The Dao Seed Was Complete!

The Child Ghost Heads had only just begun circulating through the Black Market and had yet to appear within the Iron Cauldron Secret Realm.

Li Mo did not continue increasing the number of Child Ghost Heads. He understood that too much was as bad as too little, and it could easily backfire.

Even if the Child Ghost Heads proved ineffective, it would not matter much to him.

While waiting patiently, the thought of cultivating the Primordial Acquired Dao Body began to stir restlessly within him.

Once he mastered the Primordial Acquired Dao Body, his physique would gain the traits of Miasma Spiritual Power. Not only would his Circulation Cycle yield twice the result with half the effort, but casting Spells would also become thirty percent stronger out of thin air.

What Li Mo cared about most, however, was the drawback of the Primordial Acquired Dao Body.

That drawback would cause spiritual power to become corrosive, invisibly affecting the surrounding environment.

Yet Li Mo felt that was not necessarily a bad thing. Variant Spiritual Energy was born from harsh environments to begin with. The flaw of the Primordial Acquired Dao Body might instead increase the proportion of Misty Spiritual Energy in the air.

A Spell of this caliber could indeed be called a "Dao Body."

Unfortunately, he lacked a Dharma Gate that could grant his physique the traits of spiritual power. The Primordial Acquired Dao Body probably required a special physique as a prerequisite.

Li Mo had nearly given up on the Primordial Acquired Dao Body back then, until he recalled a Spell and realized that he might be able to take a shortcut.

Soul Chasing Poison Stinger

Soul Chasing Poison Stinger was extremely inconspicuous in Smelting Town. It was a Spell Li Mo had secretly memorized from Steward Hu using Eidetic Memory.

Soul Chasing Poison Stinger mainly altered the structure of one's arm, transforming it into a scorpion's tail.

What Li Mo focused on was the subsequent cultivation step of Soul Chasing Poison Stinger: "Toad Body."

Toad Body required transplanting the venom sac of a Jade Blood Toad beside a cultivator's liver. Through the venom sac's gradual, subtle alterations, it gave one's flesh and blood toxicity.

In a sense, the "Toad Body" of Soul Chasing Poison Stinger and the Primordial Acquired Dao Body had different tunes played with equal skill.

If Li Mo could transplant an organ similar to a venom sac, one that slowly released Misty Spiritual Energy, then with the Leakless Body sealing in that spiritual energy, it would not be difficult to give his physique the traits of spiritual power.

Moreover, he could imprint the organ. The Divine Ability he gained would certainly be of help.

Excitement appeared on Li Mo's face as he took out a Glass Jar from his Storage Bag.

The liquid inside the Glass Jar was yellowish-green. It was Reviving Water, capable of preventing Flesh and Blood Organs from decaying and preserving them for up to ten years.

Soaking in the Reviving Water were "swim bladders" taken from Mist-Born Carp, each shaped like a pearl.

There were twenty swim bladders in total.

It was said that a Mist-Born Carp might not appear even among ten thousand carp. Their rarity made the price set by Yi Bao Pavilion exorbitant.

Mist-Born Carp could release water mist through their swim bladders, which counted as a Low-grade Spirit Material.

No matter what, discovering an organ suitable for the Primordial Acquired Dao Body was already good enough, even if it had cost him a great many Spirit Stones.

Li Mo examined the swim bladders. Their structure truly resembled that of Venom Sacs.

Unfortunately, the swim bladders were Water Attribute Spirit Material, somewhat incompatible with the Water-Earth Attribute of Miasma Spiritual Power. Otherwise, he could have simply imprinted the organ directly.

Li Mo planned to use artifact refinement methods to refine the swim bladders into Water-Earth Attribute material while preserving their vitality. After all, the Book of Fortune could not imprint dead objects.

He took out the Earth Attribute Spirit Materials he had gathered during this period. Their number matched the Mist-born Carp Swim Bladders exactly, allowing him twenty refinement attempts.

Li Mo did not wish to expend too much energy because of the Primordial Acquired Dao Body.

If he used up all the Mist-born Carp Swim Bladders, he would temporarily shelve the Primordial Acquired Dao Body and reconsider it after his cultivation had grown profound in the future.

Once Li Mo had calmed his mind, he signaled for Ghost Tiger to stand guard outside the cave dwelling.

