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Chapter 160: Revised - 20 The Truth about Twins

Chapter 160: Revised: Chapter 20 The Truth about Twins

Due to the battle between the two factions, the Quiong Battle ended hastily.

After a series of earth-shattering tremors, the buildings returned to their original positions, and the thick industrial waste gas once again enveloped the streets.

The neon lights remained the unchanging scenery of the port, much like the hearts of people filled with desire.

If you ignored the bodies thrown into the bottomless abyss, the port that had just undergone the Quiong Battle was undoubtedly at its most mundane moment.

The loose cultivators walking through the streets wore weary expressions.

Having just participated in a high-stakes gamble, most were still unable to snap out of it, their consciousness immersed in the blood-soaked frenzy and cheers of the Quiong Battle.

"Li Yang Qiuj, evening rain lingers in dawn, mournful winds beat against the steps..."

The singing tone was lowered by three degrees, drifting with the mountain winds through the rain-soaked port towards the fifteenth-layered small world.

The discussions surrounding Li Mo continued to persist endlessly. What once seemed like common places now revealed their incredibility.

Li Mo had merely entered Tao for a few years, yet his artifact refining skills had reached a level equivalent to a hundred years for others.

A mid-grade magical artifact with fifteen refinements—what kind of concept was this? For a low-grade refiner to touch the threshold of mid-grade magical artifact embryos within twenty years would already make them a distinguished guest at an artifact refining shop.

Yet Li Mo, in his idle moments, could even brew medicinal wine.

Beyond this, Li Mo demonstrated a unique understanding of spells. The Taiwei Bird Manipulation skill was innovatively combined with meat limb magical artifacts to create a new spell.

Such terrifying comprehension was unimaginable.

Even within the mountain gates of various Taoist inheritances, core-formation artifact refiners preparing for the Golden Cauldron Sect found their Tao hearts unsettled because of Li Mo’s exploits.

Some artifact cultivators were convinced that someday, Li Mo could establish a new Taoist inheritance or elevate the Chaotic Burial Furnace to an unrivaled level.

Compared to Li Mo’s comprehension, the progress of his cultivation seemed rather average.

However, no one believed his talent was limited. In their eyes, Li Mo was clearly steadily refining his cultivation—Golden Core and Nascent Soul were within reach.

The whole city was abuzz with rumors.

Li Mo, however, couldn’t be bothered with external gossip.

He returned to the Four Seas Refining Shop to continue his seclusion, while handling the overwhelming flood of orders—profits sufficient to support cultivation in the Thirty-Year Old Stage.

To prevent artifact refining from consuming too much of his time, the Four Seas Refining Shop sold only twenty pieces of beast head meat limbs daily, all of them artifact embryos.

Despite that, beast head meat limbs remained highly sought after by artifact cultivators.

Within the Chaotic Burial Furnace, candidates with refinement talent were already being selected at this time. If the Four Seas Refining Shop could be maintained, Li Mo wouldn’t need to refine artifacts himself and could still continuously acquire resources.

Li Mo naturally agreed to the Chaotic Burial Furnace’s conditions. It was unrealistic for him to sit in the shop forever—dividing dividends through shares was the proper way.

His only condition for the Four Seas Refining Shop was that the manager must be the Qingqiu Taoist.

"Sigh."

As for the Old Earth True Monarch, he hurriedly left the port after collecting the corpses of disciples from the Dan Ghost Sect, seemingly heading to the deeper layers of the small world.

Old Earth True Monarch claimed he was going to strip a magic technique, and repeatedly urged Li Mo before leaving to pay close attention to any anomalies at the port.

Who knew what schemes the old fox was plotting.

Li Mo sat in the seclusion room of the Four Seas Refining Shop.

While conducting divine separation refining, he retrieved a magical artifact ceramic bottle from the Corpse Mountain. At its bottle mouth, faint, muddled whispers could still be heard.

"I’ve come for you... Wake up, wake up!"

Li Mo shook his head helplessly and proceeded to loosen the bottle’s restraints within the Corpse Mountain. Immediately, a bizarre infant crawled out.

"Twin Birth Embryo..."

Its bones were exposed outside its skin with a metallic sheen. Inside, there were no five internal organs, only a walnut-sized furnace. Its brain was a mass of malformed soft tissue.

