The road is vague

Chapter 317 Edge Sea
Seven days later.

With the Nirvana Pill in his abdomen fully refined, Li Mo not only completely recovered from his injuries, but his mana, blood and qi, and divine sense were also further condensed by the Nirvana Pill, and his foundation can be said to have reached the peak of the Foundation Establishment stage.

He can attempt to advance to the Golden Core stage at any time, and he is almost certain of success.

However, he did not rush. Instead, he took a deep breath, finished his breathing exercises, slowly opened his eyes, and stood up from the futon.

Advancing to the Golden Core stage will inevitably trigger celestial phenomena.

This is not Qingming Mountain. He is currently far away in a foreign land and does not know what the situation is like outside. He must ensure his safety first.

Otherwise, if he were to attempt to advance his cultivation and trigger the Golden Core celestial phenomenon, attracting the attention of unknown enemies at his most vulnerable moment would undoubtedly be a very dangerous situation.

Think of this.

Li Mo went straight to the entrance of the cave in the mountainside and arrived at the stone gate.

The entire war workshop was covered by Great Zhou runes, so for the past few days, Master Dai and Little Zhi had been unable to leave. Now that they saw Li Mo was about to leave the cave, Master Dai immediately rode Little Zhi and jumped up, landing on Li Mo's shoulder.

rumble.

As Li Mo channeled his spiritual energy, the heavy stone door slowly opened, releasing a large amount of dust.

In just a moment, Li Mo sensed that the power of heaven and earth here was completely different from that of the Central Plains, but due to his insufficient cultivation level, he could not describe the specific differences.

The old man looked astonished.

"It seems we've reached the edge of the world. How come the Mountain and Sea Realm has become so small!"

"The edge of the world?"

Li Mo suddenly realized.

The power of heaven and earth here gave him a vague feeling that the main body was sparse and withered, and it was mixed with a lot of unfamiliar factors. The power of space also seemed to be even weaker.

"It's such a strange feeling, just like the Great Northern Wilderness that's been talked about in the Great Qian Kingdom."

After muttering to himself, he walked out of the cave and found himself on a lonely island.

The island consists of several inconspicuous stone mountains, stretching for miles in length and width. The mountains are dark brown, with the highest reaching about 100 feet. They are barren, devoid of any vegetation, and appear to pose little danger.

Uneasy, Li Mo searched the cave several times before finally returning to his dwelling.

Three months later.

Using the materials he had stored, Li Mo crafted three sets of flag formations in one go and set them up around the island.

First is the outermost six-colored illusion array. This was the array used by Lü Jin, a fellow array master, to test him when he joined the Guardian Hall. Li Mo set it up on time and memorized the array diagram.

The most distinctive feature of this formation is its concealment, which can reduce the distance of the extraordinary phenomena of heaven and earth during the advancement to the Golden Core stage to a certain extent, thus protecting Li Mo from being discovered by passersby to the greatest extent.

The middle layer is the Six Calamities and Six Tribulations Extinction Array, which will maximize the protection of Li Mo's safety.

Inside, Li Mo used the Six Ding Six Jia Void Formation, giving no opportunity for the invading enemy.

As for the Composite Eight Trigrams Spirit Gathering Array and the Ethereal Spirit Eye Array that he plans to activate in the cave, they are auxiliary means of advancement and will not be elaborated upon further.

However, just as Li Mo finished setting up the Six Ding Six Jia Void Array and was preparing to return to his cave for further preparations, he suddenly noticed a deep purple hue on the mountaintop.

After a brief moment of surprise, he quickly approached.

It was a strange plant that resembled a cactus, but it was unnaturally twisted, vaguely revealing many hideous human faces, and slowly wriggling.

In a short period of time, a strange plant has grown here.

"Foolish old man, foolish old man."

"What the hell is this!"

The Divine Grass Doll summoned by Li Mo was startled upon seeing the strange plant, but after careful observation, its expression turned serious.

"what happened?"

"This thing... seems to be very similar to those elixirs, only it's a different kind of mutation."

Through his interactions with the Divine Herb Doll, Li Mo learned that what modern so-called spiritual medicines are, in the eyes of the Foolish Old Master, the fusion and mutation of immortal roots and spirits, a combination of the order of the Mountain and Sea Realm and the order of the Misty Realm.

But the feeling this plant gave the Divine Grass Doll was that it represented a combination and mutation of the order of the Misty Realm and the Seven Star World.

"Perhaps offering blood as a sacrifice to this thing will yield special results."

The old man suddenly said this.

"Blood sacrifice?"