He began grinding the Earth Attribute Spirit Materials. Only after twenty hard materials had turned into fine sand did he stop, storing the powder in his Storage Bag for later use.

Li Mo picked up a Mist-born Carp Swim Bladder. His magic finger, wrapped in Spirit Material Powder, pierced into the organ and began drawing across the surfaces of its tiny, intricate blood vessels.

So the water and earth materials could thoroughly fuse together.

He did not dare relax in the slightest. The swim bladder could not remain outside the Reviving Water for too long; after thirty breaths, its vitality would be severed.

Yet just as Li Mo attached the Spirit Material Powder to the blood vessels, the swim bladder underwent a sudden change, rapidly swelling in size.

Bang!!!

A muffled boom rang out, and the cave dwelling trembled faintly as bits of shattered stone fell from overhead.

Li Mo was left dusty and disheveled. The backlash produced by his magic finger made both arms ache faintly. Refining swim bladders was no different from playing with explosives at close range.

Artifact refinement had been passed down through generation after generation, and the recorded diagrams had already become exceedingly complete.

Li Mo was glad he had not refined them in the Black Market. The guest rooms might not have fully isolated the noise, easily drawing unnecessary trouble.

There was no issue doing it in the Iron Cauldron Secret Realm. Corpse Mountain spasmed every now and then anyway.

Li Mo suppressed his restless spiritual power. After confirming that his magic finger had not been damaged, he fished out another swim bladder and began inscribing it again.

His movements became even more cautious, but the Spirit Materials simply would not fuse.

Soon after, explosions echoed one after another through the abandoned mine cave. Had the rock wall not been sturdy, the cave dwelling would likely have already collapsed.

Li Mo wasted eight Mist-born Carp Swim Bladders in succession, and his state of mind could not help being affected.

He put down the Spirit Material Powder in his hand and closed his eyes to rest for a long while. Then, a continuous series of explosions rang out from the cave dwelling once more.

While Li Mo was in seclusion, more and more cultivators headed toward Corpse Mountain.

Some cultivators could be seen with malformed Child Ghost Heads growing from their necks, impatiently drilling into the depths of Corpse Mountain.

Before profit, danger seemed not worth mentioning.

Cultivators had now begun uncovering Mid-grade Spirit Materials one after another. If they went deeper, even High-grade Spirit Materials for refining Dharma Treasures might be found.

Ghost Tiger shook his head uneasily.

After cultivators began exploring Corpse Mountain in force, figures of cultivators also started appearing around the abandoned mine cave where Li Mo was located, though they remained at the outskirts.

The explosions continued, but the intervals between them grew longer and longer.

Ghost Tiger could sense that cultivators were already approaching the cave dwelling, though they hesitated out of fear of the Clay Sculptures within Corpse Mountain.

As the cultivators drew nearer, Ghost Tiger hid in the shadows, a vicious gleam appearing in his eyes.

But all of a sudden, the cave dwelling fell completely silent. Then Li Mo's ecstatic shout rang out: "It worked, it worked!!"

The sound echoed without end, causing the dense footsteps outside to rush over.

Li Mo crawled out of the cave dwelling in a miserable state, mounted Ghost Tiger, and vanished into the darkness.

As he traveled, he held the Glass Jar in his hand. The sole remaining Mist-born Carp Swim Bladder bobbed up and down inside it. Its volume had expanded severalfold, and crystalline flesh buds covered its surface as though it were still swelling.

Li Mo had succeeded on his seventeenth refinement attempt. After hurriedly sealing the finished swim bladder inside the Glass Jar, the remaining swim bladders immediately lost their vitality.

Allowing two types of Spirit Material to fuse together involved, to some degree, an element of luck.

Li Mo did not know why the Earth Attribute Spirit Material he had selected happened to match the swim bladder so perfectly. In any case, the instant the opportunity appeared, he seized it with his perfect control over spiritual power.

The finished swim bladder still retained its vitality, and the Book of Fortune could imprint it at any time.

Li Mo named the finished swim bladder the "Dao Seed." Whether it could be replicated remained unknown for now.

But he understood one thing: without the Book of Fortune, ordinary cultivators would have only a dead end awaiting them if they transplanted the Dao Seed. This thing was an extremely unstable bomb.