Chapter 973: Aftermath of Battle, The Grand Plan for Ascension

Chapter 973: Chapter 973: Aftermath of Battle, The Grand Plan for Ascension

With the Qing Sheng Yuan Monarch’s Law Body completely suppressed by the Stars Circulation Array, the natural disasters within the Horned Flood Dragon Nine Realms gradually calmed down!

However, the tree demons scattered throughout the Nine Realms did not disappear along with the disasters; instead, they intensified, with more ferocious and powerful tree demons emerging, wreaking havoc among humans, continually attacking spiritual land cities and various sky-lifting pillars.

These tree demons, unlike the spiritual monsters and big demons that evolved from local plant life, have extremely low gnosis and are exceptionally cruel and violent, each possessing strange and bizarre abilities, like small evil spirits.

While the Stars Circulation Array was absorbing and refining the Yuan Monarch’s Law Body, the pure mana in the origin power was extracted, replenishing the Nine Realms and providing cultivation sustenance for Zhao Lingyin; yet a large amount of "dregs" difficult to refine seeped into the Dragon Heart, Dragon Claw, Dragon Horn among the Nine Realms as the array operated.

These "dregs" are imprints of the Yuan Monarch’s Law Body’s cultivation level, True Immortal will, mind’s remnants, and are the same as the "Evil Qi" coughed by Shen Mo when refining demon corpses.

Although the Yuan Monarch’s Law Body was completely sealed by the array, she still did not give up, using these dregs to enlighten the vicious tree demons, attempting to sabotage the array’s formation patterns, eroding and dismantling this grand array from its source!

Soon after, Nanke Spirit Land issued a celestial-level mission to slay the tree demons wreaking havoc on mankind.

In the Dragon Claw Realm, Tu Lin and Fan Rongrong naturally accepted the mission, fleeing from Xinmao City and heading upstream towards the Black Fog Forest.

A hundred years ago, the Black Fog Forest, with its complex and dangerous terrain filled with numerous toxic creatures, protected Tu Lin from being killed by the demon head of the Wuji Palace. Now, however, it gave birth to a large number of fierce tree demons, transforming into a surging demon tide flowing towards Xinmao City.

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"Qingyun, my young friend, you are busy with worldly affairs, so I won’t disturb you any longer. Remember to come find me for a drink and discussion of the Dao when you return to the Immortal Realm!"

After taking a segment of the Yuan Monarch’s Law Body’s branch, the Jade Spring Fairy was eager to return to Jade Spring Mountain to ponder cultivation methods and magic. She didn’t stay long in the Dragon Heart Realm and bid farewell to Shen Mo before passing through the boundary gate to return to the Universal Realm.

At present, the Horned Flood Dragon Nine Realms are enveloped by the Stars Circulation Array, isolated from inside and outside, leaving only the nine boundary gates as entry and exit points, even though she is an Earth Immortal, she must honestly go through the "main gate"!

Guan Ling’s Death Jaw’s true form, possessing a trace of the nature of space-time Dao’s principles, freely traverses without being restricted by the grand array. Seeing the main situation settled, she too, with the collected roots, gradually concealed her true form before leaving, reminding Shen Mo that the next journey to the cultvation world would be in forty years, urging him to prepare early.

"The root of the old witch’s Law Body has offset part of my debt for the merit of slaying god."

"But even so, as promised earlier, I still have to collect more than one hundred thousand corpses of Senior Guanzhu once I enter the cultivation world, at least slay more than one hundred thousand deities!"

"If I were to kill them one by one, even facing one deity a day would take three hundred years..."

"It seems I must learn from the Jade Spring Fairy and the Hollow Venerable to hide behind the scenes, unleashing a rare divine battle in the cultivation world, enabling a large number of deities to fall in the shortest time." Shen Mo watched the disappearance of the Death Jaw, contemplating silently.

Whether it’s scheming against the Qing Sheng Yuan Monarch’s Law Body, constructing channels between the Immortal Realm and Lower Realm, or setting up the Stars Circulation Array, Guan Ling contributed greatly. As compensation, Shen Mo must go to the cultivation world once again, and he has to kill enough deities to gather the fragments of the Guanzhu’s Immortal Corpse.

