The First Immortal of Destiny

Chapter 600: Chapter 600 Evil Monarch_1

[Human: Lin Zhaozai]

[Realm: Late-stage Divine Bridge Realm]

[Summary: This cultivator is a formidable evil cultivator from the Vacuous Realm. He was caught and suppressed for colluding with demons from the Outer Zone during the decline of the Vacuous Realm and the arrival of myriad beings and phenomena from the Outer Zone.

He had consumed a Longevity Pill of the Longevity race, greatly extending his Lifespan. Over tens of thousands of years, he had already succumbed to the end of his Lifespan and perished.

Because he practiced the White Bones Path, he gained the Skill to regenerate flesh from bones. By absorbing large amounts of origin power from many evil cultivators and demons, a new soul was born, inheriting everything from his past life.

He was proficient in numerous spiritual level cultivation methods, with mastery ranging from ”Senior” to ”Elite”.

His body was bound by the Demon-Suppressing Chain, and most of his power was suppressed by the Demon-Suppressing Tower, allowing him to manifest only a portion of his strength.]

[Weakness: As the Imprisonment on his body has not been removed, he cannot currently leave his position and can only maneuver using his Escape Skill.]

This was the feedback Shen Mo received from ”Insight into All Beings” after offering one hundred middle-grade Spirit Stones!

As before, many peripheral details were not revealed, only some key matters. However, the amount of hidden information was astonishing.

Firstly, this was the first time Shen Mo had learned a specific name for this world—the Vacuous Realm. It was very likely the world represented by the ancient battlefield of immortals and demons.

To some extent, it also confirmed his previous speculation.

Shen Mo had once used ”Insight into All Beings” to probe the ordinary creatures and demonic beasts he encountered along the way, but he had not learned anything related to the term ”Vacuous Realm.”

Possibly, their strength was too weak to bear such information!

Secondly, in the fifth and sixth chambers of the tower, it wasn’t that evil cultivators and demons from the Outer Zone were absent; rather, they had all been devoured cleanly by this evil cultivator named Lin Zhaozai, not even bone fragments remained.

As for how he unlocked the seal on the bronze gates and how he tricked other evil cultivators and demons from the Outer Zone into the seventh-floor chamber, it wasn’t hard to guess!

This man had consumed a Longevity Pill from the Longevity race, who were demons from the Outer Zone; hence, his Lifespan far exceeded three thousand years.

Over a long period, he must have managed to weaken parts of the chains’ Prohibition and, with patience, opened two bronze gates. He then used escaping from the Demon-Suppressing Tower as bait to lure other demons.

The other demons’ abilities were suppressed by the Demon-Suppressing Tower, rendering them unable to use any extraordinary powers and leaving them nearly in despair from their confinement. When Lin Zhaozai opened the bronze doors and revealed his ability to use Spells, they must have seen him as a lifesaver. They would undoubtedly fall for it!

Lastly, the Lin Zhaozai before them was no longer the Lin Zhaozai who had turned into white bones!

Although he had once consumed a Longevity Pill and possessed a Lifespan longer than that of an ordinary Divine Bridge Realm Heavenly Monarch, he ultimately couldn’t withstand tens of thousands of years of suppression, and his Lifespan still ran out.

He had indeed perished once. However, because he cultivated the White Bones Path and had the demons from the fifth and sixth floors as nourishment, he ”revived” when Shen Mo and his group entered the seventh-floor chamber!

Rather than calling it a Resurrection, it was more accurate to say that a completely new creature had been born from the original corpse.

However, he was vastly different from the Heavenly Monarch Corpse Spirit Shen Mo had once fought fiercely.

The new Lin Zhaozai inherited everything from his past life, including his name, Dao fruit, soul memories, extraordinary characteristics, and more.

He was the same person, yet not the same person!

...

Facing Shen Mo’s words, which were akin to ”threats and bribes,” Lin Zhaozai chuckled.

