Longevity Strange Immortal-Chapter 585 - 19: Achieving the Realm of a True Immortal

Chapter 585: Chapter 19: Achieving the Realm of a True Immortal

The Immortal Suppressing Coffin remained in the True Void Hometown, for now relatively safe, as Zu Xiuyun had yet to establish the chaotic No-Life Sect.

Li Mo entered seclusion.

He could only sense himself undergoing an unspeakable transformation, his Externalized Dharma Body reforming its embryonic state, while his physical body was continually compressed.

Without external force, breaking through the bottleneck would most likely take two thousand years.

Li Mo’s ascension to immortality was unlike that of historical and contemporary cultivators, as he fused the cultivation systems of both sides, rendering him increasingly independent of the Heavenly Dao.

"Fortunately, there’s the Substitute Dao Page, otherwise the odds of surviving the White Life Period Death Disease would be slim."

Li Mo still couldn’t fully understand the nature of the White Life Period Death Disease. He only knew it related to the soul, and its lethality far surpassed the Ancient Age Death Disease.

"Even though the Death Disease is man-made, I’m afraid even Chunyangzi could not have predicted its power."

After Chunyangzi seized the Heavenly Dao, his consciousness became extremely hazy, and his grand aspiration inevitably warped, causing the Death Disease to exceed all imagination.

The Death Disease was like a chain binding mortal beings, forged by some unknown existence. If one could not break free, they would forever remain a prisoner to fate.

"Hah."

Li Mo took a deep breath.

The Creation Book opened, and as the Substitute Dao Page gradually vanished, the Doulu Tripod came into view.

The emergence of the No-Life Mother experienced subtle changes—Zu Xiuyun was closer to success than before, but ultimately failed at the critical juncture.

The greatest changes, however, occurred within Leiyin Temple.

Due to Li Mo’s interference, the number of cultivators involved in the creation of the No-Life Mother multiplied severalfold.

The No-Life Mother ascended to the Immortal Realm without resistance. When Zu Xiuyun created the Twelve True Words, he was but a mortal, allowing the No-Life Mother to benefit from the power of word-to-law manifestation.

Additionally, with the identity of the Reincarnated Buddha, her ascension was all but guaranteed.

Li Mo observed the Buddhist Sect pouring vast resources into the No-Life Mother, who simply devoured them ceaselessly, her cultivation surging dramatically.

He remained indifferent to such resources, quietly awaiting the arrival of the immortal ladder.

The assembled monks chanted the Buddha Scripture, their voices filled with reverence despite widespread corruption by the No-Life Mother’s mutation.

"Thus have I heard, at one time, the World Honored One resided in the Pure Light Heaven, amidst a gathering of inconceivable pure Bodhisattvas at the Bodhi site..."

The Buddhist Sect was unaware that only seventy to eighty years remained before Chunyangzi completed the transformation of the heavens and earth.

Ascending to the Immortal Realm might just mean stepping into another abyss—after all, not even the Immortal Ancestors survived, and countless Daluo Golden Immortals had perished.

BOOM.

The sky tore open with a rift, as a rainbow-colored Buddha Light illuminated Leiyin Temple.

The monks gazed in rapture, instinctively drawing closer to the No-Life Mother, even as she picked up a few individuals and swallowed them whole, without hesitation.

Lotus Thrones arose, carrying everyone present.

They simultaneously bent their spines, whereupon their backs split open with radiant cracks, the Buddha Light triggering a profound transformation.

The No-Life Mother bathed in the same light, her grotesque and horrifying shell wrinkling.

A dignified Buddha figure slowly emerged from within her skin. Once born, the No-Life Mother would lead tens of thousands of monks in ascending to the Upper Realm.

"Seize the opportunity of the Buddha Light Baptism."

With a thought, Li Mo stopped the No-Life Mother’s transformation in its tracks.

The Buddha Light, similar to the Immortal Spiritual Power, was an aura unique to the Buddhist Sect. For most cultivators, an eighty percent chance existed they would encounter something sinister during the baptism.

But Li Mo was different. Whether it was the Buddha Demon Body or the Heavenly Gang Great Method, both bore traces of the Buddhist inheritance.

As the Buddha Light washed over his body, his flesh and bones expressed a ravenous hunger.

Li Mo ravenously devoured the Buddha Light, prioritizing his physical body, followed by his Dharma Body.

His Immortal Body also greatly benefited.

The Great Wilderness Immortal Body enacted a thorough reconstruction inside and out; the Ten Thousand Sword Immortal Bone quickly grew three sections of Buddhist Immortal Bone; and the Supreme Heavenly Being birthed quantities of Fake Soul Consciousness.

