“Master?”
Jiang Qingshan shocked Li Mo.
“You know me?”
She nodded.
“When I scried you, I felt a great resistance and also, curiosity. I found afterward that you and me are to be master and disciple.”
A Heavenly Dao Physique, even an uncultivated one, had a far greater scrying skill than anyone ever believed to achieve. Jiang Qingshan had cultivated since young, and this was what enabled her to scry the oddity by the name of Li Mo.
Jiang Qingshan smiled, “I didn’t tell Zhou Mengxian the whole truth. What I mean is, I didn’t scry you completely.
“The past and current life, our connection, all will incur heavenly lightning upon me. I have cultivated for as long as I can remember yet this is the first time I stumbled upon your fate.”
Li Mo chuckled.
Regarding the rebirthing oddity he was, not even Li Mo was clear of how he came to be. Jiang Qingshan was amazing, but only scried a small part.
Jiang Qingshan closed her eyes. She was still very much weak and needed rest.
Li Mo went outside the room and called Jiang Jinsheng.
Jiang Qingshan recovered so fast that by the time he arrived, she could already stand on her own. This made him fall to his knees before Li Mo in joy.
A week later, Jiang Qingshan was the picture of health. She told Li Mo everything about her meeting with Zhou Mengxian as well.
He wanted her to scry when would Li Mo die.
“It feels as of you’ve died yet not at the same time. It’s my first time seeing a fate where life and death are intertwined…”
Zhou Mengxian was skeptical of theresult, but the fall of a dozen heavenly lightning bolts made him a believer.
“I see it now!”
Zhou Mengxian exclaimed, striking Jiang Qingshan’s head before scuttling away.
“I don’t know what Zhou Mengxian meant by that, but I know that I can’t die, that I will meet you one day.” Jiang Qingshan smiled, looking so adorable with those dimples.
Li Mo nodded.
Whatever Zhou Mengxian figured out, it wasn’t his concern.
Li Mo sighed.
After his second coming, Li Mo regarded the Earth’s cultivators with the same eye. Spare as many as he could, since he already saw the horrors left behind by the alien invasion.
Ruining the Gates, cheating out Void Walker, he did it all to buy Earth time. Never with the intent to prevent the alien invasion knowing how impossible it was.
Six years after the alien invaded, the Earth would be destroyed, becoming nothing more than a dead hunk of rock. The survivors, a mere hundred thousand or so earthlings, were then forced to enter the Great Galactic Era.
Who should or shouldn’t die, would all die in the end anyway.
One more spared meant one more joining the Earth’s defense. This was the only reason for Li Mo’s leniency for these cultivators.
Li Mo said, “Can you scry Zhou Mengxian’s location?”
“Probably.”
Even with Li Mo’s peak sixth level, on Earth he’d still be a fifth level. This was the rule set up by that saint. And only by reaching that man’s level could one defy it.
Jiang Qingshan’s hands shined and pointed at an image forming.
The white Zhou Mengxian was standing before a great hall, with knights in golden armor guarding each side.
It was clear that this place was not in the east, but the west.
Li Mo then vanished.
In the Vatican Church, the aged Pope walked to Zhou Mengxian and placed his hands on the man’s head.
Hum~
Li Mo popped with his hands behind his back.
Zhou Mengxian looked dully at him.
“Sinner from the east, you have profaned this place with your visit. Kneel!”
The Pope roared, his voice carrying a kind of undeniable power that bent even Li Mo’s knees, slightly.
This was the Catholic Church, the Pope’s Veracity Art. Some said that cultivating it to peak would allow one to turn dreams to reality, to make something out of nothing.
The Pope was stunned.
This was a first for him to see anyone standing after using Veracity Art.
The Pope held his hands high, “God said let thunder judge this sinner!”
Ka~
Lightning flickered into existence, striking Li Mo.
Li Mo took them all squarely, unharmed still.
The tribulation lighting on the Heavenly Lightning Planet couldn’t even scratch him. It went without saying the Pope’s words becoming reality could even less.
“God said, cleanse this sinner in thy flames!”
A raging inferno rose from Li Mo’s feet, vanishing the next second with a light flick of his hand. The Pyrokinesis controlled any and all flames, including this meager mortal one.
“God said-”
Li Mo was faster, slipping a yellow talisman on his mouth.
Everything turned quiet.
The knights watched on in shock.
Li Mo turned to Zhou Mengxian with a frown.
Under the gaze of the Celestial Eye, Zhou Mengxian was here in body, but not in soul.
“Escaping with your soul, something that even the Heavenly Dao Physique’s scrying couldn’t detect. Zhou Mengxian you won this time.”
Li Mo left with an earth qi jade.
The Pope stomped and took off the talisman on his mouth.
“Find him! Go and punish that sinner for profaning these sacred halls!”
Zhou Mengxian faded away.
Jiang Qingshan’s scrying only found the target’s body.
Li Mo just got back and the second day he got news from the capital that left him irritated.
Yao Changsheng was gone.
First Zhou Mengxian and now Yao Changsheng. This was by no means a coincidence.
At the end of it all, they chose to band together.
Li Mo sighed.
Zhou Mengxian and Yao Changsheng each trained half of the Everlasting Undying Art. With the two in cahoots, they would restore God Emperor Jiang’s cultivation method.
But the problem was, God Emperor Jiang’s cultivation method was flawed. The further one walked its path, the easier was to lose their minds, turning into a bloodthirsty ghoul.
Five days later, the capital sent news again. Twenty experts met with a monster and were sucked dry of all blood.
And it was on this day that An Yuxin, who just finished her school entrance exams, and was leaving the gate, was attacked by a ghoul. Fortunately, she had Li Mo’s talisman to protect her. Li Mo sensed its activation, appeared and killed the ghoul on the spot.
“No quarter!” Li Mo’s icy tone spread.
