The First Immortal of Destiny

Chapter 411: Chapter 411 Wando Archipelago_1

A streak of soft light pierced the darkness before him!

When Shen Mo opened his eyes, he found a group of people dressed as fishermen, men and women, young and old, surrounding him.

Indeed, my Luck is extremely good; I didn’t remain asleep forever. I also successfully left that strange mountain!

Wait a minute...

This is not the Riverside Sect!

Shen Mo was startled, but he quickly relaxed.

The thought of the Suspended Fairy Mountain came to his mind. However, unlike before, he wasn’t at the foot of the mountain, so he clearly didn’t need to worry about its bizarre characteristics any longer!

At this moment, a very old fisherman, supported by someone, walked over unsteadily and asked, ”Young man, where are you from?”

「...」

The crowd dispersed. In the humble stone house constructed from shells, fish bones, and reef stones, only Shen Mo remained. These kind-hearted fishermen had even left a pot of hot fish porridge for him!

A moment later, Shen Mo contacted Ming Yu through a Sound Transmission Talisman.

His adopted sister from the Marine Race was extremely concerned about his previous predicament, her voice filled with relief and excitement.

From Ming Yu, Shen Mo learned that only ten days had passed since they left the Suspended Fairy Mountain.

However, by observing the sun, moon, and Stars, Shen Mo determined that his current location was a full three hundred thousand miles away from the Suspended Fairy Mountain!

The old fisherman stated frankly that he had been found by the islanders, rescued, and had remained unconscious on the island for a full eight days. This meant Shen Mo had traversed three hundred thousand miles of sea in two days or even less, journeying from the vicinity of the Suspended Fairy Mountain to appear in this vast sea of islands.

Relying only on the tides and sea breeze to drift on the sea, such a situation was completely impossible.

After all, even a powerful Golden Core Realm expert, using their full-power Flying Escape technique day and night, could only cover one hundred thousand miles a day!

However, many strange things happened in the cultivation world. Shen Mo had no inclination to investigate why he had mysteriously appeared in this sea region after leaving the Suspended Fairy Mountain.

He was more concerned about the whereabouts of Senior Sister Jiang Lingfeng!

According to the old fisherman, this place was the Wando Archipelago... As the name implies, this sea area was dotted with countless islands of all sizes, much like ten thousand pecks of grain scattered into the sea.

No one knew exactly how many islands dotted this sea area, nor how many people lived on them!

According to lore passed down through generations, their ancestors had fled a disaster two or three thousand years ago, journeying eastward from the Extreme West Land to settle here.

They had multiplied over the generations, and now tens of thousands of islands were inhabited, forming numerous island nations!

The old fisherman, limited by his own perspective, didn’t know much about matters more distant.

The island Shen Mo was currently on had only about three hundred inhabitants, all of whom made their living from fishing...

However, going out to sea inevitably led to encounters with ferocious Sea Beasts. An unlucky encounter could result in someone being devoured, so their lives were extremely harsh!

For an old fisherman like him to have lived safely past seventy was considered long-lived, not just on this island but among more than a hundred nearby islands.

The fishermen who went out to fish discovered Shen Mo floating on the sea. Adhering to their simple principle of mutual help, they netted him and brought him back to this island.

Having been unconscious for eight days without food or drink, the islanders feared he would starve to death, so they asked the old fisherman for advice.

The old man could understand the information recorded on the talismans on Shen Mo’s body, but he had no idea where the Riverside Sect was, nor did he know what kind of figure a Golden Core Realm patriarch was!

So, he took a ”risk” by opening the Jade Vase Shen Mo carried and feeding him the Dreamy Birth Pill from within... Shen Mo then escaped the state of soul Nirvana.

However, the fishermen who had pulled him from the water hadn’t seen any small boat with an oil lamp, nor had they found anyone else.

Shen Mo tried to contact Jiang Lingfeng using a Sound Transmission Talisman but received no reply!

Before I took the Dreamy Death Pill, I specifically used the Immortal Binding Rope to tie Senior Sister Jiang and me together.

Even if something I don’t know about occurred during that time...

There’s still a high probability that she ended up in this sea region with me.

Thinking this, Shen Mo delayed no longer. After drinking the fish porridge, he collected the items from the table—the Dreamy Birth Pill Jade Vase, the information talismans, and other such things—and put them all back into his Universe Bag.

Huh, why is there an extra jade slip?

These spiritual items were things the fishermen had taken from him while he was unconscious and carefully stored in a wooden box.

But as Shen Mo took inventory, he discovered an unexpected jade slip in the wooden box. Evidently, it was also something the fishermen had taken from him and placed in the box.

I didn’t have this object among my belongings. Could Senior Sister Jiang have left it?

His heart stirred. Shen Mo picked up the jade slip and scanned it with his sense.

BOOM!

An overwhelming amount of information exploded in Shen Mo’s mind.

After a whirl of bizarre and motley lights, Shen Mo witnessed a startling scene.

An elderly monk with a merciful face, wearing a Kasaya, sat upon a lotus throne magic artifact. He was engaged in a fierce contest of Mana and Skills with a formidable Heavenly Demon that emanated ceaseless Demonic Qi!

Judging from the scene, the Heavenly Demon clearly had the upper hand. In the fierce battle, it beat the old monk until he vomited blood unceasingly, staining his Kasaya red.

But in the end, the old monk used some unknown magic. At the very moment the Heavenly Demon was about to devour him alive, he bizarrely fused with it!

”The Heavenly Demon descends upon the world, bringing suffering to all creatures!”

”If I can save billions of creatures by sacrificing this physical form, what harm is there?”

As the resplendent Buddhist light and the foul demon light intertwined, the figures of the old monk and the Heavenly Demon gradually disintegrated, transforming into feathers of light that drifted westward.

”Virtuous indeed!”

Following the compassionate and profound chant, the scene returned to silence.

And in Shen Mo’s mind, a Soul Magic titled the Great Sun Tathagata Heart Scripture had appeared!

Shen Mo opened his eyes, his face full of admiration.

Even though he held prejudices against Buddhist cultivators due to the events at the Suspended Fairy Mountain and the monastery on its peak, this old monk who had perished together with the powerful Heavenly Demon was undoubtedly worthy of respect!

With a quick scan, Shen Mo gathered that this Great Sun Tathagata Heart Scripture was a rather powerful Soul Magic.

It was somewhat similar to the Divine Soul Contemplation Scripture, yet also had many differences.

This Heart Scripture required the cultivator to visualize a Pure Land where the soul could reside, no longer subject to the torment of the Eight Sufferings such as birth, old age, sickness, and death.

Even after the physical body decayed and died, the soul within the Pure Land would remain unextinguished.

If a Buddhist cultivator practicing this method reached a sufficient Realm, they could achieve Ascension to the Upper Realm and attain Buddhahood.

If their cultivation was insufficient, they could also undergo reincarnation with their Pure Land soul. Although the ”mystery of the womb” would still exist, there was a high probability of awakening their past life’s memories and soul cultivation, allowing them to continue the cultivation left unfinished in their previous life!

According to the information in the jade slip, a Senior from the Pure Land Sect, the old monk’s sect of origin, had undergone Reincarnation twenty-seven times. His cultivation in the Buddha Path had reached a depth unfathomable to ordinary people.

It had to be said, the Great Sun Tathagata Heart Scripture was incredibly profound.

Furthermore, its rank was likely no less than middle-grade spiritual level; even the Riverside Sect did not possess a Soul Magic of such a rank.

However, Shen Mo dared not cultivate it!