Longevity Strange Immortal-Chapter 579 - 13 The Sky Cracked a Smile

Li Mo believed he had already witnessed two upheavals of heaven and earth, and no matter how bizarre the deceitful objects might be, he wouldn’t be even slightly surprised.

But he still underestimated the power of "Word-to-law"; the changes in the mortal world were simply beyond imagination.

Suddenly, eighteen suns lined up in a row, but one on the edge abruptly disappeared, while the remaining suns began to chaotically dart around.

The imagined suns lacked high temperatures, yet they kept the mortal world under prolonged illumination.

Before Li Mo could delve deeper into the altered rules of heaven and earth, another sun vanished, accompanied by a faint chewing sound coming from mid-air.

Under his incredulous stare, clusters of fireballs began to rain down upon the ground.

"......"

Li Mo widened his Cave God’s Eye, pushing his vision to its limit, and saw a thousand-meter-long tongue suddenly appear out of nowhere in a fleeting moment.

The tongue wrapped itself around the sun and, as if swallowing a whole date, shoved it into a massive mouth.

That’s right.

The **sky** had mutated.

"Are you kidding me? Even if it’s ’Word-to-law,’ does it have to be this bizarre?"

After devouring twelve suns in succession, the blood-red maw encompassing the entire sky revealed itself, with sharp, snow-white teeth radiating an icy gleam.

Such a deceitful object had already surpassed the limits of a True Immortal.

It might have reached the level of Yue Lao, that is, the realm of a Daluo Golden Immortal. Li Mo couldn’t help but feel an ineffable sense of dread deep within him.

The **Heaven’s Mouth** opened wide, revealing countless corpses wedged between its teeth.

"Hee-hee-hee-hee..."

Deafening laughter echoed through the mortal world, and the Heaven’s Mouth swept its tongue as though fishing in a pond, continuously capturing suns, scattering meteoric fragments everywhere.

Li Mo’s lips twitched because he noticed that the ground had also begun to subtly writhe.

It proved that the **earth** too was mutating.

Swoosh.

A meteor struck nearby.

Li Mo summoned the Ghost Tiger and had the Tattooed Beast retrieve the sun fragment. It resembled a golden piece of glass, imbued with lingering traces of the Heavenly Dao.

Picking up the sun fragment, Li Mo felt an imperceptible suction emanating from his pores.

Crunch, crunch, crunch.

As the sun fragment slowly melted, Li Mo’s Ten Thousand Sword Immortal Bone grew further, gaining an additional section—a new Immortal Bone named **Taiyang**.

After consuming sixteen suns, the Heaven’s Mouth seemed satiated, and the boundless blood-red maw slowly closed.

Li Mo understood that the Heaven’s Mouth would awaken again; next time, if there wasn’t enough food, it would likely target high-level cultivators of the mortal realm.

"What kind of nonsense is this?"

Li Mo could only rely on Chunyangzi; only when the latter calmed the upheaval of heaven and earth would he be able to retreat into seclusion and aim for the True Immortal realm.

"It should be soon. Ordinary people have already begun to experience famine."

Li Mo looked toward Shaquan Town, where, while a large-scale panic hadn’t erupted yet, several grain stores in the town were gradually running dry.

Meanwhile, merchants were secretly raising prices further, exacerbating tensions in Shaquan Town.

Even possessing a small world, Li Mo couldn’t provide them with grain, as food imbued with spiritual energy couldn’t enter Shaquan Town.

The usual grass and wood in the Corpse Mountain Mini World carried traces of spiritual energy.

Ultimately, the pressure was barely contained thanks to Shaquan Town’s county magistrate, **Yu Tongquan**, who organized the populace to establish a sanctuary.

Despite being merely in his early fifties, Yu Tongquan’s body was already spent and at the end of its tether.

Without a shred of selfishness, he immediately decided to lead a group out of Shaquan Town to pray to the heavens for famine relief grain.

Soon enough, Yu Tongquan would understand the meaning of "trees fall and monkeys scatter."

Back when setting the grand ambition, everyone had been driven to desperation; united by "Word-to-law," they made Shaquan Town into a sanctuary.

