem her, not a single person brought it up.

Action speaks louder than excitement; that very night, the current patriarch decided to steal the ancestor's corpse and sell it too.

But when he arrived there, he discovered that the ancestor's corpse had already vanished.

The patriarch was furious and immediately demanded that the culprit be found.

When this matter was exposed, everyone in the family was also shocked and enraged.

They all became suspicious, determined to root out the person responsible.

The result, however, was nothing.

Nevertheless, the family's strength greatly increased due to the large sum of resources obtained, even surpassing several generations above them.

Since that patriarch was named Feng Que, later generations of the family referred to that period as the Feng Que Revival.

As for who stole the ancestor, it was naturally Feng Rin, who held the connections.

He not only stole the ancestor's corpse, but he also took a thirty percent commission from the first transaction.

However, he kept it a secret, not rushing to sell the ancestor's corpse.

Instead, he first used these existing thirty percent resources, and the portion he allocated to himself, to improve his strength.

Since the idea was his, and he handled the business, he received only slightly less than the patriarch in the distribution.

Thus, he silently used these resources to enhance his power.

When he surpassed the current patriarch, he suddenly launched an attack and seized the position of patriarch.

And this Feng Rin was precisely the ancestor of Feng Zhe's lineage at that time.

It was only then that he dared to quietly sell the ancestor's corpse.

In the end, however, he found that no one was willing to buy it.

After searching for a long time, someone finally offered a price, but it was significantly lower than the first one.

Feng Rin was so angry that he immediately wanted to buy the ancestor back.

But after thinking about it, a fly, no matter how small, is still meat.

Having held onto it for so long, he couldn't let it go to waste!

So, he sold it cheaply to the person who made the offer.

It's worth mentioning that the buyer of this one and the previous one was the same person.

According to him, when he bought the previous one, having this one nearby made it feel even better.

After all, it was rare to find a matching set.

If not for this reason, no one would have been willing to buy it.

It is said that the proceeds from that transaction were something called… Eight-Lobed Blood Ginseng!

In short, it was sold for a pittance.

Until his death, he never used the Eight-Lobed Blood Ginseng obtained from the ancestor.

Finally, the Eight-Lobed Blood Ginseng came into Chen De's hands, which was considered to have cleansed its sins.

Chen De was not aware of these memories when he first obtained the top-grade spirit medicine.

After all, at that time, Chen De was parasitizing Feng Rin, Feng Zhe's son.

Later, after Chen De enlightened Feng Zhe and received his memories, he finally understood.

This also made Chen De realize that in a world that adheres too much to the law of the jungle and survival of the fittest, moral bottom lines tend not to be very high.

Chen De's path to benefiting and enlightening the world is long and arduous!

Long and arduous means Chen De needs even greater strength.

Greater strength means Chen De needs to quickly get his hands on the Dual Cultivation Method.

Thus, Chen De, controlling Ren Changhao's body, took Ren Changxuan with him.

After passing through several spatial teleportation arrays, they truly arrived within the sphere of Qiu Xian Hall.

The sect area of Qiu Xian Hall, compared to Tianyan Sect, was quite understated.

Whether in terms of size, scale, or decor, it was far inferior to Tianyan Sect.

Even the sect's location gave one a very casual feeling.

Chen De knew very well that Qiu Xian Hall's true headquarters were not here, but in a small world.

According to the procedure, after Chen De returned, the first thing to do was to submit the mission.

Obtain the sect contribution gained from this mission, have the mission record filed, and done!

After casually giving a reasonable excuse to send Ren Changling away, Chen De could then return to his residence to "breakthrough" to the Myriad Transformation Realm.

Then, prepare for advancement, core…