The furnace was filled with ash spirit power, its cultivation matching Li Mo’s.

Considering it possessed a furnace, it was evident the Twin Birth Embryo was nurtured by the Mother Furnace—an ideal material for crafting a life-bound magical artifact.

"Hiss..."

Li Mo sucked in a breath as the Creation Book surged with fragmented memories upon contact with the Twin Birth Embryo.

These memories came from the Sub-Device Sect eight thousand years ago, detailing their extensive exploitation of the Outer Heaven Meteorite Crater, reaching depths of tens of thousands of meters.

Li Mo had prior knowledge of this. Due to the crater’s inexplicable corrosiveness that afflicted cultivators with illness, the Sub-Device Sect opted to explore it using puppets.

The Creation Book’s memories included the puppet technique employed back then.

Its name: Central Alloy Golden Light Puppet Secret Method.

Central Alloy Golden Light Puppet Secret Method was divided into inner and outer volumes, considered quintessential demonic techniques in the ancient Immortal Realm.

To Li Mo, the technique lacked practical reference due to thousands of years of divergence in cultivation systems.

However, the secret method unveiled a deeply unsettling truth.

The outer volume’s "Big Goose Puppet Body" was refined from a cultivator’s own flesh and blood.

The Big Goose Puppet Body functioned as a conventional puppet, manipulated within a hundred-mile radius by consciousness attachment. Alternatively, a soul attachment extended the control range without limit.

What truly shocked Li Mo was the inner volume, which described a puppet known as the "Death Replacement Blood Body."

Its primary material turned out to be blood relatives within three generations, and could not be corpses—they must be living beings refined into the puppet.

"Even before the world underwent major upheavals, the Sub-Device Sect was already delving into such sinister practices."

After refining the Death Replacement Blood Body, cultivators could temporarily transfer injuries to the puppet by placing it within their middle dantian, enabling deeper exploration of the Outer Heaven Meteorite Crater.

Of course, if the puppet was destroyed, the injuries would return fully intact—but at least there was a buffer.

The Twin Birth Embryo before Li Mo’s eyes was unexpectedly intricately linked to the Death Replacement Blood Body, their connection inexplicably profound.

"If the Twin Birth Embryo possesses partial abilities of the Death Replacement Blood Body, does it mean the Twin Birth Embryo might be capable of transferring corpse transformation?"

He recalled the grotesque Hongxuan Daoist, whose traces of Death Disease were extremely rare, yet whose body was filled with multicolored phosphorescence.

"Hongxuan Daoist likely swallowed a Twin Birth Embryo."

Li Mo knew that consuming the Twin Birth Embryo resulted in becoming a non-humanoid Great Mother and shared symbiosis with the Mother Furnace—perhaps enabling the transfer of Death Disease.

Hongxuan Daoist’s organs dissolved into gelatin, cutting off any potential for further cultivation. It felt as though Death Disease alone didn’t explain enough.

Li Mo grew increasingly wary of the Mother Furnace. If it indeed accumulated the Death Disease of numerous cultivators, wouldn’t it essentially become a ticking time bomb? Should it falter under the corruption of the Death Disease...

He took a deep breath to steady himself. Without seeing the actual Mother Furnace, all speculation remained uncertain.

Li Mo harbored no interest in the Great Mother; the Twin Birth Embryo’s sole purpose lay in refining his life-bound magical artifact.

As he prepared to withdraw his consciousness, he suddenly noticed the Twin Birth Embryo, kept at the Corpse Mountain, eagerly crawling toward the Yin Attribute Secondary Peak.

The deceit beasts encountered along the way dared not approach the Twin Birth Embryo.

Not because the Twin Birth Embryo wielded cultivation equivalent to the Weak Crown Middle Stage—the furnace’s spiritual power inside was but a fraction. The deceit beasts could easily sever its head.

It was primarily due to the Twin Birth Embryo sharing Li Mo’s aura, leading the Corpse Mountain to instinctively protect its life.

Li Mo scrutinized the Twin Birth Embryo and used his consciousness to lift it to the Yin Attribute Secondary Peak’s summit. Unexpectedly, it headed straight for the Chaotic Burial Mound.

