The First Immortal of Destiny

Chapter 966: Chapter 966: Two Strange Arts, Shen Mo Grows Suspicious

When Old Demon Wuji was killed, only a remnant soul escaped, while most of his primal essence and qi were devoured by the Ghost Bride.

Through the hands of the Ghost Bride, Shen Mo performed the Soul Searching Spell, peering into many secrets from the residual memories, including the two powerful cultivation methods, ”Plunder Yuan” and ”Divine Light Spell”!

”Plunder Yuan” is an utterly demonic cultivation method, not only defying the Great Path but also not aligning with Shen Mo’s personal way.

The effects of plundering other people’s cultivation, lifespan, and even fortunes were of little significance to Shen Mo, so he cast it aside after reviewing it!

What intrigued him more was the ”Divine Light Spell” of Qingfeng True Master...

Although Shen Mo did not know the rank of the ”Divine Light Spell”, after a bit of exploration, he discovered that in terms of mystical marvel, it was no lesser than the ”Chaotic Yuan and One Qi” he had deduced multiple times!

Moreover, the cultivation methods deduced through [Martial Performance] Destiny were only suitable for his self-cultivation, the more deductions, the less suitable they were for ordinary cultivators.

Just like the ”Chaotic Yuan and One Qi”, though countless disciples of the Red Flame Sect practiced this cultivation method, hardly anyone could even start cultivating the third deduced version, all because such destiny-deduced cultivation methods were tailor-made by the Martial Performance Body according to Shen Mo’s own characteristics.

The ”Divine Light Spell”, however, had no such restrictions, as long as one had the qualification for cultivation, they could practice it.

Those who cultivated this method could enhance their essence and qi comprehensively, using the power of vitality, mana, and soul to condense the spell’s spiritual light, corresponding to the three stages of ”Essence Light”, ”Qi Light”, and ”Divine Light”!

Producing even the faintest ”Essence Light” marked the beginning of the extraordinary path, equivalent to a Body Tempering Realm cultivator; achieving ”Qi Light” granted the ability to fly with light, with cultivation advancing to the Spirit Sea Realm; producing ”Divine Light” was the sign of the fusion of essence and qi, allowing one to erect the Divine Bridge and become a Great Cultivator.

Should ”Divine Light” be cultivated to its peak, the practitioner’s body, mana, soul, and all primal essence and qi could transform into an immortal divine light, thus entering the realm of True Immortals!

Furthermore, the ”Divine Light Spell” inherently contained numerous methods of using divine light to fend off and kill enemies, with formidable might — as long as practitioners comprehensively understood this cultivation method, they might not even need to invest energy in practicing other magic and martial arts.

Of course, although the method is easy to start, cultivating it deeply is extremely hard.

Yet even so, the ”Divine Light Spell” remains a top-notch cultivation method, one that could serve as a fundamental method for a great sect in the Universal Realm.

”It might not mean much to me, but to the sect, it’s invaluable! Too bad that young cultivator named Tu missed a great opportunity. If he had sold this method to Qingning when he first entered the spiritual land, what harm in giving him thousands of Dreamland Coins?” Shen Mo contemplated silently.

This ”Divine Light Spell,” although originating from Qingfeng True Master, was seized by Wuji Palace when it destroyed Qingfeng Temple.

Now that the spiritual land has obliterated Wuji Palace, avenging the entire Qingfeng Temple, and since Shen Mo obtained this cultivation method from the remaining memories of Old Demon Wuji, naturally by sentiment and logic, it belongs to the Red Flame Sect!

”Just that, both the ’Plunder Yuan’ and ’Golden Light Spell’ have somewhat peculiar origins!”

Shen Mo employed [Martial Performance] Destiny to begin practicing the ”Divine Light Spell”, a faint spiritual light illuminating in his palm, and as he pondered and toyed with it, he couldn’t help falling into deep thought.

Though in the Lower Realm, there is no lack of extraordinary individuals capable of creating peerless cultivation methods.

But, limited by cultivation, experience, and vision, it’s challenging to create such profound and perfect methods like ”Plunder Yuan” and ”Golden Light Spell” in a short time; typically, it requires thousands or tens of thousands of years with countless immortal geniuses succeeding and refining them to reach such a level!

Thus, most high-rank cultivation methods are those passed down in lineages of particular cultivation powers, and they are generally renowned sects of great power, as without an ample number of excellent successors, it’s tough to deduce a cultivation method to its peak.

Take methods like ”Chaotic Yuan and One Qi” and ”All-Encompassing Sword Canon” — when Shen Mo practiced them, they were much superior compared to a thousand years ago, and after countless disciples of the Red Flame Sect practiced and refined them over the years, their rank improved significantly from the original basis.

Even if these great sects eventually vanished into the river of time, traces could always be found.

But these cultivation methods ”Plunder Yuan” and ”Golden Light Spell” have no notoriety or traces in the history of the Dragon Claw Realm, it was as if they suddenly appeared at some point, then coincidentally obtained by Old Demon Wuji and Qingfeng True Master!

The more Shen Mo pondered, the more suspicious he became.

He closed his eyes once more, and the vast sea of information continually flashed in his mind, comprising tales and experiences of countless cultivators across the nine worlds and myriad spiritual lands of the Constellations of Horned Flood Dragon, just a rough filtering consumed nearly thirty percent of his mana!

After a few shichen, Shen Mo finally caught a thread of a clue, then continued to trace it methodically.

Unknown time passed when he abruptly opened his eyes, filled with a look of disbelief: ”There actually resides such an immortal power in the Lower Realm, hidden under my nose for nearly a century while I remained almost entirely oblivious!”

Immediately, Shen Mo ingested several Five Qi Gathering Pills to recover his mana, then took out the Soul Refining Flag and shook it fiercely.

In the Dragon Claw Realm, the Ghost Bride devouring Old Demon Wuji’s remnant essence and qi seemed to notice, consuming the remaining blood food in one gulp and dove into the hovering son flag, where the soul mark on the flag dimmed and entirely disappeared; a similar situation occurred in the Dragon Horn, Dragon Eye, Dragon Kiss, and other eight worlds, all Sixth Rank Demon Soul Generals implanted in the son flags were recalled by Shen Mo back to the main Soul Refining Flag!

He then proceeded through the interworld gateway, transferring to the subsidiary courtyard of the Dragon Claw Realm’s mountain gate.

And used nine Sixth Rank Demon Soul Generals as the array cores, with millions of ordinary Soul Generals and Demon Soul Generals as the array base, deploying the God Slaying Array, shrouding the area over ten thousand miles!

”I shall see who exactly you are, divine being?”

Shen Mo bore a solemn expression, casting a portion of himself towards the outskirts of Wuji Palace using the Formless Realm’s ”Should be the Body” ability!

At that moment, on the critical route leading from Wuji Palace to the Imprisoned Immortals Mountain Range.

Tu Lin and Fan Rongrong had just jointly slain a late-stage Qi Gathering demon cultivator and were scavenging the spoils of war; meanwhile, the hunch-backed elder had depleted a large amount of mana in the previous fight, consuming an elixir, he fell into a meditative recovery state.

Shen Mo condensed an ephemeral embodiment using nature’s spiritual energy, directing part of his mind into it, manifesting directly before the trio.

”Who are you?”

Seeing a figure bizarrely appear before them, Tu Lin and Fan Rongrong both broke into cold sweat and immediately adopted a defensive stance upon realization.

The hunch-backed elder also awoke in shock, a look of panic appearing on his face at the sight of Shen Mo’s apparition, immediately casting a spell to draw Tu Lin and Fan Rongrong to kneel in unison: ”This humble one pays respect to the senior!”