CHAPTER 520: CHAPTER 36: WORD-TO-LAW’S [HEAVENLY DAO PAGE]

Li Mo was unsure if Kong Dongzi’s fishing had ended, letting the Kun Whale drift with the waves, slowly swimming towards the shallow sea.

Luo Yang and the others were still asleep.

They currently couldn’t handle the pressure of thousands of miles of deep water, using ninety percent of their Spiritual Power to protect their body and soul, while their Externalized Dharma Body also sought self-preservation.

After feeding them some Corpse Wine to heal their injuries, Li Mo focused on his own cultivation.

"With Kong Dongzi already in the world, how far behind could Chunyangzi be?"

If the world were likened to a box with a sealed center due to great changes in the world, now was like opening the first layer of the outer shell, causing demons and ghosts to appear more frequently.

Kong Dongzi wasn’t the first; perhaps many Land Immortals, or even False Immortals, had already awakened.

"The breakthrough in realm is too slow. Do I have to wait seven or eight hundred years to advance to the Body Integration Realm?"

Li Mo couldn’t help but feel anxious, causing the circulation of Spiritual Power to accelerate, making his Externalized Dharma Body emit a chaotic aura.

Six months later.

Li Mo finally calmed his mental state and suddenly sensed a stranger entering the Demon Cave.

The Demon Cave began to tear apart, the mountains and rivers of the small world collapsed, towns were destroyed, and the slightly weary Four Taoist Lords were utterly powerless.

Li Mo was too far away to perceive the specifics of the situation.

He decisively communicated with the Creation Book, intensifying the absorption from the Four Taoist Lords, making the special page form visibly, with cancer cells frantically proliferating with the nourishment from the Four Taoist Lords.

Many mutated organs emerged within the Four Taoist Lords, yet their power increased rather than diminished.

However, their vitality gradually dimmed.

In such a state, the individual strength of the Four Taoist Lords was enough to match the perfection of the Refining Void Stage, and even in the Body Integration Realm, they could still put up a fight.

The Four Taoist Lords faced the invaders, only to be completely defeated within a few breaths.

"Dead?"

Li Mo looked shocked as the small world of the Demon Cave gradually perished with the death of the Four Taoist Lords, fortunately, the special page was completed in time, leaving him unharmed.

The invader did not inspect the corpses, as if casually crushing an ant.

Li Mo erased the traces of the cancer cells, detecting a large influx of Demon Cultivators into the small world before the cancer cells vanished.

They belong to the Ten Thousand Demon Dao, and it’s unclear who will be blamed.

Regardless, it had nothing to do with Li Mo; the invader was at least at the cultivation level of a Land Immortal, likely an ancient cultivator who had slept for nearly ten thousand years.

"Ancient cultivators are truly straightforward, and chaos in the world is not far off."

Li Mo glanced at the Creation Book, where a page made of mysterious scripts was prominently at the end, a special page named the [Heavenly Dao Page].

Its function was simple, word-to-law.

Without any restrictions, it was purely word-to-law, but it could only affect Li Mo himself; otherwise, it could reshape heaven and earth.

With the Heavenly Dao Page, Li Mo felt more confident in facing the earth-shaking changes.

"If I were to use the Heavenly Dao Page, what kind of wish should I make? Achieve immortality? Transcend the mortal world? Or achieve undying and indestructible?"

Li Mo was momentarily lost in thought.

Kong Dongzi merely unsteady the mental realm, but he almost deviated because of the Heavenly Dao Page; after all, human ambition is endless.

The Heavenly Dao Page is a shortcut to realizing ambitions, capable of granting unprecedented opportunities in the Immortal and Mortal Realms with just a word.

"Just a word..."

Li Mo panted heavily, his flesh writhing uncontrollably, with the Mud Pill Palace whispering enigmatically, tempting to open the Heavenly Dao Page.

"No, word-to-law is simple, but the wish may get distorted."

The name of the Heavenly Dao Page is quite mysterious, but it’s only derived from mortal-transformed Four Taoist Lords; who knows if the Heavenly Dao Page harbors disaster.

Li Mo forcefully suppressed miscellaneous thoughts, using the Great Wilderness Immortal Body to counter his inner demons, only regaining senses after the mutation subsided, with his magic robe already soaked.

