Chapter 186: The Second Heaven of Creation

Chen Mo looked at the palm-sized piece of jade before him; inside the jade were four Gu insects.

These four Gu insects were a set, combined into one, known as the Three Treasures Spirit Control Gu.

The controller only needs to master one main insect, then release the other three sub-insects to use for controlling others.

These three Gu insects will respectively reside in a person's Shenhai, Mysterious Aperture, and Qi Sea, and by using the main insect, one can manipulate the three sub-insects.

It brings boundless pain to the host, and can even completely control the host.

Once the main insect dies, the three sub-insects will self-destruct, and the host will also find it difficult to escape death at that time.

By using this set of Gu insects, one can perfectly hold another person's life in their hands.

Moreover, according to the cultivation classics written by the Master of the Gu God Palace, even a Heavenly Human Realm Martial Artist finds it difficult to escape this kind of control.

But when planting the Gu, the host must be completely and wholeheartedly willing, and must never have the slightest resistance.

There are twelve more sets of this type of Gu insect in this Storage Ring, all carefully sealed inside jade.

And according to the records in the classics of the Master of the Gu God Palace, this jade, while appearing to be jade, is actually a type of heaven-sent treasure called Spirit Jade Fat.

With Gu insects stored within it, they can be kept alive for over a thousand years.

In addition, there are a small number of other Gu insects, such as the Heart-Bewitching Gu which can confuse a person's mind, and the Spirit-Nurturing Gu, which can heal a Martial Artist's injuries.

But the quantities are not large; they are only a small portion.

Previously, when exchanging blows with Chen Mo, the Master of the Gu God Palace had already used up all the Gu insects that could be deployed; what remains now are only those Gu insects that are difficult to utilize in head-on combat.

Furthermore, this Storage Ring does not have many heaven-sent treasures or Dharma Artifacts; the Master of the Gu God Palace's entire ability lay in Gu insects, and even if there were other resources obtained, they were all prioritized for nourishing the Gu insects.

Chen Mo roughly sorted through this Storage Ring, put it away for the time being, and began to check the other Storage Rings.

Another Storage Ring was obtained from that gloomy old man; from the internal cultivation classics in the Storage Ring, it could be seen that it came from the Blood God Palace.

Unlike the lone-wolf style of the Master of the Gu God Palace, the Blood God Palace is a Demonic Path force with a clear lineage, having been passed down for six generations now, for nearly two thousand years.

This is indeed rare in the Demonic Path; many long-standing Demonic Path forces mostly occupy stable territories.

Those who have permanent property have a heart for permanent property.

Since they want to develop their force for the long term, they will gradually pursue "washing clean" and coming ashore.

As long as they hold on slowly, in at most another generation or two, the Demonic Path force will gradually transform into a righteous force.

And the fact that the Blood God Palace has been able to remain a Demonic Path force for these nearly two thousand years, and still have a clear lineage without being wiped out, is indeed worthy of being called very rare.

Aside from the Heavenly Human Martial Artist he killed himself, there is another Heavenly Human Martial Artist in the Blood God Palace.

There is no need to worry about this point; Chen Mo can guess that the strength of that Heavenly Human Martial Artist is likely not very strong either.

However, one must still be careful about this matter; since he has already offended this Demonic Path force, then if there is an opportunity, even if he cannot kill them all, he must deal with the other Heavenly Human Martial Artist.

Aside from cultivation notes and some useless sundries, there are three hundred and seventeen diamond-shaped crystals in this Storage Ring.

Judging from the records in the notes, these diamond-shaped crystals are named Heaven and Earth Origin Stones by the Martial Artists of the Xuantian World.

Their origin is not recorded, but they can indeed enhance a Martial Artist's cultivation and can serve as trading currency.

Their specific utility is just like Blood Essence Stones and Origin True Stones, only the power contained within is greater.

There are also many types of heaven-sent treasures and quite a few medicinal pills; according to the information found so far, heaven-sent treasures have a higher value in the Xuantian World.

If one were to take them and exchange them for Heaven and Earth Origin Stones, the harvest would be greater than refining them directly.

Chen Mo first sorted them out, to see if there might be an opportunity to trade with a Heavenly Human Expert from the Xuantian World later.

The relationship between the two worlds is indeed not very good right now, but it has not reached the point of life-and-death struggle. As long as the price is right, business can always be done.

