I'm in Shrouding the Heavens Practicing Eternal Life

Luo Mo headed west, leaving the greasy… sorry, almost sang that out loud.

He traveled west, leaving the territory of Yan, flying continuously for two days and three nights. He only landed to ask for directions in towns before finally spotting the very conspicuous Fire Domain in the night sky.

The constantly burning Fire Domain was, of course, very conspicuous, turning half the night sky red.

He cultivated the Grand Five Elements Art and needed to collect the five elements' essence. He had locations for water and wood – the Taiyin Divine River and the Medicine Garden could provide these. Saint weapon fragments could provide metal essence, and this place could provide abundant fire essence.

Landing outside the Fire Domain, he faced a crimson fiery curtain, even more imposing than it appeared from the sky.

He stepped into it, using his magical power for protection. A vortex appeared above his head, and he used his magical power to operate the Red Emperor Fire Sovereign Divine Power from the Grand Five Elements Art, devouring the flames like a whale drinking the sea. The crimson flames turned into a fiery tornado that he inhaled.

“At this rate, it will probably take sixty years to absorb enough fire essence to condense the Red Emperor Fire Sovereign Divine Power's formation. I need to go deeper.” He roughly calculated, then walked further in.

The Fire Domain had nine layers, with the flames growing stronger the deeper one went. Although the red fire of the outermost layer was a resource, it contained too little fire essence, making cultivation inefficient. He needed to go deeper.

After penetrating about ten miles into the Fire Domain, the surrounding temperature suddenly increased, and the flames changed from crimson to blue.

This was the second layer of the Fire Domain. The temperature was higher, the flames were stronger, and the essence here was more abundant. Using it to cultivate divine powers could save a lot of time compared to the first layer.

But Luo Mo didn't stop, passing straight through.

He didn't stop at the third layer's white flame area or the fourth layer's black flame area, or the fifth layer's golden flame area, only stopping at the sixth layer.

The sixth layer, however, no longer had raging flames, but instead drifted with purple mist, the surroundings hazy.

A wisp of purple mist drifted over, landing on his magical power, instantly burning it and causing crackling sounds as it fiercely resisted the fire energy contained within the mist.

He operated the Red Emperor Fire Sovereign Divine Power, absorbing this wisp of purple mist and integrating it into the divine power.

Immediately, a pure fire essence was broken down and incorporated into the Fire Sovereign's astral energy.

“The purple flame contains a very rich essence, suitable for cultivation.”

A wisp of purple fire mist contained far more fire essence than the outer layers, increasing it by an order of magnitude. This place was very suitable for cultivation.

So the magical power vortex above Luo Mo's head began to frantically absorb the purple energy, decompose it, and transform it. The Red Emperor Fire Sovereign Divine Power's efficiency in decomposing and transforming fire essence was very high, far exceeding the speed of absorbing essence using the methods in the Taiyin Sun Scripture.

Specialization exists in every art. The Red Emperor Fire Sovereign Divine Power in the Grand Five Elements Art was the supreme fire-type path, and all flames were nourishment.

The purple fire mist was constantly broken down into essence, and the Red Emperor Fire Sovereign phantom quickly condensed, then transformed into a flame formation, merging into Luo Mo's heart.

However, Luo Mo didn't act rashly, but continued to cultivate in this layer, swallowing the purple fire, while also mobilizing the Taiyin Divine River within the Taiyin Moonfall Bow to absorb the black water essence.

This long river was a vast resource. He only needed a negligible amount to push the Black Emperor Water Sovereign Divine Power to great success.

He multitasking, and while cultivating two divine powers simultaneously, he also took out the saint weapon fragments that He Shouwu had helped him find in Kunlun from a magical treasure.

These were all unusable saint weapons, their internal Dao patterns erased. Some had even lost most of the essence of their materials in the long years, but at least some remained.

They were all saint weapons before, having been refined with a lot of effort by their owners. Although they were now broken, and even most of their essence had been lost, the remaining part was still considerable.

