The First Immortal of Destiny

The "Insight into All Beings" of orange quality can only discern information about creatures below the seventh Dao Realm, unable to probe True Immortal characters.

Therefore, in the brief moment when the graceful silhouette appeared with the fading light, Shen Mo couldn’t ascertain her true identity... Luckily, he could reach Guan Ling, and after inquiry, he learned that the one returning to the Immortal Realm was indeed Jade Spring Fairy herself, not a transformation of the Hallow Venerable!

"Less than thirty years, and she’s slain ten thousand deities?" Shen Mo felt a bit surprised.

Back then, Hallow Venerable made an agreement with Guan Ling to borrow the power of the Death Jaw, needing to kill ten thousand deities before leaving the cultivation world; if this Demon True Immortal was killed by Jade Spring Fairy before fulfilling the promise, then Jade Spring Fairy must also repay this "debt" before Guan Ling would send her back to the Universal Realm.

Shen Mo originally thought that after they settled the score and determined life and death in the cultivation world, regardless of who became the final winner, they would have to stay in the cultivation world for at least several decades, if not over a hundred years, to achieve this goal.

Now that Jade Spring Fairy has returned to the Immortal Realm, it shows that in these twenty plus years, she not only defeated Hallow Venerable but also successfully slew over ten thousand deities!

This outcome indeed surpassed Shen Mo’s expectations.

"They stirred an unprecedented divine war in the cultivation world, with fallen deities numbering far more than ten thousand!" Guan Ling’s voice sounded in Shen Mo’s mind, full of deep emotion.

Due to the limitations of the cultivation world, Guan Ling could not constantly track the movements of these two True Immortal characters.

However, when the God-slaying cultivators who signed the oath with Guan Ling successfully killed deities and returned to the Immortal Realm, they would inform her of their experiences and insights; additionally, when collecting their master’s Immortal Corpse Fragments, she could temporarily project power into the cultivation world by utilizing the primal Essence and Qi dissipated from fallen deities.

Based on various clues, Guan Ling roughly deduced the actions of Jade Spring Fairy and Hallow Venerable after entering the cultivation world...

Until last year, these two True Immortal characters had been hiding their presence, as if they had completely vanished from the cultivation world.

But they were not without action; it was as if they had pre-agreed, each lurking within the camps of the Righteous God and Evil God!

During this period, the two True Immortal characters sacrificed part of their primal Essence and Qi to become disciples of the two strongest deities in the cultivation world, spending over twenty years ascending to high positions and gaining unprecedented prestige among the deity disciples!

By the end of the "Catastrophe of Godfall," most outsider cultivators had either fallen or succeeded in killing deities and returned to the Immortal Realm... Within the cultivation world, the previously united human nations and countless deity disciples dropped their guard, causing the conflicts between Righteous God and Evil God camps, countries, and different deity disciples to re-emerge.

Afterward, Jade Spring Fairy and Hallow Venerable seized this opportunity, using years of planning and strategy to successfully incite a war between the disciples of the Righteous God and the Evil God, even involving tens of thousands of deities behind different disciple groups, which gradually evolved into the most intense and bloody deity battle in tens of thousands of years!

They intended to use this deity battle to attempt to completely annihilate each other.

The final outcome was self-evident, ultimately proving Jade Spring Fairy’s strategy and strength to be superior, allowing her to kill Hallow Venerable in this more than year-long battle!

For Guan Ling, it doesn’t matter if deities die from internal strife or at the hands of the two True Immortal characters, as long as deities fall, she can collect their master’s Immortal Corpse Fragments;

Upon projecting her power onto the deity battlefield after the battle ended, she found that over 37,000 deities had tragically died. After collecting all master remnants, she sent the blood-stained, severely wounded Jade Spring Fairy back to the Immortal Realm from the sea of blood and hills of corpses!

"A True Immortal Realm expert indeed, truly formidable!"

Shen Mo marveled, but in his heart, he knew that even if he re-entered the cultivation world in two or three hundred years, he wouldn’t be able to replicate the actions of Jade Spring Fairy and Hallow Venerable.

To gain the trust of deities and disciple groups, one must offer allegiance to a deity and then sacrifice one’s primal Essence and Qi to become a disciple of that deity!

For True Immortal characters, sacrificing a fingertip of flesh can exchange for powerful deity strength, allowing them to stand out from countless disciples with little loss, maintaining nearly endless Lifespan and extraordinarily strong power.

Yet for ordinary cultivators, residing in the cultivation world already makes it difficult to maintain the original cultivation level; further sacrificing oneself to a deity for "superordinary power" immediately reduces cultivation level, shortening Lifespan, and entraps them in inescapable despair.

Even if through careful planning they successfully stirred up the "divine war," they might not survive the brutal battlefield;

Even if they do survive, their cultivation level would drastically drop, and upon returning to the Immortal Realm, recovery would take hundreds of years, possibly severing their path due to excessive depletion!

The biggest difference between the True Immortal Jade Spring Fairy and Hallow Venerable and these mortal cultivators remains their cultivation realm; only with practically infinite Lifespan and vast primal Essence and Qi can they afford sacrifices, become deity disciples, plan confidently, and ultimately annihilate tens of thousands of deities!

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Shortly after Jade Spring Fairy returned to the Immortal Realm, a decree emanating celestial charm landed at the outer mountain gate of the Red Flame Sect.

Shen Mo, who rushed to the scene upon hearing the news, cautiously received the decree, swept it with his sense, and knew instantly... Jade Spring Fairy set up an Immortal banquet at the mountain peak, inviting a group of Divine Bridge and Formless Realm cultivators who contributed during the Corpse Mountain Range campaign, not just from Jade Spring Mountain but also human cultivators and alien tribe experts from other Immortal Mountains!

"Well then! I still have over 200,000 merits unredeemed; I can take this opportunity to let Jade Spring Fairy appear and preach."

Shen Mo put away the decree and flew towards the peak of Jade Spring Mountain with escaping light.

At this moment, the summit of Jade Spring Mountain was already enveloped by the light of the Taihua Mirror, and escaping lights of various colors approached from all directions, diving into the mirror light.

"Fellow daoist Qingyun!"

As Shen Mo was about to fly into the mirror light, a familiar voice came from behind; he turned to see a human-sized puppet flying over from afar; the visitor was none other than the Law Master of the Mechanic Sect, Qin Zhen, who had also contributed significantly in the battle of the Corpse Mountain Range and was likewise invited.

Nevertheless, even attending the Immortal banquet set by Jade Spring Fairy, she still hid her real body within the puppet.

The puppet Qin Zhen used was almost identical to the five-class Puppet Yama that was destroyed at the Moon Palace, with gold and iron wings on the back, the body covered in runes, but it was smaller than Yama, and was only a class IV puppet, likely newly forged in recent years.

"Fellow daoist Qin, long time no see." Shen Mo halted his escaping light and greeted her with a smile.