Longevity Strange Immortal
Chapter 167 - 27: Blatant Unrestraint

Chapter 167: Chapter 27: Blatant Unrestraint

In the eyes of many cultivators, even a breakthrough to a minor realm requires thorough preparation, including consuming specific elixirs to avoid deviation.

They had never witnessed anyone as unrestrained as Li Mo.

In just the span of a single breath, his cultivation smoothly advanced to the Late Teenage stage, transforming the area within a hundred meters into a spiritual energy vacuum.

This was the sheer suppression brought by the talent of the Five Dao Body.

Some people encounter bottlenecks because their cultivation accumulation is insufficient; others face bottlenecks simply because they are admiring the scenery along the way.

Who would harbor doubts about whether Daoist Qingtian could form a Nascent Soul?

Li Mo stroked the head of the Red Fox, whose nine tails swayed gleefully, sending waves of heat rippling through the lower streets.

Within a short amount of time, he had already completed the consolidation of his Late Teenage stage cultivation.

Inside the melting furnace, the second Artifact Pearl was formed, intertwining with the first. Together, they stabilized the exposed Ash Spirit Power.

"No... Please don’t kill me..."

Chi Chengzi’s resistance grew weaker and weaker, as smoke and ash from burning vines billowed around him.

The Red Fox raised its head high, the chilling sound of chewing emanating from between its teeth, its very presence exuding an unparalleled oppressiveness.

A moment later.

Chi Chengzi’s struggles ceased entirely.

In front of everyone at the port, Li Mo commanded the Red Fox to use its tongue to sweep up Chi Chengzi’s remains, extracting the elixir from the bones with deliberate provocation.

The cultivators erupted in astonishment.

They exchanged bewildered glances, unable to comprehend Li Mo’s actions.

Li Mo activated the Paoxiao Swallowing Body technique, his blood surging like a torrent, revealing the immense foundational strength he possessed.

He found it inefficient to hunt down Pill Cultivators one by one; it was far better to showcase his value and lure them to his doorstep.

Among the gazes cast from all corners of the port, many were tinged with greed.

Li Mo’s body represented a shortcut to forming a High Grade Golden Core. Just consuming even fragments of it would far surpass the capabilities of ordinary Artifact Cultivators.

But the Pill Cultivators quickly shifted their attention away; they all understood that Daoist Qingtian was not someone to be trifled with.

Elder Zhong observed the increasingly chaotic Alchemy Competition and sighed helplessly, realizing that Li Mo was truly a disruptive figure.

"Ah, Qingtian, you really are a troublemaker."

He couldn’t quite get a grasp on the situation—would Li Mo’s actions provoke the ferocity of the Pill Cultivators or serve as a deterrent to others?

On the surface, the chaos only lasted for half a breath before quickly dissipating.

Pill Cultivators didn’t dare expose their presence; even the Fake Core Stage Daoist would face endless trouble if their disguise was detected.

Li Mo retracted the Red Fox and walked leisurely out of the ruins of the collapsed teahouse.

Holding two elixirs in his palm, he made no effort to hide them and openly headed toward the Four Seas Refining Shop, drawing countless glances.

The crowd instinctively cleared a path, while the teahouse shopkeeper hesitated to speak but ultimately remained silent—for rebuilding the structure wasn’t too expensive, thankfully.

Li Mo examined the elixirs. Chi Chengzi’s elixir was gourd-shaped, while Bai Shan’s was even more unique: a string of blood-red fish eggs.

Chi Chengzi’s outer core inheritance was the Spine Birth Pill.

This was a very niche elixir on the market, primarily used to stimulate the growth of the spine, likely as an aid for particular skills.

Bai Shan’s inheritance was from the inner core lineage—the Soul Nurturing Pill.

Soul Nurturing Pills, rare and invaluable, could repair the soul if the Three Spirits cultivated within the Middle Dantian were damaged.

It was evident that the outer core lineage focused on mundane elixir inheritances, while the truly valuable ones belonged to the inner core lineage.

