Before advancing to Golden Core, Lin Mo had wielded the Greenwood Mystic Gourd Sword once.
Back then, Lin Mo had mobilized all the spiritual power within his dantian, including the Six Great Dao Platforms and the black-and-white light mass, as well as the Blood-Colored Sphere and the Star Formation Pattern, unleashing the Greenwood Mystic Gourd Sword's greatest power.
That strike had poured down like a river of stars, instantly destroying the Crescent Blade, the eighth-grade treasured artifact belonging to the scar-faced old Daoist at the eighth layer of Foundation Establishment!
Now, although Lin Mo had failed to condense a golden core, he had relied on the Jianmu Sapling's innate spiritual radiance to unleash another green sword ray that bathed the sky in emerald light.
There was nothing fancy about this strike.
Wherever the sword ray passed, the thousands of blood-colored beads controlled by the Demonist surnamed Tang were blasted away. Countless fine cracks appeared in the blood sword held by the Nascent Soul cultivator surnamed Tang, and he himself tumbled backward through the air, several cracks appearing in the blood cocoon enveloping his body!
"Urgh!"
Blood sprayed wildly from Lin Mo's mouth. Flesh flew from both hands gripping the sword hilt, exposing the blood-drenched bones of his arms. A large chunk of flesh also exploded from his chest, mixed with fragments of his internal organs.
The all-out strike itself should not have exacted any price, but Lin Mo's own body had to bear the backlash from colliding with the blood-colored beads and blood sword.
Had he not spent so long consuming Spirit Plant Fruit, spirit rice, and spirit rice plants, while continually tempering his physique with Spirit Spring Water, Lin Mo would likely have been smashed to pieces on the spot. Even his divine soul might have been annihilated!
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