I'm in Shrouding the Heavens Practicing Eternal Life

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Memory.

This is a mostly useless book. Luo Mo flipped through the memories of the Divine Silkworm Ancient Emperor, usually just looking at his Divine Silkworm Ancient Scripture and cultivation insights. But this time, he needed to browse his memories of reading various ancient books.

As an Ancient Emperor, he naturally knew many secrets. To read ancient books, all the great ancient tribes would offer their own.

But these memories were like grains of sand scattered on a beach, sparsely distributed throughout his long memory.

Luo Mo multi-tasked, accelerating the reading of the Divine Silkworm Ancient Emperor's memories. Fortunately, most of his life was spent in transformation and secluded cultivation, which reduced a lot of workload for Luo Mo.

After some searching, Luo Mo found an answer.

It was a handwritten note that the Divine Silkworm Ancient Emperor found in an ancient cave dwelling, a portion of which recorded things related to Primordial Purple Qi.

“…”

After reading it, Luo Mo was somewhat disbelieving, but not entirely.

The fire of Dao Transformation can refine Primordial Purple Qi.

Ah, this… Dao Transformation is not something that can be controlled at will. A single mistake could truly lead to becoming one with the world.

In the end, he sighed and used the True Spirit Seal.

The brilliance of the True Spirit Seal swept over the Primordial Purple Qi and the Purple Qi Seed, but the information obtained was all garbled. There were many things he couldn't understand yet.

It was as if he had scanned Ye Fan back on Earth, but the information related to the Holy Body's origin was like gibberish to him, and he couldn't comprehend it yet.

It was also like when he scanned others, he also scanned his entire body, including all his Immortal Divine Medicines. But each Immortal Divine Medicine contained a cluster of origin runes that he couldn't understand at all.

This was something transcending the Sky-Covering Dharma system, requiring a sufficiently high cultivation level to understand its meaning, related to the origin of this world.

Even a grain of sand or a stone contained information that he couldn't understand right now.

As expected, the information within the Primordial Purple Qi Seed was incomprehensible. He didn't have the ability to deconstruct this divine object yet, and it was impossible for the Primordial Purple Qi Seed to record his method of refining it.

So, what to do?

Let the tool person try it first. If the tool person can do it, then he'll try.

A tool person covered in Buddhist light walked out, holding a wisp of ordinary Purple Qi in his palm. Having been converted, he didn't hesitate at all, using the secret method from the Feather Transformation Scripture to transform himself into the Dao, igniting the fire of Dao Transformation.

That fire was composed of runes, containing his Dao principles, extremely brilliant, like the light of the primordial beginning. This was the transformation of life into the Dao, returning to the world.

Clusters of flames burned on the Purple Qi, instantly merging into it. Specks of starlight appeared within the Purple Qi, those were Dao Fire runes imprinted within.

It works!

Luo Mo quickly told the tool person to stop, but the tool person struggled, unable to extinguish the flames of Dao Transformation no matter what. This process was irreversible for ordinary people.

“Great God Conferred Art, suppression!”

Luo Mo slapped out the Six-Eyed God Conferred Monument cast from Chaos Stone. Six black divine monuments enveloped him, and then he opened his divine eyes, freezing everything within the enclosure. The fire of Dao Transformation was forcibly stopped, not allowed to continue spreading.

The tool person went back to heal. He also obtained a wisp of refined Purple Qi, which became a purple divine needle, as easy to control as an arm. Even with his Fourth Extreme Realm cultivation, stabbing it at Luo Mo's divine sense could make Luo Mo feel pain, making it a secret treasure.

The method is feasible, so…

“How much vitality will this cost?”

Luo Mo shook his head, not thinking too much about it. Then, he used the Great Avatar Technique, directly separating half of his vitality belonging to the Sky-Covering Dharma to condense an avatar.