He gave himself a hard slap, closing the Creation Book.

"Wishing for immortality may result in transforming into something indescribable; wishing for everlasting inheritance might shatter one’s mental realm due to hidden taboos; wishing for undying and indestructible, may turn into an unbreakable dead object..."

Li Mo dared not gamble on his life; he had to keep the Heavenly Dao Page reserved for emergencies.

And he must plan his word-to-law wish in advance, minimizing potential risks to avoid being caught unprepared when the moment arrives.

Li Mo handed the Heavenly Dao Page to Xia Dao Palace for deduction, concentrating his energy on the Externalized Dharma Body.

The breakthrough of the Externalized Dharma Body could be described as calm and undisturbed.

In the Pure Land of Purgatory, temples emerged out of nowhere, with Buddha presiding over temple chanting scriptures, while outside, evil ghosts ran rampant.

The Buddha Demon Body within the Void Realm receives the offerings of twenty million believers.

As for the Artifact Pill Body.

The size of the Artifact Pill Body swelled to over fifteen thousand meters, having absorbed all nourishment including the Dragon Embryo.

Li Mo thus acquired a technique from the Dragon Clan’s Buddhist sect.

[Great Yan Dragon Body Zen Scripture]

In contrast to the previously collected Body Refining Techniques, the Great Yan Dragon Body Zen Scripture was very suitable for Li Mo, and after a simple refinement, it should be able to merge with the Buddha Demon Body’s refinement.

During the perfection of the cultivation technique, Li Mo diligently stabilized his cultivation.

Occasionally, waves would rise in the sea region, and out of caution, he did not retreat to the True Void Hometown, instead using the water pressure to temper his body.

After five full years, the Kun Whale finally adapted to the depth of thousands of miles of water.

As the Kun Whale gradually ascended, Luo Yang and the others’ conditions improved, even benefiting from the ordeal to make their Spiritual Power purer.

The Beast Ancestor Sword Formation Scripture evolved to include the contents of the Refining Void Stage.

The method to advance to the Refining Void Stage is to rear nine True Dragons within the Sword Pouch, using Nine Dragon Worm Cultivation to push the Symbiotic Dharma Body to break through the bottleneck.

Li Mo shook his head.

A True Dragon Lifebound Flying Sword is born every hundred years, and he was still far away from his second True Dragon, waiting eight or nine hundred years was impractical.

Li Mo could only sacrifice his Innate Essence, estimating that half of the reserves would be consumed.

Without much hesitation, Innate Essence continuously poured into the Sword Pouch, stimulating numerous Lifebound Flying Swords to transform into Flood Dragons.

Nurtured by Innate Essence, True Dragons soon reached the required number.

Li Mo utilized the Beast Ancestor Sword Formation Scripture, achieving the breakthrough to the Refining Void Stage as easily as drinking water, completed by the time the Kun Whale ascended to eight thousand meters.

Incidentally comprehending two types of superior Sword Intent.

Water Attribute Sword Intent [Returning Ruins]

Metal Sword Intent [Vajra]

The transformation of the Symbiotic Dharma Body’s appearance was not evident, but the limit of Lifebound Flying Swords reached a hundred thousand.

What does one hundred thousand Lifebound Flying Swords mean? Alone, Li Mo had the power to slaughter a sect, proving the importance of not abandoning the flying swords from the start.

The Symbiotic Dharma Body itself wasn’t crucial; the key was the Lifebound Flying Swords.

In Li Mo’s plan, the Three Dharma Bodies had their respective duties.

The Symbiotic Dharma Body was responsible for offense, already starting to show its edge; the Buddha Demon Body focused on the flesh, potentially achieving undying and indestructible; the Artifact Pill Body refined all things, supporting cultivation advancement as an auxiliary tool.

Li Mo scanned the Sword Pouch, which had undergone drastic changes.

The overall structure resembled a pond, filled with cloudlike dust, actually transformed Sword Qi, with tens of thousands of dragons within the pond.

The Symbiotic Dharma Body lay in the center of the pond, with countless Sword Intents scattering with each breath.

Li Mo was intrigued.

