The First Immortal of Destiny

Chapter 1026: Chapter 1026: Gathered Immortals, Demonic Maiden Withdraws

The first to arrive at the Corpse Mountain Range were the Jade Spring Fairy, Ao Hao, Meng Chenyang, and other true immortals whose real bodies were on Phoenix Continent!

In fact, the siege on Su Qingtao was the first joint action of the true immortals under the Xuanyuan Alliance. Aside from Xuanyuan Tongzhen and those who were truly unable to come, nearly all of the alliance’s true immortals on Phoenix Continent had arrived, fearing they might arrive too late and only to collect the remains of Shen Mo, who was still a mortal cultivator.

Kunlun Continent was farther from Phoenix Continent, but including Ao Hui, three seventh-order true dragons had already set out, and would soon arrive at the Corpse Mountain Range.

Meanwhile, Xuanyuan Tongzhen and the projected bodies of more than twenty true immortals appeared one after another beside Shen Mo!

For a moment, with the arrival of all the immortals at the Corpse Mountain Range, celestial phenomena such as immortal light shimmering, auspicious clouds swirling, and fragrant grasses competing in brilliance were manifesting, causing great cultivators atop various immortal mountains below to be extremely uneasy.

Su Qingtao frowned, a flash of hesitation in her eyes.

Retrieving the Dragon Scale Fairy Talisman would take about ten breaths, but by then, she would inevitably be blocked by the arriving nine true immortals!

After much consideration, she finally decided to abandon the Dragon Scale Fairy Talisman...

After all, the talisman had exhausted almost all her power to stagnate the operation of the big array, even if she retrieved the eighth-order dragon scale she would need to redraw talismans, and it would be hard to make significant use of them in the short term; if she missed the chance to escape due to this talisman and was killed by the joint forces of numerous true immortals, it would be too much of a loss!

Having made up her mind, she repeatedly tapped her feet on the Controlling Dragon Light Picture, activating the effect of the escape skill ”Hidden Shape”!

In the magical glow and shadows, the phantom images of true dragons lurked within the cloud and mist waves, and her figure gradually hid in the void as the brilliance dimmed.

”Mr. Shen, please keep this eighth-order dragon scale talisman for me temporarily, when the ancient peach tree bears new fruit, I’ll exchange the immortal peach with you for it...” Su Qingtao, before completely vanishing, didn’t forget to sow some discord.

”Demon woman!”

Shen Mo snorted coldly, flew back into the Earth Yuan Array, and continued to use spells to suppress the Dragon Scale Fairy Talisman.

The eighth-order true dragon is a being akin to the level of the Empyrean Golden Immortal, and even higher immortals than the first three realms of true immortals, such as superior divine immortals and supreme heavenly immortals, would be tempted by its shed dragon scales.

The true immortals who had arrived signed an alliance oath, and moreover appeared here only as projected bodies, unable to unleash their full power. Therefore, upon hearing Su Qingtao’s provoking remarks, although their eyes were drawn to the Dragon Scale Fairy Talisman within the array with visible interest, none made a move to ”reach out and snatch it”!

By the time Jade Spring Fairy and the nine immortals’ real bodies arrived, Su Qingtao had already disappeared without a trace, while Shen Mo, after the Dragon Scale Talisman had completely run out of power, collected it.

However, the item was so high-level that even when Shen Mo held it in his hand, his palm showed slight signs of distortion. Therefore, he sealed it in a specially-made jade box, temporarily stowing it in the Sword Zone for later contemplation on its uses!

Soon after, Ao Hui and three seventh-order true dragons also arrived at the Corpse Mountain Range.

They didn’t linger long, and after some communication with Shen Mo, used the Dragon clan’s Secret Technique to discover traces of Su Qingtao’s use of the Dragon Controlling Escape Magic, then chased with Ao Hao of Hidden Dragon River towards beyond the Ninth Heaven.

At this time, it became apparent that within the Immortal League, there were two groups with completely different attitudes towards Su Qingtao...

Cultivators like Shen Mo and Jade Spring Fairy, who had no deep enmity with Su Qingtao, were willing to contribute efforts as fellow members of the Immortal League, but obviously would not go to life-and-death struggles with her.

