By pooling the strength of more than a hundred thousand disciples of the Crimson Flame Sect, he had only managed to make the Myriad Dharma Robe evolve two karmic lotuses. It was not because the sect's cultivation arts were too impoverished!
There were two main reasons. First, the cultivation methods and immortal arts practiced by Crimson Flame cultivators all stemmed from the same lineage, and Shen Mo had long since practiced most of their first-rate techniques, using them to evolve karmic lotuses. Second, after being "nourished" by the torrent of spells from eight million Soul Generals, repeated or similar cultivation methods and immortal arts could no longer give rise to new forbidden-art karmic lotuses.
It was foreseeable that, as time passed and the number of karmic lotuses continued to grow, evolving new karmic lotuses would become increasingly difficult. Yet this also meant that the Myriad Dharma Robe would draw ever closer to the level of being "impervious to all dharmas"!
Afterward, Shen Mo passed through the barrier between the two realms and returned to the lower realm, where he spent several days with Zhao Lingyin in the Dragonheart World.
After Zhao Lingyin erected her Divine Bridge, she had gained her own Dao and developed extremely strong resistance to the life fields of others, radiation-induced mutations, and all manner of foreign powers. When Shen Mo spent nights of passion with her, he no longer needed to restrain his own aura field. The past few days had been exceptionally indulgent, and even the proficiency of the Wushan Cloud-and-Rain Art had surged by a great deal!
Several days later, Shen Mo fled into the void beyond the domain and arrived before the dharma body of Qing Sheng Yuanjun.
He had hidden the Myriad Dharma Karmic Lotus Robe in his dantian long ago, and