However, there was not the slightest bit of resentment on their bodies. Instead, they crawled around adorably on the ground, and when they felt Su Tu's gaze, they looked at him with their fingers in their mouths.

"Baby spirits..."

Su Tu looked at the infants with a somewhat puzzled expression. He initially thought that the red ropes at the village entrance were for warding off evil, but now it seemed that might not be the case.

Putting strength into his feet, he sprinted toward the village entrance like a leopard, soon reaching back to the entrance.

Upon seeing Su Tu, the little infants crawled over, climbing on him as if they were filled with affection for someone who could perceive them.

A few of the baby spirits even fell asleep on Su Tu's shoulders, looking incredibly cute.

This situation was completely beyond Su Tu's expectations.

He hadn't thought that he would be entangled by these baby spirits. If they had malice, Su Tu could directly suppress them with Heart and Spirit, but each of these little beings seemed very fond of him.

Su Tu reached out and patted the head of a baby spirit, and the little infant giggled. Seeing this, the other baby spirits also crawled toward him, staring at Su Tu with big, glistening eyes.

Su Tu was at a loss between laughter and tears, so he patiently patted each of the baby spirits on the head.

Counting carefully, there were a total of 121 baby spirits. After finishing patting the last one's head,

"Alright, alright, I've patted all of you." Su Tu said.

But then, his expression suddenly darkened.

Because he saw a... floating strand of hair on the neck of the last baby spirit!!

Su Tu was sure that this child definitely didn't have this hair before.

He had a premonition that the strand of hair was definitely related to that woman with the hair.

Instinctively, he directly grabbed that strand of hair.

The next moment...

A segment of memory instantly flooded Su Tu's mind.

At the village entrance, an old man with murky eyes stared at the ground, while a tall man was holding a tiny infant and kowtowing repeatedly.

"Village Chief, please spare my child."

"This is my only seedling!"

The man said with a sobbing tone.

"Sentimental fool!"

"Once this is done, our village will become the most prosperous place, and perhaps we could even build a city or establish a country!"

"By then, you can have as many children as you want!" The village chief harshly scolded.

"I don't want other children, I just want this one. He's the legitimate son my wife gave her life to bear!"

The man shouted in anger and then stood up to flee but...

Bang!!!

Several strong men jumped out from the shadows and struck the man on the head with sticks.

"Sentimental fool!" The village chief coldly snorted and picked up the baby from the man's arms.

"Don't... Father... that's your eldest grandson... Father..." The man, barely conscious, called out over and over.

"Eldest grandson? With the guidance of the divine ox, I will achieve immortality, become an Immortal, and rule a nation. What use are these descendants?!" The village chief laughed nearly to madness.

Then, he threw the crying infant, his own grandchild, into a nearby [vat]...

With a thumping sound, everything was silent except for the scarlet blood seeping out...

"How many more until we reach 100?" The old village chief quietly asked.

The strong man beside him had a greedy look in his eyes as he looked at the [vat] and said, "Just seven more to go."

"Be cautious, fetch some from other places."

"The divine ox said that refining the Hundred Infant Rope with 100 babies would prevent her from ever leaving the village, perhaps having more will make it even better."

"Remember, the copper coins must be rusted, only then can they be firmly locked..."

The village chief's face was half-covered by moonlight, a face full of creases and brimming with desire...

That memory unfolded before Su Tu's eyes like a movie scene.

At this moment, he couldn't tell what thoughts or feelings he was experiencing; these innocent children became sacrifices because of insatiable ambition.

They had never seen their parents, and nearly no one in the world knew they existed.

Loneliness is the most terrifying origin of humanity, and these little infants bore all of it. No wonder they felt such affection toward him...

Because he might be, after countless years... the only person who had seen or touched them.

Su Tu once again looked at the half-buried red ropes in the dust. He strode over and pulled up all the red ropes, on which were a dozen copper coins.

Through those memories, Su Tu knew it was these copper coins that bound the baby spirits; otherwise, they would have dissipated long ago.

Su Tu brought his two fingers together like a sword, and with a sweeping motion, a gentle breeze arose, shattering every single copper coin into pieces.

"You are freed now..."

As the copper coins shattered, the bodies of the baby spirits started to vanish. They giggled, with their big, glistening eyes looking at Su Tu, as if trying to remember his face forever.

With the disappearance of those baby spirits.

A tender voice suddenly resonated by Su Tu's ear.

"With heaven as the Dao, strength as Immortal, Qi as the foundation of the Immortal, the apertures as the beginning of Grotto Heaven..."

Segments of mysterious spell recitations echoed by Su Tu's ear.

Su Tu's eyes immediately brightened; this was a method to refine Immortal Power.

He hadn't expected to encounter such a pleasant surprise.

His Heart and Spirit remained steadfast, holding his breath and focusing, memorizing every word of the spell.

The spell was not complete, but it had clearly explained the fundamentals of Immortal Power. Just as it was about to reach the part on refining Immortal Power, it abruptly stopped.

"Was it left intentionally, or what?"

Su Tu narrowed his eyes, feeling this was all too coincidental, as if an invisible hand was orchestrating everything.

This place had Heart and Spirit sealed; the methods of the Evil Gods could even erase the existence of an Ordinary Martial Artist, but because of Xiao Ba's existence, Su Tu was not erased and instead unlocked the Heart and Spirit seal.

Then, through the Heart and Spirit seal, he found these baby spirits. After helping them find liberation, a voice narrated the spell of Immortal Power.

If he hadn't been adept in Ancient Skills and had studied Immortal Power for a while, he might not have reacted at all to that spell.

Coincidence?

Su Tu didn't believe it. He preferred to believe... that a terrifying existence had seen through the ages long ago, witnessed everything today, and awaited his arrival.

But ultimately, to what extent must one reach to peer through ages past to find themselves?

"Is it you..." Su Tu's mind conjured up the image of the woman with the hair.

Judging by the situation just now, if he restored the truth of the village, he might obtain the remaining spell and master Immortal Power.

Whether it was to deal with the Evil Gods, absorb the Origin of Dao, or to master the spell of refining Immortal Power, Su Tu needed to understand all of this.

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