The First Immortal of Destiny

Falling from the Outer Void, even though Chen Mengze was a Nascent Soul Realm Cultivator, with no way to circulate Mana and no Protective Spirit Energy supporting her body, she would still be smashed to death alive!

Shen Mo was different. Relying on the Dragon Elephant Blood Fiend Body and the Three-Heads Six-Arms True Immortal Technique, he had cultivated his fleshly vitality to an incomparably tyrannical level; the South Hua Treasure Body Traversing Difficulty Immortal Scripture he had received from Lady Yu had made up for the relative weakness of his internal organs; his Basic Destiny "Vitality" had already advanced to Gold quality [Saint Body]; and he also had the Special Destiny [Indestructible Body], which further strengthened the defense of his fleshly body.

To speak without the slightest politeness, even the fleshly body of a Formless Realm powerhouse might not necessarily surpass his!

Their falling momentum became ever more violent, and soon they crashed into the inner world.

Under the fierce friction with the spirit wind and the air, blazing flames rose from Shen Mo’s back, dragging out a long fire-trail in midair. Chen Mengze, held in his arms, was also scorched by the flames, but with the toughness of her flesh, it was not difficult for her to endure!

The place where they fell was on the sunless side, and night had already fallen.

The night sky was lit up by the firelight blazing from the two of them, like a meteor tearing through the heavens, driving away the boundless darkness.

The meteor’s speed grew faster and faster, the flames brighter and brighter, breaking through the spirit wind, shattering the clouds;

As if a giant sword burning furiously, in a field of dazzling radiance, carrying a force of annihilation as it slammed heavily toward the earth!

At the instant they were about to crash into the rocky crust, Shen Mo suddenly exerted strength with both arms, hurling Chen Mengze upward, slowing her falling speed, while he himself plunged straight down at an even faster, fiercer speed, smashing into the ground.

"Boom!"

In that moment, it was as if the entire earth shuddered.

Amid the heaven-shaking blast, countless stones and soil were blasted away, mixed with flames and heatwaves sweeping in all directions, burning everything around to ash.

Within a radius of several hundred li, hills, peaks, lakes, rivers, forests—none were spared. All were destroyed under the terrifying residual shock. When the sea of fire subsided, only devastation remained all around; a gigantic Meteorite pit had appeared on the ground, dark-red molten lava flowing within, choked with rolling black smoke!

No one knew how much time had passed.

A figure climbed out from the Meteorite pit. It was Shen Mo, who had earlier turned into a meteor. Aside from his robe being rumpled and his hair slightly disheveled, there wasn’t the slightest trace of injury on him.

When dawn grew dimly bright, he saw Chen Mengze hurrying toward the Meteorite pit.

From that earlier throw, Chen Mengze had been flung dozens of li away. Although she’d escaped the fate of being smashed to death, her appearance was rather bedraggled;

Swept by the residual impact of the collision, Chen Mengze’s clothes were covered in mud and dust. Then, in her rush to search for Shen Mo, her face, forehead, neck, and other skin were all beaded with sweat, as if she had returned to a time when her strength was still weak!

"Shen Mo, are you alright, are you hurt?"

Chen Mengze panted slightly, not bothering to wipe the fragrant sweat from her forehead, reaching out to check all over Shen Mo’s body.

In this heaven-and-earth where the Immortal Path did not manifest, Chen Mengze could not send out her sense to probe whether he’d been injured when he crashed into the earth, and could only judge his condition with the naked eye and by touch.

"Nothing serious!"

"My fleshly body is a bit stronger than demonic beasts of the same level; this kind of impact can’t hurt me." Shen Mo straightened his robes and used his sleeve to wipe the sweat from Chen Mengze’s face as he spoke in reply.

What left him somewhat helpless was this.

When he and Chen Mengze were watching the True Immortal battle, aside from Chen Mengze’s thin cold smoke, they hadn’t summoned any other magic artifact;

All Spiritual Artifacts and magic treasures, along with numerous spiritual items, were either in his Dantian or within the Sword Zone space; right now, with no way to use Mana, he could not take out any of them!

