Longevity Strange Immortal
Chapter 108 - 109: Wishing to Devour Completely

Chapter 108: Chapter 109: Wishing to Devour Completely

Li Mo had tried before, burying the cultivators’ remains in Corpse Mountain, but the results were mediocre.

To cultivate a Medicine Field, the Yin Spiritual Power generated by Corpse Mountain must flow ceaselessly, at least enough to sustain the growth of spiritual materials.

His original plan was to complete Corpse Mountain’s Twenty Refinements and then seek corpses to nourish his Magic Artifact.

But he hadn’t expected that the flesh of the Deceit Beasts, especially those inheriting the Inner Sect legacy of the Heart Beast Sect, would be so effective for Corpse Mountain.

Li Mo licked his lips and scanned the blood-and-flesh-transformed shopfronts, as if seeing the possibility of unlimited spiritual materials.

Even if the trouble surrounding Top-grade Spirit Stones eventually came to light, as long as he had a portable Medicine Field, he could thrive anywhere.

He glanced instinctively at his Mud Pill Palace, where the Outer Disciple token from the Sub-Device Sect hung suspended.

Li Mo shook his head and looked toward the Qing Room.

The door of the Qing Room had already transformed into flesh, and at a glance, its deep darkness resembled the throat leading to a stomach.

The beastly roars were relentless.

Li Mo prayed silently, "Chief An, you really must hold on a bit longer."

The Fake Core Stage cultivator surely wouldn’t die easily at the hands of the Human Bear Demonic Beast, but An Gang had probably already ventured deep into the stomach.

Li Mo shivered slightly, then raised his iron hammer and smashed it forcefully.

The courtyard wall of the shop in front of him shattered, releasing an even thicker stench of Corrosive Blood Spiritual Power, as blood rain fell continuously upon Cai Market.

The buildings in Cai Market appeared as ordinary houses on the outside but revealed grotesque organ-like structures inside.

Li Mo attempted to summon Corpse Mountain, but his Spiritual Power was insufficient to support a High Grade Magical Artifact.

He thought for a moment and then used the insectified Evergreen Tree in place of Corpse Mountain.

The Evergreen Tree climbed to a high point, extending countless roots to pick up scattered remains across the ground, thoroughly practicing its ethos of leaving no trace behind.

The Evergreen Tree, after Ten Refinements, had interior space that could serve temporarily to store the flesh of Deceit Beasts.

The Human Bear Demonic Beast, writhing in pain, caused copious amounts of blood to seep from the ground, nearly submerging Li Mo’s ankles and assaulting his senses with its stench.

The wind howled past, as if roaring animals were licking their wounds.

Boom.

Another shop collapsed with a thunderous roar.

Li Mo hadn’t paid much attention at first but now realized the value of the blood, hurriedly rummaging in his Storage Bag for larger containers.

Unfortunately, the Storage Bag contained only Liu Li jars, whose space was barely sufficient to hold organs.

Li Mo simply released the Eight-Armed Spine Nerve, using it for dismantling and container refining simultaneously.

The Mid-grade Magic Device Catalogs he’d studied were scarce, but thanks to his access to the Mountain and Sea Market, he had an abundance of Low Grade Magic Device catalogs.

Li Mo recalled the Low Grade Magic Artifact, the "Blood Soaked Gourd," seemingly designed for storing Deceit Beast blood.

Seeing the available spiritual materials, he decisively extracted them all and began refining on the spot, simultaneously absorbing Mid-grade Spirit Stones to replenish his cultivation.

This bold behavior stemmed from Li Mo’s absolute confidence in Artifact Refining.

The Human Bear Demonic Beast seemed to sense the threat of both individuals.

Eight Prison Guard Beasts that had been besieging An Gang split off, advancing toward Li Mo while chanting in odd tones.

"Execution at 5:45 AM. Disobey, and perish!"

An Gang let out a sigh of relief.

Trapped in the Human Bear Demonic Beast’s narrow throat, his primary technique, the "Elephant Lord Purgatory Body Technique," was stifled and unable to function, leaving him utterly repressed within the Qing Room.

