Chapter 216: Chapter 76 Special Page [Path Seizing]
Li Mo glanced around Corpse Mountain.
He casually selected a resident about three meters tall, and with a deft motion, extracted most of the blood, flesh, and bones from the target.
Once the resident was damaged, the spirit veins inside Corpse Mountain extended like roots and vines, entwining the resident’s mangled body.
The unique vitality of wood attribute spiritual veins flowed into it.
The resident convulsed as if resurrected, and the extracted blood, flesh, and bones began to gradually recover.
For Corpse Mountain, the corpses buried deep in the soil inherently belong to yin attribute spiritual veins, naturally maintaining the integrity of the resident’s body.
Li Mo sneered.
Fortunately, the resident’s soul was completely absent, or else it would truly be a situation of wanting to die but unable to do so.
When Li Mo piled up the blood, flesh, and bones in the main hall to prepare for crafting a puppet magical artifact, he immediately drew angry glares from the artifact cultivators.
"How can you? How can you desecrate the Mother Furnace..."
Hundred Refinement Elder widened his eyes in disbelief, his neck instinctively twisting and deforming.
He trembled with rage, yet dread of Li Mo’s power made his lips pale, and his breath increasingly erratic.
"Daoist Qingtian, you disregard the teachings of Doushuai Temple’s generations of teachers, and ignore the rules set by the Mother Furnace. Mere talent alone is insufficient."
Hundred Refinement Elder chattered on endlessly, prompting the other artifact refiners to join in condemning Li Mo, spitting furiously.
"Only by offering one’s own blood and flesh can one formally become a member of Doushuai Temple."
Hundred Refinement Elder’s words were filled with greed: "Before coming to Doushuai Temple, I was only roughly skilled in artifact refining, and now I’ve already touched on high-grade magical artifacts."
"Qingtian, after you join Doushuai Temple, your artifact refining skill will surely progress by leaps and bounds..."
The candle flames flickered.
"Annoying."
Li Mo squinted his eyes, exuding a suffocating aura.
Doushuai Temple fell into dead silence, with Hundred Refinement Elder and the artifact refiners retreating several steps, yet unable to resist glancing at Daluo Heaven.
They noticed that Daluo Heaven was actually a high-grade magical artifact refined to about eighty refinements.
Could it be that Daoist Qingtian’s artifact refining skill had nearly reached the level of Hundred Refinement?
Li Mo took a step forward, his shadow transforming into a prowling giant-eyed tiger, disappearing into the darkness of the hall.
A shockingly intense aura swept over.
Wherever the Ghost Tiger passed, the candle flames in the hall extinguished, only a few moths fluttered their wings and flew away, but not far before they lost their vitality.
Li Mo summoned the Spider Demon’s Multiple-Armed Spine, each arm extending several meters long.
"Another high-grade magical artifact."
Hundred Refinement Elder could not contain his greed, gradually approaching Li Mo.
"The corpse’s blood and flesh are lifeless, they can’t possibly be acknowledged by the Mother Statue. Qingtian, you’ll realize your mistake, he will join us."
Li Mo had already begun crafting a puppet. Compared to the cautiousness of the other artifact refiners, his approach was brazen and reckless.
The Spider Demon’s Multiple-Armed Spine transformed into a phantom, traversing the hall, piecing together the scattered blood, flesh, and bones in a dazzling display.
"Impossible, impossible!!!"
Hundred Refinement Elder couldn’t believe it.
How was the corpse’s dead flesh refined into a puppet? And how could Li Mo discern the crafting magic technique with just a glance?
In fact, the residents within Corpse Mountain could barely sustain a flicker of vitality.
Li Mo paid no heed to the other artifact refiners crafting puppets, directly manipulating Spirit Pattern sourced from Hammer and Anvil.
Amidst Hundred Refinement Elder’s hysterical shouts, Li Mo spent just a few minutes completing the magical artifact embryo.
The puppet’s appearance bore no resemblance to Li Mo, but compared to ordinary puppets, it was closer to a living being, even its inner organs showed slight movement.
