Longevity Strange Immortal
Chapter 214 - 74 Divine Skills of the Non-poison Soul [Hooked Kiss]

Chapter 214: Chapter 74 Divine Skills of the Non-poison Soul [Hooked Kiss]

Any artifact cultivator with a keen sense immediately chose to leave the Supreme Furnace upon noticing a breakthrough aura around Li Mo’s appearance.

When a place becomes the target of all, danger is inevitable.

The artifact cultivators transformed into streaks of tunneling light, heading toward the furnace’s mouth. Just as they drew closer to the outside world, the abrupt sound of bones colliding echoed.

To their horror, someone discovered that the neck of a nearby fellow cultivator had snapped, and a bulging lump was writhing as if an embryo were moving inside.

"Great Mother!"

In the eyes of the artifact cultivators, the Great Mother was akin to a plague god.

Even though the Great Mother had been nearly silent in Zone 10 for the past two or three years, her appearance was still bound to trigger chaos.

They didn’t want to face a being that couldn’t be killed by any means.

Those who provoked the Great Mother would only end up endlessly fleeing, until they either became lifeless corpses or transformed into Great Mothers themselves.

The Great Mother hadn’t fully taken form yet, but her grotesque body crawled out of the bulging lump.

Her facial features were hideously distorted, but just barely discernible—it was none other than the Thousand-legged Master, who had suffered numerous defeats at the hands of Li Mo.

After repeated deaths, the Thousand-legged Master’s state became increasingly abnormal, with his flesh and bones perpetually dissolving and reconstituting.

"Hehehehe..."

"Die. Only your death will allow me to live..."

He descended to the bottom of the Supreme Furnace, heading toward Li Mo’s metal pillar.

As the Thousand-legged Master advanced, his body swelled visibly, and twisted, humanoid faces emerged on his back.

Li Mo remained in seclusion, while the salamander beside him, growing uneasy, swayed its head and extended vines to reinforce the defenses of the seclusion room.

The Thousand-legged Master was about to reach the metal pillar.

Suddenly, his expression turned utterly terrified. His body froze in place and started trembling uncontrollably.

"No, no... Don’t kill me."

"Master, I won’t go against Qingtian anymore. Please don’t kill me, please..."

Bang!

A dull explosion resonated.

The Thousand-legged Master burst into a pulp of flesh, scattering phosphorescent remains everywhere.

The salamander exhaled deeply, using its roots to fling the fleshy debris far away, preventing the phosphorescence from spawning new deceit beasts.

"What exactly are these Great Mothers trying to do?"

"Master? Could Big Deer Thousand Feet be somehow involved in this as well?"

Li Mo muttered to himself.

The fact that the Great Mothers could mutually gestate hinted at a special form of communication between them. The Thousand-legged Master’s self-muttering was likely him conversing with one of the Great Mothers.

Li Mo had deliberately chosen to openly attempt a breakthrough to the Core Transformation Stage in the Supreme Furnace, partially to probe the Great Mothers’ intentions. After all, the lack of contact with the Great Mothers for several years was quite unusual.

Even if he achieved a breakthrough, as long as he possessed the Ash Golden Core, his self-preservation would not be an issue.

What puzzled Li Mo, however, was the Great Mothers’ peculiar attitude toward him—it seemed oddly obsequious and ingratiating.

"No, when the matter with the Inner Sect ends, I need to consider leaving the Sub-Device Sect, no matter what."

"Even if it’s just taking on a mission to temporarily distance myself from all this chaos."

To ensure his own safety, Li Mo summoned the Ghost Tiger into the external environment and continued merging the Mist Fog Golden Core with the Non-poison Soul.

He could clearly feel the outer shell of the Mist Fog Golden Core becoming increasingly solid, meaning that advancing to the Core Transformation Stage required meticulous effort over time.

It was difficult to imagine how challenging it would be for him to break his core and form his nascent soul.

Of course, if he could advance to the Nascent Soul Stage, the resulting soul would absolutely be extraordinary.

Li Mo had high expectations for his two flawless golden cores, but he knew he had to take one step at a time—thinking about splitting Nascent Souls now was too premature.

