The prehistoric infrastructure maniac

Chapter 199 World Prison
Seeing the hesitant and fearful expressions of the powerful figures regarding their life oaths, Shi Mo couldn't help but laugh:

"Don't worry! We won't make anyone make any overly restrictive oaths. Powerful beings can fight each other, but they can't kill each other. Everyone just needs to abide by this bottom line."

Hearing Shi Mo say this, everyone's expressions immediately softened, and many of the weaker powerful individuals expressed their agreement.

"What if the enmity is too deep, and it's a fight to the death?" Thor couldn't help but ask.

"If you really have the ability, wouldn't it be more satisfying to suppress and torment the other party for endless years than to kill the enemy?"

Upon hearing Shi Mo's words, Thor's expression changed slightly, and the hearts of all the powerful figures were filled with trepidation. For a moment, no one had any objections.

"Goddess Nuwa, Goddess Houtu, Brother Zhurong, what do you think?" Shi Mo asked the goddesses Nuwa and Houtu with a smile.

The goddess Nuwa first set the content of the oath and made the vow, and then handed it to Shi Mo.

Shi Mo took it, sensed it, and then made a life vow.

Next, the other ancestral gods and the true gods and powerful beings of the Pangu world all made the same oath.

"Alright, from now on we don't need to worry about internal strife in the Pangu World. As long as the powerful beings don't fight to the death, other conflicts are nothing to worry about,"

Nuwa smiled and said, "From now on, all those who become true gods and ancestors, whether human, demon, or god, must make this life oath."

The powerful figures of the Pangu world made a life-bound oath, divided the spoils of war, and then departed.

"Shi Mo, you should keep this oath stone!" Before leaving, Goddess Nuwa handed the oath stone to Shi Mo.

"Now that you have obtained the cultivation methods of the Chaos Alien Race, whatever powerful methods you improve and create in the future, don't keep them to yourself. Show them to us. If there are any suitable ones to teach, we should also encourage more powerful beings and even junior gods to cultivate them, so as to enhance the strength and foundation of the entire Pangu World."

“Alright! Goddess Nuwa, whatever magic you create, you must show it to me first. We need to share what we have,” Shi Mo nodded with a smile.

Nuwa rolled her eyes at him: "Have you created the method for a true god to break through to become an ancestral god? I haven't seen it yet! And the method for body refinement, you've already passed it on to Jiufeng, but you're still keeping it from me."

"Alright, alright, I'll figure it out and show it to you later," Shi Mo said with a helpless smile.

After parting ways with Goddess Nuwa and the others, Shi Mo returned to Jiuding Iron Fork Mountain and went into seclusion.

Inside the Eight Treasures Cloud Light Cave, atop a high mountain in a vast world filled with rich spiritual energy and teeming with life, yet devoid of any living beings, lies atop the Wind-Fixing Pearl suspended on a jade platform.

Shi Mo looked at the dense, tadpole-like characters on the stone tablet in front of him, which were universally used in the endless chaos. He directly invaded and permeated the tablet with his divine power and quickly learned the seven methods on it.

These seven methods are: "Tao Wu's Eighteen Gods and Demons", "Nine Exorcisms of Insects and Beasts", "Sinful Divine Weapons", "Langfu", "Heaven and Earth Reversal One Heart Formation", "Ghost and God Scroll", and "Indestructible Body".

Among them, "Tao Wu's Eighteen Gods and Demons" is a method for cultivating clones. It can be used for both body and qi cultivation. Its essence is to divide the soul and spirit into eighteen parts. Cultivation only requires consuming energy.

However, it also has a drawback: the clones created will become weaker, only having one-tenth the strength of the original body.

To restore all the clones to their original state, one needs to nourish the soul with precious and rare treasures, which comes at a great cost.

To go even further, merging one's clones into one greatly increases one's strength, making it even more difficult.

In fact, for powerful beings, if their only goal is to survive, cultivating a weak clone is sufficient. There is no need to create so many clones. Cultivating only a weak clone has negligible impact on the main body.

However, creating a method that only cultivates a weak clone based on the "Eighteen Gods and Demons of Tao Wu" still requires some thought, and perfecting it to create an even more perfect cultivation method is even more difficult.

"Nine Explanations of Insect Beasts" is a method for cultivating insect beasts, and it is quite useful. After all, some powerful insect beasts can be compared with great beings, even ancestral gods and world-level experts. They are also very loyal and obedient, making them excellent henchmen who can help interfere with enemies and detect threats.

However, cultivating powerful insect beasts requires a lot of resources and time, much like raising Gu poison.

"Sinful Divine Weapon" is a more advanced method of refining divine and demonic blood. It absorbs resentment and malevolence and has the potential to nurture divine weapons at the level of innate spiritual treasures or even chaotic treasures. It is somewhat similar to the Twelve Capital Heavenly Gods and Demons Array Flags, which is a method of cultivating divine weapons through killing.