The Symbiotic Dharma Body’s Void Realm was called [Ancestral Dragon Pond], any living thing or dead object entering it would slowly transform into a dragon.

Li Mo was not surprised by the Ancestral Dragon Pond causing others’ organs to dragonify, but even the remnants of the Lifebound Flying Swords after death could dragonify.

Indicating that within the Ancestral Dragon Pond, Lifebound Flying Swords were inexhaustible.

Simply exhausting could kill enemies.

"Can the Void Realm temporarily merge the three into one?"

Li Mo silently denied, as currently, he had no clues about the remaining three Dharma Bodies’ fusion, also acknowledging both pros and cons in merging Dharma Bodies.

The benefit being the Externalized Dharma Body became comprehensive, while the downside being the foundation could become too robust, inevitably affecting the Externalized Dharma Body’s subsequent advancement.

Li Mo nurtured the Symbiotic Dharma Body through the Dual Dharma Bodies of the Existential Realm.

The Kun Whale returned to the six thousand mile sea area.

Everything was back on track, and the gains from the Southern Sea Dragon Pond could sustain advancement to the Body Integration Realm.

Luo Yang was the first to wake up, promptly looking to Li Mo and asking, "Taiyi, what exactly is the situation with the Great Sun Sword Tomb?"

Li Mo remained silent for a while before saying, "Through the Immortal Body, I saw a man fishing in the sky, using the Great Sun Sword Tomb as bait."

"Beyond that, I do not know."

"Thank you."

Luo Yang’s expression was complex, eventually converging into two words.

He contacted Zhang Qiyang, only knowing the latter was still alive but received no response, as if the Refining Void Stage’s cultivation was useless here.

Li Mo did not comfort Luo Yang.

He actually believed the Great Sun Sword Tomb might not be destroyed, as Kong Dongzi might be apprehensive of Chunyangzi’s residual power.

Of course, whether Chunyangzi was still the Sword Cultivator concerned with Taoist inheritance as in the past was still uncertain.

Before long, Bi Hengguang also regained consciousness, with Jiang Xi and the other three in the Divine Separation Stage waking slightly slower, yet none suffered irreversible damage.

Soon enough, the Kun Whale reached the five thousand mile sea area.

The water pressure no longer affected the efficiency of the Kun Whale’s movement, even if the Tattooed Beast didn’t use Spiritual Power, it could still return to the surface in one or two years.

Suddenly.

Knock knock knock.

The six of Li Mo heard crisp knocking sounds.

The Kun Whale did not encounter any abnormalities, yet the knocking persisted, originating from all directions, yet seemingly right beside them.

In the deep, boundless ocean, witnessing phenomena defying common sense.

Even cultivators older than a millennium couldn’t help but feel their scalps tingle, as Ye Zhuo Daoist hurriedly scuttled within half a meter of Li Mo.

"Taiyi, what’s happening?" Luo Yang cautiously extended his Divine Sense, finding that no matter how far the Divine Sense went, it always felt the knocking was nearby.

Li Mo motioned for everyone to stay silent.

After ten consecutive knocks, the sounds abruptly ceased.

"Ahhhh..."

Jiang Xi screamed as his flesh and bones inexplicably disintegrated, with his Externalized Dharma Body showing signs of dispersal.

"Damn, it’s the South Sea Dragon Palace again."

Li Mo cursed under his breath, using various means to stop Jiang Xi’s injuries, including entering the Corpse Mountain Mini World, yet only the Innate Essence could sustain Jiang Xi’s remaining vitality.

His face darkened while examining the blood-soaked Jiang Xi.

With adequate resources, Jiang Xi wouldn’t die or have his Dao disappear, even recovering his foundation with ten years of patient recuperation.

But the trouble was the strangeness of the South Sea, not only with the Dragon King’s suitor selection.

Li Mo recalled the tale of Ye Gong’s fondness for dragons.

In the tale, Ye Gong revered the South Sea Dragon King immensely, causing the Dragon King to visit repeatedly, but Ye Gong, overwhelmed by fear, dared not open the door, angering the Dragon King, who then ate Ye Gong’s relatives.

It wasn’t until Ye Gong actively apologized at the Dragon Palace that the Dragon King restored his family.