Li Mo reviewed the information about Senior Sister Qingjing, only knowing that she had reached the Divine Separation Stage in the ancient Cultivation World, and her temperant was sowhat eccentric.
It was said that any cultivator who ca into contact with Qingjing would be poisoned secretly.
Once soone showed any abnormality, Qingjing would trigger the dicine guide without hesitation, and the number of cultivators who mysteriously died at her hands was not small.
Now, ten thousand years later, Qingjing has transford into an unnaable monster, making her likely even more extre.
Li Mo felt a bit uneasy. After hesitating for a long ti, he chose to use the temple to visit first and determine whether Qingjing bore ill intent before considering descending his true body into the dicine Garden.
His true body remained on the Ancestor Platform to continue cultivating, as there were still various trivial matters to handle.
After the temple communicated with the True Void Hotown, its figure vanished from the Ancestor Platform, and Li Mo’s consciousness sank into an impenetrable darkness.
Li Mo’s expression remained unchanged.
Even if the temple priest fell, it didn’t matter. The characteristic of the No-Life Sect’s cultivation technique was that both the Middle Dantian and Nascent Soul possessed the ability to reshape themselves.
It would only waste ti—likely needing forty to fifty years.
Only half a day later did Li Mo sense the temple again. The latter had already arrived at the dicine Garden, the True Void holand where the No-Life Sect cultivated spiritual materials.
He made an effort to restrain the temple’s anomalies, compressing its body to about twenty ters tall.
The temple journeyed through the dense fog for over ten days before finally locating the specific position of the dicine Garden. What ca into view was an island filled with overgrown forests.
Swamps dominated the island’s terrain, exuding a pungent stench that nauseated anyone nearby.
Li Mo raised an eyebrow.
With rely a sweep over the corners of the dicine Garden, he already spotted over a dozen Mid-Grade Spiritual Materials with thousand-year dicinal power—an incredibly rare find in the Cultivation World.
The abundance of nutrients in the Corpse Mountain Mini World had still not produced thousand-year potency spiritual materials even to this day.
"I don’t see Fourth Senior Sister’s figure. Could she not be in the dicine Garden?"
Li Mo circled the dicine Garden several tis. After confirming the area was not dangerous, he landed on the island.
The muddy swamp supported the growth of spiritual materials but showed no trace of living creatures.
The spiritual materials, mostly herbal in nature, were scattered across the swamp’s surface.
They appeared unassuming yet exuded an ominous eeriness. The fierce wind howling through the forest sounded like the wails of tornted souls.
Li Mo dared not act recklessly.
Using Turbid Blood Spiritual Power, he floated a hundred ters in the air, carefully scanning the dicine Garden with his Divine Sense in an attempt to find traces left by Qingjing.
"Harmful Grass is indeed rare, though it’s Low Grade, it possesses a dual attribute of wood and poison."
Admittedly, the spiritual materials in the dicine Garden were exceedingly rare, and Harmful Grass had already gone extinct in the Cultivation World five thousand years ago.
Harmful Grass resembled reeds in shape, its overall color blood-red, with sawtooth-like edges on its leaves. Its dicinal properties were primarily concentrated in the roots and stems.
When Li Mo grasped the Harmful Grass, he imdiately noticed sothing unusual upon applying force.
The Harmful Grass seed connected to sothing heavy, which was still struggling continuously.
Li Mo’s expression turned subtle as, unexpectedly, he pulled a corpse out of the swamp—or more accurately, a not-quite-dead cultivator.
The cultivator flailed its limbs instinctively, resembling a maggot in the mire.
The Harmful Grass was connected to the cultivator’s neck, drawing sustenance from the latter to grow while forcibly maintaining a faint trace of life in the cultivator’s body.
"Why does it feel like the cultivator only arrived in the dicine Garden in recent years?"
From the Daoist robe left on the cultivator’s body, Li Mo surmised they had entered the dicine Garden no more than twenty years ago and were likely a Loose Cultivator in childhood before that.
"Strange."
He pulled out several more spiritual materials in succession. The corpses ranged from old to new but were all less than fifty years old, and the cultivations were generally shallow.
"Forget it. Let’s collect one spiritual material first to assess the situation."
