Transmigrated into a Grandpa, Embracing the Laid-Back Life

Chapter 187: Su Ming's Spiritual Root

The night was as thick as ink, dense and impenetrable.

In the rear hall of the External Affairs Hall on Guiding Peak, a place usually bustling with people and the noisy clamor of task handovers, it was now eerily quiet.

Only a solitary lamp flickered at the end of the corridor, stretching Su Ming's shadow into a long, thin, and twisted shape.

Su Ming stood before that heavy purple sandalwood door, took a deep breath, and tried to calm the slightly rapid heartbeat in his chest. Just half an hour ago, an emergency message talisman had directly breached the defensive formation of Bing Character Seven Courtyard and landed in his hand.

There was no official format, no bureaucratic prose, only Elder Ma's familiar, somewhat weary voice: "Come quickly."

"Disciple, this atmosphere doesn't seem right," Lin Yu's soul thought within the Xuantian ring, unusually dropping his usual playful demeanor, his tone carrying a hint of gravity. "In the dead of night, a lone young man and an old man, in this kind of meditation room... based on my extensive experience, this usually only means two things: either entrusting an orphan or a soul seizure attempt."

The corner of Su Ming's eye twitched slightly as he responded in his mind, "Master, can you wish me something good?"

"Ahem, your teacher is just conducting the worst-case risk assessment," Lin Yu said.

Su Ming's heart tightened. Death aura?

Su Ming hesitated for a moment, straightened his robes, and gently knocked on the door."Enter."

Su Ming pushed the door open and entered.

No lamps were lit inside the room. Only the cold moonlight from outside the window poured in like quicksilver, outlining the gaunt silhouette by the window.

Elder Ma stood with his back to the door, hands clasped behind him, gazing at the churning sea of clouds outside the window.

The incense in the burner had long since burned out. The air was filled with a desolation that came after a task was accomplished and the dust had settled, along with a faint, almost imperceptible... sense of finality.

Su Ming did not speak, merely bowed respectfully and then stood to the side with his hands hanging down.

After a long while, Elder Ma slowly turned around.

By the moonlight, Su Ming saw his face clearly and couldn't help but feel his heart skip a beat.

Old.

Too old.

about to burn out completely. The wrinkles on his face were as deep as ravines, his eye sockets were sunken, and only

to the

sat down, his back ramrod

will enter

a massive rock hurled into

though he had some premonition, the news

extending my lifespan by another five hundred years; failure means the Dao dissipates, the body perishes, and the soul returns to heaven and earth," Elder Ma's tone was as calm as if discussing some trivial matter unrelated to himself. "This is

thousand words ultimately condensed into a single dry phrase: "Elder...

his hand, a faint trace of mockery tugging at the corner of his mouth. "What 'fortunate man under a lucky star' exists in the cultivation world? It's merely fighting fate. This old man has been stuck at Golden Core Perfection

was like a deep, ancient well, quietly fixed on Su Ming. "Before entering seclusion, there is one matter I must settle to

heart shook. He sat up even straighter. "Please instruct

Instead, he

a palm, its back carved with intricate cloud patterns. The mirror surface, however, was not smooth bronze but a chaotic, grey vortex, as if capable

heart tightened, but

mirror," Elder Ma's voice brooked no argument.

hesitated for an

if something abnormal

the 'Formless Pattern,' unless a Spirit Transformation old monster arrives in person, he won't detect anything odd about the ring. As for your body... heh, that's a good thing.

longer. He extended his right hand and slowly pressed it against the

"Hummm—"

humming sound resonated within the quiet

grey vortex on the mirror surface began to spin wildly. A faint

after, a vast, brilliant light

an azure

an endless emerald sea, instantly illuminating the entire dim meditation room,

Water Spiritual Root!

superior Water Spiritual Root

Elder Ma's eyes instantly erupted into two beams of intense brilliance, fixed unwaveringly on that sea of blue