Longevity Strange Immortal
Chapter 211 - 71 Li Mo’s Talent Has No Limits

Chapter 211: Chapter 71 Li Mo’s Talent Has No Limits

The Collection Hall clearly had more than thirty Inner Sect disciples, yet Li Mo’s sharp presence overshadowed everyone, leaving the hall silent.

Li Mo sat cross-legged alone at the center of the cliff platform, his exaggerated physique casting a shadow on the surrounding artifact practitioners who appeared as mere mortals listening to an immortal’s sermon. Their faces were filled with frustration.

The Inner Sect disciples who came to the Collection Hall included fourteen at the Nascent Crying Stage, staying here merely to wait for the right timing to go to Zone Eleven.

The rest were all one cultivation stage higher than Li Mo, at the Transformation Core Stage.

Yet the scene was one where Li Mo suppressed all the Inner Sect disciples. The aura released by his Five Dao Body even forced them to remain at the edges of the platform.

What they found hardest to accept was that as time passed, Li Mo showed no sign of pausing his comprehension of the cultivation techniques. Instead, his momentum grew increasingly fierce.

Li Mo’s numerous eye globes shifted perspectives every five breaths.

Clearly, he had already memorized the entirety of a True Inheritance Technique, and his increasing speed was evidently not due to rote memorization; his understanding of the technique must have reached certain depths.

What did this signify?

Ordinary artifact practitioners would take six to seven days to digest the content of a cultivation technique, spending additional time repeatedly consolidating its meaning to avoid any misunderstandings in comprehension.

For them, any deviation in understanding the technique would lead to imaginable consequences.

But in front of Li Mo, every cultivation technique seemed utterly defenseless. Could the innate comprehension of the Five Dao Body truly be unprecedented in history?

The sense of defeat extended beyond comprehension.

Li Mo’s level of Spiritual Power seemed endless. Despite being only at the Solidifying Pill Stage, his reserves were multiple times greater than theirs, coupled with an astoundingly terrifying efficiency in absorbing Spiritual Energy that made one feel as if he was a reincarnated Immortal God.

"Impossible! There’s no way such a person exists..."

Daoist Zaiyu muttered under his breath, voicing the thoughts of the others who could not dare believe what they were witnessing.

Xingfu Hermit shook his head with closed eyes. "There’s nothing left to say. The Core Formation Stage we labored through is merely a fleeting view along Qing Tian’s path."

From the initial atmosphere of hostility to now calmly accepting it, Xingfu Hermit was thoroughly subdued by Li Mo and ceased any further contemplation.

"Impossible. I can accept that someone’s talent surpasses mine, but how could the disparity be as vast as heaven and earth?"

Daoist Zaiyu’s face darkened. Ignoring the drawbacks of continuous spellcasting, a surge of Spiritual Power emanated from the furnace, and his head transformed into a reflective mirror once more.

However, the mirror was riddled with tiny cracks, resembling his shattered Tao Heart.

The scene reflected in the mirror proved that Li Mo’s comprehension was not a facade, and Daoist Zaiyu couldn’t suppress a mouthful of blood.

"Disciple of the Chaotic Burial Furnace, Daoist Qing Tian, has gained the true inheritance of the Great Thousand Star Observation Skill."

"Disciple of the Chaotic Burial Furnace, Daoist Qing Tian, has gained the true inheritance of the Golden Fall Mansion Shell-shedding Technique."

......

Li Mo’s head lantern continued to chant blessings without pause, emitting light akin to the sun, illuminating more than half of the Collection Hall.

Ever since his comprehension efficiency reached one technique every five breaths, the head lantern hasn’t stopped its utterances. The lantern supported by human skin had started showing signs of withering and decay.

It was the first time the Collection Hall had ever seen such a phenomenon.

The phantom projections of Nascent Soul Great Powers grew denser, with their expressions complex as they stared at the Collection Hall. The scene of Li Mo comprehending the Tao was even more astonishing than the formation of a Flawless Golden Core.

The Soul Emergence Nascent Soul of Big Deer Thousand Feet couldn’t help but speak, "Qing Tian is truly a great talent. The Sub-Device Sect may only see such a person once in ten thousand years."

