The First Immortal of Destiny

Chapter 975: Chapter 975: Calamity Arises in Dongjie Continent

A few days later, Lady Scarlet, Qin Hu, and other Divine Bridge Immortal Masters all had a feeling and successively teleported out of the Heaven Patrolling Temple!

Nature’s spiritual energy fluctuated violently, and pieces of celestial light emerged from the void. In the blink of an eye, the Jade Wheel Palace, almost as large as Dayu Mountain, manifested and floated near the mountain peak.

”Senior Brother Qingyun!” Lady Scarlet cheered, transforming into a fiery red escaping light and flew towards the Celestial Palace.

Qin Hu and the others exchanged a glance and followed closely behind. The escaping light landed on the jade orb. They were quite curious about this Celestial Palace and naturally didn’t want to miss this opportunity to explore it.

Soon, one escaping light after another settled before an ancient and grand palace.

Lady Scarlet had just stepped out of the spirit light when she couldn’t help but rush towards Shen Mo. However, a sharp cold wind suddenly arose out of nowhere, causing her to stagger back several feet, shivering all over, clearly frozen quite severely.

At this moment, Lady Scarlet noticed that beside Shen Mo stood a figure like an ice and snow fairy, glaring at her with a frosty face.

”Fellow Daoist Chen’s magic has become much more formidable than before!” Lady Scarlet activated her internal mana, dispelling the coldness on her body, and with mesmerizing eyes, she smiled sweetly at Chen Mengze.

She had lived in the Red Flame Sect for many years and naturally knew about Shen Mo’s relationship with Chen Mengze. However, at first, all her attention was on her sweetheart, so she didn’t notice that Chen Mengze was also there. As she spoke, she again leaned towards Shen Mo but restrained her coquettish demeanor, not daring to be too wanton.

The few Daoist temple Immortal Masters and the Red Flame Sect members present found this scene amusing, secretly envying Qingyun Immortal Master’s romantic luck.

”I wonder if your journey went smoothly? Did you manage to kill that evil dragon?” Qin Hu stepped forward, greeted the members of the Red Flame Sect, and asked.

Shen Mo smiled slightly, flicked his robe sleeve, and a flash of Fairyland sword light revealed a small loach, which fell out.

Upon seeing the little loach’s appearance, Qin Hu couldn’t help but retreat repeatedly, almost fleeing in a beam of escaping light!

For the little loach had a dragon’s head and Dragon Body with wings on its back, no doubt the Bizarre Dragon Soaring Serpent with Sixth Order Peak cultivation; however, its size was reduced to nearly the size of an index finger, tightly bound by the Immortal Binding Rope and Soul-binding Nail, with no shred of its former ferocious majesty.

”Fellow Daoist Qingyun’s methods are extraordinary, to be able to capture alive such a terrifying creature, just a step away from the True Immortal Realm! It truly fills us with admiration...” Qin Hu and several Daoist temple Immortal Masters experienced tumultuous emotions, only expressing various amazement and exclamation after calming down.

”You all flatter me, fellow daoists. I too had to expend considerable effort to successfully capture this foul dragon!” Shen Mo put away the ”little loach” on the ground, replying with a smile.

The Bizarre Dragon Soaring Serpent was a Sixth Order Peak True Dragon, with a body as strong as a Demon God, and its magical abilities were not weak. Its strength was on par with the Longevity Demon Lord of yore.

However, Shen Mo was no longer who he used to be; he didn’t even need to use the Soul Refining Flag to defeat and capture it alive...

He did not directly obliterate this evil dragon, nor did he intend to refine it into a Demon Soul General. Simply doing so would be too lenient; the blood debt of harming the billions of creatures in Qing State could not be so easily washed away!

Shen Mo planned to take it back to the Red Flame Sect and suppress it eternally, using its flesh, dragon scales, and soul to repay the blood debt!

”With Senior Brother’s abilities, you will achieve True Immortality sooner or later!”

Ripples appeared in Lady Scarlet’s beautiful eyes. If Chen Mengze had not been present, she might have already thrown herself into Shen Mo’s arms.

