The First Immortal of Destiny

Chapter 1015: Chapter 1015: Successor of the Heavenly Immortal Ashram

At that time, Shen Mo formed a contract with the Taihua Mirror Spirit, marking the entirety of Five Dragon Mountain under the name of the Red Flame Sect, subsequently leasing out significant territories to other righteous path forces!

However, times have changed. Now, Shen Mo regards Five Dragon Mountain as his cornerstone and will no longer easily lend out land, allowing others to extensively harvest spiritual plants, items, and underground minerals, to avoid damaging the earth vein and spiritual vein; nevertheless, with the foundation of the Immortal Realm, as long as resources are not overexploited, various resources can still continuously emerge.

To avoid draining resources excessively, any other Xiu Xian forces wishing to lease land, regardless of the intended use, must undergo multiple layers of approval from the main halls of Red Flame Sect before submitting to Shen Mo for final decisions. The same treatment will apply to the remaining seventy-one Fairy Mountains for the construction of the Earth Yuan Array in the future.

Of course, with Shen Mo’s relationship with the Silver-haired Child, the Dragon-suppressing Sect can still lease a piece of land to earn cultivation resources.

The Silver-haired Child was also aware of his sect’s plight. Since his return to the Dragon-suppressing Sect, the sect had shown signs of revitalization, Sect Master True Master Bian even recruited many disciples, but the ancestral assets within the sect had mostly been sold off over the course of more than six thousand years. Not to mention the newly recruited disciples, even he, the ancestor, was extremely short of cultivation resources, truly needing a way to open up the sect’s income.

Originally, he had dug deep into his reserves to prepare two thank-you gifts, feeling a bit pained at heart. Upon hearing Shen Mo speak about this matter, his spirit was immediately lifted, overjoyed, he said, ”Many thanks to Fellow Daoist Qingyun for your kindness. Once I return to the mountain gate, I’ll have Leshui follow up on this, and send him to Five Dragon Mountain to apply for lease!”

The ”Leshui” he mentioned refers to the Sect Master of the Dragon-suppressing Sect, True Master Bian, whose full name is Bian Leshui, meaning ”the wise delight in water”.

The two exchanged a few more words before the Silver-haired Child, full of joy, bade farewell and left.

Shortly after, three great cultivators, Shi Nianyao, Tiansuan Zi, and Dou Fei, sent news saying they had found about ten suitable medium-sized Fairy Mountains for formation placement.

Subsequently, Shen Mo, wielding the Mountain-moving Whip, employed the [Sword Escape] technique to head southeast.

The medium-sized Fairy Mountains picked by Shi Nianyao and the others were all located between the Corpse Mountain Range and the lair of the Hallow Venerable, with size, mountain shape, and earth vein nature all meeting the requirements of the Earth Yuan Array.

Shen Mo quickly selected the most suitable eight from the thirteen large mountains, though these Fairy Mountains were inhabited by demons and monsters, making it problematic to move them directly back to the Corpse Mountain Range. After discerning the aura of the demons and monsters, he unceremoniously raised the Soul Refining Flag, having the Demon Soul General devour nearly ninety percent of the demons!

Those who narrowly escaped were some demonic beasts and spiritual monsters with clear demonic power, free from excessive violent resentment, which Shen Mo intended to keep for the sect as protectors.

To date, the Red Flame Sect also had a considerable number of alien protectors.

The initial batch came from the demons of Chaotic Stone Ridge. During the battle between Shen Mo and the demonic forces of Hou Corpse Cave, the likes of the Snake Demon Liu Sanmei stood on his side. Later, Shen Mo implanted Spirit Controlling Talismans in their bodies, turning them into sect enforcers.

Furthermore, among the demon varieties on Five Dragon Mountain, out of millions, only less than thirty thousand had not fed on human flesh or blood. These varieties were free of Bloody Fiend resentment and their demonic aura was relatively pure. Most were gentle-natured demonic beasts and spiritual monsters who cultivated by consuming Spirit Fruits, mountain springs, and moon juices, not being the vicious or bloodthirsty type, similar to the beasts and monsters Shen Mo had forgiven, and they too were recruited as sect enforcers.

