The road is vague

Chapter 264 A Battle in a Small Corner

Li Mo activated his spiritual eye and looked at the Natural Sect disciple who had transformed into a tree-man.

A cold smile crept across his lips.

Although the Natural Gate's supernatural abilities are quite unique, they are clearly limited by geographical location. In this desolate Gobi Desert environment, it is difficult to exert its true strength. It can be described as outwardly strong but inwardly weak, which he saw through at a glance.

His only distinguishing feature is his enormous size and astonishing vitality.

"What's the use of being big?"

After unleashing the Heavenly Golden Sword, he gently pointed at the treant in front of him, whose movements were constantly expanding and contracting.

The dark golden light flashed and disappeared in an instant, pointing directly at the Nature Sect disciple who had transformed into a tree-man.

Wei Wutong clearly hadn't realized how terrifying the flying sword was, and only regarded Li Mo as an ordinary masked man. He was quite confident in his transformation technique and actually planned to withstand it head-on in his tree spirit form.

Poof!
The Tiancheng Huajin sword pierced through his body.

"what……"

Wei Wutong let out a heart-wrenching roar, only then realizing the terrifying power of the Tiancheng Huajin Sword. He quickly summoned a bronze gong magic weapon to block the flying sword.

This bronze gong, though quite extraordinary, constantly emitted metallic clanging sounds.

However, under the continuous strikes of the Tiancheng Huajin Sword, this magical artifact also suffered some spiritual damage, and it was clearly difficult to sustain its power for long.

Upon witnessing this scene, the tree-man couldn't help but look towards Li Mo, a hint of fear creeping into his eyes.

"Senior Brother Wei!"

The other disciples of the Natural Sect behind Wei Wutong were shocked to see him injured in a single exchange. However, there were quite a few masked men nearby, and the situation was chaotic, making it difficult for them to provide support.

Wei Wutong gritted his teeth, quickly formed hand seals, and chanted incantations.

As the branches above his head fell off one by one, they instantly transformed into seven wood spirit orbs, which formed seven slightly smaller tree people, each wielding a giant club and looking majestic.

"Wood-based Spirit Transformation Technique".

After performing this technique, Wei Wutong breathed a slight sigh of relief.

The spirit tree beings rushed towards Li Mo.

Li Mo was quite familiar with this method. He had already experienced it during the battle at Qinglongtan. He knew that these tree people had great endurance, inexhaustible magical power, strong self-healing ability, and could even merge into one after accumulating a certain amount of spiritual power, forming a giant tree person with thick skin and flesh, which was quite difficult to deal with.

According to Zhou Can.

This was a secret technique of the Natural Sect that he obtained during the war. Now, it was being used by this late-stage Foundation Establishment disciple of the Natural Sect in conjunction with his main cultivation method, and its power seemed to be even greater.

As for whether this secret technique has any other derivative abilities, he had no idea.

In the past, Li Mo didn't really have any good ways to deal with this, but things are different now.

The sky suddenly darkened!
Many disciples of the Natural Sect who were engaged in battle suddenly felt a chill run down their spines and looked up at the sky.

Several of them were quite quick-witted; they immediately showed expressions of horror and hastily retreated.

After casting the Wood-Born Spirit Transformation spell, Wei Wutong, who had just breathed a sigh of relief, suddenly narrowed his eyes when he looked up. The spell's coverage area was simply too large, and as the victim, he had no way to escape its range. Despair immediately filled his face.

"To be able to create puppets of this caliber, they must be from the Puppet Sect of the Qian Kingdom!"

Unbeknownst to them, a combined attack puppet had appeared above them, its two heads opening their mouths simultaneously and unleashing the Yin Wind and Calamity Fire Technique.

The gray flames fell silently.

Wei Wutong, who had transformed into a tree-man, and the seven tree-men he summoned, were instantly reduced to ashes, leaving only a few ash that dissipated in the wind.

"hiss!"

Even the masked cultivators summoned by Li Mo couldn't help but gasp in shock upon witnessing this scene, their faces filled with horror.

