The First Immortal of Destiny

Shen Mo focused on his cultivation, not paying much attention to the matter of the ”reincarnation of Fulong Immortal Master’s return.” He merely had Yuan Heming represent the Red Flame Sect to deliver a congratulatory gift.

Unexpectedly, more than half a year later, the Dragon-suppressing Sect sent an invitation.

The invitation bore a soul aura left by the Silver-haired Child, who candidly expressed his desire to visit in person.

After reading the invitation, Shen Mo readily agreed and set a date for their meeting.

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”HISS... HISS...”

”WAIL... WAIL...”

The True Immortal’s Evil Qi, expelled from his body, constantly twisted and contorted, emitting various hair-raising, strange sounds.

Shen Mo used the power of chaotic Yuan to firmly suppress this mass of Evil Qi. He then pushed it into the mouth of the Evil-eating Centipede. Afterward, he activated his cultivation method to completely digest the rewards from refining the True Immortal’s Finger, thereby concluding this session of practice.

My cultivation has advanced too rapidly recently. I need to properly consolidate and adapt to this soaring cultivation level!

The meeting with Fulong is in two days. It’s time to return to Jade Spring Mountain...

Thinking this, Shen Mo placed the True Immortal’s Finger, now only half its original size, back into the jade box and stored it within the Sword Zone.

Then, he reached out, took the Soul Refining Flag hanging before him, and began to shake the blood flag, casting a spell to recall the over one hundred thousand Demon Soul Generals currently preying in various parts of Blood Snake Ridge.

Blood Snake Ridge was situated between two Immortal Mountains and teemed with demons and monsters, providing an ample supply of blood food for the Demon Soul Generals to consume. Moreover, the Demon Soul Generals that had traveled the furthest, led by elite Class V Demon Soul Generals such as the Ghost Bride, had reached the foothills of the two Immortal Mountains. They had even consumed many Class IV Demons.

After this period of predation, the strength of the over 100,000 Demon Soul Generals in the flag had significantly improved.

The Class V middle-stage Demon Soul Generals—Fairy Pei Yu, the Ghost Bride, Master Hong Jue, Yang Chengxiong (Horse Groom Lv), and Gold Piercing Ghost Jinshan—had grown more powerful but had not yet advanced. After all, to reach Class V late-stage, they would need to consume millions of portions of blood food, even if all of it was rich in Mana.

However, apart from them, a total of seven Demon Soul Generals, including the Serpent-Eel Heavenly Demon, the Thousand-eyed Demon, Pig Demon Heisha, Single-footed Yaksha Banzhi Jiaming, and the Corpse King, successfully advanced to Class V middle-stage.

It was a pity. Pig Demon Heisha, one of the three kings of Hou Corpse Cave, had consumed a vast amount of blood food before his demonic corruption and was already close to Class V middle-stage, yet he never reached it. Now, having become one of Shen Mo’s Demon Soul Generals, he had ironically fulfilled his ”lifelong aspiration” within just a few years!

Thus, the Soul Refining Flag now contained twelve Class V middle-stage Demon Soul Generals.

Additionally, nine Class IV late-stage and peak Demon Soul Generals advanced to Class V, increasing the number of Class V early-stage Demon Soul Generals in the flag to sixteen.

This brought the total to twenty-eight Class V Demon Soul Generals, precisely enough to deploy the God Slaying Array, which required twenty-seven array cores.

Due to Shen Mo’s prior orders, when the Demon Soul Generals went out to prey, most of the blood food was used to cultivate more Class V Demon Soul Generals. Therefore, while the overall strength of Demon Soul Generals below Class V had improved, the increase was not particularly large.

The number of Class IV Demon Soul Generals had increased to over three hundred, and Class III Demon Soul Generals to seven thousand two hundred. The remaining nearly one hundred thousand Demon Soul Generals were still at Class II.

Once he had gathered thirty-six Class V Demon Soul Generals, Shen Mo planned to shift his focus to cultivating more Class III Demon Soul Generals, striving to have all Class II Demon Soul Generals advance by one class.

