The First Immortal of Destiny

Before the disturbance within the sect had settled, another storm arose!

The mountain range where Chong’a Mountain stood suddenly began to shake violently. The earth seemed to shatter, splitting into countless, unfathomably deep Abysses, while crumbling rocks and mudflows rolled down.

There was also an anomaly in the Ninth Heaven; pieces of Meteor Iron tore through the blood-red clouds, dragging long trails of fire, and ruthlessly smashed down towards the Riverside Sect’s mountain gate.

Upon seeing this, Shen Mo’s smile faded. His dissatisfaction with the ’will of heaven and earth’ grew even stronger!

Years ago, forbidden lands and Outer Zone creatures descended upon this world. The Soaring Serpent and Bizarre Dragon devoured more than half of Qing State, but I didn’t see ’it’ dare to utter a single word.

Today, I achieved the Heavenly Monarch realm and haven’t harbored any intention to harm any creature in the Primordial Realm. Yet ’it’ imposes such heavy tribulations, determined to sentence me to death... what is the logic behind this?

That being said, Shen Mo also understood that ”The Heavens” could not be regarded as truly extraordinary creatures.

Regarding forbidden lands, the Protectors within them hadn’t achieved enlightenment in the Primordial Realm, so ’it’ naturally couldn’t take the opportunity to make things difficult for them. Moreover, if a Class V creature violated the rules and roamed freely upon arrival, its forbidden land would be assimilated by the world itself, and the Protector along with it would also be Daoized. As for powerful individuals like the Soaring Serpent and the Four-eyed Giant, who don’t rely on forbidden lands, they were a different matter. Even if the ’will of heaven and earth’ of the Primordial Realm imposed a terrifying catastrophe upon them, it would likely be difficult to annihilate them. Instead, such an attempt would seriously damage the whole world, accelerating its decline and decay! In other words, for these foreign entities, the ’Heavens’ of this realm either lack the authority or the ability to eliminate them. And I, a cultivator of this realm, am naturally within its control but haven’t yet grown to the point of being ’capable of mutual destruction with a world,’ hence this ’unfair’ treatment!

Complaints were complaints, but Shen Mo didn’t stop his actions.

He immediately brandished his Taiyi Sword, unleashing waves of Universe Sword Qi that slashed towards the falling, flaming Meteor Iron!

BOOM!

BOOM! BOOM!

The falling Meteor Iron abruptly exploded in mid-air, scattering Meteor Gold fragments in all directions, as brilliant as fireworks.

However, it seemed that more stone and iron meteorites were being drawn from beyond the Ninth Heaven, brewing the next wave of attacks.

Shen Mo didn’t want his energy to be tied down by these meteorites, so he immediately took out his Soul Refining Flag and shook it.

Instantly, the Blood River surged forth, obscuring the sky.

One by one, Demon Soul Generals roared as they strode out from the sanguine light. All of them were Class III or higher, numbering over three hundred in total.

The strongest among them was Fairy Pei Yu, at the peak of Class IV. Following her were late-stage Class IV Demon Soul Generals such as the Ghost Bride, Master Hong Jue, the Thousand-eyed Demon, and the Possession Ghost Yang Chengxiong (Horse Groom Lv). In total, there were thirty to forty Demon Soul Generals at Class IV or above. The weakest, a mutated Heavenly Demon Shen Mo had newly refined when he destroyed the Near Sea Demon Cave, still possessed early-stage Class III cultivation.

As for the fifty-eight thousand Demon Soul Generals below Class III, Shen Mo didn’t summon all of them. Against the falling meteorites, they would be useless, merely consuming his True Yuan and soul power.

Led by Fairy Pei Yu, the Ghost Bride, Master Hong Jue, and about ten other top-tier Demon Soul Generals, the three hundred-plus Demon Soul Generals flew high above the mountain gate. Using magic, Skills, or even their own Soul Bodies, they formed layer upon layer of barriers to defend against the descending meteorites!

Many newly-recruited, low-class disciples nearly fainted from terror at the powerful and horrifying auras of the Demon Soul Generals. Even Supreme Elders of the Golden Core Realm like Yuan Heming, Zhou Zhiwei, and Yuan Jing looked unsettled. The Demonic Qi and intense pressure emanating from Fairy Pei Yu as a Demon Soul General alone were enough to make their skin crawl.

Fortunately, as soon as these Demon Soul Generals had materialized their Soul Bodies, Shen Mo directed them to fly out of the big array. The big array itself acted as a barrier, preventing them from having a greater impact on the Sect Disciples.

The calamity from the sky was being blocked by the Demon Soul Generals.

Meanwhile, the earlier earth tremors and ground fissures had already caused considerable damage to the Riverside Sect’s mountain gate and the Mountain Protection Array!

The sect covered a vast area, including numerous mountains, streams, valleys, flatlands, and rivers, all of which were impacted by the tremors. Several mountains collapsed, taking the buildings on them down as well. Multiple scar-like fissures crisscrossed the area. More critically, the Mountain Protection Array that enveloped the sect, which relied on the region’s mountain ranges and earth veins for its construction, was also damaged, with nearly half of it collapsing.

Immediately, many Sect Disciples, some on flying swords, others as streaks of escaping light, rushed towards the damaged sections of the formation. Under the direction of Elders and high-ranking sect members skilled in the Array Path, they began emergency repairs on the damaged big array.

HUMMMMM.

While they were repairing the Mountain Protection Array, countless thumb-sized, five-colored flying insects suddenly emerged from the Abysses that had split open both inside and outside the mountain gate.

At first, only a scattered hundred or two appeared. Then, their numbers swelled to tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands, and then millions. In just a few breaths, billions of these flying insects surged from the various Abysses. They filled the sky and ground within the Riverside Sect’s mountain gate, so densely that they even blocked out the still-raging wind, rain, and hail.

Shen Mo reached out and caught one of these five-colored flying insects. After examining it closely, an imperceptible shadow flickered in his eyes!

Soul-devouring Moth...

This colorful, locust-shaped beetle was one of the peculiar insects and bizarre creatures of the cultivation world.

It was non-toxic and possessed little destructive power. One or two of them could be easily killed even by ordinary able-bodied adults without any cultivation. However, once their numbers exceeded a thousand, they formed a plague that required cultivators to exterminate.

The reason was simple: this peculiar insect possessed an instinct similar to the [Spirit Devouring] Skill. They devoured almost anything, with a strong preference for spiritual items rich in Yuan!

When tens of thousands of Soul-devouring Moths gathered, they would devour flowers, spiritual plants, spirit gold mines, and even cultivators and demonic beasts, leaving nothing behind. Historical records in the Red Flame Country even documented an immortal sect being wiped out by a terrifying Mole plague.

Fortunately, these strange insects had a peculiar life cycle. Their adult stage lasted only a brief three days.

For the remaining ten-plus years of their lives, they existed as eggs or larvae, living deep underground near magma. In their larval state, they lacked the ability to devour all things, instead slowly accumulating energy for the day of their metamorphosis!

Once they fully matured into adults, they would emerge from the ground and frantically devour everything in sight, then mate and reproduce, returning underground on their final day to lay eggs.

A plague formed by tens of thousands of Five-colored Moles was actually not common.

But the earlier earth tremors had somehow shaken such a terrifying number of Soul-devouring Moths to the surface. This was an extremely rare disaster, even for the entire Red Flame Zone.

Clearly, it was the ’will of heaven and earth’ at work again!

If these billions of flying insects weren’t eradicated quickly, then in less than an hour, the array base, array cores, and Spirit Stones of the entire Mountain Protection Array, as well as all Mana-containing items within the sect, would be eaten clean by them.