Now, leaving the town had become a choice.

To leave Shaquan Town meant confronting the upheaval of heaven and earth directly, and participating citizens might face danger, so no one wanted to step forward.

But relying on Yu Tongquan alone, he could hardly obtain enough grain to sustain tens of thousands of people.

After heated discussions, sixty-four people voluntarily followed Yu Tongquan, but their mixed intentions inevitably compromised the effects of "Word-to-law."

Li Mo watched as they built a sacrificial altar at the gates of town, hoping grain would descend upon Shaquan Town.

During this time, they didn’t encounter deceitful objects—mainly because Li Mo covertly shielded them while subtly altering their thoughts.

Not long after Yu Tongquan and his group returned to Shaquan Town, an immortal ladder appeared at the town’s edge, bathing the populace in radiant light.

Immortals had descended.

It was evident that the Immortal Realm hadn’t entirely succumbed; at least the immortals looked normal, their skin shimmering with immortal patterns, and their aura ethereal.

The people believed the immortals came to deliver grain, but unexpectedly, they too were refugees.

Li Mo surveyed the True Immortal among them, whose rank, equivalent to Yue Lao’s level of Daluo Golden Immortal, was above the Incense Fire Immortals but still limited. It was likely they didn’t understand that the upheaval of heaven and earth originated in the mortal world.

Upon arrival at Shaquan Town, the immortals instantly reverted to mortal bones and flesh; their spiritual treasures lost their luster, though their skin, still white as jade, exuded a faint fragrance.

"A True Immortal under the Stove God’s tutelage?"

Li Mo exclaimed inwardly but refrained from entering Shaquan Town.

He was uncertain whether Shaquan Town’s resistance to spiritual power was permanent; if unrecoverable, wouldn’t that mean all his cultivation would be for naught?

The immortals showed no fear despite losing their cultivation, assuming it was merely due to their unsuitability to the mortal world’s impurities, which enraged them.

"Mortals, upon seeing immortals, why do you not kneel?!!"

As one, the populace knelt, though some stared greedily at the immortals.

Cursing incessantly, the immortals headed toward the town gates, accompanied by the constant sound of gulps, interspersed with babies’ shrill cries.

Just as the immortals were about to leave the town, no one knew who struck first.

The crowd swarmed toward the immortals, while those retaining their sanity looked on in fear, watching helplessly as the immortals struggled in despair amidst shrieks.

Like famished ghouls, they tore into the flesh with their teeth.

Before long, the immortal too succumbed, collapsing into a blood pond.

"You... you all..."

At that moment, another immortal descended at the end of the immortal ladder. Upon witnessing such carnage, they were already unable to return to the Immortal Realm.

Discovering that the immortal ladder provided an endless supply of food, the populace no longer surged forward.

They began treating the immortals like livestock, slaughtering parts for drying in courtyards, and distributing to families across the town.

Although the immortals had been reduced to mortality, their flesh remained highly nourishing.

A palm-sized portion was sufficient to sustain an adult for three days without eating or drinking.

On the surface, Shaquan Town had overcome its food crisis, but it had truly been dragged into the abyss; after hunting immortals, the populace only grew more deranged.

Those still bearing reason locked themselves indoors, awaiting their rationed portions of food.

Li Mo estimated that Chunyangzi would descend to the mortal world in just three to five years; it wouldn’t be long before most of Shaquan Town’s citizens succumbed to extremism.

He walked slowly toward the town gates, gazing at the increasingly mutating earth.

Soon, some townsfolk arrived, carrying the bones of an immortal and discarding them outside town, allowing Li Mo to absorb them into his Artifact Pill Body.

Previously implanted with cancer cells, these citizens retained the subconscious urge to discard corpses.

Without lifting a finger, Li Mo obtained several sets of True Immortal bones, and as his Artifact Pill Body decomposed them, a wealth of Taoist inheritance flowed into his mind.

Though the inheritance was highly fragmented, the sheer number of immortals made up for it.

Li Mo estimated that Shaquan Town would bury at least a hundred immortals over time; no matter the circumstances, it would allow him to refine his cultivation techniques to the True Immortal level.