At least, it was considerable for a small cultivator at the fifth level of the Divine Power stage like him.

The White Emperor Metal Sovereign Divine Power needed a lot of Geng metal essence, so he could only make thorough use of their waste.

He took out a silver halberd broken into three sections, even its Dao patterns were erased.

The Dao patterns inside this halberd were erased, making it unusable, but the material was very good, made by fusing a divine iron with other divine materials. It contained a rich Geng metal essence, comparable to several mines. He didn't know how much effort its owner had put into refining it.

But Luo Mo operated the White Emperor Metal Sovereign Divine Power from the Grand Five Elements Art, directly extracting the Geng metal essence within it. The silver halberd decayed, decaying in the blink of an eye, its internal essence lost, the divine material turning into ordinary iron.

The extracted Geng metal essence was hundreds of feet long, like a silver-white mad dragon. Luo Mo swallowed it in one gulp, breaking it down and transforming it into the essence to construct the White Emperor Metal Sovereign Divine Power formation, refining it into his lungs. The lungs belonged to metal. Cultivating the White Emperor Metal Sovereign Divine Power could greatly strengthen his lungs, and the essence contained in a broken saint weapon was enough to directly push this divine power to great success.

At the same time, a vast amount of water vapor was also refined into the location of Luo Mo's kidneys. The kidneys belonged to water. The Black Emperor Water Sovereign Divine Power, which he cultivated with the water vapor of the Taiyin Divine River, could strengthen his kidneys. At this moment, it directly entered the realm of great success under the impact of vast resources.

The liver, lungs, and kidneys, four of the five viscera, were already residing within the grand array. Moreover, except for the heart, the other three were extremely powerful, containing might far exceeding their current realm.

The Wood Emperor Grand Array in the liver was cultivated by Luo Mo over several years, using numerous spiritual herbs, and even exchanging vital energy with the disciple He Shouwu, a miraculous herb, and Bai Hu, an immortal medicine. This transformed his physique into a Wood Spirit Body. When the Bitter Sea was opened, it was cyan in color and carried a medicinal fragrance. In the Desolate Forbidden Land, he even ate several fruits of the Nine Transformations Immortal Medicine, absorbing some of its origins.

The kidneys were also resource-rich, with the vital energy of an entire Taiyin Divine River at his disposal, making for abundant capital.

The fragments of the Saint Weapon absorbed by the lungs were a magical treasure meticulously refined by a Saint throughout his life. The contained Geng Metal vital energy was also powerful enough to allow him to ascend to the heavens in one step, greatly completing the Metal Emperor Divine Power.

Apart from the spleen, which he hadn't started cultivating yet, the weakest was the heart. It had only absorbed the Purple Fire of the sixth level of the Fire Region to construct the grand array, barely considered an entry-level achievement, not even a minor success.

Three of the Five Elements were now greatly accomplished. The Scarlet Emperor Fire Emperor Divine Power could wait until he settled down in the Medicine Garden before returning to cultivate it. Therefore, he only lacked the vital energy needed to cultivate the Earth Emperor Divine Power.

Five days later, Luo Mo's heart region, having absorbed enough fire vital energy, glowed, and his heartbeat rumbled, shaking away the surrounding Purple Fire mist with a 'dong' sound.

The Fire Emperor Divine Power had achieved minor success. To advance further, he could either spend a lot of time here absorbing vital energy—but that was unrealistic, as he had a Medicine Garden to nurture.

Or, he could delve deeper, or leave and return later.

Luo Mo ended his cultivation, stood up, and headed deeper into the Fire Region, but not solely to continue cultivating the Fire Emperor Divine Power. He also wanted to cultivate a new Three Thousand Great Daos.

He arrived at the seventh level of the Fire Region.

The seventh level of the Fire Region was even less like a Fire Region than the sixth level, with hazy five-colored clouds, resembling a fairyland.

These Five Elements mists were Five Elements True Fire, possessing great power. However, Luo Mo had cultivated the Scarlet Emperor Fire Emperor Divine Power, controlling all fires. These ownerless Five Elements True Fire were, for him, nourishment and wouldn't pose a significant threat.

