Chapter 866: Catastrophe of Godfall
Shen Mo and Chen Mengze signed an equal-cooperation pact with Guan Ling!
Since he wanted Guan Ling to act, he naturally had to pay the corresponding price: within the cultivation world he needed to slay three Deities to help Guan Ling retrieve three fragments of his master’s corpse.
After an outsider cultivator slays a Deity, they may choose to either immediately return to their original world or remain in the cultivation world for a period of time, so long as it does not exceed one month; if they overstay this limit, once the primal power dissipated from the slain Deity is exhausted, they will need to slay another Deity in order to leave!
If they killed a Deity every two to three hundred years, they would need at least six hundred years to gather three; by then Lady Yu’s remnant soul would likely already have perished.
Therefore, Shen Mo planned to stay in the cultivation world for a longer period of time and try to slaughter as many Deities as possible.
Besides sending Lady Yu into reincarnation, he also wanted to earn more top-tier resources and have Guan Ling help interpret the damaged golden page obtained from the Longevity Demon Lord...
Originally, Shen Mo wanted Chen Mengze to return to the Immortal Realm first, but she did not agree.
"Even Guan said it himself—among the millions of Deities, there are fewer than a hundred as powerful as the Martial Might God!"
"Next, as long as our luck isn’t too bad, we shouldn’t run into another Deity with such terrifying strength, so you don’t have to worry too much about my safety."
"Besides, I also want to slay a few more Deities so I can trade with Guan for spiritual items to achieve the Divine Bridge..." As Chen Mengze spoke, she took out the Returning Snow Spirit Sword and changed into a suit of ice-forged battle armor, fully prepared to return to the cultivation world.
Seeing that her decision was made, Shen Mo said nothing more.
After all, the path of cultivation ultimately has to be walked by oneself; the hardships and obstacles along the way must also be overcome by oneself. All he could do was lend a helping hand!
This time, while still inside the grass hut, Shen Mo made thorough preparations.
From the Sword Zone space, he took out Spirit Stones, High-grade Elixirs, inner armor, magic robes, and other items, then summoned the Demon Slaying Sword, Taiyi Sword, Green Cloud Umbrella and other magic treasures from his Dantian, grumbling as he did so and complaining about Guan Ling.
Guan Ling’s mouth twitched slightly, and he explained helplessly, "I have to send over a hundred thousand cultivators into the cultivation world in a single instant; how could I have the leisure to carefully check whether each of you is fully prepared?"
"Besides, the Great Path in the cultivation world is different; the Immortal Path does not manifest!"
"Even if you bring Immortal Path items in, they will all lose their former wonder. Spirit Stones become like ordinary rocks, Elixirs like clay pellets or wax pellets. Flying Swords, robe armor, and other magic treasures may be somewhat sturdier, but they’re not much better than the top-grade armors and weapons of this world."
"As for Spiritual Artifacts and spiritual treasures, it’s fine if they’re stored in the Dantian. If they’re directly exposed outside, they will instead continuously lose their immortal charm and fall a grade if left for a year or half!"
Upon hearing this, Shen Mo and Chen Mengze silently put away all magic treasures of spiritual level and above.
After that, Shen Mo rummaged through the nooks and crannies of the Sword Zone space and fished out several high-grade and top-grade profound artifacts—Flying Swords, powerful bows, shields, suits of armor... all casually refined during his spare time, originally meant as rewards for juniors, but now they could be put to direct use!
After bidding farewell to Guan Ling, the two stepped out of the grass hut one after the other.
Under waves of obscure spatial ripples, the figures of Shen Mo and Chen Mengze shifted from illusory to solid, appearing out of thin air in a military camp nestled in a mountain hollow.
At this moment, the stench of blood had yet to dissipate.
The commander of the Qing army was long gone; whether he had been rescued or died somewhere while fleeing was unknown.
However, with the Martial Might God already executed, this man had lost his source of superordinary power. Unless he defected to another Deity’s banner and cultivated anew, he posed little threat alive and was not worth the effort of Shen Mo hunting him down!
And just as Guan Ling had said, the Spirit Stones and Elixirs Shen Mo had specifically brought out also lost their spirituality, becoming plain and ordinary, no different from rocks and clay pellets by the roadside.
However, the Destiny Panel was not affected in the slightest, even in the cultivation world.
Shen Mo experimented a bit: Special Destinies such as [Martial Performance] and "Insight into All Beings" could still draw Mana from Spirit Stones and function as they originally did.
"In that case, until the Spirit Stones are used up, my improvement in cultivation methods won’t be hindered!"
In order to carry more Spirit Stones, Shen Mo brought only over a thousand middle-grade Spirit Stones and a dozen-plus high-grade Spirit Stones, enough to support several years of cultivation for the Martial Performance body.
"Senior Sister, let’s go."
"Mm."
...
After Shen Mo and Chen Mengze returned to the cultivation world, they stayed in this realm for more than half a year.
They first returned to the nameless mountain village in Thorn Mountain, cleared out the spies in the vicinity, and helped Leader Ma move the village deeper into the border mountains to avoid drawing more god disciples to their door.
Afterward, the two roamed throughout the realms of Qing Country and Ji Country, capturing powerful god disciples everywhere so they could use the spiritual mark to face and hunt Deities directly.
Before long, they discovered that these two countries had already descended into utter chaos.
Outsider cultivators like themselves revealed their whereabouts one after another, continually hunting powerful god disciples and their corresponding Deities.
Forces of the Godslayer Palace from all sides also rose in rebellion, turning the two countries completely upside down!
Nor was it only Qing Country and Ji Country—hundreds of human nations in the cultivation world were experiencing similar situations.
After all, the cultivators Guan Ling had sent in numbered over a hundred thousand, among whom were many seasoned experts who had previously slain Deities. Each possessed an incomparably strong body and vitality and superb martial skills. Aside from suffering heavy losses when confronting powerful Deities head-on, ordinary god disciples were simply no match for them.
Qing Country, Ji Country, and other nations even ceased their wars against one another. The disciples of so-called Righteous Gods and Evil Gods joined hands, focusing solely on dealing with this "Catastrophe of Godfall" stirred up by the "Outer Zone Evil Demons"!
In any case, for tens of thousands of years now, a "catastrophe" had occurred every two to three hundred years;
The god disciples of this realm were long accustomed to it and had even developed a complete set of strategies to handle these "Outer Zone Evil Demons"...
They were all more or less the same in approach: throw vast numbers of lives at them and slowly grind the "Outer Zone Evil Demons" to death—extremely crude and brutal, yet quite effective!
In just this half year alone, Shen Mo and Chen Mengze personally witnessed dozens of outsider cultivators being surrounded and killed by hordes of god disciples, while they themselves also rescued many cultivators; after signing a pact with Guan Ling, if the cultivators they saved managed to slay Deities in this "Catastrophe of Godfall," Shen Mo and Chen Mengze would likewise earn a share of the merit.
After that, at the terrifying rate of three Deities per month, Shen Mo and Chen Mengze slew more than twenty Deities—some Righteous Gods, some Evil Gods—yet none as powerful as the Martial Might God.
This was, without doubt, a boon for them.
More than half a year later, after bidding farewell to Leader Ma and the others, the two communicated with the Death Jaw phantom within their Mind Seas and once again appeared inside the grass hut.