Chapter 950: Placing the Pieces and Arranging the Board

Chapter 950: Chapter 950: Placing the Pieces and Arranging the Board

GuanYun Mansion, Alchemy Room.

Zhao Lingyin sat cross-legged before the cauldron, continuously casting seals into the cauldron, starting the final stage of pill shaping.

"Buzz!"

After half an incense stick, the cauldron shuddered slightly, and the furnace fire was completely suppressed.

As the cauldron lid opened, waves of medicinal fragrance wafted out, and seven pills resembling suet jade flew out, landing in Zhao Lingyin’s hand.

"Five of perfect quality, two of excellent quality! Lingyin’s Alchemy Path skills have deepened!" Shen Mo’s sense swept over these pills, smiling and praising, then continued, "This Enlightenment Pill should be able to suppress your cultivation; try swallowing one to see if it has any effect?"

Due to the unique use of the Enlightenment Pill, Shen Mo didn’t impart this elixir recipe to anyone other than Zhao Lingyin; even Wu Gong and other alchemists under the Hundred Arts Hall were unaware of this pill’s refining method.

Shen Mo himself had personally refined many Enlightenment Pills and handed them over to the Evil Punishing Hall and Enforcement Hall to assist sect disciples like Liu Yuan, who possess outstanding talents in the Hundred Arts of Cultivation but are "low-class cultivators" due to poor cultivation talent preventing them from advancing to higher Dao Realms, ensuring they don’t pass away due to old age!

But within the Red Flame Sect, the Enlightenment Pill is in short supply. Once a batch is refined and sent to the Evil Punishing Hall and Enforcement Hall, they immediately feed it to the imprisoned evil cultivators and criminals, utilizing the pill to nourish them, leaving no extra Enlightenment Pills for Zhao Lingyin to consume;

Hence, Shen Mo simply let Zhao Lingyin refine it herself since she is a high-class alchemist, and the elixirs refined by her own hands are of better quality!

"Hmm!"

Zhao Lingyin responded, pinching one of the pills between her fingers, gazed at it briefly, then placed it in her mouth and swallowed it.

Afterward, she began activating her cultivation method, breathing in and out nature’s spiritual energy, attempting to enhance her cultivation, but regardless of how much she cultivated, her True Yuan didn’t increase even slightly, as if a monster was devouring her vitality, continually consuming the cultivated portion of her cultivation!

"This method is feasible! At your current cultivation speed, about three years later, the Enlightenment Pill in your Dantian will completely turn purple, and then you will need to consume another one." Shen Mo’s eyes gradually lost their glow and advised Zhao Lingyin.

Back then, in the Heaven Patrolling Zone of the Primordial Realm, Shen Mo and Lady Scarlet, along with others, entered the ancient battlefield of immortals and demons to explore and seek treasures. From the tomb of an ancient cultivator, they excavated a piece of beast bone with an elixir recipe, from which the Enlightenment Pill recipe was compiled.

The original effect of this pill, similar to some wedding gown cultivation methods in the cultivation world, was to assist others in cultivation.

After Nascent Soul Realm Cultivators consume the Enlightenment Pill, it enters the Dantian without dissolving, becoming a "fake Core" that continually absorbs the consumer’s True Yuan Mana, gradually changing from white jade color to purple; this process is an alternative "pill nourishing" phase, lasting approximately three to five years, only once completely turned purple, is the pill considered truly refined!

During this period, since the primal Essence and Qi are supplied to the "fake Core," the cultivator’s cultivation won’t progress at all, and when the pill is completed, it possesses the miraculous effect of assisting others in enlightenment.

Zhao Lingyin consumes the Enlightenment Pill not to make wedding gowns for others but to leverage this pill’s characteristics to temporarily suppress her cultivation’s growth and avoid crossing the enlightenment tribulation, thus buying time for Shen Mo’s planning and layout!

If she were to slash her cultivation, it would cause too much harm to her and affect Zhao Lingyin’s future Dao path, whereas consuming the Enlightenment Pill does not have such risks;

Furthermore, once she builds the Divine Bridge, she can consume the originally nurtured Enlightenment Pill to regain the cultivation that was "plundered" away, possibly even advancing to the middle stage of the Divine Bridge in one go, thus not wasting time, achieving multiple benefits!

"Husband, you go ahead with your tasks, I will refine a few more batches of Enlightenment Pills." Zhao Lingyin paused her cultivation and spoke to Shen Mo.

Since the discussion with Guan Ling, Shen Mo had been relentlessly busy, gradually perfecting and promoting the grand plan they devised together!

"Alright..."

Shen Mo considered briefly, leaned down and kissed Zhao Lingyin, then his figure flashed and disappeared from the Alchemy Room.

The next moment, he appeared above the Mountain-River Zone.

The repair work of Jade Wheel Palace was entirely halted, with all human and material resources of the Red Flame Sect invested in new projects.

Currently in the Green Cloud Cave, ten massive gates are being constructed, one large and nine small, all shaped like the Death Jaw itself... The largest gate spans over a hundred miles long, thirty miles wide, and a thousand yards high; the remaining nine gates are smaller but still immense.

Shen Mo paused briefly before each gate, either checking on construction progress, inspecting its quality, or encouraging sect disciples.

Later, he went to Longevity Hall to handle increasingly complex routine affairs...

Upon returning to GuanYun Mansion, Shen Mo did not disturb Zhao Lingyin in her alchemy, but instead entered the Cultivation Secret Chamber, using Perception Magic to immerse his consciousness into the Dreamland.

"Junior is Yuquan Immortal Mountain’s Red Flame Sect’s Law Master Shen Mo, seeking advice on the Dream-building and Dream-entering Magic to resist the harm inflicted by leftover evil Lord Blue Venerable upon my Dao companion Zhao Lingyin!" In the shallow layers of Dreamland, Shen Mo’s consciousness sparked with thoughts.

Constructing a Dreamland is rather crucial in Shen Mo’s plan, and during this time he almost daily enters Dreamland, attempting to communicate with Dream True Master, an Immortal Path figure.

But Dream True Master, who enters Dao through dreams, exists within Dreamland like the "will of heaven and earth," making it quite inconvenient to converse with him; Shen Mo can only repeatedly attempt to communicate with Dreamland’s "will of heaven and earth," hoping Dream True Master would hear his request when "awake"!

Of course, if he can’t obtain the method, it won’t necessarily halt his plan, but many matters would become more complicated and arduous, consuming more of his energy and time.

This time, after making the request, Dreamland remained unchanged as always.

Shen Mo sighed, preparing to leave Dreamland when abruptly the shallow layer of Dreamland became extraordinarily bright, with strange halos flowing across him, as if a profound and vast consciousness awakened from "slumber."

The next moment.

The Dreamland coins accumulated on Shen Mo abruptly vanished, followed by a jade slip falling from the sky, precisely landing in his embrace.

Upon taking the jade slip, suddenly, numerous heavenly book and immortal seals flickered with odd brilliance and continuously rose, then rushed into his Consciousness!

"Thank you, Senior, for bestowing the method!" Shen Mo joyfully bowed and saluted to the four corners of the world.

This jade slip, though inscribed with celestial seals readable only to True Immortals, once the seals entered his body, they transformed into information comprehensible to him, revealing a cultivation method titled "Great Dream Enlightenment Sutra," detailing the construction of a personal Dreamland, enabling others to connect their consciousness with the Dreamland upon entering, utilizing the Dreamland for enlightenment and cultivation, among other related methods!