Shadow Inspired Me
Li Mo felt something whispering in his ear, making him lose focus. He shook his head and suddenly realized that he was still standing at the foot of the tower, as if he had never entered the ancient tower at all.
Sensing something was amiss, Li Mo quickly and stealthily left, returning to the mountaintop. Pulling open his shirt again, he saw the black sun tattoo unmistakably on his chest. "So, did I actually enter and obtain that black gem?"
Li Mo looked down the mountain and easily saw a flash of light on the ancient pagoda. He also heard a voice whispering in his ear, "It's not time yet."
"Alright, so what exactly did I get?" Li Mo looked at his hands, listening to the murmur in his ear, but ignoring the strangeness of the murmur, as if it were the thought deep in his heart.
A power belonging to the shadows erupted from Li Mo's hand, and at the same time, some memories entered his mind. It was a peculiar technique that allowed him to inject this power into his own shadow, enabling the shadow to transform into a clone with a physical form.
The other memory left him with a lingering sense of incompleteness, but Li Mo, holding his head and shaking it a couple of times, could no longer withstand the infusion of power and thus fell into a deep sleep.
A flash of light appeared on the black tattoo on his chest, revealing Lu Li's figure. He looked at the unconscious Li Mo, nodded, and then looked down at the temple, thinking to himself, "As expected, there's always uncertainty in time travel."
While exploring outer space in the Starshine World, Lu Li vaguely sensed the stirrings of other worlds. After a brief investigation, Lu Li discovered that this world and the Starshine World were not far apart, and that he could cross over using certain methods.
At that time, Lu Li was studying the composition of a Star Calamity. He had a sudden inspiration and used the existence factor absorbed by that Star Calamity, combined with the Shadow Gem, and finally injected some legendary elements related to Black Raven Lu Li into it, to refine a treasure that housed his own consciousness, which could be named Shadow Essence.
Subsequently, Lu Li's main body transmitted some information to that world, secretly infecting a group of people and making them offer sacrifices to perform the summoning. However, very quickly, within just one or two days, Lu Li received a response, so Lu Li sent the Shadow Essence that carried his own consciousness over there.
An unexpected thing happened: the group that was initially instigated and infected had actually developed into a cult. However, this cult was in a rather unfortunate state; by the time it summoned the Shadow Essence, it had already been driven to its doorstep.
So Lu Li immediately ordered a member of the cult to swallow him, temporarily Bestowal that person with the shadow power. And then... Lu Li was defeated. The host was simply too weak, and Lu Li was powerless to turn the tide. He was surrounded and beaten by five unscrupulous people, and in the end, the Shadow Essence was confiscated and sealed.
However, Lu Li didn't completely fail. At least two or three members of the Lu Li Shadow Sect escaped, taking with them some of the knowledge Lu Li had imparted to them. Through this connection, Lu Li discovered that they were doing quite well recently, but they were still some distance from the Holy Sight Mountain that sealed Him.
The five people who attacked them without any sense of justice were the five Assassin inheritors from the previous generation of Holy Sight Mountain. One of them was killed by Lu Li, and another was also mostly crippled. Of the three who remained, the Assassin named Ke Su was marked by Lu Li. However, the other party's will was firm, and Lu Li could not corrupt or control him. Therefore, he could only influence him secretly.
It took ten years to exert enough influence on one of Ke Su's disciples and guide him to leave his mark. The time flow in this world is much faster than in other worlds, so ten years is roughly equivalent to one month in the original world.
Because the Shadow Essence was sealed, Lu Li didn't know much about this world. Due to the different flow of time, the information transmission was somewhat obstructed. The message from his main body was that the next transmission would take place once the information became clearer.
Lu Li turned around and looked at the unconscious Li Mo. Various thoughts flashed through his mind. After ten years of influencing Ke Su, he had developed a prejudice against Li Mo. If he could just stir things up a little more, he could make the master and disciple turn against each other and cause Li Mo to defect. The Shadow Sect had also received Lu Li's message and was beginning to move in this direction.
"Then slowly corrupt Li Mo, and finally..." Lu Li's figure dissipated and returned to Li Mo's body. In the distance, a tall girl carrying a lunchbox walked up the path. Looking at the unconscious Li Mo, she mischievously walked over and reached out to pinch Li Mo's nose.
Li Mo, still half-asleep, sensed something was wrong. He opened his eyes, and with a swift movement, a dagger appeared. Looking at the girl crouching in front of him, he breathed a sigh of relief and said, "It's you, Ling Ge."
"Such a big reaction." Ling Ge muttered, then raised an eyebrow and placed the lunchbox in front of Li Mo, revealing two small tiger teeth as she smiled and said, "Senior Brother Li Mo, are you hungry because you haven't had dinner? Call me 'Good Junior Sister' three times, and I'll give you the lunchbox."
"It's always like this, Ling Ge, you're so naive." Li Mo said speechlessly, putting away the dagger in his hand. "If you approach me so rashly, I'm likely to mistake you for an enemy."
"You call me childish? You're the same way. You always have to talk back to Master, otherwise you wouldn't have been punished to stand on the mountaintop in the cold wind." Ling Ge placed the lunchbox in Li Mo's hand with a displeased expression.
Ling Ge pursed her lips and looked at the handsome Li Mo, saying earnestly, "Senior Brother Li Mo, you know it's dangerous to risk your life. Master is angry with you today for not cherishing your own life, so please don't be angry with Master anymore."
"Alright, alright, I'll challenge Senior Brother again tomorrow. I'll defeat him fair and Sheng Heng through my strength." Li Mo recalled the technique in his mind. Although he was still somewhat resentful of his master's favoritism, he was determined to defeat Sheng Heng through his strength and make his master look at him with new eyes.
"You still want to challenge Senior Brother? Well then, good luck." Ling Ge watched Li Mo pick up his lunchbox and start eating, and sighed helplessly, "This idiot, what's going on in his head? Can't he understand my feelings?"
"Ling Ge, don't worry about me." Hearing Ling Ge's sigh, Li Mo assumed he was worried and said with a smile, "This time, I will definitely be able to defeat Senior Brother through my own strength."
"Such great confidence." Ling Ge looked at Li Mo's confident and spirited appearance, her eyes slightly unfocused, but she said with a hint of defiance, "You and Senior Brother are still quite far apart. If you hadn't taken that risky move today, you definitely wouldn't have been able to beat Senior Brother."
"This time is different, Ling Ge, you have to have faith in me." Li Mo looked down the mountain, his eyes narrowing, the cold wind blowing his hair. A smile played on his lips as he thought about something, "Shadow, you've inspired me!"