Immortality.

This was exactly the thing countless people have pursued since time immemorial.

Who would willingly become a handful of dust after death?

For the elixir of immortality, the Four Directions Family was willing to sacrifice the lives of their own clanspeople into the Yellow Springs.

The Four Directions Shrine was born from this.

The accumulated moonlight wasn't just used to suppress the Yellow Springs during the Waning Moon Time, but also a significant part was for the completion of the elixir of immortality.

"Actually, the only spiritual tool passed down in my family is the Moon Obscuring Mirror," Four Directions Huixue looked at the Spirit Mirror before her chest, "The Moon Gazing Mirror was made afterward... it's the key to unlocking the fifth shrine, but even after creating the Moon Gazing Mirror... it's still a prototype, it needs to be sufficiently nurtured by the moonlight before it can serve as a key."

She continued her story.

In the era of Four Directions Wangyue, rumors that the elixir of immortality was already completed had already spread throughout the Four Directions clan. As the Moon Witch of that time, Four Directions Huixue was also drawn to the illusion of eternal youth, and she went alone to the Moon Eclipsed Cave to remove the Moon Gazing Mirror that was offered in the shrine.

And that marked the beginning of the downfall of the Four Directions Family.

Since the Moon Gazing Mirror at that time was merely a prototype, a half-finished product. Once detached from the help of the shrine, it was utterly incapable of harnessing the moonlight.

The vast moonlight, accumulated over many years, instantly burst Four Directions Huixue's body into a pool of blood.

After losing her body, Four Directions Huixue entrusted her Spiritual Body to the Moon Obscuring Mirror.

Her Spiritual Body was well-preserved, but a Moon Witch without a physical body couldn't fulfill her role.

For this reason, the Four Directions Family Head made a choice.

To select a substitute Moon Witch... in truth, it was to find another body for Four Directions Huixue.

And the target was Four Directions Wangyue.

Giving the Moon Obscuring Mirror to Four Directions Wangyue and sending her to the Moon Eclipsed Cave to undergo the transformation by the Yellow Springs Energy meant that her body could not resist Four Directions Huixue.

Everything went smoothly.

Four Directions Wangyue became Four Directions Huixue, and the ritual could continue.

"But no one expected... Four Directions Huixue's greed for immortality had not dissipated, right?"

Beichuan Si spoke up.

Human greed is endless, and it was Four Directions Huixue's greed that ultimately led the ritual to fall short of success.

"...Yes," Four Directions Huixue nodded, "As usual, the Waning Moon Time arrived, and all four shrines were activated... and the hidden fifth shrine also appeared..."

The shrine containing the elixir of immortality appeared, but Four Directions Huixue, as the Moon Witch, did not preside over the ritual to completion. She only left the Moon Obscuring Mirror at the entrance to the fifth shrine.

The Four Directions Family crumbled, and the clanspeople took the Moon Obscuring Mirror away, forming today's Four Directions Family.

After a long time of nurturing, the Spiritual Body hidden within the Moon Obscuring Mirror reappeared.

It was Four Directions Huixue, who should have died many years ago.

She told the current Four Directions Family Head that, with just a small sacrifice, they could restart the Four Directions Shrine and reclaim the elixir of immortality.

Hence, the current Four Directions Huixue became her next target for body snatching.

"I was forcibly given the name Four Directions Huixue, as the new generation's Moon Witch... just as Beichuan Master has seen," Four Directions Huixue lowered her head.

Spending a long time with the Moon Obscuring Mirror, she had become tainted with the aura of another Four Directions Huixue.

The other Huixue was also progressively gaining control of her body.

However, there was still some rejection between the Spiritual Body and the physical body; it wasn't so easy to control the real body of Four Directions Huixue.

This was probably why the other Four Directions Huixue relinquished control over the body outside the spiritual realm.

And all of these... were known to Four Directions Huixue herself.

But what could she do with this knowledge?

She was adopted as the daughter of the Family Head, burdened with the title of Moon Witch, and even to prevent her suicide, there were always members of the Four Directions Family keeping watch over her.

All because of the idea of 'immortality.'

Indeed... nobody wants to die, everybody desires eternal life.

In this vortex of myriad greed, the wishes of Four Directions Huixue herself were no longer important.

"The closer I get to the Four Directions Shrine... the more I fear..." Four Directions Huixue tugged at her now snow-white hair, trembling all over, "I don't know what I should do next... The other Huixue... she has gradually mastered my body, able to ignore my will, and forcefully control me. I know I am not Four Directions Huixue..."

Tears squeezed out in large drops as she hoarsely murmured to herself:

"But who am I...? I don't even have a name... I'm just an ordinary mayfly... without a stance, without thoughts, unable to think, unable to decide—a mayfly from the very beginning."

The girl in front of him was lost.

Four Directions Huixue was not her name.

Her only purpose was to surrender her body to another Four Directions Huixue.

As she thought this—

Her consciousness sank once more.

The personality of Four Directions Huixue in front of Beichuan Si switched again.

Her weeping stopped, and she could not help but smirk, "Just like what this little girl said, she's just a mayfly, with no choice from the start."

"No matter how powerful you are, you can't change this fact."

'Four Directions Huixue' sneered, "My soul has begun to intertwine with hers. Unless I willingly leave her body, she will always be under my control. I may not be able to defeat you, but now you have no way to deal with me."

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