Published: August 15, 2025
Chapter 59: The Three Iron Rules
Doctor Mo hadn’t been happy for long. Soon, the power of the yin soul curse manifested itself, causing him to age at a terrifying rate—almost one year per day.
He was terrified and tried every method to control the strange phenomenon happening to his body, but all efforts were in vain.
If this continued, he would inevitably die soon, like an ordinary old man succumbing to exhaustion. Fortunately, at this moment, Yu Zitong’s soul was suffering even more.
After all, once Yu Zitong entered Doctor Mo’s body, over time, his soul began to be assimilated by Doctor Mo’s own soul.
“Assimilation” is a passive form of soul seizing—when an external soul remains inside another person’s body for a long time, it is unconsciously and imperceptibly influenced by the host’s soul. Both souls affect each other, but in the end, only one consciousness can survive—a fierce and deadly phenomenon.
Seeing this, Yu Zitong had no choice but to adopt an active soul seizing approach.
His reluctance wasn’t due to any goodwill but because of the legendary Three Iron Rules of Soul Seizing in the immortal cultivator world:
First, immortal cultivators must not seize the bodies of ordinary mortals; otherwise, the seized mortal body will collapse under the strain of soul seizing.
Second, only when a person with higher magical power seizes a person with lower magical power is success possible without suffering backlash. The greater the difference in magical power, the safer the process.
Third, an immortal cultivator can only perform soul seizing once in their lifetime, regardless of their magical power. Attempting a second time causes their soul to vanish inexplicably.
These three ironclad rules have never been broken despite countless attempts. They have restricted many villains trying to cause chaos or cheats trying to escape calamity by using soul seizing. Heaven has issued warnings against such defiant acts, not allowing immortal cultivators to use this technique to plunge the world into uncontrollable chaos.
Therefore, if Doctor Mo were an immortal cultivator, Yu Zitong wouldn’t fear him and would fight to the death for the body. But Doctor Mo was just a mortal with no magical power at all, completely unable to withstand the soul seizing process. Attempting to seize his body halfway would cause it to collapse entirely.
Even finding another body to inhabit wouldn’t avoid the fate of assimilation; Yu Zitong would face the same awkward predicament, but even worse. With each entry and exit, his magical power would drastically diminish until depleted, leaving him trapped inside another’s body and eventually assimilated.
It’s important to know that once becoming a soul, he had no body to meditate and replenish his magical power. Every use would reduce what little power he had, and as time passed, it continued to decline. He didn’t know how much longer he could hold on.
So, unless Yu Zitong could find an immortal cultivator with low magical power who could withstand soul seizing, he would never risk leaving his current soul body again.
Faced with the immense pressure of his host body collapsing from the blood curse, leaving his soul nowhere to hide, and the danger of being assimilated by Doctor Mo’s soul, the desperate Yu Zitong set aside their enmity for the time being and reluctantly contacted Doctor Mo. He told him everything—the situation and the stakes.
At first, Doctor Mo was angry, but he quickly realized the great opportunity before him. Without hesitation, he made a pact with Yu Zitong, revealing his true warlord nature.
First, Doctor Mo would control his consciousness according to Yu Zitong’s teachings, trying to avoid assimilating Yu Zitong’s soul. Yu Zitong, in turn, would teach Doctor Mo secret techniques to slow down his aging and grant him temporary magical power.
Second, Doctor Mo would find a child born with a spiritual root capable of cultivating the everlasting spring technique, teach him the technique, and once the time was right, use the temporarily acquired magical power to perform soul seizing and be reborn.