In addition, there is one Dharma Artifact; when battling and killing that Blood God Palace elder, Chen Mo also harvested a weapon.

These items were also sorted out, to find an opportunity to trade later.

As for the third Storage Ring of the Heavenly Human Realm Martial Artist, it was somewhat unremarkable.

Three hundred and forty-one Heaven and Earth Origin Stones, plus some heaven-sent treasures, various medicinal pills, and a red copper bell Dharma Artifact.

But in this Storage Ring, Chen Mo found something he could not see through.

It was a Purple Jade Hu Tablet, looking very dim, the material not translucent, with nothing special about it.

But ancient characters were carved on it, and merely these few somewhat blurry characters vaguely connected to the Heavenly Law.

No matter if Chen Mo used True Qi, Blood Qi, or other means, he could not produce any effect on this Hu Tablet.

He could only perceive that the material of this Hu Tablet was special and connected to heaven and earth, so it must have its own marvelous uses.

Carefully flipping through the cultivation classics and cultivation notes left by this Martial Artist, Chen Mo did not find any records regarding this Hu Tablet.

It could be stored by a Heavenly Human Martial Artist, and just by a few ancient characters it could connect to the Heavenly Law, which is enough to show that this object is extraordinary.

Chen Mo put it into his own Storage Ring to organize and preserve it, then began to check the Storage Rings of the ten Innate Martial Artists one by one.

Compared to the Heavenly Human Martial Artists, the accumulation of these ten Innate Martial Artists was clearly much more meager.

Added together, there were only one hundred and seventy-three Heaven and Earth Origin Stones, plus a small amount of heaven-sent treasures, various medicinal pills, and a few Dharma Artifact weapons.

This is truly normal.

If one says that the "law of the jungle" among the righteous path is at least somewhat covered up and not very blatant.

Then the Demonic Path has no cover-up at all; the weak are meant to be exploited by the strong.

Most of the resources obtained by these Innate Experts must be offered up to the Heavenly Human Experts, and what they can keep for themselves is very little.

After taking inventory of these resources, Chen Mo roughly estimated them and did not immediately take out his two captives.

Heavenly Human Experts have tenacious vitality and can live up to a thousand years.

Staying in a Storage Ring, let alone ten days or half a month, they could linger on for a year or even longer.

Chen Mo took out a Putan and sat cross-legged; the Heaven and Earth Essence was constantly gathered here under the pulling effect of this Putan.

Chen Mo could also feel bursts of cool and gentle sensations emanating from the Putan, helping him calm his mind.

After many times of ritual refining, it finally revealed a trace of ancient power; even if it was only a trace, it is a rare treasure in the present day.

And as for the other Token obtained from the Mirage Mirror, Chen Mo has not been able to discover any of its uses even until now.

Yet this Putan is so extraordinary, the Token must also have its own unique qualities; that I have failed to discover them is likely only because my cultivation is too low.

Chen Mo's mind was calm, the Heaven and Earth Furnace opened once more, and he condensed a phantom of a pill cauldron within his chest.

He took out all the medicinal pills harvested this time; these pills came from the Demonic Path, their refining methods were relatively crude, and most were not of high grade, all falling within the second or third tier.

Moreover, without a specialist to perform a detailed appraisal, it was impossible to determine the specific value and efficacy of these pills, and it was even hard to say whether they were poisonous.

Such pills are troublesome to sell and their value would not be very high, so he simply refined them into the Transformation Pearl to provide power.

Under the operation of the Heaven and Earth Furnace, the pills turned into liquid, entered Chen Mo's body, and were entirely absorbed by the Transformation Pearl.

The power accumulated by the Transformation Pearl reached over forty percent, and Chen Mo then took out those Heaven and Earth Origin Stones one by one to refine them.

The power of Blood Qi and the Heavenly Law within the Transformation Pearl rose in tandem, and finally, after consuming eight hundred and seventy Heaven and Earth Origin Stones, the Transformation Pearl was finally fully charged, ready to undergo the next Mortal Transformation at any time.

Chen Mo did not hesitate in the slightest, decisively triggering the power of the Transformation Pearl, as surging Blood Qi and laws circulated, washing over his physical body once again.

He took this opportunity to once again begin connecting his own Dao Marks; the four thousand three hundred Dao Marks that had already been linked into a whole blazed, and mysterious precious light radiated, constantly interweaving within Chen Mo's body.

