Chapter 47: Bottleneck, Nascent Soul, Sword Splits The Corpse Incense Magic Lotus
Hu Ba Yi and the others then smelled a very strange floral fragrance wafting through the air!
This floral fragrance was very strong. After a single sniff, the scent seemed to penetrate directly into the marrow of one’s head, making one feel that their spiritual consciousness was becoming muddled.
“Fall back!”
Seeing Hu Ba Yi and the others becoming muddled after sniffing the floral fragrance, Su Mo quickly roared in a deep voice.
This roar carried the might of the Kirin Bloodline, immediately making Hu Ba Yi and the others feel much clearer. They quickly shook their heads and retreated, holding their breath.
Meanwhile, Chu Jian and Sa Di Peng swung their entrenching tools around wildly for a while. They seemed to have smelled the floral fragrance of the Corpse Incense Magic Lotus again, then stopped swinging and turned back towards the Ghost Cave.
Su Mo lunged behind the two men and struck their back of their necks with a knife-hand strike from both hands simultaneously, knocking them unconscious.
“You take them and Professor Chen and retreat first, immediately return to the platform above!”
Upon hearing this, Hu Ba Yi and Wang Pang Zi quickly picked up Ye Yi Xin and Chu Jian. Xue Li Yang also carried Sa Di Peng on her back, but then turned to look at Su Mo:
“What about you?”
Su Mo shook his head:
“I’ll stay and take a look first. If possible, after I’ve dealt with this place, I might be able to open the Kunlun Divine Wood and let you see the true form of the Queen of Jing Jue!”
Hearing his words, Professor Chen and Hao Ai Guo couldn’t help but nod.
They had come here precisely to catch a glimpse of the Queen of Jing Jue’s true appearance. If Su Mo could truly deal with the Corpse Incense Magic Lotus and the Kunlun Divine Wood, it would be even better for them to come down later and see what was inside the Kunlun Divine Wood.
“Be careful!”
Xue Li Yang immediately nodded, telling Hao Ai Guo to help Professor Chen. She herself, along with Hu Ba Yi and Wang Pang Zi, carried Chu Jian and the other two, quickly moving out of the range of the Corpse Incense Magic Lotus’s floral fragrance.
The group soon reached below the platform and, feeling that there was no longer any floral fragrance around them, finally stopped.
Here, only the powerful searchlight remained, along with Su Mo alone.
After everyone had left, Su Mo turned and leisurely walked in front of the Kunlun Divine Wood.
The floral fragrance of the Corpse Incense Magic Lotus could bewitch people’s minds, even causing Chu Jian, Sa Di Peng, and Ye Yi Xin to lose their minds. However, Su Mo possessed the power of the Kirin Bloodline and naturally did not fear such a mind-bewitching floral fragrance.
However, how to open the Kunlun Divine Wood and how to obtain the two items he needed to enhance his Kirin Blood Physique, he had not yet figured out.
But the energy emitted by the Kunlun Divine Wood through the flowers of the Corpse Incense Magic Lotus made his heart stir.
The Corpse Incense Magic Lotus seemed to possess spiritual consciousness. When it sensed someone approaching, it could naturally unfurl its petals, projecting and amplifying its power, causing Chu Jian and the others to be affected in a very short time.
But this spiritual power could perhaps also be absorbed through the Devour and Transform Method!
Su Mo then sat cross-legged in front of the Kunlun Divine Wood, concentrating his spirit and energy, his eyes on his nose, and his nose on his heart!
The Devour and Transform Method is in operation!
In the air, the Spiritual Energy of the Kunlun Divine Wood was rapidly released through the Corpse Incense Magic Lotus and absorbed by Su Mo using the Devour and Transform Method.
In the blink of an eye, a faint purple aura appeared on his body.
Under the powerful searchlight, his body was like the Zi Wei star suddenly appearing in the night sky. A powerful force, existing since ancient times, enveloped his entire being.
The petals of the Corpse Incense Magic Lotus trembled rapidly in the air, seemingly sensing the flow and consumption of Spiritual Energy, and appeared to be trying to retract their petals quickly.
The floral fragrance in the air also became chaotic, like a turbulent current in the unseen air, constantly swirling and dancing.
Even the sound of the wind in the Ghost Cave became strange and chaotic, like the sound of water in a turbulent current, emitting a complex and disorderly strange sound.
In the distance, Hu Ba Yi and the others, hearing the turbulent wind and seeing the purple aura on Su Mo’s body, were stunned.
“What is Master doing?”
“He seems to be meditating, why is his body turning purple?”
Xue Li Yang stared intently at Su Mo in the distance, her eyes filled with confusion and amazement.
Is this the ultimate skill of a Banshan Daoist?
Why had her maternal grandfather never told her about it?
Professor Chen and Hao Ai Guo also couldn’t help but shake their heads in amazement:
“This young Mr. Su… he seems to be meditating and regulating his breathing, and his body is actually emitting an aura like the Zi Wei star…”
“His methods are truly unpredictable!”
At this moment, Su Mo’s eyes were slightly closed, fully using the power of the Zi Wei Guan Xiang Fa, the Great Yin Meditation Technique, and the first level of the Seven-Level Pagoda Skill to observe the forces nearby.
Simultaneously, the power of the Devour and Transform Method helped him continuously absorb the surrounding Spiritual Energy.
Waves of Spiritual Energy surged into his body through the Corpse Incense Magic Lotus, and the floral fragrance permeated his entire being!
Sounds like ancient chime bells constantly rang in his mind, and with each chime, his Qi and Blood circulated through one Heavenly Cycle.
At the same time, enveloped by this strange fragrance, his mind became incredibly clear and transparent!
His Qi and Blood surged, continuously circulating through the Heavenly Cycle, once again impacting all the acupoints in his body!
With the circulation of Qi and Blood, the majestic energy within his body became even more refined and condensed, forming a Nascent Soul in his Dantian!
A mass of energy resembling an infant gradually formed!
The Nascent Soul is the purest form of energy condensed and refined by cultivators. It is not a real infant but rather the condensation of internal Qi and Blood into form, resembling the state of the original body at its beginning, like a pure, flawless infant, residing in the Dantian!
As the Nascent Soul formed, the circulation of Qi and Blood within Su Mo’s body became even smoother and more vigorous, and the speed of circulating the Heavenly Cycle increased.
Boom!
A booming sound erupted from the depths of his soul, instantly making the hair on his body stand on end.
“You have reached the Great Grandmaster Bottleneck!”
As the prompt fell, the purple aura on Su Mo’s body seemed to solidify, manifesting in front of him as a colossal purple giant, nearly a zhang tall. It stood imposingly, emitting rays of light under the searchlight.
In the distance, Xue Li Yang and the others were all stunned.
Under the light of the powerful searchlight, the purple giant stood tall, transforming into streaks of light and shadow, like ethereal rainbows!
And on that Kunlun Divine Wood, the Corpse Incense Magic Lotus’s petals were now falling one by one. The blood-red color on the petals faded at a visible speed, gradually turning pale gray like a shroud!
“Roar…”
The purple giant suddenly let out a resounding roar, like a low growl!
Even from dozens of meters away, Hu Ba Yi and the others felt their spiritual consciousness become hazy from the tremor, and Professor Chen and Hao Ai Guo fainted directly.
In their dazed state, Xue Li Yang and the others vaguely saw the purple giant suddenly grab a sword-like light from the air.
It was a giant sword more than a zhang long. The sword light moved like lightning from beyond the heavens, and it fiercely cleaved down towards the swirling, snake-like stamen within the Corpse Incense Magic Lotus flower.