Moreover, the Prison Guard Monsters benefited from the Qing Room’s enhancement, healing their wounds at an unimaginable speed, pushing their strength toward the Late Teenage phase.

An Gang had refrained from calling Li Mo and the others for help because the throat was too small—any misstep might result in injury to allies.

Should the Human Bear Demonic Beast swallow even a few Late Teenage Stage hearts, Cai Market’s situation would worsen exponentially.

Better to retreat briefly and organize personnel to deal with the Human Bear Demonic Beast.

"Could Li Mo still be at Cai Market?"

An Gang took a deep breath, releasing a nasal elephant call that intimidated the Prison Guard Beasts, followed by a few Liang Birds nurtured within him.

In nature, Liang Birds peck away dead skin from elephants, while An Gang’s Liang Birds, cultivated through dual-cultivation magic, served as puppets.

The Liang Birds deftly navigated the Qing Room, landing on the rooftop outside.

An Gang silently communicated with the Liang Birds, but what he saw astonished him—a thoroughly unbothered Li Mo, grinning wide and leaving him speechless.

Facing the assault of eight Prison Guard Beasts, Li Mo remained entirely composed.

Exploiting his photographic memory to the fullest, he maneuvered adeptly, effortlessly toying with the beasts.

Meanwhile, the Eight-Armed Spine Nerve continued to churn, refining the Blood Soaked Gourd’s Three Refinements.

Li Mo’s greed had filled the gourd multiple times, so he employed the Sumeru Stone’s Divine Split technique to continue refining.

Boom!

Despite Artifact Refining, his hammer swung unfalteringly, reducing yet another shop to rubble.

Throughout, Li Mo didn’t spare the Prison Guard Beasts a glance. If they knew how to encircle him and cooperate, they might stand a chance of touching the hem of his robe.

But bereft of Spiritual Wisdom, they could only be led astray.

Once the Blood Soaked Gourd was completed, Li Mo became even more audacious, intent on digging Cai Market down to its core.

An Gang finally understood why the Human Bear Demonic Beast had suddenly erupted.

Li Mo wasn’t here for handling the Beast Calamity at all—he was clearly dissecting the Inner Sect Beasts. Did Medical Hall doctors all have a butcher’s habit?

In merely half an hour, Cai Market’s shops were utterly demolished.

Li Mo, satisfied, glanced at the space within the Evergreen Tree, now one-third filled with Deceit Beast flesh, causing the beasts he was raising to tremble in fear.

Some wild animals, however, were eating the flesh, potentially triggering transformations.

"Hm..."

Li Mo surveyed the rubble of Cai Market, turning his attention to the scattered blue bricks on the ground, his expression once again becoming intriguing.

He pried off a blue brick, examining its resemblance to a Deceit Beast’s scales.

"Can’t waste this."

Li Mo sidestepped a Prison Guard Beast’s guillotine, hurling his hammer into the ground, creating a pit over two meters deep.

The Evergreen Tree resumed its diligent tasks.

Its insectified nature and Spiritual Wisdom enabled it to use simple tools with no issue, so Li Mo handed the Blood Soaked Gourd to the Evergreen Tree for operation.

The gourd remained wide open, requiring only direction from the Evergreen Tree.

The Human Bear Demonic Beast’s roars grew increasingly ferocious.

Even outside Cai Market, its deafening cries resounded, capable of causing cultivators within a hundred meters to bleed from their senses.

The Corrosive Blood Spiritual Power gradually sealed off entrances.

After some coordinated efforts by Li Mo and An Gang, the Demonic Beast’s aura intensified—it was a sign that its true form was about to appear.

The anomalies at Cai Market rendered the stationed cultivators unwilling to pay much attention, with their focus entirely on the potential Puppet Cultivation attacks.

Xu Hu had attempted to contact Tian Changwen, but the situation at the slaughterhouse was highly complicated.

Hearing that even Qingfang Taoist had entered the slaughterhouse indicated that the Inner Sect Beasts there were daunting enough to make Core Formation cultivators shudder.

But it made sense.

If all went well in the slaughterhouse, Tian Changwen could allocate personnel to support Cai Market, and Shi Ji would have no reason to risk everything.