Li Mo spent over a century fully assimilating the Buddha Light.

His physical body became completely immobilized, with his flesh, blood, and bones approaching the edge of an Immortal Body. The blood energy of the Transcendence Tribulation Stage could no longer sustain his physical form.

Li Mo even had an illusionary sense.

He felt as if trapped in a quagmire, as though the mortal world inherently resisted him, rejecting the presence of such a colossal existence in its shallow waters.

Perhaps, due to the limitations of the Heavenly Dao, the Mortal Heavenly Dao could only accommodate cultivators up to the False Immortal level.

The Buddha Light vanished in an instant.

As in his memory, the No-Life Mother still ascended to the Immortal Realm. Seizing the opportunity of the Buddha Light Baptism merely allowed him to linger in the mortal world a few days longer.

Li Mo swept his gaze across the Three Dharma Bodies—his Spirit Cocoon had swollen to its limit, housing three unfathomable Externalized Dharma Bodies.

Once the cocoon broke, he would achieve a unique Immortal Name upon ascension.

However, one Substitute Dao Page was clearly insufficient for Li Mo to successfully ascend. The Creation Book opened again, returning, predictably, to the Doulu Tripod.

The second wave of the Buddha Light Baptism arrived.

Li Mo immersed himself fully in transcending mortality, as the Spirit Cocoon cracked open with fine fissures, emitting tangible strands of Dao Rhythm.

"Becoming an Immortal and achieving Dao does appear to gradually align with the Heavenly Dao."

Li Mo noticed the Dao Rhythm differed from the Heavenly Dao of the Immortal and Mortal Realms. To be precise, it reflected his own profound comprehension of the lingering Dao.

As the Dao Rhythm merged with his physical form, it indicated the further fusion of his body and soul.

Li Mo was becoming an entity independent of the Immortal and Mortal Realms—a truly transcendent existence, his long-sought ideal.

"Ignorant of the root of the Great Dao, one is helpless as old age consumes them like weeds."

Li Mo’s aura grew increasingly ethereal. Seven Tattooed Beasts roared within the Corpse Mountain Mini World, transcending mortality and reaching immortality.

The cancer cells within his body boiled over, with Da Ai Mi Tian attaining the rank of Immortal Artifact, following the Spirit Root Worm and Corpse Mountain.

As the Buddha Light faded away, Li Mo decisively used a third Substitute Dao Page—he had to build momentum and not falter or exhaust his efforts prematurely.

The fourth Substitute Dao Page would only be used as a last resort and not lightly.

Li Mo’s physical body had reached its critical point, as the Immortal Suppressing Coffin could no longer conceal the anomalies. Tens of thousands of meters of Dao Rhythm radiated from his body.

The Dao Rhythm transformed into a giant, towering tree, with myriad Sword Intents hanging from its branches like fruits.

The expansion of the True Void Hometown accelerated as a result.

Li Mo sent a thought to notify Zu Xiuyun, who soon arrived in the True Void Hometown. A chance to face a pseudo-Dao directly was one not to be missed.

The remaining Twelve Immortals awakened one after another.

Though their consciousnesses were clouded, the Dao Rhythm compelled them uniformly, drawing them to the base of the towering tree to witness the Great Dao.

In some sense, Li Mo had truly become a teacher to the Twelve Immortals.

Li Mo felt a sense of emotion, as his Mid to Lower Grade Sword Intent visibly surged.

Using Mid to Lower Grade Sword Intent as the foundation, Superior Sword Intent and Mahayana Sword Intent emerged one after another. The Symbiotic Dharma Body was the first to break free from the constraints of the Spirit Cocoon.

Next came the Buddha Demon Dharma Body, owing primarily to its compatibility with the Buddha Light.

The Artifact Pill Dharma Body followed closely—the impurities the Dual Dharma Bodies struggled to absorb were effortlessly consumed, whether toxin or elixir, all serving as nourishment.

"Life and death, the cycles of reincarnation, the principles of the world."

A sharp gleam flickered in Li Mo’s eyes as the Ru Dao Sword Intent of "Life and Death" advanced into a new realm, touching upon the level of Dao Intent achieved by Yu Xiao.

A Dao Intent named [殅] took form, signifying mastery over life, death, and the cycles of reincarnation.

Li Mo’s soul departed his body, merging with the giant, towering tree. The phenomena grew more intense, and the Twelve Immortals gained deeper enlightenment of the Great Dao.

Though their cultivation levels remained unchanged, they would undeniably be much stronger during the second transformation of the heavens and earth than before.

