The road is vague

Chapter 66: Ethereal Transformation

early morning.

After Li Mo woke up slowly, he came to the Shenshu Square and looked at the distant sky in a daze.

The originally blue sky was still the blue sky, but in Li Mo's eyes now, it seemed different.

He fell into inexplicable panic.

"Something must have happened in this world."

Although he could not sense any specific changes in the real world, nor could he sense anything special in the ethereal dream, when he compared the two, he keenly noticed a hint of abnormality.

The real world seems to be constantly changing, while in his dream there is a foreign object that makes him feel depressed.

"What happened to the Mountain and Sea Realm?"

"What is that strange object in the ethereal dream?"

Li Mo couldn't help but think of the indescribable giants he could see in the sky outside the mountain gate every time the sun and moon set.

What made him even more uneasy was.

Since I can see them, they can also see me.

From this moment on, his life in the world of mountains and seas was like a game of hide-and-seek for survival in the apocalypse.

They are high above, overlooking the world. Anyone who is seen by them will die.

Judging from the situation in recent years.

It seems that even the act of trying to discover, observe, and understand them is a curse. If you try to observe them more deeply, the curse will deepen, making the observer more easily detected by them and more susceptible to some deep and inexplicable harm.

This kind of hurt was something Li Mo could not resist or understand.

Or it could be said that it was something that low-level cultivators could not resist or understand.

Li Mo didn't even know what to call them. He just felt that the so-called evil spirits in the mountain and sea world seemed to be closely related to them.

"Could it be that the decline and disappearance of the ancient monks is related to them?"

In today's Mountain and Sea Realm, the late stage of the Spirit Transformation Realm is the limit for cultivators.

The realms above this, such as the Refining Void, Fusion, and Mahayana, only exist in the records of some ancient texts. It seems that this world has been set up with some kind of barrier. Once the upper limit of the late stage of the Spirit Transformation is broken through, it will trigger some unknown realm.

In this macro context.

The cultivators in the Nascent Soul stage are the main force of this world. Only a few major countries have cultivators in the Spirit Transformation stage, and they all behave in a timid manner.

Li Mo felt a little depressed.

He felt like an ant, who suddenly one day learned to look up and saw the existence of the sky. He was filled with hesitation, confusion, and helplessness, but he didn't know how to tell other ants.

It seems that telling this secret to others and letting them know that those things really exist is itself a terrible curse.

"What exactly is the Misty Box?"

After Li Mo entered the ethereal dream, he made a comparison with the mountain and sea world.

He could clearly feel that there was something in the ethereal dream, something extremely huge and terrifying, like the ripples constantly rising in the lake. Although he didn't know what that thing was, he knew that it must be huge, very huge.

And he had a feeling.

As he continues to comprehend the real world, his understanding of the thing in the ethereal world will become clearer and clearer. A power that he cannot explain seems to be constantly bewitching and guiding him, making him tear open the barrier between the yin and yang sides and unravel the secret.

He didn't know what the ultimate consequences of doing this would be.

Is it to release the sealed thing in the misty dream?
"wrong."

Li Mo frowned, recalling his insights in the ethereal dream.

"That thing... it seems dead, or perhaps it's the Misty Box itself. Perhaps it's better to describe it as a kind of rule of the Misty Box, like the relationship between the sun, moon, and stars to the Mountain and Sea Realm. It feels very strange..."

"Li Mo?"

Just as Li Mo was sitting under the Qingling sacred tree and daydreaming, a surprised voice came from behind him.

After Li Mo came to his senses, he turned to look towards the source of the voice and found that it was Lu Cuicui who had also come to the Shenshu Square.

Lu Cuicui noticed the hesitation, uneasiness and confusion in Li Mo's eyes. The smile on her face froze. She had never seen Li Mo so helpless before. She couldn't help but be stunned for a moment. Then she pondered for a moment and sat quietly beside Li Mo.

"What happened?"