Dao Marks flowed between every piece of his flesh and blood, and golden-red precious light bloomed, illuminating the entire cave.

Consequently, the surrounding Heaven and Earth Power was also constantly evolving, and the surging Blood Qi that Chen Mo inadvertently emitted nearly set the entire cave ablaze.

Countless rocks turned into magma and wanted to flow down, but were supported by the overflowing Blood Qi.

Chen Mo's physical body was smelted into one, and all Dao Marks were constantly being linked.

He could also perceive that his physical body, having undergone another Mortal Transformation, could accommodate more Dao Marks.

This was mainly because the breakthrough he was making had not yet ended, and the physical Dao Marks had not been completely linked into a whole, so he could continue to excavate further at this realm.

Chen Mo naturally would not give up this opportunity and began to continue attempting to incorporate Heaven and Earth Dao Marks into his body.

The number of Dao Marks in his body surged, finally reaching ten thousand eight hundred.

Chen Mo had a vague realization that this was the limit of this realm; if there were any more, it would be counterproductive.

With his cultivation reaching the Creation Realm, his physical body contained the Dao of Heaven and Earth, and many of Chen Mo's obscure perceptions already aligned with the Dao of Heaven and Earth.

Currently, he did not incorporate any more Heaven and Earth Dao Marks into his body, but instead linked all the remaining Dao Marks together.

His whole body shone brilliantly, his entire physical body was being smelted, and the Dao Marks were completely merged into one.

At the Zaohua Second Heaven realm, the Dao Marks are condensed into one, and with every move and style, one can mobilize boundless Heaven and Earth Power.

The ten thousand eight hundred Dao Marks that Chen Mo had now linked were three times the number of an ordinary Second Heaven Martial Artist.

The power he could exert with a casual strike naturally also exceeded that of an ordinary Creation Realm Martial Artist by three times.

This kind of amplification is not as simple as one plus one equals two; in battles between top experts, a fraction of a hair's breadth can determine life or death.

And the power Chen Mo could mobilize, far exceeding that of a Martial Artist of the same realm by three times, resulted in total suppression.

Even a Creation Third Layer Martial Artist might not be able to mobilize such vast Heaven and Earth Power.

Feeling the full and abundant power connected into one within his body, Chen Mo further carefully perceived the benefits this Mortal Transformation had brought him.

Apart from the growth of his physical foundation, his strength had also slightly improved; his pure physical strength now reached as much as three hundred thousand catties.

But compared to the power that could be mobilized by the Dao Marks, his physical strength seemed somewhat weak in comparison.

His physical body was washed by the laws, and various miraculous phenomena naturally manifested; strands of golden light merged into one, blazing and shining within his body like an eternal sun.

This miracle did not only exist within his physical muscles, bones, and surging Blood Qi; Chen Mo could also feel that his dantian and meridians were likewise undergoing transformation under the washing of the laws.

With his physical body linked by Dao Marks, Chen Mo understood his next path of cultivation.

At the Zaohua Third Heaven realm, the Dao Marks are condensed into one, turning into a Dao Seed, planted within the Martial Artist's body.

Although the Heaven and Earth Dao Marks he had incorporated now were unique, strictly speaking, they did not completely belong to him and were still derived from the Heavenly Law.

And what he had to do next was to completely merge these Heaven and Earth Dao Marks into one, turning them into a Dao Seed.

That would be something that belonged uniquely to himself.

But now he should go to break through to the Xiantian Seventh Realm; Chen Mo could feel that with each Mortal Transformation, as his dantian was washed by the Heavenly Law, the Heaven and Earth Breath showed signs of further condensation.

Once the Heaven and Earth Breath condenses into the Heaven and Earth Lock, he would be able to break through to the Xiantian Seventh Realm.

And as long as he breaks through this barrier, then for him, the Heavenly Human Realm is just around the corner.

Although human energy is limited, logically speaking, one can only achieve the highest results by focusing on one path.

With his top-tier talent, this was not a problem.

His physical cultivation was transformed by the Transformation Pearl, so he did not need to worry about falling behind in progress; thus, he could instead put some of his energy into True Qi cultivation.

If his True Qi cultivation could break through to the Heavenly Human Realm, then his own strength would also be greatly improved.

Chen Mo first confirmed that there was no anomaly in the outside world since he had gone into seclusion, and only then did he continue to cultivate with peace of mind.

There is another update tonight.

(End of this chapter)