After glancing at the barren island, Li Mo shook his head helplessly and gave up on the plan. He then returned to his cave to continue preparing for his advancement to the Golden Core stage.

Once a cultivator advances to the Golden Core stage, their lifespan will easily reach more than six Jiazi (60 years), and many can even live to be four or five hundred years old. They will be greatly freed from the constraints of lifespan and will begin to utilize the power of heaven and earth through various magical treasures.

As for the improvement in magical power and divine sense, there is no need to elaborate further.

However, even with Li Mo's current foundation and numerous preparations, he still dared not be careless in the slightest during the process of advancing to the Golden Core stage. He had to ensure that he did everything in his power to ensure that nothing went wrong.

Before we knew it, another three months had passed.

That day, he suddenly sensed something, frowned on the futon, opened his eyes and looked at the chessboard, a gloomy expression on his face.

Someone is actually trying to destroy his six-colored illusion array!

He was originally planning to try to advance his career in three months, but after being disturbed like this, his efforts in cultivating in peace over the past three months have vanished in an instant.

However, he soon smiled slightly, stood up from the futon thoughtfully, and put away the Ice and Fire Pill, Soul Nourishing Incense, high-grade spirit stones, Purple Qi Pill, Heavenly Mystic Water, Jade Marrow Liquid, and other items that he had prepared to use to break through the bottleneck of the Golden Core stage.

Among them, the Purple Qi Pill is an auxiliary advancement pill obtained from the storage bag of Yao Chun Chun, a true disciple of the Immortal Mountain.

The Heavenly Mystic Water was obtained from Liu Can's storage bag and can assist in advancing to the Golden Core stage.

As for the remaining bottle of Jade Marrow Liquid, it was better to have it on hand. This item could not only help with the advancement to the Golden Core stage, but it was also a secret technique for advancing to the Nascent Soul stage. If it was used to advance to the Golden Core stage, it would lose its effect even if it was obtained again later. Therefore, Li Mo would not choose to waste it unless absolutely necessary.

Upon seeing this bottle of chalcedony liquid, he couldn't help but think of his master.

Hopefully, Lu Qi can use the other bottle of Jade Marrow Liquid he obtained through military merit to advance to the Nascent Soul stage, thus allowing the Spirit Eye Sect to completely escape the crisis of annihilation.

Think so.

Li Mo, already holding the array plate, arrived outside the great array. When he saw a creature with the lower body of a crab and the upper body of a human, about the height of an adult but abnormally obese, he was immediately stunned.

"Huh, are there other rogue cultivators here?"

Upon seeing Li Mo, the monster let out a loud, raspy laugh, and involuntarily separated its crab claws, firing two blue water mines at Li Mo.

This is actually a member of an alien race with a mid-Foundation Establishment cultivation level!

Li Mo originally wanted to inquire about the surrounding situation from him, but seeing that the other party was obviously difficult to communicate with, and noticing that a human female cultivator was trapped in the six-colored illusion array, clearly being chased by the other party and wanting to communicate better, he immediately smiled coldly, his body turned into a bolt of lightning and disappeared, and the next moment he appeared behind the monster.

The crab-legged, human-bodied monster was startled upon seeing this.

It hastily summoned a water mirror in an attempt to defend itself, but a flash of dark golden light instantly pierced through the water mirror.

"I am the Seventh Elder of the Thunder Origin Venerable Sect, how dare you!"

Without pausing, Li Mo repeatedly pierced through the Tiancheng Huajin Sword, tearing the bizarre monster into eight pieces, with blood and body parts raining down from the sky.

He searched carefully with his divine sense but found no demon core.

"Not a spirited water monster?"

He casually took the other person's storage bag, glanced inside, and couldn't help but purse his lips and shake his head.

This monster is really poor.

Immediately afterwards, Li Mo landed with the array plate in his hand and looked at the female cultivator on the mountaintop who had summoned a flying sword. She had an extremely well-proportioned figure and slightly dark skin. Only her vital parts were covered by seashells. She looked at Li Mo with a look of fear and wariness.

"My name is Li Mo. May I ask your honorable name, young lady?"

Upon hearing this, the female cultivator breathed a sigh of relief and responded with a slightly accented tone and a puzzled expression.

"My younger sister is Zhang Xiuning, a native of Xiaozhen Island."

Li Mo nodded and smiled slightly.

"I have traveled across the ocean and have just arrived here. I do not know the name of this sea area, nor do I know what the monster I just killed was."

Upon hearing this, Zhang Xiuning was stunned for a moment and looked at Li Mo with a puzzled expression.