The Wheel of Life within the Sea of Wheels spewed out a massive amount of life essence, the Bitter Sea surged with Sky-Covering waves of divine power, the Five Elements Qi in the five Dao Palaces gushed out, and the power of earth, water, wind, and fire in the limbs was guided out. Half of the Great Dragon of the spine was also severed, and the Immortal Platform, polished by the Arctic Immortal Light into an immortal mirror, also voluntarily transformed into half.

After separating half of the Sky-Covering Dharma vitality and Dao principles, Luo Mo's expression remained unchanged. He released a large amount of essence blood, and then the divine sense little man condensed a Wisdom Sword, and then slashed down at himself, separating half of his divine sense as well.

All of this combined to form an avatar.

The avatar didn't say much, directly chanting the Feather Transformation Scripture. Runes flew around like ribbons, and the illusion of Flying Immortal Feathers appeared. Then, clusters of rune flames rose from the avatar's body, the fire of Dao Transformation burning fiercely in an instant, reflecting the various Dao traces of the heavens and earth in the void.

Luo Mo had already cast sixty-four Bagua formation flags, clearing the surrounding vitality.

But after the avatar began to transform into the Dao, the powerful Dao Transformation fire produced even reverted the void to its origin, transforming it into chaos. Luo Mo had cultivated the Great Chaos Art and integrated it into the Sky-Covering Dharma, so this Dao principle transformation produced an astonishing reaction. Without vitality, even the space followed the Dao Transformation, and that place became a void.

More than a dozen of the sixty-four Bagua flags that were relatively close instantly turned into brilliant light rain, also following the Dao Transformation. The Dao Palace vitality and Dao principles contained in the avatar had parts of the Great Five Elements Art, so the formation flags made of materials such as silver essence copper were also triggered, following the Dao Transformation. The Great Eight Trigrams Art formation patterns engraved on them failed to stop it.

Although this was an avatar of Luo Mo, it contained his vitality, Dao principles, essence blood, and divine sense. Moreover, urging the Feather Transformation Scripture's Dao Transformation secret technique was even more powerful than the tool person, and the commotion was much more intense than the tool person's Dao Transformation.

The fire of Dao Transformation was like the light of the primordial beginning, wanting to return everything to the universe, retreating to the origin.

Purple Dragon waited in full battle array, because this was a very dangerous thing. Seeing that something went wrong with the formation flags, he immediately swept his dragon tail, blowing away all the surrounding vitality and soil and rocks, imprinting the void with his own innate Dao diagram Dao principles, suppressing this place, not allowing the power of Dao Transformation to spread out.

Luo Mo was confident, although the damage to a few formation flags was somewhat unexpected, it was harmless.

He watched his avatar transform into the Dao, and then threw the Primordial Purple Qi Seed into the furnace that his avatar had become.

The Primordial Purple Qi Seed was like a newborn in the avatar's fire of Dao Transformation, erupting with brilliant light. The purple light even shot out of the Chaos Immortal Earth small world, blasting out bottomless holes in the chaos.

Purple Dragon didn't block the outward-releasing power, as long as it didn't let vitality in to interfere.

At this moment, the avatar could no longer maintain its human form and was dissipating quickly, so it simply hugged the Primordial Purple Qi Seed, burning all of its remaining charm. That place was a brilliance!

Everything transformed into the Dao, becoming the most fundamental thing. Only the cultivator's Dao principles left some traces, imprinted into the Primordial Purple Qi Seed.

This divine object, which most resists spiritual imprints, actually had to be refined in this most intense way!

A round of purple sun rose in this small world. Different from the previous purity, now many blurred rune Dao principles were churning within the Primordial Purple Qi Seed.

“Hongmeng Purple Qi is one of the most fundamental and sacred objects in the heavens and earth. Only by using the power of Transformation Dao can you brand your mark into it. Otherwise, there's simply no way to use it. Letting it appear in the mortal realm would only lead to its contamination.”

Luo Mo looked at the Hongmeng Purple Qi Seed, only one-third of which had been branded, feeling a pang of heartache. That was half of his Yuan Qi Dao Principles, essence blood, and divine sense, painstakingly cultivated and accumulated!

