Chapter 1037: The Arrival of the Evil Spirit

Chapter 1037: Chapter 1037: The Arrival of the Evil Spirit

This Thunder Light Grass was traded by Shen Mo years ago with the Flower Fairy clan.

The Flower Fairy clan had wandered in the Outer Zone for countless millennia, with their Mother Tree dying and rebirthing over a dozen times, drifting through multiple Withering Realms. Due to their cultivation practices, every time they entered a new realm, they would collect the exotic flowers, spiritual plants, and precious spiritual items of the realm.

Thunder Light Grass was one such item, originally from a Thunderous Realm, later brought to the Primordial Realm by the Flower Fairies and traded to Shen Mo.

This spiritual grass occasionally generates traces of electric light, is easy to cultivate, has potent efficacy, and is rich in thunder power. It can replace many thunder attribute spiritual plants for pill refining or talisman-making. Thus, the sect cultivates it extensively, not only outside the Jade Pool Zone but also in many parts of the Fairyland.

However, in other areas, the oldest Thunder Light Grass is no more than two to three hundred years old, and of low grade, unsuitable for refining high-class elixirs.

Thanks to the Jade Pool Zone’s accelerated time flow, the Thunder Light Grass here is around two thousand years old. Beyond this age, it typically withers and decays, and it generally grows to Class V spiritual material. It is adequate for making Grade six Elixirs or crafting talisman paper, and the sect replenishes them after each harvest.

Since Thunder Light Grass requires absorbing thunder power and occasionally emits arcs of electricity, it is planted at the mountain peak, with few other spiritual plants nearby.

Mi, with her innate talent, sensed that the Thunder Peach Tree also needed thunder force, so she planned to plant the three peach pits among the Thunder Light Grass.

"If a Class VII Peach Tree bears fruit, it might require thunder strikes, but a newly sprouted Peach Tree of Class I would find Thunder-type spells too violent. Absorbing the escaping arcs from the Thunder Light Grass would be sufficient," Mi explained with enthusiasm.

When the Peach Tree reaches Class III, it will need to be transplanted to an area rich in thunder energy or have a formation set up to simulate such an environment, but that will be many decades later.

Even among the Flower Fairy clan, Mi’s expertise in cultivating spiritual plants is top-notch; otherwise, Yao wouldn’t have sent her with Shen Mo to collect spiritual plants years ago, nor entrusted her with caring for the Mother Tree’s branches. Shen Mo naturally trusted Mi, letting her proceed as she wished.

"Leave it to Mi!"

Mi patted her chest, and green light gleamed from her petite hands, falling as light specks onto the three peach pits.

Mi said the peach pit shells were too hard; if treated this way, the embryos might get trapped inside and not sprout. After treating them, she took out specially formulated Spiritual Spring from the Golden Flowery Realm and soaked the peach pits in it. Two days later, tender sprouts of green emerged.

However, Mi didn’t plan to plant them right away but intended to wait a few more days until the sprouts grew larger before planting them. She would also refine the ley lines.

Seeing the peach pits sprout successfully, Shen Mo entrusted the matter entirely to Mi and returned to GuanYun Mansion. For the Flower Fairies, cultivating spiritual plants was a form of cultivation, but for him, it was merely wasting time!

He considered asking Guan Ling to help but eventually abandoned the thought.

Guan Ling could intervene using Space-Time Dao’s principles in two ways...

One way is accelerating the spiritual plant’s time flow, relatively inexpensive for her but straightforwardly effective.

Years ago, Shen Mo prepared over a thousand seedlings of spiritual tea trees to cultivate a millennium-old tea tree, but all except one perished. Eventually, Guan Ling used Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures, Five-colored Sweet Dew, to nurture the surviving seedling, achieving fifteen thousand years tree age, yet the Enlightenment Tea Tree remained a Class VI spiritual plant.

If used to accelerate Thunder Peach Tree sprouts’ growth, the three seedlings would die instantly, unable to grow to Class VII!

The other way is making Thunder Peach Tree directly assume the "state" of a thousand or ten thousand years; this method involves pinpointing genuine reality from countless future "falsehoods." It is exceedingly costly for Guan Ling; even a whole Class VII spiritual plant can’t compensate her expenditure.

After all, her body, Death Jaw, only possesses the nature of Space-Time Dao’s principles as a celestial artifact, not having thoroughly mastered Space-Time’s Great Path as an Empyrean Golden Immortal.

Regardless, Shen Mo’s expectations for Thunder Peach Tree saplings aren’t high; cultivating a Class VII celestial plant would be good. It could improve his methods in Destiny, external magic, and other techniques, offering another way to enhance the vitality of the flesh and contribute to Red Flame Sect’s foundation;

Failing to cultivate it isn’t a problem either; enhancing techniques like Three-headed Six-armed True Immortal Technique levels as much as possible, accumulate experience using Martial Performance Body cultivation.

Worst case, if his cultivation level improves more, he could directly seize the ancient peach tree from Su Qingtao.

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The days of entering the cultivation world are drawing nearer.

While cultivating Chaotic Yuan Dharma Phase, Shen Mo also dedicates more effort to refining Three-headed Six-armed True Immortal Technique, Dragon Elephant Blood Fiend Body, and South Hua Treasure Body Traversing Difficulty Immortal Scripture.

Additionally, he is searching for uniquely attributed minerals, preparing to refine several mighty "Divine weapons" for himself and Chen Mengze in the cultivation world. They need not be high-grade or imbued with magic treasure’s spirituality, as long as they are resilient and sharp!

Upon a day, while breathing and cultivating, achieving Dao level, Shen Mo suddenly felt a chilling realization, abruptly awakening from cultivation.

At that moment, messages from talismans flowed continuously; taking a glance at the Communication Talisman, his face turned grim. Unleashing part of his senses, he noticed tens of thousands of sect disciples chanting his name anxiously and fearfully!

With a thought, Shen Mo appeared outside Green Cloud Cave, finding the outer mountain gate in chaos.

Upon his arrival, escaping lights flew in succession, all Golden Core Realm, Divine Bridge Realm disciples stationed at the outer mountain gate. Their expressions were distraught, faces filled with panic.

"Law Master..."

"No need to say more, I’ve seen it," Shen Mo’s eyes flickered, and he looked expressionlessly at the outer mountain gate.

At that moment, the entire outer mountain gate seemed forcibly split into two parts by an inexplicable force. Most areas appeared normal, with many disciples escaping to Green Cloud Cave, either controlling artifacts or using escaping lights; only a small part seemed extremely distorted. His five senses probed and felt as if separated by thick Dark Ice, with no sign of life, an instant when countless sect disciples vanished entirely.

This strange and eerie atmosphere was all too familiar to Shen Mo.

It is the Residual Resentment formed by the will of heaven and earth in Withering Realm, finding a suitable vessel, creating an Evil Spirit.

The Red Flame Sect’s smaller portion of outer mountain gate was engulfed by the sudden arrival of an Evil Spirit!