The Moists
The Dao Companion and fellow Daoists of Ink Bamboo Mountain had all gone to conquer the South Border, and Qiongqi Guiche was processing property deeds at the Divine Sect. Li Fan had no tasks to complete and didn't want to do any more practice problems, simply went to Moon Worship and cultivate on his own.
Although the system is currently offline for updates, Li Fan estimated that his mental state was quite strong enough to allow him to venture into the forbidden area of the Mo Shan lineage and see what was inside.
This time, Li Fan did not separate his primordial spirit from his body, but instead used his physical body to fly across the lunar surface. He directly used the centipede for positioning and then used a membrane jump to reach the lunar base on Mount Mo.
Li Fan has almost finished cultivating the Ink Mountain Heavenly Book on the centipede's back. The "Seeing Things" he obtained from the last cultivation of <The Reality of Things> should be the "Power to Destroy All Things" that the Mountain Lord was referring to.
Although there were many more articles to follow, Li Fan discovered that the great masters of past dynasties were already exploring the laws governing the operation of the Heavenly Dao, the speed of motion, the changes in the properties of matter, and the concepts of time and space. To be honest, the great masters' notes were also very valuable, and the various classics of kinematics and physics were quite instructive for a pure physical output character like the Mountain Lord.
But being natives of a low-dimensional civilization, their technology is outdated and their perspective limited. To be honest, for Li Fan, who has already come into contact with eleven-dimensional universe and string theory, their help is very limited.
Instead of painstakingly studying the Ink Mountain Heavenly Book and making mistakes, which probably won't improve much, it's better to ask the system for a set of physics textbooks and do a round of exercises—it'll be faster and more accurate.
So Li Fan quickly scanned the Heavenly Book and then turned his attention to the Blood Pool.
Perhaps due to the unique gravity of the vacuum environment on the moon, or the influence of the magic array set up by the mountain lord, Li Fan could sense that the gravitational fluctuations here were abnormal, which also affected his condensed Tai Su Qiankun Dharma Body. His body seemed to melt away like white wax, and his figure was like light mist and dust, like wind and smoke, sometimes gathering and sometimes dispersing like scattered sand, like a ghost.
When I came here before, I was only at the Nascent Soul Nascent Soul Realm, and even then, I couldn't perceive the mysteries of this Blood Pool Forbidden Land.
However, now that Li Fan's realm has improved, with the enhancement of the Blind Observation Technique, his perception ability has far surpassed that of Transformation Stage, and his knowledge is extraordinary.
At this moment, he realized that this blood pool was the Blood River Technique used by the Wisdom Dharma King Lu Ya. It had a strong protective effect, and even when he attacked with his twin dragons, it was difficult to damage it in the slightest. It should act as a security door. Whether it was protecting or sealing something at the bottom of the blood pool, he did not know.
But beneath this blood pool lies more than just the secrets of the Mo Shan lineage. Judging from the centipede and the blood pool, it is a secret realm jointly set up by Mo Chanzi and Lu Ya, the two "Seven Friends".
Li Fan wasn't in a hurry to enter the blood pool. He first calculated with his fingers for a while, roughly deducing the formation's incantation. Then, he extended his left palm and pressed it down, while his right hand formed a hand seal. He silently chanted, practicing the blood seal Fa Yin.
The blood pool, which was as smooth as a mirror, suddenly rippled, then the surface of the waves surged and undulated, before shooting into the sky in a silent tremor. It circled several times in the vacuum, stretching and converging like a red ribbon, and finally landed in Li Fan's left palm, transforming into a crystal-clear blood bead.
Yes, this is the Blood God Child, the purest Blood God Child. If it had more impurities, and you sculpted a face onto it, it would be the God Lord Jade.
Li Fan already possessed the Blood Demon Technique, and had also fused with the Blood Demon of the Dharma King. Furthermore, he had deciphered the Heavenly Book Blood Scroll at the Divine Sect's headquarters, which was essentially a program instruction. He had both administrator privileges and a password book. After a quick calculation on the spot, he comprehended and broke the restriction set up by Lu Ya.
