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Chapter 142 - 2 Promotion to Fake Pill, 5 Taoist Bodies!

Chapter 142: Chapter 2 Promotion to Fake Pill, 5 Taoist Bodies!

The furnace had just absorbed the Ash Spirit Qi when the veins on its surface emitted a faint glow, like an engine freshly fueled.

Buzz... Buzz... Buzz...

Li Mo raised an eyebrow. The aesthetic of artifact cultivation truly stood out as peculiar.

Following the cultivation steps outlined in the "Child Device Life Protection Heart Sutra," he used his Divine Thought to communicate with the furnace, which promptly consumed all the Ash Spirit Qi.

Li Mo didn’t interfere much; a trace of Ash Spirit Power appeared within the furnace.

Before the spiritual power could even warm up, the furnace had already depleted it. Yet, the activated furnace didn’t disappoint him and tirelessly absorbed spiritual energy from the outside world.

The cultivation system of the Sub-Device Sect was extremely unique.

Even without actively cultivating, the furnace would autonomously increase one’s cultivation. However, maintaining the furnace’s activity required a certain amount of spiritual power.

As a result, the spiritual power inside the furnace was inevitably in a constant state of increase and depletion.

"Simply fascinating..."

"In ancient times, the Dan Ghost Sect, a sect focused on alchemy, had its own cultivation system. I wonder what it was like?"

A smile appeared across Li Mo’s face as he stared at the furnace for a long time.

With the Creation Book in his possession, his path to immortality would undoubtedly involve integrating and refining the strengths of various Taoist inheritances, sparking his longing for the present boundless world.

Li Mo communicated with the furnace and tried to slow down its absorption of Ash Spirit Qi.

The furnace lacked the divine capability for multiple dantians; to ensure a stable foundation, pure Ash Spirit Power was indispensable. Along the way, this also helped the Primordial Dao Seed optimize the Child Device Life Protection Heart Sutra.

Although the Child Device Life Protection Heart Sutra was already flawless, adjustments were inevitable due to the uniqueness of Li Mo’s constitution.

Furthermore, the Ash Spirit Qi contained within the Tung Oil Liquid was extremely limited.

The same batch had nurtured no fewer than seventy to eighty thousand artifact people. The Mother Furnace couldn’t provide each of them with enough spirit energy for Foundation Establishment, and the financial resources of the Sub-Device Sect couldn’t support every artifact person reaching the Weak Crown Period.

Li Mo focused on studying the multiple dantians, completely oblivious to the passage of time.

Rich Five Elements Poison poured into his heart, liver, spleen, lungs, and kidneys. His Corpse Spirit Root, eroded by this poison, became swollen and faintly oozed blood.

The "Five Poison Five God Heart Sutra," refined by the Primordial Dao Seed, seemed complete. However, when Li Mo observed his five internal organs, he couldn’t shake the impression that they were on the verge of collapse.

Enduring the discomfort brought about by his organs, he continued to devour the Five Elements Toxins, holding back the Pao Xiao Swallowing Body to prevent the Taoist Body from digesting the poisons.

Li Mo soon drifted into a state of semi-consciousness.

His awareness was practically severed from the outside world, interrupted only twice by moments of clarity.

The first time was when he noticed the Mother Furnace briefly awakening artifact people, implanting memories of mundane experiences to guide the shaping of their personalities.

No wonder artifact cultivators revered the Mother Furnace so deeply—it was truly treated as a spiritual mother, fostering a high degree of cohesion within the sect.

Though the Sub-Device Sect wasn’t the most powerful in the modern Cultivation World, its potential undoubtedly ranked among the top.

Li Mo ignored the implanted memories. Thanks to his photographic memory, not even tenfold the complexity of the Mother Furnace’s memories could affect him.

The second moment of clarity came during the replacement of the Tung Oil Liquid, approximately every half-year, when the container’s inlet and outlet briefly opened.

However, the openings only lasted for a mere fraction of a second, making it nearly impossible for Li Mo to stretch his arms and legs within the liquid, let alone escape the container.

Li Mo meditated patiently. After ten months, his first Void Pill coalesced.

When the Fire Element Void Pill took form within his heart, the swelling in the organ immediately subsided, followed by the screech of a Red Fox.

The Red Fox, which was responsible for releasing the Fire Element Poison, sighed in evident relief at the sight.

With the Pao Xiao Swallowing Body enhancing his heart, the organ’s progress far outpaced the rest of his internal organs. The Red Fox couldn’t help but let out bursts of mocking laughter in its triumph.

