"Fine, I’ll spare his life for now. Once I get the Treasure here, I’ll kill him." Li Ling clenched her teeth, clearly unwilling. With Guo Lu and Lin Mo joining forces, backed by the Hexagram Sect Disciple, if Li Ling and the Netherworld Sect Great Elder wanted to kill Lin Mo, it would be quite difficult. Even if they could kill Lin Mo, they would definitely be seriously injured, and with the Treasure right before them, who knew if there would be more

danger ahead. Right now, preserving their strength was the most important thing.

When the Treasure appeared, everyone would be busy fighting over it. By then, Guo Lu probably wouldn’t be able to fully look after Lin Mo. Striking at that time would be the safest choice.

Thus, the balance of power on the mountaintop shifted once again.

Lin Mo and Guo Lu joined hands to contend against Li Ling and the Netherworld Sect Great Elder.

As for the current Five Primus Sect, after losing the Ming King, they had become the weakest force here, forced to stay at the edge of the mountaintop, hoping to fish in troubled waters when the Treasure appeared.

Sitting cross-legged on the peak, Lin Mo narrowed his eyes slightly, and his Divine Thought entered the Space Ring.

Inside a void Space, the Devouring Spirit Worm lay coiled in the Dark Space. In front of it floated a Ghost Banner, from which ghosts kept drilling out, only to be swallowed in one big gulp by the Devouring Spirit Worm, eating with great relish.

"Uh, why are you eating the ghosts inside this Ghost Banner?" Lin Mo frowned and asked with his Divine Thought.

"Replying to Master, these ghosts are great tonic. As long as my strength grows, the future eggs I lay, the Star Feather Insect hatched from them will at least reach the Star Lake Level Realm," the Devouring Spirit Worm replied.

"So that’s how it is." Lin Mo nodded inwardly, then saw a cluster of Star Feather Insects gathered together. After that fight just now with the ghosts in the Ghost Banner, of the 200 Star Feather Insects, about half had died, leaving only around 100. But these remaining Star Feather Insects had already advanced

to High-level Galaxy Level, and each one exuded a savage, ferocious aura.

Like a newly forged sword—only after being tempered could it possess such a sharp, killing edge. This battle had also let Lin Mo truly witness the power of Insect Cultivation. Though the Sealing Skill and Sword Array had played their part, the sheer ferocity in the Star Feather Insects’ slaughter still gave Lin Mo a pleasant surprise. If he raised enough of them,

even if each Star Feather Insect was weak individually, in large numbers they would still possess terrifying combat strength.

"Looks like I’ll be needing a lot more Netherworld Stones in the future," Lin Moxin thought to himself. Killing the Ming King this time had yielded quite a harvest—there were still 3,000 Netherworld Stones on the Ming King, and no small number of various Treasures. Among them was even a manual, the ’Basic Book of Corpse Refining’. Lin Mo skimmed through it; within were recorded the methods the Five Primus Sect used to control Corpse Masters and refine them. But the methods were far too vicious. One had to slaughter all of a living person’s closest kin right before their eyes with cruel means, forcing endless hatred and fury into that person’s heart, then use various materials to concoct a Metal liquid and pour that Metal liquid into the meridians in their body,

killing them alive. Only then could the person be used to refine into a Corpse Master.

"Such a venomous method... who knows how many people it has harmed." Lin Mo clenched his hand into a fist.

A gentleman loves wealth but takes it by the proper path. If one wanted to increase strength, one still had to walk the right road; such ruthless, insidious methods, even if Lin Mo obtained them, he would never practice this Cultivation Technique.

"Five Primus Sect, once I leave the Secret Realm, I’ll properly settle accounts with you."

Lin Mo had once promised Zhou Xinyue he would help her take revenge on the Five Primus Sect. Moreover, with the Five Primus Sect cultivating such poisonous Magic, exterminating them would be eliminating a scourge.

"Devouring Spirit Worm, swallow all these 3,000 Netherworld Stones."

Lin Mo ordered with his Divine Thought.

"Yes, Master."

The Devouring Spirit Worm replied, then sped up its devouring of the ghosts in the Ghost Banner, its body growing larger and larger as it kept swallowing. By now it had grown to over a dozen zhang in length.

"And this Copper Corpse, too."

As he spoke, a Copper Corpse appeared before the cluster of Star Feather Insects. The Copper Corpse’s eyes held no light, its expression dull like a block of wood, yet an intense aura of resentment and hatred seeped off its body.

Lin Mo frowned. This Copper Corpse was comparable to a Star System Level Treasure, and a humanoid Treasure at that, capable of using Martial Arts, enough to rival some High-level Star System Level Treasures.

Without Lin Mo’s command, the Star Feather Insects didn’t dare touch the Copper Corpse, though each of their eyes shone with greedy, feral light.

Originally, Lin Mo had planned to keep this Copper Corpse for his own use, but after seeing just how cruel the Five Primus Sect’s Magic was, he finally chose to give it up.

Yet refining this Copper Corpse had clearly consumed an unknown amount of Netherworld Stones and materials. To simply throw it away would be rather wasteful.

"Eat it, eat it."

Lin Mo said. He did not know what kind of torment this Copper Corpse had suffered in its lifetime; now, with Resentment clinging to it, letting the Star Feather Insects devour it was also a kind of release for it.

...

On the mountaintop, after this calm held for about a day, an ancient aura finally spread out. Everyone who had been sitting with eyes closed in Cultivation opened their eyes at the same time.

Li Ling and the Netherworld Sect Great Elder opened their eyes as well.

Guo Lu, Xue Chen and the others widened their eyes.

Lin Mo’s gaze, along with everyone else’s, converged on the center of the mountaintop. An ancient altar there was emitting hazy white radiance, an aged, vast aura rolling out from it.

Everyone’s heart leapt. They had gone through untold hardships to reach Zihuan Star, then enter this mysterious Space—one could say they’d walked through life-and-death to finally find this hoard.

Only they still didn’t know what earth-shattering Treasures were hidden inside.

Each person’s eyes lit up, then filled with a hint of anticipation and thick, naked greed.

"I hope this hoard contains the Heaven Tree. Otherwise I really came for nothing." Lin Mo licked his lips, deep black eyes blazing with intense expectation.

Even if he had to burn through every last trump card, he had to obtain the ’Heaven Tree’ inheritance. On the ancient altar stood a hundred Stone Pillars, each about a hundred zhang tall and several zhang in diameter. Every Stone Pillar was carved full of intricate ancient rune, these runes glowing milky-white as they suddenly came alive, and then each Stone Pillar turned dazzlingly

white-bright.

Next, a white beam several zhang thick shot out from each Stone Pillar. Hundreds of white beams converged in the sky, and an incomparably vast, grand Temple slowly surfaced in everyone’s field of view, finally gradually Condensed into solidity.

This Temple soared a million kilometers high; the crowd beneath were like ants at the foot of a Divine Mountain, incomparably tiny.

After waiting for several minutes, the Temple hung suspended in midair as if it were solid, awe-inspiring to the extreme.

"The Treasures must be inside that Temple..."

"Right. As long as I get the Treasure, my strength will definitely soar!"

"Maybe I can even break through to the Star System Level Realm!"

Light burst from everyone’s eyes. Once the Temple stabilized, a Light Gate appeared at its entrance.

Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh! Figures shot out one after another like locusts, darting toward the Light Gate. No one wanted to fall behind. Lin Mo naturally also moved at the first instant, breaking the sound barrier like a streak of Flowing Light as he rushed into that Light Gate.

The wonderful story continues tomorrow.