First Immortal of Destiny

Chapter 174: Earth-shattering Battle

A fierce battle!

A fierce battle!

...

There is no doubt.

This is the most difficult battle Shen Mo has faced since he began cultivating.

It is also the battle with the greatest disparity in strength.

Blood has been shed in this battle.

Shen Mo still cannot see any chance of winning.

His pills and talismans are depleted.

His spiritual power is exhausted.

The soul generals in his Soul Refining Banner cannot be summoned.

The Fire-attribute Flying Sword in his hand has been broken into two pieces.

The Nine Extremes Crystal Sand Armor has been shattered by fifty percent, greatly reducing its power.

The Green Soul Robe and the Red Carp Inner Armor are both in tatters and can no longer provide much defense.

Even his formidable body, comparable to a demonic beast, is covered in gruesome wounds.

It is a horrifying sight!

However, Shen Mo's gaze becomes even brighter.

Various scenes from his time in Tian Shun Kingdom keep appearing in his mind.

Slaying evil spirits in Matou Village, discussing with Zhang Taian on the city walls of the capital, sweeping through the treasure vaults of the Garrison Bureau, moving among countless fierce ghosts... and now, battling with the Ghost King of Heaven!

The accumulated emotions and insights keep surging up in his heart.

[During your bloody battle with the Ghost King of Heaven, your past experiences, encounters, and insights have emerged one after another, unexpectedly leading to the comprehension of the "Carefree" sword intent.]

Carefree sword intent?

Shen Mo is a little confused, but quickly regains his composure.

That's right, what he has always pursued is the carefree state in both the universe and the world.

Go wherever he wants to go.

Live as long as he wants to live!

However, since entering the Ghost Domain of Heaven, he has gradually gained another insight.

In Matou Village, when the villagers struggled to survive and even resorted to cannibalism, he did nothing.

There were many similar villages and scenes.

Apart from killing a few ghosts, he was powerless to change anything.

When Tian Shun Kingdom completely fell into the Ghost Domain, he could only watch helplessly. He didn't have enough strength to achieve what he desired in his heart.

Being hunted by countless ghosts and chased by the Ghost King of Heaven made him feel uneasy.

All of this...

Prevented him from being carefree!

He hoped for a sword that could slay ghosts, exterminate demons, and eliminate the unease in his heart.

Sword intent: Carefree!

...

The Ghost King of Heaven, with its hands covered in blood and flesh, seems to have sensed something.

It snorts coldly.

Its figure appears within a yard in front of Shen Mo, and it reaches out with a hand, carrying a faint golden ghost aura, aiming for Shen Mo's head.

Shen Mo's mind moves, and the Dragon Sparrow Sword, with cracks and gaps all over its body, flies into his hand.

"Buzz!"

The sword body of the Dragon Sparrow Sword erupts with strange and powerful fluctuations.

A sword light shines brightly.

It is infused with the Netherfire.

Radiant, like the sun!

It suddenly slashes towards the Ghost King of Heaven, who is within arm's reach.

"P

Just like Geng Zheng, a disciple of the Tianjian Sect, who had long understood the sword intent of "punishing evil," he was still being brutally beaten by Shen Mo on the ground.

However, now, he had become the one being held down and beaten!

"Ying! Ying!"

A fiery red figure shot out from Shen Mo's waist.

It was the little spiritual mouse.

Shen Mo realized that he was going to die at the hands of the Ghost King of the Abandoned Heaven, so he had a thought and opened the seal on the spiritual pet bag.

His divine consciousness instructed it to escape on its own.

Even if it had to live by eating some half-ghost, half-demon monsters, it would be better than starving to death in the spiritual pet bag.

Unexpectedly, the spiritual mouse didn't intend to escape when it came out.

It directly pounced and bit down on the Ghost King of the Abandoned Heaven's ghost claw.

The spiritual mouse was a mid-level second-stage monster, and its teeth alone couldn't cause much damage to the Ghost King of the Abandoned Heaven.

It only managed to bite off a piece of the golden ghost energy.

But this action once again angered the Ghost King of the Abandoned Heaven.

Being injured by a living cultivator was one thing, but now even a fat mouse dared to bite it!

The Ghost King of the Abandoned Heaven grabbed the spiritual mouse with its other hand.

Its five fingers slowly exerted force, intending to crush the master and servant alive.

"Master, it hurts, wu wu..."

"Why do you have to suffer like this?" Shen Mo's divine consciousness became weak.

"Creak!"

"Creak!"

Strange metallic deformation sounds.

Even though Shen Mo's "Dragon Elephant Blood Demon Body" was about to reach completion, he still couldn't withstand the tremendous strength of the Ghost King of the Abandoned Heaven's ghost claw.

Just as he was about to lose consciousness and die, his spirit suddenly surged.

He felt that the entire world of the Ghost Domain of the Abandoned Heaven had turned upside down.

The sky became the ground, and the ground turned into the sky.

Even time and space became chaotic.

Shen Mo looked at the Ghost King of the Abandoned Heaven, who was right in front of him, and his body was stretched out for ten miles.

And its hand was still holding him and the spiritual mouse.

"Swoosh!"

Squeezing out the last trace of spiritual power in his body, Shen Mo, relying on his demonic body, broke free from the ghost claw.

He snatched the spiritual mouse from the other ghost claw.

He wanted to put it back into the spiritual pet bag but found that he couldn't open it at all.

Even the Qiankun Bag couldn't be opened.

He had no choice but to stuff the spiritual mouse into his sleeve.

At the same time, his vision began to distort and change.

It seemed as if size, distance, and direction were all in disarray.

In this strange perspective, Shen Mo saw four powerful and unparalleled auras rising from the four corners of the Ghost Domain of the Abandoned Heaven.

A Taoist sword!

A corpse puppet!

A moon wheel!

A trace of starlight!

With Shen Mo's eyesight, he naturally couldn't fully comprehend the entire Ghost Domain of the Abandoned Heaven.

But in the midst of the chaotic time and space, he happened to see the four powerful beings.

"Is it the old monster Yuan Dan? Or someone even stronger?"

While blood was still flowing from Shen Mo's mouth and nose, his mind was focused on those four terrifying auras.

But since he hadn't even reached the Spirit Sea Realm, he naturally couldn't judge how powerful these few individuals, who inadvertently saved his life, were.

"Boom!"

"Boom!"

"Boom!"

The Taoist sword unleashed a terrifying sword light.

The corpse puppet roared into the sky.

The moon wheel and starlight shone brightly, illuminating the Ghost Domain.

Including the Ghost King of the Abandoned Heaven, almost all the ghost spirits roared together.

In their ghostly howls, there was resentment, unwillingness, and fear.

However, they had no way to stop the actions of the four powerful beings.

In the midst of the upheaval of heaven and earth, a strange and clear hint arose in Shen Mo's heart once again.

He had passed through the Ghost Gate!

A jade slip appeared out of thin air in his hand.

Shen Mo didn't even notice anything unusual. When he came back to his senses, he had already appeared at the entrance of the Ghost Gate in the Ghost Domain.

In his sight were the concerned faces of Chen Mengze, Jiang Yingying, and others.

(End of this chapter)