The road is vague

Chapter 468 Trial Diagram

"So fast."

The more Master Kowloon pursued, the more alarmed he became.

The aura emanating from this person also gave him a sense of being unfathomable.

After flying one after the other for half a day, Li Mo finally stopped and looked coldly at the person who was relentlessly pursuing him.

"Your cultivation level is so high, yet I have never heard of it before. May I ask what your Daoist name is?"

Nine golden chains transformed into nine golden dragons, swirling around him. The Nine Dragons True Man, standing a mile away from Li Mo, let out a cold snort.

"That's because you're ignorant!"

Master Jiulong stopped wasting words and quickly formed hand seals. Nine golden dragons rushed forward with great momentum. He now finally understood why the traitor who had defected to him was so afraid of the First Seven Organization.

According to that person, in addition to the Grand Elder, the First Seventh Organization also has two top-tier assassins.

This person looks like he's one of those two top assassins; he actually has such terrifying strength.

that's it.

After several hours of fierce fighting in this uninhabited mountainous area, the two sides left behind a large number of gullies and craters on the ground. Li Mo, who had tried every means, was still at a disadvantage and had no choice but to use his last resort.

He suddenly extended his right index and middle fingers and gently touched his forehead.

All of a sudden.

The menacing Nine Dragons Master suddenly felt a surge of electricity nearby. His scalp tingled, and he experienced an indescribable sense of dread. His mind froze, and the world before his eyes quickly faded, leaving only monotonous black and white.

Finally, he couldn't help but look at Li Mo's forehead.

Faintly.

He seemed to see bolts of lightning descending from the sky, countless demons and monsters dying tragically under the lightning, the stolen spiritual energy returning to the world, and then he saw the sun, moon and stars revolving, spring, summer, autumn and winter cycling, rain, snow and frost changing, and birth, aging, sickness and death eternal.

"This is……"

Kowloon Master's pupils contracted.

Crack!

The binary chaotic lightning flashed and disappeared in an instant. With a loud "boom," True Man Nine Dragons was blasted more than a hundred feet away in the lightning explosion. His face turned ashen as he looked at Li Mo, his eyes revealing a solemn expression.

Seeing that his first attack had failed, Li Mo stretched out his right hand again and lightly touched his forehead with his index and middle fingers.

A wisp of heavenly power descended from the sky once more.

The solemnity of Master Jiulong gradually turned into fear. After a brief moment of uncertainty, his face darkened, and he fled into the distance without looking back. This caused Li Mo, who was panting heavily, to slowly lower his arm.

"Cough, cough, cough, cough."

Only after the Nine Dragons Master had completely disappeared into the sky did Li Mo finally break into a series of heavy coughs.

"Nine golden chains that transform into dragons are my natal magic weapons. I need to investigate them thoroughly when I get back."

After retrieving the Panlong Heart-Protecting Mirror and the Flowing Gold Fire Sword, he flew quickly in another direction until he was sure no one was around before summoning the Money-Stealing Rat again and hiding.

The difficulty of this mission far exceeded his expectations.

Three months later.

The mission took a full six months to complete, and although the process was arduous, the outcome was positive.

Under Zhong Laogui's leadership, the thirteen commanders gathered together once again.

"Does anyone have any objections to Commander Li successfully completing his mission and eliminating the seven-day-old defector?"

Everyone looked at Li Mo, whose face was slightly pale. Li Mo forced a smile and coughed a few times in a feigned manner. In the end, the appointment of the Director of the Road Guidance Office was approved in principle by an internal vote with a unanimous vote.

"Thank you all for your support, thank you."

Li Moxu politely thanked all the commanders.

The target of this mission was a rogue assassin from the Touqi organization, whom they had failed to eliminate for over a decade. Now, Li Mo had killed him, which was a severe slap in the face for Touqi and solidified his prestige within the Road Guidance Bureau.

After the meeting voted, one of the commanders looked puzzled.

"According to the clues provided by Li Siming, the information about the Nascent Soul cultivator hidden in the Undying Mountain was an unexpected gain."

From the description, this reminds me of someone who was once suppressed by a divine monk from the Dizang Temple in the Jin Kingdom on the Tianyuan Plateau using a sealing technique to make him "lay down his butcher's knife."

Some commanders were confused.

A few commanders seemed to realize something and were immediately taken aback.

"Master Nine Dragons!"

Everyone present was at the Golden Core stage, and the events of hundreds of years ago were too distant. Even for Old Ghost Zhong, those were events before he became the Master of Fate. Upon hearing the Daoist title of True Man Nine Dragons, he couldn't help but fall into memories.

He then couldn't help but give Li Mo a deep look.

Has he really grown to this level? I can finally rest assured about handing over the banner of the Road Guiding Office to him.

……

Two years later.

Zhong Laogui's aura became increasingly chaotic, showing signs of exhaustion. Three days ago, Li Mo formally met with the Qian Yuan Saint Lord and was granted the official title of a second-rank official in the imperial court, leading the Road Pass Office.

"Ahem, you can take these things."

After handing Li Mo a storage bag, Old Zhong said calmly, "Come with me."

