Pangu's Legacy

Buzz! Dazzling sword light descended like a river of stars pouring down from the Ninth Heaven, twisting and shaking space itself as it directly engulfed Old Ancestor Minghe, who was shrouded in blood-flame radiance.

After a long while, once everything had calmed, the dimly glowing Twelve-Petaled Karma Fire Red Lotus was revealed in the void.

Whoosh! Golden light flashed. As Shi Mo brought out the Treasure-Dropping Money, the slightly trembling Twelve-Petaled Karma Fire Red Lotus immediately flew toward him.

At the same time, Old Ancestor Minghe had vanished from where the Twelve-Petaled Karma Fire Red Lotus had been. All that remained was a mass of dark-red, viscous liquid writhing there.

Without the protection of the Twelve-Petaled Karma Fire Red Lotus, the dark-red viscous liquid trembled before suddenly spreading out into what resembled a long river of blood, plunging directly into the earth beneath Mount Buzhou.

"Trying to run?" Shi Mo grabbed the Twelve-Petaled Karma Fire Red Lotus and swiftly refined it by sending his mana and divine sense into it. Seeing Old Ancestor Minghe escape underground, he could not help but sneer.

The next moment, Shi Mo's good corpse incarnation, wielding the Heavenly Stellar Cloud Sword, separated from his true body and transformed into a streak of light, diving underground in pursuit.

However, Nebula Daoist had not expected that the moment he entered the ground, he would discover the river of blood splitting into more than a hundred tributaries and scattering in all directions.

"Hmm?" Nebula Daoist was about to mobilize the power of the earth veins to suppress Old Ancestor Minghe and slow his escape, only to find that the immense earth-vein power beneath Mount Buzhou seemed frozen solid. He was unable to mobilize it at all.

At the same time, Nebula Daoist keenly sensed an invisible wave of majestic pressure within the mountain body connected to Mount Buzhou's underground spiritual veins—more precisely, its main spiritual vein—that made his heart tremble.

"What is hidden inside Mount Buzhou? Could it be something Pangu left behind?" At that thought, Nebula Daoist no longer had the mind to care about Old Ancestor Minghe. After a brief hesitation, he entered Mount Buzhou's underground main spiritual vein.

Passing through the underground main spiritual vein, whose earth-vein power had solidified like jade, Nebula Daoist soon arrived within an independent world-like cavern inside Mount Buzhou.

"This..." Looking at the profound, intricate Chaos Divine Patterns faintly visible upon the jade-like stone walls around him, Nebula Daoist's gaze sharpened as he looked at an enormous, pristine jade-like sphere floating in midair.

Nebula Daoist could clearly sense waves of surging aura emanating from the jade sphere, like heartbeats. The invisible oppression it gave off made him feel as though he were facing a Sage.

"What exactly is this? Or rather, what is hidden inside?" Staring at the flawless jade sphere, Nebula Daoist was seized by an inexplicable urge to split it open. And he truly did so.

Clang! With a crisp ring, Nebula Daoist staggered back after striking with his full strength. Looking at the trembling, humming Heavenly Stellar Cloud Sword in his hand, then at the utterly unscathed jade sphere, he was dumbfounded.

One had to know that even Kunpeng's true body, with its formidable flesh, or the bodies of the Ancestral Witches, could not possibly withstand a slash from Nebula Daoist's Heavenly Stellar Cloud Sword without injury!

Yet immediately afterward, with a crisp crack, a fissure appeared on the floating jade sphere, causing Nebula Daoist's pupils to contract.

Crack, crack... The fissures on the jade sphere swiftly spread and multiplied. Blood seemed to seep from the widening cracks.

At the same time, an increasingly heart-quaking aura spread out. The oncoming scent of blood made Nebula Daoist feel as though the mana throughout his body were boiling and his primordial spirit scorching.

Crash! The entire jade sphere suddenly shattered, and golden-glowing blood poured down in a rush, covering the unprepared Nebula Daoist from head to toe.

"This..." Nebula Daoist was utterly stunned. Then he felt as though his entire body had caught fire. Scorching, surging energy flooded into him like water bursting through a dam, making him feel like an ordinary man who had downed three pounds of fiery liquor—not only burning all over, but utterly intoxicated.

Boom! In an instant, Nebula Daoist seemed to become a living volcano, his invisible surging aura shaking the surrounding space.

"Ah!" Nebula Daoist suddenly threw back his head and let out a tortured, ferocious roar. His consciousness seemed to be instantly scorched into a daze.

In his trance, he seemed to see countless powerful, bizarre-looking experts charging at him through the endless chaos. Then, a towering giant wielding a massive axe seemed to slaughter them as easily as chopping melons and vegetables.

"Pangu? Th-this is the essence blood Pangu left behind?" Realizing this, Nebula Daoist became even more alarmed.

The energy within this essence blood was simply too vast and terrifying. He could not withstand it, much less absorb it.

If this good corpse incarnation had not, in a sense, been a body of energy, then had Shi Mo's true body come instead, even with his current physical strength, he likely would have been burst apart.

"What should I do?" Somewhat panicked, Shi Mo seemed in his daze to see the towering giant sitting cross-legged and cultivating within the endless chaos once more.

As a great deal of scattered, fragmented memories flooded into his mind, Nebula Daoist seemed to gain some insight. Profound blood-red patterns swiftly emerged across his body as he sat cross-legged in midair, while the golden-glowing essence blood transformed into a blood mist that encircled him and continuously flowed into his body.

At the same time, in a mountain hollow somewhere on Mount Buzhou, Shi Mo's true body was likewise sitting cross-legged in midair beside the Innate Banana Tree, his brows tightly furrowed as he closed his eyes and seemed to sense something.

Only after a long while did Shi Mo open his eyes as though letting out a breath of relief. His gaze shone with surprise and excitement.

"I never expected to obtain Pangu's Legacy and comprehend a body-tempering method for proving the Dao through strength. Though it is scattered and incomplete, at least I now have hope of walking the path of proving the Dao through strength. Could it be that, because I possess great merit, I was granted such a heaven-defying opportunity?"

"I should collect this Banana Tree first! Come to think of it, it can be considered my lucky star."

Shi Mo turned to look at the Banana Tree, wondering whether he should take the entire tree away. Then he saw the two large leaves on it suddenly detach amid swirling light, shrinking into two Banana Fans.

Looking at the two Banana Fans, their profound rune-pattern restrictions glowing, Shi Mo froze briefly before grabbing one in each hand. He then revealed a surprised expression. "A wind-water Banana Fan and a wind-earth Banana Fan?"

"Could there be a wind-fire one as well?" As Shi Mo thought this, he glanced at the Banana Tree's roots and indeed saw three places where leaves had fallen off.

"Someone came earlier and took the prematurely matured wind-fire Banana Fan? The Supreme Elder Lord, leader of the Three Pure Ones? As expected of the Elder Lord, who never lacks spiritual treasures! He only took one wind-fire Banana Fan and left such an Innate spiritual root, the Banana Tree, here?"

"Perhaps he intended to return once the other two fan leaves of this Innate spiritual root had matured, only to have it discovered by Kunpeng and Minghe, before I ended up reaping the benefit."

As Shi Mo pondered this, the leafless Banana Tree suddenly withered at rapid speed. Then four spiritual pearls, colored earthy yellow, fiery red, green, and blue respectively, flew out from underground. "There is even an unexpected harvest?"

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