Chapter 1010: Chunyang Zi’s Malice

Chapter 1010: Chapter 1010: Chunyang Zi’s Malice

Upon receiving the decree from the Law Master, the sect’s Forge Hall didn’t dare delay and began to mobilize high-class Forgemasters to rush the crafting of the new Bone Viewing Mirror day and night!

Shen Mo was not secretive; he spread the method of forging throughout the various forces on Five Dragon Mountain, including sects, families, rogue cultivators, and alien forces leasing territories like Azure Heaven Cave.

These "tenants" are all on Five Dragon Mountain. If a Seventh-Order Great Demon were to be nurtured, it would also affect Red Flame Sect. Therefore, Shen Mo strongly demanded that they forge Treasure Mirrors to identify Demon Soul hosts. Those who directly refused or feigned compliance would not have their leases renewed by Red Flame Sect once expired, and they would be expelled from Five Dragon Mountain to eliminate future risks.

The improved Bone Viewing Mirror, as long as it reaches the profound level top-grade, can detect Demon Soul hosts, requiring only a minimal investment of spiritual resources compared to the significant benefits gained on Five Dragon Mountain, which is insignificant. So most leasing forces complied obediently.

Only some Xiu Xian forces with a Formless Patriarch overseeing them felt it was Red Flame Sect interfering in their internal affairs and clearly stated they would not abide by this rule. When the lease ends, they would withdraw from Five Dragon Mountain on their own.

Besides these leasing forces, there was also a large group of Xiu Xian forces under Shen Mo’s protection, nominally independent but actually vassals of Red Flame Sect, originating mainly from two places: Dayu Mountain’s Heaven Patrolling Temple and the Torch Dragon Mountain Range.

Heaven Patrolling Temple, like Red Flame Sect, comes from the Primordial Realm, an alliance of many Xiu Xian forces from the Heaven Patrolling Zone east of Immortal Burial Sea. The Universal Realm has established connections with the Lower Realm, and nine Divine Bridge Immortal Masters, including Danchen Zi of Li Mountain Elixir Sect and Qin Hu of Profound Invisible Sect, crafted a forbidden land and ascended to the Immortal Realm using the outer realm’s dharma.

However, even with the nine Divine Bridges combined, they could not craft a sufficiently large forbidden land to bring all immortal and mortal beings from Heaven Patrolling Zone into the Immortal Realm. During the process of ascending the forbidden land, they stayed in the Lower Realm several times, launched a battle to exterminate demons on Dayu Mountain, during which many minor forces perished and numerous cultivators fell.

Thus, when Heaven Patrolling Temple moved to Five Dragon Mountain, only slightly over eight hundred forces remained with fifteen billion immortal and mortal beings, arranged on the southern slope by Red Flame Sect.

Also settled on the southern slope was the Torch Dragon Mountain Range faction, led by Heaven Phoenix Palace.

Although this faction is native to the Immortal Realm, due to being a barren land and having experienced demonic calamity, it is far smaller in scale than the Heaven Patrolling Temple faction, with only over a hundred Xiu Xian forces and more than a billion immortal and mortal beings. However, its foundation is deeper than the Heaven Patrolling faction, with three Formless Masters, ten Divine Bridge Immortal Masters, especially the Palace Master of Heavenly Phoenix Palace being a late-stage Formless Realm Great Cultivator!

If not for Shen Mo’s restraint, the Torch Dragon faction could even dominate and suppress Red Flame Sect to become the master of Five Dragon Mountain.

Whether it is Heaven Patrolling Temple or the Torch Dragon force alliance, both are sheltered under Shen Mo’s wings. Upon receiving his decree, they dared not defy his will and diligently began crafting Bone Viewing Mirrors. After all, this is beneficial for them as it allows them to find Demon Soul hosts within their territories, eliminating demonic calamity threats from the source!

Over a year and a half, Bone Viewing Mirrors illuminated from various places on Five Dragon Mountain, covering most areas where immortal and mortal beings gather, including major mining areas and spiritual field.