As for the more than one million regular Soul Generals, they lacked the Heavenly Demon characteristic of devouring blood food to strengthen themselves. Their strength hadn’t changed at all, remaining at Class I or Class II. The strongest among them had already been selected by Shen Mo and Demon-corrupted by minor Heavenly Demons.

Now, if I were to deploy the God Slaying Array with the soul generals in the flag, I wonder if I could contend with a Formless Realm expert? After carefully sensing the improvement of the Demon Soul Generals in the flag, a Sword Light flashed in Shen Mo’s palm, and he stored the flag in the Sword Zone.

Subsequently, he used the Teleportation Array at the Blood Snake Ridge outpost to teleport directly back to Dragon-suppressing Slope on Jade Spring Mountain.

「Two days later.」

The Silver-haired Child, the reincarnated Fulong Immortal Master, arrived at the Crimson Flame Sect Mountain Gate, accompanied by True Master Bian and dozens of disciples from the Fulong Sect.

Shen Mo did not retract the Green Cloud Cave. Instead, he cast a spell to conceal it, preventing it from being fully exposed to the Silver-haired Child. Then, accompanied by the sect’s high-ranking members, he personally emerged from the grand array to welcome the Silver-haired Child and his entourage into the mountain gate.

Within the Yin-Yang Five Elements Array, in the vacant space not occupied by the Green Cloud Cave, the Red Flame Sect had specifically constructed pavilions, terraces, and other such edifices for hosting visiting cultivators, complete with a Jade Pool and landscaped gardens.

The place to receive the Silver-haired Child was, naturally, here.

...

”Qingyun, you are so young yet possess such a high level of cultivation. Truly, your future knows no bounds! You are sure to become a Formless Master one day,” the Silver-haired Child exclaimed at the banquet, raising his wine cup, unable to restrain his admiration.

Shen Mo, not sparing his own praises, spoke highly of Fulong Immortal Master, congratulated him on his reincarnated return, and wished him a swift recovery to his Formless Realm cultivation.

After three rounds of drinks, the Silver-haired Child suddenly set down his wine cup, his eyes clearing.

Seeing this, Shen Mo knew he was about to discuss the true purpose of his visit. With a gentle flick of his sleeve, Shen Mo cast a spell, creating a barrier that isolated them from the others in the hall.

The Silver-haired Child nodded slightly in acknowledgment and then said directly, ”To be frank, I came to visit you, Qingyun, to invite you to explore a True Immortal’s cave mansion with me!”

Hearing the words ”True Immortal’s cave mansion,” Shen Mo’s eyes lit up, and he leaned forward, listening intently.

A single severed finger of a Demon True Immortal had brought him immense benefits. If this ”Fulong” truly possessed clues to a True Immortal’s cave mansion, Shen Mo would not let the opportunity pass easily.

As the Silver-haired Child slowly narrated, a past event, sealed for thousands of years, gradually unfolded before Shen Mo.

Approximately six thousand five hundred years ago, Fulong Immortal Master—the Silver-haired Child’s previous incarnation—who possessed a Formless Realm cultivation, accepted an invitation from a friend of the same cultivation level. He left Jade Spring Mountain to attend this friend’s four-thousandth birthday banquet.

The banquet was grand, but not long after, Fulong Immortal Master met his demise.

Fulong Immortal Master’s friend, who was celebrating his birthday, had somehow obtained specific information about a True Immortal’s cave mansion. Ostensibly a birthday celebration, the feast was actually intended to gather fellow Daoists to explore the True Immortal’s cave mansion in pursuit of the path to becoming an Immortal!

”True Immortals can easily live for a hundred thousand years. How did your friend determine that the owner of this cave mansion had perished?”

”Perhaps this True Immortal had not returned for so long due to reasons such as being in secluded cultivation for a breakthrough or traveling to other realms. If this True Immortal were still alive, wouldn’t recklessly intruding upon and exploring their cultivation grounds invite a great calamity?”

Whenever the Silver-haired Child’s account was vague, Shen Mo would interject with questions.