The First Immortal of Destiny

Time flies like a shuttle, and in the blink of an eye, two years have passed.

During this period, the forces of the righteous path led by Shen Mo at Five Dragon Mountain clashed in hundreds of large and small bloody battles with the demons and monsters led by Mingpeng!

To completely eliminate the other side, both sides exhausted all means, including but not limited to, gathering large troops to attack strongholds, dispatching elite troops to raid and harass, having experts in stealth infiltrate the enemy to create chaos, seizing dangerous areas and spiritual item production sites, artificially creating insurmountable dead zones, and setting up powerful formations and prohibitions to lure and kill the enemy’s living forces.

The battlefield is so vast that Shen Mo inevitably overlooks some areas;

Resulting in significant casualties among Red Flame Sect cultivators, akin to the era when Heavenly Demon invaded, with even the sect’s Golden Core Realm fallen, more than a dozen of them, the disciples below the Golden Core Realm like Spirit Sea, Qi Gathering, and Body Tempering Realm need not be mentioned, almost every day many disciples perish with their corpse bones obliterated!

Yet the disciples who survived the cruel battlefield and through rigorous trials, coupled with the double merit rewards from Jade Spring Fairy and the Red Flame Sect, became increasingly powerful, thus raising the sect’s overall strength instead of diminishing.

Moreover, cultivators from Jade Spring Mountain and other Immortal Mountains, along with powerful beings from alien tribes, continuously teleport through the Mirror Realm, alleviating some pressure, keeping casualties within an acceptable range for Shen Mo and other sect leaders!

The demons under Mingpeng’s Thousands Insects Evil Corpse can also temper their strength through fierce battles, cultivate through the corpses and souls of righteous path creatures, and acquire cultivators’ magic artifacts and spiritual items, yet the results are far less effective than those of the righteous side.

Meanwhile, most demons cannot freely travel to the various Immortal Mountains, hence this downward trend over these two years, unable to restore their initial ferocious momentum!

The Red Flame Sect joined forces with cultivators and powerful beings from outside the sect, gradually nibbling away at the territory occupied by the demons, seized most of the southern slope of Five Dragon Mountain, establishing the Demon Burial Plain, Chaotic Stone Ridge, Hou Corpse Cave, among other outposts with replicas of the Taihua Mirror, and hundreds of fortifications and teleportation arrays.

However, Immortal Mountains like Five Dragon Mountain are exceedingly vast, even with millions of cultivators arriving, it’s like a drop in the ocean, with most areas unaffordable to guard...thus, even the righteous path-dominated southern slope can’t completely eradicate demon traces!

Additionally, apart from the northern slope of Five Dragon Mountain being somewhat inaccessible, the extensions of the righteous path reached into the eastern and western slopes as well, respectively establishing a stronghold and numerous formation fortresses!

With the aid of the Mirror Realm, cultivators from various Immortal Mountains, resources, and intelligence move with great convenience, enabling Shen Mo to constantly grasp the situations of other Immortal Mountains.

Comparatively, the developments at Five Dragon Mountain are relatively smooth.

In the last few years, the righteous forces on other Immortal Mountains of the Corpse Mountain Range sparred back and forth with the demons under Hollow Venerable, today you breached my stronghold, tomorrow I’ll wipe out your demonic cave, the skirmishes are lively, yet overall progress is minimal.

At this trend, without a decade or so, neither side should be able to determine a victor!

After all, this is a clash between two True Immortals, affecting billions of creatures, in terms of battle scale and number of strong beings, it’s several tens of times grander than the former battle where Red Flame Country resisted Heavenly Demons;

Unless Jade Spring Fairy and Hollow Venerable can’t hold back, early deciding life and death, otherwise, this war might last decades to centuries!

...

At the Demon Burial Plain outpost, inside the Demon-Suppressing Tower.