Afterward, more than 513,000 Demon Soul hosts were identified, including mortals and Body Tempering Realm and Qi Gathering Realm cultivators, leaving Shen Mo somewhat stunned. This proportion seemed excessively high. Even if Chunyang Zi chose only human immortals and mortals to parasitize due to being a Demon-corrupted cultivator, and divided three billion Demon Souls and accounted for the outside population of nearly twenty billion immortal and mortal beings in Green Cloud Cave, it can be calculated that the Universal Realm’s Human Race accounts for about one trillion.

But according to Shen Mo’s calculations, not counting countless Fairylands and Dungeons, the total number of the Human Race in the Immortal Realm exceeds a hundred trillion!

The Big Heavenly Demon Chunyang Zi is clearly targeting Five Dragon Mountain. After all, he contributed significantly when arranging the Earth Yuan Array, independently slaughtered numerous Heavenly Demons, so sending more Demon Souls to his cultivation dojo is not surprising.

However, even Shen Mo received such a "heavy gift," the situation for the five Earth Immortals who contributed more should be worse.

Jade Spring Fairy’s dojo, Jade Spring Mountain, likely has hundreds of thousands or even millions of human immortals and mortals parasitized by Chunyang Zi’s Demon Souls. Just the thought of it sends chills.

Shen Mo didn’t delay, immediately using a method to find Jade Spring Fairy and informed her of the details!

"No worries, even if there are billions of Demon Soul hosts, based on their current cultivation strength, they can’t stir much trouble. I’ll issue a decree, letting the forces on the mountain handle this matter."

Not only did Jade Spring Fairy not get angry, she even considered this a good thing.

The more hosts parasitized by Demon Souls on Jade Spring Mountain, the fewer there would be in other parts of the Immortal Realm, reducing the probability of someone cultivating into an Immortal. Only if a Demon Soul host becomes a True Immortal can the Big Heavenly Demon Chunyang Zi use this opportunity to resurrect; otherwise, it poses no threat to Earth Immortals like her!

Afterward, Jade Spring Fairy summoned the other four Earth Immortals, each using spiritual items, cultivation methods, etc., to exchange with Shen Mo for the method of crafting Bone Viewing Mirrors, preparing to identify all Demon Soul hosts within their dojos.

Shortly after Shen Mo dispersed this method, the Hall Master of Evil Punishing Hall sent a message that more than 513,000 Demon Soul hosts had been transferred to the outer mountain gate, awaiting his handling.

These people did not willingly accept Demon Souls, so naturally, Shen Mo wouldn’t be harsh to them but instead used Soul Curse to extract the extra Demon Soul from their souls and directly slay it, as mortals and low-class cultivators don’t have the soul strength like high-class cultivators; Soul Search, Soul Lock, Bind Soul, Destruct Soul are not difficult.

However, after experiencing this disaster, these Demon Soul hosts’ souls were damaged. Without Elixir and magic to nourish and strengthen their souls, their cultivation path would end.

After much reflection, Shen Mo decided to teach them a Soul Magic, then instructed the Hall of Evil Punishing to find a place at the outer mountain gate to settle them for tight monitoring in the future!

With this matter concluded, Shen Mo breathed a slight sigh of relief.

"Next, let’s focus on planning the quest for immortality!"

Now Shen Mo was a Middle Stage of Wuxiang Realm cultivator, still two Minor Realms away from cultivating into an Immortal, but how many years of effort it would take to cross these two Minor Realms is unknown.

The elevation of each Minor Realm and Major Realm for a cultivator is a life level transformation, and the transformation from Formless to True Immortal is particularly critical. After all, stepping this step means no longer being mundane but becomes a true Immortal. If not fallen by disaster, one gains infinite Lifespan.

But for countless years, the Universal Realm has had many Formless Masters stuck in this Realm, until their nine-thousand-year Lifespan was exhausted, never having taken this crucial step to complete the transformation from mortal to Immortal!