The First Immortal of Destiny

While Shen Mo was maneuvering Fairy Pei Yu to expand the Demonic forces in the Chaotic Stone Stockade and elevate her strength and cultivation Realm, his true self in Green Cloud Cave was not idle either!

He first convened several high-level meetings to inform everyone about the Hou Corpse Cave Demon situation.

After consolidating internal consensus, he issued a decree as the Law Master, ordering the Red Flame Sect cultivators to once again use Green Cloud Cave as a center to construct a series of powerful Formations. The True Immortal expected in sixty years was not an immediate concern; at the very least, they had to withstand the offensive of Hou Corpse Cave’s Class V great Demon and its God Slaying Array in a few years, so that the destruction of a single big array wouldn’t directly expose Green Cloud Cave’s location!

Afterward, he contacted Daoxuan Immortal Master of Azure Heaven Cave, explained the stakes, and persuaded him to personally visit the East Slope of Five Dragon Mountain to seek out other Immortal Path Immortal Masters.

As for areas like the mountainside and peak of South Slope Mountain, and the West Slope of Five Dragon Mountain, Shen Mo dispatched nine Demon Soul Generals, including the Ghost Bride and Master Hong Jue. After implanting them with Soul Splitting Runes, he led this torrent of nine Demon Soul Generals to sweep through the areas, preying on whatever they found.

If they encountered Demonic forces, there was no need for words; those they could defeat were directly devoured to bolster the Demon Soul Generals’ strength, while those they couldn’t overcome, they would temporarily avoid a direct confrontation.

If Shen Mo encountered forces of the Immortal Path, he would use the Demon Soul Generals to leave behind a method of communication.

On the mountainside of South Slope Mountain, in an area beyond the range of his spiritual sense, Shen Mo did indeed find a Divine Bridge Realm Immortal Master. However, this individual was a rogue cultivator with only a few dozen disciples.

When Shen Mo informed this Divine Bridge cultivator about the Hou Corpse Cave, the cultivator immediately led his disciples and fled Five Dragon Mountain, leaving Shen Mo rather speechless!

That being said, Shen Mo himself harbored the intention of ”fleeing Five Dragon Mountain and finding another place for cultivation.”

However, Green Cloud Cave had now been refined into a forbidden land, making it difficult to retract and relocate. To remove its forbidden land attribute and restore it to a blessed land would require at least ten years of arduous effort. Shen Mo was already in the process of reverse-refining the Fairyland; therefore, he wasn’t overly concerned about that True Immortal Realm existence finding him!

Judging from the eighty-year deadline this True Immortal had given the Tiger Demon King, he was likely either busy making arrangements throughout the Ten Thousand Mountains or preoccupied with his own cultivation, and wouldn’t be able to attend to Five Dragon Mountain in the short term.

Shen Mo only needed to withstand Hou Corpse Cave’s offensive for ten years, after which he could abscond with Green Cloud Cave. As for the cultivators of Azure Heaven Cave, before leaving Five Dragon Mountain, Shen Mo planned to impart the method of opening a Fairyland and the technique for refining spatial treasures to Daoxuan Immortal Master, allowing him to lead the immortals and mortals within Azure Heaven Cave away.

If Daoxuan Immortal Master possessed sufficient insight to directly open a cave paradise, he could even integrate the Azure Heaven Cave Dungeon directly into the brand-new cave paradise, thereby preserving this Dungeon that countless predecessors had managed for nearly twenty thousand years.

However, if he couldn’t open a cave paradise, he would have to refine a spatial treasure similar to Mi’s ”Golden Flowery Realm.” While this could also carry away the creatures within the cave, it would be very difficult to take all the various spirit gold veins and resource-producing areas with them!

Of course, Shen Mo wouldn’t immediately teach him these two profound methods now, lest he flee prematurely like the previous rogue Immortal Master.

Shen Mo’s worst-case scenario was to completely abandon Green Cloud Cave, transfer all its creatures in batches into his Sword Zone space and Mi’s Golden Flowery Realm, and then depart from Five Dragon Mountain. If he couldn’t withstand the Demonic offensive from Hou Corpse Cave, this would be his only recourse!

But, unless absolutely forced, Shen Mo would never easily relinquish this blessed land.