Lu Cuicui's voice was very gentle, as if she wanted to listen to Li Mo's thoughts.

Li Mo was silent for a long time. He didn't know where to start, and in the end he could only sigh.

"It's okay, I just encountered some problems during the training process."

Lu Cuicui knew that something must have happened to Li Mo, but for some reason he was unwilling to talk about it. She did not force Li Mo, but just stayed quietly by his side, trying to help him solve his problems.

Although she felt that this was childish, for some reason, she was still willing to do so.

Lu Cuicui tried hard to control her nervousness and excitement. Her palms were full of sweat. When she was considering whether to do something, a shout in the distance made her stand up as if she had been electrocuted.

It turned out to be Lu Shun wiping his sweat angrily in the distance.

"Didn't we agree that I'd be in the back mountains with you at noon to test the modified puppet? I've been waiting for you for over two quarters of an hour!"

"Ah? Ah!"

Lu Cuicui looked flustered.

"I'll come right away."

She felt annoyed and blamed herself for choosing today to test the puppet. Then she looked at Li Mo, who had a melancholy face, with a look of reluctance.

"Li Mo, I'll go over first and come see you when I have time."

"OK."

As Lu Cuicui left quickly, Li Mo's originally depressed mood seemed to have improved a lot under her influence, and he decided not to think about it anymore.

From the moment he left Hua'an Town, he had made a vow in his heart.

No matter what awaits him ahead, he will stride forward and he will not be afraid!

The reason why he was able to avenge Zhao Siman and achieve his current results was thanks to the help of the "Piaomiao Box".

This is the path he chose, and he will never back down!
He wants to become stronger, take control of his own destiny, realize his ideals, make the world a better place, and gain happiness and satisfaction from a good life. So no matter what dangers, unknowns, or risks there are on this road, he will continue to persevere.

Li Mo's eyes regained their determination and he strode towards the Alchemy Hall.

After closing the secret door of the alchemy room, Li Mo swallowed a Huangyuan Guiqi Pill and began to practice the Great Circulation.

With the help of the elixir's power, his magical power increased rapidly. It was not until it thundered and rained again outside that he temporarily stopped practicing and began to feel the power of heaven with the art of spiritual travel.

Even after leaving his body, he was still extremely frightened and looked timid, dull and dazed.

But this time Li Mo maintained basic sanity and always floated just above the body.

night.

Li Mo entered the ethereal dreamland, and practiced the Great Circulation in the dreamland. By comparing it with the real world, and like throwing a stone to test the waters, he tried hard to understand the basic form of the "alien object" through the ripples in the dreamland.

That's it.

Time passes day by day.

With Li Mo's continuous comprehension and practice, his "Enlightenment Technique" gradually became perfect, and his spiritual consciousness was greatly improved. At the same time, his feeling for the indescribable thing hidden in the ethereal dream also became deeper and deeper.

Every day he could hear countless roars, roars and mutters of beasts in his ethereal dreams.

Until this day.

Li Mo entered into the ethereal dream and started practicing the Great Circulation again. He was still trying to comprehend that thing by throwing a stone to test the water. After an unknown amount of time, he suddenly felt as if something was broken.

He seemed to notice something and suddenly looked up at the sky!
The rolling dark clouds, lightning and thunder disappeared in an instant and turned into nothingness.

It was an extremely huge eye, an eye bigger than a mountain. It covered the sky and one could not see the end at a glance. As it continued to approach the earth, the dark shadow continued to press down. Li Mo felt that his thoughts became blank in an instant.

It's like a giant whale looking down at an ant and getting closer and closer to observe more details.

Li Mo stood still, staring blankly.

His body was shaking instinctively, and his mind was gradually falling into dementia, confusion, and madness.

"what!!"

As an unspeakable pain overwhelmed him, Li Mo felt as if his entire dream was being torn apart. He couldn't help but let out a painful wail, his soul seemed to be falling into the abyss, trapped in endless darkness. He didn't know what would happen next, like a small boat floating on the dark sea, ready to be torn apart by the endless darkness around him at any moment.

