Longevity Strange Immortal

Chapter 496 - 12 Secret Sect Taoist Inheritance

"The cosmic upheaval truly spares no one."Li Mo originally thought the Buddhist sects ascended smoothly to the Upper Realm, but after learning from the Karma Seal Mother that Nirvana had been distorted into Yongle, he realized the fate of the Buddhist sects was even more tragic than that of the Daoists and Demons.

Some monks managed to ascend to Nirvana before its essence was twisted, only to be greeted by human-headed kites.

The remaining monks became food for the No-Life Mother.

"How ironic, though the path to Feather Transformation Ascension must be correct."

During the cosmic upheaval, numerous cultivators achieved Feather Transformation Ascension, likely due to some mortals’ Word-to-Law influence altering the rules of ascension.

"They’re coming."

Li Mo heard the No-Life Mother’s stomach growl and realized she was about to feast.

He could already picture the scene inside the Buddhist temples.

A multitude of monks devoutly knelt on the ground, chanting scriptures while enduring the pain brought by Feather Transformation Ascension, their backs slowly splitting open.

Maggots crawled out from the discarded husks of their old shells, sensing the inexplicable pull of an unknown force.

They were filled with joy, thinking they were headed to the Upper Realm where Buddha resides, only to find themselves instead in a dark, narrow, fleshy world.

Li Mo’s expression turned peculiar as the No-Life Mother’s stomach swelled to a diameter of 200 to 300 meters.

Her skin was stretched until it became semi-transparent, making it easy to notice the human-shaped maggots crammed inside her stomach, struggling to break free.

The monks’ desperate faces were pressed against the surface of her skin, which then began to dissolve along with their flesh and bones.

Li Mo couldn’t help but feel horrified, thinking, "Damn it, if I climb the immortal ladder, will my journey’s end also be a bloody maw?"

*Belch～～*

The No-Life Mother let out a satisfied belch.

Seeing the monks almost completely digested, Li Mo quickly suppressed his distracting thoughts.

[Qingliang Temple]

Li Mo spent half a breath’s time reading the feedback from the Creation Book; Qingliang Temple was a small, ancient Buddhist temple, with its inheritance focused on cultivating one’s mental realm.

He did not choose Qingliang Temple as his opportunity, knowing the monks would soon all perish.

Li Mo planned to seek Taoist inheritance from large Buddhist temples with Void Refining Stage techniques and above; Qingliang Temple was certainly insufficient.

"What a pity. If the Buddhist sects had ascended simultaneously into the No-Life Mother’s stomach, I could’ve harvested them all at once, hehe."

Soon enough, another Buddhist sect appeared.

[Pushan Temple]

A temple primarily focused on body refinement, but their techniques back then were merely mundane martial arts—a temple so small it could barely count as a minor Buddhist temple.

[Fu Ruan Temple]

A temple specializing in cultivating the next life, essentially adept in body seizing and reincarnation. Though it was a medium-sized Buddhist temple, it didn’t suit Li Mo.

[Yellow Stone Temple], [Wei’an Temple], [Vajra Temple]...

As Buddhist temples were vanquished one by one, Li Mo grew increasingly tense.

After all, there was only one Substitute Dao Page left; once an opportunity was missed, it was gone for good. If he hesitated too much, he might end up empty-handed.

Even if better opportunities remained, Li Mo’s current need for inheritance outweighed everything else.

"Let’s get a large Buddhist temple. Medium-sized ones don’t even have Void Refining Stage techniques..."

Li Mo’s pupils shrank as the first large Buddhist temple appeared amid his expectations, causing the No-Life Mother’s stomach to swell beyond 800 meters.

[Mei Mountain Temple]

Just as Li Mo was about to confirm it, he discovered that all the disciples of Mei Mountain Temple were nuns.

Mei Mountain Temple specialized in cultivating destiny and required its disciples to marry into common mortal families, then seize the daughters of the lineage through reincarnation upon death.

Li Mo felt somewhat helpless.

Mei Mountain Temple undoubtedly possessed Void Refining Stage techniques, but they weren’t necessarily suitable for cultivating his Buddha Demon Body and held no promise for his own technique derivations.

While he hesitated, the entirety of Mei Mountain Temple dissolved into pus.

The aura of the No-Life Mother grew increasingly violent; she already exuded the presence of a Land Immortal, and her immense size caused the temple’s main hall to collapse.

Li Mo took a deep breath.

Then came dozens more Buddhist temples, though their ascension frequencies were noticeably diminishing.

Finally, a second large Buddhist sect appeared: [Secret Sect].

The Secret Sect, though part of the Buddhist realm, leaned heavily toward unorthodox demonic ways, with their inheritance promoting entry through visceral Dharma transmissions.

The True Word Sect was a branch temple of the Secret Sect.

"The Secret Sect is exactly what I need."

Li Mo confirmed the opportunity without hesitation, and the Corpse Mountain Mini World enveloped the stomach.

Tens of thousands of maggots fell into the Corpse Mountain Mini World, many bearing marks that clearly indicated their origins from the Secret Sect.

To Li Mo’s surprise, the majority of the maggots retained their consciousness, expressing ecstatic joy upon seeing the richly spiritual environment of the mini-world.

"Haha! Turns out Feather Transformation Ascension really leads to the Yongle World!!!"

"As expected of the Yongle World! Its abundant resources are incomparable to those in the mortal world; there’s even living Seven Treasures Spirit Monsters."

Some maggots noticed the plant and tree cultivators transformed from Seven Treasures Spiritual Materials and couldn’t help but praise them repeatedly.

They displayed an entirely naive fascination with the towns built by plant and tree cultivators and tried to investigate them further.

"But where is Buddha? Maybe he’s at the peak of the mountain..."

Some elders of the Secret Sect noticed the unusual nature of the Corpse Mountain Mini World, finding it increasingly more like an unformed miniature world—not the Yongle World.

Li Mo’s eyes flickered with a hint of absurdity.

He hadn’t expected the Substitute Dao Page to bring monks from eight thousand years ago into the present; could the Creation Book truly possess the rumored divinity of an immortal artifact?

The maggots transformed from Secret Sect monks, lacking any cultivation, began to dismantle the ecosystem of the Corpse Mountain Mini World, attempting to hunt creatures and plant cultivators to rebuild their Buddha Dharma through blood and flesh.

"Any novice monk must offer three pounds of flesh to the temple elders."

een."

Li Mo’s eyebrows lifted as he murmured, "Doesn’t the Mother Furnace have the ability to create Artifact Embryos? I could thoroughly manipulate their births."

"One Artifact Embryo’s nineteen-year lifespan isn’t enough to break through the bottleneck, but what if it’s a thousand, ten thousand, even a hundred thousand of them?"

Li Mo became thoughtful as he began to communicate his consciousness with the Mother Furnace.