The First Immortal of Destiny

Chapter 995: Chapter 995: Treasure Refining Materials, True Dragon Vertebra

Five days later, the Taiqing Sect disciple Luo Chen and the Immortal Xuanyuan Luan held a grand marriage ceremony as scheduled.

This wedding was also part of the Grand Selection of Husbands, witnessed by more than thirty True Immortals, and counted as one of the most significant events in the entire Universal Realm!

Many people were extremely envious of Luo Chen and Xuanyuan Luan, not only because their marriage was attracting worldwide attention, but also because their background, talent, and other factors determined that they would undoubtedly proceed further on the path of the Dao than others.

Especially Luo Chen himself, who proved his potential for cultivation to immortality in the Scroll Realm competition;

Moreover, he is a direct disciple of the Law Master of the Taiqing Sect, and now having married into the Xuanyuan Clan, becoming the son-in-law of the old Immortal Xuanyuan Tongzhen, his future cultivation is bound to receive full support from both powerful forces, his probability of cultivation to immortality is ten or a hundred times that of ordinary Formless Realm individuals!

However, gains always come with losses.

Luo Chen received the benefits of both sides, entangling him with layers of causality, so in the future, whether the Taiqing Sect or the Xuanyuan Clan faces tribulation, he cannot stay uninvolved.

Whether this is good or bad for his Dao path remains to be tested by time!

Ordinary cultivators tend to have a short-sighted view, but someone like Shen Mo, who helms a major power, is more concerned about how the inter-faction marriage would affect the overall strategic power dynamics on Phoenix Continent.

The Xuanyuan Clan has been thriving for over a million years, with several True Immortals guarding it, already counted as one of the top cultivation forces on Phoenix Continent, and has maintained a close and amicable relationship with the True Dragon Clan over the years. Now, they have established a close tie with another major immortal sect, Taiqing Sect, making their influence as prosperous as flowers blooming in oil; any slight move in the future could influence the Red Flame Sect thousands of miles away, so this event cannot be ignored!

After attending the couple’s marriage ceremony, Shen Mo and others stayed at Xuanyuan Mountain for more than ten days.

After the Grand Selection of Husbands officially ended, the Jade Wheel Palace then operated a formation prohibition and disappeared into the void, heading towards Five Dragon Mountain at a speed no less than the late-stage Formless Realm, while other attending True Immortals and cultivation forces also gradually left Xuanyuan Mountain.

However, Shen Mo was not in the Jade Wheel Palace, leaving only three sixth-rank Demon Soul Generals to guard the sect disciples while he himself used Sword Escape to rush to Dongjie Continent!

After seeing the gold whip celestial artifact that Xuanyuan Tongzhen took out for trade, he conceived the idea of forging a Mountain-moving Whip magic treasure.

In the future, whether relocating an Immortal Mountain to alter the earth vein and Spirit Vein location of Five Dragon Mountain or arranging the Stars Circulation Array by moving mountains and filling seas in the Lower Realm, a magic artifact with such power would be greatly useful.

Thanks to the Special Destiny [Method Eye Candle Wisp], Shen Mo quickly gained insight into the materials, structure, runes, and refining methods of the gold whip celestial artifact to a rough extent.

With his current level of forging skill, replicating a spiritual-level magic artifact by imitation was not difficult, and by nurturing it with the Spiritual Wisdom Skill and his own primal Essence and Qi for hundreds or even thousands of years, it could also be promoted to a treasured level magic artifact!

The difficult part lies in collecting the materials for forging the Mountain-moving Whip.

It involves a total of one hundred and eight types of spiritual material, including both common and extremely precious top-grade materials. Fortunately, Shen Mo has painstakingly run the Red Flame Sect for a century, so nine-tenths of the spiritual materials can be found in the sect’s Treasure Hall, while the rest can be purchased by sending sect disciples to gather from other Immortal Mountain Markets.

Only one main material proves to be somewhat of a challenge...

