Chapter 275: Chapter 41 Great Yan Transformation Sky Demon Scripture
Li Mo conveniently eliminated the uncertain factor that was Perfected Zao Yao.
Keeping the corpse around would cause more harm than benefit. He had no intention of making it a resident of Corpse Mountain, especially since the Sky Demon Sect had already proven that fellow demon cultivators could locate him through the corpse.
When Perfected Zao Yao took out the Corpse Mountain Mini World, his entire body convulsed uncontrollably.
Above Li Mo’s head hovered a Corpse Mountain, while his fingertips gathered countless cancer cells, and two magical treasures simultaneously prepared for Perfected Zao Yao’s retaliation.
Ultimately, under the suppression of True Void Hometown, the corpse couldn’t stir up even the slightest commotion.
"Odd."
Li Mo examined the corpse with his divine sense, discovering that the textures of its flesh were irregular, as though it had been patched together from severed limbs and fragmented chunks.
He recalled how Perfected Zao Yao could transform his body into countless human heads, suspecting this peculiarity arose from the cultivation techniques of the Sky Demon Sect. Curiosity stirred in him.
"Might as well burn it to ashes, and take the chance to glimpse the truth of the Sky Demon Sect’s cultivation techniques."
Li Mo’s fingers transformed into cancerous blade edges, and he effortlessly sliced open the corpse, revealing a horrifying sight: the corpse’s chest cavity was filled with human heads.
The heads varied in appearance, as if violently crammed into Perfected Zao Yao’s body.
"This is some real twisted shit."
Li Mo observed that the neck stumps of each head displayed signs of muscle atrophy.
This confirmed that the heads had indeed once been alive, seemingly transformed into an integral part of Perfected Zao Yao’s body through some forbidden technique.
Li Mo pushed aside the heads and found the corpse’s middle dantian to be entirely unremarkable.
But as he slashed open the middle dantian, pus gushed forth, and an exhausted, malformed nascent soul crawled out of it in utter disgrace.
The nascent soul was covered entirely in human heads, and its abdomen bore the appearance of the Blood Daoist’s face.
Thanks to the Gu Worms Li Mo released in the White Bone Cave, the nascent soul had been teetering on the brink of mutation, its flesh constantly dissolving into pulp.
"Help me..."
The Blood Daoist regained consciousness, struggling desperately to separate himself from the nascent soul’s fusion.
But the methods of the Silver Buddha were too thorough, and the fusion of Blood Daoist and Perfected Zao Yao during dual cultivation was too complete for even Li Mo to intervene.
"Supreme Qingtian, spare me! I know many secret realms; if we work together, we could obtain Divine Separation Stage techniques..."
Before Blood Daoist could finish his plea, his tone changed to that of Perfected Zao Yao. However, the latter had scarcely any spiritual wisdom left, merely repeating "Master."
Li Mo decisively granted them a swift end.
The corpse and nascent soul were tossed into the furnace together as he exercised his Tao Seed Divine Power to the fullest extent.
Li Mo’s Cave God’s Eye emitted billows of smoke, his body temperature surged, and the furnace resembled the alchemy furnace of Lord Lao Zi of the Great Monad.
The Blood Daoist first begged bitterly, then quickly resorted to cursing.
Eventually, his consciousness was ground into oblivion.
Li Mo cast a doubtful glance at the furnace. Though the nascent soul was slowly dissolving, the corpse stubbornly maintained its original form.
He proceeded to feed the remaining demon cultivators’ nascent souls into the furnace.
Dense spiritual energy was generated, which Li Mo directed into the Corpse Mountain Mini World.
The completion of the Corpse Mountain Spirit Pattern proceeded at a slow pace, but it was stable, and once fully absorbed, it should be sufficient to achieve the Four Spirit Patterns.
Just as Li Mo was about to close his eyes and operate the Circulation Cycle, the furnace erupted in a sudden change.
The corpse finally disintegrated, but instead of immediately transforming into spiritual energy, it broke apart into nearly five hundred grotesque human heads.
Li Mo’s consciousness focused on one particular disheveled elderly head.
The elder’s head faintly emitted the aura of the Divine Separation Stage, desperately attempting to escape the furnace, repeatedly slamming its forehead against the furnace’s outer walls.
"Urgh."
Li Mo spat out mouthfuls of blood, hastily commanding all the cancer cells to protect the furnace.
"What the hell? Why is one of the heads comprising Perfected Zao Yao at the Divine Separation Stage?"
