[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-eternal-life-starts-as-a-hunter":3,"chapter-eternal-life-starts-as-a-hunter-eternal-life-starts-as-a-hunter-chapter-553":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"english","Eternal Life Starts as a Hunter",{"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},1517159,1969,"Chapter 553 - 178: Fools Enamored by Life’s Betrayals, Divine Wood Conceals Dragons and Tigers","eternal-life-starts-as-a-hunter-chapter-553",553,"\u003Cp>If we talk further, they say that \"the Hall Master is in seclusion,\" \"the challenge letter was suppressed by the Outer Disciple,\" \"how could a mere mountain man challenge the Hall Master,\" and so on.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>White Spirit Water also didn’t change anything.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Qing Hancheng was merely a person from the Lotus Sect.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But the big guy was her person.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What’s wrong with having the big guy and Qing Hancheng have a fight?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Qing Hancheng is so strong, could he really be killed by the big guy?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Having this layer of relationship, she could stop it at a crucial moment, after all... Qing Hancheng is one of her own.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Considering the connections, it’s unlikely they’d kill the big guy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On the night of the Mid-Autumn Festival, the moon shone over Feiyan Platform.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Yuan sat cross-legged, waiting the entire night on this platform.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Beside him were many powerful individuals watching the battle, also waiting all night.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But when dawn broke the next day, Qing Hancheng still hadn’t appeared.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Upon inquiry...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was learned that he was in seclusion.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Further inquiries...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Revealed that the challenge letter had been delayed by subordinates.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>White Spirit Water didn’t expect Qing Hancheng to not accept the challenge.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Yuan suddenly felt something was amiss.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He must go and see, as he had many relatives in the city.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So, when White Spirit Water rushed in, anxiously explaining that \"she really didn’t expect Qing Hancheng to not accept the challenge, she really tried her best to arrange it,\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Yuan, knowing she spoke the truth, still rose in rage, flipping the table with a crash, slapping the window, shouting \"You lied to me, you lied to me,\" and then, like a meteor, shot outward, disappearing in a blink.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>White Spirit Water rushed to the window, her beautiful eyes reddened, anxiously shouting, \"Brother Dian! Brother Dian!!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, her words couldn’t bring Li Yuan back.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This Saintess of the White Lotus Sect stood there in a daze, her fists lightly clenched, then slowly relaxed, and swiftly left.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She knew the rage in the big guy’s heart.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, the big guy’s whereabouts should still be traceable.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She quickly mobilized people to investigate.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Afterwards, she would go to the big guy’s side to apologize and coax him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Days passed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>White Spirit Water was dumbfounded.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She recalled each piece of intel, but the big guy remained missing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Subordinates speculated that the big guy might have accidentally entered some Ghost Realm or mistakenly wandered into some deep mountain.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>How could one find such places?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>White Spirit Water felt a strong sense of defeat, at once losing her motivation to do the Saintess’s work properly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Meanwhile, Li Yuan, having left that place, hid in a remote mountain, repeatedly changing locations.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After ensuring no one was tracking him, he took out the \"White Wooden Box,\" deliberated briefly, and placed White Spirit Water’s hair inside.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The box, upon receiving the hair, seemed to react oddly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The box became extremely sturdy and difficult to open, its color mixed with the appearance of a coffin’s surface lined with bones.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Yuan sighed, thought for a moment, and began to ask, \"What do you know about Qing Hancheng? Tell me everything you know.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, the box gave no response.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Yuan paused, changed his question, \"Why did Qing Hancheng not accept the challenge?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The box responded with White Spirit Water’s voice, \"I don’t know.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Yuan realized he needed to ask a specific question rather than a broad one.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At this moment, listening to the voice from the box gave him a chill... fortunately, it was from his own family’s production.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He continued to ask, \"What is your identity in the Lotus Sect?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"White Lotus Sect, Saintess.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"What is a Saintess?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Elder, a White Lotus Sect Elder is called Saintess or Princess.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Yuan worried about the limited number of questions he could ask, thought for a moment, and boldly asked, \"Apart from being the Divine Wood Hall Master, what other identity does Qing Hancheng have?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Inside Support, he is the Inside Support for the Lotus Sect.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Yuan was startled, his pupils contracted, eyes full of surprise, this answer was too unexpected.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Quickly, he calmed down and asked, \"Why did Qing Hancheng, as the Divine Wood Hall Master, agree to be the Inside Support for the Lotus Sect?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I don’t know.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Yuan asked one question after another.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But perhaps because he had obtained a lot of hair, the box answered his questions for a long time, until he could think of nothing more to ask, and started asking about White Spirit Water’s identity, her past, and so on.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As he asked, he discovered a point...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This White Lotus Sect Saintess hadn’t lied to him before.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She indeed had been sold by her family when she was young...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As for the brother showing up with ashes and such, it was true.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But that brother was not the mentioned White Qi, but someone else, and had died long ago.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And at that moment, the White Wooden Box seemed to reach its end, suddenly shattering, turning the hair inside into ash, disappearing into the air with the wind.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Yuan stood up, murmuring, \"The Divine Wood Hall can’t stay anymore, I need to bring Ping’an back. As for subsequent cultivation, I’ll figure it out.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After speaking, the blood and flesh around his body began to move.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Slowly, he transformed into an ordinary \"passerby.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Afterwards, he contacted the Cyan Robe Tower Master, Wang Hiran.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Cyan Robe Building often handled affairs outside, and had a fixed time to go out each day.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The process for Li Yuan to get in touch was not complicated.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Immediately, Wang Hiran arranged an identity for Li Yuan, bringing his master into the First Gate of the Divine Wood Hall under the guise of a \"Tower Member.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Since the time Li Yuan wrote to Yaojue, she would visit the First Gate intermittently, claiming to drink tea, but actually hoping for news from Li Yuan.\u003C\u002Fp>",999,"2026-06-06T05:24:39.859Z",1,"novelbin.me","a39d9d46f2df53b55d233ce4f9b1b4a0099a794da3d750385a5bedc029d235f8","eternal-life-starts-as-a-hunter-chapter-554","eternal-life-starts-as-a-hunter-chapter-552",563,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Feternal-life-starts-as-a-hunter-cover.jpg"]