Li Mo roughly counted around three to four hundred spiritual materials within a kiloter radius. Comparing the size of the island to Luo Zu’s domain, the quantity of spiritual materials in the dicine Garden easily outmatched the Corpse Mountain Mini World.
He captured the Harmful Grass along with its attached corpse and transported them to the Corpse Mountain Mini World.
The dicine Garden showed no reaction at all.
"Well, that’s convenient. Senior Brother thanks Fourth Senior Sister in advance."
Li Mo licked his lips and noticed that, monts after the Harmful Grass was placed into the Corpse Mountain Mini World, it began to sprout rudintary Spiritual Wisdom.
The corpse also beca a resident of the world, soaking in the nourishnt of this Mid-Grade Magical Treasure.
After wandering the area for a while, Li Mo stumbled upon two more decent spiritual materials. Remarkably, within a short span, Spiritual Wisdom also erged from these in the Corpse Mountain Mini World.
"Could it be that spiritual materials cultivated from corpses are more suited to becoming Grass and Tree Cultivators?"
Li Mo began to suspect as much, especially considering the unknown changes in the No-Life Sect following his refinent of the twelve Mountain Spider Magic Treasures.
His true body quietly snuck over to the platform to gaze at Luo Zu from afar, realizing that Fifth Senior Sister Yu Xiao, who was presumably in seclusion there, was also nowhere in sight.
As expected, the Twelve Immortals no longer remained bound to the True Void Hotown.
Whether this was fortune or calamity, it was clear that while the No-Life Sect had the strength to dominate dium-sized sects, it was still not formidable enough to contend with large sects.
Li Mo was now certain that the dicine Garden was unguarded.
"It’s unrealistic to take everything, so let’s just pick so spiritual materials. As for the corpses..."
"Wait. Logically speaking, the dicine Garden should have tens of thousands of corpses. Surely there are so Taoist Bodies among them, and there might even be valuable finds."
The corpses in the dicine Garden were relatively fresh, aning they were recognized by the Creation Book.
Li Mo currently possessed two kinds of Incomplete Immortal Bodies among his Taoist Bodies.
[Innate Saint], [Primordial Chaos]
If he missed this opportunity in the dicine Garden, finding such a vast number of corpses again would likely require venturing into a battlefield of Daoists and Demons.
Additionally, toxic substances could be developed by studying Taoist Bodies.
The Poison Dao Body could release toxins, which would potentially allow him to refine poisons capable of completing Dao Body Fusion.
Li Mo patiently remained in the dicine Garden, ticulously sifting through the countless corpses.
Simultaneously, he instructed Futu Hermit to help procure Poison Formulas, placing an instrunt by his true body and continually adding various toxic substances into it.
This thod of refining poison could also nurture growth in his Divine Skills, albeit partially reliant on luck.
Three years passed.
At last, he discovered the first useful Taoist Body.
The corpses were predominantly from Loose Cultivators, making the chances of containing Taoist Bodies fairly slim. Over the course of three years, only three or four were found.
All were Acquired Dao Bodies and were placed in the wine pool within the Corpse Mountain Mini World.
[No-Brain Poison Body]
The No-Brain Poison Body belonged to Acquired Dao Bodies, where the brain tissue would transform into highly toxic substances. Consumption of such a body would at best impair Spiritual Wisdom, or at worst, cause soul disintegration.
However, most cultivators with the No-Brain Poison Body would remain unaware of the anomaly in their brain before their Divine Sense erged.
Another five years passed.
Li Mo uncovered two more poison-attribute Acquired Dao Bodies.
[Blood Essence Silver Poison], [Veins like a Poison Nest]
One was a blood toxin, the other a flesh toxin.
Li Mo rely extracted trace amounts of poison, mixing them into a viscous substance that caused his Paoxiao Swallowing Body to stir in excitent, as though facing Jadescent Nectar.
This proved that toxic refinent using Taoist Bodies was indeed feasible.
Even his Poison Making Divine Skill, Hooked Kiss, showed signs of transformation.
Unfortunately, he found no Taoist Bodies related to Immortal Bodies. If the dicine Garden were suitable for cultivation, he might have considered bringing his true body here.
He set himself a twenty-year deadline, resolving to leave the dicine Garden once that ti elapsed.
