The road is vague

Chapter 246 Decomposing the Spirit Pearl
After Li Mo left the cemetery on the back mountain, just as he was about to return to his cave, a communication talisman fell from the sky.

So he had to turn back halfway, and with a disappointed heart, he headed toward his master Lu Qi's cave. When he arrived at Lu Qi's cave, Wei Cang and Jiang Feiyan had already arrived, and the three of them looked at Li Mo.

"Disciple Li Mo greets Master."

"kindness."

Lu Qi looked down at him, nodding and smiling in acknowledgment.

"The reason I summoned you here is to discuss the upcoming opening of two spots for true disciples within our sect."

After Li Mo sat cross-legged on the futon next to Wei Cang and Jiang Feiyan, Lu Qi began to explain in detail.

"The so-called true disciples will, to a certain extent, represent the sect's legacy. At that time, all forbidden areas within the sect will be open to true disciples. They can use all non-consumable resources of the sect unconditionally. Every month, the sect will distribute spirit stone stipends and sect contribution points comparable to those of the Hall Master of the Dharma Protector. The only goal of true disciples is to advance to the Nascent Soul stage at all costs!"

Even with the resources of the Lingmu Sect, it's almost a certainty that their carefully selected disciples will advance to the Golden Core stage.

"However, it should be noted that our sect has actually opened up three spots for true disciples, but one of them has already been given to Chen Kaixuan, the head of the Zhenfeng Pavilion, who made a significant contribution to our sect's ceasefire. The remaining two spots will be openly contested by Foundation Establishment disciples who volunteer to apply, three months later in our sect's True Yang Secret Realm."

"The True Yang Secret Realm?"

Wei Cang seemed to be deep in thought.

"Could the Jiang family's True Yang Secret Technique be related to this?"

"Indeed. If you think you have no hope of becoming a true disciple, you can still try to comprehend the power of alchemy here. Normally, Jiang family disciples have to pay a lot of sect contribution points to enter."

Upon hearing this, Wei Cang looked ashamed and said no more.

Half an hour later.

After bidding farewell to Lu Qi, Wei Cang, and Jiang Feiyan, Li Mo returned to his cave dwelling.

He first carefully tended to the Arhat bamboo in front of the door, placing a large number of fragments of magical artifacts at the base of the bamboo before entering the cave and sitting cross-legged on the futon.

Although he gained several storage bags from this battle, he is not short of spirit stones now.

In addition, his vision has become extraordinary, and ordinary magical artifacts are no longer of interest to him. Therefore, he did not pay too much attention to these unexpected gains. After sorting them out a bit over the past few days, he put them all into his storage ring.

However, the four spirit orbs and the ancient scripture tablet that he unexpectedly obtained during the battle piqued his curiosity.

He first took out a spirit pearl, opened his spiritual eye, and began to observe it carefully.

The spirit pearl exudes the wood spirit aura of the Pure Spirit Divine Tree, and it can automatically absorb the spiritual energy from the surroundings. Although it cannot achieve a true cycle, it can save spiritual energy to a great extent, which is truly miraculous.

"If we can decipher the secrets of this bead and use it to refine the composite Bagua matrix puppet, combined with the inherent energy-saving properties of this matrix puppet, then my cultivation will be free of any worries."

The composite Bagua matrix puppet is composed of sixty-four basic puppets.

This was something he had already planned to refine.

At that time, the density of spiritual energy in the composite Bagua Spirit Gathering Array will far exceed that of his ordinary Bagua Spirit Gathering Array, reaching an astonishing level. However, the consumption of sixty-four puppets is a source of great distress for Li Mo just by thinking about it.

Unlike combat puppets, although they consume more resources, they only consume spirit stones during combat.

Although the Spirit Gathering Matrix Puppet is energy-saving and consumes less power, cultivation is a long-term process that requires daily activation.

Think about this.

A thunderous sound suddenly erupted from within the cave; he had actually unleashed the Five Thunders to Dust secret technique at any cost.