Hundred Refinement Elder’s face turned sullen, his neck constantly twisting.
Li Mo offered the puppet as a sacrifice to the giant statue, which accepted it without rejection, slowly consuming the puppet to derive a new human face.
"You desecrate the Mother Furnace, you’re doomed!!"
Hundred Refinement Elder’s neck elongated, fangs breaking the constraints of his upper and lower jaws, charging at Li Mo on all fours for more than ten meters.
The artifact refiners also appeared agitated.
Li Mo frowned, with his back to Hundred Refinement Elder, seemingly not reacting at all. In reality, the Ghost Tiger had already covered the floor of the main hall.
The shadow flickered.
The candle flames reignited, and all within ten meters of Li Mo had vanished without a trace.
The other artifact refiners regained their composure, pleading incessantly, their bodies pressed against the wall, lacking even the courage to lift their heads and look at Li Mo.
"Don’t kill us."
"Daoist Qingtian, it was Hundred Refinement Elder, he wanted to drag you into this."
The artifact cultivators were terrified to notice that the human arm limbs growing from Li Mo’s back included several strange and eerie eyes.
Five artifact cultivators who attacked were all devoured by the Spider Demon’s Multiple-Armed Spine.
Their bodies became residents of Corpse Mountain.
Li Mo adjusted to the new eyes on the Spider Demon’s Multiple-Armed Spine and found that indeed, the magical artifact’s autonomy had increased, providing substantial assistance.
He took the Meat Bead nurtured by the giant statue, "What did Hundred Refinement Elder say?"
The artifact refiners pointed at the giant statue, but no sound came out, utterly unable to disclose the secrets of Doushuai Temple.
Li Mo suddenly realized something, releasing some cancer cells to infiltrate the giant statue.
Cancer cells, serving as his organs, function the same as puppet magical artifacts, and should be able to infiltrate the giant statue’s body as well.
Indeed, as soon as the cancer cells invaded the giant statue, Li Mo established a connection.
Li Mo’s consciousness seemed to roam anywhere in Doushuai Temple, sensing a total of eighty-five artifact refining rooms, with artifact cultivators present in thirty-six of them.
The function of the giant statue is, when one’s own blood and flesh refined into a puppet are integrated, the consciousness can observe Doushuai Temple from a transcendent perspective.
Upon becoming a member of Doushuai Temple, all artifact refiners could learn about others’ artifact refining processes.
Hundred Refinement Elder wanted to spy on Li Mo’s artifact refining skill, yet Li Mo chose to use different blood and flesh for crafting the puppet magical artifact.
Li Mo increasingly felt that perhaps the giant statue was an aberrant creation birthed from the ancient Sub-Device Sect’s futile research on phosphorescence.
It is possible that before the drastic change in heaven and earth, the Sub-Device Sect was already embroiled in internal strife due to events concerning the exploration of the Outer Heaven Meteorite Crater.
Without the drastic celestial change, the Sub-Device Sect might have faced self-destruction.
Li Mo scanned the main hall, planning to head to the artifact refining room and await the completion of the special page.
At this moment, his gaze once again landed on the human face of Jiang Tianche.
Even though the giant statue was only a small portion of Jiang Tianche’s blood and flesh, with the End-of-the-World Dao Seed, there might be other discoveries.
With a thought, Li Mo directed cancer cells to lock onto Jiang Tianche’s human face, stimulated its blood and flesh into proliferation with Da Ai Mi Tian, and finally, extracted it with ghost shadows.
The giant statue squirmed in pain, but ultimately being an ownerless magical artifact, it soon regained its calm.
Li Mo held the Meat Bead and left the main hall, entering a temple located in the inner compound of the structures.
The artifact refining room appeared quite ordinary; each one was fully enclosed, and the chosen spiritual material was extremely strong, making it difficult even for Nascent Soul Great Power to break in quickly.
The room was empty except in the center was a pit resembling a well, connected to the ground fire.