Fortunately, the furnace’s metallic constitution, coupled with the elder’s head lacking spiritual wisdom, allowed Da Ai Mi Tian to augment the furnace walls’ thickness tenfold before it could sustain damage.
Li Mo barely managed to maintain balance, and after persisting for a moment, the elder’s head began to dissolve into spiritual energy, the influx almost overwhelming the furnace.
"..."
Li Mo’s eyelids twitched uncontrollably—if the spiritual energy from nascent souls was equivalent to a stream, then the elder’s head’s spiritual energy was a veritable lake.
Corpse Mountain momentarily struggled to absorb it all.
Li Mo promptly utilized his various organs to share the pressure of absorbing the spiritual energy, nourishing himself in the process, though the amount consumed was but a trivial fraction.
The rate of Corpse Mountain’s transformation accelerated, with numerous new sub-peaks sprouting one after another.
Meanwhile, the elevation of the main peak also continued to climb.
The small world’s area expanded wildly, with earth dragons stirring and wild beasts fleeing in panic to cluster in the mountain valleys.
Plant and tree cultivators, however, remained unafraid of the natural turbulence, stretching their limbs to absorb the spiritual energy without restraint.
Li Mo, fearing the furnace’s potential damage, decisively stored Corpse Mountain inside his dantian, bypassing the need for spiritual energy to be transported by the Eight Extraordinary Meridians.
Pu Dao’s Nascent Soul awoke, joining the frenzied plundering of spiritual energy.
The Soul-devouring Demon Infant and Chaos Beast Infant could not resist either, diving into the furnace to partake in the spiritual energy’s baptism without Li Mo’s command.
The Tattooed Beast belatedly joined the spiritual feast.
Da Ai Mi Tian did likewise, utilizing cancer cells integrated into the furnace to absorb spiritual energy, causing the cancer cells to continuously divide.
The tide of spiritual energy resembled a swarm of sardines, attracting drooling sharks.
Li Mo quickly realized why the elder’s head disintegration reaction had been so intense.
The pills from Skywell Inn were blood flesh nurtured by Si Rui’s clone, while the elder’s head genuinely belonged to a Divine Separation Stage cultivator—a Sky Demon Sect Divine Separation Stage cultivator.
Li Mo sighed helplessly and redirected his focus to Da Ai Mi Tian. His lifebound magical treasure unexpectedly evolved ahead of Corpse Mountain.
Da Ai Mi Tian’s spirit patterns encompassed two types—mutation and decay disease—with each category completing a second thread, bringing the total number of spirit patterns to four.
Corpse Mountain refused to fall behind, achieving the same number half a day later.
The small world quaked violently as the spirit stone veins stretched forth countless branches, doubling their area, leaving the mountain range vast and empty.
Boom, boom, boom...
The expenses in spirit stones had already been recouped. Li Mo couldn’t help but exclaim that killing and pillaging were indeed a lucrative business for demon cultivators.
The profits came fast.
The various spiritual energies from Corpse Mountain Mini World surged skyward, forming cloud seas that transformed into rain, nourishing the plants and vegetation.
Plant and tree cultivators cheered joyfully, kneeling in unison before the No-Life God Statue.
Their cultivation levels rose rapidly, with most breaking through one or two minor realms. Zhang Guo even advanced to a mid-stage Foundation Establishment great power.
What thrilled Li Mo most was the addition of tens of thousands of new plant and tree cultivators.
Li Mo closed his eyes to sense, finding that the number of believers had surpassed two hundred thousand in the blink of an eye—and shortly after, three hundred thousand.
Yet compared to the boundless expanse of the small world, the number of plant and tree cultivators still fell short of its potential.
The spiritual energy tide from the furnace lasted over two years before being fully absorbed by Li Mo, yielding unimaginable benefits.
The total number of spirit patterns on the two magical treasures had already reached six.
Da Ai Mi Tian was even further ahead, almost at eight threads, tantalizingly close to ten.
It was worth noting that once the spirit patterns exceeded ten threads, the magical treasure would ascend to mid-grade, an upgrade that far surpassed any low-grade counterpart.
The Tattooed Beast benefited greatly.
The tattoos on Li Mo’s skin became more vibrant and radiated waves of vitality.
The Three Nascent Souls lay in his dantian, bloated and gasping for breath from overindulgence, appearing hilariously gluttonous.
Pu Dao’s Nascent Soul exhibited the most significant growth, being directly linked to the furnace.
