Shen Mo had once been struck by the dharma manifestation condensed by the Misfortune Daoist through curse arts. He had expended considerable effort and time to purge the power of the curse, refining it into a drop of cursed poisonous water.
Moreover, he had later fought the Heavenly Locust Mother Insect, the Misfortune Daoist's "Dao companion." Through his battles with the two of them, he had condensed a great many karmic lotus seals within his Ten Thousand Laws Immortal Robe specifically for countering curse-path arts and divine abilities. His understanding and insight into the curse path had likewise reached an exceptionally high level.
By all reason, when facing the Misfortune Daoist's curse-path methods, he should have been able to dismantle them with the lift of a hand and the turn of a foot.
But matters were far from so simple.
The Heavenly Locust Mother Insect was one thing. Both her cultivation and strength fell far short of the Misfortune Daoist's, and Shen Mo had not needed to exert much effort when killing her.
Yet the Misfortune Daoist had nearly reached the end of the curse path. He was even qualified to use this path to challenge the Daluo Golden Immortal realm, and his application of curse arts and divine abilities had reached an inconceivable level!
Every curse art and every divine ability he wielded was "alive," changing at every moment. Two different curse arts could also fuse with one another, evolving new curse effects. Within an exceedingly brief time, countless curse arts could evolve into hundreds of millions upon hundreds of millions of different curse effects, endlessly eroding Shen Mo's True Immortal origin and continuously multiplying and growing until the cursed person died and their Dao vanished.
For this reason, the Ten Thousand Laws Immortal Robe upon Shen Mo could