Outer Pill Cultivators employed living sacrifice alchemy but earned far fewer Spirit Stones—one thousand Spine Birth Pills could hardly match a single Soul Nurturing Pill.

This disparity forced the outer core lineage to rely heavily on resources provided by the inner core lineage.

Li Mo faintly discerned that the two lineages within Dan Ghost Sect were already teetering on the edge of discord, much like the dynamics within the Sub-Device Sect.

This might just be a point worth exploiting.

Upon returning to the Four Seas Refining Shop, he immediately noticed that the Artifact Refining Apprentices now looked at him with deep reverence.

Qingqiu Taoist’s expression, however, was slightly conflicted.

Li Mo’s habits greatly resembled those of the Mountain and Sea Hermit from Rong Town, forcing her to suspect a connection between the two.

Li Mo was aware of Qingqiu Taoist’s doubts but didn’t bother to explain.

With his current position in the Sub-Device Sect, even if Qingqiu Taoist accused him of not being an Artifact Cultivator, no one would believe her.

Li Mo nodded and said, "Qingqiu, use a Spirit Talisman to inform the shops to deliver spiritual materials proactively. Prices can be raised by ten percent."

"Shopkeeper, this is..."

Li Mo smirked and replied, "To prevent you from encountering danger. Stay here at the Four Seas Refining Shop and don’t leave—the port is unsafe."

Qingqiu Taoist glanced at the bloodstains on Li Mo’s robe and reflexively took a sharp breath.

She fell into a daze, recalling the giant centipede that had emerged from the Loose Cultivator’s body. What sort of monstrous existence lurked in the port’s shadows?

"Also, if the guild cultivators from the stove land gang visit the Four Seas Refining Shop, ask them about the Heart Beast Black Market’s location."

Li Mo’s figure disappeared around a corner, leaving Qingqiu Taoist stunned for a long moment before snapping out of it.

She quickly headed for the Seclusion Room, but hesitated at the door and decided not to knock, realizing that Li Mo’s identity was ultimately unimportant.

Shaking her head, Qingqiu Taoist returned to the main hall to focus on her tasks.

Li Mo utilized the Paoxiao Swallowing Body technique to absorb the medicinal power of the two elixirs. Tossing them into Corpse Mountain afterward, the four peaks surged several hundred meters higher.

Additionally, Bai Shan’s dozen clones increased the number of tenants in the Chaotic Burial Mound substantially.

These could all be used for brewing; if necessary, perhaps another shop could be opened to support the Corpse Wine industry chain.

Pondering this, Li Mo casually tossed the two elixirs into his mouth.

The Tao Seed eagerly consumed the contents, particularly the Soul Nurturing Pill from Bai Shan, which held far more information than Chi Chengzi’s elixir.

Unfortunately, the fragmented techniques within the Pill Cultivators’ memories were limited to the Weak Crown Period.

The Mist Fog Golden Core’s cracks visibly began to heal, though only one-third was mended before energy waned.

The fragmented magic techniques derived from alchemy and Gu refinement inspired some transformations in his Divine Skills, though they hadn’t yet reached the tipping point for qualitative change.

Li Mo estimated that the port would temporarily calm down; the Pill Cultivators, uncertain of their chances, would likely avoid making trouble for him in the near term.

He decided to take advantage of the lull and complete the Forty Refinements for his High Grade Magical Artifact, Daluo Heaven, refining his technique further to eventually craft his life-bound magical artifact.

With that thought, Li Mo allocated the medicinal power of a twenty-year-old Peiyuan Fruit to nourish the twin artifact embryo.

On the surface of the twin embryo’s skin, intricate Primordial Dao Body patterns were already forming, indicating it was undergoing transformation.

Materials of a higher quality than top-grade spiritual ones were known in ancient Cultivation Worlds as "Heaven and Earth Spiritual Objects."

However, Heaven and Earth Spiritual Objects were exceedingly rare—so rare that even Nascent Soul cultivators had limited knowledge of them. Most magic treasures hadn’t incorporated such materials, and Li Mo’s understanding stemmed merely from glimpses provided by the Creation Book.

