Enemies who entered this flower field definitely wouldn’t be able to exit it for a time. If Sun Mo wanted to grab some advantage, he had to wait for the poison to activate and they died completely. Hence, he was not in a hurry.

  The scarab was also an old monster who had lived for tens of thousands of years. It was vastly experienced. It knew that if there was a secret treasure here, it would definitely be at the center-most region. Hence, it concentrated all its energy in this place.

  Very soon, the Holy Pharaoh discovered that in a certain radius, the number of corpses grew fewer and fewer. This indicated that no animals could enter here.

  Naturally, this must be the location where heavenly ingredients and earthly treasures would exist.

  Because the scarab had drunk the honey and could resist the onslaught of this purple poison miasma, it continued to advance forward. 15 minutes later, it saw a purple-colored flower.

  It was like an absolutely gorgeous beauty. Even in the depths of countless flowers, the Holy Pharaoh saw it with a single glance.

  “How beautiful, no, the term should be gorgeously magnificent.”

  The Holy Pharaoh sighed ruefully.

  Different flowers had different dispositions. For example, peony flowers exuded a luxurious gracefulness, lotuses exuded a tranquil purity. And for this purple flower, it exuded gorgeous magnificence.

  It was akin to a demonic beauty whose appearance was so outstanding that it could destroy empires.

  The Holy Pharaoh fell into a daze after a single glance and was unable to extricate itself. Luckily, its will was strong and it soon managed to shift its gaze away.

  After that, it discovered in shock that it had actually proceeded over ten meters forward when it was in a daze.

  “I have to warn Master. This flower is very dangerous.”

  The Holy Pharaoh regained its senses.

  …

  “Is it found?”

  Ying Baiwu had joy on her face. “Let me open a path!”

  “Master, I advise you not to go. It is too dangerous,” the Holy Pharaoh earnestly spoke.

  “Do you know that it’s a huge sin to enter a treasure mountain and leave with nothing?”

  Li Ruolan grumbled. After that, she pulled on Sun Mo’s hand. “Let’s go quickly.”

  Bai Xiqing’s gaze immediately turned over. (Daring to pull on the wrist of my idol? F***, I really wish to cut her hand off.)

  “Let’s go and take a look first!”

  Sun Mo was also reluctant to give up.

  The closer the distance to that flower, the denser the purple miasma was. In this case, the advantages of their individual constitution revealed themselves.

  “Zhiruo, the bruises on your body seem to become more serious.”

  Tantai Yutang had been observing his martial siblings. When he saw the skin color of the papaya girl, he immediately warned her.

  “Ah?”

  Lu Zhiruo jumped in fright. She lowered her head for a look. This was indeed the case.

  “Don’t you feel dizzy?”

  Li Ziqi actually wanted to do the same. But her constitution didn’t permit her to do so. Right now, she was already puking with disgust.

  “Nope!”

  Lu Zhiruo shook her head, but the bruises on her body seemed to be alive and they were spreading at a speed visible to the naked eyes.

  “All of you should leave!”

  Sun Mo instructed.

  “I’m fine!”

  Xuanyuan Po wanted to go and take a look. Maybe, there might be a chance for a fight.

  “From now onward, everyone must leave immediately once there’s a problem with their bodies.”

  Sun Mo hesitated for a while but gave up on the notion of making all his personal students leave. After all, this was a tempering exercise. It wasn’t bad for them to gain some experience.

  The actual situation was much better than Sun Mo’s expectations. Other than Tantai Yutang and Ying Baiwu feeling uncomfortable, the rest were completely fine.

  “This flower is so attractive!”

  Li Ruolan sighed. She immediately took out an image-recording stone and started snapping shots from various angles.

  “This area is too bizarre. There are no hints of vitality at all!”

  Mei Ziyu rubbed her arm and shivered. The surroundings were very cold, and the atmosphere here was even more terrifying compared to a mass burial on a gloomy rainy day.

  “The question now is how should we pluck that flower?”

  As Jiang Leng spoke, he glanced at the scarab.

  “Rascal, what sort of gaze is that?”