Only one-third refined?

Doesn't that mean he'd need one and a half of himself?

How difficult was it to refine his Yuan Qi and essence blood? How many resources were consumed? Especially his divine sense, asking him to bleed out one and a half of himself—

Hiss!

Just thinking about it made him wince.

Just as Luo Mo was feeling sorry for his essence blood and Yuan Qi, he watched with his own eyes as the marks that had finally been branded into the Hongmeng Purple Qi Seed by the fire of Transformation Dao slowly dissipated…

Dissipated…

Dissipated…

It was like a sponge; it rebounded.

It actually rebounded!

You actually have self-repair, self-purification, and the ability to expel external forces?

Luo Mo didn't even bat an eye when he released half of his Yuan Qi and essence blood, but now his face was as dark as the bottom of a pot.

Purple Dragon: “!”

Hold it in, can't laugh!

Absolutely can't laugh!

Luo Mo retrieved the Hongmeng Purple Qi Seed with a dark face and called out to Purple Dragon, “Let's go check out the Immortal Gold Mine first.”

This Hongmeng Purple Qi Seed would require him to accumulate three incarnations before he could refine it in one fell swoop. He wouldn't be able to succeed in a short time, so he'd go take a look at the Immortal Gold first.

“Alright!”

The Undying Dragon Spear happily flicked its dragon tail and then plunged the spear into the ground. Luo Mo gripped it, and countless runes, amplified by the Undying Dragon Spear, spread out along the earth like jade-white patterns.

Previously, when Luo Mo was searching his memories, Purple Dragon had already collected all of the Arctic Immortal Light floating in the sky of this small world and the various Saint-Weapon-level divine materials buried in the earth, leaving only the vicinity of the nine Immortal Gold Mines untouched.

Using patterns as eyes, Luo Mo clearly understood the locations and structures of the nine mines, which were surprisingly similar to the Saint Spirit Immortal Gold Vein he had obtained from the female Saint Spirit Yao Yao.

That's right, this Chaos Immortal Soil was like a Saint Spirit Stone Womb, except it didn't nurture a Saint Spirit, but rather a Hongmeng Purple Qi Seed.

Luo Mo pondered for a moment, then said to Purple Dragon, “I want to refine all nine Immortal Gold Mines into my body.”

Purple Dragon was stunned, “Refine them into your body?”

Could a person do such a thing?

But Luo Mo's aura changed, his muscles and bones turning jade-like, and within his translucent jade body, veins emitted immortal light, shining through his body. Those were the Immortal Gold Veins condensed with the help of the female Saint Spirit Yao Yao.

Seeing this scene, Purple Dragon didn't say anything. His master was human, but not entirely.

Countless runes, amplified by the Undying Dragon Spear, spread out, saving Luo Mo from having to run around. Soon, they encompassed the area covered by the nine Immortal Gold Mines.

For the next month, Luo Mo sat cross-legged on the Chaos Stone Egg. A Kun Peng in the Xuan Guan acupoint on his head devoured the essence of this small world to replenish himself.

At the same time, he also drank the Life Divine Spring to restore his blood essence, but the recovery of his divine sense was slower, which couldn't be helped. Refining the Hongmeng Purple Qi Seed probably couldn't be done here.

But Luo Mo was determined to take away the Immortal Gold Mines!

He didn't just want Immortal Gold; he wanted the Immortal Gold Mines even more. If he had to choose only one, he would choose the latter.

Immortal Gold could always be found, but Immortal Gold Mines were even rarer, especially since this Chaos Immortal Soil was a unique placenta of heaven and earth, nurturing divine objects, which was of great benefit to him who cultivated the Saint Spirit Method.

A month later, Luo Mo felt that everything except his divine sense had recovered almost completely, so he began to act.

The Undying Dragon Spear rose high, and the entire Chaos Immortal Soil small world was torn apart, the earth shaking. Then, the nine Immortal Gold Mines closest to the core rose from beneath the earth and flew with the Undying Dragon Spear.

