The First Immortal of Destiny-Chapter 454 Ancient Array Anomaly_1

Whether it was Basic Destiny or Special Destiny, elevating it from Purple to Orange quality required one hundred Destiny Points per attempt.

Shen Mo planned to first upgrade every Destiny to Purple quality. Once he had accumulated more Destiny Points, he would continue to enhance their quality based on priority. There was no need to rush for now.

As for his various magic and cultivation methods, they were also progressing steadily.

Particularly, the Dragon Elephant Blood Fiend Body cultivation method, which he had derived to perfection, had allowed him to cultivate the Bloody Fiend Body to Extremely Perfection, reaching the Godlike state. As a result, he had gained a Skill called "Blood Shadow".

With abundant Blood Qi, he could manifest a Blood Shadow Separation, which generally possessed about half of Shen Mo’s own Cultivation Realm.

If his Blood Qi was sufficient, he could even conjure dozens, or even hundreds, of Blood Shadow Separations. However, most of Shen Mo’s strength lay in his profound mastery of techniques. The Blood Shadow Separation, aside from absorbing the essence of Bloody Fiend, couldn’t utilize other magic in combat, rendering it relatively weak.

It fell far short of the Separation created by the Gecko Divine Skill, making it feel rather underwhelming!

However, for other Bloody Fiend School disciples who practiced this cultivation method, it was an excellent technique. Reaching the Extremely Perfection realm by practicing other cultivation methods was fundamentally difficult. But by cultivating the Dragon Elephant Blood Fiend Body, one only needed to persevere in their cultivation, making it much easier to acquire the "Blood Shadow" Skill than with other magic and martial arts.

In addition, Shen Mo had amassed over three thousand middle-grade Spirit Stones and planned to next derive the Three-Heads Six-Arms True Immortal Technique.

At his current rate of accumulation, he probably needed to save for about another six months to gather enough Spirit Stones for deriving the True Immortal Technique. This pace seemed slow, yet it was already quite remarkable; this rate of profit even surpassed that of most minor immortal sects.

During this period, Shen Mo also traveled to the Heavenly Demon Battlefield several times to carry out demon-slaying missions.

Many powerful demon heads had died by his hand, including one expectant Class IV demon who fell to his Sword Array.

However, the situation was deteriorating. The Foreign Realm Demons’ side had inexplicably gained many high-end combatants. Several Class IV Big Heavenly Demons were new faces, appearing as if from nowhere.

Consequently, whether on the Sea State battlefield or the Heishan Town battlefield, the demon scourge was more severe than before.

Cultivator strongholds in Sea State were repeatedly razed, and one of the cities between Heishan Town and the Ghost Nation Ruins was also breached.

The Five Great Sects suspected that the Heavenly Demons had invaded other places besides this realm and had achieved significant success. They were now preparing a team of top cultivators to venture into the Heavenly Demon Realm to investigate.

After much deliberation and weighing of various factors, Shen Mo was not selected for this mission.

One day, he and the other three Peak Masters had just attended that year’s New Talent Competition.

Several disciples from the Bloody Fiend School had reached the Qi Gathering Realm and become inner disciples. However, their performance in the New Talent Competition was extremely poor and failed to catch the Dharma Eye of the other Three Peak Masters.

This was not hard to understand. Even if these Bloody Fiend School disciples were carefully selected, their initial pool was too small.

Those who managed to stand out from over a hundred of their peers were still weaker when compared to the top talents who had fought their way out from among one hundred thousand outer disciples. Furthermore, due to their main cultivation method being the Dragon Elephant Blood Fiend Body, they could hardly utilize other techniques aside from their robust vitality. Naturally, their combat effectiveness was inferior to that of ordinary newly promoted inner disciples.

Of course, the Riverside Sect had established Green Cloud Peak as a Main Peak precisely to provide a foundation for them.

Shen Mo also selected several disciples from the Bloody Fiend School who had participated in the New Talent Competition and accepted them into Green Cloud Peak.