"Ten thousand years? He’s unique in this era."

"With such comprehension, he will undoubtedly break free of the Nascent Soul shackles and advance to Divine Split in the future."

"Becoming the number one in Sub-Device Sect is only a matter of time."

"No, it shouldn’t be. The Mother Furnace shouldn’t be able to birth an artifact embryo with the innate Five Dao Body. Could it be carrying the accumulated fortune of the Sub-Device Sect throughout history?"

"Heh heh..."

The conversation among the Nascent Soul Great Powers halted abruptly, as the topic of the Mother Furnace appeared to be the most forbidden discussion within the Sub-Device Sect.

"Ahhhh!!!"

Li Mo’s head lantern emitted a bloodcurdling scream and began to convulse wildly.

At this moment, Li Mo’s numerous eye globes became even denser, and his Primordial Tao Seed’s efficiency in digesting techniques advanced further.

It was now approaching three breaths per technique.

A muffled sound echoed as the white silk binding the head lantern snapped.

The head lantern dropped to the ground and decayed into rotting flesh within moments, leaving a skull eerily resembling Chen Tiangang’s features.

It could be said that Li Mo’s plundering of cultivation techniques had surpassed the Collection Hall’s limits, leaving even Nascent Soul Great Powers dumbfounded.

Crack, crack, crack.

Li Mo’s physique continued to grow taller, soon surpassing a height of five meters.

Yet the sight was bizarre, as his flesh seemed to swell unnaturally, with foul-smelling pus flowing from his pores.

The tattoos on his skin moved erratically, assisting the cancerous transformation of Da Ai Mi Tian.

Three Mountains awoke from his contemplation of techniques and noticed Li Mo’s state with a worried expression. The latter was clearly absorbing too much Spiritual Energy, resulting in massive impurities filling his flesh and bones.

Li Mo clenched his teeth and held on, as interrupting his state of enlightenment would immediately plunge the Primordial Tao Seed into derivative completion of the main cultivation technique.

The problem was that he couldn’t deliberately stop the Primordial Tao Seed; otherwise, it would inevitably affect the technique.

"Whatever, I’ve even survived the Thirty Years Old Death Disease..."

Li Mo was too tempted by the Sub-Device Sect’s cultivation techniques. If he defected from the sect in the future, he might never again get such an opportunity.

At the same time, he had noticed several clues.

The Sub-Device Sect’s techniques were clearly the accumulation of ten thousand years, likely modified by the Mother Furnace to suit the current cultivation environment.

The core of these techniques always revolved around the furnace, a quintessential aspect of artifact cultivation.

Li Mo gradually found the patterns and discovered that even for True Inheritance Techniques, the core remained unchanged, and the difference in content primarily reflected variations in Spiritual Power.

When dealing with techniques involving the same type of Spiritual Power, digesting fifty of them would result in negligible nourishment for the Primordial Tao Seed.

After understanding the essence, Li Mo began consciously selecting cultivation techniques.

Under the stimulation of the cancer transformation, his body began growing malformed organs, with various unnecessary, surplus arms sprouting from his spine.

The spectators were left with only one thought.

"Madness! A greedy heart like a snake swallowing an elephant."

What puzzled them was the presence of over a dozen Nascent Soul Great Powers watching, some of whom were from the Chaotic Burial Furnace. Why weren’t they stopping him?

Regardless of perspective, Li Mo was indeed teetering on the brink of collapse.

Yet five days passed in an instant.

Li Mo’s mutation worsened to the point where it seemed he might deviate at any moment, yet he persisted through five days without incident.

One thing became apparent: with Li Mo’s degree of transformation, he could no longer retain Spiritual Wisdom.

They even felt a sense of dread, fearing that Li Mo might mutate out of control and turn into a deceitful object. The Inner Sect disciples could not possibly withstand such a turn of events.

On the sixth day, Li Mo exhaled a long breath.

The artifact practitioners were as tense as facing imminent danger, even Three Mountains prepared to activate his Spiritual Power. Yet unexpectedly, Li Mo abruptly opened his eyes.

"What is it?"