What flew out was not just Immortal Gold, but also natural Great Dao patterns, contained within the soil and stones.

Luo Mo's Golden Core flew out from the top of his head, and the vague figure within pinched the Five Elements Dharma Seal. The Yellow Emperor Earth Sovereign Divine Power operated, turning the soil and stones into Earth Dao Yuan Qi, enveloping the natural Dao rhythm around the Immortal Gold Mines, and flying together with the Immortal Gold Mines.

The White Emperor Metal Sovereign Divine Power operated, and an Immortal Gold Mine took the lead in flying into Luo Mo's mouth, turning into a brilliant and blazing white light, illuminating the world, and merging into his body. The jade-like body shone brightly, and a thick white light merged into a main meridian, stretching across his body. The Heavenly Dao rhythm wrapped in Earth Dao Yuan Qi also took root in Luo Mo's body, merging into the nearby small meridians.

Then came the second Immortal Gold Mine, a black light, like a black dragon, swallowed by Luo Mo in one gulp, and merged into another main meridian in his body.

The third Immortal Gold Mine was like a divine phoenix, flying with a fierce red glow, and merging into his Saint Spirit body.

The fourth Immortal Gold Mine was like the eye of a star, emitting an ancient orange light.

Then there was the Immortal Gold Mine emitting a lightning-like golden glow.

The Immortal Gold Mine with a tear-like green glow.

The Immortal Gold Mine with the phantom of feathering and ascending to immortality, a cyan glow.

The eternally brilliant blue Immortal Gold Mine.

The purple Immortal Gold Mine, imprinted with the marks of heaven and earth.

All nine Immortal Gold Mines were devoured by Luo Mo. He operated the Saint Spirit Method, and the nine Immortal Gold Veins in his body immediately surged with a constant stream of immortal brilliance, which, under the coordination of the White Emperor Metal Sovereign Divine Power and the Great Treasure Refining Technique, poured into Luo Mo's Dao Sword.

The Dao Sword vibrated, and the bones of his body resonated. Luo Mo's jade-like Saint Spirit body cracked under the high-frequency vibration, and brilliant nine-colored immortal light burst out from the cracks, as if his body could not bear this power and was about to explode.

But at this time, the Golden Core on top of Luo Mo's head rotated, but the vague figure inside remained motionless, pressing down with a palm, and the broken Saint Spirit body began to heal, and the boiling nine-colored immortal light was suppressed.

The White Emperor Metal Sovereign Divine Power and the Great Treasure Refining Technique in the Great Five Elements Technique were running at full power, and the Golden Core was constantly rotating, and the vague figure inside seemed to want to walk out in person.

A streak of Arctic Immortal Light was directly decomposed into Yuan Qi, and then burned to supply the Golden Core.

If Luo Mo's Golden Core were to erupt with all its power, he himself would not be able to use it a second time, because it was too strong and consumed too much.

But now, with the Arctic Immortal Light, a high-quality Yuan Qi, a single Arctic Immortal Light was enough to drive the Golden Core to erupt several times. After all, this was a treasure that even saints coveted, containing a massive amount of Yuan Qi, and it was still Immortal Realm Yuan Qi. With this kind of logistics, he could use the Golden Core without any scruples.

Under the coordination of the Golden Core, countless runes were injected into the nine Immortal Veins in Luo Mo's body, and the surging nine-colored immortal light gradually subsided, and streams of immortal brilliance were orderly transported to the Dao Sword.

After being transported into the Dao Sword, the nine colors of immortal brilliance did not show, but the thirty-three Dao Principles shone brightly.

At this time, Luo Mo took out some Hongmeng Purple Qi, about tens of thousands of strands, and put them into the Dao Sword one by one.

The thirty-three Dao Principles on the Dao Sword burned. Practice makes perfect, and besides, the Transformation Dao Principles needed for ordinary Purple Qi were much less than those needed for the Hongmeng Purple Qi Seed; just a little bit was enough.

