Shen Mo could vaguely guess what Chen Mengze was thinking.
Fortunately, those who cultivate immortality always put the pursuit of immortality first. If they have no thoughts, they can achieve a pure heart and few desires. Their life span is not short like that of ordinary mortals. If they can accompany them for hundreds or even thousands of years, they will be another kind of person. A form of "Taoist couple"?
Therefore, Shen Mo did not deliberately avoid Chen Mengze. If he was obsessed with catching up with him, it might not be a bad thing!
As long as Chen Mengze's Taoist heart is clear and he is not frustrated by "not being able to ask for what he wants" or affecting his own practice because of "not being able to ask for what he wants", then everything else is just a side issue.
From the current point of view, her cultivation progress is not slow, and her Taoist heart has not become dusty;
He acted distant because he took into account Zhao Lingyin's thoughts and the material opinions of other disciples!
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"You are already the supreme elder of the sect, and you still call me senior sister, so you are not afraid of being laughed at by others."
After welcoming Shen Mo into the cave, Chen Mengze made a cup of spiritual tea for Shen Mo. The aroma of the tea rose with the heat, making her increasingly clear and beautiful face look like a person in a painting.
Her cave is furnished with a large amount of mysterious ice obtained from the extreme northern cold regions. Even the tables, chairs and beds are made of ice, like a thousand-year-old ice cellar.
It seems that only Lingcha is hot.
However, with Shen Mo's Taoism, the cold and heat have long since escaped, and he didn't care about the ice cellar-like environment. He sat down on the ice chair, picked up the tea cup and took a sip.
Then he exhaled the hot scent of tea and said quite casually: "The stronger you are, the less bound you will be by those rules and regulations."
"Otherwise, if we keep putting shackles on our bodies, we will become increasingly unable to be free... What's the point of our hard work in cultivation?"
"Don't say I'm calling you senior sister. If you want, why not call you master?"
Shen Mo's words seemed to be unserious, but they were actually telling Chen Mengze not to care too much about other people's opinions and just get along with each other normally.
If someone really dares to laugh at him to his face, Shen Mo will teach them what "the majesty of the ancestors" means;
If he wanted to be more serious, he could even rely on the divine soul spell to prevent his disciples from even having the slightest thought of humiliating him... Of course, Shen Mo would not do that!
Except for certain circumstances, Shen Mo has always been tolerant of weak creatures whose cultivation abilities are far inferior to his.
To put it more nakedly.
The thoughts of the weak, whether they are praise or criticism, are insignificant to the strong.
"Is it?"
Chen Mengze rolled his eyes at him and said angrily, "That's not what you said just now. You said that if there are many disciples nearby, there will be rumors and so on."
"If I hadn't said that, would An have been able to drink the spiritual tea you brewed?"
Shen Mo smiled faintly, drank all the tea in the cup, and then took out two bottles of elixirs and handed them to Chen Mengze.
"This bottle of Three Emperors Spiritual Marrow Pill was refined by Lingyin herself. She asked me to hand it over to you."
"This is a fifth-grade elixir with extraordinary effects and relatively mild medicinal properties. Whether it is used to assist cultivation or to restore spiritual power when the Dantian is exhausted during battle, it is a good choice."
"The other bottle is the fourth-grade Dragon and Tiger Phaseless Pill. The effect of restoring spiritual power is not as good as the former, but it is better in all aspects."
"After taking this pill, your qi, blood, soul, and spiritual power will be restored a lot. You should have taken it before and know its specific effects. Just watch and use it when the time comes!"
That wasn't enough, he took out a thick stack of talismans, of various types, each with its own effects.
After explaining everything to Chen Mengze one by one, Shen Mo asked her if the magic weapon was in hand, if there were any problems with the immortal martial arts skills she had practiced, and if the power of the Beidou Sword Formation was worthy of use.
Chen Mengze looked at him quietly and suddenly smiled: "Didn't you ask me some time ago?"
"Don't worry, I'm sure to win the position of core leader."
"You gave me elixirs and talismans so grandly, and you also used secret methods to help me cultivate the spirituality of the magic tools..."
"If your friends Cao Ren and Lu Ming find out, I'm afraid they will feel resentful and blame me for filling you with the ecstasy soup!"
Shen Mo chuckled lightly, a little unconcerned.
"We are close and distant, so how can I be exempted from the vulgarity?"
"If you and Uncle Chen hadn't taken care of me back then, I would have gone down the mountain long ago and either died in a demonic disaster or my wife and children would have been swallowed by a snake."
"What's more, they have their own chance to make things happen, so I don't need to worry about them."
"If I have a grudge against you and me because of this, and feel that I favor one over the other and neglect them... With such a heart and mind, I'm afraid I won't be able to go very far on the road to immortality, and I won't be able to walk with me for thousands of years!"
Hearing what he said, an imperceptible sparkle flashed through Chen Mengze's clear and bright eyes.
After that, Shen Mo took over the magical sword named "Huixue" from her hand and used the magical power of [Spiritual Heart Empowerment Wisdom] to enhance his spirit.
As soon as this crystal-clear spirit sword, like thin ice and cicada wings, came into Shen Mo's hands, the sword spirit shouted "Father" happily, showing his intimacy!
This sword was also forged by Shen Mo himself.
Chen Mengze used the yin and yang jade plate to condense the nectar, exchanged a lot of top casting materials with the black ice creatures in the cold realm, and had good luck, and the sword spirit was born as soon as it was forged.
Hui Xue Sword Spirit and Demon Killing Sword Spirit both regarded him as their biological father, which was not surprising at all.
When Shen Mo's Beidou Dao Sword, Qingyun Umbrella and other top-quality magic weapons give birth to spiritual wisdom, he will probably have a lot more "children".
He flicked the sword with his fingers and comforted Hui Xue Sword Spirit.
Immediately, waves of Tao rhyme rippled through Shen Mo's fingertips, which were formless, colorless and soundless. Even if a stronger person used his five senses to carefully detect them, it would be extremely difficult to detect any clues.
Chen Mengze on the side couldn't see anything except that he could feel Hui Xue Sword Spirit's heart was happy and a little more agile than before.
After Shen Mo withdrew his magical power, she opened her mouth and spat out a stream of frosty cold light, then put the Huixue Magic Sword into her dantian to continue cultivating it.
"Okay. Everything is settled, I'm going back first."
Shen Mo stood up, breathed white air and said to Chen Mengze, "You should continue to adjust your breath. In a few days, I'm afraid I will have to go through several fierce battles."
"I still have to go to the Palace of Eternal Life to discuss the rules and regulations of this competition with the two ancestors, Yuan and Zhou!"
Chen Mengze nodded and sent Shen Mo out of the cave.
After returning, she sat cross-legged on the ice bed, took out a Dragon-Tiger Phaseless Pill sent by Chen Mo, bit the pill into pieces with her silver teeth, swallowed it in her belly, and fell into a state of cultivation again.
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Time flew by, and soon it was time to compete and determine the core seats.
The chosen venue for this competition was among the mountains not far from Chong'a Mountain. If something happened at the mountain gate, Shen Mo and the other three Supreme Elders and other senior officials could all return to the sect in time.
After hearing the news, the disciples went to the Battlefield early to seize a hilltop with higher terrain and a wider view, so that they could better observe the fight between dragons and tigers!
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