"What the hell are you!"

Li Mo screamed hysterically.

The indescribable thing did not answer him. Li Mo felt as if he had established some inexplicable connection with it and sensed the breath of death from it.

This kind of death is very strange, perhaps loss of power would be a better term.

It felt like a puppet without the support of spirit stones. It was a very strange feeling.

"The recipe for the Creation Pill is actually because of you!"

Li Mo gradually regained his sanity, but still remained in a half-kneeling position. Because of his recent dementia and madness, his behavior was still weird.

"So, you are the core of this Misty Box?"

The giant eye is just a corpse, or the sun in a vague dream, it flies higher and higher, and farther and farther away.

The sky above Li Mo's head was soon covered by dark clouds again. He slowly regained all his rationality, and all kinds of indescribable hysterical pains slowly disappeared. Only a small part of the changes remained in his body.

It was a vortex that appeared in the palm of his right hand.

"what is this?"

Li Mo raised his arm and looked at his right hand.

Then he actually saw the furnishings in the dormitory in the real world through this vortex. This vortex seemed like a crack that penetrated the ethereal dream world and the real world!
Li Mo was surprised by this strange change.

He didn't know what this change would bring, so he studied it carefully.

Gradually.

Li Mo has mastered some tricks.

He used his spiritual power to cover a teacup in the real world, and then he pulled the teacup into the ethereal dream world, and it appeared in the palm of his hand.

"this?"

Li Mo looked at the teacup in his hand, which should have been in the dormitory in the real world, and felt a little at a loss for a moment.

But then the teacup began to vibrate continuously in Li Mo's palm!
The ethereal dreamlike spiritual energy kept converging towards it from all directions. Just when Li Mo was puzzled, an eye suddenly opened and a mouth opened on the teacup.

"What the hell!"

Li Mo was startled and instinctively threw the teacup away.

The teacup shattered after it fell to the ground. The little hands, feet, and tail that were gradually extending out made a painful struggle, and then gradually dissipated, turning back into an ordinary teacup.

But the teacup was completely broken.

"This this……"

After being stunned for a long time, Li Mo finally realized the reality.

"died?"

Then Li Mo tried to take in teapots, teacups, flower pots, shoes, clothes, fruits, and medicinal herbs from the real world...

Every dead object that it absorbs into the ethereal dream will be endowed with a strange vitality.

They are like loyal servants, but they are not worthy of being used.

"Why do these things look like evil spirits?"

Li Mo was a little confused.

After thinking for a while, he actually took the humanoid puppet in his storage bag into the ethereal dream.

With Li Mo's current attainments in puppetry, although he still cannot design a mechanical puppet independently, after consulting Lu Cuicui, repairing the damage suffered by the humanoid puppet during the year-end assessment is not a big problem.

As the humanoid puppet entered the ethereal dream, Li Mo suddenly felt that his spiritual power was exhausted.

To be precise, the extra spiritual power of the Wu Nian Jue was exhausted, or the ethereal dream was "full".

The quality of this humanoid puppet is obviously much higher than those bottles and jars. After he took the humanoid puppet in, his extra divine consciousness could no longer absorb other things.

The humanoid puppet also began to change after entering the ethereal dream.

Its eyes kept blinking, and its skin became more delicate, but its shape gradually changed from human to become somewhat uncontrollable. It had a third hand and a tail, and it seemed to be constantly growing, making it look a little twisted and deformed.

Li Mo was no longer as surprised as he was at first. He gradually got used to this weirdness.

He vaguely felt that this power was indeed related to evil, but it was not entirely distorted, terrifying, and bizarre. It seemed to contain some wonderful, fantastic, and dreamlike qualities similar to the Creation Pill.

"Could it be that the nature of the spiritual energy here is caused by two kinds of pollution?"

