First Immortal of Destiny

Chapter 292: Current Situation

[With the use of Enlightened Iron, Supreme Profound Gold Stone, Divine Iron of Heaven, and Red Sky Luminous Gold, you have successfully upgraded the Demon Slaying Sword to Profound Grade Perfect, and your understanding of the art of forging has improved. Experience in forging +220.]

The prompt from the Heavenly Destiny Panel came, but Shen Mo glanced at it and didn't pay much attention.

"Clang!"

A strand of spiritual energy infused into the Demon Slaying Sword, causing the sword body to emit a lustrous light and the sword aura to become sharper!

"Not bad. Now, what I need to do is to nurture it well and see if I can make it give birth to a spirit within the sword, promoting it to the level of a spiritual weapon."

The secret of giving birth to a spirit within a spiritual-grade artifact cannot be easily forged.

Even a fourth-grade forger may have secret methods to nurture life within a weapon, but it mostly depends on luck.

Perhaps out of ten spiritual-grade artifacts forged, only one will give birth to a spirit, while the other nine will fail and greatly decrease in quality.

Those who can consistently forge spiritual-grade artifacts must have reached the fifth grade in the art of forging.

Even if you search the entire cultivation world of the Crimson Flame Kingdom, it is unlikely that you will find a fifth-grade forger.

Therefore, most spiritual-grade artifacts are carefully nurtured by their owners, gradually improving their quality until a spirit is born within them, thus promoting them to spiritual-grade.

This is the path Shen Mo has chosen.

In fact, with his current forging skills, it is quite difficult to forge a Profound Grade Perfect flying sword.

He took a shortcut this time!

Based on the foundation of a fourth-grade forger crafting the sword body and engraving inscriptions, he gradually replaced the originally mediocre spiritual materials.

This allowed the Demon Slaying Sword to smoothly advance to the level of Profound Grade Perfect!

Fortunately, his forging skills are not far from the third grade.

In a few more days, he can start looking for suitable spiritual materials and upgrade all the artifacts on his body to Profound Grade Perfect.

In addition to the spiritual gold, Shen Mo also obtained several Thunder Fury Beads from the Tian family.

However, after exchanging the demon-slaying military merits obtained from the command of the Garrison Bureau for Thunder Fury Beads, he plans to use them to upgrade the remaining few Dao swords to High Grade.

Putting away the Demon Slaying Sword, Shen Mo summoned the Flawless Dharma Eye and suspended it above the city.

The field of vision suddenly became vast and expansive.

On the city walls of Hongye City, there were guards from the Garrison Bureau on all sides.

Among them, the Qi Gathering Realm cultivator on one side of the city wall was none other than Tao Dong, the head of a practicing family.

After clearing his grievances, he joined the Garrison Bureau.

At present, he wears the Garrison Bureau waist badge and receives the monthly salary of the Garrison Bureau.

Compared to the monthly salary given by the Tian family, it has increased by more than fifty percent.

There are many small families in the city like the Tao family, who have no industries and naturally do not need to contribute resources to the Garrison Bureau.

After being registered with the bureau and working diligently, they can receive considerable rewards!

As for the small sects and cultivating families that have paid spiritual stones, they have also sent many disciples and descendants to register, apparently hoping to gain some benefits from the monthly salary.

Shen Mo welcomes this!

This is the normal operation of the Garrison Bureau.

It collects cultivation resources from forces with many industries and then uses these resources to reward cultivators who are willing to register and contribute to the bureau.

In this way, a positive feedback loop is formed, making those who are determined to slay demons even stronger.

In addition to Tao Dong, a Qi Gathering Realm cultivator, there are also Body Tempering Realm late-stage cultivators stationed on each side of the city wall.

In addition, there are teams of soldiers dispatched by the Crimson Flame Kingdom to patrol.

They practice military martial arts and can only maintain order and deter evildoers in the secular world.

If they really fight against the demons, they can only become food for the demons. They still have to rely on cultivators!

The field of vision extends outward.

The large towns surrounding Hongye City are also guarded by monks from the Garrison Division.

These towns are also inhabited by many creatures, and if one is careless, it is possible for a third-stage celestial demon to be bred.

Therefore, whenever the Garrison Division has spare capacity, they send monks to replace the local cultivators who were originally responsible for guarding the city.

Beyond that, the major road checkpoints, mountain villages, and other areas are regularly patrolled by monks.

Once any demonic traces are discovered, the monks are mobilized to encircle and exterminate them.

There is no need for Shen Mo to expend mental and spiritual energy to constantly monitor the surroundings with his flawless clairvoyance.

At this moment, Shen Mo's gaze fell on a valley.

Chen Mengze, Xu Tong, and several other named cultivators who were not weak in cultivation were gathered there.

They were in the process of hunting down a demon-infected cultivator!

This demon should have escaped from elsewhere and still had injuries on its body.

When it passed through the outskirts of Hongye City, it settled in this remote valley and began to hunt and devour the creatures in the surrounding area.

Many demonic beasts in the mountains, as well as mortals who entered the mountains to hunt or gather firewood, fell victim to it.

After the patrolling monks discovered various abnormalities, they immediately reported the news.

This attracted the attention of Chen Mengze and the others, who all mobilized and blocked the demon in the valley.

This demon is a disciple of a small immortal sect who is proficient in formations.

Seeing that there were many cultivators coming to kill it, it quickly retreated into the valley and relied on the formations it had previously set up to block the encirclement.

"You attack the formation from the outside, and I will break through from the inside to see if we can break it together!" Xu Tong said, striding towards the valley.

He was confident in his strong physique and the protection provided by his heavy armor, and was not afraid of being attacked by the formations.

The others advised him to be cautious and patient, and that it would not be too late to enter the valley after breaking the formation together. However, Xu Tong did not care and plunged into the formation.

"Boom!"

The formation started to operate, and a fierce flame instantly engulfed Xu Tong.

Seeing this, Chen Mengze and the others did not dare to delay any longer and immediately used their killing techniques, including magical tools, immortal techniques, and talismans, to attack the formation.

...

When Shen Mo landed in front of Chen Mengze with his lightning-fast sword, the mutated celestial demon had already been killed to pieces by everyone.

No one else was injured.

Only Xu Tong had half of his eyebrows and hair burnt.

His heavy armor was also filled with burn marks!

Seeing Shen Mo's arrival, Xu Tong smiled awkwardly and said, "I apologize for the trouble, Fellow Daoist Shen. This demon's cultivation level was not high, but I didn't expect its formation to be so powerful."

An elder from the Doujin Sect collected the remains and relics of the mutated celestial demon and presented them to Shen Mo.

Then, he mocked Xu Tong, saying, "You iron toad, you almost got roasted like a cooked toad."

"Didn't you recognize it? This demon is from the Wusheng Sect."

"You're so ignorant, you deserve to be burned!"

The Doujin Sect has always been at odds with the Jinchan Tower. If it weren't for the suppression of disputes in the face of the demonic calamity, there would probably only be one of them left outside Hongye City.

Being mocked by the elder from the Doujin Sect, Xu Tong's face immediately darkened, and he retorted.

Shen Mo didn't pay much attention to them and started to examine the relics of the demon. Apart from a few spirit stones, most of them were formation tools.

Shen Mo had some knowledge of the Wusheng Sect.

He knew that this sect was famous for its formations, and many protective formations of small sects and aristocratic families were designed and arranged by the Wusheng Sect.

If this demon were allowed to live and join forces with other celestial demons...

For many small sects and aristocratic families, it would undoubtedly be a disaster.

(End of this chapter)