The Golden Core infused Yuan Qi and Dao Principles, the divine patterns refined blood essence, and strands of divine sense entangled strands of Purple Qi, falling on the Dao Sword, and blending in the faint fire of Transformation Dao that ignited.

Having never witnessed the Dao Transformation before, I was a bit worried. But after experiencing it twice, Luo Mo wasn't concerned anymore and could confidently execute it, maintaining full control.

Therefore, he initiated the Dao Transformation on the Dao Sword within his body, using only a tiny amount of Dao Transformation Fire each time, gradually infusing it with Origin Qi, Dao Principles, Blood Essence, and Divine Sense, while slowly releasing Purple Qi.

Dang

Dang

Dang

Each wisp of Divine Sense, wrapped in a wisp of Purple Qi, descended like a hammer, causing sparks of Dao Fire to scatter.

This scene was reminiscent of Luo Mo forging his sword with divine patterns in Kunlun back in the day.

The immortal radiance transmitted from the nine immortal veins gradually fused into the Dao Sword during the forging process, but none of the colors or patterns of the nine immortal metals manifested.

Several days later, a purple-golden Dao Sword was forged, its aura dreamlike and ethereal, possessing a sense of unreality. Yet, gazing at its sharp edge, one could feel as if their own Divine Sense was being severed.

With the purple-golden Dao Sword in hand, Luo Mo gently waved it, instantly causing the Origin Qi in the Chaos Immortal Earth Small World to surge towards the direction he pointed, like a monstrous tidal wave.

The purple-golden Dao Sword was also washed over by Origin Qi, but since it already contained Luo Mo's spiritual imprint, the Hongmeng Purple Qi didn't react with the Origin Qi this time, instead, it simply performed one of its basic functions:

Gathering Origin Qi.

With a single sword strike, the Origin Qi between heaven and earth erupted like a landslide or tsunami, or like a massive army charging into battle upon hearing the command, unstoppable in its path.

With another sword strike from Luo Mo, the Dao Principles of heaven and earth were stirred by this sword, crashing and falling towards the direction pointed by the purple-golden Dao Sword, just like the Origin Qi, as if heaven and earth were following orders.

"So that's how it is."

In "Perfect World," someone once obtained a Hongmeng Purple Qi Seed. That was a proud son of heaven who cultivated the ancient method of immortality. After merging with the Hongmeng Purple Qi Seed, they could wield the power of heaven and earth, claiming invincibility.

Although they lost later, and more than once, the Hongmeng Purple Qi Seed shouldn't be blamed. The weakness wasn't the treasure, but the person.

And now, Luo Mo had also refined some Purple Qi, understanding that besides its ability to attack Divine Sense, Purple Qi also possessed the ability to wield the Dao power of heaven and earth and mobilize Origin Qi.

Purple Qi alone was equivalent to giving a cultivator the innate divine ability of a Congenital Dao Embryo plus a Yuan Spirit Body, with the added bonus of attacking Divine Sense.

Compared to the extreme attributes of Xuanhuang Qi, which were hard and heavy, Purple Qi's attributes were on the opposite end of the spectrum.

The nine immortal veins within his body had already merged with the Sacred Spirit Body. The nine immortal veins continuously outputted immortal radiance, nourishing the purple-golden Dao Sword. The nine types of immortal radiance had been refined by Luo Mo. He didn't need the characteristics of the nine immortal metals. If he wanted, he could even create many new immortal metals using this immortal radiance origin.

New immortal metals!

But that would take an unknown amount of time, so there was no need to waste effort. He only used the purest and most fundamental immortal metal particles to nourish the purple-golden Dao Sword. The White Emperor Golden Emperor Divine Power governed all the gold in the world, and the Great Treasure Refining Art smelted all divine materials, forcibly creating an immortal metal substrate.

Now, fused with Purple Qi, it could be called Hongmeng Purple Gold, which was also considered a new type of immortal metal.