This is the Blood God Child Great Law derived from the Blood God Lord's Great Dao Body Technique. Xuan Tian ultimately did not properly study the Great Dao Body Technique, so his understanding was flawed. According to Li Fan's estimation, it was actually the Blood God Lord's Great Dao Body Technique that was broken down into three secret techniques: Blood Register, Blood God Child, and Blood Demon.
The Blood Register is similar to a theory and the Heart Sutra. The Blood Demon is a method of fusion and rebirth, while the Blood God Child Great Law corresponds to the <Dao Breath Blood Refining> of Xuantian, which is a method of refining blood by Qi Refinement Stage.
By fusing true qi, flesh and blood, and primordial spirit into one, and extracting the essence, this is the Blood God Child.
People believe that the Blood God Child technique involves possession, and that those who are affected are transformed into clones of the Blood God Child. However, this is not the case.
Strictly speaking, the person affected dies on the spot, their Dao body and essence are seized, and combined with the cultivator's own primordial spirit, they are refined into Blood God Child. The secret technique of fusing and devouring the primordial spirit of others actually belongs to the skills of the Blood Demon Dao Body.
Currently, within this pool of blood on the moon's surface lies an unclaimed body of Blood God Child.
Yes, the whereabouts of the Wisdom Dharma King Lu Ya are unknown because his soul fell into the hands of Chen Jinu, and later, together with Li Fan, it was sealed into Li Yi's body! His Dao body, on the other hand, fell into the hands of Mo Chanzi, was taken to the moon, and turned into a pool of blood!
Goodness, Lu Ya got into a pretty bad situation too.
So Li Fan casually picked up another corpse, and on the spot used his primordial spirit to possess Lu Ya's Blood God Child Dao Body, making it his own. He flipped his palm, watching the Blood God Child's blood beads dance on his fingertips, sometimes flicking his fingers to lift the Blood God Child up. With a thought, the Blood God Child freely transformed and transformed into various shapes, such as flying swords, silk ribbons, and immortal robes, practically a magic weapon at the Divine Transformation level.
Of course, it can also be transformed into human form, directly becoming a clone of the Blood God Child for use; it is indeed a wondrous and unparalleled method.
Li Fan played for a while before giving up his interest. He had the Blood God Child surround him as a protective shield, then floated into the deep tunnel sealed by the blood pool with his hands behind his back.
The fact that the entrance to the cave was sealed with the Blood God Child of the Wisdom Dharma King, and that successive leaders of the Mo Mountain were required to personally oversee and guard it, suggests that a tremendous secret must be hidden beneath the moon.
Li Fan was also mentally prepared to use the Black Hole Sword to fight his way out and escape if things went wrong.
After passing through the tunnel and entering the vast artificial space hidden beneath the moon's surface, Li Fan discovered a wall of flesh at the end of the tunnel.
It is some kind of living thing.
Li Fan could feel the fluctuations of his soul. It might be sleeping, or it might be a sealed non-object. He tried to sense it with the blind eye, but this non-physical wall of flesh blocked the tunnel. No matter how deep or wide the spiritual consciousness was, it was still the same wall of flesh, and there was no way to get around it with earth escape. Even the area that could be felt by the blind eye, under the entire lunar soil layer, was filled with this piece of meat.
In Li Fan's previous world, there was a concept of a hollow moon, but it seems the Moon in this world is 'solid'...
"I am Qingyue, the Grand Master of Moshan."
Li Fan felt that the mountain lord wouldn't go to such lengths to hide food supplies on the moon and use the Blood God Child Dao God of the Wisdom Dharma King to seal the gate; it was really making a mountain out of a molehill. So he tried to communicate with the other party using Divine Sense first, then resorted to force.
This Non-Thing also reacted, rebounding a large amount of messy and useless information, filling the text, reaching the level of a mental shock.
However, Li Fan knew that the other party was probably not attacking, because when he closed his eyes, he found that the words and phrases imprinted in his mind looked familiar, as if he had seen them somewhere before.
Oh, the <Key Scroll of Breaking Evil and Manifesting Evidence>.
A combination lock...
Li Fan tried silently reciting a passage from the <Key Scroll> and sending it, and sure enough, there was a response.
The black gate in front of them cracked open, revealing a new passage leading to other dimensions.
