Longevity Strange Immortal
Chapter 89: Outbreak of Childhood Death Disease

Chapter 89: Chapter 89: Outbreak of Childhood Death Disease

"For this heart blood, I’ve consumed too much of my own flesh and blood."

Li Mo’s expression was one of despair, as while delaying for the Fake Beastification of the Golden Toad, the Tattooed Beast had at least cost him twenty percent of his flesh and blood.

Coupled with the impact of the Childhood Death Disease, it would probably take a long time to fully recover.

However, since I’ve obtained the Golden Toad’s heart blood, the price paid is acceptable, considering that Deceit Beast Blood is very hard to come by on the market.

Li Mo’s mind stirred slightly, as Breath Fog enveloped the deformed heart, and with the continuous pressing of impenetrable dust, heart blood slowly seeped out.

The heart blood exhibited a dark golden luster, emitting a faint metallic Spiritual Energy.

He stored it in a Liu Li jar, and there was enough heart blood to draw a Beast Head Tattoo, even with some surplus for Blood Drenching.

After the Golden Toad’s death, the sandstorm subsided.

Li Mo walked out slowly under countless gazes, with the massive corpse of the Golden Toad still visible behind him, showing clear signs of Deceit Beastification.

All cultivators drew a cold breath, knowing that while Li Mo might have used some trickery, an ordinary Early Stage of Youth cultivator could never have achieved such a feat.

A Deceit Beast nearing the Weak Crown Middle Stage side proved Li Mo’s strength.

Futu Hermit chuckled bitterly a few times, almost failing to suppress the urge to rush into the Golden Toad Daoist Temple earlier; he couldn’t just watch Li Mo perish.

"That kid Li Mo should be able to protect himself amidst the Taoist inheritance disputes in Rong Town."

He let out a sigh of relief, then gestured for Jin Li to go collect the winnings at the casino in the Mountain and Sea Market.

Futu Hermit, during the most distressing moments, had bet a shop on Li Mo, and both Jin Li and Zhao Zhu had made a small profit.

For him, if Li Mo had lost to the Golden Toad, he would surely have intervened, which would be against the rules of Duozhi Mountain.

Since they were all going to flee, the bet wasn’t that important anymore.

"Hiss..."

Li Mo rubbed his sore shoulder and, under many gazes, returned to the Mountain and Sea Daoist Temple.

Before he could walk a few meters, Manager Tian’s voice suddenly rang in his ear, "There won’t be a next time, get the follow-up done."

Li Mo displayed an awkward smile and turned to walk towards the Golden Toad’s corpse, dissecting it proficiently in front of thousands of cultivators.

The Golden Toad had already undergone Deceit Beastification, and its corpse carried a mysterious corrosiveness that, if not dealt with quickly, could affect the quality of the medicine field and even lead to the growth of many Fake Beasts.

Loose cultivators’ scalps felt tingling.

They couldn’t help but gain a deep understanding of the Mountain and Sea Hermit’s ruthlessness.

After Li Mo cleaned up the corpse, he incinerated the waste flesh and bones with a large fire, using the remaining materials for Hui Qingyi’s Simulation.

Observing that the Golden Toad Daoist Temple had been razed to the ground, he used a spiritual tablet to inform Jin Li. After a short time, several cultivators carried a new Daoist Temple over.

Jin Li, having witnessed the tragic state of Qingming Taoist Temple, had already anticipated the Golden Toad Daoist Temple would be reduced to ruins and had prepared a new Daoist Temple in advance.

The new Daoist Temple was placed at the original location of the Golden Toad Daoist Temple, and then they began cleaning the cliff.

Futu Hermit deliberately sent Zhao Zhu to be in charge of the three-layered medicinal field. They sprinkled medicinal powder that promoted growth into the pits, utilizing the characteristic of the cliff’s flesh transformation to repair.

Seeing Zhao Zhu managing things systematically, Li Mo quietly slipped into the temple to use spiritual techniques for healing.

Upon actively stimulating the Paoxiao Swallowing Body, his heart involuntarily began to beat rapidly, urging the thick, sand-like blood to flow throughout his body.

Under normal circumstances, if corroded by the Death Disease, he could only rely on elixirs to replenish flesh and blood.

Li Mo’s injuries gradually healed, but his expression did not ease in the slightest.

