The First Immortal of Destiny-Chapter 456 Backstab_1

The clash between the two big arrays unleashed extremely terrifying power!

BOOM!

RUMBLE!

One by one, mountains were crushed into dust, and the array flags shattered into fragments.

The cultivators from the unknown faction standing on the peaks suffered heavy casualties. Those with lighter injuries vomited blood incessantly. Those more seriously injured had their Dao Bodies torn apart, their auras utterly dispirited!

The seven Big Dipper Swords also moaned as they were forced back, and Shen Mo was injured in the aftershock.

Fortunately, he possessed numerous defensive measures. The damage he sustained was minimal after being successively weakened by the Green Cloud Umbrella, the Wall Palm, the Nine-Extreme Crystal Sand, his inner armor, and other protective layers. As soon as he activated the Three-Heads Six-Arms True Immortal Technique, he managed to repair his injured Dao Body with his abundant blood essence primality.

His soul also received quite a shock. Thankfully, it was protected by two powerful Soul Magic techniques and was not damaged at its core.

As the Formation collapsed, Yang Chengxiong, who was controlling the array flags, was also affected. His Dao Body became ragged, with murky Demonic Qi continuously seeping out from his injuries. However, his condition was clearly much better than his fellow cultivators.

The next moment, his figure flickered slightly and bizarrely vanished before everyone’s eyes.

He has even inherited Horse Groom Lv’s Skill that allows him to hide in the void...

Shen Mo’s heart tightened. He immediately equipped Bright Vision in a slot on his Destiny Disc.

Back in the Ghost Nation Ruins, the first time he encountered a Possession Ghost, he had used this Destiny to find traces of two Possession Ghosts.

Now that he activated it, the effect was remarkable, quickly locking onto Yang Chengxiong’s trail.

But to his surprise, Yang Chengxiong didn’t use his void-hiding Skill to ambush him; instead, he attacked his own companions.

SWOOSH!

A sharp Sword Light flashed past.

One of the cultivators Yang Chengxiong had hired was swallowing an Elixir to heal his injuries. He had no idea Yang Chengxiong would turn on him and didn’t even grunt before the Sword Light pierced his brow.

Then, with a flash of spirit light, the fallen cultivator’s corpse was collected into a Universe Bag.

"You despicable cur! Attacking us like this, aren’t you afraid Yellow Spring Valley will hunt you to the ends of the earth?"

As Yang Chengxiong made his shocking move, the leader among his hired cultivators angrily rebuked him.

He had commissioned the renowned clandestine power of this realm, Yellow Spring Valley—a loose alliance of assassins with cultivators from various factions.

The fees they charged were high, but their reputation was impeccable.

For an employer like Yang Chengxiong, who had suddenly backstabbed them, Yellow Spring Valley would mobilize all its resources to eliminate him!

"Heh. You’ll need to escape *his* pursuit first before you run your mouths." Yang Chengxiong’s figure materialized. He glanced at Shen Mo, then vanished into the void once more.

A few breaths later, he killed another Yellow Spring Valley cultivator, and their body was also taken into a Universe Bag.

Seeing Yang Chengxiong’s actions, it seems that after merging with Horse Groom Lv, he still retains some ability to strengthen himself by consuming blood food.

This man saw that even after painstakingly setting up a big array, he couldn’t kill me, so he knew it was futile.

So, he simply turned on his fellow cultivators, seizing the opportunity to plunder some cultivation resources for himself...

Such decisiveness and ruthlessness! He truly is a formidable character!

Shen Mo inwardly acknowledged this, but his actions remained utterly merciless. He swung the Demon Slaying Sword, unleashing Starfall Sword Qi towards Yang Chengxiong’s position.

Horse Groom Lv’s Skills are quite extraordinary. Once the Soul Refining Flag is recovered, they could be of great use.

Moreover, this man knows some of my secrets. Letting him escape easily would ultimately become a hidden danger.

CRACK!

Yang Chengxiong threw out a white, turtle shell-like magic artifact, barely blocking the deadly strike of the Starfall Sword Qi.

This defensive treasure of exceptional quality instantly split in half, completely losing its protective power.

Just as Shen Mo was about to strike again, Yang Chengxiong quickly retrieved a talisman from his sleeve. Upon activation, it turned into green smoke, and his figure vanished from Bright Vision’s field of view.

A few moments later, Shen Mo’s spiritual sense detected his presence over a hundred li away.

However, he didn’t linger. He activated another talisman, again vanishing in green smoke. This time, he completely escaped Shen Mo’s spiritual sense lock.

With High-Level Talismans and a void-hiding Skill for protection, I can’t do anything to him right now. I can only rely on the soul mark on the Soul Refining Flag to track him down and kill him later.

Immediately, he unleashed a terrifying Sword Light, attacking the Yellow Spring Valley cultivators who were scattering in disarray.

...

「Three days later.」

Shen Mo found a desolate and remote area, intending to reconstruct an ancient formation altar here.

This array was vastly different from the Teleportation Arrays scattered throughout Red Flame Country. Besides the similar teleportation function, the formation principles, construction materials, and the runes on the magic altar were all worlds apart!

The Array Path masters of the Riverside Sect had studied the ancient array on the island, but to this day, they had not fully deciphered it.

With Shen Mo’s rudimentary Array Path skills, replicating all the details wasn’t difficult. However, constructing a magic altar that could connect to the Teleportation Array outside Purple Heaven Palace was undoubtedly wishful thinking.

Even the Riverside Sect couldn’t move the ancient array from the island back to Red Flame Country.

This magic altar seemed intrinsically linked to the spiritual vein and earth acupoint beneath the island, forming something like a formation core. If moved arbitrarily, it might even lose its original wondrous effects.

The original magic altar inside the Sword Tomb Dungeon, the Formation Yang Chengxiong previously set up in the valley, and the one Shen Mo was now preparing, were all essentially subsidiary formations. They could only connect to the main array on the island and only allowed for two-way travel, imposing significant limitations.

Unfortunately, forget the Riverside Sect; even if one searched the entire cultivation world of Red Flame Country, one wouldn’t find a big array capable of teleporting across such immense distances.

Otherwise, there would be no need for all this trouble today!

Then again, if Teleportation Arrays could easily span such vast distances, Red Flame Country and this region wouldn’t have remained isolated from each other for millennia.

Relying on his memory, Shen Mo spent only a day replicating most of the ancient array.

Just as he was about to complete it, he suddenly sensed a powerful aura rapidly approaching.

RUMBLE!

Amidst sounds like muffled thunder, a glorious golden magic ship breached the clouds, rapidly descending from the horizon.

Shen Mo looked up and saw Yang Chengxiong, who had escaped from him a few days prior, standing at the bow of the vessel.

His hands and feet were currently bound by magic artifact shackles, but aside from that, he seemed to have suffered no other harm.

The flag mounted on the magic ship bore a blood-red eyeball pattern, which seemed to be staring intently at Shen Mo!

Heaven Patrolling Temple!

Shen Mo’s expression turned cold. He quickly dismantled the unfinished ancient formation altar, stowing the various materials into his Universe Bag.

The next moment, he executed the Ride the Cloud magic, transforming into a pale golden streak of light and fleeing into the distance.

Just then, a middle-aged Daoist emerged from the magic ship. He opened his mouth and spat out a true flame, at the Spiritual Fire level, which surged towards Shen Mo!