The First Immortal of Destiny-Chapter 614 Tallying the Spoils_1
GULP!
Shen Mo swallowed a Three Emperors Marrow Pill to restore the True Yuan that was continuously depleting in his body.
Then, he perceived the information relayed by the Demon Soul General behind him and inferred that the two formidable opponents, Zhu Zhao and the Flame-shaped Fire Spirit, were closing in, now within two thousand miles!
This distance was roughly the maximum range covered by the senses of a Golden Core Realm cultivator and a Class IV peak expert. It was several hundred miles farther than the furthest distance Shen Mo’s sense could reach.
However, this person and spirit determining Shen Mo’s specific location were not relying on sense to lock onto him.
The Flame-shaped Fire Spirit was likely guided by its connection to the Samadhi True Fire. After all, this spirit flame was the sacred fire of the Race of Fire Spirits; the birth and growth of all Fire-type creatures were inseparable from this spirit flame. It was not hard to understand its ability to sense the flame’s existence.
As for Zhu Zhao, the Elder of the Sword Alliance, he was probably using his connection with the Wildland Fire Cauldron or other magic treasures to determine Shen Mo’s location.
Under such circumstances, Shen Mo could only completely shake them off by abandoning all his spoils, including the Samadhi True Fire... He would rather continue to fight Zhu Zhao and the Flame-shaped Fire Spirit than do so!
If I do not use the Sword Escape Skill and continue to travel using ordinary escape methods, they will likely catch up with me in a little over an hour.
Shen Mo calculated in his heart.
Feeling there was still ample time, he did not immediately use the Sword Escape Skill, thus allowing his soul to continue to recover.
After an hour, when Zhu Zhao and the Flame-shaped Fire Spirit were about to catch up, he would use the Sword Escape Skill to widen the distance. It wouldn’t be too late!
In any case, he had enough kinds of Elixirs and could sustain this for a long time by alternating between different Escape Skills.
Zhu Zhao and the others, in their full-speed escape, were not consuming any less than Shen Mo. Even if they frequently consumed Elixirs, ten days to half a month would be pretty much their limit.
Moreover, time was on Shen Mo’s side.
With the Samadhi True Fire boosting his cultivation level, the longer he dragged things out, the stronger he would become. Even if Zhu Zhao and the Flame-shaped Fire Spirit did catch up, he could simply fight them!
Thinking thus, Shen Mo probed with his sense into Yang Chengxiong’s Universe Bag and continued to inventory the spoils he had acquired.
In addition to ordinary talismans, Elixirs, Spirit Stones, and other spiritual items, several treasures caught Shen Mo’s attention.
First was a portrait scroll. Although the material looked common, it contained a quite potent sword intent.
From Yang Chengxiong’s soul memory, Shen Mo learned that the person depicted in this scroll was the first patriarch of the Taiyi Sword Alliance. Although this person had cultivated to the Divine Bridge Realm, he still couldn’t resist the erosion of time and had long since died of old age.
However, this scroll had been worshipped in the Ancestor Hall of the Sword Alliance by countless disciples of successive generations for innumerable years. Gradually, it had manifested some miraculous properties, becoming an exotic treasure.
Previously, Yang Chengxiong, relying on this scroll, had killed and heavily wounded five Class IV Fire Spirits.
At its peak, the offensive power of its Sword Path reached the ultimate level below the Divine Bridge Realm... Even a Golden Core Realm peak expert, if not vigilant, risked being killed.
Of course, after this Sword Alliance Ancestral Master Scroll had been used once, its accumulated Killing Power was exhausted. To replicate its previous power, it would have to be worshipped again in the Ancestor Hall of the Taiyi Sword Alliance for over a hundred years.
However, as a disciple of the Riverside Sect, Shen Mo did not feel right worshipping the scroll of another sect’s ancestor.
Even hanging it in the Ancestor Hall of the Riverside Sect for other Sect Disciples to worship would be somewhat unrealistic. 𝙛𝓻𝒆𝓮𝒘𝙚𝙗𝒏𝙤𝙫𝓮𝒍.𝓬𝒐𝙢
Moreover, once he stepped into the late-stage of the Golden Core Realm, the sharpness of his various killing methods might not be inferior to this scroll. There was no need for him to do something that would be seen as "disrespectful to the ancestors" for it!