  The Holy Pharaoh was angry now. (You want me to go and die?)

  After that, it cried, “Master, I tried before but I was not successful. The nearer I get to that flower, the more toxins there will be in my body and the activation rate grows even quicker.”

  “I’ll go and probe it!”

  Xuanyuan Po licked the corner of his lips and just when he wanted to charge over, he was stopped with a pull by Sun Mo.

  “I’ll do it!”

  As the sound of Sun Mo’s voice rang out, he was immediately interrupted.

  “No way!”

  There were several pairs of hands holding back Sun Mo.

  “I’ll get a puppet to probe things!”

  Murong Mingyue released a puppet. It was a wooden puppet.

  Kada! Kada!

  The wooden puppet ran and closed in on that flower rapidly.

  Suddenly, a strange sound rang out.

  They felt that their heads were knocked over and they fell into a daze. When they regained their senses, they saw that the miasma had congealed together into tentacles and twined themselves around the wooden puppet.

  The speed of the puppet’s advance grew increasingly slower. It was originally black, but its color was now tinged with purple. When it arrived at a distance of about 20+ meters away from the flower, it no longer moved. It was as though it had ‘died’.

  “Let’s give up. If a human went, they would be killed before they reached the 50-meter range.”

  Murong Mingyue persuaded.

  Her puppet wasn’t made from just wood. Other high-ended puppetry techniques had been incorporated into making it. Its lifeforce was much greater than a human. But now, even something like it was damaged. Given the weak bodies of humans, there was completely no hope to get close to it.

  “If humans cannot do this, let’s get a battle pet to try!”

  The bees most probably wouldn’t cut it. Hence, Sun Mo got his personal students to catch butterflies.

  15 minutes later, a hundred butterflies were caught by everyone.

  Sun Mo directly used Land Proof.

  Swish!

  A golden light enveloped those butterflies. After that, they stopped struggling and quietened down before they began to fly around Sun Mo.

  “Go. Pick that flower.”

  Sun Mo used his will to instruct them.

  Bzz! Bzz! Bzz!

  The butterflies flapped their wings rapidly, but they didn’t follow the instructions.

  Their intellect was simply too low, and they had no way to communicate their intentions to humans like monkeys. However, their anxious emotions were clearly transmitted to Sun Mo.

  “Go!”

  This time around, Sun Mo hardened his heart. If they refused to go, he would kill these butterflies.

  The butterflies had no choice. They flew toward the designated area.

  Because they had lived here for generations, their resistance toward the miasma was very strong. Although many of them died in the process of advancing toward the flowers, in the end, over twenty survived and managed to touch that flower.

  After that…woosh~

  At the instant they touched the flower, the surrounding miasma gushed over as though it was enraged and directly smashed into the butterflies, making them disintegrate into nothingness.

  “So fierce?”

  Everyone took a breath of cold air.

  This clearly showed that whoever touched the flower would die.

  Sun Mo activated Divine Sight. After that, a row of large bright-red words jumped out.

  Unknown target, unable to analyze.

  “Look at how useless you are. Why do I need you for?”

  Sun Mo was depressed.

  At such a time, even external reinforcements were useless. How to win then?

  (Wait a minute, external reinforcements?)

  “Sir dragon soul, are you here?”

  Sun Mo suddenly recalled that he had another spirit beast. However, the fame of this spirit beast was too great and its status was too high. Besides, it had always been slumbering. Hence, Sun Mo had almost forgotten it.

  “What do you want?”

  The dragon soul’s voice was riddled with sleepiness. But after that, it immediately roared, “What sort of hellish place is this? Why is the death qi here so heavy? Leave, quickly leave!”

  “Don’t be in a rush. Help me check what sort of plant that is?”

  Sun Mo decided to give the dragon soul a tall hat first. “You have lived for so long and definitely recognize this, right?”

  “That’s only natural. I’m an ancient giant dragon after all. When I was alive, many species were just born!”

  The dragon soul snorted complacently. After that, as it stared at the flower, it was dumbstruck.

