137: Hide one hand, or hide billions of hands?

Chu Mo stared intently ahead, a fierce aura assailing his face, then a sudden roar, shaking the heavens and earth.

"They're here!"

Almost as soon as Chu Mo's words fell, the ancient trees in front exploded into splinters, these splinters still imbued with a dense Yin-Sha Qi.

A strange creature, a hundred zhang tall, appeared.

Its body was somewhat ethereal, with three heads, arms covered in eyeballs, and a belly full of human faces, pieced together from countless souls.

As soon as it appeared, it charged towards the only two living people present, its aura incredibly chaotic, its eyes blood-red, filled with brutality and bloodlust.

"Chu Ge, this is the guy who chased me for eight streets! I just kept running, and he kept chasing, almost killing me several times."

The moment this type of bizarre creature appeared, Lin Yan immediately recounted his difficulties to Chu Mo, looking like a child complaining to a parent.

Chu Mo did not pay attention to Lin Yan in this state, but focused his attention on this bizarre soul body.

"So deformed, it’s like multiple soul bodies fighting, devouring, piecing together, and finally haphazardly fusing."

Chu Mo slightly raised his right hand, and countless streams of light shot out from his storage ring, a cold gleam tearing through the air, as hundreds of magic swords pierced into the bizarre soul body, pinning it to the ground.

The moment these hundreds of magic swords pierced its body, countless Sword Qi crisscrossed within the bizarre soul body, finally exploding with a 'boom'.

The shattered body turned into countless black Qi, and these black Qi rotated around, as if drawn by something, recovering towards one spot.

Following the direction of the black Qi, Chu Mo saw Lin Yan sitting cross-legged on the ground, behind him a Dharma Idol resembling a fierce ghost emerged, hideous and terrifying.

The surrounding black airflow entered the Dharma Idol, transforming into resources to enhance Lin Yan's Cultivation.

After a long while, he finally opened his tightly shut eyes, a sharp glint flashing within them, and an indescribable joy appeared on his face.

"I broke through! I finally broke through!"

Chu Mo slightly sensed the aura on Lin Yan's body and found that his current aura was several times stronger than before; he should have broken through from the Martial Master Rank to the Great Martial Master Rank.

This did not surprise him; the bizarre soul body he had just killed, by the Cultivation standards of this world, was at least at the Martial Ancestor Rank.

The black Qi from the soul body's demise was absorbed by Lin Yan, which only elevated him from Martial Master to Great Martial Master, and he still felt the increase was too little.

"The ghost Dharma Idol you just condensed behind you, is it part of the 'Soul Formula'?"

"No." Lin Yan waved his hand, "The 'Soul Formula' can only transform soul bodies into the purest resources; besides that, it's not much different from other Emperor-Rank Cultivation Techniques."

Chu Mo nodded slightly upon hearing this; the ghost Dharma Idol did not match the art style of this world, and from Lin Yan's words, it was likely exchanged from the mall.

It's just, where did he get so many points?

Seemingly seeing what Chu Mo was thinking, Lin Yan did not hide it and directly said: "Chu Ge, you might not know, Ning Ge has started a point loan system in the Chat Group, ten for eleven, although it's a bit of a rip-off, it's still acceptable."

"The points for my Prison Suppressing Life King Dharma Idol were borrowed from Ning Ge, but... the points are still not quite enough, I only exchanged for the first two layers."

Speaking of this, he paused, then looked at the storage ring on his right hand, "Chu Ge, are you sure he's in a deep sleep? He's not deliberately tricking me?"

Chu Mo grabbed Lin Yan's right hand, and his vast Divine Sense forcefully entered it, sweeping over the Mo Yun Ghost Emperor's soul body, which was curled into a ball.

After a moment, he nodded and said, "Don't worry, he has fallen into a deep sleep. No matter how you mess around outside, he won't be able to sense it."

Hearing Chu Mo say this, Lin Yan also breathed a sigh of relief, "Carrying such a dangerous guy on me, without some trump card, I'd be quite panicked."

Chu Mo said with a hint of teasing, "Panicked about what? This path, you chose it!"

"Chu Ge, stop teasing me!" Lin Yan smiled wryly and shook his head, "The 'Soul Formula' that Mo Yun Ghost Emperor gave me, I don't know if he left any hidden tricks, so I don't dare to use it carelessly now. I can only transform it, put it into the Dharma Idol, and then transfer it to myself."

"The benefit is that one wisp of my Spiritual Qi is equivalent to a dozen wisp of others', but the downside is that my Breakthrough has become more difficult."

"Alright!" Chu Mo heavily patted his shoulder, scolding with a smile, "Don't act innocent after gaining an advantage. One wisp of Spiritual Qi being equal to a dozen wisp of others' is a protagonist's standard. Although the Breakthrough is slower now, in the Late Stage, killing enemies beyond your Rank will be as easy as slicing melons and dicing vegetables."

Speaking of this, he paused.

As he had just said, continuously compressing and purifying one's Spiritual Qi can make one invincible among peers, and even kill enemies across Ranks.

But he had always relied on elixirs to advance.

His Foundation was indeed stable, but it didn't exceed others in the same stage by much. His ability to kill enemies across Ranks relied entirely on his luxurious equipment.

But if he ascended to the Immortal Realm, and that equipment was gone, he would be unable to move, so...

"I need to build my Foundation? But I'm already at the Nascent Soul Rank and about to reach Soul Transformation... Never mind, I'll look for methods suitable for building a Foundation at the Soul Transformation Rank."

Lin Yan's method of improvement gave Chu Mo a lot of inspiration and also made him feel a sense of crisis.

Although the world he was in didn't emphasize Foundation, this was only limited to his world.

The Chat Group communicates with more than one world. What if one day he went to another world and was counter-killed by a Genius of a lower Rank? Where would he put his face?

After organizing his thoughts slightly, Chu Mo's attention focused on this Secret Realm.

Although this Secret Realm was somewhat different from ordinary Secret Realms, for him and Lin Yan, it was definitely a natural hunting ground.

Both of them needed soul bodies, a large number of soul bodies.

Naturally, they had to start a hunting mode here.

.....

"Dong dong dong —"

In the dense jungle, a massive black shadow flashed quickly, each step leaving a wide footprint on the ground.

And in front of him was a tiny black dot.

Just as he was about to catch up to the black shadow, countless magic swords emerged from the ground, continuously segmenting his body.

And from his wounds, black Qi continuously surged out.

"Roar!"

The ancient remnant soul, like a Vajra, roared in anger, continuously smashing the Sword Array set on the ground, terrifying Qi waves coming one after another.

The base of the Sword Array was instantly destroyed.

However, the man in black standing on the boulder was not surprised; instead, he was pleasantly surprised.