The reason why Li Mo vomited out the recipe for the Creation Pill from his body was precisely because of the contamination of the spiritual power that leaned towards evil!

After thinking for a moment, Li Mo looked at the deformed puppet in front of him.

Then he turned on the energy device and noticed that the spirit stone in the deformed puppet's body had turned into a strange blood-red eye. This eye kept blinking, absorbing the strange spiritual power in the ethereal dream, and extending strands of blood vessels, which continued to spread, causing the deformed puppet to continue to deform.

"Perhaps, this is still not the right application of this capability."

Li Mo could feel that this humanoid puppet was slowly becoming stronger.

All the reasons are due to the strange eye inside its body.

Now he is no longer the disciple who has just entered the training hall. He is no longer afraid, nor is he complacent about it.

"By absorbing matter from the real world into the ethereal dream, a certain resurrection and mutation will occur. This seems like a special kind of corpse puppetry technique. The source of this power is that giant eye, that gigantic corpse. However, the perfect application of this corpse puppetry technique is far more than just this."

Li Mo seemed to be affected by this strange environment, and his eyes were filled with gloom and evil.

"This strange ability can only be fully unleashed by absorbing corpses, especially those with strong physical bodies, the kind that have just died and whose spiritual scent has not yet dissipated. The limit of how much real-world matter can be absorbed into the ethereal dream world depends on the additional strength of one's divine consciousness, similar to the divine consciousness strength enhanced by the 'Awakening Mind Technique'."

early morning.

Li Mo woke up slowly and looked at the palm of his hand.

But even if he activated his spiritual eyes to the limit, he still could not see the invisible vortex, but he could feel that there was indeed a vortex in his right hand.

As if to confirm his feeling, Li Mo gently raised his right hand and made a summoning gesture.

The deformed puppet that was supposed to be in the misty dream suddenly appeared in front of him.

"Sure enough."

Li Mo took a deep breath and turned on the power device of the deformed puppet.

The strange eye grew countless blood vessels, which kept wriggling and spreading to all parts of the puppet. What made Li Mo feel weird was that he actually developed an extremely familiar feeling towards this eye.

After taking a deep breath, he turned off the power device of the deformed puppet.

At the same time, Li Mo could also feel that after the deformed puppet entered the real world, the strange eye began to continuously consume its own spiritual power. It seemed that staying in the real world would make it continue to weaken and eventually completely dissipate. There was some terrible rule in the real world that restricted it.

Is it...

Li Mo recalled the inexplicable scene he saw on the night when he entered Xiyue in Eighteen Mountains. Countless silver runes between heaven and earth rushed towards the evil spirits that were being bred and tore them into pieces.

The reason why this deformed puppet can exist is because it contains another kind of breath in its body and has its own coordinates in this real world.

"No matter what, this can be considered my own unique secret technique."

Li Mo looked at the deformed puppet in front of him thoughtfully.

"Let's call it... Ethereal Transformation."

After he casually put the deformed puppet back into the ethereal dream, he didn't know what direction his future would develop in, but he definitely didn't want to become an evil cultivator who kept killing people and constantly used the ethereal transformation technique, and become a wanted criminal by the inspectors of the Tianming Department of the Daqian Kingdom.

It seemed that because of the ideal of being a hero and saving the world, the twisted evil in Li Mo's eyes was gradually replaced by a light and ethereal aura, and he regained his clarity and rationality while being completely ignorant.

"How could I be so stupid!"

Li Mo was stunned for a moment, then suddenly burst into laughter, as if the clouds had cleared and the sun had come out.

"How can a human corpse compare to a monster's corpse? I can just kill the monster and then use the Misty Transformation Technique to create a corpse puppet."

The previous moment he was still worrying about whether he would become an evil cultivator obsessed with profit in the future, but the next moment he cleared the haze in his heart and was angry at his previous stupidity.

How could I even think of such a stupid thing as using human corpses to make puppets?

(End of this chapter)