Ziling spoke calmly, “I’m fine with anything. It doesn’t matter to me.”

Tai Er grinned. “Then what are we waiting for? Let’s split up now—I don’t want to hang around him every day.”

“That Nine Nether Ice Flame is too terrifying.”

A line of text suddenly appeared in front of his eyes: “Just try splitting up and see what happens.”

Tai Er was about to move when he realized that several sharp swords were pointed at his throat.

Heiyan said calmly, “Master isn’t dead, just unconscious. We can’t split up.”

“Look, Master’s eyes are open.”

Tai Er followed the voice and saw Shen Mo looking at him calmly, eyes open.

He instantly panicked.

He gulped nervously, putting on a humanlike display.

“Master, it’s not what you think, I swear! I’m loyal to you, absolutely!”

Shen Mo was covered in blood, but a calm smile appeared at the corner of his mouth.

“Tai Er, don’t overestimate yourself. Don’t forget what you really are.”

Tai Er shuddered all over, nodding so hard his head nearly hit the ground like a pounding pestle.

Yet his pitch-black eyes still darted about, sweeping over the wounds all over Shen Mo’s body.

Shen Mo smiled faintly, spiritual power surging as he activated the Dharma Manifestation of the Undying River.

Buzz!

In just a moment, the wounds on Shen Mo’s body began to heal at a speed visible to the naked eye.

In less than ten breaths, most of his wounds had already closed up.

Tai Er was dumbfounded.

Even Heiyan was quite astonished.

He knew Shen Mo possessed this Dharma Manifestation.

But he never imagined it could have such terrifying regenerative power.

After all, Shen Mo had never been injured this badly before.

The Undying River Dharma Manifestation’s recovery ability had never truly been put to use.

Heiyan was filled with emotion—no wonder the new master was so confident.

So this was his trump card!

He had to admit, in this respect, the new master really was stronger than the Martial Ancestor.

Ziling still didn’t say anything, but it was clear she too was feeling surprised.

As for Tai Er, all he could do now was tremble.

Shen Mo remained calm.

The reactions of the artifact spirits were within his expectations.

The Earthsplitter Armor had only recently been acquired, so it wasn’t aware.

As for Ziling and Tai Er, they knew about it but weren’t clear on just how powerful the Undying River Dharma Manifestation truly was.

Now, at last, they had witnessed it firsthand.

“Continue.”

Shen Mo flipped his palm, condensing another Void Ancient Sword and thrusting it toward that tiny void vortex.

Once again came a bone-deep, soul-wrenching pain.

Once again his flesh split open, blood and flesh torn apart.

But having experienced it once before, this time Shen Mo didn’t pass out. He grit his teeth and endured.

Then came the third time, the fourth, the fifth…

With each round of excruciating agony, something new began to arise within his heart.

The power of the void seemed, with each round of pain, to imprint itself into his blood, to carve itself into his bones.

At a certain moment—

He suddenly had an epiphany.

Instinctively, he reached out with his hand.

The air before him actually began to distort.

Sometimes it rippled like the surface of a lake.

Sometimes it warped like the air above burning flames.

It refracted into a kaleidoscope of bizarre, dazzling fragments.

Shen Mo tapped lightly.

The space before him rippled, as if it truly existed as a tangible substance.

He looked within, at his Divine Palace.

There was no visible change inside the Divine Palace.

At first glance, it seemed as if nothing new had appeared.

But when he closed his eyes and sensed carefully,

He immediately discovered that there was now an additional force within—hair-thin, formless, and colorless.

‘This is… the power of the void.’

A smile appeared on Shen Mo’s face.

Even though this wisp of void power was tiny and faint,

He could already sense the pure destruction and chaos contained within.

Once this trace of void power was added to any martial technique, its might would be elevated to a new level!

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