The First Immortal of Destiny

Chapter 1093: Chapter 1087: 7th-Tier Immortal Tree, Aftermath of the Tribulation (2)

It might even hinder her from cultivating to become an Immortal, stopping her at the Formless Realm.

Once Zhao Lingyin attains Formless, after nine thousand years of Lifespan are exhausted and her real body falls, her soul can only be entrusted to the immortal tree incarnation, from then on reduced to being rooted in the Dragon Heart Realm.

Besides that, this Seventh Stage Fairy Tree cannot be easily moved. Even if Zhao Lingyin refines it into an incarnation, it can only remain in the Dragon Heart Realm. Apart from possessing a more vast source of primal Essence and Qi, she cannot gain much more benefit... she can neither use the immortal tree incarnation to fight, nor allow her own strength to make a qualitative leap.

At best, while rooted in the Dragon Heart Realm, she can comb the earth-qi and harmonize Yin and Yang, doing some contribution for the beings of this realm and earning a share of achievement in heaven and earth from the will of the cosmos!

If she cultivates using the Green Wood mana contained in this fairy tree, in essence it is no different from these years borrowing Lord Blue Venerable’s Dharma Body to cultivate. The origin power contained in the Yuan Monarch’s Dharma Body, once drawn and refined by the Stars Circulation Array, likewise transforms into a higher-dimensional, higher-level Green Wood mana... cultivating with the mana contained in the immortal tree will have slightly inferior overall effect compared to before, but is more steady and safe.

After all, the lingering Dao Rhyme will of Lord Blue Venerable has already been refined and cleansed away by the Empyrean Fairy’s Divine Power; there will be no hidden danger.

Judging by the mana contained in the Seventh Stage Fairy Tree and its recovery speed, drawing Green Wood mana from the tree is entirely sufficient to supply Zhao Lingyin’s cultivation up to the True Immortal Realm. Before she becomes an Earth Immortal, she need not worry about lack of mana; it will only slow somewhat the rate at which the Dragon Heart Realm’s nature’s spiritual energy increases.

But once it is above the Earth Immortal Realm, this Seventh Stage Fairy Tree can no longer supply. If she continues to draw Green Wood mana from it, it will probably take not long before its mana dries up and it dies.

With such a calculation, which of the two routes is superior or inferior becomes instantly clear!

After discussing with Shen Mo, Zhao Lingyin decisively chose the latter.

Afterwards, the two of them joined hands to open up a cave mansion within the trunk of the immortal tree, then laid down an exquisite Formation, continuously drawing the Green Wood mana contained in the tree into the cave mansion, causing the Mana within the cave to become terrifyingly rich, even condensing mutated top-grade Spirit Stone of wood attribute!

As soon as the immortal tree cave mansion was completed, Zhao Lingyin impatiently went into seclusion.

Shen Mo then began studying the branches and leaves of this immortal tree. He reached out and plucked a leaf, put on [Method Eye Candle Wisp] and carefully observed. After not long, he comprehended a profound level magic from the leaf’s vein textures.

”That old hag Blue Venerable has lived for who knows how many tens of thousands of years; the cultivation methods she has learned and Skills she has mastered must number in the tens of millions.

This immortal tree itself was a Dharma Phase, later transformed by the Empyrean Fairy into a fairy wood spiritual plant, all sorts of divine marvels completely restrained within. However, if one is willing to spend the effort to delve into it, one can still comprehend many magic and martial arts from its branches and leaves!”

Of course, other cultivators do not possess such a Special Destiny as [Method Eye Candle Wisp], cannot see through the origin of things; to comprehend magic and cultivation methods is not easy, with cultivation, opportunity, and comprehension all indispensable.

Ordinary cultivation methods can no longer enter Shen Mo’s Dharma Eye. He spent several months, selected over a hundred cultivation methods and magic above spiritual level, then used [Martial Performance] to test-cultivate each. Afterwards, he carved the extremely detailed effects of each cultivation method into jade slips, in duplicate.

One copy he directly gave to Zhao Lingyin for her to study and cultivate; the other he prepared to send into the Magic Tower of the Red Flame Sect.

Compared to the Riverside Sect of several hundred years ago, the current Red Flame Sect’s manuals collection of various magic and martial arts has expanded almost ten thousandfold. Part come from the cultivation world of the Red Flame Zone, part from the Horned Flood Dragon Nine Realms, part from the Celestial Feather Sect of the Demonic Realm, and part from Dreamland.

In future, a special trial can be arranged for Chi Yan Cultivators, coming to the Dragon Heart Realm to comprehend the Seventh Stage Fairy Tree; thus yet another source route is added... the more cultivation method and magic, the deeper the sect’s foundation, and the greater the latitude of choices for sect disciples, so that they can always select a cultivation method suitable for themselves.

With the Yuan Monarch’s Dharma Body refined into the immortal tree, the Stars Circulation Array is no longer needed to suppress and Seal, but Shen Mo does not intend to discard this big array.

Zhao Lingyin is cultivating with the immortal tree’s Green Wood mana. It can be foreseen that for a long period she will continue to stay inside the Dragon Heart Realm. To prevent that old hag Blue Venerable from returning, it is best to have a powerful Formation prepared for defense.

Besides that.

