Chapter 1046: The Key to Breaking the Deadlock

Inside the Evil Punishing Hall, the faces of the five Divine Bridge Realm cultivators, led by Ming Cang, were somber. The more significant the source of the Evil Spirit, the harder it would be for them to ascend and transcend!

“In short, the Evil Spirit can be seen as a Soul Ghost of a world that has perished, just as a creature driven by strong obsessions before death turns into a vicious ghost. Therefore, most Evil Spirits contain a hint of Dao Rhyme related to transcending disasters, escaping life and death, or pursuing eternity. Yet, in the eyes of cultivators like us, this nature appears distorted and grotesque!”

Such as the Evil Spirit of the Suspended Fairy Mountain, it’s likely formed from the residual resentment of a world where the Buddha Path flourished and then perished. Coincidentally, there exists a “pure land” of compassion formed from the simultaneous demise of Buddhist cultivators and a Great Heavenly Demon over the Immortal Burial Sea. It uses this as a medium to descend.

Anyone who sees or perceives this Evil Spirit will be absorbed into it, forcibly transformed into part of a Buddhist temple’s pure land. But isn’t this also a form of “transcendence”!

Back then, the Hall Master of the Immortal Welcoming Hall, Yuan Chengshan, and the Demon Soul General that Shen Mo sent on patrol, all became “Buddhist Sons” seated on the lotus throne. To cultivators, they have of course fallen, unable to even reincarnate. But from another perspective, even the Death Ghost Realm finds it hard to completely erase the existence of these Evil Spirits, which are nearly as eternal as the Universal Realm.

It’s possible that even after Shen Mo’s fall, Yuan Chengshan and that hanging ghost might still exist alongside the Suspended Fairy Mountain for thousands or millions of years, wouldn’t that be “eternal life”?

Similarly, for the Evil Spirit of the Dharma-talking Thirteen Immortals, creatures falling into the boundless bitter sea by refuting their tattle and prate, upon hearing the Dao, can also escape from the bitter sea, becoming one of the 8,723 “Disciples of the Immortal” just like the original owner of the Drunken Immortal Pot; As for the countless disciples of the Jade Flower Sect absorbed into the longevity flesh Evil Spirit, the souls caught by the Heaven Patrolling Boat House Evil Spirit, or the countless cultivators of the Mechanic Path living in the Evil Spirit of Zuoli Country, unaware of their life and death… Whether or not these are still creatures of the world, they are at least “eternal and transcendent” existences!

Shen Mo explained these to Ming Cang and the others, not to make them resign themselves to become part of the Evil Spirit of the Feather Realm, but to make them understand the essence of Evil Spirits, so that they could prescribe the right medicine.

“Nine million years ago, on the eve of the Feather Realm’s demise, Spirit Feather Master, cultivators, billions of creatures, and even the whole world likely pinned their hopes of transcendence on the True Immortal crafted by Celestial Feather Sect. Hence, after the world’s demise, the will of heaven and earth that escaped the Death Ghost Realm transformed into such a spectacular Evil Spirit, continuing the Plan of Immortal Refining.”

“So, to find the variable and break this situation, the True Immortal that Celestial Feather Sect is forging must be the key…”

“Either go all out to kill Spirit Feather Master, who presides over the situation, destroy the Immortal Feather Lower Sect, and obliterate the forging True Immortal. Or reverse the outcome of Feather Realm’s destruction in reality, assisting Celestial Feather Sect and Spirit Feather Master in forging the True Immortal!”

After Shen Mo finished speaking, the hall fell into a brief silence.

After a while, Feng Wushuang spoke: “To report to the Law Master, Spirit Feather Master is an early-stage Formless Realm Great Cultivator. Unless the Law Master sends in a few more Formless Realm cultivators, I fear that with our strength, we won’t be able to deal with him. Just defending against the attacks of the Battle Hall of Celestial Feather Sect is already very strenuous!”

The five Divine Bridge Realm cultivators of the Red Flame Sect that fell into the Evil Spirit can barely hold off the onslaught of Celestial Feather Sect with the Protection Array and the God Slaying Array, lacking any excess strength to fight Spirit Feather Master or annihilate the entire Celestial Feather Sect.