Fortunately, Shen Mo is much stronger now than two hundred years ago, granting him more flexibility.

Even without utilizing Immortal Dao cultivation, he can confidently mimic the approach of the Jade Spring and Hollow True Immortals, instigating a divine battle in the cultivation world!

"With forty years remaining until the deadline, I will bring Senior Sister Chen and Jiang Yingying for a trip to the cultivation world."

Shen Mo already possesses sufficient confidence on this matter, hence does not harbor any concerns: "For now, Lingyin has temporarily avoided the death tribulation and even obtained the opportunity for immortality. I should carefully plan my own sweeping plans for immortality!"

In these over two hundred years, he has not neglected his own cultivation; even when faced with bottlenecks, he broke through them, with cultivation rising to the middle stage of Formless Realm, not far from the late stage.

Destiny, cultivation method, magic, skill, magic treasure, elixir, talisman, artifact and array mastery—the advancements need not be elaborated upon, all have different levels of improvement!

However, Shen Mo vaguely feels that if he continued cultivating in this step-by-step manner, even after going through the Immortal Tribulation, he would only achieve the third rank of True Immortal Realm’s Earth Immortal—while it’s certainly significant, it falls far short of his expectations.

It must be known that Senior Guanzhu achieved God Immortal Dao Fruit without assistance from the Destiny Panel, and Shen Mo, bearing a momentous opportunity, naturally has higher pursuits...

Even if unable to achieve Heavenly Immortal in one leap, he must at least ascend to Divine Immortal!

"Logically, my Dao Body and mind, mana skill, cultivation method and magic are all first-class in the human realm, why can I only attain Earthly Immortal Dao Fruit? It’s not right, something’s definitely awry. Where exactly did things go wrong?"

Shen Mo shifted, appearing beside the meditative Zhao Lingyin, seeing her entire body enveloped in pure and rich mana, under [Method Eye Candle Wisp] a celestial azure tree is burgeoning profusely, becoming ever more lush, verdant and dripping green!

He sat cross-legged not far from Zhao Lingyin, deploying [Divination Book] to calculate the hexagrams, but the hexagram is chaotic and unclear, preventing him from seeing clearly his future path.

Just then, he suddenly moved, exiting the subsidiary courtyard in a flash, reaching out to grab from afar, the Demonic Grabbing Hand caught a tree demon with terrifying aura, this tree demon transformed from a thirty-thousand-year-old ancient tree in the Dragon Heart Realm, its power surpassing other tree demons significantly, even ordinary Divine Bridge would likely not be its match!

However, Shen Mo, who could exchange several rounds against the Qing Sheng Yuan Monarch’s Law Body, found this little tree demon unworthy before him.

"Buzz!"

He urged the mana within his body, activating sword Qi and magic to refine the tree demon into a mass of indestructible Evil Qi, and then grasped it in his hand to meticulously investigate and contemplate.

"That old witch evidently is an Immortal Dao cultivator, why do I perceive a flavor not belonging to Immortal Dao from this mass of Evil Qi? Seemingly more ancient, more primitive, weightier, could it be the residual charm of the Great Path of the old era?"

Shen Mo’s eyes sparkled with brilliance, his thoughts flashing like lightning.

"Immortal Dao values carefreeness, but from what I know, even Divine Immortals and Heavenly Immortals are not truly free..."

"Like Guangyuan Zi, having achieved Divine Immortal, he has no choice but to head to the Heavenly Gateway. Like Senior Guanzhu, like the master of the foul-blooded robe, both suffered at the hands of the old era’s leftover evil when guarding the Heavenly Gateway, not to mention achieving carefreeness, even their lives weren’t preserved! There’s something peculiar here."

"I cannot achieve God Immortal or Heavenly Immortal Dao Fruit in one go, somehow related to this world’s greatest secret! If there’s an opportunity, I must visit the Heavenly Gateway myself and see for myself."