[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-a-mortal-s-journey-to-immortality":3,"chapter-a-mortal-s-journey-to-immortality-a-mortal-s-journey-to-immortality-chapter-14":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"chinese","A Mortal's Journey to Immortality",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},2334940,4565,"Chapter 14: Chapter Fourteen: The Mysterious Liquid","a-mortal-s-journey-to-immortality-chapter-14",14,"\u003Cp>“Ahh!” Han Li raised one hand high, clenched his fist, and cried out in excitement. WM.com\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At this moment, his childish nature was unmistakably revealed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It seemed his assumption was correct: the sealed windows and doors hindered the bottle’s attraction to the white threads; only in open, unobstructed spaces could the bottle draw in the threads more effectively, forming larger light clusters.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Although he did not know where these threads came from or what purpose the bottle had in absorbing these tiny specks, he had taken a major step toward uncovering the mystery.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Han Li felt he was on the verge of unraveling the bottle’s secret, and this filled him with extraordinary excitement.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Only when the sky was about to lighten did the glow around the bottle gradually fade, returning it to stillness.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>During this time, Han Li stood beside it, observing the bottle’s changes while constantly watching out not to be discovered by others.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He bent down, picked up the bottle, and examined it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was no different from before—the cap remained tightly sealed, impossible to open.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Han Li was disappointed, but since the sky was growing light, he reluctantly put the bottle away.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He still needed to return to the stone chamber to meditate and cultivate.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the following days, at the same hour each night, the bottle would produce the same anomaly: countless light threads, like moths drawn to flame, were drawn to it, then transformed into vast numbers of tiny specks, greedily swallowed by the bottle.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just as Han Li assumed this phenomenon would occur daily, on the eighth day, something else changed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When Han Li arrived at his usual spot, took out the bottle, and placed it down, the absorption of light specks lasted only half a quarter-hour before stopping. Then, the bottle’s dark green patterns suddenly emitted a brilliant green glow, and several golden characters and symbols appeared on its surface. These strange glyphs had fluid, intricate strokes, radiating an indescribable ancient aura, flickering and drifting endlessly across the bottle’s surface.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This unusual phenomenon lasted only an instant, then vanished entirely, leaving behind only a few raised golden glyphs on the bottle’s surface—as if everything had returned to its original state.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After these strange events on the bottle, Han Li no longer reacted with the same shock as at first; even stranger occurrences would no longer leave him utterly astonished.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He casually picked up the bottle and unconsciously tried to open the cap.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gently, effortlessly, the cap came off the bottle.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Unbelievable! Han Li stared in astonishment at the cap in his hand.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Had he really solved this problem—this major frustration he’d struggled with for days—so easily, without any skill or effort?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Only after confirming that what he saw was real—that the bottle’s secret now lay right before his eyes—could Han Li no longer contain his excitement. He pressed his eyes to the bottle’s mouth and peered inside.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Inside the bottle, a single drop of emerald-green liquid, no larger than a soybean, rolled slowly, casting the entire inner wall in a shimmering green glow.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What is this?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Han Li was disappointed—he had exerted so much effort, only to obtain such a dull thing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He dejectedly sealed the cap, tucked the bottle into his leather pouch, and turned to walk back to his quarters; the earlier surge of excitement had vanished entirely.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Although he had finally opened the bottle’s cap, the result left him deeply unsatisfied.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Han Li planned to investigate the secret of this green liquid later, when he had nothing else to do. Perhaps it might yet bring him a small surprise!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For now, all he needed to do was return and sleep well—to make up for lost rest. These past days, he had failed to sleep properly each night, greatly reducing his daytime cultivation efficiency; his fatigue had even drawn questions from Master Mo.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Since becoming Master Mo’s personal disciple and breaking through the first layer of the scripture, he had lost all motivation to practice it. Moreover, the results of this scripture were so unsatisfying that he simply could not muster the energy to cultivate.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For this, Master Mo had scolded him severely.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet whenever cultivation time came, he still felt drowsy, listless, and utterly drained.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This situation drove Master Mo to near despair—he wondered if he had taken on the wrong disciple.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thinking of this, Han Li also felt a pang of injustice—he didn’t want to be like this, but his body simply refused to cooperate.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What Han Li never expected was that the very next day, after waking from his sleep, he once again threw himself wholeheartedly into frenzied cultivation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The sole reason for this drastic change was a single, offhand remark from Master Mo.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Each time you advance one layer in this scripture, I’ll double your monthly silver allowance.” Master Mo had finally recognized Han Li’s hunger for money and found the root solution—a simple sentence that bound him firmly to the chariot of relentless cultivation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the days that followed, Han Li cultivated furiously to master the next layer of the scripture.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Every day, from morning to noon, from noon to night, he entered the stone chamber twice to meditate and cultivate, living this monotonous, repetitive life and forgetting everything else.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>To ensure Han Li could focus without distraction, Master Mo temporarily sealed off the entire Divine Hand Valley, conducting all medical treatments outside the valley and relieving Han Li of all concerns regarding daily necessities.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The matter of the bottle was gradually forgotten by Han Li.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Autumn passed, winter came; spring ended, summer arrived.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the blink of an eye, four years had passed; Han Li was now fourteen.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had grown into a dark-skinned, silent, and resolute village boy. From appearance alone, he was indistinguishable from other peasant youths—unremarkable, neither handsome nor charismatic.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He simply shuttled between the stone chamber and his quarters, occasionally visiting Master Mo to learn medicine and browsing through various books in his room; the entire valley became his whole world, and his scripture naturally reached the third layer.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>WM.com\u003C\u002Fp>",1009,"2026-06-20T21:12:45.940Z",1,"Qwen3-Next 80B","e1c8c5caa1c2b04e872266d61e147edefc5ccb2fb9edb5f5768ca04de2457cc1","a-mortal-s-journey-to-immortality-chapter-15","a-mortal-s-journey-to-immortality-chapter-13",1000,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fa-mortal-s-journey-to-immortality-cover.jpg"]