The First Immortal of Destiny

Thanks to the generous offerings from the million members of the Red Flame Sect, Shen Mo once held a staggering ten million Spirit Stones.

However, with his [Martial Performance] Destiny, a veritable gold-eating beast, even such a vast quantity of Spirit Stones could be exhausted in an incredibly short time!

Excluding incomplete or tampered cultivation methods, a normal cultivation method requires the consumption of over a hundred thousand to several hundred thousand Lower Grade Spirit Stones for the first extrapolation. Continuing the extrapolation on this basis directly doubles the Spirit Stones consumed.

Take Shen Mo’s main cultivation method, the Mixed Yuan Qi Technique, which he was currently practicing. The first time he used [Martial Performance] for extrapolation, it consumed 478,000 Lower Grade Spirit Stones. The second extrapolation consumed 956,000 Spirit Stones. Now, he had extrapolated it to the fifth stage, consuming a total of 14,818,000 Lower Grade Spirit Stones, which was simply terrifying!

The Mixed Yuan Qi Technique was originally a low-grade spiritual-level cultivation method. According to Shen Mo’s calculations, after five extrapolations, this method had been elevated to approximately the mid to high-grade treasured level, becoming increasingly wondrous and profound.

Initially, Shen Mo planned to make a concerted effort to extrapolate it to the immortal level. However, the Spirit Stones he had accumulated over many years were nearly exhausted. He would need to save another forty to fifty million Spirit Stones to achieve this goal!

For him, there was actually no great hurry.

Whether he first cultivated a method to the Epic layer and then extrapolated it, or first extrapolated the method several times before cultivating it deeply, the overall effect didn’t differ much!

Normally, the higher the level of a cultivation method, the better its power and efficacy. However, this was also affected by one’s mastery or proficiency level. Each time the Mixed Yuan Qi Technique was extrapolated, its proficiency would drop significantly, and it would become more abstruse and profound, making it far more difficult to cultivate to a deep level than before!

If he cultivated it deeply before an extrapolation, the loss in proficiency would be less, and it would be considerably easier to cultivate deeply again. All his previous hard work on this method would not be wasted.

Therefore, overall, whether he cultivated first and then extrapolated, or extrapolated first and then cultivated, the outcome was largely the same.

More crucially, the astronomical consumption of Spirit Stones was insufficient for Shen Mo to elevate his cultivation method to a genuine immortal-level cultivation method in one go, so he could only proceed step by step.

After establishing the Red Flame Sect, Shen Mo also gained many spiritual-level cultivation methods originally belonging to the various powers of the Red Flame Zone.

However, except for a select few, ninety-nine percent of the magic and martial arts, and profound magic, could not compare with the cultivation methods refined by [Martial Performance]. Furthermore, cultivating them deeply would consume vast amounts of time and energy, and he could easily bite off more than he could chew. Therefore, Shen Mo hadn’t extensively practiced the spiritual-level cultivation methods he acquired!

He had only picked out a few dozen unique, specialized cultivation methods and practiced them cursorily.

With his Divine Bridge Realm cultivation level, even if his mastery of a cultivation method was shallow, he could display extraordinary power. It just wouldn’t be as potent as those cultivated deeply. When he had surplus energy, he could then focus on cultivating them one by one to Extreme Perfection. He might also gain a new Skill in the process!

Besides, he had also extrapolated and diligently studied other main cultivation methods, magic, and martial arts.

[Destinied Lord: Shen Mo]

[Skills: Sword Body, Flawless, Control Wind, By the Stars, Rebirth, Spirit Devouring, Cloud Transformation, Blood Shadow, Pure Yang Pupil, Sword Escape, Universe in the Sword, Spiritual Wisdom, Blessed land, Immunity, Cloud Thunder Wing, Crystal Brahma Flame, etc.]