The Constellations of Horned Flood Dragon, as well as the Nine Heavens Realm with the Empyrean Fairy sitting in town, are both retreats for Shen Mo and the Red Flame Sect.

Yet the Nine Heavens Realm is, after all, someone else’s Dao field, unsuitable for long-term stationing and cannot accommodate hundreds of millions of immortal and mortal beings.

Once the Corpse Mountain Range, Five Dragon Mountain, or even the entire Phoenix Continent encounter a disaster tribulation impossible to resist, the Red Flame Sect and the Xiu Xian Forces on Five Dragon Mountain sheltered under Shen Mo’s wings can temporarily enter the Constellations of Horned Flood Dragon to avoid the tribulation.

Although the Yuan Monarch’s Dharma Phase has been completely refined by the Empyrean Fairy, the aftermath of this upheaval will not subside quickly.

In these years, thanks to the Stars Circulation Array drawing and refining the origin of the Yuan Monarch’s Dharma Body, all Wood Spirit Body cultivators in the Horned Flood Dragon Nine Realms progressed extremely fast in cultivation; their sharp edge completely suppressed the other Spiritual Body types within the Nine Realms.

Yet fortune and misfortune are intertwined...

Previously, Lord Blue Venerable’s Nine Tree Dharma Form descended, causing the Dao Body and soul of all Green Wood Spirit Body and Wood Spirit Body cultivators in the Nine Realms to undergo distortion.

Regardless of male or female, regardless of high or low cultivation, all of them were reduced to Yuan Monarch’s incarnations; afterwards, these incarnations whose strength was not particularly great, like those bizarre Tree Demon, all fell under the Empyrean Fairy’s Divine Power!

For a time, across all nine worlds of the Constellations of Horned Flood Dragon, there remained not a single Wood Spirit Body cultivator. Only after a new batch of Wood Spirit Bodies is born can it recover. Now that the tribulation has passed and the Dragon Heart Realm has a Seventh Stage Fairy Tree suppressing, it is estimated that Wood Spirit Bodies born in this realm will soon usher in another peak period.

In addition, with no big array drawing the origin of the Yuan Monarch’s Dharma Body, no more bizarre Tree Demon are being born in the Nine Realms.

Nanke Spirit Land is still operating normally, but for the spiritual land cultivators, they have completely lost the daily task of ”slaying Tree Demon and collecting Evil Qi”; to earn Dreamland Coin they can only rely on mining metals and stone ore, planting and harvesting spiritual medicine, maintaining Formation foundations and other such paths.

For spiritual land cultivators who are adept at battle but not skilled in the Hundred Arts of Cultivation, this is undoubtedly a disaster; yet under the trend of the times, they have no choice but to once more pick up the unfamiliar Hundred Arts of Cultivation and see if they can find a livelihood suited to themselves!

The Evil-eating Sky Centipede has also lost its food source; its continued stay in the Lower Realm holds little meaning, so Shen Mo retrieved it back into the Sword Zone.

Over these years, it has devoured a vast amount of Evil Qi carrying the Yuan Monarch’s Dao Rhyme will, difficult to erase and refine, and has already advanced to middle-stage Class VI. Its beast body has become ever more indestructible; it is likely that even a Late Formless Realm expert could be matched by it in battle.

When the soul bodies of many Wood Spirit Bodies were undergoing distortion, no sign of distortion appeared upon the Evil-eating Centipede.

One must know that the Evil Qi it devours contains the Dao Rhyme will of a Heavenly Immortal-level powerhouse!

Ordinarily that might be fine, but when Lord Blue Venerable’s Nine Tree Dharma Form descended, if there had been even a thread of Evil Qi in its body not yet digested, it would instantly have met with calamity; likely even the primal Essence and Qi of Ghost Immortals and Human Immortals would have been corrupted, thereby distorted.

Yet the Evil-eating Centipede remained as if nothing had happened, still jumping around lively as before!

This could not help but make Shen Mo value this obstinate vicious beast all the more. He then tried sending it into the Demon-Suppressing Tower to face the Water Ghost Evil Spirit directly, discovering that it was itching to eat this Evil Spirit, clearly having the ability to completely digest such a bizarre existence.

”In future, if we slay a True Immortal and cannot completely erase its Dao Rhyme will, we can feed it to the Evil-eating Centipede. I expect the effect will be no worse than burial in the Death Ghost Realm!”

Shen Mo patted the Evil-eating Centipede’s head, thinking with quiet delight.

Indeed, if it can cultivate to Class VII, step into the True Immortal Realm, it may well be able to swallow even bizarre Evil Spirit in one bite.

After all, Evil Spirit are residual echoes of the will of heaven and earth of the Withering Realm, the ghosts of a world, and in essence are no different from the Dao Rhyme will left behind by Heavenly Immortals. Since the Evil-eating Centipede can digest Dao Rhyme will originating from Lord Blue Venerable’s origin power—something even immortal arrays find hard to erase and refine—it can naturally digest Evil Spirit as well.

This point has already been verified from the ”appetite” the Evil-eating Centipede shows toward the Water Ghost Evil Spirit.

For small Evil Spirit such as the Water Ghost, it probably can now devour and digest them directly. As for large Evil Spirit, it must wait until its Realm is higher, lest it suffer indigestion and be ”stuffed” to death!