The First Immortal of Destiny-Chapter 427 Progress Everywhere_1
"Bloody Fiend Patriarch..."
"I never thought I’d have a day where I’d be called patriarch!"
Shen Mo smiled sheepishly and memorized the title. It might come in handy if I need a pseudonym in the future, he reckoned.
Clam Girl Ming Yu felt much the same; she found it novel and amusing, without any aversion or disgust.
Only Jiang Lingfeng found the title "Second Ancestor of Blood Fiend" too unpleasant. I should give those disciples a piece of my mind, he mused, and have them come up with a better-sounding title, something like ’Drunk Immortal’!
However, there was one obvious benefit. With the fame of the Three Bloody Fiend Patriarchs and the Ten Divine Generals spreading throughout the various islands in the Wando Archipelago, more and more islanders, regardless of the arduous journey, flocked to the Capital City of Bright Sand Country, wishing to join the burgeoning Bloody Fiend Sect. After weeding out those of unsuitable age and those lacking the Talent for cultivation, the number of Bloody Fiend Sect disciples still swelled at an alarming rate of three to four thousand per day.
Before long, the disciples of the Bloody Fiend Sect surpassed eighty thousand!
For this reason, Shen Mo even ordered the demolition of the inner palace walls and the outer city walls of the Capital City, incorporating a hundred-mile radius into the Bloody Fiend Sect’s headquarters’ mountain gate. They constructed dwellings from shells and reef rock for the new disciples to live and cultivate in.
Even so, this only slightly alleviated the pressure. Many disciples who received the simplified version of the "Dragon Elephant Blood Fiend Body" couldn’t even gather enough of the fundamental Bloody Fiend essence required for introductory cultivation! The Demon Soul Generals under Shen Mo’s command either slaughtered the evil cultivator Priests on various islands or hunted savage Sea Beasts. Even Jiang Lingfeng and Ming Yu had to put aside their own affairs and venture out to sea to hunt down nearby Sea Beasts.
But it was still not enough!
Fortunately, the first batch of Bloody Fiend Sect disciples who had begun to cultivate attained the strength of the early-stage Body Tempering Realm. Individually, they naturally couldn’t slay a Sea Beast. However, most of them came from islander fisherman families; even as mortals, they could still work together to besiege and kill a Class I Sea Beast. Now that their vitality had grown stronger, their efficiency in hunting Sea Beasts had also increased significantly, greatly alleviating the Bloody Fiend Sect’s dire shortage of cultivation resources!
However, this situation couldn’t last forever; establishing sect branches on the major islands had become imminent.
Soon, Shen Mo selected nearly a thousand disciples with superior Talent and outstanding performance. He personally guided them, supplied them with Sea Beast corpses, and rewarded them with Grade V Elixirs like Yang-strengthening Powder for intensive cultivation. From these thousand, he then chose more than a hundred disciples, gifting them the complete version of the "Dragon Elephant Blood Fiend Body" and Grade I Elixirs to enhance their vitality.
Ordinary breathing cultivation methods involve refining nature’s spiritual energy for one’s use, gradually accumulating Mana. To avoid deviations that could injure the Qi Sea and Chakras, such cultivation methods generally require a steady, cautious approach, and progress is typically quite slow. This even applied to the cultivation methods of evil cultivators. However, solely practicing external magic—though it didn’t produce Mana, and even activating talismans relied on one’s own vitality—had a distinct advantage: as long as resources were sufficient, one could advance vigorously and make swift progress, continuously strengthening their physique! Naturally, this cultivation speed was much faster than that of ordinary cultivation methods.
Under Shen Mo’s intensive nurturing, most of these carefully selected hundred-odd individuals condensed Bloody Fiend Pearls within their bodies, achieving the strength of the middle-stage Body Tempering Realm. Thus, Shen Mo dispatched them to ten large islands near Bright Sand Country to establish branch divisions of the Bloody Fiend Sect. In this way, the critical issues of overcrowding at the headquarters and the scarcity of Sea Beast resources could be resolved!