The "Langfu" is a method of Daoist talismans, extremely complex and intricate. Some powerful Daoist talismans are not easy to create. Both talisman techniques and formations require a great deal of time to study and master.

The "Heaven and Earth Reversal One Heart Formation" is a formation that works in conjunction with the "Eighteen Gods and Demons of Tao Wu". When the eighteen clones are used together, they form their own world. It is good at trapping enemies and defending, but not good at attacking. Although it is very mysterious, it is somewhat useless to Shi Mo.

The "Ghost and God Scroll" is a method for cultivating ghosts and gods. Theoretically speaking, the souls left behind after the death of living beings also have unlimited potential and can be cultivated into ghosts and gods comparable to or even more powerful beings.

Aside from its connection to soul cultivation, it was also quite useless to Shi Mo.

The last technique, "The Undying Body," is a protective supernatural power similar to the Eight-Nine Arcane Arts. It includes elements for cultivation by celestial gods and true gods, but cultivation requires the assistance of some rare resources. It is not a perfect body-refining technique and is also quite useless to Shi Mo. At most, it can be used as a reference to improve and create a new body-refining technique.

For the Pangu World, the most useful techniques are the clone technique and the body-refining technique, both of which are life-saving methods and are the most coveted by some powerful beings.

Even in the endless chaos, such a method is extremely precious, after all, what could be more important than life?
Therefore, Shi Mo's initial focus was on the method of creating clones.
Both "Tao Wu's Eighteen Gods and Demons" and "Twelve Heavenly Gods and Demons" are methods of creating clones, and they actually lead to the same goal through different paths. In fact, the treasures needed to cultivate "Twelve Heavenly Gods and Demons" are all available in the Pangu World, making the cultivation difficulty significantly lower.

If Shi Mo were to create a clone technique out of thin air, he could at most create a clone technique similar to the One Qi Transforms into Three Pure Ones.

However, the avatar relies on the original body for existence and is not a truly independent clone at all.

With the clone technique originating from the endless chaos as a reference, Shi Mo, although unable to fully understand the divine patterns that appeared on his body when cultivating the clone technique, could still imitate it.

The dumbest way is to create a clone and then immediately stop.
Therefore, after spending some time figuring things out and trying things out, Shi Mo did not spend much time perfecting and creating a cultivation method for cultivating a weak clone.

As for perfecting the body-refining method, that's even easier, since Shi Mo had already created his own body-refining method before.

Afterwards, Shi Mo spent most of his time delving into the art of creating clones, considering how to cultivate more clones as powerful as his original self. Meanwhile, the weaker clones Shi Mo cultivated were also sent to investigate the World Prison.
The World Prison can hold many prisoners with high status and background from the Nine Directions Universe Kingdom, including celestial gods, immortals, true gods, and even ancestral gods and immortals. The magical treasures they possess and the cultivation methods they can pass on are all considerable treasures for the Pangu World.

There's also Chaos Elixir, which is an energy essence extracted from chaos, like a universal currency in the endless chaos.

As a powerful ancestral god who had ventured into the chaos, Luo Hou actually possessed chaotic spiritual liquid, but knowing he was about to die, he destroyed it all. He would never leave it for Shi Mo and the others to benefit. Apart from magical treasures and divine weapons that were difficult to destroy in a short time, he also destroyed some immortal pills and spiritual materials.

The world prison is vast, and the powerful prisoners are scattered in various places. Shi Mo's powerful divine sense easily enveloped many prisoners.

"Hmm? That Wild Dog Ancestral God, what a powerful and unique divine body, it can actually devour everything. And that withered old man, is he using mental power techniques? My understanding and application of mental power is indeed too shallow," Shi Mo's eyes lit up as he felt his divine consciousness being devoured and affected.

Mental power is something he is very interested in, but unfortunately there is no systematic method for cultivating mental power in the Pangu World. Shi Mo could only explore and comprehend it on his own before, and now he has only reached the third level of the Dominator Realm, and he is still unable to step into the fourth level of mental power.

"Perhaps I should let my clone reincarnate and experience a new life. But before that, I can communicate with that ancestral immortal who is skilled in mental power. If I can get his guidance, I can make faster progress in mental power cultivation," Shi Mo thought to himself, and his clone directly traversed the void to the location of the withered old man.

Seeing Shi Mo's figure appear silently from the void, the old man's eyes narrowed: "This is... the fifth level of the power of spacetime? A true god or immortal? No, his divine sense is so strong, he is definitely at the level of an ancestral god, probably the most outstanding among ancestral gods."

"How could the guards of this world prison be so strong? Could something have really happened in the Nine Directions Chaos Kingdom?" The old man had been imprisoned in this world prison for ten Chaos Eras, and no new guards had appeared for a long time. He was starting to have some doubts and speculations.