Of course, in this strange world where the Immortal Path did not manifest, the thin gauze magic artifact in Chen Mengze’s hands had also lost its immortal charm. And without Mana to pour into and drive it, at present, aside from being somewhat tougher, it was no different from an ordinary silk handkerchief.

Seeing that Shen Mo was indeed uninjured as he’d said, Chen Mengze finally let out a breath of relief, then asked doubtfully, "You and I were clearly far from that Death Jaw, so why did this treasure target us and draw us into such a bizarre world?"

"It’s probably because... Senior Sister and I have both once broken through the Death Jaw!"

Shen Mo recalled the previous scene, his expression somewhat hesitant and uncertain.

The mottled radiance that had surged out of the Death Jaw, after sweeping away the Jade Spring Fairy and Hallow Venerable, had then split into over a hundred streaks of flowing light, falling toward various parts of the Immortal Realm.

Aside from the two streaks which landed on him and Chen Mengze, one clearly fell toward Jade Spring Mountain, and Jiang Yingying, who had broken through the Death Jaw with them, was in the Green Cloud Cave of Jade Spring Mountain.

Back then, Shen Mo, Chen Mengze, and Heaven Sword Sect’s Jiang Yingying, Li Yu, Geng Zheng, Peng Chenshu—six people in total—had gone together to train at the Ghost Nation Ruins. Later, due to Ghost General Zhang Taian, they had all entered the Death Jaw; afterward, five of them broke through it safely, with only Li Yu dying inside.

Later, when Shen Mo was helping Heaven Sword Sect deal with the Water Ghost Evil Spirit, he learned from Jiang Yingying that Geng Zheng and Peng Chenshu had, one after another, fallen to Demon calamities and Evil Spirits.

When Shen Mo unified the various Xiu Xian Forces and rogue cultivators of the Red Flame Zone into the Red Flame Sect, Jiang Yingying also joined the Red Flame Sect, becoming a fellow sect member of Shen Mo and Chen Mengze. Not long ago, she had just formed her Golden Core and was now in Green Cloud Cave, shutting herself away to consolidate her foundation.

Thinking it through like this, those hundred-odd mottled rays of light must have landed on the bodies of cultivators who had likewise broken through the Death Jaw!

It’s just that Shen Mo had no way of knowing what purpose the Death Jaw had in doing such a thing.

Hallow Venerable’s intentions, however, were easier to guess.

He had exhausted every scheme to gather the Demon powerhouses of the Corpse Mountain Range, construct the God Slaying Array, and then used the Blood Sacrifice method to drive the big array to its utmost limit, yet still failed to slay the Jade Spring Fairy;

Instead, under the Jade Spring Fairy’s subsequent counterattack, he began to suffer defeat, losing ground step by step, about to be slain. Thus, he somehow invoked the powerful celestial artifact, the Death Jaw, and, using the wondrous might of this treasure, threw Yin and Yang into confusion, inverted Space-Time, and swept both himself and the Jade Spring Fairy away.

Those two True Immortal characters very likely had also come to this world where the Immortal Path had vanished.

If so, Hallow Venerable could forcibly erase the Jade Spring Fairy’s advantage in strength. Seizing the chance to kill her here would not be impossible;

Even if he could not kill the Jade Spring Fairy, at least he had dissolved the perilous situation he had been in and escaped with his life!

"Let’s first find a place to settle down, then slowly explore the mysteries of this world..." Shen Mo swept his gaze around and turned to speak to Chen Mengze.

"Alright!" Chen Mengze responded.

Immediately, the two picked a direction where the terrain was relatively flat, planning to find a place to stay.

Yet before they had gone more than a few li, the earth began to tremble slightly, and in the distance a plume of dust rose, pressing ever closer to the Meteorite pit.

Before long.

Over a thousand cavalry clad in fine armor, carrying the momentum of winds sweeping away clouds, appeared within the sight of the two!