[Cultivation method:

”Mixed Yuan Qi Technique” Senior (5,184 / 42,000) extrapolated five times;

”Reverse Dragon Curse” Elite (2,635 / 28,000) extrapolated twice;

”Divination Treasure Mirror” Senior (3,144 / 11,000);

”The Sutra of Cloudy and Rainy from Wushan” Junior (5,695 / 15,000) extrapolated once]

[Martial arts:

”Sword Control Spirit Technique” Elite (2,690 / 18,000) extrapolated once;

”Big Dipper Seven Star Sword Formation” Elite (7,285 / 20,000) extrapolated twice;

”Constellation Great Hand Seal” Elite (1,439 / 23,000) extrapolated twice;

”All-Encompassing Sword Canon” Master (10,083 / 28,000) extrapolated twice;

”Tianhe Nine Turns” Epic (MAX)]

[Lightness Magic:

”Soar Cloud Immortal Method” Senior (1,558 / 24,000) extrapolated twice;

”Great Five Elements Escape Technique Secret Inscription” Junior (4,915 / 16,000)]

[External Magic:

”Dragon Elephant Blood Fiend Body”: Bloody Fiend Body (100/100) extrapolated three times;

”Three-Heads Six-Arms True Immortal Technique” Elite (8,785 / 24,000) extrapolated twice]

[Soul Magic:

”Divine Soul Contemplation Scripture” Senior (685 / 18,000) extrapolated twice;

”Great Sun Tathagata Heart Scripture” Senior (1,109 / 27,000) extrapolated three times]

[Sacrificial Magic:

”Withering Pursuit Soul Palm” Epic (MAX);

”Gecko Divine Skill” Epic (MAX);

”Sacrificial One Sword” Elite (7,827 / 21,000) extrapolated once]

[Others: ”Nine Fiend Seizing Hand,” ”Corpse Sacrifice Demon Quelling Canon,” ”Five Poisons Canon,” ”Proliferating Moon Mystic Scripture,” ”Purple Mansion Heart Scripture,” ”Heavenly Origin Technique,” ”Supreme Clarity Sword Technique,” ”Startling Swan Sword Technique,” ”Thunderclap Rapid Step,” ”Immortal Wind Cloud Physique”]

During his future cultivation and application of the numerous magic and cultivation methods he possessed, Shen Mo would eliminate the worthless and retain the essentials.

He wouldn’t spend time intensively cultivating methods with average power, redundant effects, or those conflicting with each other. Instead, he would continue to extrapolate and cultivate those with extraordinary abilities. His goal was to one day achieve the ultimate state of ’gathering myriad immortal arts into one body, where every action wielded immense power!’

It’s not that he didn’t want to directly cultivate treasured or immortal-level methods. However, any top-level method is viewed as a treasure as precious as life by an individual powerhouse or a cultivation faction, and they would not easily trade or teach it to others.

After all, if their core techniques were disseminated, they would lose their unique advantage, and it could even fall into enemy hands and bring disaster!

When Shen Mo put the extrapolated methods into the Magic Tower and taught them to his Sect Disciples, he would not teach the deeply extrapolated methods, but only those that had been extrapolated once or twice. This was to ensure that even if a disciple’s soul was searched, they could not fully reveal the root of their method, to prevent enemies from learning this and using it against him.

Therefore, Shen Mo’s newly learned magic and martial arts were mostly the core methods of various forces in his native Red Flame Zone, and none of them were acquired after entering the Immortal Realm.

Having said that, even if countless Xiu Xian Forces were located on Jade Spring Mountain, their cultivation methods were mostly at the profound and spiritual levels; those above the treasured level were few and far between.

When it came to immortal-level methods, Shen Mo suspected that even a True Immortal like Jade Spring Fairy might only have mastered one or two. According to his understanding, the creation of an immortal method had extremely stringent requirements. Unless it was passed down from predecessors, it was harder to extrapolate and compile an ”Immortal Law” from scratch than to cultivate into an Immortal!

If a True Immortal hadn’t learned a real Immortal Law, they would need to expend years of toil to gradually improve, sculpt, and elevate the grade of their existing cultivation methods. Those with average aptitude in this regard might not be able to extrapolate an immortal scripture in their entire lifetime.

For a Xiu Xian Force, it would take thousands, if not tens of thousands of years of continuous existence. During this time, exceptionally talented individuals must constantly emerge, one after another, to improve and extrapolate a cultivation method. Only then, perhaps, could they elevate it to the immortal level!

Given the above, it’s easy to imagine the difficulty Shen Mo faced in obtaining treasured or immortal-level methods on Jade Spring Mountain.

Rather, it would be better to spend more Spirit Stones to gradually extrapolate and upgrade the methods and magic he had already mastered and which had greater potential into Immortal Law!