He seemed to have destroyed an Ancient‑Martial Clan for Yuna Young's sake not long ago.
Hearing Lily Liang's words, Evan Lin was suddenly taken aback.
He remembered now.
He seemed to have destroyed an Ancient‑Martial Clan for Yuna Pu's sake not long ago.
It seemed that was the Ancient‑Martial Ma Family.
Later, Evan took Yuna Young to visit the Ma Family estate.
But the Ma Family never left much of an impression on Evan.
First, Maran Ma went to Harborview to force a marriage on Tanya Zhan, then the Ma Family tried to coerce the Young Family into picking sides.
Later, Evan took Yuna Pu to visit the Ma Family estate.
He even ran into Master Daniel Ward, a disciple of the Pill King, there.
"Because of this, I've seen the Rowe Patriarch frowning more than once, clearly anxious," Lily Liang continued.
"What is he anxious about?" Evan asked, a bit puzzled.
"It's just that the Rowe Patriarch had some old conflicts with the Ma Family, and at the time he thought the previous Ma Patriarch was dead..."
Lily Liang didn't continue with the rest of her words.
It's normal for Ancient‑Martial Clans to have internal disputes.
But now, the previous Ma Patriarch has come out of death seclusion, so the Rowe Patriarch is panicking.
No wonder he's been trying every possible way to get Evan to come over.
"Got it," Evan said.
Evan leaned back on the sofa and casually turned on the TV. "Call the Rowe Patriarch over later. There are things I need to ask him in person."
The real reason Evan came this time was for the heavy treasure that emerged from the Mysterious Ruin.
The strength of those Ancient‑Martial clans doesn't impress Evan at all.
But the heavy treasure from the Mysterious Ruin, which even these Ancient‑Martial clans value, might actually be something worthwhile.
Every Mysterious Ruin could be a pocket world created by an Immortal Lord!
Immortal Lord.
That's the title reserved for those who stand at the peak of the Immortal Martial Continent.
It's said that after enduring Heavenly Tribulation, an Immortal Lord becomes a True Immortal.
Immortal Lord is a title above all others on the Immortal Martial Continent.
But a True Immortal is a real immortal!
True Immortals above Immortal Lords haven't appeared on the Immortal Martial Continent for hundreds of thousands of years.
Evan has explored several so-called tombs of those who are said to be immortal geniuses, who lived as long as heaven itself, endured tribulation, and entered Heaven Gate.
Whether it's an immortal's mansion or their burial site...
No one has ever seen an immortal's corpse.
Most of what he found were empty graves.
Back then, Evan wondered: on the Immortal Martial Continent, anyone who becomes an Immortal Lord either remains stuck outside Heaven Gate or eventually opens it, ascends to the heavens, and becomes a legend passed down through the ages.
But if the Immortal Martial Continent can't keep True Immortals, why do so-called immortal tombs exist at all?
Unless...
Before becoming immortal, they left themselves a burial site.
But even that makes little sense.
If you're about to open Heaven Gate and become immortal, you'd have to be crazy to build yourself a tomb.
If you fail to pass Heaven Gate, you'll be struck dead by Heavenly Tribulation—sometimes leaving a corpse, but more often just turning to ash.
Once you pass Heaven Gate, you become a True Immortal, blessed with endless life, living as long as heaven and earth—death is no longer an issue, at least you won't simply die of old age.
So, there's absolutely no reason for someone to leave themselves a tomb before entering Heaven Gate from the Immortal Martial Continent.
What's more, in the immortal tombs Evan visited, there were countless traps and formations, and endless treasures and secret manuals.
Those tombs are basically treasure vaults!
All of these things must have taken an enormous amount of time and energy to prepare.
After Evan became the Nine Mysteries Immortal Lord, he visited all kinds of libraries, trying to find the secret of immortality.
But Evan soon discovered...
There was always an invisible fog between him and the truth.
Stories about immortals have been passed down for countless millennia on the Immortal Martial Continent.
But not a single library records everything about immortals!
The person closest to being a True Immortal is Immortal Lord Everlost.
That was more than a hundred thousand years before the Nine Mysteries Immortal Lord's era.
But the Immortal Lord Everlost, who was long thought to have ascended, was clearly alive in the pocket world Evan visited not long ago.
All of this is a puzzle.
Just thinking about it gives Evan a headache.
So many threads to unravel.
He originally became immortal to come back and find Lyria/Lily Zhao.
He did return, and found a version of Lily Zhao from some unknown era.
That Lily Zhao is still resting within the Soul-Sacrifice Beauty Scroll.
The spiritual qi Everlost gave her can only guarantee her existence, but as a soul-body, Lily Zhao can only avoid consuming that qi by staying inside the scroll.
She's basically a half-immortal now.
Evan actually has a lot of questions he wants to ask her, but lately Lily Zhao has been as silent as a meditating monk.
No matter how Evan tries to reach her, she hasn't said anything more.
If the heavy treasure really came from the Mysterious Ruin...
It's very likely connected to Immortal Lords.
A treasure related to Immortal Lords of the Immortal Martial Continent.
Even Evan really wants to see it.
Maybe he'll find a clue about an Immortal Lord from ancient times.