  Sun Mo waited for a few minutes, but after seeing that the dragon soul had no intention of speaking, he could only call out to it to wake it. After all, they couldn’t afford to wait too long here.

  “Dragon soul, what’s this?”

  “It seems to be a Life-Death Flower!”

  As expected, the dragon soul lived up to expectations.

  “What’s that?”

  Sun Mo was curious. From its name, this flower sounded very impressive.

  “It is a godly flower that can extend life. If someone at the verge of death consumes it, they will be able to recover fully and their lifespan will be extended by several hundred years.”

  The dragon soul explained, “However, I’ve not seen an actual Life-Death Flower myself, so I don’t dare to be sure.”

  “Is this real?’

  Sun Mo’s eyes brightened. If this was the Life-Death Flower, he might be able to use this to cure the old headmaster.

  “Stop dreaming. If it is really the Life-Death Flower, you won’t be able to get it even if you try your entire life!”

  The dragon soul persuaded.

  “What do you mean?”

  Sun Mo frowned.

  “Life-Death Flower, the living will die and the dead will live!”

  The dragon soul explained, “It means that when it is in its growing phase, it will be a ‘death’ flower and bring death. The lifeforms that got close to it would have their vitality completely drained and become its nutrients.

  “And as for the ‘dead will live’, it means after this flower withers and dies, it will then possess the effect of extending life and reviving the dead.”

  Sun Mo frowned. “When will it wither then?”

  “How should I know?”

  The dragon soul was speechless. (I’m a carnivore, why would I give a damn about a flower?)

  “Then is it possible to make it die through unnatural causes?”

  Sun Mo instantly thought of several attacking methods, but he was afraid he might destroy the flower.

  “No idea!”

  The dragon soul shrugged. “You should ponder over it yourself. I’m going back to sleep.”

  “Wait a minute, you are a spirit body, right?”

  Sun Mo suddenly recalled. “It’s probably impossible for you to die, right?”

  “Sorry, spirit bodies are also a type of lifeform. I would die too.”

  The dragon soul had no solution to this.

  Sun Mo kneaded his glabella. He could only choose to give up in the end. “Let’s leave.”

  “What’s wrong?’

  Mei Ziyu didn’t understand.

  Sun Mo told the dragon soul’s explanation to everyone.

  “Don’t look down on it because it is a flower. Its attacking prowess isn’t low.”

  Sun Mo shrugged.

  “I feel so reluctant!”

  Ying Baiwu was very depressed.

  “Let’s leave.”

  Sun Mo urged. But at this moment, the voice of that damn bird rang out in Sun Mo’s mind.

  “Human, I can get that flower for you. However, you must give me my freedom in exchange.”

  “Mn?”

  Sun Mo was astonished. After that, he persuaded, “I don’t want you to use your life in a gamble for the sake of freedom. If you wish to leave, I can simply dispel the contract.”

  “Don’t need to.”

  The immortal crane was very proud. It disdained charity but in its heart, it was quite touched. This man truly had a good character.

  Sadly, it refused to be a slave.

  “If I pick the Life-Death Flower now, this flower field will wither and the illusion will vanish. The enemies pursuing you will also be freed. At that time, you guys might still die. So, it’s better to kill all your enemies before I pick the flower.”

  The immortal crane suggested.

  “Sure!”

  Sun Mo didn’t mind it. It was good enough that he could earn a top-graded secret treasure.

  However, what origins did this damn bird have?

  It could actually pick the Life-Death Flower? Something even the dragon soul could not do?

  Could it be some sort of ancient immortal bird?

  “Go and kill your enemies first then!”

  The immortal crane spoke, “Oh yes, do you still have wine?”

  Black lines appeared on Sun Mo’s face.

  “Che, you don’t even have wine? What sort of man are you?”

  The immortal crane spoke in disdain.

  (As expected, I can’t have someone like you as my master.)

  Chapter 944: Tremendous Improvement, I Want To Fight Against Ten!

  Sun Mo led his group and returned to the edge of the flower field, preparing to take advantage and kill those enemies pursuing them.

