"How... how did this happen?"
"Why can't I leave this stupid gourd?"
"What's going on?"
Luohu looked at the space beneath him and tried everything he could to break free.
But he couldn't get far from the black gourd.
Seeing this, Li Mo burst out laughing. "The lamp spirit's become a genie!"
"What lamp spirit? What genie? What are you talking about?"
Luohu shouted furiously, "Did you do something to me?"
"I mean, you've become an Artifact Spirit. This gourd is the result of seven gourds merging into one, and its grade..."
As he spoke, Li Mo reached out and touched the black gourd.
The black gourd's aura was so tightly restrained that it barely caused a stir.
The moment he touched it, he felt as if he'd been struck by lightning.
He was completely stunned!
Forty-nine layers of restrictions!
That was insanely powerful.
"An Innate Supreme Treasure! This black gourd is actually an Innate Supreme Treasure. To become the Artifact Spirit of an Innate Supreme Treasure—you've really made it, Luohu!" Li Mo said, eyes wide.
"Artifact Spirit? I refuse to be an Artifact Spirit! Let me out!" Luohu cursed.
Li Mo was exceedingly pleased as he rubbed the black gourd.
He might not have the seven gourd brothers, but he had Luohu the gourd.
That wasn't bad either!
Just then,
the system's voice suddenly rang out in Li Mo's mind.
[Ding! Congratulations, host. You have obtained the God Slaying Gourd.] [Ding! Quest issued: Rescue the two Demon Emperors. Success reward: the Innate Slaughter Supreme Treasure, God Slaying Spear. Failure penalty: become the 'Lord of the Demon Court'.]
Hearing this, Li Mo cursed.
What kind of ridiculous quest was this?
The reward for success was excellent, but if he failed, he'd become the Lord of the Demon Court?
What a joke!
Wasn't that like pushing a young woman into a fire pit?
What else could he do? He'd have to find a way to save them. The God Slaying Spear was a treasure worth getting.
He picked up the God Slaying Gourd. Now that he was its master, Luohu couldn't do anything to him.
Moreover, there was an almost imperceptible connection between him and Luohu.
Through this connection, he could destroy Luohu outright.
He could also control how far Luohu was from the God Slaying Gourd.
But what displeased Li Mo most was that Luohu now had only the strength of a peak Grand Unity Golden Immortal.
"Luohu, what's going on? Why are you only at the peak of the Grand Unity Golden Immortal realm?" Li Mo asked.
Luohu replied with an arrogant air, "Kid! Call me Demon Ancestor. Call me Demon Ancestor! How dare you speak my name so casually?"
"What kind of Demon Ancestor?" Li Mo said, and immediately focused his thoughts.
At once, Luohu felt as if his primordial spirit were being torn apart. The pain was unbearable.
"Why should I care what you call yourself? And why should you care what I call you?"
The cave filled with Demon Ancestor Luohu's cries.
"Just call me by my name. Anything you like. You're the master, you're the master!"
Luohu repeated frantically.
"Then answer honestly. Why are you only at the peak of the Grand Unity Golden Immortal realm?" Li Mo stopped tormenting Luohu and asked.
"It's all because of Hong Jun, Yin Yang, Qian Kun, and Yang Mei, those shameless bastards. They defeated me and shattered my primordial spirit. My spirit wandered outside my body, and that's why my power weakened."
"My primordial spirit was split into four parts. Only if all four parts are brought together can my strength rise to the peak of the Quasi-Saint realm."
"Of course, you can also use a great many Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures to help me recover, but the results will be limited."
Luohu explained everything honestly.
"So you're useless now?" Li Mo's brows knitted together.
Jun Ge and Second Brother must have been held up outside by the other mighty figures of the Primordial World who'd arrived later.
Otherwise, the system wouldn't have suddenly issued such a quest.
It was hard to say how much help Luohu could be.
"How could that be? My strength may be low now, but I'm still on par with someone who's just entered the Quasi-Saint realm."
"If you can get me the God Slaying Spear, my strength will soar. I could even fight a mid-stage Quasi-Saint."