Luo Mo threw the purple-golden Dao Sword in his hand, and the purple-golden Dao Sword immediately shrank, turning into a small sword five inches long. This was because the immortal radiance contained in the nine immortal metal veins was only enough for this much, and the rest had already condensed into the final product of the immortal metal veins:

Immortal Gold.

If he wanted to revert the immortal gold to its origin, he could do it, but it was unclear how long it would take, so Luo Mo didn't waste that time. It didn't matter if the purple-golden Dao Sword was a little small, it could still grow slowly anyway.

So Luo Mo waved his hand, and nine immortal lights flew out of his body, twisting and changing in the air, eventually turning into nine cubes of different colors.

Each cube had a diameter of 77.77 centimeters, and each was a solid block of immortal gold. A single block like this would require a Great Emperor to search everywhere to find, and then be able to forge an Extreme Dao Emperor Weapon, and they might not even be able to find it, but Luo Mo had nine blocks here.

"Slurp—"

Purple Dragon drooled as he watched, "Didn't you use up these immortal metals? Didn't you use nine types of immortal metals to forge that sword of yours?"

"No, I plan to refine some other magic treasures with the immortal gold."

Purple Dragon's eyes were burning, "Then how about me? It seems like the proportion of immortal gold in my material is a little less. There are so many here, just give me a little bit of each would be great."

"Go back and melt all your other materials, and reshape yourself with nine types of immortal gold."

"Yay!"

Purple Dragon was extremely excited. As a magic treasure, having immortal gold was the best thing, especially since there were nine types of immortal gold here!

"Then let's go back now!" Purple Dragon couldn't wait any longer.

"Don't rush, let's clean up here first." Luo Mo looked at the Chaos Immortal Earth Small World, which had been ravaged by them, "This place might be useful in the future."

Although Chaos Immortal Earth moved in the chaos, it was extremely slow. It definitely couldn't go too far in a few hundred years, so it would definitely be found when the time came.

Therefore, Luo Mo wanted to leave a backup plan here, similar to a safe house.

Even though he had the True Spirit Seal and wasn't afraid of deduction, others would be afraid, especially the Supreme beings in the restricted areas. If they wanted to kill someone, only some hidden special small worlds could escape their sight.

And this Chaos Immortal Earth was perfect for that. It was a natural shielding place, plus there was a thick layer of chaos blocking it outside, even the Supreme beings couldn't see through it.

Luo Mo immediately took out many seedlings and planted them here. There was immortal world Origin Qi here, which was very suitable for plant growth. He also set up the Chaos Great Formation from the Great Chaos Art here, absorbing the power of chaos to create vitality, and also set up the Azure Emperor Wood Emperor Great Formation to allow the plants to grow better, as a backup hidden base.

After spending some time setting it up, Luo Mo and the Undying Dragon Spear left here together and arrived at the ancient immortal mansion battlefield outside.

"Purple Dragon, here, dig three feet into the ground."

"Huh?"

Although Purple Dragon didn't understand, he still did as he was told.

This was because Luo Mo remembered that the old woman, the female Saint, outside had dug up an ancient stele recording the scripture of the Silent Extinction Heavenly Venerate. It was a Heavenly Venerate's scripture after all, and worth collecting, so Luo Mo calculated the locations where treasures might be while letting Purple Dragon dig.

As a result, there was no ancient stele here, but a fragment of an Emperor Weapon was dug up, but the divine essence had been lost and the Dao patterns had been erased, so it was useless.

Luo Mo calculated for a long time, and they continued to dig, digging up some things, but basically they were all useless and not what Luo Mo wanted.

Finally, on the edge of a ruin, Luo Mo calculated for a long time before letting Purple Dragon dig here.

There was still a node of a remnant Great Emperor formation above, and although many years had passed and it had weakened beyond recognition, it could still suppress ordinary Saints. Only after Purple Dragon broke it did they successfully dig open the ground.

Underground, an ancient stele was dug out by them. There were dense ancient characters on the stele, recording a profound scripture and various secret techniques.

The scripture of the Silent Extinction Heavenly Venerate!