Shen Mo couldn’t guarantee it for other places, but within a radius of four thousand li, those powerful evil cultivator Priests dared not openly cause trouble. Of course, some covert mischief was unavoidable. Many dispatched Bloody Fiend Sect disciples tragically died at their hands, but these troublemaking Priests ultimately couldn’t escape the pursuit of the late-stage Class III Demon Soul Generals.
「As the days passed, the Bloody Fiend Sect’s prestige grew ever more prominent.」
The number of disciples quickly surpassed the hundred thousand mark. Branches, centered around the Capital City of Bright Sand Country, sprang up one after another on the large islands. A multitude of disciples hunted Sea Beasts, eliminated hostile Priests, and filled the power vacuum left after the expulsion of the original transcendent forces.
Having reached this stage, Shen Mo began to consider leaving.
During this time, his cultivation hadn’t faltered. With a plentiful supply of Grade III and Grade IV Elixirs, his Cultivation Realm gradually neared Layer IV of the Spirit Sea Realm.
In another month or two, I can attempt to advance to the middle-stage of the Spirit Sea Realm... he mused. I’ll likely break through on the journey back!
Possessing the "Performance Martial Arts" Destiny, he hadn’t neglected the advancement of his magic and martial arts. In particular, his "Three-Heads Six-Arms True Immortal Technique" had its experience bar filled at the "Transcendence" level, directly stepping into the "Epic (MAX)" Realm! It was worth noting that after reaching "Epic," a technique could not be further improved; stepping into this level signified its ultimate Perfection.
After triggering "Godlike," his other two magic cultivation methods, the "Heavenly Origin Technique" and the "Immortal Wind Cloud Physique," also received free insights and experience, successively reaching the "Epic (MAX)" standard and triggering "Godlike" twice more! As a result, the progress bars for numerous magic and martial arts on his panel surged significantly, saving Shen Mo a considerable amount of Spirit Stones. 𝙛𝒓𝒆𝙚𝒘𝒆𝓫𝙣𝓸𝙫𝓮𝒍.𝒄𝒐𝓶
Next, the cultivation methods likely to reach the "Epic" level first would be the "Sword Control Spirit Technique," the "All-Encompassing Sword Canon," and the "Dragon Elephant Blood Fiend Body." All of them had reached "Transcendence" early on and were not far from being cultivated to Extremely Perfection!
However, cultivating a technique to its limit was, in fact, a new beginning. This was because "Martial Performance" could evolve various magic cultivation methods to their next stage. Shen Mo decided that once he had saved enough Spirit Stones, he would spend a fortune to successively evolve two powerful martial arts, the "Big Dipper Seven Star Sword Formation" and the "Three-Heads Six-Arms True Immortal Technique," to their new stages!
I just don’t know, Shen Mo mused, if after these cultivation methods are evolved and then cultivated again to Extremely Perfection, can they still trigger ’Godlike’ (or ’Godlike (Swordplay)’) and grant new Skills? Based on my deductions, the extraordinary state of ’Godlike’ should still be triggerable, but it’s unlikely I’ll obtain entirely new Skills. After all, the original cultivation method and its evolved version are fundamentally the same... The Skill gained would likely be identical, which is tantamount to not gaining a new Skill at all! Of course, this is merely my speculation, he acknowledged. The actual outcome remains to be seen.
The celestial phenomena, generated when three of his magic cultivation methods reached Extremely Perfection and triggered "Godlike" three times, plunged the entire populace of Bright Sand Country’s Capital City into immense shock! After all, such phenomena were entirely different from the sights produced when cultivators cast spells or engaged in Magic Duels; anyone could discern the difference. The disciples of the Bloody Fiend Sect were even more ecstatic and inspired, firmly believing their three patriarchs were reincarnated Immortals and that these phenomena were a divine blessing from the heavens upon their establishment of the Bloody Fiend Sect.
Shen Mo could roughly guess how the Bloody Fiend Sect’s Manuals would describe the founding "Three Bloody Fiend Patriarchs" in the future!