Why make it so complicated?
Li Fan stepped through the door, finding himself in a bizarre, otherworldly space. Before him lay a pink, moist, and warm fleshy cavity, a scene straight out of Devil Form hell. In this vast space, writhing mountains and walls of flesh stretched out in all directions, as if he were inside some kind of Non-Thing body, yet also as if he were in a separate grotto.
With a thought, Li Fan unleashed the Blood God Child, which transformed into a blood-red robe that enveloped him, isolating him from the corrosive influence of the surrounding flesh and demonic energy. Then, he continued walking towards the core of the cave, which emitted an orange-red light.
Where the mountain ranges of fleshy walls converge, that is probably the core of this Non-Thing place, where protruding synapses pile up like towering trees.
Numerous orange-red spores sprouted from the synapses of those fleshy woods, rhythmically shimmering with radiant light as if breathing, emitting powerful bioenergy visible to the naked eye.
Deep within those enormous spores, seemingly nurtured in amniotic fluid, one can see many curled-up, oddly shaped placentas.
Demons and monsters, deformed and incomplete creatures, humanoid and non-human beings, all sorts of chaotic creatures, or Non-Thing, are conceived within these spores, absorbing nutrients from the mother world, and slowly growing.
Li Fan quickly calculated with his fingers and had a plan in mind.
"Beast mother..."
"Not a mother beast, but a child."
Li Fan suddenly turned his head and saw an old man standing silently behind him. His hair and beard covered his face and obscured his empty eye sockets, making him look like a disheveled lion.
"... It's not the Beast Mother, it's Shi Tong'er."
Li Fan repeated after him.
The old man ignored him, tucked his hands in, hunched over, muttered something, and quickly walked away.
Therefore, Li Fan no longer needed to calculate. Having witnessed many things firsthand, he understood them.
Naturally, it is not the original form of the Tai Su Six Ancestors's Beast Mother, but Non-Thing transformed from Shi Tong'er's enlightenment after observing the Beast Mother.
Like Lu Ya, Shi Tong'er's primordial spirit also escaped and reincarnated, becoming Fuling, while her Dao body remained on the moon, sealed and suppressed, becoming an avatar of the Beast Mother.
And the Beast's Child of these beast mothers, born from their eggs and nests, are none other than the Revered Heavenly Demon whom the disciples of Moshan worship!
Unlike Qingyue, the disciples of Moshan throughout history could not simply Moon Worship. They had to observe the Beast Beast's Child directly, even blindly, and cultivate the Tai Su Transformation of the Revered Heavenly Demon Child before they could Moon Worship and enter a dream to cultivate in the Void Abyss Devil Domain where these Beast's Child lived.
And that blind old man...
"Ancestor Luo Yin?"
The old man kept muttering to himself, completely ignoring Li Fan. He wandered around among the mountains of flesh and spores with his head covered, disappearing in the dazzling orange-red light.
Good heavens, Ancestor Luo, the Wusheng Laomu, the Wisdom Dharma King, the Giant of Mo Mountain—a bunch of big shots hiding on the Moon, huh? You say there's nothing wrong with paying them homage...?
Li Fan dared not linger any longer. In a place like this, someone at the Transformation Stage could probably only take a quick look. Of course, he could probably take a few pieces of flesh from the Beast Mother, get a few Beast's Child embryos, observe them, and gnaw on them—that would be a kind of immortal opportunity.
However, Li Fan had a gut feeling that old blind man Luo Yin didn't like anyone disturbing his and Tong'er's time together. He didn't know if this guy was a martial arts fanatic or a literary fanatic, but he was still an old madman at the Feather Transformation Immortal Realm, so it was safer to stay away and guard the gate from the outside...
So Li Fan decisively backed down, silently recited the key scroll, and exited the secret realm.
Upon witnessing the secrets of the forbidden area of Ink Mountain beneath the blood pool, Li Fan was deeply shocked. Standing on the ring-shaped mountain, gazing at the broken centipede corpses at his feet, he remained unsettled for a long time.
Li Fan only snapped out of his reverie when a clear blue planet streaked across the sky, reflecting its dazzling light onto his face.