Shen Mo sat cross-legged, eyes slightly closed, within him, the Bloody Fiend Pearl frantically spun, the blood-colored threads emerged wrapping the flesh of the Longevity Demon Lord into a blood-red cocoon!

The "Dragon Elephant Blood Fiend Body," under the blessing of the [Spirit Devouring] skill, continuously extracted the origin power from the Demon Lord’s flesh, transforming it into fuel, fiercely burning, propelling Shen Mo’s cultivation level progressively higher.

The malicious qi, marked with the Longevity Demon Lord’s cultivation level imprint and residual will, refused to be refined under various suppression methods without contaminating or distorting his Daoist body and soul, as usual, was coughed out by Shen Mo, stored in the Sword Zone to feed the Evil-eating Centipede!

[You begin to operate the "Dragon Elephant Blood Fiend Body," activating the (Spirit Devouring) skill, constantly extracting the primal Essence and Qi from the Longevity Demon Lord’s flesh, refining it into your own Bloody Fiend essence, strengthening your vitality.]

[...]

[You continuously operate the cultivation method, gradually transforming the overflowing turbulent qi and blood into power of chaotic Yuan, with your cultivation having some improvement.]

[In the process of refining the Demon Lord’s flesh, you unexpectedly gained an opportunity, Destiny Point +1.]

At once, Shen Mo’s aura fluctuated violently;

It’s like bumping into an invisible barrier during ascension, suddenly falling from a height, then continuing to climb, repeating this endlessly!

After several attempts, Shen Mo temporarily stopped cultivation, slowly opened his eyes: "Indeed, having touched the late-stage bottleneck of the Divine Bridge Realm, merely using the Demon Lord’s flesh as fuel is insufficient to break through this barrier! It takes Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures like Clear Spirit Qi and high-grade elixirs as supplements..."

Then, he mindfully moved.

In his palm, spirit light and sword light flickered successively, a strand of Clear Spirit Qi as thick as a little finger wrapped in Mana, along with several bottles of high-grade elixirs, appeared simultaneously before him.

After the "Talent" Destiny promoted to [Born Immortal], Shen Mo could sense the existence of Clear Spirit Qi in nature’s spiritual energy, something even ordinary Formless Realm experts couldn’t do, a wondrous method of True Immortal level.

In recent years, outside of cultivation, he would extract the Clear Spirit Qi from the extra breath of Primal Spirit gathered from various places.

Some were gifted to Zhao Lingyin, Chen Mengze, Chen An, Qian Xiaofeng, and other close individuals to aid in their cultivation, while others were stored within him, intending to use during life-and-death crises or critical moments of breakthrough!

Unknowingly, he has accumulated such a rich amount of Clear Spirit Qi.

As for the elixirs at hand, they are all of Grade six, personally refined by Shen Mo!

Some of these elixir recipes are foundation from the Primordial Realm Chiyan Domain’s Alchemy Path, some derived from the ancient beast bone recipes from the ancient battlefield of immortals and demons, some collected by sect cultivators since arriving at Jade Spring Mountain, and others deduced from his own Alchemy Path expertise.

Among them, there are the Grade six Soul Nurturing Pill that nourishes the soul, Dragon Blood Red Sun Pill that strengthens qi and vitality, Seven Emperors Marrow Pill that restores True Yuan Mana, Exorcism Pill that suppresses the pollution and distortion of alien power...in total, there are seven elixirs with varying effects.

If exchanged through the Taihua Mirror for spirit elixirs of equivalent grade and similar effect, it would cost at least ten thousand merits!

Once prepared, Shen Mo again began refining the Demon Lord’s flesh, this time, with his aura continuously ascending, nearing the invisible barrier, he decisively swallowed Clear Spirit Qi and high-grade elixirs.

"Boom!"

Shen Mo’s Daoist body and soul seemed to explode, emitting an earth-shattering roar;

Within him, Mana became increasingly vigorous and surged, Essence and Qi reached its peak instantaneously, pushing the cultivation level to break through the realm barrier with an unstoppable momentum!