Instantly, a bronze-colored protective aura emanated from Chengzhen's body, allowing him to withstand the lightning.
With a flick of his right hand, another musket materialized, and he brandished its tip, unleashing a continuous, dazzling display of spear flowers to defend against the deadly attack.
"Keep struggling."
"I'd like to see how long you can hold out."
Chongyan formed a hand seal and then used a secret technique. His figure blurred and swayed, splitting into two, then four, and finally eight.
In a single breath, it summoned sixteen identical clones, each with power almost identical to the original.
"Brother!"
Zhuge Yu, who was watching from the sidelines, was horrified and couldn't help but exclaim.
As a sorcerer, he immediately sensed a change in the surrounding world, where a certain malevolent energy was frantically converging towards the person.
In his view, the advantage that had been firmly in his grasp vanished in an instant, and with one against sixteen, it was a situation with absolutely no chance of winning.
"..."
Suddenly, Chengzhen's expression changed slightly, and a trace of bright red blood flowed from the corner of his mouth without warning. A crack appeared between his eyebrows, clearly indicating that he had been affected by the Spirit-Breaking Curse.
Even though Jiang Mo had warned him before he arrived, and his soul was strong enough that he could withstand being hit by seven or eight attacks.
However, Chongyan had just activated his twelve clones to attack together. The invisible attacks from all directions locked onto his soul, causing some injuries and directly interrupting his thoughts.
"call out--!"
Chongyan seized this fleeting opening, gathering all his strength in his deformed right elbow and using it as a battle axe. He covered the distance of a hundred meters in an instant, creating a powerful sonic boom. The dark brown skeleton pierced through his protective aura with a single blow.
"boom!"
Knowing he couldn't dodge in time, Chengzhen met the attack with a Cloud-Supporting Hand, trying his best to weaken the force. The moment they made contact, a terrifying force shattered his finger bones, sending him flying backward, blood splattering in the air. Before he even hit the ground, several more killing blows came crashing down, engulfing his figure.
"Boom!!!"
Flames shot into the sky, and a massive dragon soared into the air, swooping down upon the earth. Its terrifying power solidified the space into invisible steel plates.
It let out a long howl that shook thousands of miles, and the turbulent winds swept in all directions, shattering the nearest ancient village ruins into dust.
Chongyan and his fifteen clones were severely injured one after another, coughing up blood. Their bodies were disintegrated at a visible speed by the dragon's roar, and the process was excruciating. He roared madly as if he had been possessed by a demon.
"call out--"
"call out--"
"Gurgle, gurgle!!"
The fifteen clones transformed into churning blood-fiend energy, merging with the main body and undergoing an indescribable transformation, giving birth to a colossal beast resembling a deep-sea monster, covered in countless tentacles, spewing out billowing poisonous mist.
"Roar!!"
Both sides were fighting with their strength at its limit, and a major battle was about to break out. Zhuge Yu was anxious and scratched his head, asking:
"Uncle-Master, what should we do? Can Senior Brother really withstand this?"
"believe him."
"Send them away first, I'll stay here and watch over things."
Jiang Mo smiled and gave the order, which put Zhuge Yu at ease. He glanced back at the rescued hostages and moved them to a location further away from the battlefield.
"Boom!"
In the vast expanse of heaven and earth, the roar never ceased as the two colossal beasts fought desperately, and countless drops of blood rained down from the sky.
Dusk, night, dawn, day.
The sun and moon were turned upside down, and one mountain range after another broke and collapsed. Three days later, the fierce battle came to an end. Chongyan died from exhaustion, and the Yin Vein of the Earth Fiend was also destroyed. Chengzhen was seriously injured and could barely maintain his standing posture, but he looked tired and was barely breathing.
Nearly a third of his body was destroyed in this battle, and even breathing causes excruciating pain in his nerves.
"We won...we won..."
Zhuge Yu was utterly shocked. His senior brother's strength far exceeded his expectations. If he were to fight this trial, he probably wouldn't have been able to last that long, and defeat would have been inevitable.
"Senior brother, bear with it, I have medicine here."
Before he could finish speaking, Jiang Mo stopped him:
"No need. At this moment, his body is at its best able to unleash its potential. Let's move on to the next stop."
"what?"
"The Ancient Land of Tengshe".
Jiang Mo took out a map and provided the specific coordinates of Tai Xuan Mountain. Zhuge Yu summoned a magical artifact, a carpet embroidered with various mythical beasts and landscapes. With his activation, it carried the three of them straight south.