Xu Hu’s expression was grave as he continuously surveyed Cai Market from a high vantage point.

Though he appeared broad and burly, he secretly practiced an Eye Magic Skill, which was why An Gang entrusted him with the perimeter.

Xu Hu occasionally glanced at Cai Market to find it reduced to ruins, silently admiring An Gang’s capabilities.

"No wonder he’s a Government Office arrest officer. He’s surely slain hundreds of Deceit Beasts."

Xu Hu muttered with admiration. When he first arrived at Rong Town, he preferred the idea of working as a Government Office constable over creating statues in the pawn shop.

As time passed, the fog over Cai Market thinned noticeably.

For Xu Hu, this was undoubtedly good news, signaling that the Human Bear Demonic Beast was weakening and that An Gang might soon emerge from Cai Market.

Wait...

He couldn’t help but scrutinize Cai Market more closely, noticing a silhouette of eight arms flailing a hammer wildly at the ground.

Xu Hu chuckled awkwardly, feeling a sense of absurdity.

"Could it be... Li Mo? Has Li Mo’s strength reached the point where he can suppress the Beast Calamity?"

As he tried to confirm the figure, a sharp bird cry suddenly pierced the air outside Cai Market.

"Woo..."

A bird-headed cultivator issued a warning as the array covering Cai Market detected numerous Puppet Cultivators closing in with malevolent intent.

Xu Hu suppressed his distracting thoughts, a cold sweat soaking his back.

His focus shifted to a massive boulder, thirty to forty meters wide, rolling rapidly toward Cai Market, too quick to move any pieces away in time.

"First-layer cultivators, retreat. Second-layer cultivators, stand by."

After issuing the command, Xu Hu contorted his body into a peculiar stance, his decayed form spasming faintly and emitting a buzzing sound from his abdomen.

His primary technique: "Big Field Bull Strength."

Xu Hu launched himself forward, transforming into a blur as he surged toward the massive boulder.

Bone growth accelerated within his body, covering his skin in a thick, armor-like layer akin to Insect Armor within seconds.

Xu Hu morphed into a colossal Corpse Rhinoceros Beetle, blocking the boulder’s path head-on.

Mountain Spiritual Power gathered around his insect armor, sending a gust of air with just the thrust of his forearms, while the True Word Sect’s Secret Bone protected his vital areas.

Bang.

As the boulder collided with Xu Hu, a fan-shaped shockwave rippled across several hundred meters.

Xu Hu spat blood from his mouth and nose, his external insect armor riddled with fractures. If not for Li Mo’s refined True Word Sect’s Secret Bone, he might not have survived the impact.

However, the array An Gang had set up—its strongest layer—had now been breached.

Ghostly winds howled as thirty-some distorted Puppet Cultivators crawled in from all directions, using dozen-armed locomotion.

The stationed cultivators, seeing Xu Hu gravely injured and the array damaged, sank into despair.

Xu Hu was about to rally morale when he noticed, on the slope outside Cai Market, a grotesque centipede-like Daoist.

The Daoist’s body spanned nearly twenty meters, with countless arms branching out from its sides.

"It’s Yuan Ti True Monarch. He’s probably just a Little Human Head away from Core Formation..."

Yuan Ti True Monarch’s expression carried mockery, his mouth uttering rapid murmurs while his pores exuded sinister violet-red toxins.

Xu Hu realized the severity of the situation.

Yuan Ti True Monarch was a ruthless character, possessing the Acquired Dao Body "Hundred Poison Burning Heart," and his cultivation had reached the Fake Core Stage. Even with his semi-mad intellect, he was beyond Xu Hu’s ability to confront.

Xu Hu could only hope An Gang could escape Cai Market before the defensive line broke.

He consumed all his Detoxification Pills without hesitation, charging out of the array to engage. Only by tangling with Yuan Ti True Monarch could they preserve their slim chance of survival.

Fortunately, neither the Beast faction nor the Puppet faction dared to push their chess pieces too aggressively; Fake Core Stage cultivators were the limit they would deploy.

The thousand-year struggle for Taoist inheritance risked total defeat if anyone made a reckless move.