After all, the development of Green Cloud Cave to its current state had not been easy. It had assimilated numerous Dungeons, damaged forbidden lands, and even an entire cave paradise, and it produced a wealth of spiritual items and resources. Furthermore, it could accommodate the Red Flame Sect members, serving as a significant aid to his cultivation!

Once he finished the reverse-refining of Green Cloud Cave, he would have much more freedom in choosing whether to stay or leave.

As for the ”characteristic of a forbidden land to descend into other worlds,” Shen Mo probably wouldn’t be able to utilize it until he reached the Formless Realm. The sky of the Immortal Realm was too vast and its earth too profound; with Shen Mo’s current Divine Bridge Realm cultivation level, it would be exceedingly difficult to impel the forbidden land to break away from the Immortal Realm. Only when his Realm was significantly higher could he attempt it.

Besides, upon entering the Formless Realm, one could, like the Soaring Serpent, the Bizarre Dragon, or the Four-eyed Giant, descend to other worlds relying solely on personal power, without needing to use a forbidden land!

In addition, Shen Mo was also searching for array diagrams for the Creation Array.

Unfortunately, Five Dragon Mountain was situated in a remote and undeveloped region of the Immortal Realm where the Immortal Path was not prosperous.

Neither Daoxuan Immortal Master nor the rogue cultivator who had fled knew what the Creation Array was, let alone any related array diagrams.

「Chaotic Stone Stockade, Paradise Hall.」

Shen Mo (as Fairy Pei Yu) sat in a high seat, while the Three-Female-Bodied Snake Demon Liu Sanmei and other Class IV Demons were seated below him according to their strength.

A lavish feast of wine and meat was laid out in the hall. Demons danced in a frenzy, and the stench of blood and gore permeated the air, not much better than the demon lairs within Hou Corpse Cave. The difference was that Hou Corpse Cave’s denizens could feast on copious amounts of Flesh and Blood from Human Race immortals and mortals, whereas Chaotic Stone Stockade, under the constraints imposed by Shen Mo (as Fairy Pei Yu), had not attacked any Human Race forces. Thus, they could only consume weaker, low-class Demons.

This banquet was held to entertain an ”envoy” from Hou Corpse Cave: a peak Class IV Single-footed Yaksha. In the Demon Zone of Green Cloud Cave, Shen Mo also kept many Single-footed Yakshas, captured after he had shattered one of his forbidden lands.

The ancestors of the Yaksha before him had ”Ascended” to the Immortal Realm countless eons ago. After innumerable generations of proliferation, her appearance was largely similar to the Single-footed Yakshas in the Demon Zone, though there were many minor differences.

She had only one foot beneath her belly, a pair of bat-like fleshy wings on her back, red horns sprouting from her forehead, and remarkably beautiful facial features.

Undeniably, this was a Single-footed female Yaksha!

The males of this species were exceedingly ugly; even among the myriad grotesque Demons, they were considered unsightly. The female Yakshas, however, were exceptionally beautiful, enough to make one overlook their demonic nature.

”Demon Lord Pei Yu,” the Single-footed female Yaksha, Banzhi Jiaxuan, said with a smile, her voice crisp and pleasant. ”The reason I’ve come in person today is to recruit you, Demon Lord, and your subordinates on behalf of my husband, Shan Hao, the Great King of Hou Corpse Cave! If one ignored her demonic appearance, one would truly think her a devastatingly beautiful woman.”

Shen Mo (as Fairy Pei Yu) had not misheard; this Single-footed female Yaksha named Banzhi Jiaxuan was one of Shan Hao’s many concubines. Besides her, Shan Hao had hundreds of Demonic concubines from various races.

”If Hou Corpse Cave wishes to recruit me, what benefits are there?”

”Or do you expect me to abandon this prosperous territory and serve your Hou Corpse Cave based on nothing but empty promises?”

Shen Mo (as Fairy Pei Yu) spoke, grabbing a cup of spiritual wine brewed from Demon blood. He was about to drink it, but as he brought it to his lips, he felt a wave of revulsion. He instead gifted it to the Three-Female-Bodied Snake Demon seated below him, then picked a few Spirit Fruits and slowly savored them.