An hour later, they successfully arrived at the Tengshe Ancient Land. Zhuge Yu, who was skilled in Qimen Fengshui, easily broke through the many restrictions and led Jiang Mo and Chengzhen to the underground, secluded snake cave.
Countless pale skeletons lay scattered across the damp, grayish-black mud, stretching for nearly a hundred meters.
The lingering demonic energy, corroded by hundreds of years, is still terrifying, while that body of flesh and internal organs has long since turned into rotten pulp and melted into the soil.
Chengzhen was secretly alarmed. Based on his eyesight, he could roughly deduce that the Teng Snake was at least at the level of a demon king in its lifetime, and possibly even higher.
"Is that the raw material we use to forge weapons?"
Zhuge Yu was stunned when he saw the dark red soil beneath the bones.
"Yes, after Tengshe died, its lost flesh and essence combined with the Yin Earth of the Nine Fiends, making it exceptionally heavy and a good material for forging magical artifacts."
At this point, Jiang Mo and the two of them bowed silently as a sign of respect for those who came after them.
"But what we need for this trip is the Nine Fiends Yin Earth. Come with me."
Following the coordinates in his memory, Jiang Mo walked to a corner of the cave, where there was a small, bubbling pit filled with black soil that was as bright and fine as silk.
He then arranged for Chengzhen to begin collecting and cultivating, integrating the Nine Fiend Yin Earth with his spleen.
"good....."
"Zhuge, come here too."
"Oh."
Each of them received a portion of Nine Fiend Yin Soil. Jiang Mo instructed them to keep their minds clear and free from distractions. Then, he began to impart all the refining experience, detailing how to do each step and avoiding some fatal pitfalls.
Those were cultivation experiences that Jiang Mo had risked his life for, paying a bloody price to gain. If he had taken a wrong step, he would have been crushed to pieces.
The two dared not slack off and kept everything firmly in mind.
"These are the things I can teach you, though they may have limitations. I hope that during your cultivation, you will also discover the shortcomings that differ from mine, and then pass them on to other disciples."
"Yes, Uncle-Master, we understand," the two replied solemnly.
"Yes, go ahead, I'll protect you."
During the conversation, the pendant on Jiang Mo's chest began to glow with silver light. Tables and chairs appeared, along with thick ancient books piled on the table. He sat down gently, looked at the two juniors, and smiled, gesturing for them to hurry up.
"If anything goes wrong, don't be afraid. I'm here. You just need to focus on your cultivation."
"Okay, then I'll trouble you."
After a moment, Chengzhen and Zhuge Yu, worried that the noise they made while cultivating might affect each other, each set up different barriers to maintain a considerable distance, several hundred meters apart.
From that day on, the two went into seclusion to cultivate. Jiang Mo silently stayed here, passing the time by reading ancient books, and his understanding of the several cultivation techniques he was practicing became more and more profound.
In the blink of an eye, half a year passed. One day, the barrier on the left shattered. Chengzhen had already successfully fused the Nine Fiends Yin Earth with his spleen. His expression was peaceful, but a warm smile played on his lips. Even his injuries had recovered to almost full extent, and he was in excellent condition.
"Uncle-Master, it's done."
“Okay…” Jiang Mo felt relieved.
Another month passed, and Zhuge Yu also successfully completed the cultivation. Thus, seven months had passed. Although there was no significant breakthrough in their cultivation of Reverse Life, their combat strength had indeed increased considerably.
"Walk."
After the two finished their cultivation, Jiang Mo did not linger. He followed them to other coordinates where the Five Qi Extreme Objects could be found. At their speed, they traversed the Three Mountains and Five Seas and searched all the ruins of the Nine Provinces in less than a day.
However, things didn't go as smoothly as expected.
Of the four locations, only the 'Bitter Sea Heavy Water' beneath the deep lake can be found. The other items, such as the Daylight Pure Fire, the Ten Thousand Tempered Black Gold, and the Ancient Jianmu, were either collected by other explorers before they could be found, or due to errors in parallel universes, they could not be born in the same location in this world.
In the end, he even went overseas, but to no avail, and had to give up temporarily.
However, Jiang Mo was pleased that the 'Sea of Bitter Water' he found this time was enough for five people to cultivate.
He took four portions and left one to sink to the bottom of the lake as a spring for regeneration. As long as it remained, it would eventually recover over time.
