Chapter 965: Schemes
Lin Mo clenched his hands tightly, hesitated for a moment, then chose not to resist, waiting for that black mist to enter his Sea of Consciousness, and suddenly, spells echoed in his mind out of thin air.
"This is a top-grade Immortal Law created by myself. You must cultivate it well and not let down my good intentions." The black-robed man said lightly, a strange smile spreading across his sinister face hidden within the black robe.
"Thank you, Immortal Venerable!"
Lin Mo was stunned for a moment, then suddenly a hint of excitement appeared on his handsome face.
"Well, well, well, weren't you looking for Starlight?"
Seeing Lin Mo's excited expression, the black-robed man became even happier.
"Does Immortal Venerable also have Starlight?" Lin Mo blinked his eyes.
"Starlight? I have plenty. There's a secret chamber over there; you can cultivate there. It contains Starlight."
The black-robed man said, waving his hand, and a strand of black mist drifted to the right. With a click, a pitch-black stone door opened, and at once, a brilliant light shone forth, with a strange fragrance permeating the air.
About a few thousand star points were floating inside that stone chamber, which was exactly the Starlight that Lin Mo and Fang Tangjing had been painstakingly searching for!
It took the five of them two months, plus seventy Starlights contributed by three Demon Beasts, to collect only one hundred and eighteen Starlights, while inside that stone chamber, there floated countless light points, with around several thousand Starlights.
"Go, little one, cultivate well." The black-robed man waved his hand, and Lin Mo, unable to control himself, flew into the stone chamber. With a bang, the stone door closed automatically with a heavy sound.
"Keh keh! Take your time in cultivating, little one." The black-robed man, seeing Lin Mo enter the stone chamber, had his lips curl into an arc, letting out a cold laugh. "If not for not wanting to destroy such a good seedling, I wouldn't go to so much trouble. But I've already waited three thousand years, and I don't mind waiting another month."
Inside the stone chamber.
The stone chamber was much larger than what Lin Mo had seen, about three hundred square meters, entirely made of a special kind of black stone, which felt chilling to the touch.
The star points floating in the stone chamber exuded a peculiar fragrance, causing one's pores to relax and the whole body to feel incredibly comfortable.
"With so much Starlight, I wonder what Senior Fang and the others would think?"
Lin Mo clicked his tongue and smiled.
However, Lin Mo didn't immediately start cultivating the Cultivation Method the black-robed man had just passed on. With hundreds of years of cultivation experience from his past life, he could naturally tell that the Cultivation Method was peculiar.
The Cultivation Method was one that forged and trained the soul, not a genuine Cultivation Method.
"Let's give it a try first!" Lin Mo dispatched a wisp of Divine Thought slowly to probe the cold wall, immediately feeling as if struck by lightning, his Divine Thought rebounding back, unable to penetrate the pitch-black stone wall.
"As expected, it's just as I thought." The last time in the Ancient Battlefield Ruins, when Lin Mo entered a secret chamber to cultivate, he realized neither energy nor Divine Thought could penetrate the walls. This was because during cultivation, fears of being suddenly disturbed from outside by Divine Thought could cause deviation at a critical moment, thus employing some special
secret patterns and materials, preventing Divine Thought from penetrating.
Thinking of this, Lin Mo's lips curled up slightly, quickly sitting cross-legged on the ground and closing his eyes.
Within the void of the Sea of Consciousness, only a wisp of black mist could be seen coiling within.
"Break for me!"
Lin Mo's sword-like eyebrows gathered, and immediately a demonic red dagger appeared in the void of the Sea of Consciousness, slashing fiercely at the wisp of black mist. The red dagger was swift as lightning, easily shredding the black mist.
At this moment, a wisp of black mist slowly emerged from the middle of Lin Mo's forehead.
Lin Mo opened his eyes, quickly extending his hand to pinch and shatter the wisp of black mist.
This secret chamber couldn't be probed by the black-robed man's Divine Thought, which meant he couldn't know what Lin Mo was doing.
The so-called top-grade Immortal Law was actually a technique that weakened the soul's Divine Thought, which would eventually turn oneself into an idiot if cultivated. Lin Mo carefully observed inside the secret chamber and soon discovered a protruding button beside a rune, his lips curling slightly, "Generally, cultivation chambers are designed with such switches to protect cultivators from being disturbed by outsiders during cultivation, even Divine Thought can't easily pierce through."
Of course, if it were a true Great Power, this level of cultivation room naturally couldn't stop them, but this cultivation room could withstand attacks from Golden Core Stage cultivators without any problem. Presumably, the one who originally built this Prison Tower was also a Great Power.
Lin Mo gently pressed the switch, and suddenly the intricate secret patterns on the stone wall flashed with dark flowing light.
"Now, I reckon that black-robed fellow wouldn't be able to intrude no matter what." Lin Mo breathed a sigh of relief. In the Cultivation World, the law of survival is the weak falling prey to the strong. For the strong, killing the weak is as easy as crushing an ant. Apart from personal effort, there are many opportunities and more meticulous thoughts to ensure survival in the perilous Cultivation World.
"The cultivation method he gave me is not a real Cultivation Method but a technique that can refine my soul. Soul possession requires the highest cultivation level of at least the Nascent Soul Stage. Of course, there are also special Secret Techniques, requiring the cooperation of the possessed to ensure the soul remains unharmed, for the possession to succeed!"
As for some cultivators in the Foundation Establishment Stage who have souls, they can occupy a mortal body, but the soul and body have no compatibility, and they can never contend for the peak of the Dao in a lifetime. Only perfect possession can continue the path of cultivation.
Therefore, unless absolutely necessary, no cultivator would directly occupy a mortal's body.
"Want to possess me? Damn guy..." Lin Mo clenched his fist and cursed fiercely.
"How can I escape from here?"
Lin Mo pondered deeply. With his strength at the Innate Dragon Transformation Realm, even when faced with a monster of the Condensation Stage, he hoped to escape, but that black-robed man outside was something he couldn't comprehend, his strength already at the Golden Core Stage.
The Golden Core Stage is two realms higher than the Innate Realm. Comparatively, a Condensation Stage cultivator could instantly kill ten ordinary Innate Strong People, and a Golden Core Stage cultivator could kill thousands of Innate Stage cultivators with a mere wave of a hand.
Escape?
It's impossible; there's absolutely no hope at all.
"What should I do?"
Lin Mo furrowed his brows. Even with over a thousand Starlights in the stone chamber, it completely failed to arouse his interest in cultivation.
"No, I need to thoroughly think through the cause and effect of this matter." "After entering the Prison Tower, I encountered Late Stage Divine Power level Demon Beasts and Illusion Beasts on the first level of the tower. But by the fourth level, the number and strength of Demon Beasts and Illusion Beasts were dramatically reduced, allowing them to easily reach the eighth floor of the Prison Tower, where the black vortex manifested."