The First Immortal of Destiny

Chapter 994: Chapter 994: True Immortal Trade, Three Treasures

The marriage ceremony between Taiqing disciple Luo Chen and the Xuanyuan family’s young ancestor Xuanyuan Luan was set for five days later, so this grand feast would continue for a while longer!

Taking advantage of the rare opportunity, the crowd of True Immortals within the Heavenly Cloud Palace held a trade fair amidst their banquet to exchange for resources they and their disciples needed.

Through years of cultivation, Shen Mo had accumulated an exceptionally rich fortune, with a multitude of treasures to exchange with the True Immortals, including finished elixirs, talismans, and magic artifacts handcrafted by himself, specialties gained from Green Cloud Cave Fairyland and the Horned Flood Dragon Nine Realms, Enlightenment Tea from a ten-thousand-year-old spiritual tea tree, and top-grade spiritual wine brewed by the Drunken Immortal Pot...

However, compared to the present True Immortals, his offerings were negligible, for even the youngest Ghost Immortal had lived for tens of thousands of years, accumulating a terrifying wealth. The treasures they put forth were vast and varied, both in type and exceptional quality, leaving Shen Mo dazzled.

The most eye-catching items were a gold whip-shaped lower-grade celestial artifact, an Immortal Mountain rich in spiritual energy, and a middle-grade cultivation method of immortal level, provided respectively by Xuanyuan Tongzhen, a seventh-order True Dragon from the dragon’s ancestral land, and the Taiqing Sect Leader.

Shen Mo wasn’t particularly interested in the Immortal Mountain and the cultivation method.

The Immortal Mountain offered by the dragon’s ancestral land lay in the Kunlun Continent, far too distant from the Phoenix Continent. Besides, the Five Dragon Mountain supported his cultivation to the True Immortal Realm with ease and could even be rented out to other sects and rogue cultivators. Should the Five Dragon Mountain’s territory someday prove insufficient, he could explore deeper into the Corpse Mountain Range to discover resource-rich and Spirit Vein-abundant blessed lands, making it unnecessary to purchase an Immortal Mountain millions of miles away.

The Immortal Mountain near the ancestral land of the dragon was purchased by a True Immortal from Dongjie Continent at a great cost;

His sect, destroyed years ago in the aftermath of a battle between two Earth Immortals, lay in the northern part of Dongjie Continent. Though he escaped with his sect disciples to a cave paradise, he hadn’t found a site to rebuild his sect yet. Today’s purchase of the Immortal Mountain at Kunlun Continent provided an opportune chance to neighbor the Ancestral Land True Dragon.

This trade proved mutually beneficial, as the Dongjie True Immortal obtained a cultivation site and potential aid from the Ancestral Land True Dragon during disasters, while the dragon’s ancestral land earned precious spiritual resources, gaining a friendly True Immortal as mutual aid!

As for the immortal-level cultivation method offered by the Taiqing Sect, Shen Mo didn’t see the original text, but he gathered a general idea from the Taiqing Sect Leader’s brief explanation.

This method, titled ”Selfless Sutra,” is not the fundamental heritage of Taiqing Sect but was acquired by the Taiqing Sect Leader by chance, following the path of heartlessness. Practitioners gradually discard their desires and emotions to observe the wonders of the Immortal Path with absolute rationality, ultimately becoming beings devoid of emotion;

Being one with no heaven, no earth, no kin, no teacher, no self, solely pursuing the eternal heart of the Immortal Path!

If this were all, it might be acceptable, but those practicing this method face the greatest challenge during the enlightenment tribulation, having a high probability of merging with the ”Dao” in an instant of becoming an Immortal, thus being assimilated by the will of heaven and earth.

According to the Taiqing Sect Leader, he once had an ordinary disciple who attempted to cultivate this method.

This disciple progressed astonishingly fast, several times quicker than Luo Chen, who wielded the Taqing Pearl, reaching the Formless Realm Peak within merely eight hundred years, surpassing several layers beyond Perfection in many immortal skills and methods, eventually beginning the enlightenment tribulation.

However, at the very instant the disciple achieved True Immortal status, he smiled and transformed into celestial light across the sky, merging his body with the Dao, reaching the true ”selfless” Realm!

A seemingly just yet profoundly sinister immortal method, Shen Mo naturally avoided with gratitude, without even considering using [Martial Performance] to simulate its practice; he even suspected its emergence was linked to the universe’s will, its rapid progress in cultivation realm, spell mastery, and beyond was the universe’s ”favor,” encouraging more cultivators to practice ”Selfless Sutra,” helping them rapidly become True Immortals and merge with the Dao to further repair and expand the Immortal Path!

There is certainly treachery behind anomalies.

Other True Immortal figures were not naïve; upon learning slightly about ”Selfless Sutra,” they immediately dismissed buying it. By the end of the trade fair, no one inquired from the Taiqing Sect Leader about purchasing this immortal-level cultivation method.

The Taiqing Sect Leader candidly shared the fatal flaw of ”Selfless Sutra” to avoid forging life-death vendettas;

If some True Immortal paid a heavy price for this method and let their sect disciples cultivate it, with practitioners eventually falling upon Dao transformation, this enmity would naturally be attributed to him!

Hence, by offering ”Selfless Sutra” for trade, he harbored a vague hope that someone might want to buy and study it, and upon seeing no interest, he didn’t mind.

What intrigued Shen Mo the most was the golden whip celestial artifact offered by Xuanyuan Tongzhen, obtained from slaying an ancient leftover evil possessing the power to move mountains and fill seas.

If Shen Mo had such a celestial artifact, laying the Stars Circulation Array in the Horned Flood Dragon Nine Realms would have spared him much effort, and perhaps someday in the future, he would deploy a more massive and formidable formation in the Lower Realm, hence feeling tempted upon hearing about this whip’s extraordinary properties.

However, like most celestial artifacts deprived of a master, the golden whip’s Artifact Spirit was extremely stubborn. Xuanyuan Tongzhen had possessed the celestial artifact for fifty thousand years yet hadn’t subdued the whip’s Artifact Spirit or refined it into his Lifebound Magical Artifact!

It’s said that possibly because Xuanyuan Tongzhen slew the golden whip’s owner, the Artifact Spirit resists to the death.

Nevertheless, Shen Mo couldn’t ensure that he could promptly subdue the Artifact Spirit after purchasing the treasure with his full fortune, refining it into a celestial artifact of noteworthy power; if unable to subdue the Artifact Spirit, it might need its spirit wiped out, birthing a new Artifact Spirit, but whether it could be restored to celestial level is uncertain!

”My forging expertise has now reached Grade six, able to stably create mid-grade spiritual tools. Given some luck, I might forge high-grade or even top-grade spiritual tools. Instead of expending immense resources, time, and effort gambling on such minimal odds, it’s preferable to personally forge a spiritual tool possessing similar powers and slowly nurture it.”

Shen Mo quietly calculated, then stepped forth, respectfully addressing, ”Senior Tongzhen, junior is quite passionate about the Forging Path and wishes to closely observe and study this celestial artifact, may I?”

After a mere moment of hesitation, Xuanyuan Tongzhen smilingly handed the golden whip to Shen Mo... After all, Shen Mo was a guest he invited and had signed a Dao oath joining the Xuanyuan Alliance; such reasonable requests naturally had no grounds for refusal.

”Thank you, Senior.”

Shen Mo accepted the golden whip celestial artifact, slotting [Method Eye Candle Wisp] in the Destiny Disc groove, with a pair of Dharma Eyes shining brilliantly, surveying the key information about the forging materials, specific structure, internal runes of the treasure.