Longevity Strange Immortal
Chapter 206 - 66: 5 Special Pages!

Chapter 206: Chapter 66: 5 Special Pages!

"He woke up, finally woke up! Save us!"

Li Mo still didn’t understand the meaning of the murmuring, only feeling a chill down his spine. Who knows what lies in the depths of the Outer Heaven Meteorite Crater?

He was still sinking downward, his body in discomfort, blood seeping from his mouth and nose.

Li Mo did not regret it. Even though the Ziqi Sect Inner Sect was close to the crater’s bottom, filled with countless unknown dangers.

But he had no other choice; after all, none of the Immortal Sects were easy to join.

The Ziqi Sect Inner Sect seemed to be the easiest place to obtain a Nascent Soul Stage Technique. As long as he avoided the phosphorescence, he should be fine.

Li Mo silently calculated the passage of time. After about five days, his speed began to sharply decline.

At the moment his bodily senses recovered, Li Mo’s eyes shot open, the hysterical voice ringing in his ears vanishing without a trace.

It felt like an auditory hallucination caused by tension.

"The Mother Furnace is so sinister. Fortunately, I wasn’t controlled by the Melting Furnace."

Li Mo immediately pushed his leakless body to its limit, doing his best to suppress his aura, before turning his attention to his surroundings.

He looked around, noting that he was in an erosion cave so narrow that it was difficult to stretch out his limbs.

The surrounding rock walls had no trace of being dug through, as if Li Mo had been buried alive underground, the invisible pressure creating a suffocating sense of oppression.

What’s more, Li Mo discovered the cave was still shrinking.

The cave, initially around two meters in size, shrank by an inch in the blink of an eye, the yellow-brown stone walls resembling regenerating flesh.

"Tiger."

Li Mo summoned the Ghost Tiger, tasking it with ensuring the cave wouldn’t completely swallow him, then closed his eyes to assimilate the memories pouring from the Creation Book.

The Ghost Tiger transformed into a fluid state, cautiously damaging the rock walls.

Whenever the rock walls were damaged, a blackish-brown corrosive liquid would flow out, clearly toxic, though it had little effect on the Ghost Tiger.

The memories contained in the Creation Book originated from eight or nine thousand years ago in the Outer Heaven Meteorite Crater.

The memories were fragmented images of Artifact Cultivators excavating the crater, interwoven with scenes of them constructing grand subterranean buildings involving at least hundreds of thousands of people.

Li Mo pinched the bridge of his nose. Before he could delve deeper into the Creation Book’s memories, the Mother Furnace transmitted information about the Inner Sect directly to him.

The Ziqi Sect Inner Sect wasn’t in a spacious small world but rather a confined underground environment.

The Inner Sect buildings were dispersed across various locations. Because of the cave system’s self-healing nature, there were no tunnels leading to the buildings; one had to dig their way through.

Li Mo furrowed his brows tightly.

What was the Mother Furnace’s intent behind such actions?

Forcing the Inner Sect disciples apart in such a strange manner.

If they encountered unfamiliar fellow disciples without knowing if they were "Great Mothers," they would inevitably break out into violent conflict.

The scattered buildings in the Inner Sect became isolated islands floating amidst a sea of danger.

In a sense, the buildings were the most perilous places, as they were guaranteed to have Great Mothers lurking within; the Inner Sect rules were utterly horrifying.

"The Black Forest Theory?"

Li Mo recalled hearing about the Black Forest Theory in his previous life; it was somewhat analogous to the current situation.

When a group of hunters was in a dimly lit forest with obscured visibility, unaware of each other’s existence, the rational course of self-preservation would be to strike first if any of them encountered another.

This was still Zone 10. Li Mo could scarcely imagine what kind of situation Zone 12, feared even by the Old Earth True Monarch, might hold within.

"Could there be another interpretation?"

Li Mo muttered to himself, shaking his head, "Since the number of Great Mothers far exceeds Artifact Cultivators in the Inner Sect, could the Mother Furnace’s actions actually be a form of protection for the Artifact Cultivators?"

