Chapter 577 Life Span
Bai Mo walked step by step towards them.
Closest to him was the young man standing in the Qian position, but unfortunately, he was so tormented by the excruciating pain that he was on the verge of collapse, barely holding on by a thread of will, unable even to summon the strength to look up.
Only Dong Fang Sa, who was at the center of the array, met his gaze.
"You've arrived."
Bai Mo looked at this mysteriously familiar person, saying nothing. Their only previous connection had been through the Xiao family siblings; the two had never truly met face to face.
At the time, Dong Fang Sa, merely passing by, had pointed the siblings, trapped in despair, towards Bai Mo, leading them to a path that was uncertain whether it counted as a road to survival.
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He couldn't detect any hostility; Dong Fang Sa displayed no emotional light, as if he had investigated Bai Mo's abilities in advance and tailored his approach accordingly.
But Bai Mo didn't quite believe that someone would burn away decades of their soul's lifespan just to greet him.
Yet, there was a considerably fatal flaw that prevented them from ever becoming mainstream.
Many of the high-level special Spirit Arts these individuals used required burning large amounts of soul lifespan; even if they won a fierce battle, it would instantly reduce their lifespan by ten or eight years.
The vast majority of people cultivated to seek longevity and eternal existence, so such a crooked path naturally came with a deterrent aura.
Even for Six Tiers life forms, the predicted soul lifespan range was only around three thousand years; a luxurious fighting style that casually reduced one's lifespan by decades per battle was something even they couldn't afford.
Therefore, they remained an extremely niche and mysterious group, and many people thus referred to them as "Longevity Masters."
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The Moon God was about to break free from orbit, and the surroundings of the two figures locked in gaze grew increasingly chaotic; the eight nodes forming the human array were already tottering, but at that very moment, Dong Fang Sa broke the stalemate!
A black shadow flew out from his chest, thrusting directly towards Bai Mo's heart.
However, Bai Mo did not dodge.
It wasn't that he couldn't react in time, but rather he was intensely curious about what this Feng Shui Master intended to do.
The black shadow in his eyes was a chain, yet he felt no destructive power from it; instead, there was a faint, inexplicable sensation that this chain, about to pierce his chest, would bring him considerable benefits.
A bizarre scene unfolded: Dong Fang Sa, who had barely stepped into the Five Tiers, plunged his main weapon into the heart of Bai Mo's Six Tiers avatar with a single move.
Dong Fang Sa was stunned. He had never imagined that Bai Mo wouldn't dodge, wouldn't evade, wouldn't even block, allowing the black chain to pierce him.
Feng Shui Spirit Masters possessed a unique Spirit Art called "Unavoidable Shot," which achieved an unblockable attack effect by burning lifespan; the more lifespan burned, the higher the success rate.
To ensure this "shot" would hit Bai Mo, Dong Fang Sa had almost recklessly burned three hundred years of his lifespan, only for the other party to actually, actually, *actually* not dodge! He was so incensed that a mouthful of rebellious blood nearly surged up his throat.
"And then?" Bai Mo uttered the first words between them since their meeting.
He saw Dong Fang Sa's hair turn white in an instant, and felt a unique ripple pass through, but it seemed as if nothing had ultimately happened.
In Bai Mo's memory, there was no deep-seated grudge between them that would warrant such treatment.
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"Star Core Grinding Disc, rise!" Dong Fang Sa had no intention of explaining, and the golden compass originally in his hand began to spin wildly, generating a circular phantom behind him.
The phantom's outline resembled a compass, but at its center was a Moon miniaturized countless times.
With each rotation of the golden compass, the phantom grew slightly larger, and the self-rotating Moon model at its center became a touch clearer. Bai Mo watched everything unfolding before him, constantly deconstructing the Feng Shui Spirit Art within, gradually forming a conclusion in his mind.
"The timing chosen is good; it happens to be when I'm suppressing the Earth-Moon gravity. Using this connection, the black chain on the Moon can even affect my main body through the avatar."
"And it seems to have resonated with the immense power pushing the Moon God out of orbit."
"As expected of the strongest Spirit Master, you saw through the mechanism of my Spirit Art in mere seconds." Dong Fang Sa watched helplessly as Bai Mo's eyes were filled only with curiosity for the compass, completely devoid of any sign of him.
"..."
As they spoke, the Moon model at the center of the compass phantom began to emit a unique gravitational pull, one that seemed to affect only Bai Mo, who had been pierced through the chest by the black chain.
As the phantom continued its ceaseless rotation, the gravitational pull relentlessly intensified, and the central Moon model, spinning at extreme speed, looked like it was collapsing into a miniature black hole. Yet, none of this could shake Bai Mo in the slightest.
"Should I walk in?" He pondered for a moment, then decided to first extend his avatar's hand into it to test, completely ignoring Dong Fang Sa, who was arranging the array.
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"You are playing with fire." After actively placing his hand into the black hole generated by the Moon phantom, Bai Mo spoke to Dong Fang Sa with a solemn tone for the first time.
"I will find the path of a Six Tiers Longevity Master! At all costs!" Dong Fang Sa, his hair now completely white and no longer resembling a young man, roared.
The path of Feng Shui Spirit Masters (Longevity Masters) was too niche, causing its development to be slow. Among them, the leader, Dong Fang Sa, had only barely managed to cross the threshold of the Five Tiers.
Unless he returned to the mainstream Spirit Energy system and abandoned his exploration of new paths, the emergence of a Six Tiers Longevity Master would likely only happen within his lifetime.
"Feng Shui is a path to gain strength beyond mortals from the layout of the land, mountains, and rivers, but compared to high-tier cultivators who can pull up mountains and fill seas, it's still not powerful enough."
"Therefore, I must harness the power of an entire planet! And finally, use stars as nodes to form a grand Star River Array!"
Dong Fang Sa unabashedly spoke of his conjectures for his future path, elevating Feng Shui, which primarily studied mountains and geography, to an astromancy that borrowed the power of planets.
"I am an Astromancy Longevity Master!"
Bai Mo looked at him deeply, paused for a few seconds, then actively stepped into the black hole at the center of the compass phantom.
His right hand, the last to enter, transformed from a palm into a fist, twisted in the void, and forcefully compressed a bit of surrounding air into a solid mass with extreme pressure. He then injected the information he wished to leave into it and tossed it to Dong Fang Sa.
This ball of information-laden air, temporarily bound into a solid state by the Spirit Energy covering its surface, became a one-time information recording device.
As soon as the first person opened and viewed its contents, the device would quickly revert to ordinary air, scattering like dust.
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