Li Mo asked Three Mountains, whose face was filled with astonishment. Seeing no reply, he began actively suppressing his own cancerous transformation.

The artifact practitioners exchanged glances, bewildered by the sight of someone whose mutation rendered him barely human yet who still retained clarity of mind. Could it be that everything had been within Li Mo’s expectations from start to finish?

Da Ai Mi Tian retrieved the cancer cells dispersed throughout his flesh and bones.

If parasitically implanted in someone else, those cancer cells would be enough to destroy their foundation.

But Da Ai Mi Tian was, after all, Li Mo’s life-bound magical artifact, and through the imprint of the Creation Book, it had essentially become an organ of his body.

Moreover, even the rampage of the Thirty Years Old Death Disease hadn’t caused Da Ai Mi Tian to lose control.

Under everyone’s watchful eyes, Li Mo’s physique transformed from a seemingly deceased giant back to a height of slightly over three meters within just an hour.

Thousands of eye globes vanished all at once, and he once again donned the Daluo Heaven.

Three Mountains, suffering from a headache due to his own struggle to comprehend techniques, witnessed Li Mo’s return to normal and couldn’t help but ask, "Is it over?"

Li Mo closed his eyes to recover his Spiritual Power while answering, "The mastery of the techniques is nearly complete, but I will remain in the Collection Hall for a few more days."

"What?!?"

Three Mountains’ pupils contracted. He had struggled so much to delve into one True Inheritance Technique, yet Li Mo had already thoroughly comprehended countless mysteries of the heavens?

Three Mountains found it hard to believe, but Li Mo’s words were likely true.

"I..."

"Qing Tian Brother, the Feast Earth Great Life Heart Scripture I chose is rather cumbersome. Even after finishing my comprehension, I may still need to stay in the Collection Hall for further consolidation."

"No problem."

Li Mo pondered for a few breaths and then nodded. "I’ve studied the Feast Earth Great Life Heart Scripture; its operation method should be like this. Take a look."

The Spiritual Power fluctuations he revealed grew heavier, perfectly matching Three Mountains’ understanding of the Feast Earth Great Life Heart Scripture. Three Mountains nodded repeatedly.

Li Mo tapped the center of Three Mountains’ brow, imparting insights about the Feast Earth Great Life Heart Scripture that would save him three or four days of futile effort.

Three Mountains, overjoyed with the invaluable guidance, couldn’t restrain his ecstatic movements.

After regaining himself, he suppressed his scattered thoughts and respectfully bowed. "Thank you, Qing Tian Brother, for your guidance. I have no way to repay such kindness."

The other artifact practitioners, upon seeing Li Mo’s casual demeanor—treating such an extraordinary feat as a trivial matter—closed their eyes as well, suppressing their inner turmoil.

The gap in talent was vast, and strength was insurmountable.

They instinctively considered leaving the Collection Hall, but abandoning the Inner Sect’s inheritance wasn’t an option. They could only shut off their Five Senses and focus entirely on the techniques.

If they continued observing, their Mental Realms might destabilize.

Daoist Mu smiled bitterly and shook her head.

She had even just entertained thoughts of asking Li Mo for guidance, proof that she subconsciously believed herself incapable of surpassing him.

Daoist Mu glanced at Li Mo. The Spiritual Power fluctuations he emitted seemed elusive.

Unsurprisingly, Li Mo was indeed refining his understanding of the Nascent Soul Stage to perfect his primary cultivation technique. His talent was fear-inducing.

A Core Formation Stage cultivator, already aiming for the Nascent Soul Stage.

With Li Mo’s mutation now gone, the Nascent Soul Great Powers who had gathered around the Collection Hall gradually dispersed, their profound gazes unlike the eccentric demeanor they usually showed as Tao inheritance patriarchs.

At the center of the disturbance, Li Mo ignored the external attention.

He observed two clusters of Spiritual Power that had sunk into a deadlock. Though still usable for spellcasting, the power could no longer perform circulation cycles.

"I’m starting to feel that the Supreme Cave God Jade Talisman Map and the Five Poison Five God Heart Sutra are about to undergo a revolutionary transformation..."

"Seems like the nourishment has been overly abundant."