"Forget it. At least with my Divine Sense, I can ensure my safety."

Li Mo tried transmitting his thoughts to Three Mountains but found no issues with connecting. However, no one dared expose their position lightly.

Zone 10 had sixteen buildings with diverse purposes: the Artifact Refining hub, "Doushuai Temple"; the Cultivation Technique repository, "Collection Hall"; the resource exchange center, "Artifact Workshop"; the secluded cultivation site, "Supreme Furnace"...

Li Mo was surprised to discover that the Inner Sect buildings were linked to the ancient Ziqi Sect.

According to the Creation Book’s memories, before the Ziqi Sect employed puppets, disciples were responsible for excavating the crater.

Gradually.

The Ziqi Sect spent around two thousand years with the Inner Sect firmly established within the Outer Heaven Meteorite Crater.

Back then, the sect fully prioritized the crater, even exempting the Golden Cauldron Sect trial for Outer Disciples’ promotion to the Inner Sect.

As long as Outer Disciples reached sufficient depths, even if their cultivation was only at the first layer of the Qi Cultivation Stage, they could still be promoted to Inner Sect disciples.

Of course, it was nearly impossible for Qi Cultivation Stage cultivators to survive the hostile environment of the crater.

After Chen Tiangang became sect master of the Ziqi Sect, the situation remained unchanged for a long time, until puppets completely replaced Artifact Cultivators.

"Wait..."

Li Mo carefully examined the Creation Book’s fragmented memories.

He discovered a blind spot.

The Ziqi Sect’s replacement of disciples with puppets and abandoning the underground Inner Sect coincided with an imminent catastrophic transformation of the heavens and earth, possibly hinting at an indescribable danger hidden within.

Li Mo’s eyes glimmered with excitement.

With the Creation Book in his possession, accessing Inner Sect buildings could provide him with memories that might bring him closer to the truth about the catastrophic transformation.

But he couldn’t be too impatient; better to wait for Three Mountains and the others to complete their intelligence gathering first.

Li Mo was equally intrigued by the Inner Sect’s opportunities. The structure of Zone 10 seemed akin to a honeycomb, containing numerous resource-rich caves.

There might even be top-grade Spirit Stones.

Thinking of this, he instinctively checked the Creation Book.

Li Mo couldn’t help but look utterly shocked, as the final pages of the Creation Book revealed a total of five special pages slowly taking shape.

Two of these were Spirit Root Pages, discernible from the coloring of the paper.

One was a Metal Spirit Root Page, and the other an Earth Attribute Spirit Root Page.

The remaining special pages had unknown functions; their exact purpose was unclear.

Li Mo stared intently at one of the pages emitting a phosphorescent glow, its eerie radiance filling him with a sense of unease.

Unfortunately, while the five special pages were completing at varying rates, based on his estimation, the fastest among them would still take four to five hundred years.

Indicating that he was exceedingly far from the source of the special pages.

After a brief moment of reflection, Li Mo immediately deployed the Hammer Anvil Artifact, preparing to forge Magic Artifact Catalogs capable of aiding underground traversal within the Inner Sect.

[Taiyin Law Heaven]

[Refined using top-grade spiritual material Taiyi Stone Marrow, supplemented by Sumeru Stones and Qingshan Iron, tempered with Metal Spiritual Power.]

Taiyin Law Heaven wasn’t a structure-type Cave Mansion Artifact, and crafting it was relatively straightforward.

Li Mo promptly retrieved spiritual materials, intending to complete the Artifact Embryo first, but the Ghost Tiger beside him suddenly issued a warning.

Two Golden Cores opened their eyes, their Divine Sense scanning the surroundings.

Four phosphorescent sources were steadily approaching him, clearly originating from Great Mothers.

Li Mo didn’t know how the Great Mothers sensed his presence. He split his Divine Sense to instruct the Ghost Tiger to dig into the rock walls, aiming to move toward the nearest top-grade Spirit Stone while calmly continuing his artifact refinement.