The First Immortal of Destiny

Chapter 917: Chapter 917: Steady Progress, Divine Bridge Generation Emerging

Time passes.

With the recent greatest threat, the Hallow Venerable, having been subdued, both Shen Mo and the Red Flame Sect along with the cultivators within have entered a period of stable development.

Shen Mo had just been promoted to the Formless Realm not long ago. Even with an abundance of elixirs, Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures, and divine techniques, he still needed to spend significant time elevating his cultivation and honing his mana. Meanwhile, in the upcoming Sixty Year Cycle, the Red Flame Sect welcomed a booming period of ”Golden Core peak attempting to ascend the Divine Bridge”.

In the Universal Realm, especially in the current environment of the Red Flame Sect, the nature’s spiritual energy, spiritual item resources, the insights of strong cultivators advancing, and the Immortal Path achievements are far superior to those in the Primordial Realm.

Veteran Golden Cores like Yuan Heming, Zhou Zhiwei, Situ Huo, Ming Cang, Xu Liang, Feng Wushuang, Thunder Corpse Master, and Li Chouniu, who had suppressed their cultivation for many years and reached the peak of the Golden Core Realm, began to impact the Divine Bridge. Emerging talents like Chen Mengze, Lu Ming, and Cao Ren also successively reached enlightenment opportunities.

Situ Huo, originally the sect master of Heaven Sword Sect and currently the deputy sect master of the Red Flame Sect, was the first to attempt ascension to the Divine Bridge. After him, almost every few years, someone in the Green Cloud Cave Heaven would invoke the Enlightenment Tribulation...

Green Cloud Cave Heaven was personally established by Shen Mo as a cave paradise, and as its master, he could greatly weaken the intensity of incoming tribulations;

Those undergoing the Enlightenment Tribulation, with his protection, even if the inner and outer tribulations erupted simultaneously, their intensity wouldn’t be as terrifying as in the Outer Realm. Even if they couldn’t build the Divine Bridge during the disaster, they wouldn’t easily end up severely injured or perished, and after decades of recovery, they could try again!

During Situ Huo’s first attempt at the Divine Bridge, he fell into a heart demon’s illusion, failing to break through the Golden Core peak, and suffered damage to his Essence and Qi;

After twenty years of recovery, his second attempt allowed him to smoothly build the Divine Bridge. At that time, an invisible, undetectable by sense, but only perceivable by him, mystical bridge extended from the location of his Golden Core, across a fantastic scene, spanning three thousand five hundred miles...

In the hundredth year of the ascension of billions of creatures from the Red Flame Zone to the Immortal Realm, the sect already had five Divine Bridge Realm Immortal Masters, namely Yuan Heming, Situ Huo, Thunder Corpse Master, Chen Mengze, and Cao Ren; the former three were veteran Golden Cores, and the latter two recently emerging talents;

The number of Golden Core Realm powerhouses also exceeded two hundred, nearly ten times more than a century ago. Among the geniuses from Shen Mo’s era, as long as they hadn’t fallen, the vast majority had successfully condensed a Golden Core!

Shen Mo passed down the method to sense Dreamland to the newly minted Divine Bridges of the sect, allowing them to roam Dreamland, discuss Dao with great cultivators from various immortal continents in Dreamland, dig for ”treasures” to enhance the sect’s foundation, and collect all sorts of secret and intelligence from the Immortal Realm... Benefits like these are countless!

At Chen Mengze’s Divine Bridge ascension celebration, Shen Mo gifted her the Ocher Immortal Slaying Bracelet as a gift. If she could subdue the spirit of the bracelet just like she did with the Ice Hairpin, she would have another tool for killing and self-defense.

As for Zhou Zhiwei, Ming Cang, Xu Liang, Li Chouniu, Lu Ming, and Jiang Lingfeng, at the peak of the Golden Core Realm, their foundations might not be sufficient, they might be too old, their mental state inadequate, or chances lacked. Under various constraints, they have yet to join the ranks of the Divine Bridge; some were even injured by tribulations and uncertain how long it would take to recover and once again strive for a higher Dao Realm!

However, Shen Mo believes that with time, there will be more and more Divine Bridge Realms emerging from the Red Flame Sect.

Thus, the Red Flame Sect truly establishing its sect in just over a hundred years gradually reveals the grand atmosphere of a top immortal sect on Jade Spring Mountain!

The number of immortals and mortals wanting to join the Red Flame Sect on Jade Spring Mountain is countless, like carp crossing the river;

However, for now, the Red Flame Sect doesn’t plan to recruit sect disciples from the outside. Except for special cases, ninety-nine percent of outer disciples are mundane young people with outstanding talent from the Green Cloud Cave Heaven and enlightened marine races.

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On this day, Shen Mo just finished his daily cultivation and was preparing for a trip to Dreamland.

The Communication Talisman at his waist glowed slightly. After he looked at it, a joyful expression appeared on his brow, and with a thought, his figure appeared in the Herb Hall of the Hundred Arts Hall, disappearing again before the sect disciples could salute!

Along with him disappeared Zhao Lingyin, who was in the Herb Hall discussing elixir recipes with the Alchemists.

Not long after, a golden escaping light landed on the clouds of the West Slope mountainside, which was the location of the ancient Mechanic Sect’s mountain gate, boasting thousands of years of heritage.

Qin Zhen, presenting herself with a small Puppet Yama, along with her master, an old white-haired lady, had led a group of disciples waiting at the entrance of the mountain gate early; the Mechanic Sect, known for its Puppetry Path, even filled the welcome ceremony for distinguished guests with all sorts of puppets, all controlled by disciples for music, dancing, and auspiciousness!

”Fellow Daoist Qin, this is not the first time Shen has visited, why such a grand display?” With the spirit light faded, the figures of Shen Mo and his Dao companion Zhao Lingyin became visible.

Qin Zhen and her master came forward to greet them, exchanging pleasantries as they paid respects.

At this time, Zhao Lingyin still looked confused, not knowing why Shen Mo would suddenly bring her to visit the Mechanic Sect?

After brief pleasantries, Qin Zhen and her master led the two of them into the Mountain Protection Array;

During this, Shen Mo couldn’t help but take a few more glances at Qin Zhen’s master. Although this Golden Core cultivator looked old, her vitality was extremely vigorous, just like Elder Li who once stationed outside the Jade Pool Dungeon!

If nothing unexpected happens, Qin Zhen’s master should have nearly a millennia of lifespan left, but this vitality and lifespan were obtained by consuming a Longevity Pill; her cultivation realm would stop here, never to increase again, and after a thousand years she would become a distorted lump of longevity flesh, in essence, completely perishing, without even the chance of reincarnation.

Of course, this is the senior’s own choice, and even her disciple Qin Zhen said nothing more, so naturally Shen Mo, as an outsider, had no place to comment.

In the core hinterland of the Mechanic Sect, everything was related to puppetry.

The buildings in the sect are not luxuriously decorated but each is exquisitely crafted, incorporating puppet crafting techniques; the spiritual plants planted in the Spiritual Garden are made of bamboo and wood suitable as puppet spiritual materials; the Mountain Protection Array defending the mountain gate is powered by strong puppets as the array core, which, when necessary, can utilize the array to unleash extremely terrifying killing power...

As they proceeded, Qin Zhen led Shen Mo and Zhao Lingyin into a magnificent hall filled with runes, while other cultivators from the Mechanic Sect, including Qin Zhen’s master, stopped outside and did not follow inside.

The hall was filled with numerous puppet parts and finished puppets, yet the most conspicuous place was shrouded by prohibition spirit light, hiding its mystery!