Mortal's Journey: Immortal World

The bones of the giant rat were devoured by Jin Tong and Xiao Bai in a whirlwind, and the once-open bottom of the abyss valley suddenly became much empty.

Han Li swept his gaze around, and suddenly his eyebrows twitched slightly.

At the base of the mountain wall, which had been blocked by the remains of the corpse, there seemed to be twinkling emerald green lights.

He walked forward, bent down and checked for a moment, and his heart moved.

There were actually a dozen or so translucent plants, about a foot tall, growing here. Their leaves were transparent and thin, like ice crystals, with clearly distributed veins inside, emitting a verdant light.

After a slight pondering, Han Li urged his divine sense to scan these strange plants for a moment, but did not find any special aura on them.

Although he couldn't identify them, he knew clearly that anything that could grow in this abyss filled with baleful aura until now would definitely not be ordinary.

However, he naturally didn't have the mind to think about this matter now.

Thinking of this, he flipped his wrist and took out a dozen white jade long boxes, dug out these dozen or so green plants with their roots and soil, carefully placed them one by one, and then took out silver talismans and pasted them on.

After doing all this, Han Li pondered in place for a moment before suddenly speaking: "Mo Guang, come out."

As soon as he finished speaking, the shadow in front of him suddenly became pitch black, gradually lengthening and extending twice as long. The figure of Mo Guang stood up from it.

"How is it, Fellow Daoist Han? Have you decided to adopt my suggestion?" Mo Guang, whose face was very similar to Han Li's, showed a smile and asked.

"I am still aware of the value of a Gray Immortal corpse. Now that a strong enemy is approaching, since you can maximize its utilization, I have no reason to refuse. It can also be considered doing a good deed." Han Li said lightly.

"Fellow Daoist Han, rest assured, since you and I have signed the Heavenly Demon Contract, we have an interdependent relationship with each other. If my strength increases by one point, it will also increase your combat power by one point, which will ultimately be beneficial to you." A gleam of joy flashed in Mo Guang's eyes as he said.

"What Fellow Daoist Mo Guang said is true, but our understanding of the Gray Immortal is really limited. To prevent accidents, I still need to plant a few restrictions in your body. I suppose you won't refuse, right?" Han Li raised his eyebrows slightly and asked with a smile.

"This... naturally..." Mo Guang was slightly startled when he heard this, and then nodded with a normal expression.

Han Li didn't say anything more, pointing two fingers together to his eyebrows, and a wisp of divine sense power fell on Mo Guang.

Then, he pinched a magic formula with both hands and silently operated the Refining Divine Art formula. Immediately, several crystal threads stretched out from between his eyebrows and flew towards Mo Guang's forehead, heart, and dantian, and other key positions.

"Ugh..."

Mo Guang let out a muffled groan, his face twisted for a while, revealing a painful expression, but he didn't speak, just endured it silently.

After a moment, his face relaxed, and his expression returned to normal.

"Okay, these restrictions will not have any impact on you on weekdays. However, if you enter the Gray Immortal's body and are accidentally controlled by some remnant soul or something, and inadvertently do something that violates the rules, these restrictions will be activated automatically. At that time, even I may not be able to stop it in time." Han Li retracted his hand, looked at Mo Guang, and said meaningfully.

"Fellow Daoist Han, rest assured, these restrictions will not be of any use." Mo Guang said with a smile.

"It's best if they're not needed. Please explain in detail again the method of refining an external avatar that you mentioned earlier. We can start refining now." Han Li waved his hand and said seriously.

Hearing this, Mo Guang moved his lips slightly and began to tell Han Li the specific refining steps.

While listening to him, Han Li secretly compared it with the content of the jade slip that the other party had given him before. When he encountered something he didn't understand, he would ask a few questions.

Three days later, a triangular magic circle inlaid with black marrow crystals stood in the bottom of the abyss valley. Han Li and Mo Guang stood on the left and right of the magic circle, while the Gray Immortal corpse was placed in the center of the magic circle.

The two looked at each other, sat down cross-legged at the same time, pinched a magic formula with both hands, and a series of chanting sounds rang out from their mouths.

As the black marrow crystals in the magic circle lit up, a black flame without any temperature rose from the magic circle, enveloping the Gray Immortal corpse and began to refine it.

Time flew by, and more than half a year passed.

At the bottom of the abyss valley, the baleful aura was surging. A triangular magic circle was shrouded in thick black mist, and the inside was blurred.

Three zhang away from the magic circle, Han Li sat cross-legged on the ground, his body rippling with azure light. Circles of faint golden ripples continuously expanded from under him, transmitting bursts of strange fluctuations.

After a moment, a burst of black baleful aura suddenly lingered on his cheeks, flashed a few times, and then disappeared again.

Han Li sighed softly, slowly opened his eyes, and silver-gray light was shining in his pupils.

During this period, his eyes would change from time to time, and there was no regularity to be found in either the time of onset or the interval time.

Moreover, as the number of occurrences increased, Han Li increasingly felt that there was a deeply hidden baleful aura in the depths of his sea of consciousness, which was becoming more and more intense, and a sense of irritability arose spontaneously.

If his divine sense was not strong enough, he might have already been affected to the point of losing his mind.