At this time.

Li Mo noticed a glimmer of light through his spiritual eye technique.

After careful observation, he discovered that the disciple of the Natural Sect had turned into a dozen withered leaves, mingling in the ashes, preparing to escape at any moment.

This person was, after all, a late-stage Foundation Establishment cultivator, and his methods were indeed quite extraordinary, managing to survive a combined attack spell.

If it were a disciple from another sect, he might have been able to slip away undetected.

Unfortunately, he encountered Li Mo of the Lingmu Sect.

The dark golden light flashed and disappeared again.

This disciple of the Natural Sect, who was already seriously injured, was immediately killed by Li Mo with a single sword strike after losing his transformation technique, and his body fell into the desolate Gobi Desert.

"Senior Brother Wei..."

The nearby disciples of the Natural Sect were terrified and screamed.

In a short while, after Li Mo, in coordination with the combined attack puppet, killed the leading enemy, he first glanced at the treasure ship that was sailing away in the distance, and then attacked another disciple of the Natural Sect.

The combined attack puppet, with its massive body over two zhang tall, descended from the sky like a shooting star.

The black fist, brimming with terrifying power, struck the wooden shield of the Natural Sect disciple squarely. The Natural Sect disciple, who was dealing with the masked men around him, was immediately struck by a strong backlash of magical power, and staggered down with a muffled groan.

The Tiancheng Huajin sword flashed and disappeared in an instant.

When the disciple of the Natural Sect landed, he was already a corpse, and his storage bag was easily taken away by a ray of spiritual light.

that's it.

In less than the time it takes to drink a cup of tea, more than a dozen disciples of the Natural Sect were killed by a group of masked men led by Li Mo. The storage bags obtained were enough to make up for the cost Li Mo paid to gather these masked men.

The masked men regrouped, their eyes filled with awe as they looked at Li Mo.

Li Mo glanced at the flag formation in the distance. The formation had begun to twist and deform, and it seemed that under the combined attack of the two Golden Core cultivators and the spiritual light of the treasure ship, it probably wouldn't last much longer.

"Kill me!"

At Li Mo's command, numerous masked cultivators flew towards the fleeing treasure ship. The ship's spiritual light was exceptionally strong.

No matter how many masked cultivators attacked, dense ripples formed on the spiritual light shield, making it seem impossible to break through in the short term.

Li Mo knew that the night was long and many things could go wrong.

He immediately flashed and appeared a hundred feet away from the treasure ship, and summoned his true demon clone.

The True Demon Avatar, Li Mo, and the Combined Attack Puppet stood side by side, looking at the treasure ship that was being attacked by many masked men. The spiritual light shield rippled continuously. After showing a bit of solemnity, he actually attacked the treasure ship, which was more than 30 feet long and was constantly heading towards him.

The true demon clone opened its mouth wide and spat out three Gui Water Yin Thunderbolts in succession.

A flash of black light disappeared in an instant, and the Gui Water Yin Thunder landed directly in front of the treasure ship's spiritual light shield.

After the thunderous explosion, the terrifying power of corruption rapidly seeped into the treasure ship's protective shield, forming numerous black spots, and the power of the spiritual light visibly diminished.

Li Mo's true form unleashed the Thunderfire Burial Technique.

Rolling fire clouds formed above the treasure ship, and a large amount of lightning and fire fell from the vortex, wave after wave, continuously hitting the treasure ship's spiritual light shield, causing ripples to appear on the shield.

The combined attack puppets unleashed a yin wind and calamity fire.

The gray flames fell silently, engulfing the entire ship.

With the three attacking simultaneously, coupled with the encirclement of numerous masked men, even though the treasure ship's spiritual defenses were quite formidable, it was now clearly becoming unstable and looked on the verge of collapse.

The true demon clone drew its spine-shaped greatsword and swung it fiercely towards the treasure ship.

The greatsword made of the spine, resembling a ferocious skeletal centipede, instantly expanded to over twenty feet in size before crashing down, vividly displaying the bloodthirstiness, brutality, and evil of the demon race. The seemingly indestructible spiritual shield of the treasure ship finally shattered under the siege of numerous cultivators.