Li Mo couldn’t shake an inexplicable sense of foreboding, which was soon validated within days.
Suddenly, the dicine Garden quaked without warning.
A vortex appeared in the swamp’s center, releasing an overwhelmingly concentrated poison-elent Spiritual Power.
Just as Li Mo intended to return to the Ancestor Platform via the True Void Hotown, the temple was locked onto by a Divine Sense. A Divine Separation Stage presence had descended upon the dicine Garden.
"Fourth Senior Sister..."
The aura of Fourth Senior Sister far surpassed any of the Twelve Immortals he had previously encountered, emanating a terrifying pressure that left the temple breathless.
Li Mo felt as if needles were pricking his back.
His true body quickly gathered the items on the Ancestor Platform, ready to escape the True Void Hotown at a mont’s notice, as he was truly uncertain about Fourth Senior Sister’s potential madness.
Soon after, a hideous form extending over a thousand ters erged from the swamp.
The figure was riddled with pustules, appearing as if it had been stitched together from rotting flesh. Li Mo could even see needle-and-thread-like marks on its skin.
The temple trembled violently.
This sudden entity appeared to be just the tip of the iceberg. Its true size might encompass the entire dicine Garden—or perhaps, the dicine Garden was a part of it.
Though Li Mo wasn’t overly concerned about the temple’s loss, he instinctively moved away regardless.
Qingjing ignored the temple and slowly drifted toward the Garden’s center.
Li Mo noticed that Qingjing’s movents were unusually chanical, like a puppet, lacking any trace of the Twelve Immortals’ characteristic madness.
He hesitated for a few breaths before cautiously following Qingjing from a hundred ters away.
Traversing most of the island, Qingjing reached the Garden’s center, where her body suddenly split open with a gaping fissure spanning hundreds of ters. It resembled a mouth.
After a few monts of gestation, thousands of corpses spilled out from the opening.
Each corpse had spiritual material seeds stuffed into its mouth. Once they fell into the swamp, they seed to awaken their remaining instincts and collectively burrowed deeper into the swamp.
"Senior Sister Qingjing?"
Li Mo tentatively called out but received no response from Qingjing.
Monts later, Qingjing sank back into the swamp, and the dicine Garden returned to tranquility.
"The one remaining in True Void Hotown should only be a fragntary avatar. It seems that the Twelve Immortals have truly ventured into the mortal realm... sigh, whether for better or worse."
Li Mo released several cancer cells, allowing them to silently infiltrate the swamp.
The swamp remained undisturbed, emboldening him to increase the number of cancer cells, directing the Da Ai Mi Tian technique to sweep over one corpse after another.
[Poison Demon Ten Thousand Gu], [Five Poisons and Five Brains], [Immune to Hundred Poisons]...
Although they were all Acquired Dao Bodies, Li Mo left none with poison attributes untouched, transferring them all into the wine pool of the Corpse Mountain Mini World.
To avoid Qingjing seeking retribution later, Li Mo limited himself to extracting only twenty poison-attribute Dao Bodies.
For the next ten years in the dicine Garden, Li Mo worked tirelessly to complent the Immortal Body, yet despite his round-the-clock endeavors, he found no corresponding Dao Bodies.
The dicine Garden quaked once more.
Qingjing reappeared, vomiting another batch of corpses before vanishing into the swamp again.
"Huh?"
Li Mo raised an eyebrow.
He detected an aura similar to the Primordial Dao Body and imdiately directed the temple to approach.
Cancer cells boiled within the swamp, converging into clusters that forcibly dragged a corpse to the surface. Li Mo could not hide his ecstatic expression.
The Taoist Body was Acquired but undoubtedly derived from a remnant Immortal Body of Primordial origin.
[Earth Master’s Hind Foot]
"Earth commands all things below, thus it is called the hind foot."
Li Mo stood stunned for a mont. The Primordial Dao Body belonged to the tal attribute and represented an Immortal Body’s fingers, while the Earth Master’s Hind Foot belonged to the earth attribute and represented the Immortal Body’s right lower leg.
"Interesting. Let’s see if the Nourishing Yuan Fruit dicine Power can evolve this Acquired Dao Body into an Innate one."
"Looks like I’ve found the next piece for Dao Body Fusion."
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