Chapter 1106 - 1094: Dao-slashing Sword

Chapter 1106: Chapter 1094: Dao-slashing Sword

Throughout the ages, there have been countless standards to measure a cultivator’s proficiency in the Sword Path.

Shen Mo, having immersed himself in the Sword Path for many years, has his own unique standard...

Whether the opponent is a cultivator, demon, True Immortal, a world, or even the entire universe, first one must destroy the tangible body, second the tangible but formless soul, and third the formless and intangible Dao!

Only when all three are obliterated can it be said that everything is severed;

And to sever the formless and intangible Dao, the sword used must naturally be forged from one’s own Dao.

With this thought, an ominous energy emanated from Shen Mo’s Chaotic Yuan Dharma Phase, as he slowly extracted chunks of Dao bone condensed from his sword Dao.

As he moved, the Dharma Body became a boneless body, showing signs of disintegration and demise. Yet in the blink of an eye, the Dao bone chunks regrew, supporting the visceral flesh attached to the skeleton, halting the collapse of the Dharma Body!

The extracted Dao bones, like raw materials untempered, existed quietly in the void in a peculiar form.

In Shen Mo’s mind, insights regarding the "Supreme Clarity Sword Technique," "Sword Control Spirit Technique," "Big Dipper Seven Star Sword Formation," "Startling Swan Sword Technique," "Sacrificial One Sword," "All-Encompassing Sword Canon," and over a hundred magical powers such as [Sword Body], [Sword Escape], [Sword Heart Enlightenment], and [Universe in the Sword], gradually emerged, transforming his will into the Spiritual Flame and heavy hammers upon the Dao bones!

For hundreds of years, Shen Mo began refining the Sword Path from the "Supreme Clarity Sword Technique" in his humble beginnings, continually training in sword martial arts and mastering Sword Path skills. This was a process of simplifying from complexity.

And now, he condenses all the magical powers into Dao bones, simplifying the complex...

Using this as the foundation to forge his Enlightenment Sword!

Under the "forging a hundred times" of Shen Mo’s will, the Dao bones gradually merged, becoming more and more like a treasured sword.

It is unknown how much time passed, but the Dao bone sword finally took shape, containing vast power within, its sword body flickering in and out, existing neither in a specific shape nor form, like a white bone sword, a clear spring of moonlight, or a string of strange Dao runes...

At the instant the Dao sword was forged, a sword hum like a Dao tone resounded through the heavens and earth, with Shen Mo’s Chaotic Yuan Dharma Phase resonating strongly with it.

The next instant.

Shen Mo’s Dharma Body reached out with a hand covered in a layer of flesh and muscle membrane, grasping the Enlightenment Sword, forged from his own Dao bones.

At the moment the Dao sword came into his hands, a mysterious and profound enlightenment arose in his heart: "Chaotic Yuan Path-Breaking Sword!"

This was both an Enlightenment Sword and a Path-Breaking Sword... severing the path of the enemy to confirm my own path.

This sword was different from magic artifacts like the Demon Slaying Sword or the Taiyi Sword, as it was not a conventional magic treasure but more akin to the God Path Wand held by the Empyrean Fairy, a manifestation of his own Sword Dao or an extension of his Chaotic Yuan Dharma Phase.

Feeling the supreme mysteriousness of the Chaotic Yuan Path-Breaking Sword, Shen Mo felt a tempting urge to test the divine might of this sword.

Soon, he set his sights on a heavy tribulation in the future Immortal Tribulation...

In the past, using the "Divination Treasure Mirror," Shen Mo divined a hexagram which revealed that three heavy outer space tribulations were extremely perilous, directed respectively at the Lord Blue Venerable, the Heavenly Demon, and the Dream True Master of Dreamland.

Some other tribulations were not so formidable, at most trivial branches and leaves, among which one pointed to the long-forgotten Rite Path Immortal Master Lin Zhaozai!

When Shen Mo divined this result, he was puzzled as to why the hexagram would point to this person?

Lin Zhaozai was a Rite Path expert in the Vacuous Realm.

Hundreds of years ago, when Shen Mo was a Nascent Soul Realm Cultivator, he once adventured in the Vacuous Realm, known among Heaven Patrolling cultivators as the "ancient battlefield of immortals and demons," together with Lady Scarlet, Fu Jianghuo, and the Peng Siblings.

They discovered a Demon-Suppressing Tower within a natural Formation, in the seventh tower room of which an ancient iron chain restrained the corpse of a human cultivator—the corpse of Lin Zhaozai, or rather the former self of Lin Zhaozai, suppressed here.

In life, Lin Zhaozai had ingested a Longevity Pill from the Longevity race, granting him a lifespan longer than the ordinary Heavenly Monarch of the Divine Bridge Realm. However, being suppressed for tens of thousands of years, his lifespan ultimately ran out.

Yet, because his cultivation method was the White Bones Path and also due to the demonic assets on the fifth and sixth floors, when Shen Mo and others stepped into the seventh tower room and their energies were sensed by his corpse, a brand new creature named "Lin Zhaozai" emerged, inheriting the former name, memories, cultivation, and level.

The "resurrected" Lin Zhaozai needed blood sustenance to restore part of his cultivation power to completely escape the Demon-Suppressing Tower’s imprisonment and intended to devour Shen Mo, Lady Scarlet, and the others.

Shen Mo was naturally not going to do his bidding. After a fierce battle, he took Lady Scarlet and the others and escaped the Demon-Suppressing Tower.

Back then, Lin Zhaozai was only a step away from breaking free. Soon after, he left the ancient battlefield of immortals and demons with the Demon-Suppressing Tower in tow, targeting the Ancient Vine Sect near the battlefield’s exit to regain strength.

Shen Mo, meanwhile, acted once more for Enlightenment Tea. A bloody battle ensued, where using Mother Tree green leaves containing Class V magic from Mi, heavily injured and repelled Lin Zhaozai, irrevocably forming a blood feud!

Their entangled cause and effect did not stop there.

Later, when Shen Mo ascended to the Divine Bridge, Lin Zhaozai, having partially restored his strength, transformed into an enlightenment tribulation to kill him, nearly causing Shen Mo’s downfall.