Then she seemed to realize something and her expression showed a look of sudden understanding.

"It seems you've just escaped from the Lost Continent. To be able to escape all the way here in one go, no wonder you were able to easily kill this cultist. This is the edge of the Thousand Treasures Islands. There used to be four large wild islands nearby, which we wild cultivators called the Four Treasures Sea. Unfortunately, more than ten years ago, the wild cultivators on the Great Treasure Island worshipped an evil spirit and became members of the Thunder Origin Cult. They began to constantly harm the residents of the other three islands and collect Thunder Spirit items at any cost..."

Li Mo's expression gradually became serious.

First, he learned from Zhang Xiuning that he had indeed left the Central Plains, but had not entered the Lost Continent. Instead, he had come to the edge of the so-called Thousand Treasures Islands.

There are more than twenty similar archipelagic regions around the Lost Continent, and the Thousand Treasures Islands are just one of them.

The waters around the Qianzhen Islands contain hundreds of large and small sacred islands.

The so-called spirit islands are islands with spiritual veins, suitable places for cultivation, and they have almost all been occupied by gods of all sizes.

In contrast, there is Nojima.

But the wild islands are not just devoid of spiritual veins. Legend has it that many so-called wild islands drifted from the Forbidden Sea, and everything on the islands could disappear completely overnight. Therefore, they are also known as cannibal islands and are one of the four great disasters of the Lost Sea.

Some say that once a wild island gathers a large following, it will gradually transform into a spirit island.

As for the other three major calamities, they are the evil god grass, the bait from outer space, and the mirage.

it's here.

The ethereal Blood Dragon Clan, the dragons that transform into spirits from the chief of a hundred scales, and various mountain and sea deities reign supreme, ruling over seas large and small. Humans, on the other hand, have become a resource, like domesticated cattle and sheep. In addition to providing the deities with the human energy they need, they are also used as consumables for various blood sacrifices.

Humans here have no rights whatsoever.

Ordinary humans were traded as commodities among various gods and kept as livestock to increase their numbers.

Humans with spiritual roots will be slaughtered directly to prevent them from forming a rebellious force in the future.

Therefore, the human cultivators who constantly hide here have become known as savages or wild cultivators.

Fortunately, the place is extremely chaotic!
In those border regions beyond the control of the Blood Dragon Clan and the gods, besides the wild cultivators of the human race, there are also various cults that worship evil gods, evil spirits, and evil vengeful spirits.

There's no need to elaborate on those who believe in evil spirits; those people in Hua'an Town back then belonged to this category, and Li Mo was no stranger to them.

Those who believe in evil spirits worship certain inanimate objects. The ancient scripture tablet that Li Mo obtained during the internal war within his sect was of this kind. Long-term blood sacrifice transactions with evil spirits may grant them great power, but they will also gradually become corrupted and undergo inexplicable changes.

"So that guy was a human corrupted by an evil spirit."

Li Mo looked at the corpses he had previously killed and murmured to himself, then couldn't help but feel a little curious.

What kind of evil spirits do the rogue cultivators of the Thunder Primordial Sect on Treasure Island worship, and how do they manifest themselves in the Mountain and Sea Realm?

Back then, the True Demon clone advanced to the Golden Core stage by relying on the evil spirit of the ancient scripture tablet.

As for the so-called evil gods here, they come in all shapes and sizes.

Some are bizarre creatures emerging from mirages, some are mutated creatures that have consumed the evil god grass, some are rogue cultivators practicing evil arts, some are bizarre creatures flowing with the bloodline of ancient mountain and sea demons, and some are even underworld ghosts and Asura demons...

"In many lost seas, the situation of evil god cults is much better than that of us wild cultivators. They can even join the army and then obtain formal divine status, while we wild cultivators can only constantly hide and wander in the margins..."

As far as Li Mo knows.

As members of the evil god cult increase their cultivation level, they will gradually lose their ability to reproduce due to being corrupted by various external forces.

This is probably why the Misty Blood Dragon Clan loosened its control.

As he listened to Zhang Xiuning's detailed account, his expression grew increasingly solemn.

He felt as if he had instantly transformed from a high and mighty ruler of the Mountain and Sea Realm into a powerless slave, and from now on he could only hide here like a rat crossing the street.

"Perhaps leaving Qian Kingdom and seeking refuge here is not a wise choice."

But this thought only lasted for a moment.

Here, at least he can live like a rat in the street, hiding and running away.

But in the Great Qian Kingdom, he would be facing the King of Assassins who leaves no trace, and next time the opponent would certainly not just strike from behind.

(End of this chapter)