Chapter 999: Settling at Yinsu Mountain

Chapter 999: Chapter 999: Settling at Yinsu Mountain

Yinsu Mountain.

The original palace buildings and formation restraints have been completely dismantled, and the cultivators on the mountain have packed the disassembled materials into their Universe Bags and other storage artifacts, ready to easily rebuild the sect on Five Dragon Mountain after relocation!

Various Spirit Fields and medicinal plots across the land, as well as gold and stone mines, have all undergone destructive harvesting and would take at least a century to recover.

Similar circumstances have occurred across various Immortal Mountains and immortal sects within the Torch Dragon Mountain Range, with belongings they could take being prepared in just over a month’s time. If their strength allowed, they would have likely taken away every piece of land and entire veins of ore.

They showed some conscience by leaving a cave mansion for Shen Mo on Yinsu Mountain;

This cave mansion was originally the Law Master’s mansion of an immortal sect. Though not large, it is quite elegant and tranquil, complete with all necessary facilities like living quarters, secluded chambers, a conference hall, Alchemy Room, and Forge Room!

Seeing that Shen Mo had no maid or disciple at his disposal, Shi Nianyao specially selected over ten young and beautiful female cultivators from various sects, possessing excellent talent, and sent them to reside in his temporary cultivation mansion.

Shen Mo saw through the Palace Master of Heavenly Phoenix Palace’s plan instantly; the female cultivators she sent were either outstanding descendants of high-ranking members of the Torch Dragon Mountain Range or direct disciples of certain sect masters, and one was even Shi Nianyao’s recently accepted last disciple from two years ago...

Nominally there to attend to his daily needs and serve as maids, they were each pampered and delicate, incapable of preparing their meals, relying only on spiritual vegetables and fruits to stave off hunger once inside the mansion. How could they possibly perform the duties of ordinary maids?

Clearly, they aimed to use their one-in-a-million beauty to secure better prospects for themselves and their respective factions.

For the families in the Torch Dragon Mountain Range, having decided to move to Five Dragon Mountain, building a good relationship with Shen Mo, the master of Five Dragon Mountain, was a priority. Aside from spiritual items and resources, beauty was the most cost-effective and quickest way to curry favor.

For these beautiful female cultivators, capturing Shen Mo’s favor to become his concubine would immediately elevate their status and grant them a broader path in cultivation.

In fact, merely serving by Shen Mo’s side and helping their factions maintain a good relationship with him would enable them to gain substantial benefits from their sects and families!

To assure the various factions’ peace of mind, Shen Mo did not drive away these so-called "maids". He allowed them to continue practicing in the mansion, planning to eventually send them to the Dragon Heart Realm to serve Zhao Lingyin and have Lu Taorui properly instruct them.

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Before long, the busy Shi Nianyao flew into the temporary mansion.

While sipping Enlightenment Tea served by a maid, she joyfully told Shen Mo, "Fellow Daoist Qingyun, the various faction forces and their subordinates within the Torch Dragon Mountain Range have all been fully prepared!"

Shen Mo released his five senses and discovered that over a hundred million immortals and mortals were already waiting on various Immortal Mountains.

The mortals had already exited their homes, packed all their belongings, and looked like they were fleeing with their families, with cultivators mingling among them to reassure, calm disturbances, and handle emergencies.

"Thanks for your hard work, Fellow Daoist Shi!"

Shen Mo cupped his hands towards Shi Nianyao and then unleashed the Taiyi Sword. Billions of strands of Fairyland Sword Qi shot forth from the sword’s edge, falling like raindrops across the Torch Dragon Mountain Range.

With the sword light dissipating, the Immortal Mountains turned utterly empty, with not a single trace of life remaining; all the immortals and mortals had been absorbed into the Sword Zone!

Currently, the size of the Sword Zone Shen Mo fully developed is comparable to Green Cloud Cave, although far less miraculous than a cave paradise. Essentially, it is an expanded million-fold The Smallest Space, but hosting too many creatures and spiritual plants continuously drains a significant amount of Mana from his body.

Therefore, after taking in over a hundred million immortals and mortals from the Torch Dragon Mountain Range, Shen Mo used Sword Escape to speed towards Phoenix Continent.

Unfortunately, to date, he was still unable to cut out a second Gecko False Body. After constructing the Nanke Spirit Land with his false body and the Demon Soul General Fearness Venerable, he couldn’t use the Reverse Yin and Yang Skill for switching between real and false bodies, making long-distance travel inconvenient.

"I must continue developing the Gecko Divine Skill to cut more false bodies, otherwise the mighty skill of Reverse Yin and Yang will be wasted."

Shen Mo thought to himself, sensing the Demon Slaying Sword had flown twenty million miles away, he immediately initiated a thought, causing his figure to vanish from the spot.

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When Shen Mo reappeared on the Torch Dragon Mountain Range Yinsu Mountain, it was already three months later.

To save traveling time, he took one hundred million Spirit Stones from the Red Flame Sect Treasure Hall, combined with the gifts from Shi Nianyao and others, and directly used "Performance Martial Arts" Destiny to push the Gecko Divine Skill to its utmost limit. Counting the previous four developments, a total of seven were achieved.

At this point, the potential of this magic has been entirely exhausted, regardless of how Shen Mo develops it further, it cannot be advanced to the next stage.

The Gecko Divine Skill was originally the Riverside Sect’s top-grade profound-level cultivation method, allowing practitioners to cut half their body in times of life and death crisis, leaving most of their Mana, blood Qi, and soul power within the severed body, producing a false body indistinguishable from the real one. This false body could then fight enemies or take calamities on behalf of the real body!

However, the initial magical side effects were remarkably severe, with Riverside Sect cultivators who performed this spell barely surviving, retaining only their upper bodies, and crippled Tao bodies, combined with significant losses of primal Essence and Qi, would eventually lead to withered bodies or inability to break through when lifespans were exhausted.

Later, Shen Mo developed it further with the Three-Heads Six-Arms True Immortal Technique and other external cultivation methods, thoroughly resolving this fatal flaw so that cutting a false body only lost some primal Essence and Qi, which could quickly be replenished.

This time, after developing this magic seven times, though it did not advance to an immortal-level cultivation method, it reached a top-grade treasured level, infinitely approaching true Immortal Law. Moreover, its specific effects compared to before grew significantly in power, offering many incredible insights... Most importantly, Shen Mo can cut out a total of nine false bodies at a minimal cost!

Still, having too many false bodies is not beneficial.

On the one hand, they severely disperse Shen Mo’s mind, preventing broader focus.

On the other hand, Gecko False Bodies contain his primal Essence and Qi; if fallen into the hands of a formidable enemy, they could extract substantial information related to him from these false bodies, and even enact curses to threaten his life!

Therefore, before returning to Dongjie Continent, he only left a second false body within Green Cloud Cave, facilitating Reverse Yin and Yang Skill to travel between the two immortal continents.

Shen Mo had just arrived at Yinsu Mountain when the Jade Spring Fairy emerged from the temporary mansion;

She spent the past months "expelling demons and upholding the path, gaining acts of merit" in Dongjie Continent, occupying Shen Mo’s resting place and set numerous terrifying prohibitions around Yinsu Mountain’s perimeter.