“My true form is the Ancestral God, this is just an avatar. As you probably guessed, the Nine Directions Chaos Kingdom should have been destroyed, and this World Prison fell into my hands by accident,” Shi Mo said directly.

The old man's expression shifted dramatically as he listened, before he finally asked in a low voice, "What do you want to do?"

“With my true strength, killing you would not be difficult. Even my clone can ignore your attacks. Your mental power, which has reached the fourth level, is no match for me,” Shi Molian said. “However, I do not want to kill you. I only want to ask you for advice on the cultivation and application of mental power.”

"Tell me your secret?" The old man was taken aback and couldn't help but say, "You just want to learn the method of cultivating mental power? Mental power is not so easy to cultivate."

“I know, you just need to teach me well, and I will naturally not treat you unfairly. In the future, when I am strong enough, I may try to give you your freedom,” Shi Mo said noncommittally.

"Give me my freedom?" the old man said with a touch of tragic irony. "Only a world god can break the chains binding me. When will you release me?"

With a calm smile, Shi Mo stretched out his hand, his palm rapidly expanding with a faint sense of chaotic transformation. The terrifying power made the old man's eyes widen: "What? You?"

"So? How do you think I am, based on my understanding of the Chaos Heavenly Dao, how far am I from breaking through to the World Realm?" Shi Mo withdrew his hand and asked.

“I never expected you to have reached such a level. Moreover, I can sense that you haven’t been cultivating for very long, and you do have the potential to become a World Realm expert,” the old man said, his eyes burning as he looked at Shi Molian. “Alright, I will teach you the method of cultivating mental strength. You can even let me follow you.”

"Hehe, if I were to reach the World Realm, I'm afraid I might not even look at a follower like you!" Shi Mo laughed. "However, as long as you are willing to teach me seriously, I will not treat you unfairly in the future."

Next, Shi Mo went into seclusion to study cultivation methods. While he was cultivating and exploring in the World Prison, the Pangu World became increasingly peaceful.

At the same time, Shi Mo also secretly passed on his perfected clone technique and body refining technique to several ancestral gods, including Nuwa, as well as some true gods and Dao ancestors.

Even a few celestial gods and immortals who had the potential to become true gods and ancestral masters were able to learn the method of creating clones.

However, they all have to make a vow to learn the Dharma, so they all have to go to Jiuding Iron Fork Mountain to receive the inheritance.

Since Meng Shimo imparted this method to him, Meng Shimo naturally owed him a favor. As a result, Meng Shimo's status and influence in the Pangu World rose accordingly, becoming comparable to that of the Goddess Nuwa.

With the method of creating clones, naturally more powerful beings choose to reincarnate, hoping to comprehend the corresponding Dao.

And in this reincarnation, if the original self is still alive, no one knows whether their reincarnation was successful or unsuccessful.

Even if one fails once, one can cultivate a clone to reincarnate and try again and again.
Therefore, in the long years that followed, the efficiency of the birth of true gods and Dao ancestors in the Pangu world increased significantly.

Whether any of them have grasped the Dao of Relativity or awakened memories of their past lives is unknown, unless a powerful being actively reveals their leadership-level strength.

Shi Mo also created the method for cultivating from a true god to an ancestral god, and incidentally created a complete system of divine and demonic body refining methods from the acquired to the ancestral god level.

However, the only methods that spread widely within the Pangu World were those for cultivating to the level of a Celestial God. Methods for cultivating to the level of a True God were only spread among powerful beings and taught to outstanding Celestial Gods.

As for the cultivation methods from True God to Ancestral God, they can only be taught to a very small number of True Gods after they have made a life vow.

Have any broken through to become Ancestral Gods? Of course! But they won't easily reveal their strength unless necessary.

Since there are chaotic alien races like Luo Hou who have come to the Pangu World, who knows if there are any other chaotic alien races that have secretly infiltrated it?

It is also necessary to conceal some of the secrets and power of the Pangu world.

Inside a hidden space on Mount Jiuding Iron Fork, created by Shi Mo using spatial techniques, bookshelves hold almost all the cultivation methods, supernatural powers, and secret arts of the Pangu world.

The cultivation methods here, even the most basic ones, are enough to make even Void Returning Immortals, rogue cultivators, and celestial immortals fight over them like crazy.

Given Shi Mo's current strength and status, it wouldn't be difficult for him to gather these techniques.

Surrounded by numerous bookshelves, a golden crystal sits on an ancient stone platform. It is a vow stone, containing Shi Mo's perfected methods for creating clones, refining the body, and breaking through from a true god to an ancestral god.

After an old man in hemp robes, carrying a celestial sword and exuding a sharp aura, learned the technique of creating clones and disappeared, Shi Mo, who appeared out of thin air as if from nowhere, frowned and murmured, "Fu Ju?"

“My lord, he is a newly born Qi Refining Dao Ancestor of the human race, and his swordsmanship is quite accomplished,” Jiu Feng appeared beside him as ripples spread through the space.

(End of this chapter)