The relative tranquility of the Supreme Furnace lasted only half a year.

Once the artifact cultivators confirmed the lack of danger, they gradually returned to the Supreme Furnace for secluded cultivation.

They were unsure whether any conflict had transpired within the furnace, but one thing was clear: Li Mo had come out on top.

Many assumed Li Mo would soon break through completely, but five years passed, and the Supreme Furnace still emanated pulses of spiritual energy.

During that time, there was no sign of the Great Mother.

Just as outsiders speculated that Li Mo’s foundation might have been damaged due to an attack by the Great Mother, causing the waves of breakthrough energy to completely vanish...

A short respite later, an entirely new surge of tangible spiritual energy flooded out from within.

"A second breakthrough?"

The astonished artifact cultivators quickly realized.

It was rumored that Li Mo possessed the incomplete Innate Taoist Physique, the "Heavenly Human Seven Apertures," which gave him more than one dantian. Allegedly, he already bore dual golden cores.

However, dual golden cores advancing together into the Core Transformation Stage was an entirely different concept.

This demonstrated that Li Mo had never abandoned dual cultivation—his twin reservoirs of spiritual power advanced side by side, leaving his peers far behind in cultivation progress.

It instilled a sense of helplessness in others.

The Inner Sect disciples, who had bitterly cultivated in Zone 10 for centuries, could only watch as if they were fated to become stepping stones for Daoist Qingtian on his path to forming his nascent soul.

Dual golden cores...

Could the world truly give birth to an artifact cultivator with dual nascent souls?

Li Mo took note of the commotion outside but showed no inclination to exit his seclusion. Instead, he silently observed the unfolding situation.

The tremors deep within the Outer Heaven Meteorite Crater grew increasingly intense over time, hinting at the undercurrents stirring within the Sub-Device Sect.

Fortunately, there were no apparent signs that the Sub-Device Sect was on the brink of collapse.

Through his Immortal Locking Body, Li Mo learned from Tian Changwen that the harbor’s operations were exceedingly stable, with well-established storefronts yielding steady results.

The so-called "millennial calamity" seemed like no more than a figment of Li Mo’s imagination.

Suppressing his scattered thoughts, Li Mo examined the meridians and dantian within his body. His Mist Fog Golden Core had successfully advanced, and the repairs to his Ash Golden Core were also complete.

The Supreme Cave God Jade Talisman Map hadn’t undergone any earth-shattering transformations, but two new traits had emerged.

The original [Cave Void] trait enhanced the efficiency of spiritual energy circulation.

[Great Destruction] raised his body temperature to around 50 degrees while amplifying the power of ash spiritual energy, pushing its corrosiveness to new extremes.

The new traits included [Great Yin], which stabilized his physical temperature while lowering his blood temperature to freezing levels, mitigating the Ash Golden Core’s damage to his body and nurturing his foundation in the process.

[Cave God], fostering a connection between the Cave God Dharma Eye and his black-and-white pair of eyes, significantly expanded the coverage area of his Taiyin and Taiyang divine skills.

Li Mo was confident he could reach the Nascent Soul bottleneck within 200 years, ensuring he’d form his soul before the Uncertainty Period Death Disease erupted.

As for the divine skill forged from the Non-poison Soul, its name was [Hooked Kiss of Broken Intestines].

The Hooked Kiss referred to a highly toxic vine, and the Hooked Kiss of Broken Intestines involved "poison making."

Compared to previous methods like elixirs, gu worms, artifact refining, and ghost feeding, poison-making divine skills were, in some ways, easier to enhance.

Corpse Mountain contained tens of thousands of types of spiritual materials, some of which were partially toxic.

Li Mo could analyze the toxic effects of these materials during simple cooking processes to improve the Hooked Kiss of Broken Intestines; however, he couldn’t handle more complex poison formulas yet.

He had a hunch: while poison-based immortal sects in ancient cultivation times were considered unorthodox and inferior to sects like the Heart Beast Sect, future poison cultivators in the cultivation world would surely shine brightly.

The increasingly turbid state of Heavenly and Earthly spiritual energy and the rise of undying bodies were prime conditions for fostering toxins.