Gradually, he sorted out his chaotic thoughts and pieced together what Mo Chanzi had done back then.
Mo Chanzi.
I don't know his name.
I don't know his life story.
I don't know his ambitions.
Because very few of those who knew him survived to recount these events.
Mo Chanzi rarely talks about his past.
Li Fan only knew that the Gu Guan Method he saw was the Heavenly Book written by Mo Chanzi, which was compiled into a book by his disciples, mainly the eighth generation giant, the mountain lord Mo Zhi.
Therefore, Li Fan could only roughly understand from the annotations and appendices that Mo Chanzi joined Nangong Wubu's forces mainly because he was the leader of Moshan at the time, as well as a trusted leader of local wandering knights and merchant guilds. He was a representative of the common people and cooperated with General Nangong, a local warlord who actually held power.
That night, Mo Chanzi also served as a guide, assisting Nangong in entering Mo Mountain to fight against the Demon Race.
And when the seven most outstanding individuals from all corners of the world stood amidst the flesh and bones of their fellow cultivators.
Confronting the pure chaos and evil from beyond the realm, we are awestruck, horrified, terrified, and subdued by that multifaceted, unimaginable existence.
They all abandoned the hearts of the people.
They all abandoned their own paths.
When they became the disciples and relatives of that Tai Su Dao Immortal from beyond the realm.
Only this young Mohist,
The guide who faces the chaos
At first glance, I remembered the path I had cultivated and the essence of the Dao.
The Mohist school of thought reveres <Understanding Ghosts>.
The will of Heaven is righteousness. <Understanding Ghosts> and deities is the heart.
The righteous path is to be respected, and the demonic path is to be punished; that is all.
This is called "slaying demons and vanquishing ghosts."
But,
Aren't the Mohists afraid?
Do the Mohists not have any fear?
Did the Mohists not have their own selfish desires and ambitions?
Of course there are, after all, the Mohists are human too.
But every Mohist knows that,
Some things just have to be done by someone.
So, on that night, the Mohist Chanzi parted ways with the Nangong Family and other demons favored by the Heavenly Demons.
He led the disciples of the Moshan lineage on a journey to slay demons and save the world.
Just as throughout history, through dozens or hundreds of generations, every great leader and every Mohist has done.
They cleaved through the heavens and vanquished the demons; death came swiftly.
So back then, it wasn't Lu Hansheng who replaced the talisman.
It was Mo Chanzi who eliminated Lu Hansheng.
Not only Lu Hansheng,
He also suppressed and destroyed Lu Ya, and summoned Luo Yin and Shi Tong'er to the Moon to seal them away. He then trained a temple master and a mountain lord to carry on his unfinished work, thus preventing the Nangong Immortal Clan from wreaking havoc on the world.
Finally, with a carefree and unrestrained manner, he suppressed his out-of-control Dao body and committed suicide to be reborn.
If you cannot be born as a human being, then die as one.
Not wanting to cause even the slightest trouble for the world.
He single-handedly reversed the crisis of Nangong Xianzei wreaking havoc on the world!
And the people of the world are unaware of his achievements!
Actions speak louder than words.
That's what you call a champion of justice!
That guy surnamed Ju is so handsome...
Li Fan also wanted to become someone like Mo Chanzi.
It might have been a long-held wish, or it might have been a sudden whim.
It could also be purely by chance that the figure of a predecessor, hidden in the dust of history, was discovered.
The boy then developed a longing for that figure from behind.
Then he realized that he was not alone on his path, and that sooner or later, someone would walk alongside him.
Li Fan once again made up his mind, faced his own Dao heart squarely, and made a wish.
If the system is online at this time, it will definitely tell him that the flowers have bloomed again.
So Li Fan stood atop the centipede's head, arms crossed, gazing at the azure planet before him, letting his blood-red robe flutter as if blown by a fierce wind.
"Hehehe! I, Mo Fanzi, the ninth generation leader of Mo Mountain, have mastered my divine skills! From this day forward, I am a champion of justice, and I will act on behalf of Heaven!"
Wow, this is incredibly embarrassing for elementary school students, but it's just right for Li Fan. Anyway, he can be silly occasionally, and no one on the moon will see it.