  Honestly speaking, although the Life-Death Flower Sea trap was providing assistance, Sun Mo still didn’t dare to be careless. What if the other party had deciphered the secret of the flower field?

  At such a time, things were naturally better the greater his strength was.

  “System, how many points do I have now?”

  Sun Mo was prepared to squander some points.

  “A total of 379,000.”

  The system replied, “Are you going to clear out the stocks in the merchant store?”

  “Give me 50 first. Forget it, give me 100 pieces of time emblems. The 10-year ones.”

  Sun Mo spoke ruthlessly.

  He had been in the Middle-Earth Nine Provinces for two years and could be considered as having a detailed understanding of this place.

  In a direct observation, the cultivation realm was akin to one’s body. The higher the cultivation realm, the stronger their bodies would be.

  Kids who were three to four years old were equal to the Body-Refinement Realm. Youths were at the Blood-Ignition Realm. If a youth wanted to defeat a kid, it would be a complete suppression.

  This was the commonly seen suppression that appeared when someone of a higher cultivation realm fought against someone with a lower cultivation realm.

  The bigger the differences in their level, the greater the suppression would be.

  And what were cultivation arts?

  They could be treated as weapons!

  Low-level cultivation arts were akin to wooden blades. Heaven-tier cultivation arts were like iron blades, and Saint-tier cultivation arts were equal to hot weapons like guns.

  Even if a child wielded an iron blade, it was definitely impossible for it to kill an adult. But if the child was using a handgun instead, there was a certain percentage of success.

  Just like the current Sun Mo. If he depended on pure strength, he couldn’t win against major characters at the Longevity Realm. But with peerless-grade saint-tier cultivation arts and not just with a single one, he had a slight chance of victory.

  Hence, Sun Mo wanted to raise his understanding of the Battlegod Catalog and the Great Desolation Dragon Subduing Scripture to their maximum level.

  “Sigh, I originally intended to train them manually by myself. However, my enemies definitely won’t give me the time.”

  Sun Mo sighed. He wanted to work hard, but he didn’t have the chance to and had no choice but to depend on the system’s assistance. How infuriating.

  (Is it really so difficult to be an honest and law-abiding young man?!)

  “System, let’s get started. Level up my Battlegod Catalog first. I want to have grandmaster-level expertise in every level.”

  Sun Mo instructed.

  After that, in his mind, the time emblems shattered one after another as obscure knowledge flooded his mind and branded his neurons.

  Ding!

  “Congratulations, your expertise of the first level ‘Battle God’s Will’ has been improved to the grandmaster level.”

  “After using this skill, you can stimulate your battle intent and dispel the cowardice and fear in your heart. You will be able to resist attacks from mental-type cultivation arts.”

  “Congratulations, your expertise of the second level ‘Battlegod Protection’ has been improved to the grandmaster level.”

  “After activating it, you will have at least 50% immunity to the damage you take.”

  Ding!

  “Congratulations, your expertise of the third level ‘Berserk Mode’ has been improved to the grandmaster level.”

  “After activating it, your combat strength will be enhanced by three times or more. But please take note that your spirit qi consumption will increase rapidly, and the burden on your body will similarly be increased.”

  “Please use this cautiously, the duration should be three minutes at most.”

  Ding!

  “Congratulations, your expertise of the fourth level ‘Retaliation Storm’ has been improved to the grandmaster level.”

  “After activating it, if you are sneak-attacked, a forewarning will appear in your mind. You will automatically retaliate and can parry or kill your enemy in advance.”

  The system notifications rang out unceasingly in Sun Mo’s ears.

  “Wait a minute, can this skill be in effect perpetually? In other words, can it be activated permanently?”

  Sun Mo asked.

  “Yes, after you train Retaliation Storm to the ancestor level, its effect will be perpetual.”

  The system knew Sun Mo’s intention, hence, it reminded him in advance. “The time emblems can at most improve your expertise to the grandmaster level. You have to work hard yourself to continue improving further.”

  “Continue!”

  Sun Mo felt a little disappointed.

  Ding!