Li Mo was confident he could elevate Pu Dao’s Nascent Soul to the Corpse Infant Stage before the outbreak of the Uncertainty Period Death Disease, greatly enhancing his odds of surviving the disease unscathed.
"Forty thousand plant and tree cultivators now—there’s hope for the Great Dao," Li Mo mused.
His judgment proved correct: in the current era, cultivating believers predominantly as cultivators was optimal, as quantity was secondary to the irreplaceable plant and tree cultivators.
Li Mo closed his eyes to stabilize his cultivation, while his divine sense meticulously sorted through the swath of newly acquired techniques in his mind.
[Great Yan Transformation Sky Demon Scripture]
The Great Yan Transformation Sky Demon Scripture happened to be the Sky Demon Sect’s primary cultivation technique, encompassing content from Initial Entry to Nascent Soul Stage, along with partial Divine Separation Stage material.
To master the Great Yan Transformation Sky Demon Scripture, one must fully leverage the invasive effects of the Decay Disease.
In childhood, disciples suffered unimaginable ordeals, beginning with the gradual atrophy of their limbs, followed by the slow disintegration of their flesh.
The Sky Demon Sect typically encased disciples in clay urns, leaving only their heads exposed.
Once their bodies entirely disappeared, the heads would detach from the urns, and their cultivation would rise to the Weak Crown Period, free from bottlenecks during this stage.
Of course, survival was a prerequisite.
During the Weak Crown Period, disciples were transferred to larger clay vats.
They engaged in vicious power struggles.
With each fellow disciple’s head consumed, the individual’s restoration advanced. When their bodies became fully intact, they could then attempt to break into the Core Formation Stage.
Li Mo had perused countless cultivation manuals. In his view, the content of the Great Yan Transformation Sky Demon Scripture became increasingly bizarre at the Core Formation Stage.
To form their core, disciples of the Sky Demon Sect required human heads forged from the flesh of fellow disciples at the Nascent Soul Stage.
By devouring Nascent Soul heads, they nurtured the aura necessary for their Golden Core.
But upon reaching the Perfect Core Formation Stage, the Nascent Soul heads would swiftly return to their original owner, simultaneously draining all the host’s core cultivation, reducing their realm back to the Initial Entry Core Formation Stage.
Nascent Soul Stage worked the same way, which explained why Perfected Zao Yao possessed a Divine Separation Stage’s human head within his body.
Advancing to the Divine Separation Stage required turning to the Ten Thousand Demon Dao.
Perfected Zao Yao, unwilling to fall back into the Dead Baby Stage, had instead sought out the Spiritual Heat Achievement Technique to circumvent the limitations of the Great Yan Transformation Sky Demon Scripture.
Through the Great Yan Transformation Sky Demon Scripture, Li Mo discerned that only upon reaching the Divine Separation Stage could Sky Demon Sect cultivators truly be considered "Heavenly Demons."
It was rumored that a single drop of a Heavenly Demon’s blood could transform into hundreds of human heads.
The Heavenly Demon, dispersing innumerable human heads, would suspend them high in the sky across various parts of the mortal realm, observing the world’s creation and destruction in an eerie fashion.
Li Mo had likely encountered one of these Heavenly Demon avatars, sent to reclaim the human heads within Perfected Zao Yao’s body, but he had fled into True Void Hometown.
"A grudge has been formed..."
Li Mo chuckled bitterly, though he felt little fear of the Heavenly Demons. After all, he had twelve senior sisters backing him—what were mere Sky Demon Sect cultivators to him?
As for the Ten Thousand Demon Dao, if they weren’t discreet, they wouldn’t have disappeared without a trace for thousands of years.
Li Mo had no intention of cultivating the Great Yan Transformation Sky Demon Scripture. Yet, once he handed it over to the Primordial Dao Seed, he discovered the No-Life Ten Directions Festival had begun to perfect itself.
The completion of the No-Life Ten Directions Festival seemed to require a decade’s time. After all, the Great Yan Transformation Sky Demon Scripture was an equally powerful cultivation technique.
"The compatibility of these two techniques... could it be..."
Li Mo’s heart raced. It seemed highly probable that the fusion of these techniques would yield Divine Separation Stage content. However, he was unsure whether the advancement process would be as cumbersome as in the Sky Demon Sect.
He patiently awaited the cultivation techniques’ perfection, nurturing budding Nascent Soul Stage techniques in the meantime.