Without Li Mo urging them, the masked men immediately swarmed forward and rushed into the treasure ship.

A quarter of an hour later.

A deafening roar echoed across the desolate Gobi Desert. After the enormous treasure ship crashed to the ground, billowing flames rose into the air and raged into flames.

Li Mo looked at the stunningly beautiful female cultivator who was heavily injured in front of him and frowned slightly.

The numerous masked cultivators who surrounded him looked at him with burning eyes.

However, this female cultivator's strength was really average, not much different from the male cultivator surnamed Wei whom he had killed earlier. Li Mo couldn't be sure if she was the so-called true disciple of the Natural Sect, so he looked at the storage bag in his hand and started rummaging through it.

"Chu Yuni?"

Li Mo looked at the female cultivator.

"So you're the true disciple of the Natural Sect who's here for the marriage alliance?"

Chu Yuni looked up at Li Mo with a mocking expression, as if she had given up hope.

"Why do you ask such a question when you already know the answer? If I were a true disciple, how could I have been defeated so easily by you? This is just a title temporarily bestowed upon me by my sect for this marriage alliance; it's just a facade."

She turned her head and looked up at the distant sky, her eyes gradually losing focus.

"In the face of this endless conflict, you and I are the same, unable to control our own destiny. We are merely tools in the war between the two countries, only with different functions. I am a beautiful woman's skin, and what are you?"

A flash of dark golden sword light, and Chu Yuni fell backward.

Li Mo's sudden move drew gasps of surprise from the masked onlookers, followed by sighs of regret.

……

half a month later.

The white jade flying chariot flashed through the air.

As the ground gradually revealed continuous green mountains, Li Mo and Cao Lingjie, who were in the flying car, finally breathed a sigh of relief.

The process of taking Cao Lingjie away was far less complicated than Li Mo had imagined.

From this day forward, however, he will become a traitor to the Lingcao Sect and will never be able to return to Korea or his familiar life again.

"Fellow Daoist Cao, thank you for these pill formulas. Now that they have arrived within the territory of the Great Qian Kingdom, neither of us needs to worry about being pursued by the Golden Core cultivators of the Spirit Herb Sect. It's better to be frank. I can directly recommend you to join the Spirit Eye Sect as a true disciple, saving you a lot of trouble. But in return, I have a batch of spirit bamboo that has the characteristic of accelerating growth. I hope that through your cultivation, its growth rate can be further improved. What do you think?"

Cao Lingjie seemed to be deep in thought.

"Is the bamboo with accelerated growth characteristics the same as the Luohan bamboo?"

"Exactly!"

After Li Mo admitted it, Cao Lingjie took a deep breath and asked, "Then how many Luohan bamboos are there, and how many years will it take me to cultivate them?"

After Li Mo told her the truth, Cao Lingjie pondered for a moment and finally made a decision.

“I can agree to your conditions, but I have one condition: that is, allow me to use your bamboo to grow another batch of bamboo.”

"make a deal."

After Li Mo agreed, he first carefully explained the specific situation of Qingming Mountain, and then looked down at the gains of this trip.

The other prescriptions that Cao Lingjie brought with her are another matter.

The key is that the formula for this pill, called Blood Essence Pill, requires a late-stage Foundation Establishment demon core as a catalyst. It will help to further condense the mana in the body before advancing to the late-stage Foundation Establishment stage, increasing the probability of advancement by 10% to 20%.

And in his hand, there just happened to be a demon core that he had obtained after killing the bamboo rat spirit in Cangyuan!

Although Li Mo was already quite confident in advancing to the late Foundation Establishment stage, it would be even better if he could increase his confidence by another 10% or 20%.

Therefore, he planned to gather the other auxiliary ingredients needed for this pill after returning to his sect.

Besides.

He also had an inconspicuous golden token in his hand.

"The Token of Immortality?"

He seemed to be deep in thought, and soon realized the true purpose of the token.

(End of this chapter)