”Future delicacies can be considered later. I, Lin, after sitting in solitude for countless years, am utterly famished. How could I easily pass up the delicacies before me?”

”If you have the ability to break my teeth, you are welcome to try!”

He had lived for an unknown number of years; ”extremely cunning” was insufficient to describe him. Could Shen Mo sway him with just a few words?

Hearing this, Shen Mo’s eyes narrowed slightly, his thoughts racing.

This man seemed as stubborn as a mule, determined to devour them as blood meals...

It was possible, as he claimed, that he hadn’t eaten ”delicious food” in many years and wanted to indulge today.

More likely, he wanted to recover a portion of his cultivation by consuming blood meals, thereby completely escaping the Imprisonment of the Demon-Suppressing Tower!

Shen Mo leaned towards the latter.

For this man, trapped in the Demon-Suppressing Tower for so many years, the first thought upon Resurrection was undoubtedly to escape, not merely to satisfy his palate!

Moreover, Lin Zhaozai was a powerful evil cultivator; treating other creatures as resources for cultivation was perfectly normal for him.

Since he could devour the evil cultivators and demons on the fifth and sixth floors to absorb their origin power, he could naturally rely on devouring the six of them to recover his strength... The Mana, qi and blood, and soul power contained within six Nascent Soul Realm Cultivators would be quite substantial!

Having surmised the man’s true intentions, Shen Mo immediately used his newly grown arm and head to form hand seals and chant incantations, laying down layers of the Wall Palm on Lady Scarlet and the other five.

After asking about the types and quantities of Elixirs they possessed, he took out five bottles of Mana-recovering Elixirs from his Universe Bag and handed one to each of the five.

This way, he could prevent Lady Scarlet and the others from falling into Lin Zhaozai’s hands in the short term, becoming his blood meals due to True Yuan exhaustion. Even if the worst happened, the formidable Wall Palm could offer some resistance!

Shen Mo’s actions were also for his own benefit.

If any of them were devoured by this terrifying evil cultivator, Lin Zhaozai’s strength would partially recover, making his own situation even more precarious!

Seeing his actions, Lin Zhaozai’s laughter abruptly ceased, a barely perceptible glint of malice flashing in his eyes.

”Lad, how about this: offer all the Elixirs you have to me as tribute, and I’ll let you all leave. What do you say?”

Shen Mo acted as if he hadn’t heard. The chaotic Yuan pill within him spun rapidly, and his abundant, pure True Yuan continuously poured into The Big Dipper Array through an unseen connection, augmenting its power!

BOOM!

RUMBLE! RUMBLE!

The momentum of the Sword Array grew even more imposing. Endless Sword Lights, as if sentient, bypassed the chains binding Lin Zhaozai and struck the Crystal Magic he conjured.

Since the seven Dao swords had successively birthed Artifact Spirits, Shen Mo’s control over the Sword Array had become increasingly seamless. Even if weak mortals were within the Sword Array, he could unleash its full might without harming a single hair on their heads!

Under the Sword Array’s continuous assault, Lin Zhaozai finally couldn’t remain seated!

He appeared calm, but resisting the Sword Array’s killing power with his Crystal Magic inevitably consumed True Yuan.

Furthermore, he was still suppressed by the Demon-Suppressing Tower, so his True Yuan, qi and blood, soul power, and other origin power could not be replenished in the slightest once consumed. What he currently utilized was the legacy of his past life and the remnants from devouring the demons on the fifth and sixth floors!

In the next instant, Lin Zhaozai snapped off one of his own fingers. A bloody light flashed, and the finger transformed into a flesh sword, annihilating a large swathe of the besieging Sword Lights.

Not only that.

After the flesh sword carved out an opening, it divided from one into two, then two into four, and in the blink of an eye, it multiplied into tens of thousands of sharp blades. Amidst eerie wails, like those of vicious ghosts, these blades assembled into another terrifying Sword Array, dense with bloody light and soaring sword Qi!