When Xuanyuan Tongzhen took out the gold whip celestial artifact, Ao Hao from Hidden Dragon River and the seventh-order True Dragons from the ancestral land had a somewhat peculiar expression.

The reason is simple: the main body of this celestial artifact is an entire spine bone of a True Dragon;

Upon careful scrutiny, Shen Mo discovered it was not merely the remains of an ordinary True Dragon, but left by a seventh-order True Dragon that had reached the True Immortal Realm!

Since it was not Xuanyuan Tongzhen who killed the dragon and took the bone, but an old leftover evil from Beyond the Heavens, and Xuanyuan Tongzhen even killed this leftover evil to avenge the fallen True Dragon, the seventh-order True Dragons like Ao Hao who came to attend the ceremony did not say much, only that the dragon’s ancestral land stepped in and spent a vast amount of spiritual item resources to buy the gold whip celestial artifact.

If it were just a spine bone of a True Dragon, it would be possible to acquire one from the market with plenty of spiritual item resources.

But the True Dragon vertebrae used to forge the Mountain-moving Whip were unusual, requiring the full infusion of a True Dragon’s primal Essence and Qi into its vertebrae, harnessing the inherent divinity of the True Dragon itself to bestow it with the power to shift earth veins and move mountains and seas with mysterious power!

In other words, Shen Mo needs to capture a living True Dragon to forge the Mountain-moving Whip.

He indeed does not lack the means to infuse the primal Essence and Qi of a True Dragon into its spine bone, but where to capture a True Dragon left him at a loss!

The simplest method is naturally to capture a True Dragon from the Hidden Dragon River.

Yet, considering the strong ties between the True Dragon Clan and the Human Race, and the fact that Cao Ren itself is now a member of the Dragon Clan, Shen Mo would not recklessly provoke the True Dragon Clan—considering that the clan holds tremendous power in the Universal Realm, it alone pose a challenging opponent for Shen Mo, let alone more formidable True Dragons in the Dragon Clan’s ancestral land!

If he indeed captured a True Dragon to forge a treasure, even hiding in the Horned Flood Dragon Nine Realms or the Stars Circulation Array, he would not escape the True Dragon Clan’s pursuit.

Another source of spiritual material is the Soaring Serpent Bizarre Dragon being suppressed in the Cave Paradise Demon Zone.

The Soaring Serpent Bizarre Dragon is also a member of the True Dragon category, but being from the Lower Realm and unconstrained by the rules of celestial dragons by recklessly running wild, it is akin to an ”evil cultivator” among human cultivators, plus it is a six-order peak powerhouse, making it perfectly suitable for molding a Mountain-moving Whip.

However, the Soaring Serpent Bizarre Dragon is like a treasure mountain to the Red Flame Sect, as its flesh and blood, scales, and claws can continually provide top spiritual materials for refining elixirs and magic artifacts for the sect; directly killing it to forge a magic artifact is like killing the goose that lays the golden eggs!

Moreover, this evil dragon carries the blood debt of billions of living creatures in Qing State, and Shen Mo has no intention of letting it die so easily.

After much deliberation, Shen Mo turned his attention to the western part of Dongjie Continent, where there is also a True Dragon habitat similar to Hidden Dragon River!

As the demonic disaster worsened, the seventh-order True Dragons like Ao Hao have not only once gone to Dongjie Continent to break through the blockade of Big Heavenly Demons, rescuing surviving True Dragons from the clutches of the Heavenly Demons, settling them among various True Dragon habitats. However, many True Dragons had their Soul Bodies seized by Heavenly Demons, resulting in them becoming Demon-corrupted True Dragons.

Much like mutated Heavenly Demons, Demon-corrupted True Dragons have essentially turned into real demons, so they don’t count as True Dragons. Forging treasures with Demon-corrupted True Dragons would not provoke the True Dragon Clan.

Therefore, Shen Mo plans to go to Dongjie Continent to try his luck in capturing a sixth-order Demon-corrupted True Dragon alive!