On the other hand, the True Dragon Clan regarded Su Qingtao as a mortal enemy, determined not to stop until she was slain!

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With the rare gathering of so many true immortals from the Immortal League at the Corpse Mountain Range, Shen Mo wanted to fulfill his host duties and lay down a banquet at Five Dragon Mountain to properly entertain all his allies.

In the end, while the projected bodies of true immortals like Xuanyuan Tongzhen had no objections, immortals present like Meng Chenyang, who came in person, felt hesitant about the Earth Yuan Array. It was the Jade Spring Fairy who ultimately hosted the banquet at Jade Spring Mountain, relieving the concerns of Meng Chenyang and others!

The banquet lasted for three days, and thanks to Shen Mo and Su Qingtao having fought to a draw, many true immortals from the Immortal League sincerely regarded him as a fellow cultivator.

Even the demon immortals from the Southern Desert Monster Kingdom, who usually had significant opinions, frequently exchanged toasts with him!

Once the fairy banquet at Jade Spring Mountain concluded, the true immortals present in their real bodies returned to their respective domains, while other true immortal projections dispersed as well, before appearing again in Xuanyuan Mountain Cloud Palace to manifest their projections, ensuring the ongoing exchange conference of this year’s Immortal League cultivators hadn’t ended.

Shen Mo’s Gecko False Body remained in the Cloud Palace unmoved, while his real body returned to Green Cloud Cave, continuing cultivation with the Chaotic Yuan Dharma Phase!

On the tenth day of the exchange conference, the ranking among the 1,450 disciples of true immortals within the Scroll Realm was determined...

In the Body Tempering Realm and Qi Gathering Realm competitions, the Red Flame Sect ranked moderately high, indicating that the sect had managed to cultivate a decent foundation after ascending to the Immortal Realm and operating for many years, not inferior to general true immortal powers.

However, the results of the Spirit Sea Realm were rather poor, with Red Flame Sect overall ranking third from last, as this batch of late-stage and peak Spirit Sea Realm disciples was brought into the Immortal Realm from the Primordial Realm by Green Cloud Cave, and the outstanding ones among them had successively formed Golden Cores, so the overall quality was not very high.

The sect’s Golden Core Realm ranked ahead, with Meng Sanchi, Qian Xiaofeng, Fan Ying, and Tu Lin emerging among the top ten out of 290 Golden Core cultivators, being the best performing group among the five Dao Realms.

As for the Divine Bridge Realm, because the Red Flame Sect had not long ago ascended to the Immortal Realm, most of the sect’s ten Immortal Masters had only early-stage Divine Bridge cultivation. Faced with numerous late-stage and peak great cultivators, they were basically powerless, resulting in none successfully advancing to the top ten, causing the overall ranking of this Dao Realm to fall once again to the bottom!

Finally, based on each person’s ranking and the different weightings of the five Dao Realms, the Red Flame Sect ranked twenty-first among twenty-nine true immortal powers.

This result made Shen Mo aware of the gap between the Red Flame Sect and other true immortal powers;

But he wasn’t surprised, since the Red Flame Sect had just gained a foothold in the Immortal Realm and its foundation was still shallow, he believed as time progresses, this ranking would increasingly improve.

Subsequently, every top ten in each Dao Realm was summoned to the Cloud Palace, receiving generous rewards prepared in advance by the Immortal League, and was allowed to stay in the Cloud Palace to listen to the true immortals discussing profound dao matters, while the other thousand plus attendees participated in the subsequent routines of the exchange conference on Xuanyuan Mountain!

Half a month later, Shen Mo, along with Ming Can, Zhou Zhiwei, Chen Mengze, and fifty-one disciples, returned via a large Teleportation Array to the sect.

This Immortal League exchange conference was quite fruitful; he negotiated with seventeen true immortals to open the permissions for the Teleportation Array and mutually establish immortal workshops, while most others outside Phoenix Continent, though being far from Five Dragon Mountain, could also be connected through the intermediation of other true immortal powers!