The First Immortal of Destiny

Chapter 1094: Chapter 1088: Heavenly Demon Threats, Cause and Effect Entanglement

Shen Mo lingered in the Dragon Heart Realm for another half a year. Ensuring that Zhao Lingyin’s cultivation with the green wood mana from the immortal tree would not encounter any more surprises, he returned to the Immortal Realm with the Evil-eating Centipede.

In the future Immortal Tribulation concerning the lurking threat of Lord Blue Venerable, it seemed temporarily pacified, but this couldn’t rule out the possibility of the Lord later making another move against him and Zhao Lingyin.

Only by thoroughly eliminating this old demoness could the hidden dangers be eradicated forever!

However, this task is as difficult as ascending to heaven... Not to mention that Shen Mo has not yet attained the True Immortal level, even if he did achieve it, eliminating Lord Blue Venerable would not be easy.

Shen Mo is not the only one with a deadly vendetta against Lord Blue Venerable. Tens of thousands of years ago, when the Empyrean Fairy was besieged and killed, her immortal body was divided into millions of pieces and buried in the Divine Path World, a part of which can be attributed to Lord Blue Venerable’s deeds.

Now that the Empyrean Fairy has returned to life and has become the progenitor deity of the New Era, her cultivation level stands at the pinnacle within the Heavenly Immortal Realm, yet she still has no means against Lord Blue Venerable. Otherwise, how could she allow Lord Blue Venerable to survive until today, still causing trouble from time to time!

As the Chaotic Yuan Dharma Phase further improved, Shen Mo advanced to the late stage of Formless, just one minor realm away from the True Immortal Realm. Once he steps into the Peak Realm, the Immortal Tribulation could descend at any moment.

In the days to come, there will be many signs of Outer Space Tribulations that he needs to deal with one by one.

”I don’t know where Senior Dream’s real body is. Previously, when I entered Dreamland using the Entry Dream method, I didn’t notice anything unusual... The tribulation threats concerning Dreamland will have to wait; let’s first address the threats concerning the Heavenly Demon!”

However, Shen Mo found it difficult to determine where to start.

When casting divinations earlier, the hexagrams pointing towards the Heavenly Demon were very vague, and the intertwining causes and effects between him and the Celestial Demon Clan were as numerous as the stars, making it impossible to deduce the source of this Outer Space Tribulation.

Inside the Soul Refining Flag, billions of Demon Souls were refined from a multitude of Heavenly Demons.

If this tribulation is to happen here, then when he faces the Immortal Tribulation, there might be situations like Demon Souls rioting, the Soul Refining Flag backfiring, or a Demon Soul General advancing to the seventh rank, surpassing his control, and so on!

He also harbors quite a significant grudge with the Seventh Rank Heavenly Demon Chunyang Zi.

Back in the day, this formidable Heavenly Demon had divided its essence and demonic nest into billions of parts scattered everywhere, creating hosts for three hundred million Accompanying Demon Souls. It wouldn’t be surprising if a Demon Soul host attains True Immortal status, helping Chunyang Zi return to its peak, leading billions of Heavenly Demons up to Five Dragon Mountain to seek revenge on him.

Or perhaps, among all realms, a world completely occupied by Heavenly Demons could be refined into a forbidden land or a demonic nest by the Big Heavenly Demon and descend directly onto Five Dragon Mountain...

After some consideration, Shen Mo decided to first tackle the demon infestation on both the Red Flame Sect and Five Dragon Mountain.

Thinking of this, spirit light flickered on his body, and he appeared inside the Evil Punishing Hall.

Within the Red Flame Sect’s Evil Punishing Hall, the institution responsible for external battles and attacks, its authority was similar to that of the Demon Slaying Hall and Defense Division jointly established by the Five Great Sects in past years. The position of Hall Master had once belonged to Yuan Qingshi. After Yuan Qingshi took the position of Sect Master of the Riverside Sect, it was succeeded by Yang Mao, a cultivator at the peak of the Spirit Sea Realm. After Yang Mao failed in his attempt to condense a Golden Core and perished, Shen Mo appointed Lu Ming to this position.

With the integration of the Red Flame Zone’s cultivation world into the Red Flame Sect, and the subsequent descent to the Universal Realm among other changes, many high-level positions saw adjustments where either Peak Masters and Hall Masters died from old age, their cultivation couldn’t keep up, or they needed to seclude themselves for further cultivation.

However, Lu Ming’s cultivation progress far exceeded the average standard of Chi Yan Cultivators. With abundant energy, he managed to balance cultivation and worldly affairs, staying in this position for three to four centuries.

In the Red Flame Sect or all across Five Dragon Mountain, whenever traces of Heavenly Demons or other Demons appeared, they would be handled by Lu Ming and the cultivators of the Evil Punishing Hall!

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”Reporting to the Sect Master, the host parasitized by the Demon Soul of Chunyang Zi shows no signs of abnormality!” Lu Ming stood respectfully to the side, responding solemnly to Shen Mo’s inquiry.

Back when Chunyang Zi’s soul transformed into billions, he specifically ”cared for” Five Dragon Mountain, sending over hundreds of thousands of Demon Souls to parasitize on the cultivators of the mountain.

Later, Shen Mo improved the Bone Viewing Mirror and identified all the Demon Soul hosts on the mountain.

After extracting and eliminating the Demon Soul parasitizing their souls, Shen Mo taught them a Soul Magic technique to nourish their souls and tasked the Evil Punishing Hall with the care and monitoring of these over fifty thousand Demon Soul hosts!

”Hmm.”

Shen Mo nodded, continuing to peruse the dossiers regarding the Heavenly Demon in his hands.

Before long, he noticed something amiss within the vast tomes... Over the years, the number of cultivators on Five Dragon Mountain who were Demon-corrupted by the Heavenly Demon far exceeded those from previous periods.

He made note of the timeline and realized that the days when the Empyrean Fairy revived or when the Divine Path integrated with the Immortal Path served as a clear turning point.

Before this, among the cultivators in Five Dragon Mountain, including those like the Flower Fairy from the alien tribe, very few were Demon-corrupted by the Heavenly Demon.

After all, the demons that originally entrenched the Five Dragons in early turbulent years were almost completely eradicated.

Only the hosts of Demon Souls could inhabit Five Dragon Mountain like ordinary creatures without actively revealing themselves.

But the good days for Accompanying Demon Souls didn’t last long.

After exhaustive searches with the improved Bone Viewing Mirror, even the Demon Soul hosts became extinct on Five Dragon Mountain, and in recent decades, with the embryonic form of the Earth Yuan Array safeguarding it, there was no longer any place for Native Heavenly Demons, mutated Heavenly Demons, or Demon Soul hosts to hide within!

Under such circumstances, most of the Demon-corrupted cultivators had left Five Dragon Mountain.