Chapter 971: Seal and Refine!

Chapter 971: Chapter 971: Seal and Refine!

Standing in the vast cosmic void, one could see the remote Constellations of Horned Flood Dragon, having transformed into a fortress-like prison, trapping the Law Body of Lord Blue Venerable within this Star Zone.

Unless the real body of that old witch descends upon this universe world, it would be difficult to project more power to achieve the purpose of "turning Zhao Lingyin into an Incarnation"!

However, although Zhao Lingyin temporarily avoided a fatal disaster, she now faced a severe problem...

She had to remain hidden in the Lower Realm, as returning to the Universal Realm would allow Lord Blue Venerable to come back and seize everything from her, leaving her almost without any resistance;

Yet, the cultivation environment in the Lower Realm is far inferior to that in the Immortal Realm, making even reaching the Formless Realm difficult, let alone becoming a True Immortal!

Shen Mo naturally considered this point, so he chose the Stars Circulation Array for formation.

Besides being difficult to move, this formation is nearly perfect in all aspects, not only harnessing the power of the Nine Realms with immense might but also possessing many wondrous formation effects, incorporating suppression, sealing, concealment, killing, defense, refining, and many other divine effects into one!

When the Guanzhu of Death Jaw guarded the Heavenly Gateway, they often moved worlds from the edge of the universe world to set up the Stars Circulation Array for magic duels with the leftover evil of the old era.

Unlike Shen Mo, someone like her at the Heavenly Immortal level would casually set up formations with hundreds or thousands of worlds to fend off enemies, not spending two hundred years to barely set up this array with nine worlds!

Of course, the enemy Shen Mo faced was merely the Law Body of a Heavenly Immortal, so even a small-scale Stars Circulation Array would suffice.

The big array suppressed and sealed the Yuan Monarch’s Law Body and isolated the inside and outside. Immediately, Shen Mo activated the refining effect of the array through the formation hub located within the subsidiary courtyard of the Dragon Heart Realm’s mountain gate.

Chains tightly entwined around the towering ancient trees in the void, the prohibition runes on them flickered with strange light, like vines rooted on the big tree, beginning to continuously absorb the primal Essence and Qi contained in the Yuan Monarch’s Law Body.

According to Shen Mo’s estimation, the strength of this Law Body of the old witch, while not reaching the second-tier Divine Immortal of the True Immortal Realm, is also a standout among third-tier Earth Immortals;

Fifth-tier Ghost Immortals, fourth-tier Human Immortals, and the like among third-tier Earth Immortals are generally not the opponents of this Law Body!

As for himself, after two hundred years of cultivation, he has smoothly advanced to the Middle Stage of the Formless Realm, progressing towards the Late Formless Realm; excluding the trump card of "using the Soul Generals Array, sacrificing all Soul Generals," his power is sufficient to battle a fifth-tier Ghost Immortal of the True Immortal Realm.

Without the Stars Circulation Array, even in this Constellations of Horned Flood Dragon where the old witch’s power infiltrates inadequately, he would struggle to contend with her.

Fortunately, the years of hard work did not go to waste!

The Stars Circulation Array kept functioning, continuously drawing the origin power from the towering ancient trees, which could be termed as Immortal Source, equivalent to a higher-dimensional, higher-level Green Wood mana.

After being refined by the big array, the nearly infinite mana began to feed back and spread into the universe through the formation pattern nodes scattered across the Nine Realms of the Horned Flood Dragon; about thirty percent of which was directly flowing through the formation patterns to Zhao Lingyin, who was still consolidating her cultivation in the Divine Bridge Realm!

This was Shen Mo’s countermeasure. Since Zhao Lingyin cannot return to the Immortal Realm, she might as well reach True Immortal in the Dragon Heart Realm!