He found a place to stop, then took out a massive object.

Boom—

An ancient temple landed in this seventh level of the Fire Region, a solitary lamp within the ancient temple supporting a hazy Buddhist light, isolating the terrifying Five Elements True Fire of the seventh level.

The Great Thunderclap Temple.

This was the Great Thunderclap Temple from Mars, which Luo Mo had taken away entirely because he valued the resources it contained.

He exerted his magic power, permeating the Great Thunderclap Temple. The Buddhist artifacts within, some complete and some broken, were penetrated by his magic power, then triggered to release streams of invisible power.

Within that power were sounds of Zen chanting and Buddhist hymns, the voices of countless people reciting Buddhist scriptures, the thoughts of all living beings, the power of faith.

Especially from the copper plaque of the Great Thunderclap Temple, a river of faith power was extracted by Luo Mo, vast and mighty. The faith power from the other Buddhist artifacts converged and poured into Luo Mo's brow.

The Great Thunderclap Temple alone had such immense faith power. How wonderful it would be to use the faith power of Mount Sumeru sometime.

Mount Sumeru in the Northern Dipper Territory was the inheritance of Amitabha the Great Emperor, accumulating countless years of faith power, far longer than the Great Thunderclap Temple, with more believers.

It was a pity about the Human Emperor Seal. The Taiyin Human Emperor suppressed an era, protecting all living beings, and the accumulated faith power was gathered from an entire era. If Luo Mo had the complete Human Emperor Seal instead of fragments, the faith power he could obtain would be massive, far more than the Great Thunderclap Temple.

Unfortunately, he didn't have it. The Human Emperor Seal was in the hands of the Kunlun Remnant Clan. He only had a corner fragment.

And next, he would cultivate two new Three Thousand Great Daos, the kind that could be quickly mastered.

First was the Three Thousand Great Daos: Great Chaos Art. Like the Great Five Elements Art, it was among the top ten existences in the Three Thousand Great Daos, possessing boundless power.

Luo Mo had already prepared the cultivation resources for the Great Chaos Art when he was in Kunlun. The Chaos Lake beneath the Chaos Waterfall was taken away by him entirely. The Chaos Qi accumulated in the Divine Marks Purple Gold Pagoda alone was enough for him to cultivate this Three Thousand Great Daos.

Moreover, the Chaos Qi in the Divine Marks Purple Gold Pagoda had been refined by him and could be used directly.

Within his sea of consciousness, Luo Mo's magic power transformed into a heaven-devouring mouth, directly sucking in the refined Chaos Qi stored in the Divine Marks Purple Gold Pagoda for several years, integrating it into his magic power, transforming it into Chaos Astral Qi, and constructing the Chaos Grand Array.

Stepping into the fifth level of Divine Power, his strength had increased more than tenfold! Every additional Three Thousand Great Daos brought earth-shattering changes!

The Chaos Astral Qi tempered his physical body, soul, and even the magic power cultivated from other divine powers, imbuing everything with the characteristic of Chaos, greatly increasing its power.

This Three Thousand Great Daos was an all-around enhancement.

Thanks to the Empress, otherwise, this Great Chaos Art wouldn't be so easy to master.

And the other Three Thousand Great Daos he wanted to cultivate was the Great Origin Art, also a top-ten Three Thousand Great Daos.

In his sea of consciousness, Luo Mo used the techniques of the Great Origin Art to temper the power of faith, then absorbed and accumulated this power of faith as resources for cultivating the Great Origin Art.

Why cultivate the Great Origin Art?

Because this Three Thousand Great Daos had a unique feature: it could open up nine seas of consciousness.

Ordinary cultivators only had one sea of consciousness, while cultivators who mastered the Great Origin Art had nine. The increase in combat power was self-evident, not to mention that the Great Origin Art also had other effects, such as condensing magic power and strengthening the physical body.

Nine seas of consciousness.

Nine times the magic power.