Even so, she still clung to Shen Mo’s arm, leaning toward Shen Mo, even under Chen Mengze’s icy glare.

Before Chen Mengze could say anything, at the urging of Qin Hu and others through voice transmission, Lady Scarlet composed herself and began discussing serious matters.

”Senior Brother Qingyun, our Heaven Patrolling Temple wishes to take all its affiliated forces and cultivators, leave Dayu Mountain, and accompany you to Phoenix Continent to seek shelter under your wings!”

”Why do you suddenly want to migrate?” Yuan Heming on the side couldn’t help but ask.

As the Deputy Sect Master of the Red Flame Sect, he was most aware of the troubles involved in moving an entire sect, let alone the fact that Heaven Patrolling Temple was not a sect but had jurisdiction over hundreds of large and small immortal sects, many cultivating families, and rogue cultivators. Additionally, all their foundations brought from the Heaven Patrolling Zone through the forbidden land, like the golden stone veins and spiritual field in Dayu Mountain, couldn’t be taken away.

”For nearly a hundred years, the western and northern parts of Dongjie Continent have not been very peaceful...” Lady Scarlet began explaining the reasons with a slight opening of her lips.

Over the past two hundred years, Shen Mo spent most of his time in the Lower Realm for Zhao Lingyin’s tribulation matter, rarely entering Dreamland, but he was quite aware of the happenings in Dongjie Continent.

As expected, the reasons Lady Scarlet mentioned were indeed related to the recent situation in Dongjie Continent.

In northern Dongjie Continent, two powerful True Immortals have battled for many years, devastating thousands of miles of land. Many Immortal Mountains, considered Cultivation Blessed Lands, were leveled, and billions of creatures died. The surviving creatures, whether human cultivators, the Ten Thousand Races of the Immortal Realm, or demons and monsters, were fleeing south.

The aftermath of the two True Immortals’ spells didn’t hit Dayu Mountain, but Dayu Mountain inevitably suffered collateral damage.

The problem lies with the fleeing creatures, among whom there are top-tier experts. When passing by Dayu Mountain, it’s only natural that they might entertain the idea of plundering to replenish spiritual item resources!

Daoist temple Divine Bridge Immortal Master Ge Kunbao was killed by a Fifth Order Peak demon within them, and even Qin Hu was injured by this demon.

Fortunately, Dayu Mountain is heavily fortified with formations and prohibitions everywhere. The demon attacked for several months but to no avail, and unwilling to waste more time, allowed the Heaven Patrolling Temple’s immortal and mortal populace to escape a catastrophe!

Now, there are eight Daoist temple Immortal Masters who have come to Jade Wheel Palace, three of whom have only achieved enlightenment in recent years, and indeed, there’s a familiar face missing; Qin Hu’s aura is also unstable, clearly with unhealed old wounds.

As for the western part of Dongjie Continent, it’s plagued by demonic disasters.

A Seventh-Order Great Demon, comparable to a True Immortal, led billions of minor Heavenly Demons and ascended to the Universal Realm, landing just tens of millions of miles west of Dayu Mountain. Innumerable creatures were demon-corrupted or devoured by the Heavenly Demons, making this group of Heavenly Demons increasingly terrifying, with a trend of spreading to surrounding areas.

There’s no need to mention the eastern side, apart from the slain Bizarre Dragon Soaring Serpent, there are many other demons and monsters, including some at the Sixth Order and even Seventh Order existence!

The Divine Bridge Immortal Masters of Heaven Patrolling Temple had long considered moving away from Dayu Mountain, but several years of discussions hadn’t resulted in a final decision;

Yet Shen Mo’s capture of the Bizarre Dragon Soaring Serpent, revealing strength not much inferior to a Ghost Immortal, solidified the Daoist temple Immortal Masters’ resolve. They planned to lead Dayu Mountain’s immortal and mortal populations to Phoenix Continent with the Jade Wheel Palace, seeking shelter under Shen Mo’s wings!