Lord Blue Venerable wants to turn Zhao Lingyin into an Incarnation, forcibly seizing Zhao Lingyin’s Dao Body, soul, cultivation, fortune, and all tangible and intangible things, because Zhao Lingyin’s "Great Path" is very similar to hers;

Additionally, influenced by Shen Mo’s Basic Destiny [Heavenly Machine Protection], Lord Blue Venerable cannot foresee Zhao Lingyin’s future achievements, perceiving Zhao Lingyin’s existence as the greatest threat to her progression to the Daluo Golden Immortal Realm!

Thus, Lord Blue Venerable acted this time not only to kill a potential rival on the Great Path but also to seize everything from Zhao Lingyin to increase her chances of achieving Empyrean.

Similarly, Zhao Lingyin can also seize everything from Lord Blue Venerable.

However, Zhao Lingyin, with her low cultivation level, cannot act as recklessly as Lord Blue Venerable, nor can she instantaneously refine her entire Law Body. She can only capitalize on the refining power of the Stars Circulation Array to seize as much primal power from the Yuan Monarch’s Law Body as possible!

This process is akin to an old tree turning into rotted wood and mulch after death, providing nourishment for the flourishing growth of a new tree.

If everything develops as Shen Mo predicts, Zhao Lingyin need not return to the Immortal Realm or face the peril of being refined into an Incarnation by Lord Blue Venerable. She only needs to remain in the Nine Realms of the Horned Flood Dragon and reach True Immortal with the sustenance provided by the Yuan Monarch’s Law Body.

As for which tier of True Immortal Realm Zhao Lingyin will achieve, it will depend on her future cultivation and opportunities;

And even if she reaches the lowest tier Ghost Immortal, Lord Blue Venerable could never easily refine her into an External Avatar by infiltrating the Universal Realm!

...

Noticing Zhao Lingyin’s rapid progress in cultivation, a knowing smile appeared on Shen Mo’s face.

However, the developments weren’t as smooth or as anticipated!

Even while sealed within the Stars Circulation Array, the Law Body of Lord Blue Venerable still possessed the power to resist and even destroy the Nine Realms of the Horned Flood Dragon.

For a Heavenly Immortal character of immeasurable Dao cultivation, a mere Dharma Body was insignificant, and the inability to refine Zhao Lingyin into an Incarnation was of little consequence. What mattered was to completely eradicate the stumbling block on her Great Path!

As long as the Nine Realms of the Horned Flood Dragon were entirely destroyed, plunged into the Death Ghost Realm, all creatures and everything in this Star Zone would perish naturally, burying the greatest threat to her achieving Da Luo.

"Clang!"

The chains forged from the prohibition runes began shaking violently.

Simultaneously, the nine worlds, including Dragon Heart, Dragon Claw, and Dragon Horn, plunged into terrifying apocalyptic scenes.

The nature’s spiritual energy became overwhelmingly violent and turbulent, like stormy waves under a typhoon, causing the mana within the bodies of cultivators below the Golden Core Realm to show signs of rampaging; the ancient mountains began to disintegrate, countless huge stones crumbled and collapsed, the earth caved in, deep abyss-like cracks appeared on the surface, engulfing everything around them; lightning and thunder filled the sky, heavy dark clouds blocked the light of the sun and moon, and fierce winds swept down torrential rain, snow, and hail; the rivers, lakes, and seas surged like boiling water, creating flood waves that swallowed the land...

Even ancient trees, which had grown in deep forests for millennia, and even an ordinary roadside tree, seemed to suddenly gain gnosis, transforming into countless ferocious Tree Demons wreaking havoc upon the world.

The formation patterns of the Stars Circulation Array, protected and augmented by the formation, were not immediately destroyed, but under such aggressive natural cataclysms, the big array’s destruction was merely a matter of time, and even the Horned Flood Dragon’s Nine Realms might collapse and wither, dooming everyone to accompany them in death!

In the next instant, Shen Mo performed Sword Escape, fleeing to the Outer Void, wielding the Taiyi Sword and activating the Soul Generals Array, launching an attack on Lord Blue Venerable’s Law Body.