Holding the Five Elements Spirit Stone in his left hand and the Spirit Pearl in his right, subtle lightning continuously surged from his right hand, gathering on the Spirit Pearl to thoroughly decompose it and comprehend the materials and techniques required for its refinement.

Under the lightning, the spirit pearl continuously decomposed into powder and fell to the ground.

The whole process lasted about half an hour.

As the spirit orb in his hand gradually disappeared, the thunder also gradually subsided.

Li Mo's face was slightly pale. He breathed heavily as he finished his practice, but his eyes revealed an undisguised joy.

He has successfully cracked the crafting technique for this spirit pearl.

Unlike in the past when accumulating experience in weapon crafting and alchemy, the Five Thunder Dust Transformation skill could be activated casually, requiring only a few spirit stones.

When attempting to decipher some key techniques, the caster can consume their own cultivation to activate the Five Thunders to Dust Secret Technique, trying to completely decipher the refining materials and techniques. Fortunately, this Wood Spirit Pearl was only made of special materials and its refining level was not high, so his deciphering this time went quite smoothly, only losing two or three months of meditation and arduous cultivation.

"Other materials are one thing, but the sect contribution required to exchange for the Qingling Tree branch is no small amount. Without becoming a true disciple, it would be a pipe dream for someone with the position of military formation instructor to gather the sect contribution required for sixty-four spirit beads in a short period of time."

he mused.

"Furthermore, whether it is investigating the secret of how Lingquan Pavilion can quickly condense lightning crystals, or whether there are remnants of the Seven Star Realm Witch Clan deep within Zhenfeng Pavilion, the identity of a true disciple is required."

After a while.

Li Mo put away the remaining three spirit orbs and looked at the ancient scripture stele.

Normally, the ancient scripture stele is just a stone tablet covered with silver swan-like characters, and at first glance, it seems to have no spiritual power.

If Li Mo hadn't seen it with his own eyes, he wouldn't have believed that this stone tablet possessed such great power. If it hadn't been countered by the Silver Doumu script he had mastered in his Dao Eye, it would have been quite troublesome to deal with, its strength unfathomable.

Li Mo suspected that this was a summoned object of an evil spirit.

However, now that the ancient scripture stele is right in front of him, no matter how Li Mo observes it, he still can't figure it out. He tries repeatedly to input his magic power, but he still can't summon that evil spirit.

So he tried to decipher the silver dwarf script on the stone tablet.

An hour later, Li Mo carefully translated the silver spiky script on the scroll. It turned out to be a song filled with malevolent intent, which made him even more convinced that it was a medium for summoning evil spirits.

The gist of the song in silver dot script is that if you are suffering greatly, then offer your death as a sacrifice to Tai Sui (the Grand Duke Jupiter). When misfortune and fear descend upon the world, and you revere the end of life, you will understand the meaning of existence...

Li Mo tried to use the ancient scripture stele, but after repeated study, he still couldn't get the hang of it, and the stele remained unresponsive.

Unfortunately, he had no choice but to give up for the time being.

After several days of rest, he has now largely recovered.

Now that he has decided to strive for a spot as a true disciple in three months, he naturally wants to prepare well and decides to condense as many lightning crystals as possible during this period in case of emergency.

So, with a thought, he was summoned by the true demon's avatar and came to the ethereal dreamland.

Crackling!

In the vast and desolate dreamscape, the sky remains shrouded in dark clouds and thunderstorms, filled with oppression and distortion.

Li Mo and his true demon avatar stood on the boundless earth.

However, the density of spiritual energy here is actually much higher than that of Qingming Mountain.

"let's start."

Since he couldn't set up a spirit-gathering array on Qingming Mountain, he decided to condense thunder crystals here. As he slowly sat cross-legged on the ground, absorbing the spiritual energy of heaven and earth and gathering it in his dantian, faint thunder rumbled around his body, filled with restlessness and unease.

Seeing that Li Mo's main body had gradually entered a meditative state, the gray-white eyes of the true demon clone glanced into the distance and then slowly left.