"The **Stove Immortal Hundred Flavors Scripture**—not bad, not bad—it focuses on body refinement; at its peak, it transforms blood and bones into an Acquired Immortal Body, the **Eating Immortal Body**."

Li Mo wasn’t particularly interested in the Eating Immortal Body, as he recognized the vast gulf between Innate and Acquired Immortal Bodies; while Innate Immortal Bodies possessed uniqueness, Acquired Immortal Bodies were merely crude imitations.

Innate Immortal Bodies offered limitless growth, whereas Acquired Immortal Bodies were more akin to Taoist Bodies.

Through the information provided by the bones, Li Mo continued to piece together his understanding of the Immortal Realm, while also refining the content of the Fake Immortal Technique.

He realized that cultivators in the Transcendence Tribulation Stage had only one path—to ascend to the Immortal Realm—because the mortal Heavenly Dao actively resisted those attempting to transcend mortality during the tribulation phase.

Now, with heaven and earth in upheaval, the Heavenly Dao was likely in chaos.

This was indeed a perfect time for Li Mo to transcend and attain immortality within the mortal realm, bypassing the scrutiny of the Immortal Realm’s Heavenly Dao.

"Hehe, such a pity... The Immortal Spiritual Power within the immortal bones has vanished."

Li Mo sighed regretfully; while the nourishment from the immortal bones exceeded that of the Transcendence Stage, it failed to provide substantial enhancement for the Three Dharma Bodies.

In the days that followed, new immortals descended upon Shaquan Town intermittently.

Li Mo’s cultivation technique finally reached completion.

From it, he gleaned that the Immortal Realm’s hierarchy wasn’t as complex as the mortal realm’s, but its class system was exceedingly rigid, ensuring ordinary immortals could never rise.

The lowest-ranking immortals were **Incense Fire Immortals**, whose strength didn’t necessarily outmatch Fake Immortals.

Incense Fire Immortals relied on mortals’ offerings, naturally eliciting disdain from other immortals.

The normal path of ascension led to **True Immortals**, further divided into more than ten minor stages—based solely on the upper-class segregation of True Immortals.

True Immortals advanced to **Daluo Golden Immortals**.

Yet in the past hundreds of thousands of years, only a handful had attained the rank of Daluo Golden Immortal—not because the breakthrough was difficult, but because opportunities were scarce.

Above them were the **Ancestor Immortals**, the pioneers who established the Immortal Realm, their status unshaken.

The Immortal Realm housed six Ancestor Immortals: three **Taoist Ancestors** in the Taoist Sect; two **Buddha Ancestors** in the Buddhist Sect; and one **Demon Ancestor** in the Devil Sect.

Each position was a fixed one; the number of Daluo Golden Immortals always hovered between twenty and thirty, while True Immortals became the equivalent of Taoist Children, maintaining the realm’s eternal stability.

"That said, what sight lies within the Immortal Realm under upheaval?"

Li Mo understood the unknown entities entrenched in the mortal realm’s chaos were terrifying, proving that the upheaval had also shaken the Immortal Realm, which indicated even the Ancestor Immortals were powerless.

"The more chaos, the better; otherwise, how could I reverse the direction of the board’s game?" 𝚏𝗿𝗲𝐞𝐰𝚎𝕓𝐧𝚘𝘃𝗲𝐥.𝐜𝚘𝕞

Li Mo squinted, hoping for the complete demise of the Ancestor Immortals.

Shaquan Town was engulfed in noisy commotion, as another round of immortals descended.

Li Mo immediately sensed Chunyangzi’s presence; the latter’s furrowed brows suggested he hadn’t found a solution to the calamity in the Immortal Realm.

He stood at the gates of the town.

Soon enough, Chunyangzi hobbled out of Shaquan Town, his back hunched.

Upon catching sight of Li Mo, Chunyangzi showed no surprise; he then retrieved a jug of ginger wine from his sleeve.

Li Mo caught the ginger wine and chuckled bitterly as he asked, "I suppose we’ve already met?"

"In a certain room."

"Come on, Li Mo, let’s find a place to have a drink?"