The last group were the marine demon cultivators from the Immortal Burial Sea. Even after taking the Shape Transforming Pill and cultivating to Class IV, these beings were unable to assume human form, thus could not become true disciples of the Red Flame Sect, only receiving the identity of a protector!

Shen Mo did not intend to eradicate the remaining Fairy Mountains and their inhabiting demonic beasts and spiritual monsters, provided their aura was clear and just. He believed that through generations of cultivation, these varieties could be educated, and make the seventy-two Fairy Mountains, including Five Dragon Mountain, flourish with spirit beasts and spiritual monsters, eventually becoming a part of the sect’s heritage.

After moving back six Fairy Mountains to the Corpse Mountain Range, Jade Spring Fairy returned to Phoenix Continent, directly coming to the outer mountain gate of the Red Flame Sect, inviting Shen Mo to drink with her.

”Fairy returned so swiftly? I had thought that completely eradicating the demonic primal intent would take at least several years!” Shen Mo was somewhat surprised, pouring a cup of spiritual wine for Jade Spring Fairy, he said.

The answer Jade Spring Fairy gave left Shen Mo even more astonished—the final cleanup work was actually seized by someone.

”Seized by someone? To snatch credits from the five Earth Immortals among you, could it be a Divinity? But, a Divinity only needs to guard the Heavenly Gateway to earn a large amount of achievement in heaven and earth, why would they be interested in these trifling merits?”

Shen Mo vividly remembered that during the demon disaster outbreak in the western part of Dongjie Continent, beings like Xuanyuan Tongzhen—celestial figures—did not bother with the merit of quelling the demon disaster, thus never taking action to eliminate Chunyang Zi and the Seventh-Order Great Demons;

Now that the demon disaster had been mostly quelled, and the achievements in heaven and earth almost exhausted in distribution, only the final cleanup efforts remained to earn some achievements, at which point, it truly was unlikely for a Divinity to intervene!

”That person hasn’t yet become an Immortal, like you, a cultivator in the Formless Realm!”

”Hmm?”

Shen Mo was even more puzzled in his heart.

Although Jade Spring Fairy regarded him as a kindred spirit, in the eyes of most Earth Immortals, Formless Masters were still mortal cultivators.

Like the local Earth Immortal of Dongjie Continent, Xu Rong, who was reduced to just a head during the battle, never once uttered a word to him. This was the typical attitude of Earth Immortals towards mortal cultivators. ℴ

After all, regardless of how exceptionally talented or immensely powerful a Formless Realm cultivator is, they can only live up to nine thousand years, akin to a mayfly that lives and dies in a single day in the eyes of an Earth Immortal, similar to Xu Rong refusing to associate deeply with ”mayflies” being quite reasonable!

However, under these circumstances, there was actually a Formless Realm cultivator capable of forcibly taking the achievements in heaven and earth about to fall into the hands of the five Earth Immortals.

Seeing Jade Spring Fairy’s sullen appearance, it was evident she suffered a significant setback and was utterly helpless against this person!

”Who could possibly be such a remarkable person, possessing such capabilities?”

”That person’s name is Wang Hong, and his capabilities are adequate. His background, however, is noteworthy, being a descendant of the Heavenly Immortal Dojo of Minor Penglai.”

”Heavenly Immortal Dojo...”

Shen Mo furrowed his brow slightly, having heard Guan Ling mention before that Divinities and Heavenly Immortals, these Superior Immortals, guard the Heavenly Gateway and to spread the Dao among the human world to accrue achievements in heaven and earth while cultivating, they would establish ashrams beyond the heavens!

Some dojos are cave paradises, a True Immortal with high cultivation ability creates a Minor World, while others simply relocate a portion of the Lower Realm directly over; the pseudo-Divine Immortal Guangyuan Zi, hiding in the Horned Flood Dragon Nine Realms, once planned to move the entire Dragon Heart Realm to the Heavenly Gateway for his cultivation dojo, until Shen Mo occupying it with the Stars Circulation Array made him give up the idea.

However, any place that can be called a Heavenly Immortal Dojo is surely established by a top-notch True Immortal among Heavenly Immortals.