Just as Li Mo’s consciousness moved to discipline the Red Fox, it instantly fell silent.

The six Tattooed Beasts each had distinct personalities, akin to the intelligence of five-year-old children. Their occasional mischief was inevitable, though it never disrupted Li Mo.

Two months later, the Salamander, responsible for his liver, birthed a Wood Element Void Pill.

The Kunpeng followed by forming a Water Element Void Pill within his kidneys. Next came the Metal Element Void Pill, nurtured by the toxins of the Golden Toad.

Only the Tattooed Beast lacked Earth Element toxins. As a result, his spleen relied on consuming poisonous spiritual materials to nurture its Void Pill, which delayed the process by over half a year.

When the five Void Pills of the Five Elements were finally complete, Li Mo had been within the Mother Furnace for two years.

Li Mo gazed at the furnace.

The Ash Spirit Qi provided by the Mother Furnace was truly limited. Combined with the ongoing perfection of the Child Device Life Protection Heart Sutra, his spiritual power had only managed to fill three-fifths—still far from reaching the Second Layer of Childhood.

Fortunately, the Child Device Life Protection Heart Sutra had evolved to near perfection, significantly modifying the cultivation steps.

When the Mist Fog Spiritual Power circulated through the cycle, it carried traces of Ash Spirit Power along, leveraging the multiple dantians to purify his cultivation base.

Thanks to the similar natures of the two spiritual powers, the Child Device Life Protection Heart Sutra was more refined. Had he chosen another form of Alien Spiritual Power, such optimization would likely have been impossible.

"I must admit, the Mother Furnace is quite the remarkable place."

If not for the insufficient spiritual energy within the Tung Oil Liquid, it could have been an ideal retreat for secluded cultivation, free from interruptions of any kind.

Li Mo didn’t immediately advance to the Fake Core Stage.

Instead, he closed his eyes to rest and rehabilitate while checking the memories implanted by the Mother Furnace.

Aside from mundane life experiences, the memories also included an overview of the Sub-Device Sect’s branches and common knowledge for day-to-day life.

The Sub-Device Sect resided underground, comprising fifteen layers of small worlds.

The closer one got to the surface, the less suitable the small worlds became for cultivation.

The top three layers housed branches bearing low-grade inheritances. Artifact people without Taoist Bodies or those with Acquired Dao Bodies incompatible with the Sub-Device Sect were typically assigned to these layers.

The middle three layers hosted branches with mid-grade inheritances, mainly composed of artifact people with Acquired Dao Bodies.

The Heart Beast Sect’s artifact cultivators, known for harvesting flesh, primarily originated from the first six layers, indicating their responsibility in securing resources for the Sub-Device Sect.

The bottom three layers required little explanation. Their Taoist inheritances were the most exceptional.

Admission into these layers hinged on having either a singular Innate Taoist Body or dual Acquired Dao Bodies; Heaven’s Chosen Children monopolized eighty percent of the Sub-Device Sect Outer Disciple resources here.

The first six layers weren’t without opportunity to ascend to the top three. After all, Acquired Taoist Bodies could be achieved through cultivation. Combined with the longevity of cultivators, these layers were densely populated.

Additionally, the bottom three layers served as the Sub-Device Sect’s "port" for external trade. Countless cultivators, most of them Loose Cultivators, passed through these layers daily, though some hailed from other sects.

"Why doesn’t the Sub-Device Sect simply raise Loose Cultivators to harvest their flesh?"

Li Mo quickly realized the sect likely lacked the capacity for self-sufficiency, thus allowing Loose Cultivators to enter the lower three layers while maintaining control over certain smaller sects.

Loose Cultivators, the silent "Cloud Travelers" of the Cultivation World, ironically became ideal facilitators for regional resource exchange.

Of course, life wasn’t easy for Loose Cultivators in the bottom three layers. Given the artifact cultivators’ insatiable demand for flesh, oppression merely took on a different form.

Li Mo furrowed his brow.

It seemed to him that the Sub-Device Sect’s methods were excessively utilitarian. Most likely, decisions weren’t made by Great Ability Artifact Repairers but by the enigmatic Mother Furnace itself.

If the Heart Beast Sect could provide a stable supply of flesh, could they qualify to enter the bottom three layers?

As for the seventh, eighth, and ninth layers, they constituted the Inner Sect of the Sub-Device Sect, rumored to be composed of individually resource-rich Blessed Land Cave Heavens. However, the specifics remained unknown.

