Two more days passed. With nothing better to do, he went to the pleasure quarters to listen to music. No, he should say he went to a bar to listen to music.
Mo Fan was an ordinary man. He did not care for those so-called quiet bars or folk music bars; he preferred bars where scantily clad girls danced.
That evening, Mo Fan suddenly discovered a black halo appearing around the stars of his Shadow Element. He knew it was a sign that the Shadow Element was about to advance.
Although both the Shadow Element and the Summoning Element enjoyed Little Loach's blessings, he should not forget that Ghost Shadow was also cultivating automatically for the Shadow Element. It would definitely advance before the Summoning Element.
The intermediate level was an entirely different realm. Mo Fan's Lightning Fire Dual Elements had entered the intermediate level a year ago, yet they had only just reached the second tier.
Mo Fan had never imagined that cultivation would take him so much time, because when he cultivated the Magic Element awakened for the fifth time, it had not seemed to take long at all.
Working in perfect harmony with Little Loach, Mo Fan's spirit and will, tempered a thousand times over, relentlessly battered the Shadow Element stardust like surging tides. With Ghost Shadow and Ghost Eye helping him control it, Mo Fan pushed through in one burst and shattered the nebula barrier of the Shadow Element.
The tiny stardust could no longer block the star seeds' advance. Shadow Element energy flourished vigorously, like a small bud that blossomed in the blink of an eye into a gorgeous rose of the night!
When autumn came on the eighth day of the ninth month, once my flower bloomed, all other flowers withered.
Mo Fan could not help laughing wildly inside. His power was gradually returning. Once he obtained the Blood Seed from Lu Nian, he could even trade a few blows with a monarch-level demon.
Mo Fan had dealt with the Scale Skin Female Demon, resolving the stadium disaster at its source and saving many lives.
After the Shadow Element broke through to the intermediate level, Mo Fan suddenly sensed an inexplicable will. It carried vast pressure, the kind Mo Fan had only ever felt from Emperors!
What was going on!!!
Mo Fan thought in utter shock. He had only changed a tiny part of the plot, so why had such a change occurred?
Nothing like this had happened in his previous life. What was going on?
"Warrior chosen by the lofty and ethereal Dragon God Venerable, will you answer the Lord of Destiny's recruitment?"
An ancient and arrogant voice suddenly rang out in Mo Fan's mind. It was like an echo of the heavens' mercy, as though a bell had been struck and the passing years rippled with its chime.
Mo Fan suddenly recalled a legend he had read in an ancient tome of magic in his previous life. Every thousand years, the Old God Heroes within the Tomb of the Fallen Beasts held a Ten Thousand Realms Hero Recruitment War.
The Old God Heroes would issue invitations to recruitment candidates they found satisfactory. If the candidates agreed to fight, the Recruitment Contract would be completed.
If they achieved outstanding results in the Hero Recruitment War, they could receive generous rewards.
It seemed that because he was far stronger than in his previous life, he had received the Recruitment Contract at this point in time.
If I die, so be it. If I live, I will live ten thousand years.
Let's do it!!!
Mo Fan answered, "I accept!!!"
Clang!!!!!!
A deep bell toll immediately resounded in Mo Fan's mind, stirring even his spirit. Incredibly subtle spatial cracks spread across his entire body, then shattered into a vacuum shaped like Mo Fan's outline.
Mo Fan vanished in an instant, unnoticed by anyone.
Eagles struck through the vast sky, fish glided through the shallow depths; all creatures vied freely beneath the frosted heavens.
Before such boundless solitude, I asked the vast earth: who ruled the rise and fall?
The Summoning Plane could be considered one of the most unusual planes, because it was formed from fragments of several planes and thus connected to several of them.
It possessed the most complete range of living creatures.
Among the nine most vast continents stood the most mysterious one of all: the Old God Continent, where the Tomb of the Fallen Beasts was located.
Not a single living creature survived on this continent. There were only countless towering stone monuments, standing like a forest of stone. Some were as huge as mountains, while others were smaller than dust!
Yet they all shared one thing in common: there were no symbols whatsoever carved upon them.
Mo Fan felt as though he had awakened from a great dream. When he opened his eyes again, he was already standing in an unfamiliar wilderness. Light stretched endlessly in all four directions, five incomparably brilliant rivers of stars shone from the eight corners of the sky, and nine Moon Gods shared the Celestial Palace.
"Recruitment candidate—thou hast arrived!!!"
A vast, majestic voice that made heaven and earth resonate emerged from behind Mo Fan.
Mo Fan turned around and saw a colossal stone monument as lofty as Mount Tai. Even when he raised his head, he could not see its peak.
The owner of the voice, the legendary Lord of Destiny, gradually revealed himself as the sea of clouds sank from the firmament.
A gigantic dragon god's imperial visage emerged from the clouds. Every scale was painted in the most resplendent and noble colors. Its enormous dragon eyes seemed to contain billions of stars, more domineering even than the Moon Gods above the heavens.
At the center of the roots of its magnificent, imposing dragon crown was a third eye, containing solitary arrogance, profound mystery, ethereal grace, and spiritual beauty!
"So you're the Lord of Destiny?" Mo Fan sensed that this Great Demon King's aura was very similar to his father-in-law's. Both were High Emperor Rulers!
But this Old Dragon Lord was merely in a soul state. A soul alone was comparable to a High Emperor Ruler. Mo Fan truly could not imagine how powerful he had been in life.
"This is one of my honorific titles. Young one, thy aura feels somewhat familiar to me—" Old Dragon Lord of Destiny stared at Mo Fan. If not for the protection of the Recruitment Contract, Mo Fan would have been burned without even ashes remaining.
Uh.
Mo Fan glanced at a magnificent monument several hundred miles away and thought, How could you not find it familiar? My monument from my first life is right beside yours.
That was right. After Mo Fan descended into this world, he sensed the power of his first life, which had likewise transformed into a heroic spirit monument standing here.
In his previous life, Mo Fan had possessed the fruits of multiple divine positions, making him an existence beyond a High Emperor Ruler. It was not strange for his monument of power to appear here.
"Thou needst not be troubled. Thou art the warrior I have chosen to fight for me. Whether thou succeedest or failest, thy life shall not be endangered!!"
Old Dragon Lord of Destiny spoke as though he could see through Mo Fan's thoughts.
As his words fell, the distant sea of clouds parted, and figures of light began to emerge. The projections of two recruited warriors appeared within it.
"Do not be anxious. I have arranged thee for the third battle. Thou mayst observe the battles of the other recruited warriors first!!"
The first battle was a confrontation between two extraordinary divine beasts, one black and one white!!!
The powerful figures of the Tomb of the Fallen Beasts had likely selected recruitment candidates of equal combat strength. Otherwise, there would have been no need for a contest.
The heroic monument spirits standing behind the two colossal beasts belonged respectively to the Blazing Sun Scaled Dragon Head Emperor and the Vast Sea Cloaked Majestic Emperor.
Although their auras were inferior to Old Dragon Lord of Destiny's, they were still at the Emperor Level.
The heroic spirits within the Tomb of the Fallen Beasts were basically Emperors whom even time could not wear away. Recognized by the Old God Continent, they had been forged into stone monuments.
The two strange beasts might have been weaker than Mo Fan on their own, but after receiving the monuments' blessings, they possessed power comparable to High-level Mages.
I went out to stay with a friend today. I'll return Sunday or Monday, and then resume three updates a day. There will only be two updates these next few days.