Normally, the true demon avatar would constantly try to explore the secrets of the ethereal dream world.

Especially after being reminded by the fox spirit Yin Miao, Li Mo learned that the secrets of the ancient chaos might be hidden in Misty Peak, so he consciously began to let his true demon clone explore continuously.

He vaguely remembered seeing the so-called Misty Peak when he first entered this place!
At that time, he was still in a hazy state of consciousness. It wasn't until he woke up from the dream that he vaguely remembered it. But the dream world was too vast, and the true demon clone never found anything there.

unconsciously.

More than two months have passed in the blink of an eye.

There are only half a month left until the selection of true disciples.

At this moment, some dust settled on Li Mo's body, and in his dantian, three lightning crystals were floating quietly. Each lightning crystal was about the size of a soybean, containing terrifying lightning spiritual power and emitting a mysterious light.

Suddenly.

Li Mo opened his eyes, and a hint of maturity and understanding was faintly revealed in his gaze.

"With such a speed at which lightning crystals are condensed, it is truly a pipe dream to try to cultivate the so-called Extreme Lightning Body."

He couldn't help but sigh slightly.

"It seems that I can only verify this after becoming a true disciple and going to the Spirit Spring Pavilion to confirm whether the secret of being able to quickly condense lightning crystals there is due to the presence of primordial energy. Is it possible to quickly condense lightning crystals only through the so-called dual cultivation of body and mind?"

The so-called vital energy is a traditional order that is closely related to the vitality of life.

Vital energy can affect attributes such as physical strength, talent, essence and blood, lifespan, aura, spirit, sixth sense, and popularity. The vital energy that Lingmu Sect disciples can usually come into contact with is mostly manifested as the internal strength of cultivators, the transformation of demonic beasts, and the casting of secret techniques that require the consumption of essence and blood.

This is a Taoist order that is completely different from spiritual energy.

Whether it's the demon race in the Misty Realm or the spirit race in the Primordial Spirit Realm, they all cultivate primordial energy.

If it is truly confirmed that cultivating both body and mind is necessary to quickly condense the Thunder Crystal, then he must find a way to gather the Longevity Pill, Yin Virtue Pill, and Creation Pill according to the method of refining pills with pills described in "The Great Zhou Dream Interpretation" to refine the so-called Ethereal Pill.

Only through this so-called ethereal elixir can he achieve true cultivation of both body and spirit, according to the ancient methods of the Great Zhou Dynasty.

Unfortunately, although he had Creation Pills and Longevity Pills, which he could try to buy and then decipher the secrets of the pill formulas, he had never heard of Yin Virtue Pills.

After much deliberation.

Just as Li Mo was about to return to reality and fully immerse himself in the upcoming battle for the true discipleship, he suddenly remembered something and stopped what he was doing.

"It seems that the Lin Dianchang at that time did not directly invoke the ancient scripture stele."

He began to recall carefully.

In the midst of the chaos, he vaguely recalled that after the ancient stele summoned the evil spirit, it seemed to have devoured a corpse. Combined with the silver swan script on the stele, he couldn't help but ponder.

"Could it be that one must be near the deceased to activate this stone tablet and summon the evil spirit?"

On a sudden inspiration, Li Mo immediately returned to the real world and summoned his true demon clone.

really!

When the true demon clone was beside him, the ancient stone tablet clearly changed. As he channeled some magic power into it, the silver runes on the tablet twisted wildly, and the tablet itself seemed to melt, turning into a black, slimy skull with a pained expression. It was preparing to swallow the true demon clone whole.

Li Mo quickly summoned his true demon avatar back to the Misty Realm.

He had a vague feeling that this evil spirit was exceptionally powerful, and what was summoned through the stone tablet was merely a projection of its descent. The evil spirit's strength was related to the surrounding aura of death.

"This smells like the Asura Realm..."

After the projection mumbled incoherently, it transformed back into a gray-white stone tablet.

(End of this chapter)