He could distinctly detect that his Five Internal Organs and Six Viscera were gradually losing function, with the Childhood Death Disease, like a festering sore clinging to his bones, affecting his body’s operation.

If he didn’t overcome the Childhood Death Disease, it would begin at age twenty and continue to deteriorate until fifty, leading to complete internal organ decay.

As expected, the Childhood Death Disease might erupt ahead of schedule.

Li Mo wasn’t afraid of it; after all, the Death Disease would accompany him for his entire life and would only become increasingly dangerous in the future.

Moreover, he had forcibly delayed the Childhood Death Disease until he advanced to the Weak Crown Period before it erupted, giving him far more confidence to overcome it than ordinary cultivators.

Noises came from outside, but Li Mo had already fallen into a state of emptiness.

......

The seasons changed.

The heavy snow of winter unknowingly covered Duozhi Mountain, and the rumors about the Mountain and Sea Hermit finally subdued.

Li Mo was in seclusion, with no time to deal with the outside world, so Futu Hermit named the temple "Four-legged."

Once the cliff was repaired, the Four-legged medicine field resumed the planting of spiritual materials.

Zhao Zhu divided the medicine field into two parts, with sixty percent supplying the Mountain and Sea Market and forty percent reserved for cultivating Li Mo’s specified spiritual materials.

These were spiritual materials dug from various parts of Duozhi Mountain, known as Meat Stones.

After Li Mo recovered twenty percent of his flesh and blood, he no longer needed to maintain the Paoxiao Swallowing Body intentionally and began preparations for refining Corpse Mountain.

Low-grade Magic Artifact Embryos were produced one by one and then sent to the Mountain and Sea Market.

Despite the market price disruptions, he handed over the Magic Artifact Embryos to Futu Hermit, leaving him to handle the transactions.

While accumulating experience, Li Mo also purchased some elixirs conducive to surviving the Death Disease.

"Cough, cough, cough..."

Harsh coughing echoed within the Four-legged Daoist Temple, as the Childhood Death Disease couldn’t be suppressed and was affecting his body and soul from the inside out.

Li Mo hadn’t felt this weak in a long time.

Before the Childhood Death Disease ended, his spirit would continue to deteriorate, leaving him almost incapable of doing anything but Artifact Refining.

The Creation Scholar showed signs of slight corpse spots, and the pages varied in degrees of decay.

As the warm breeze of early spring blew by.

Melting snow trickled down in slender streams around the jagged rocks protruding from the mountain top.

Li Mo’s rate of Artifact Refining plummeted, and the Four-legged Daoist Temple’s doors and windows remained closed, with pungent sandalwood incense sneaking out from the crevices.

He lay flat in the Seclusion Room, appearing as a lifeless corpse, with blue-purple skin and visible decay at the joints.

His Five Internal Organs and Six Viscera nearly stalled, but with the Paoxiao Swallowing Body, his heart persevered by managing a beat every few minutes.

His Middle Dantian had also dried up, with not a trace of Mist Fog Spiritual Power left.

It still didn’t impede his bodily movements, but instinctively he tried to minimize energy consumption.

Li Mo was deeply apprehensive, fearing he’d end up like Niu Village’s thousand-year-old ancestor, his consciousness trapped in his body and unable to move.

He could only watch helplessly as his flesh and bones turned into a withered husk.

"This is the Death Disease, and it’s only the Childhood variant."

In his mind, Li Mo recited the Five Poison Five God Heart Sutra, his scattered pupils refocused, full of longing for becoming Immortal.

Having been reborn with great difficulty, he didn’t want to endure such a suffocating form of immortality.

"I want to become Immortal, no matter how terrifying the nine tribulations of the Death Disease along the way, I wish to see the scenery atop the mountain..."

Through sheer force of will, Li Mo surprisingly managed to sit cross-legged.

Even without Mist Fog Spiritual Power, he attempted communicating with the Three Path Body using his consciousness, thereby gaining more experience in combatting the Childhood Death Disease.

As days went by.

Li Mo’s consciousness seemed to traverse the Gobi Desert, persistently seeking an oasis.

Unexpectedly, his consciousness first detected the leakless body, then discovered traces of life hidden beneath two layers of human skin.

Li Mo gasped for air, inhaling sharply into his lungs.

In the pitch darkness of the Seclusion Room, he supported his body with both arms on the floor, his chest and abdomen heaving rapidly, resembling a bear emerging from hibernation.