Han Li exhaled a long breath, the black baleful aura on his face gradually disappeared, and his pupils gradually returned to normal.

He flipped his palm, took out a pill and swallowed it, and closed his eyes again to adjust his breathing.

……

Two months later.

The originally silent bottom of the abyss valley suddenly heard bursts of rumbling sounds, and the rolling thick black baleful aura rolled violently like water dripping into a hot oil pot.

The surging baleful aura shot straight up, almost overflowing the exit of the abyss.

Crab Daoren, who was suspended in the high sky, stared at the bottom expressionlessly, but a trace of doubt flashed in his eyes.

At this moment, on the ground of the valley, a huge vortex of baleful aura was twisting frantically, converging towards the triangular magic circle.

Outside the magic circle, Han Li and Mo Guang stood with their hands behind their backs, one with a focused expression and the other with a slightly tired expression.

"Fellow Daoist Han, I'm really sorry. I originally thought it would take eighty-eight sixty-four days to complete the refining, but I didn't expect it to take so long..." Mo Guang stared closely at the vortex of baleful aura, which was a hundred zhang in size and had a huge momentum, and said.

"It doesn't matter, the timing is just right. However, do you have any certainty about the fusion?" Han Li's gaze fell on the Gray Immortal corpse in the center of the magic circle, and he asked.

Compared to when he first saw it, the corpse's physique has grown a lot now. It looks like it has been filled with a lot of flesh and blood, becoming "plump" a lot. Its ferocious face has also become a little softer, and it finally looks a bit like a "human".

"I dare not deceive Fellow Daoist Han, the success or failure is only fifty-fifty. If I can successfully enter this corpse, my cultivation will be able to rise to the Golden Immortal level, and even have the hope of breaking through to the late stage. But if I fail, I will be trapped in this corpse and unable to get out, and can only wait to be transformed into nourishment and feed back to this corpse." Mo Guang gave a wry smile and said.

"Since you know the risks are so high, why did you propose this method in the first place?" Han Li frowned and asked.

"This is also a helpless move. Fellow Daoist Han's cultivation is increasing at an incredible speed. The strength of these spirit pets and puppets around you is extraordinary. Leaving aside that unlucky Fire Beard Child, the current strength of Crab Daoren and that Gold Devouring Immortal is far above me. As a servant who has signed a contract with you, I am now useless, and I seem too incompetent. If I don't risk my life this time, it will be difficult to guarantee that I won't be regarded as a discard by Fellow Daoist Han in the future, what do you think?" Mo Guang sighed and said.

"This statement is quite interesting." Han Li did not deny it, nor did he nod, but said lightly without committing himself.

"Okay, success or failure is at stake, Fellow Daoist Han, just wait for the good news." Mo Guang smiled "hehe" and said.

After saying that, his figure suddenly stretched like smoke, turning into a black shadow and submerging into the vortex.

With a loud "boom"!

In the center of the triangular magic circle, the Gray Immortal corpse suddenly jumped up as if it had been revived, standing upright in place.

The color of its eyes was still ashen, but its mouth suddenly opened extremely exaggeratedly.

Han Li's eyes flashed, and he saw the black shadow transformed by Mo Guang plunged into the mouth of the Gray Immortal corpse. Soon, it turned into rolling smoke and poured into its abdomen.

As Mo Guang entered its body, the Gray Immortal's corpse trembled uncontrollably. It raised its hands high, lifted its left leg with its knee, and danced in a very awkward posture.

The dense pores outside its body, like immortal apertures, all opened, frantically absorbing the black baleful aura in the abyss.

This scene lasted for a full month.

A month later, the vortex of baleful aura at the bottom of the abyss valley disappeared, and the Gray Immortal corpse had returned to normal, but it maintained its previous strange posture, suspended in mid-air.

Han Li stood not far away and scanned with his divine sense, and found that there was no fluctuation of mana on the Gray Immortal corpse, and even Mo Guang's aura was almost impossible to detect.

If it weren't for the connection between them through the Heavenly Demon Contract, Han Li would have even thought that Mo Guang had been swallowed by the Gray Immortal's corpse and had become its nourishment.

Han Li shook his head and sighed.

Suddenly, his eyebrows twitched slightly, and with a wave of his palm, a golden light lit up, and the figure of Jin Tong emerged from it.

"How is it? Has your realm stabilized?" Han Li's gaze fell on Jin Tong and he asked.

"After eating the two pills given by uncle, the aura has basically stabilized, but that's all there is." Jin Tong showed a hint of regret on his face and said.

"The Taiyi realm is a major pass on the road of cultivation, how difficult is it to cross? Just look at those guys in the Underworld Cold Immortal Mansion who are fighting to the death for a Taiyi Pill. You don't even need the Taiyi Pill, and you have steadily entered the Taiyi realm just by relying on half a skeleton, what else are you not satisfied with?" Han Li was a little speechless and said with a smile.

Just seven days ago, Jin Tong suddenly woke up and successfully broke through the bottleneck, reaching the early stage of the Taiyi realm.

It seemed that the decline of heaven and man was not reflected in Jin Tong, who was a Gold Devouring Insect, which surprised Han Li and made him marvel for a while.