  “Congratulations, your expertise of the fifth level ‘Great Invincibility’ has been improved to the grandmaster level.”

  “After using it, you won’t suffer any damage. Duration: 10 seconds.”

  “Wait a minute, just 10 seconds? Even if I was farting, I would last longer!”

  Sun Mo spoke in contempt, “Can’t you make it last longer?”

  “Host, please cultivate assiduously and stop dreaming and looking for shortcuts!”

  The system directly shot back. “Within that 10 seconds, you will be completely immune to damage. If you use it appropriately, it can be a trump card that can reverse your situation completely.”

  “The upgrade of your expertise in the Battlegod Catalog has been completed. Please inspect.”

  Sun Mo frowned. “That’s all?”

  The system was silent. It couldn’t be bothered to answer rubbish questions like this.

  “As expected, you are trash. Can’t you even upgrade the most crucial skill?”

  Sun Mo was speechless.

  The next level was the ‘Battlegod Incarnation’. With it, he could transform into a Battle God and slaughter everything.

  This ultimate skill was much more powerful than the Berserk Mode. After usage, the consumption of spirit qi would reduce, while one’s defense, recovery and attacking prowess would be greatly boosted.

  Most importantly, during the duration of the Battlegod Incarnation, the user could use any cultivation arts they had. There was no limit to it. This also meant that it could boost the user even if they were using other divine arts.

  “The system has helped you to improve your expertise to such a degree. What more do you want?”

  The system was like a mad dog that started biting directly. “Do you really take me for a nanny?”

  “Please remember that the improvement brought by the time emblems are dependent on your aptitude. Its greatest effect is for you to save time. If your aptitude is not high enough and you cannot learn something no matter what, even if you spam countless time emblems, you won’t be able to improve.”

  Sun Mo understood. “This means that the Battlegod Incarnation has to be comprehended by myself?”

  “Not bad.”

  For the first five levels, given Sun Mo’s intellect and aptitude, if he trained assiduously for a hundred years, he would ultimately be able to master them. But the Battlegod Incarnation was different.

  It was like Fermat’s Last Theorem. Even if one had all the time in the world, they might not be able to solve it. What was needed was supreme talent.

  “Alright then!”

  Sun Mo gave up. After that, he calculated the number of time emblems expended and was stunned.

  There were actually nine emblems used. This meant that if he trained by himself, he would need 90 years.

  Even though Longevity Realm experts had several centuries of life, 90 years was still a very terrifying number

  “As expected of a top-grade divine art!”

  Sun Mo sighed ruefully. But when he thought about how one could break the void after training this divine art to the absolute level, he felt at ease.

  Lu Zhiruo was currently racking her brains and was thinking of how she could help. In the end, she suddenly felt a powerful aura from Sun Mo.

  “Eh?”

  The papaya girl was astonished.

  “What’s wrong?”

  Ying Baiwu asked.

  “I feel that Teacher has suddenly grown stronger.”

  Lu Zhiruo was bewildered because her teacher hadn’t done anything.

  “Haha, as expected. Junior Martial Sister Lu is filled with confidence with regard to our teacher at any given moment.”

  Tantai Yutang teased.

  Everyone didn’t treat this seriously. After all, the papaya girl was a well-known brainless fan girl of Sun Mo.

  But Qin Yaoguang was staring at Sun Mo contemplatively.

  “I also feel the same.”

  Bai Xiqing turned her head and waved her fist in agreement. “Teacher Sun is invincible!”

  “Brainless fans are really scary!”

  Li Ruolan was speechless.

  “Continue with the upgrade!”

  Sun Mo urged.

  Honestly speaking, Sun Mo felt that although the Battlegod Catalog was powerful, its range of usage was inferior to the Great Desolation Dragon Subduing Scripture.

  Ding!

  “Congratulations, your expertise of the first level ‘Dragon God Visualization’ has been improved to the grandmaster level.”

  Upon hearing the system’s voice, Sun Mo immediately circulated the cultivation art. As expected, his efficiency of transforming spirit qi into dragon qi had improved by over ten folds compared to before.