Li Mo selected an artifact refining room near the entrance, making it easy to leave Doushuai Temple, while also spreading the Blood Sea like micro dust throughout the temple.
The buildings in Zone 10 all exuded an odd vibe; in terms of safety, it was actually less secure than staying in Taiyin Law Heaven, but the special page needed to be completed.
As of now, the artifact refining room was extremely sealed, making it hard for any aura to escape, so completing Corpse Mountain’s promotion inside shouldn’t be a problem.
Li Mo sealed the pit, then sat cross-legged to employ the End-of-the-World Dao Seed.
Initially, he didn’t pay much attention, considering it was only a minuscule fragment of Jiang Tianche’s blood and flesh, after thousands of years of baptism.
Even if the End-of-the-World Dao Seed could extract a magic technique from it, it would probably be limited.
But as the End-of-the-World Dao Seed continued to provide feedback, Li Mo’s expression grew solemn, dedicating his full attention to analyzing the information.
It could be seen that Jiang Tianche seemed to have long been focused on this magic technique during his lifetime.
The content of the magic technique was too fragmented; only the beginning was relatively complete, "Where is the Golden Reincarnated Person, who witnesses the Daytime Ascension?"
The Creation Book reacted to the magic technique.
It informed Li Mo that the magic technique was the "Three Thousand Mysterious Gates of Daytime Ascension Great Method."
It’s rather absurd; the Daytime Ascension Great Method originated from Chen Tiangang’s enlightenment in a dream, claiming it was taught by an Immortal.
Li Mo had only about one-tenth or -twelfth of the content of the Daytime Ascension Great Method; perhaps even Jiang Tianche himself didn’t know the entire magic technique.
What he gleaned was that the Daytime Ascension Great Method involved immortal fate related to ascending to the Immortal Realm.
It required passing one’s Taoist inheritance to three thousand disciples with Taoist bodies. When the time was ripe, these disciples would open a gateway to the Immortal Realm.
Li Mo was deeply skeptical, suspecting that Chen Tiangang might have deviated into madness striving for ascension to the Immortal Realm, and in desperation, began practicing the Daytime Ascension Great Method using radical means.
The outcome was predictable.
If it had been successful, he wouldn’t have resorted to stripping away Jiang Tianche’s leakless body.
Li Mo shook his head, not wanting to dwell on it. The Sacrificial Festival was still fresh in his mind; he felt that as long as something was related to the Immortal Realm, things would become exceptionally troublesome.
He proactively guided the Spiritual Power throughout his body, flushing Corpse Mountain to enhance the efficiency of spirit pattern formation.
At the same time, Li Mo multitasked, preparing the resources that might be necessary for promoting to a magic treasure, including the "Washing Device Wine" to nourish magical artifacts, and the top-grade spiritual material "Blood Cave Root" for repairing magical artifacts...
During this period, the special page gradually reached completion; however, Li Mo noticed that the aura emitted by the giant statue declined.
Furthermore, the relatively incomplete human face had already started to decay.
This anomaly aroused the panic of the artifact refiners; seeing this, Li Mo tried to slow down the pace of completing the special page.
When he applied the Heavenly Man to block the Mud Pill Palace, it indeed had an effect; the Creation Book no longer continued to draw nutrients from the giant statue.
Since Li Mo wasn’t in a hurry to leave Doushuai Temple anyway, he took out canned spiritual energy and started cultivating.
The incubation of Corpse Mountain’s spirit pattern was slower than anticipated; when the first special page was born, it was still barely complete.
The surface of the special page was covered with handprints, transforming between illusion and reality.
Li Mo then learned from the Creation Book that the special page was named "Path Seizing."
His eyes filled with astonishment; the Path Seizing page’s function was to plunder Taoist bodies.
No matter if the Taoist body was innate or acquired, even if the target artifact cultivator was still alive, Li Mo could directly obtain their Taoist body through the Path Seizing page’s imprint.
Li Mo instantly recalled that in both the ancient and present Cultivation Worlds, Taoist bodies had been hailed as awe-inspiring.
Perhaps, there’s truly a chance...