Meanwhile, Chengzhen and Zhuge Yu's power was approaching the limit allowed by the laws of the world. Jiang Mo no longer arranged for them to refine the Bitter Sea Heavy Water, but instead took them directly to another world line to repeat this cycle.
In the blink of an eye, a year has passed. The three have traveled through dozens of worlds in different eras. With each time they travel through time and space, the resources they can obtain become less and less. At the beginning, they would occasionally get rare Five Elements treasures, but later, they did not get anything in several consecutive world lines.
As if by divine will, Jiang Mo, vaguely sensing this, stopped and decided not to entangle himself with fate any longer.
He knew that within the limited rules, the amount of resources he could find to expand the sect's power was entirely under the tacit approval of Heaven. Once a certain limit was exceeded, he would likely face a backlash.
The fact that multiple worlds in a row, with the same coordinates, do not produce the Five Elements of Ultimate Nature is precisely a sign from Heaven, indicating that it is time to stop.
Along the way, Jiang Mo also considered searching for the lost Trinity Secret Realm to see if he could open it, but unfortunately, he was hindered by fate and drifted aimlessly for several weeks without any results.
At the same time, he also visited the secret realm of the Shenlin Sect located in Mount Tai.
Strangely, there was no secret realm anywhere. This bizarre scene made Jiang Mo frown. He refused to believe it and ordered his two disciples to search every corner of the entire mountain, but they still couldn't find any trace of their existence.
“Uncle-Master, I have a guess…” Chengzhen was quick-witted and had some ideas. She planned to share her insights with her master.
"explain."
"Could this Divine Descent Sect, like us, also be visitors from other dimensions?"
"Their origins don't lie in the world we live in at all; rather, they migrated here directly using some unknown supernatural power?"
His thoughts coincided with Jiang Mo's.
"However, there are two scenarios here. One is that people come here, seize the secret realm, and become its masters. In the era when they appear, the various sects are still at their peak, and they cannot disrupt the balance of the world, thus gaining the tacit approval of Heaven."
"Secondly, they brought their original secret realm with them. If it's the latter, then we're in trouble; these guys are definitely ruthless..."
Zhuge Yu looked slightly worried.
"Let's go, let's go somewhere else and take a look."
To verify their hypothesis, the three of them went to the entrances of other secluded sects' secret realms one by one. They could all sense that there were huge magic arrays in operation, constantly drawing in the spiritual energy of the mortals.
Without a doubt, the only abnormality was the Divine Descent Sect. Then, Jiang Mo investigated several other world lines and, after many twists and turns, discovered that the Divine Descent Sect did not exist at all. This indicated that their world line might also be an abnormal variable, chosen by the Divine Descent Sect as the relocation site. All clues were thus cut off.
In the end, after two years of twists and turns, Jiang Mo had made some progress, collecting 8 portions of Nine Fiends Yin Earth, 4 portions of Daytime Yang Pure Fire, 5 portions of Ten Thousand Tempered Black Gold, 7 portions of Ancient Year Jian Wood, and 6 portions of Bitter Sea Heavy Water.
Before the end of their space travel, one evening at sunset, Chengzhen asked meaningfully, "Aren't you really going back to take a look?"
"Want to see your master?"
Jiang Mo smiled and asked in return. He casually flicked his hand, and the pebble between his fingers flew out, skimming across the shimmering golden river in front of him, splashing up beautiful ripples.
"Yes, it's a rare opportunity to come here, Uncle-Master, are you really not going to take a look?"
At this moment, Zhuge Yu chimed in, saying that to be honest, he really wanted to go see his master.
"It's been a long time..."
Jiang Mo looked up, gazing at the setting sun and the magnificent fiery clouds. His thoughts drifted away, and he murmured:
"After 81 years apart, how could I not miss you...?"
After a long silence, he made a decision:
"Go."
"By the way, there's something else I'd like to confirm."
"boom!"
As soon as the words were spoken, the space in front of them suddenly shattered, revealing a vortex leading to other timelines, and the figures of the group disappeared one after another.
......
Chapter 460 An Immortal Touches My Head, Opening the Heavenly Spirit with an Inch of Palm
In the summer of 1942, at night, a torrential downpour struck a town near Trinity Gate, accompanied by lightning and thunder. A rift in another dimension suddenly opened, and several streaks of white light flashed by before descending upon the dark forest.
"boom!"
Thunder rumbled through the dark night. Jiang Mo's gaze sharpened, and a cave not far away came into view, where a flickering campfire seemed to indicate that someone lived there.
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