The First Immortal of Destiny

Chapter 1098: Chapter 1090: The Dao of the Heavenly Demon Ancestor

”Senior Brother Qingyun is truly ruthless. The last time I saw you was twenty years ago...”

Lady Scarlet’s expression was melancholy, and with her Charming Body, even True Immortals couldn’t help but feel a sense of compassion for her.

Lu Ming, who arrived using flying escape with thunder-type magic, staggered and fell out of lightning light, quickly suppressing his breath and focusing, pretending not to hear anything, and stood silently behind Shen Mo without daring to speak.

”I’ve been busy with cultivation and sect affairs lately, really don’t have any leisure time!”

Shen Mo did not wish to entangle too much in this matter with Lady Scarlet, pointed to the sect disciple in the herb garden, and asked, ”Do you recognize this person? Has anything unusual happened to him recently?”

Lady Scarlet couldn’t possibly know all the sect disciples, but the number of Spirit Sea Realm cultivators and above in Li Mountain Elixir Sect is not many, plus they have a lifespan of five hundred years upon reaching the Spirit Sea Realm, she has seen some of them a few times, so she immediately recognized the sect disciple working in the herb garden.

To ensure her response was accurate, she also took out a Communication Talisman and inquired with someone.

At this moment, a noticeable change occurred in the aura of this sect disciple, and a trace of gloomy aura flickered across his face, but soon returned to normal.

Bright variations sparkled in Shen Mo’s eyes, yet his Dharma Eye clearly saw the series of transformations happening in this person’s Dao body and soul...

Earlier, this person was already entangled by Heart Demon, giving birth to a strand of demonic primal intent in his flesh, soul, and mana. Then, while they were speaking, this strand of demonic primal intent seemed to sprout and grow into a towering tree, corrupting his primal Essence and Qi.

Silently, this person was already demon-corrupted, transforming into a mutated Heavenly Demon. However, there was no sign of Native Heaven Demon around, not even a dense Demonic Qi!

”This is...”

Lady Scarlet also noticed something amiss, and her expression slightly changed.

It was only then she understood why Shen Mo, as a No Phase State Grandmaster and master of Five Dragon Mountain, would pay attention to an unknown Spirit Sea Realm cultivator!

Subsequently, she informed Shen Mo and Lu Ming about this person’s identity and background in detail.

This sect disciple who became a mutated Heavenly Demon, named Wang Mingzhi, possessed late-stage Spirit Sea Realm cultivation, and was an Elder in the spiritual plant hall of Li Mountain Elixir Sect.

Since Li Mountain Elixir Sect migrated to Five Dragon Mountain, he was ordered to lead a group of low-class disciples to cultivate over a thousand acres of herb garden here, diligently working over the years, cultivating a large amount of basic spiritual medicine for the sect.

His cultivation career was unremarkable, like most cultivators, striving to earn cultivation resources, and transforming resources into personal cultivation, but he ascended with the forbidden land from Primordial Realm, now over 460 years old, due to past primal essence losses, his lifespan was less than ten years.

To break through this restriction and ascend to the Spirit Sea peak to have a chance at condensing a Golden Core, a year ago, Wang Mingzhi spent all his accumulated wealth to gather all the materials to refine two furnaces of Magic Horn Pill.

Magic Horn Pill is a Grade six Elixir, one of the top breakthrough elixirs in Li Mountain Elixir Sect before entering the Immortal Realm; even Lady Scarlet, as daughter of Sect Master Duanmu Yuan, only possessed three pills... If it could be successfully refined, Wang Mingzhi shouldn’t have difficulty breaking through late-stage Spirit Sea Realm, and has a slight chance at condensing a Golden Core.

Though Wang Mingzhi is a sect cultivator, his own alchemy knowledge was only Grade III, so after asking around, he finally established a relationship with a Grade V Alchemist in Li Mountain Elixir Sect, who agreed to refine the Magic Horn Pill for him!

However, whether Wang Mingzhi faced unfortunate timing or the Grade V Alchemist did something fishy, ultimately only two pills were refined from the two furnaces of Magic Horn Pill, one being defective, only one reached middle-grade quality with normal efficacy.

After taking these two pills successively, the result was naturally a failure nearly completed, neither improving cultivation to the point enough to impact Golden Core, nor breaking through late-stage Spirit Sea Realm.

Wang Mingzhi was not discouraged, also recklessly borrowed debts from fellow sect members.

But since he had little remaining lifespan, and with an extremely slim chance of achieving Golden Core, he couldn’t gather enough precious spiritual medicine for another pill from anyone in the sect!

”The Grade V Alchemist who refined the Magic Horn Pill for Wang Mingzhi has been in this realm for a long time, with many successful experiences in refining Grade six Elixirs. Two batches of spiritual materials only resulting in one defective Elixir and one middle-grade Elixir is evidently suspicious!” Lady Scarlet’s brows slightly frowned, a trace of Demonic Qi flashed in her eyes.

”No wonder this person’s Path Heart fell, breeding Heart Demon.” Shen Mo thought to himself.

Even now, similar incidents occur frequently in the Red Flame Sect...

Disciples painstakingly gather raw materials and ask more adept sect members in Elixir, Talisman, Artifact, and Formation array to refine finished Elixir, magic artifact, talisman.

In the end, those people secretly manipulate, either deducting materials or using inferior ones, leading to either a failed refining or unsatisfactory results for refined Elixir, magic artifact!

As long as greed still exists within people’s hearts, such incidents cannot be entirely eradicated.

What Shen Mo can do is to enforce stern laws in the Enforcement Hall, severely punishing those who commit such malicious acts in the Red Flame Sect.

Lu Ming stood calmly aside, after all, such matters in Red Flame Sect are managed by the Enforcement Hall, not within his Evil Punishing Hall authority, his focus was more on the ”unexpectedly” mutated Heavenly Demon Wang Mingzhi below!

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At this time, Wang Mingzhi, from soul to flesh, had become a complete Heavenly Demon, but he hid well, with not a trace of Demonic Qi revealing!