As time went on, more and more disciples from the Bloody Fiend School would be teleported from the Wando Archipelago to the Riverside Sect via the Teleportation Array. In time, more outstanding talents were bound to emerge.

Not long after the New Talent Competition concluded, Shen Mo detected an unusual movement from his Soul Refining Flag.

He employed a technique to shield against the prying five senses and divine sense of outsiders, then took out the Soul Refining Flag. Upon inspection, he found that the soul mark belonging to the Demon Soul General, the Possession Ghost, Horse Groom Lv, was emitting a faint light.

"This is..."

Shen Mo’s eyes narrowed slightly, a possibility occurring to him.

He had sent the Demon Soul General, Horse Groom Lv, to the Foreign Zone where the Taiyi Sword Alliance was located, to possess Yang Chengxiong, a disciple of the Sword Alliance.

The last order he had given it was to replicate a Teleportation Altar identical to the one inside the Sword Tomb. After that, the Soul Refining Flag had completely lost contact with it!

Although he couldn’t control it at present, the Soul Refining Flag could still sense its existence.

It had most likely completed the construction of the Teleportation Altar and used it to teleport to the small island in the remote waters of the Immortal Burial Sea.

Promptly, after a discussion with Zhou Shili and the other two Peak Masters, Shen Mo used the Teleportation Array outside the Purple Heaven Palace and appeared directly on the small island where the ancient array altar was located.

"Peak Master Shen!"

As soon as Shen Mo stepped out of the altar, the Spirit Sea Realm Elder stationed there came forward to greet him.

Because this ancient altar might lead to the Foreign Zone of the Taiyi Sword Alliance, after Shen Mo had reported this to the sect, the Riverside Sect had specially arranged for personnel to come and establish a Teleportation Array on the island.

Furthermore, a Spirit Sea Realm Elder had been dispatched to be stationed here long-term, guarding the ancient array altar.

Although this island and the Wando Archipelago were both located in the remote waters of the Immortal Burial Sea, the reason they didn’t share a Teleportation Array was simple: the distance separating the two locations was even greater than that between the Wando Archipelago and the Riverside Sect’s main entrance.

Otherwise, when Shen Mo and Jiang Lingfeng had rushed to the remote waters to search for Yuan Chengshan’s whereabouts, they could have used this place as a transit point.

"Elder Sun, thank you for your hard work. You sent a message back to the Sect stating there were signs of this ancient array activating. Did you discover if anyone teleported here?"

Hearing Shen Mo’s question, Elder Sun shook his head and said helplessly, "Reporting to the Peak Master, this array activated twice in quick succession, but I didn’t see anyone teleport over! Because this array is of great importance, I had to report it to the Sect."

"Hmm."

Shen Mo nodded slightly, a rough deduction forming in his mind.

When he sent the Possession Ghost, Horse Groom Lv, to the Foreign Zone, it had already reached the middle-stage of Class III and possessed a Skill allowing it to hide in the void. It was quite normal for Elder Sun, with his strength, to be unable to detect it.

Now, the Soul Refining Flag had lost contact with Horse Groom Lv again, just like before...

Evidently, after teleporting here, it hadn’t lingered and had immediately teleported back.

This abnormal behavior sparked a peculiar thought in Shen Mo’s mind. It seemed this mutated Demon Soul General was intentionally trying to lure him to the Foreign Zone where the Taiyi Sword Alliance was located.

However, Shen Mo was highly skilled and bold. Plus, this was a rare opportunity. After sending a message via talisman to the other high-ranking members of the sect, he took out middle-grade Spirit Stones from his Universe Bag and attempted to activate the ancient array altar.

HUMMM!

The spirit light of the ancient array altar flared, and it began to operate smoothly.

It seems Horse Groom Lv has indeed not failed my trust and has successfully constructed the large Teleportation Array in the Foreign Zone, Shen Mo mused. After giving Elder Sun a few instructions, he stepped into the altar alone.

Amidst powerful spatial fluctuations, Shen Mo’s figure vanished instantly.