Poison cultivators wouldn’t stop at Foundation Establishment or Core Formation.

Thick smoke billowed from Corpse Mountain’s volcanic vent as low-grade spiritual materials were continuously cast into it.

Li Mo only needed to analyze the toxic effects produced by various spiritual materials to enhance the effectiveness of the Hooked Kiss of Broken Intestines.

Poison making was but one of the activities Li Mo engaged in during his downtime while advancing the Ash Golden Core.

He never ceased brewing wine or refining artifacts, occasionally using his divine skills to cultivate gu worms to adjust the ecosystem within Corpse Mountain.

If the Inner Sect disciples knew how casually Li Mo treated his seclusion, undoubtedly, some of them would suffer shattered Tao hearts.

The Ash Golden Core merely needed to incorporate the Artifact Pearl, making the Core Transformation Stage less challenging than with the Mist Fog Golden Core. By the third year, the fluctuations emanating from Li Mo completely ceased.

Both golden cores had entered the Core Transformation Stage, allowing their spiritual powers to merge seamlessly and steadily progress toward the perfect Core Formation’s Nascent Crying Stage.

After solidifying the cultivation level of his Ash Golden Core, Li Mo had spent only 13 years in the Supreme Furnace. With seven years remaining, he had no plans to waste time.

However, just as he immersed himself in the monotonous repetition of circulation cycles, the Supreme Furnace suddenly began to quake violently.

Li Mo opened his eyes and immediately left the amber container, turning his gaze toward the source of the strange phenomenon.

He saw ten new metal pillars slowly rising from the ground.

The fleshy characteristics of these metal pillars had become more pronounced, with visible signs of decay resembling the marks left by the Death Disease.

Previously, the amber containers were empty—living artifact people would be sent down the Path of Self-Reflection, while the deceased became skeletal remains in the Falling Abyss.

But now, Li Mo noted that many of these amber containers housed artifact people on the brink of death.

The mutation in these artifact people was extreme; their flesh had mostly dissolved, fusing them with the amber containers and anchoring them to the metal pillars.

"Ahhhh!!!"

Clearly retaining their consciousness, they let out soul-rending wails as the amber containers continuously supplied spiritual energy to sustain their fragile life force.

The artifact cultivators inside the Supreme Furnace appeared deeply apprehensive, their faces heavy with unease and a chilling fear.

"The eighth batch of metal pillars has appeared. Just 200 more years until the millennium arrives."

Li Mo murmured to himself as he approached the ten metal pillars, scrutinizing the mutated artifact people under the bewildered stares of others.

"Their bodies seem to show signs of phosphorescent corrosion, yet no trace of phosphorescence remains. Perhaps the contamination occurred during gestation within phosphorescent-infused organs."

While Li Mo pondered, the shadow-transformed Ghost Tiger slipped into one of the amber containers.

Conservatively estimating, the metal pillars contained at least a thousand artifact people. Rather than letting them linger in torment until death claimed them, it would be kinder to end their suffering swiftly.

With the influx of fresh residents into Corpse Mountain, the Yin Attribute Spiritual Energy within surged.

The completion rate of the spiritual patterns accelerated significantly.

Li Mo stayed fixated on Corpse Mountain, where the Five Elements Spiritual Patterns and Yin-Yang Spiritual Patterns were now 90% complete. In another two or three years, its artifact would advance to a magic treasure.

He couldn’t help but smile in anticipation. From the perspective of others, Li Mo’s collection of corpses seemed solely for brewing wine.

After placing the artifact people into Corpse Mountain, Li Mo showed no intention of returning to the amber container but instead left the Supreme Furnace outright.

Although it might waste the remaining time in the Supreme Furnace, upgrading Corpse Mountain to a magic treasure was more important. Staying in the furnace felt somewhat unsafe.

Li Mo believed that transforming an artifact into a magic treasure mirrored a cultivator breaking their core to become a nascent soul—it required extra resources and careful preparation.

Moreover, the Da Ai Mi Tian had already undergone the 83rd refinement.

Since the Great Mother no longer showed herself, Li Mo decided to explore other regions in Zone 10, retrieving the three unknown special pages to eliminate any unforeseen variables.