Luohu wore a proud expression as he said this.
"Just entered the Quasi-Saint realm?" Li Mo's eyes lit up. In that case, Luohu would definitely be useful.
"Let's go! We're leaving this cave," Li Mo said.
"Master, I'll take you out," Luohu replied.
But Li Mo glanced at the yellow talisman and the rows of black chains. "If you leave like this, won't Hong Jun notice and destroy you?"
Luohu waved a hand. "No. Without the God Slaying Gourd, he'd know the instant I broke free. But the God Slaying Gourd keeps its aura restrained. It's beyond the calculations of the Heavenly Dao of the Primordial World and can conceal its presence from the workings of fate."
"Now that I'm the Artifact Spirit of the God Slaying Gourd, I won't draw attention either."
With that, Luohu waved his hand, and billowing demonic energy swept up the God Slaying Gourd.
The gourd swelled in the wind until it was about the size of a car. Li Mo sat on it as it shot out at breakneck speed.
Meanwhile,
Hong Jun, who had been cultivating with his eyes closed, suddenly opened them.
His white brows furrowed slightly. Somewhat surprised, he said, "Luohu has broken free! How did that happen? Could someone have lifted the seal on Buzhou Mountain? Who did it? And where did Luohu go?"
At the thought, Hong Jun produced the Jade Disc of Creation with a flip of his hand.
He used the Jade Disc of Creation to divine the workings of fate.
But no matter how he tried, he couldn't figure out who had broken the seal or discover where Luohu was.
This left him thoroughly vexed.
"Forget it. Even if he's escaped, he's still just an ant. I can destroy him with a flip of my hand." With that, Hong Jun closed his eyes once more.
The Hong Jun of today was no longer the Hong Jun of the past. Even if another Saint appeared, none could shake his position.
At that moment, somewhere beyond Buzhou Mountain,
Bi Fang watched the many mighty figures of the Primordial World fight so fiercely that heaven and earth seemed to darken.
As a Golden Immortal, he could only leave.
Following Di Jun's orders, he had gone to search for Li Mo.
But even now, he hadn't found a trace of Li Mo.
Worse still, he'd gotten caught up in a fight.
His pursuer was Donghua Daoist's subordinate, Mirror Spirit!
"Bi Fang, where do you think you're going?"
Mirror Spirit was at the early Taiyi Golden Immortal stage. Donghua Daoist had taken him in as a subordinate on one of his recent journeys through the Primordial World.
He had gone to great lengths to find Bi Fang and earn merit.
After all, Mirror Spirit couldn't get involved in a battle between peak Grand Unity Golden Immortals.
So he couldn't help there.
After searching for a while, he'd found Bi Fang, one of Di Jun's subordinates.
Bi Fang was a Golden Immortal at the peak of his realm, a firebird whom Mirror Spirit was confident he could handle.
Mirror Spirit's image appeared in one place after another across Buzhou Mountain as he searched for Bi Fang.
This was Mirror Spirit's innate Divine Ability: Mirror Clones.
The clones weren't particularly powerful, each possessing only one-tenth the strength of the original.
But they made searching for a target easy.
"There!"
Mirror Spirit suddenly spotted Bi Fang.
"Damn it!"
Bi Fang was frustrated. He spread his wings, streaked away in a trail of fire, and fled into the distance.
But Mirror Spirit merely waved his hand!
Countless glass-like shards filled the sky. They swept forward like a driving rain, cutting through the air with piercing shrieks as they shot toward Bi Fang.
Bi Fang fought desperately to defend himself, surrounding his body with Samadhi True Fire to form a barrier.
Bang! Bang! Bang!
The shards were razor-sharp. They tore straight through the Samadhi True Fire barrier, riddling Bi Fang with holes.
Bi Fang endured one wave of attacks, leapt up, and rushed madly toward the open space ahead.
The next moment,
he seemed to plunge into rippling water, and vanished from sight.
"Fell for it! You're inside my 'Spirit Mirror' now."
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