  A layer of golden dragon qi immediately seeped out from Sun Mo’s body and coated his skin.

  Swish~

  Everyone immediately turned their head and stared over.

  As the sun set, the orange glow cascaded upon Sun Mo, making him seem like a human made from gold. He was gorgeous and resplendent to look at.

  “…”

  Sun Mo was speechless. This special effect looked so stupid. He felt like he was a light bulb. He tried but had no way to dispel it.

  But very soon, Sun Mo was in no mood to care about this. His expertise of the second level ’72 stances of the Dragon God’ was still at the expert level despite having spammed 10 time emblems.

  “Do you want to continue?”

  The system asked.

  “Yes!”

  After Sun Mo finished speaking, he added, “Directly spam a 100-year time emblem.”

  Suddenly, pictures of giant dragons producing rain and clouds flashed through his mind.

  The faint golden dragon qi on Sun Mo’s body started to ripple intensely and unceasingly take on other forms.

  “Is Teacher Sun cultivating?”

  Bai Xiqing was shocked. This must be some sort of peerless-grade saint-tier cultivation arts for sure.

  This time around, Sun Mo ‘digested’ for a total of five minutes before he got the system to continue.

  After that, an invisible might gushed forth from him.

  This was the third level ‘Dragon Might’. The user could release it according to his will, and it would be enough to intimidate all beasts.

  Swish~

  The teachers and students following behind Sun Mo all shivered in unison as they stared at Sun Mo with indeterminate alarm and fear.

  In that instant, it was like the person they were looking at wasn’t Sun Mo but an ancient ferocious beast instead.

  “What cultivation art is this? It is so terrifying!”

  Li Ruolan was shocked.

  After that, his expertise in the fourth level ‘Dragonbreath’ was improved to the grandmaster level. He could unleash various dragonbreaths, for example, fire.

  And at this moment, the improvements stopped.

  “Starting from the fifth level, you have to cultivate it yourself.”

  The system reminded Sun Mo.

  “Understood, you can go and rest for now!”

  Sun Mo bumped his fists together and could sense the vast and mighty dragon qi circulating within his body. He used a great amount of force to suppress the urge of throwing his head back and issuing a long howl.

  The strength of such a physique was too satisfying.

  During the modern era, although Sun Mo was only 20+ years old, by working overtime, playing games, staying up late and watching p*rn, all these activities had weakened his body by a lot.

  Although Sun Mo had ‘repaired’ his body through cultivation after coming to the Nine Provinces, he was now at a completely different level now. One could say that he was a human with a dragon physique.

  The current Sun Mo could destroy a ferocious beast bare-handed.

  There was no problem referring to him as a human-shaped beast.

  Sun Mo attentively paid attention to the great changes in his body. Firstly, his sixth sense was much sharper. He could even hear the faint wriggling sounds of earthworms within the soil.

  “How wonderful!”

  Sun Mo sighed ruefully.

  Cultivating it himself?

  Sun Mo really wanted to give himself a harsh slap. This was such a stupid idea.

  He had spent 10 minutes vastly improving his expertise in the ultimate divine skill of the Dragon Subduing Academy as well as the Battlegod Catalog. There was nothing better than this!

  “No matter who the enemy is, this great teacher shall crush your doggy head.”

  Sun Mo clenched his fists as his spirits stirred. He subconsciously turned his head and wanted to share his joy with everyone. However, he only saw many shocked and appalled faces.

  “Teacher, are you a human or a beast?”

  The pure and innocent papaya girl blurted out.

  Sun Mo cast an annoyed glance over. “What are you blindly speaking about?”

  He was merely grumbling, but his dragon might unconsciously gushed forth.

  In that instant, Li Ziqi’s group was like quails being eyed by a giant beast. They were so terrified that their feathers fell off. Cold sweats instantly drenched their backs.

  “Ah!”

  Li Ruolan exclaimed in shock. This Sun Mo was truly terrifying.

  “Let’s go and collect the heads of our enemies!”

  Sun Mo increased his speed. The current him was filled with confidence. “I want to fight against ten!”