Currently, the medicinal power he had from the Peiyuan Fruits would definitely fall short of creating Heaven and Earth Spiritual Objects, but he aimed to improve the twin embryo’s quality as much as possible.

He retrieved Daluo Heaven.

After Twenty Refinements, Daluo Heaven had undergone earth-shattering changes.

Originally resembling a potted plant, its form now appeared to be entirely composed of assembled white bones, with fleshy soil teeming with arms.

Li Mo’s Daluo Heaven leaned toward defense and had completely altered its function.

With a mere thought, he divided Daluo Heaven into smaller pieces. A sea of white bone arms enveloped the Seclusion Room, carrying him wherever he needed to go.

Although Daluo Heaven lacked offensive capabilities, its unending supply of bone arms was more than enough to ensure Li Mo’s safety.

Li Mo had expected to deploy Daluo Heaven during the Quiong Battle, but it turned out to be unnecessary.

After a brief contemplation, he decided to further refine Daluo Heaven as a purely defensive magical artifact, focusing the next Twenty Refinements on regeneration.

Having planned the spiritual materials he would use, Li Mo immersed himself in the artifact’s refinement process.

Noises emerged from the Four Seas Refining Shop’s Seclusion Room, audible to visiting cultivators purchasing spiritual materials for their own artifacts.

Among them, the Pill Cultivators grew even warier.

They had never encountered such a cultivator. His advancement seemed as effortless as drinking water; his methods were unrestrained and ruthlessly efficient.

But most importantly, there was the unfathomable power of Daoist Qingtian.

The thirty-meter-tall Red Fox still loomed large in their minds, a seemingly impossible feat for someone at the Weak Crown Middle Stage.

Still, the Pill Cultivators’ desire to exploit Li Mo’s body had not diminished in the slightest.

Their covert actions even influenced the operations of the Dan Ghost Sect’s Alchemy Competition. During the recent rainy season, only a few insignificant Loose Cultivators had perished.

This made it clear that none of them had given up on their chance for instant ascension.

After all, that was a High Grade Golden Core.

Li Mo spent half a month completing the Forty Refinements for Daluo Heaven, which had completely shed its potted plant-like form.

In its new appearance, Daluo Heaven resembled a mass of pure white arms.

As a High Grade Magical Artifact, its presence felt extraordinarily faint; when touched, it felt soft and boneless, like a gel-like entity.

"Hm."

Li Mo injected spiritual power into Daluo Heaven, which transformed in mere moments into a gray-white Daoist robe.

The robe’s surface shone with handprint-shaped patterns that alternated between appearing and vanishing, as though countless vengeful spirits clung to it.

Wearing Daluo Heaven, Li Mo’s appearance gradually came to resemble that of a Demon Path cultivator.

He was highly satisfied with the reformed Daluo Heaven. However, the artifact embryo’s limited quality meant achieving the Eighty Refinements would be difficult.

It was impractical to waste Peiyuan Fruit medicinal power on nurturing it, especially since a single Corpse Mountain was already consuming vast resources.

After taking half a day of rest, Li Mo proceeded to tackle the Forty Refinements for Corpse Mountain. With its Earth-Yin-Wood-Water four attributes, the refining process was considerably more complex.

The Earth attribute was merged with eight types of spiritual materials, while the remaining spirit attributes required four types each.

The Cultivation World likely had very few four-attribute artifacts, not only because forming an artifact embryo was inherently difficult but also due to the challenges involved in subsequent refinement.

Li Mo felt his scalp tingle as he worked on Corpse Mountain’s Forty Refinements.

With each type of spiritual material integrated into the artifact, numerous compatibility issues immediately surfaced, forcing him to address them one by one.

The overwhelming array of tasks blurred his vision, while the residual fluctuations from the refining process deeply shocked the artifact refining apprentices at the Four Seas Refining Shop.

They nearly had the illusion that Li Mo was simultaneously refining five or six magical artifacts.

Once Corpse Mountain’s Forty Refinements were completed, Li Mo finally sighed in relief, as the artifact itself underwent an indescribable transformation.