Chapter 704 - 378: The Alchemy Furnace and Taotie Left by the Yincao Emperor
In Douluo Heaven, the mysterious mist shrouded everything.
Bai Mo sat on a cloud of fire, holding two disciples in his arms, peering through the layers of mist towards a distant place.
There, on a mountain, five immortals stood steadfast, each wielding hammers and wedges, crafting the interior of an alchemy furnace.
"What sequence are they all?"
Their robes were tattered, and they were all thin, elderly men.
Two of them wore enormous hats, enveloping their heads.
The other three had long hair draping their shoulders, looking unlike modern men.
Although Bai Mo didn’t know how they entered Douluo Heaven, he understood that ancient immortals who have survived for countless millennia had extraordinarily high sequences, at the very least Sequence Four!
The immortals guiding him, standing beside Bai Mo, couldn’t see this far and sighed in admiration.
"They are different from us.
"They can come and go as they please.
"They could kill us as easily as wiping away dust or crushing a bug..."
As they spoke, suddenly, they heard Bai Mo’s gentle warning.
"Silence!"
Bai Mo waved his hand, releasing a white mist that enveloped himself, his two disciples, and the guiding immortals.
Amidst the mist, a bronze Taotie emerged, approaching them.
The Taotie’s claws were cast in bronze, massive and cold, yet they made no sound as they tread upon the ground!
How did Bai Mo discover its presence... It was because just moments ago, he sensed a change in the ground beneath him, cutting off his connection to the altar...
The bronze Taotie drew closer, its eyes distinctly different — one tainted, greasy, and dark, the other shining with boundless knowledge.
In Bai Mo’s arms, his two fox disciples kept their mouths tightly shut, not daring to breathe, leaning back against their master’s chest!
Bai Mo remained still, his gaze fixed on the Taotie’s footsteps, noticing that with every step, runes burst forth beneath its feet like ripples, spreading across the ground. These runes severed the connection between Douluo Heaven and the altar!
The bronze Taotie craned its neck towards Bai Mo, sniffing the air, seemingly seeking any trace of him... but Bai Mo was not afraid.
The mist he used to cloak himself was born of the perplexities from his cultivation... not ordinary perplexities, but the genuine lost path at the forefront of the Immortal Path, the fracture at the highest point of the Celestial Ladder. Should this perplexity be resolved, the Immortal Dao would rise further!
This bronze Taotie, despite devouring countless knowledge containers over millennia, could not penetrate Bai Mo’s perplexity or the mist he devised!
Indeed, it shook its head, stepping noiselessly away, towards the five ancient immortals crafting the furnaces!
Bai Mo watched the Taotie, noticing that the five ancient immortals had vanished without a trace.
The lids of the five alchemy furnaces they’d been chiseling seemed to have shifted ever so slightly?
The five ancient immortals evidently dared not provoke the bronze Taotie and had hidden inside the furnaces!
The gap between the lid and the body of the furnace was even sealed with black, filthy oil, completely masking their presence!
The bronze Taotie did not linger, but with a puzzled shake of its head, made a round.
A sound seemed to come from over there as well?
It seemed the marks left within the furnaces also suffered a little wear?
Still... such minor wear did not warrant concern for the time being.
Its face full of questions, the Taotie scanned the surroundings with its eyes but saw nothing before disappearing back into the mist.
Bai Mo sensed his connection to the altar restored after the Taotie departed!
Crack... crack...
From afar, the lids of the furnaces creaked, as the five ancient immortals emerged one by one.
They collapsed onto the ground, wiping cold sweat, struggling to rise.
"Why did the Taotie come?"
"Fortunately, it didn’t discover us."
"No, something’s not right!"
The ancient immortals exchanged glances, scanning the area.
Quickly, their gazes settled on the direction where Bai Mo had been!
...
"Phew... We thank the Emperor for saving our lives!
"If it weren’t for the Emperor, we would have become a morsel for that Taotie!"
After escaping to a safe distance, a group of guiding ancient immortals once again knelt before Bai Mo in gratitude.
The three secrets had already been shared with the Emperor, and even if they perished, they had no regrets.
"The Emperor can deliberate long-term..."
Bai Mo, seated on the fire cloud, furrowed his brow.
"No.
"Do not underestimate that Taotie, nor the Fallen Immortals.
"Whether we can take the alchemy furnace will soon be evident.
"There might be a major battle later. If you wish to survive, head in that direction, as quickly and as far as you can."
The ancient immortals looked at each other in disbelief.
Hadn’t they already escaped the Taotie?
Why was the Emperor still so serious?
As they pondered, they realized the place they had bowed to was empty; the Emperor was no longer there, vanished without a trace.
...
The five ancient immortals stood where Bai Mo had just hidden.
"Something’s not right!
"There was a mist here just now.
"A particularly deep and dense mist, impossible to see through!"
Among them, were Sequence Four, Sequence Three, and Sequence Two; though fallen immortals, with unorthodox advancement methods, their knowledge level may not be so high... Yet in Douluo Heaven, such mist that they could not penetrate was rare.
"In this Douluo Heaven, aside from us, the Taotie, and those misfortunate fools, a new force has arrived!"
"Who has such terrifying mist?"
"Could it have been them that drew the Taotie?"