The flickering black flames, eerie and filled with magic, stand out brightly in the slightly dark space, darker than the night, while emitting waves of intense heat.
This is one of Lin Mo's divine skills, the Soul Fire, which uses the soul as a medium to summon the divine skill. This fire has an extremely high attack damage effect on the soul.
Lin Mo grasped the black flames and smeared them onto the blade of the Xuanyuan Sword. In a moment, faint black flames ignited on the blade, instantly transforming it into a Black Sword.
Releasing his palm, he allowed the Xuanyuan Sword to float in front of his chest. Simultaneously, Lin Mo extended his long arms like a white ape embracing a tree, with True Yuan surging wildly towards them.
Chant!
The Xuanyuan Sword in his embrace let out a soft humming sound. Immediately, the blade began to tremble continuously.
"Kill!"
Lin Mo whispered softly, bringing his arms together. True Yuan surged forth, propelling the Xuanyuan Sword to shoot forward.
Whoosh!
In an instant, the Xuanyuan Sword transformed into a streak of light, drawing a long black arc in the space, aimed directly at the left eye of one head of the Sky-reaching Snake.
Simultaneously, Zhen Yuanzi also gathered black Evil Qi in his palms and launched an attack.
In a moment, the Sky-reaching Snake immediately closed its eyelids, its dense dark red scale armor extremely hard. Even though the Xuanyuan Sword struck the eyelid, it only shattered the scale armor but did not pierce the eye.
Screech...
The injured Sky-reaching Snake let out a chilling, shrill scream. At the same time, the black flames on the sword suddenly adhered to the snake's head and drilled inside, directly burning the soul. In terms of the soul, Lin Mo's soul was as solid as a Condensation Stage cultivator, already comparable to their level, and he understood the art of soul annihilation and divine thought. The Sky-reaching Snake's head had long been severely wounded, and now with the soul flame drilling into its head, directly incinerating its soul, its eyes instantly lost their
spiritual brilliance, and with a bang, its head fell onto the ground.
"Killed a head with so much effort?"
Lin Mo frowned slightly. However, due to the restriction of the black iron chains, Lin Mo and Zhen Yuanzi could adopt a strategy of dodging at the edges, preventing the Sky-reaching Snake from exerting its full strength.
"Forgot to take something."
Lin Mo grinned, a golden hand manifested in the air, suddenly piercing into the dead head, extracting a fiery red crystal, identical to the one he had retrieved from slaying another head on Duwu Island.
...
One month later.
The Sky-reaching Snake was truly one of the top fierce beasts, requiring time to recover strength after each battle before continuing to hunt it, resulting in an entire month spent to finally kill it.
"But the harvest is quite good." Lin Mo's lips curved into a smile.
Slaying the Sky-reaching Snake yielded red crystals from each head, which were its Essence Blood. Quenching the body with this Essence Blood would have surprisingly delightful effects.
The Heavenly Toad Essence Blood, once used for body quenching, can allow the body to tolerate five thousand Starlight more.
The Sky-reaching Snake belongs to the Moon Wheel Realm, fundamentally equivalent to a Star Level of seventy. So, if eight Sky-reaching Snake's blood quenches the body, it can at most accommodate seven hundred thousand Starlight.
"Yet, condensing the Power of the Sixth Star requires at least one hundred thousand Starlight, and at most a million Starlight. If I am somewhat lucky, I might condense the power of the sixth Starlight."
Lin Mo pondered quietly, frowning, "But a million Starlight isn't that easily accessible!"
"A share of Heavenly Toad Essence Blood can sell for twenty-five top-grade spiritual stones, this share of Sky-reaching Snake's blood would probably fetch five hundred top-grade spiritual stones; adding everything up, these would be equivalent to four thousand top-grade spiritual stones, tch tch, I estimate some weaker Sects don't even possess this much spiritual stone."
Cultivation emphasizes four words: wealth, companionship, method, and ground. Wealth refers to money; cultivation requires money, therefore it is prioritized.
As the ancients said, to learn literature when poor, and practice martial arts when wealthy. In cultivating Martial Arts and toughening the sinews and bones, one must usually consume various swallow nest and ginseng to nourish the body. Which poor person can afford that?
"I'll wait until I finish quenching my body, then I'll have more confidence to leave here."
Lin Mo beamed with joy; after all, he obtained eight shares of Moon Wheel Realm fierce beast's Essence Blood for free. If the Sky-reaching Snake hadn't been bound here by the iron chains for so long, perhaps it would've already evolved into the Sun Wheel Realm or an even higher realm, and its Essence Blood would be even more refined and powerful.
"Yes, Mr. Lin."
Zhen Yuanzi's face showed an excited expression.
Lin Mo took the Essence Blood, while Zhen Yuanzi directly extracted the Sky-reaching Snake's soul, sealed it within the Soul Banner, intending to refine it into a Demon Soul within the Soul Banner. However, three of the heads' souls were pulverized by Lin Mo, leaving only five souls.
Lin Mo landed at a smooth spot on the black iron chains, cold air continually surged into his body. However, this coldness was still within Lin Mo's tolerance.
"Alright, let's begin now." Lin Mo's True Yuan trembled, and his upper body clothes instantly shattered, fragments scattering in all directions.
Having had prior body quenching experience, this time he was familiar with the process. Lin Mo took out a red crystal, held it in his hand, feeling the intense heat transferred from it, as if holding a handful of flames.
Bam!
His long, powerful fingers clenched tightly, shattering the red crystal, instantly turning into streams of red liquid flowing from his chest, slowly trickling toward his Dantian.
Hot.
Scorching.
Streams of red liquid flowed over his skin, as if flames rolling, the skin feeling a surge of scorching temperature.
After all was done, Lin Mo closed his eyes and silently awaited.
Only to see the red liquid that flowed to his chest turning into lines, spreading and wrapping around his entire body, forming strange patterns, which then slowly seeped into the inner layers of the skin, even burning through bones, cells, and meridians as if set ablaze.
Skin, bones, fur, even cells were undergoing a form of life's transcendence. Fierce beasts are born with physical strengths far superior to humans, their essence blood harboring miraculous powers that can alter the genetic potency of any life form.
Han Country, a place as beautiful as the Immortal Realm, Yangxue Mountain.
From afar, the snowy peak of Yangxue Mountain gleamed white, like a hanging fan.
And ten kilometers away from Yangxue Mountain, an ancient courtyard, from where the view of the scenic peak of Yangxue Mountain can be seen just by opening the window.
In the courtyard, within a quiet room hanging with two red lanterns.
A handsome young man dressed in Spiritualist's clothes sat cross-legged. In front of him was a long black table, on which was placed a pot of ancient pine bonsai, alongside an octagonal glass incense burner, from which faint white smoke rose gently.
A faint anomaly pervaded throughout the quiet room, as incense stones burned within the burner, offering calming and mind-soothing effects.