First Immortal of Destiny

Chapter 221: Journey to the Underground Palace

"Crack!"

A powerful thunderbolt struck the grand mansion.

The entire mansion instantly exploded, turning into scattered bricks and tiles.

After the lightning and smoke dissipated, the figure of a peak-level second stage demon was revealed.

Its body was completely charred, emitting wisps of black smoke.

Its aura was extremely weak, lying in a deep pit that had turned into glass, twitching occasionally.

"I've only just started practicing this grand hand seal."

"But to be able to heavily injure a peak-level second stage demon with mid-stage Qi gathering cultivation, the power is not to be underestimated..."

"However, this demon is cunning."

"Even in this state, it still pretends to be on the verge of death, trying to deceive me!"

Shen Mo couldn't help but find it amusing.

He quickly formed a series of hand seals with his hands, silently reciting an incantation.

At the same time, strands of Purple Mansion Spiritual Energy flowed through his arms and into his hands.

And with the hand seals and incantation, they circulated, transformed, condensed, and surged in an incredibly complex and mysterious manner...

"The Southern Vermilion Seven Constellations, grand hand seal, ghost!" Shen Mo muttered.

The final hand seal he formed was with his left hand inside and his right hand outside, the back of his left hand resting on the wrist of his right hand.

The thumb of his left hand was pressed against the first joint of his middle finger.

The index finger of his right hand was bent, pressing against the second joint of his thumb.

Then, a ghost-like phantom shot out from his hand, straight towards the demon below.

When Shen Mo formed the hand seal, the peak-level second stage demon already sensed that something was wrong. Dragging its charred body, it stirred up demonic energy and rushed towards him.

However, as soon as it was hit by the ghost-like phantom, it immediately froze in place.

As if its mind had been confused!

Shen Mo descended on his lightning-fast flying sword, landing slowly.

Calmly, he approached the demon's head, and with a swing of his Demon-Slaying Sword, the demon's head rolled off with a "clatter".

He collected the remaining aura into a jade pendant and waved his Infernal Fire, burning the severed demon body to ashes.

"The ghost-like phantom should be the Ghostly Golden Ram from the Southern Seven Constellations."

"The dragon-like phantom formed by the grand hand seal of the Eastern Seven Constellations earlier was not a real dragon, but a Dragon-Jiao Horn Wood Dragon!"

"The power of this grand hand seal is indeed formidable, but... it's too difficult to cultivate."

These three days.

Shen Mo had been using [Martial Arts Practice] to deduce the cultivation of the "Star Constellation Grand Hand Seal"!

However, this spiritual-level technique was extremely difficult and arduous to cultivate.

Ten fingers, twenty-eight joints in total.

Corresponding to the twenty-eight constellations!

The changes in the hand seals represented the rotation of the heart constellation and the transformation of the stars.

Therefore, just forming one hand seal was not enough to successfully execute one of the grand hand seals.

It required twenty-eight changes to be made in order to successfully execute it!

In addition, each time the changes were made, the hand seal formed was different. There were a total of 784 types of hand seals.

But even if the hand seal was correct, it was not enough.

The incantation and the circulation of spiritual energy also had many complicated changes!

Shen Mo had calculated.

All these changes would accumulate into 489,304,189,304 small variations.

And what he needed to do was to accurately form the hand seal, recite the incantation, and circulate the spiritual energy without missing a single detail, until he perfectly executed one of the grand hand seals!

Therefore, he had the destiny of [Martial Arts Practice].

Currently, Shen Mo could only execute two of the grand hand seals!

The remaining twenty-six grand hand seals would probably require another thirty-nine days of [Martial Arts Practice] to cultivate.

For someone like him, who had a special destiny.

If it were another cultivator, it would take at least a month or even several months of hard work to cultivate one grand hand seal.

To learn all twenty-eight star constellation grand hand seals, it would take at least three and a half years, or even more than ten years if it was slow.

In this way, one can be considered to have achieved a little success!

To cultivate to perfection, or even to completion, one must undergo decades or even hundreds of years of arduous practice, otherwise it is simply unthinkable!

However, once this method is cultivated.

Not only is its power formidable, but those who practice this method also possess a myriad of techniques.

Each grand hand seal contains different powers.

Including killing, defense, trapping enemies, immobilization, intimidation, tracking, breaking prohibitions, expelling evil, purifying the mind, and inducing madness, among many other effects.

It can be said that.

A cultivator who is proficient in this immortal technique no longer needs to cultivate other martial arts and techniques.

They can also freely travel in the world of cultivation!

Shen Mo's gaze swept over the abandoned mountain village for a moment.

Not finding any demons, big or small, he stepped on his lightning-fast sword and flew towards Tian Shan City.

"Now that my strength has increased significantly, it's time to explore that underground palace!"

Previously, when he and Zhao Lingyin were traveling underground, they stumbled upon a majestic tomb palace.

However, at that time, they were being pursued by countless demons.

So Shen Mo didn't release the Spirit Hiding Rat to go in and explore for treasures.

Later, he returned to the underground and tried to break the prohibition, but found that he alone was completely powerless to break the formation.

So he let the Spirit Hiding Rat use its "Concealment" Divine Ability to sneak into the underground palace to investigate.

But not long after.

The little guy trembled and escaped with fear in its small green eyes.

Through spiritual communication, Shen Mo roughly understood the dangers in the underground palace.

Therefore.

He temporarily returned to Tian Shan to continue killing demons.

Now, the number of mid to late-stage second-order demons is decreasing, and they are becoming increasingly difficult to kill.

First-order demons and early-stage second-order demons are still emerging in large numbers, so there is no need to rush to kill and seize battle achievements.

Therefore, Shen Mo thought about inviting three or five good friends to break the prohibition of the underground palace together.

To explore the treasures inside!

"Chen Senior Sister should not refuse, Lu Ming's strength is also enough."

"Cao Ren's strength is too weak, he's afraid he'll die inside..."

Thinking about it, Shen Mo picked up a sound transmission talisman and used his divine sense to communicate with his friends and acquaintances.

...

Thirty miles away from Tian Shan City, outside a village.

Shen Mo stood quietly on a steep cliff, waiting for his invited friends to arrive.

"Whoosh!"

A stream of light flew over and circled above Shen Mo's head for a moment before landing beside him.

Revealing a graceful figure, it was Chen Mengze.

"Senior Sister Chen."

Shen Mo greeted her with a smile.

Chen Mengze nodded and looked puzzled, "Just now, I received a message from Senior Sister Jiang. Did you also invite Senior Sister Jiang and the others?"

"Yes... In addition to Senior Sister Jiang and her three companions, there are also Xingchen Peak's Lu Ming, Li Zhong, and Yao Ting."

Shen Mo replied, "There may also be two others accompanying Li Zhong!"

"The prohibition on the outskirts of that underground palace is so powerful? It requires so many people to break it!"

"I inquired about it. Most of the villagers in this village are descendants of the nobles from the previous dynasty. This underground palace... is highly likely to be the tomb of the former crown prince."

After several dynasties, more than three hundred years have passed in the Red Flame Kingdom.

The former crown prince can be considered a legendary figure.

After being deposed, he began to cultivate and seek the Dao, and by the time the new dynasty was established, he was already a powerful Linghai Realm cultivator.

He also made quite a name for himself in the world of cultivation.

However, no one has known where he fell or where he was buried!

But after communicating with the Spirit Hiding Rat, Shen Mo was eighty percent sure that the owner of this tomb was indeed the former crown prince.

(End of this chapter)