Li Mo opened his storage bag. Inside, besides a few precious magical artifacts and materials, were some ancient texts and secret techniques, the most numerous of which were shadow-遁 (Shadow Escape) techniques. "None of my descendants are any good. Leaving these things to them would only bring them trouble. I can't bear to sell them for spirit stones, so after much thought, I've decided to leave them to you..."

Talking and talking.

Led by Zhong Laogui, the two arrived at the headquarters' secret room.

Old Zhong shakily opened a cabinet in the secret room. After turning the mechanism inside, a hidden space was revealed with a series of "click-clack" sounds from the mechanical gears.

There was a painting inside, hanging on the wall.

"This is?"

The world depicted in the painting is fragmented, a scene of apocalypse.

However, when Li Mo saw the truth, he felt it was incredibly profound, as if the world in the painting was real and constantly changing.

This secretly alarmed him.

"This is the Judgment Diagram, obtained by a first-generation Master of Destiny after destroying a cult. It was their sacred object. This organization believed in the passage of time. After obtaining this strange treasure, the Road Guide, through the research of three generations of Masters of Destiny, has gradually mastered its incredible power and has several guesses about the origin of this treasure."

Old Zhong stared silently at the judgment diagram, a solemn look in his eyes.

"The first guess is that behind this treasure is a window through which a terrifying creature from an unknown otherworld peers inquires about the changes within the Mountain and Sea Realm and enjoys the process of its destruction."

"The second theory is that this treasure is the dwelling place of some ancient great demon, hiding a divine treasure."

"The third theory is that this is a fragment of a supreme heavenly treasure..."

Li Mo couldn't help but show a solemn expression at the three guesses Zhong Laogui had given.

"Then what is the purpose of this picture?"

"Seeing things that shouldn't be seen, seeing the truth of this world, is the most deadly poison for Nascent Soul cultivators, but for Core Formation cultivators, it is the principle of heaven and earth, helping us to achieve an effect close to enlightenment."

Under Zhong Laogui's guidance, Li Mo channeled his magical power into the Judgment Diagram in a mysterious way.

There seemed to be nothing unusual throughout the entire process.

At a certain point in time, Li Mo suddenly felt that everything around him seemed to slow down.

His heartbeat began to become intermittent until it disappeared completely. The light was like rays, moving forward at a crawling speed. The earth was like ripples on water, constantly breathing. Occasionally, black mist would rise, only to be suppressed by the silver light.

Immediately, Li Mo's soul felt light and airy.

The nascent soul was enveloped in a gentle spiritual light, giving it a sense of liberation and gradually detaching from the body.

"Old Ghost Zhong?"

Li Mo tentatively greeted him, but Zhong Laogui seemed to freeze in place, not moving an inch.

"Could it be that I have entered some kind of time rift?"

Li Mo, lost in thought, circled his own body and Zhong Laogui once, then flew out of the secret chamber. He quickly left the headquarters of the Road Guiding Bureau and arrived at the bustling Yuancheng Street.

However, everyone here was also frozen in place, completely still.

At first, Li Mo was cautious and didn't dare to fly too far, fearing that he might not be able to return to his body in time if something unexpected happened. So he just wandered around, and what started as novelty and curiosity gradually became a bit boring.

So he flew a little further away.

Sudden.

He noticed a little girl who seemed to be crying loudly because a candied hawthorn had fallen on the ground.

Her tears fell to the ground, which should have been a perfectly normal thing, but Li Mo noticed that a patch of black things resembling tadpoles was growing on the ground, constantly wriggling and greedily sucking up everything there.

They, too, were wandering through the time rift, just like Li Mo was at this moment.

Li Mo dared not approach them without permission.

At this moment, he was in the Nascent Soul stage, which was extremely fragile.

Fortunately, these eerie black things seem to act passively, resembling a plant, and have no intelligence.

"Could these also be evil spirits? It turns out they are all around us all the time."

At this time.

Li Mo felt himself gradually weakening, as if the magic power attached to the Judgment Diagram was being gradually exhausted, and the power he had used to enter this time rift was disappearing.

So he mustered his courage and quickly flew into the sky.

After flying only a hundred feet, Li Mo was shocked. He saw countless whirlpools of all sizes on the distant land, seemingly devouring the surrounding land, just like giant sand worms swallowing the desert.

He didn't stop, and continued flying into the sky.

Then he saw the moon in the sky being devoured by a huge bat-like monster. Spider-like half-human monsters were forming anchor points for weaving webs, and twisted shadows were setting up a black curtain, casting darkness.

"Is the power of heaven and earth in the Mountain and Sea Realm being replaced by these things?"

Immediately following was a strong feeling of weightlessness and falling. Li Mo struggled a bit and looked at Zhong Laogui behind him, slightly out of breath.

"How does it feel?"

Old Ghost Zhong asked casually, as if only a moment had passed.

"I feel...very bad."

On one hand, there is the predation of those monsters, and on the other hand, there is not enough support from the power of heaven and earth. This is the truth behind becoming the pinnacle of the Mountain and Sea Realm in the late stage of the Nascent Soul stage.

(End of this chapter)