Li Mo’s path to becoming a True Immortal was now unobstructed. The Externalized Dharma Bodies slowly emerged from their Spirit Cocoon, while his physical body awaited the perfect imprinting of the Dao Rhythm.

In the four hundred and twenty-fourth year of his self-imposed seclusion.

[The True Immortal Realm]was achieved.

As Li Mo regained awareness, the phenomena in the True Void Hometown abruptly dissipated.

His frame grew to just over two meters, with no lingering trace of the Death Disease, and his bearing could only be described as flawless.

His veins were replaced by Dao Rhythms, which took on mysterious patterns of various hues.

The strength of his physical body had increased severalfold. Even a hundred Transcendence Tribulation Stage copies of himself would not last a single exchange against his True Immortal Realm form.

And yet, his foundation remained unstable, with room for at least a forty-percent increase in strength.

Of course, the resistance from the Mortal Heavenly Dao had grown equally ferocious.

Li Mo merely moved a finger and felt as though he were on the verge of being expelled into the Endless Void, immediately setting aside the idea of leaving the Immortal Suppressing Coffin.

He glanced into his Dantian, where the Externalized Dharma Bodies had undergone a complete transformation.

The Buddha Demon Dharma Body still resembled a four-headed, eight-armed figure, but its Buddhist and demonic traces had vanished, appearing instead as an ordinary stone statue.

With its enhancements, the Dharma Body could seamlessly switch between Buddhist and demonic states.

Two new candles, one Yin and one Yang, joined the other implements: the Sun Candle Lamp and the Taiyin Candle Lamp.

Its true name: [Randeng Tathagata Buddha].

"Three Buddhas?"

Li Mo muttered to himself. In the Buddhist Sect, Randeng Buddha was grouped with Shakyamuni and Maitreya as the Three Buddhas, representing the future, past, and present.

Randeng symbolized the past Buddha, though his Dharma Body likely bore only a similarly named identity.

"Or perhaps it’s related to my traversal across the ages, spanning ten thousand years?"

Unlike the Nascent Soul Stage, achieving immortality usually meant receiving one’s True Name from the Heavenly Dao. However, as Li Mo transcended the boundaries of the Immortal and Mortal Realms, his True Name seemed to arise naturally from within.

The Artifact Pill Dharma Body expanded to a massive size, stretching over a million meters, with vegetation forming intricate internal organs within.

The Cosmic Furnace now housed over fifty thousand planets, each born from the divisions of the Artifact Pill Dharma Body and imbued with characteristics of living flesh and blood.

Its true name: [Thirty-Six Heavens].

In the Taoism of Li Mo’s past life, the Heavenly Court was said to reside within the Thirty-Six Heavens.

The Symbiotic Dharma Body reclined within his Dantian, every scale representing a distinct Sword Intent. Its form had already transcended that of the Ancestral Dragon, becoming semi-illusory and near-divine.

Its true name: [Ancestral Dragon Vein Source].

The dragon veins symbolized not only geomancy but also the Great Dao, where dragon meat was earth, dragon blood was water, dragon bone was stone, dragon horns were wood...

Li Mo patiently stabilized his cultivation, while the Twelve Immortals dispersed throughout the True Void Hometown.

Zu Xiuyun continued to make arrangements for the second transformation of the heavens and earth, while the other Twelve Immortals opened subsidiary small worlds within the True Void Hometown.

Originally, Li Mo intended to keep an eye on the Twelve Immortals, but within a few hundred years, he became preoccupied.

The White Life Period Death Disease began to stir.

He finally understood the essence of the White Life Period Death Disease—it acted upon the Three Souls and Seven Spirits, threatening to scatter them entirely if he were careless.

Li Mo returned to the ancient Cultivation World with the sole purpose of correcting the flaws in his body and soul. If the White Life Period Death Disease succeeded, it would render all his prior efforts futile.

His Three Souls and Seven Spirits grew withered, with signs of the Death Disease spreading over them. The soul showed signs of decay, which in turn began to disrupt the functions of his physical body.

The only consolation was that he still had four thousand years to survive the White Life Period Death Disease.

He opted for a methodical approach, suppressing the disease little by little, while nurturing the Supreme Heavenly Being with Innate Essence, fostering countless Fake Soul Consciousnesses in the process.

With the aid of Fake Soul Consciousnesses, the White Life Period Death Disease was not as troubling as the Ancient Age Death Disease.

Li Mo lost track of how much time passed.

Until one day.

Zu Xiuyun knocked on the Immortal Suppressing Coffin. The time had come for Li Mo to meet another version of himself.