Therefore, for Shen Mo, the greatest value of this Sword Alliance Ancestral Master Scroll lay in contemplating its mysteries, which might benefit his own Sword Path.
After putting the scroll into his Universe Bag, Shen Mo took out an Array Plate.
Yang Chengxiong quickly laid out a small Formation earlier; it seems this treasure was responsible.
Among his several auxiliary professions, his mastery of the Array Path wasn’t outstanding, but he could still comprehend the essence of this Array Plate. It was a decent defense Formation, capable of resisting attacks from middle or late-stage Golden Core Realm cultivators once activated.
Its main advantage lay in its convenience and agility. Just like talismans, it could immediately form a defensive Formation when stimulated with Mana and True Yuan.
Of course, it was still somewhat lacking in Shen Mo’s eyes, let alone using it to deal with powerful individuals like Zhu Zhao!
Moreover, the Formation on this Array Plate had been disrupted when Shen Mo took drastic action earlier. It would have to be reset and reorganized before it could be used again.
It’s like a white elephant to me, but for others, it could be considered a supreme defensive treasure!
It should be noted that in the entire Riverside Sect, besides Shen Mo, the one with the highest Cultivation Realm, Patriarch Yuan Heming, was only a middle-stage Golden Core Realm cultivator.
If one set up this Array Plate to form a small defense Formation, hardly anyone within the Riverside Sect could harm its holder.
Right now, Shen Mo didn’t have the leisure to reset the Formation on the Array Plate. He threw it directly into his Universe Bag, planning to give it to Zhao Lingyin for self-defense after returning to the Red Flame Zone.
The last treasure that aroused his interest was seven blood-stained Soul-binding Nails.
Shen Mo had also seen Yang Chengxiong using these Soul-binding Nails before...
Back when he had been teleported to the Heaven Patrolling Zone via the Teleportation Array, Yang Chengxiong had laid a trap to slay him. At that time, Shen Mo had tried to use the Soul Refining Flag to separate Horse Groom Lv, the Demon Soul General, from Yang Chengxiong.
At that time, Yang Chengxiong had used these seven Soul-binding Nails, driving them into his own top of the skull, heart, Dantian, and limbs. By resorting to such a self-mutilating method, he had forcibly bound Horse Groom Lv!
However, later on, Yang Chengxiong’s soul further integrated with Horse Groom Lv, becoming as one, so there was no longer a need for these seven Soul-binding Nails to bind the soul.
During his attempt to seize the Samadhi True Fire, Shen Mo had also tried to use the Soul Refining Flag, but he had been completely unable to separate or control Yang Chengxiong. In the end, he resorted to brute force, directly breaking the small Formation, heavily injuring Yang Chengxiong, and trapping him in the Golden Flowery Realm.
After searching his soul, Shen Mo also learned the effects of these seven Soul-binding Nails.
If a stronger being attacked him, directly attempting to bind his soul with a Soul-binding Spell, using these Soul-binding Nails to pin the seven Chakra points in his body could lock the soul firmly inside the Dao Body.
Furthermore, if a cultivator’s Dao Body was destroyed but the soul had not dissipated, it could forcibly inhabit another cultivator’s Dao Body.
Then, with the help of these seven Soul-binding Nails, the repulsive force from the body’s original owner could be countered!
In this way, similar to the patriarch with a destroyed Dao Body from the Ghost Corpse School who took over his own Ghoul, although his cultivation could not advance, he could retain most of his cultivation strength and wouldn’t need to rely on Soul-nurturing spiritual items to keep his soul from perishing.
I wonder if this item could be of any use to Yu Yan?
Yu Yan’s Fire Spirit Body Dao Body had been destroyed by the space-time turbulence of the River of the Dead, leaving only his soul. Later, with the help of his Master Yuan Jing, he began practicing other methods and is currently still in a state similar to a Soul Ghost.
If a newly dead body could be found for his soul to inhabit, aided by the Soul-binding Nails, he might just be able to return to a "normal" state.
