Urban Powerhouse: Chaos Supreme

”Master Li Huo is no waste; he is clearly a peerless genius,” Lin Mo closed the book and slowly murmured to himself. A person who can see through all illusions, who thinks of creating his own path, and who contends with the heavens—is this the mark of a waste?

Lin Mo then read through some of Master Li Huo’s recorded insights on cultivation and even Lin Mo himself marveled at some of the experiences and understandings.

Although these writings were just theories and not actual cultivation techniques, they greatly moved Lin Mo, providing him with a deeper understanding of his own path ahead.

It seems likely that no one in the sect had ever really acknowledged Master Li Huo; otherwise, if they had discovered these writings, it would have surely driven the members of the sect mad with excitement. Unfortunately, it seems that since Master Li Huo had passed on, no one had come here to clean up these items.

In the days that followed, Lin Mo split his time between urgently cultivating to recover, and referring to the writings left by Master Li Huo.

After all, Lin Mo had been severely injured within the space rift and, though he had awakened, his body and meridians had sustained serious damage. He needed to cultivate and heal before he could possess the strength to leave this place.

Every morning, Lin Mo would go to the place with the most concentrated spiritual energy on the mountain to cultivate, and in the afternoon, he would read Master Li Huo’s writings so intently that he would often forget to eat or sleep. Xia Mengdie was responsible for preparing some food every day. Of course, with Lin Mo’s current strength, he could go months without eating, but since Xia Mengdie took special care to prepare meals, Lin Mo still ate with relish. The two of them living together in the wooden house indeed felt like a beautiful experience of companionship, isolated from the world.

Lin Mo sat cross-legged at the place with the richest spiritual energy on the mountain, practicing the Vast Universe Technique.

The spiritual energy flowed ceaselessly into his body from all directions.

Within his Dantian, a vortex absorbed the rich spiritual energy, and Lin Mo’s face bore a faint smile.

For the first time, Lin Mo was feeling such dense spiritual energy again.

”Huh?”

Suddenly, Lin Mo looked inward at his body and discovered that his meridians had widened quite a bit, his Golden Skin had reached its peak, and even within his flowing blood, there were traces of ’silver’.

Indeed, every cloud has a silver lining; this must be what they mean when they say a setback could turn into a blessing.

Not only that, but the appearance of silver in his blood indicated that his blood was starting to advance towards the second layer of Silver Blood.

A hint of joy appeared on Lin Mo’s face.

Every day, Lin Mo continued to cultivate his body, along with many elixirs and the rich spiritual energy, his body gradually returning to its peak condition. By studying Master Li Huo’s notes, Lin Mo also reaped many benefits.

”What is the Dao? We cultivators absorb the Heaven and Earth Essence and brave tribulations, striving to become immortals, to achieve immortality. But how elusive is the life of an immortal?”

Lin Mo frowned, stood with his hands behind his back on the mountaintop, his black hair whipped by the mountain wind.

Lin Mo was in no hurry to leave the Immortal City.

Xia Mengdie looked at Lin Mo, a hint of light shining through her clear eyes. She had also noticed the subtle changes in Lin Mo but couldn’t quite articulate what these changes were.

”Mm, I’ve gained a lot from cultivation during this time,” Lin Mo said, holding Xia Mengdie’s fragrant shoulders, ”From now on, no one can harm those close to me.”

”Mm,” Xia Mengdie nodded her head.

All she wanted now was to be with Lin Mo – every second spent together was worth treasuring. During this time, Lin Mo had created his own Cultivation Technique and also found a way to resolve the Cold Ice Qi in Xia Mengdie’s body. All things are born from the balance of yin and yang. With Xia Mengdie being of the Nine Yin Body, according to the principles of yin and yang, Lin Mo only needed to cultivate with her and channel his own yang energy into her to naturally achieve a state of balance. This would not only control the Cold Energy poison but also speed up Xia Mengdie’s cultivation process.

Lin Mo erased the Cultivation Technique of the Snow God Palace that Xia Mengdie had been practicing and taught her a new technique.

Xia Mengdie’s constitution naturally possessed the Ice Attribute, so practicing an Ice Attribute Cultivation Technique would naturally allow her strength to increase more quickly, and the magic she wielded would be more powerful.

Lin Mo looked through the techniques and decided to pass on the ’Mystic Jade Technique’ to Xia Mengdie. When this technique was cultivated to the Great Achievement Realm, one’s body would be like jade, impervious to all poison, which would also be beneficial to his own body.

After taking care of these matters, Lin Mo continued to wander around the Immortal City. Each peak had remnants of Prohibitions, but their power had weakened significantly over time. With Lin Mo’s strength, he could easily break through them.

However, when the Sect left, they had taken almost everything with them, only leaving behind some Cultivation Methods that some Sects in the Heavenly Sect might consider treasures. But to Lin Mo, they were just items without value.

The one thing that was useful was the hard-to-find Divine Grass and Immortal Fruit. Lin Mo collected many seeds, ready to transplant them into the Medicine Garden of the Star Sect when he would eventually leave.

Lin Mo did not find any other particularly valuable items in the Immortal City.

Among the most valuable things was that dense Spiritual Energy still existed in the Immortal City. However, after sweeping through the Spirit Vein with his Divine Sense, Lin Mo also discovered that the vein had dried up—every bit of Spiritual Energy absorbed was one less to be had.

”Xiao Mo, have you found a way for us to leave? If we don’t go back soon, I’m afraid the people from Qingxuan Sect will…” Xia Mengdie asked upon returning to the wooden house.

They had already stayed here for quite some time without knowing, and if they didn’t leave soon, their parents and friends would worry. Moreover, if the Heavenly Sect were to harm their loved ones, they couldn’t bear the consequences.

Lin Mo frowned; he had naturally considered these things.

However, leaving the Immortal City was extremely difficult; otherwise, he would have thought of going back the moment he awoke.

”I’ve killed the people from Qingxuan Sect and the Heavenly Sect. I think that should deter the people from the Heavenly Sect for now; they won’t act rashly until they’re sure whether or not I can return. But we need to hurry,” Lin Mo said slowly, ”To go back, we definitely can’t go through the Space Rift again. It’s too dangerous in there. I was probably just lucky last time; a single violent space stream could tear us apart and leave us stranded in the Space Rift forever.”

Xia Mengdie frowned, ”Then what do we do now?”

”I plan to try and repair the Transmission Array on this mountain peak to see if it can send us out,” Lin Mo said, looking at the ancient runes on the stone slab. He had been observing for many days and had found a way to repair it. However, to activate the Transmission Array, it required a large amount of Spirit Stones.

The repair would take at least three days, and the activation of the Array would need a tremendous amount of Spiritual Energy. During the transmission, Lin Mo would have to use himself as a node, drawing all the Spiritual Energy from the Immortal City to drive the Array. Even then, success was not guaranteed.