He relaxed, thinking the Twin Birth Embryo might have detected the medicinal potency of the Corpse Wine.

The Old Earth True Monarch wouldn’t deceive him—being a Nascent Soul Great Power, the magic technique for life-bound magical artifacts would certainly be delivered.

Before refining his life-bound magical artifact, letting the Twin Birth Embryo consume some Corpse Wine for nourishment seemed fine.

Yet surprisingly, the Twin Birth Embryo arrived at an unclaimed grave, appearing satisfied with the Chaotic Burial Mound’s layout.

It dug into the soft soil, burrowed into an empty coffin, and a tendril of blood flesh connected to its birth gate, drawing nourishment from the Corpse Mountain.

Li Mo stared in amazement for a long time before reacting.

The Twin Birth Embryo seemed to be a unique spiritual material, equivalent to a low-grade spiritual material, allowing it to absorb nourishment from the Corpse Mountain to grow.

Li Mo couldn’t help but glance at his lower dantian, where five Nourishing Yuan Fruits emanated a faint glow.

Three of these fruits leveraged the residual power of Core Formation with mist fog spiritual power—their medicinal potency reached around six hundred years, while the newly cultivated ones had potency of only eighty years.

Given the goal of refining a life-bound magical artifact, he had to ensure the Twin Birth Embryo had a solid foundation to produce a one-of-a-kind artifact.

Li Mo directed the medicinal power from the Nourishing Yuan Fruits into the Twin Birth Embryo’s body.

The Twin Birth Embryo trembled all over, greedily absorbing the medicine. Though its physique showed no signs of growth, the metallic features on its body spread further.

After consuming about twenty years’ worth of medicinal power, the Twin Birth Embryo fell into slumber.

Li Mo retracted the Nourishing Yuan Fruits, planning to reserve some medicinal power to nourish the Tattooed Beast. Yet first, the Hui Qingyi must be fully completed, and the main position tattoo on the chest needed to be expedited.

Knock knock knock.

The door to the seclusion room was lightly rapped as Qingqiu Taoist softly spoke: "Shopkeeper, three fellow disciples from the Chaotic Burial Furnace have arrived."

Her injuries had stabilized, proving the Beast Cultivation Method did have some resistance against deceit beastification, saving her from requiring half a year for recovery.

Li Mo tossed a human slip out of the window. "Inside are simplified beast head meat limbs; have them practice in the guest room on the second floor."

Qingqiu Taoist hesitated slightly, unsure if she had the authority to direct artifact cultivators.

"What are their cultivation levels?"

"Replying to the shopkeeper, Weak Crown Later Stage."

"Qingqiu, you should know how to use the shop’s array, right? If they don’t listen, make an example by killing one or two birds with one stone—you can blame it all on me."

Li Mo’s reputation at the Chaotic Burial Furnace was now so strong that killing a few artifact cultivators would barely matter—even Nascent Soul ancestors supported him.

Li Mo tasked Qingqiu Taoist with gathering more resources.

It seemed about time to move forward with facial transformations, which could regenerate the Cave God’s Eye to undergo a rebirth and imprint connections among the various Taoist bodies.

"Right, Shopkeeper, there’s been an unusual death near Taoliu Street at the port’s lower level. Should I continue monitoring it?"

"What’s the nature of the death?"

"It was a newly arrived loose cultivator at the port. The body was emaciated, but the head was exceptionally large, and the tongue was twisted and swollen into a ball..."

A head large as a stubborn stone, mouth like a crimson pill.

Li Mo grimaced, deeply troubled. Somehow, yet again, it seemed linked to the Dan Ghost Sect—Old Earth True Monarch likely foresaw this and deliberately used him to intimidate the pill cultivators.

"Forget it. Report it directly to Elder Zhong as it is."

"Understood."

Qingqiu Taoist furrowed her brows slightly before retreating to the first floor.

Not long after, a commotion erupted, and the array enveloped the Four Seas Refining Shop.

Qingqiu Taoist didn’t hold back and seemed determined to exert authority. If she had to, she’d subdue opposition by force—testing the resolve of the artifact cultivators.

Putting aside his worries, Li Mo refocused his attention on exploring the Sub-Device Sect’s second cultivation method.

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