Once every century, the Sub-Device Sect held a trial called the "Golden Cauldron Sect," open to Core Formation Stage disciples from the Outer Sect, to award places in the Blessed Land Cave Heavens.

Seven thousand years ago, the Sub-Device Sect’s Outer Door Competition was indeed named the "Golden Cauldron Sect."

The memories contained no details about the tenth to fifteenth layers of small worlds, leading Li Mo to suspect they were inhabited by cultivators at or above the Uncertainty Nascent Soul Stage.

Overall, the structure of the Sub-Device Sect was relatively clear.

After fully digesting the memories, Li Mo began preparing for his advance to the Fake Core Stage, focusing primarily on pushing the Mist Fog Spiritual Power to its peak state.

Once everything was in place, he guided the Five Elements Void Pills within his internal organs with his consciousness.

His five internal organs wriggled uncontrollably, and as his blood turned deep purple, semi-illusory Poison Pills emerged from the organs and followed his meridians toward his Middle Dantian.

Wherever the Void Pills passed, his meridians showed signs of atrophy, illustrating the potency of the toxins.

Li Mo suppressed the Pao Xiao Swallowing Body until the Five Elements Void Pills converged within the Multiple Dantians, infecting his flesh, blood, and bones with toxins.

"Hiss..."

He inhaled sharply, driving the Void Pills to orbit his Tao Seed with his consciousness.

This process stimulated the Mist Fog Spiritual Power, compressing it further before slowly integrating it into the Tao Seed. The bottleneck was imminent.

Li Mo clenched his jaw.

At the critical moment when the Five Elements Toxins made contact, he actively unleashed the Pao Xiao Swallowing Body.

The toxins of the Five Elements Void Pills transformed into nourishment, while a dense Five Elements aura overflowed, propelling his spiritual power to the Fake Core Stage.

The Mist Fog Spiritual Power approached tangible form, gradually wrapping around the Tao Seed.

It finally solidified into a five-colored shell embedded with distinct granules of sand, encasing the Tao Seed within. The three spirits no longer risked separation.

Upon reaching the Thirty Years Old Stage, the Tao Seed, Mist Fog Spiritual Power, and Three Souls fused completely. It was hard to imagine the kind of Golden Core that would eventually form.

Due to the effects of the Pao Xiao Swallowing Body, the toxins within his flesh and bones had been fully absorbed, revitalizing both his body and the Tattooed Beasts. Yet, Li Mo’s expression betrayed a hint of helplessness.

During his breakthrough, he had a premonition—if he consumed the Little Human Head, he’d have a sixty percent chance to leap straight into the Thirty Years Old Stage. Unfortunately, the Five Poison Five God Heart Sutra lacked content for the Thirty Years Old Stage.

He could only wait until he reached the Sub-Device Sect to resolve this.

Nonetheless, the benefits of the Fake Core Stage were evident. Once the Mist Fog Spiritual Power adhered to the Tao Seed, even a Nascent Soul Stage cultivator would need to probe Li Mo’s Multiple Dantians with Divine Thought to discern the essence of his Fake Core.

As Li Mo stabilized his cultivation, he flipped open the Creation Book with his consciousness.

Perhaps because his Fake Core Stage advance wasn’t a full ascension to the Thirty Years Old Stage, his physical transformation was limited. Thus, the Creation Book gained only one and a half blank pages.

"Should I imprint the blank page..."

Li Mo’s eyes flickered. Imprinting the blank page on his Lower Dantian would undoubtedly be the most logical choice, enabling his Upper, Middle, and Lower Dantians to integrate with the furnace into a cohesive Innate Taoist Body.

An additional Spell Page could also be cultivated.

He chuckled bitterly to himself: "What’s the crucial difference between a Four Tao Body and a Five Tao Body? Besides, the Sub-Device Sect is inherently a sect that assigns value to artifact people."

After making his decision, the blank page revealed a phantom of the Lower Dantian.

The Four Dantians began their transformation, activating all his organs and plunging his consciousness into a dreamlike state.

Meanwhile, tens of thousands of artifact people within the Mother Furnace were succumbing to outbreaks of Death Disease.

The Sub-Device Sect remained utterly unaware of the impending consequences, far too accustomed to replacing a batch of artifact people every fifty years as part of their tradition.

Little did they realize that a monster from the Heart Beast Sect had already seized the nest of opportunity.