Shen Mo shook his head and smiled bitterly: “Do you think I don’t know this? But apart from you, the ‘Outer Zone Demons’ chosen by the Evil Spirit, anyone else entering will be obliterated into primal Essence and Qi sources.”

After pondering the key to breaking the game, Shen Mo’s real body tried numerous times outside, besides the second Gecko False Body, there were also the Demons from Demon Zone, Evil Spirits mining at Five Dragon Mountain, Demon Soul Generals in Soul Refining Flags, etc., all thrown into the area covered by the Evil Spirit, but the results are evident, they never appeared in ‘Forbidden Area 905’.

Through the five senses of one of the Demon Soul Generals, before its complete demise, Shen Mo sensed it was “crumbled to dust” like the Gecko False Body, actually being obliterated into pure primal Essence and Qi, integrating into the entire Evil Spirit World!

This clearly demonstrates, the rules sustaining the Evil Spirit of Feather Realm seem quite ‘enlightened’.

The chosen Red Flame Sect members play the role of ‘Outer Zone Demons’, their strength not too strong or too weak, just right for Celestial Feather Sect. If the Evil Spirit had included a True Immortal or a powerhouse like Shen Mo when it descended, Celestial Feather Sect might have been wiped out, the Evil Spirit could not be sustained here and would’ve wandered elsewhere; as for those not chosen who force their way in, they play the role of this world’s ‘fertilizer’!

Regarding the first false body he sent in, after obliteration into origin power, it accidentally ‘possessed’ Yang Ai, a Spirit Sea Realm Elder of Celestial Feather Sect, probably because he possesses the Destiny Panel…

Otherwise, Evil Spirits are not bound by laws, not stuck in Dao mud, its existence level is equivalent to Heavenly Immortal, let alone the Evil Spirit of Feather Realm is incomparably complete, containing the entire realm’s heaven and earth will, as different as clouds and mud compared to Water Ghost Evil Spirit or the Heaven Patrolling Boat House Evil Spirit, ordinary True Immortals coming in would likely be annihilated into a lump of True Immortal primality, merging into the Evil Spirit World!

“To battle is definitely beyond us, only some of Celestial Feather Sect’s Divine Bridge cultivators had come, there are several more in its mountain gate, not to mention Spirit Feather Master is a Formless Realm cultivator.”

“However, although this world is transformed by Evil Spirits, its form of existence isn’t much different from the real world. The mountain gate that fell into the Evil Spirit must have many precious manuals on the techniques for forging magic artifacts, elixirs, and puppets, as well as some scarce spiritual items of the Feather Realm, all things needed by the sect. You can make good use of these, using the pretext of helping the sect forge the True Immortal, try to make peace with the Battle Hall members! If worse comes to worst, try to delay as much as possible…”

“I will return to Celestial Feather Sect, appropriately showcasing my skills in forge and alchemy, aiming to be involved in this ‘forging True Immortal’ plan. By then, depending on the situation, decide whether to destroy this ‘True Immortal’ or help them finish the forging with all I’ve got.”

“…”

Shen Mo and Ming Cang discussed for a long time, fundamentally using the “True Immortal” being forged by Celestial Feather Sect as a topic, trying to create a variable that would allow the Red Flame Sect members to escape.

Soon thereafter, the Red Flame Sect members deliberately provoked, engaging in a big fight with Celestial Feather Sect’s Battle Hall members.

Amid the chaos of the battlefield, Shen Mo, under the cover of Lu Ming, quietly left Crying Bamboo Ridge.

However, he did not immediately return to the mountain gate of Celestial Feather Sect but instead found a secluded place, preparing to condense a Golden Core.

On one hand, there wasn’t a single Spirit Stone in the Universe Bag, making it impossible to even borrow the Teleportation Array. He hadn’t taken any Spirit Stones or magic artifacts from Red Flame Sect, to avoid exposing himself as a ‘traitor’ in detail.

On the other hand, the primal power’s ‘pollution’ of Yang Ai was not thorough enough, easily drawing the attention of the Great Cultivators of Celestial Feather Sect. Once the Core Formation is achieved, cultivation will significantly increase, and using the ‘Three-Heads Six-Arms True Immortal Technique’ to completely alter soul body aura, with such profoundness and high level of skill, even a Formless Realm cultivator like Spirit Feather Master could be deceived!