Even stones that had endured for eons could scarcely withstand this Withering Force...

If this palm struck Flesh and Blood, one could only imagine how devastating the result would be!

Shen Mo exhaled a mouthful of Turbid Qi, slowly retracting his right palm.

His expression had returned to calm, but a lingering sense of trepidation remained in his heart.

Just now, if I hadn't reacted quickly, using the Withering Force hidden within the Flesh and Blood of my right palm as fuel to unleash the Pursuit Palm, I would have been drained of my vitality and soul, reduced to a decrepit cultivator by the Withering Pursuit Soul Palm!

"The first time I used this Sacrificial Magic, I was a bit clumsy!" Shen Mo muttered.

Now, with the lesson learned from that mistake, I'm certain I can perfectly control this Sacrificial Magic, sacrificing only a portion of my soul!

Every martial art and magic in the cultivation world is the culmination of Seniors' centuries or millennia of painstaking effort.

Although Shen Mo only intended to simply combine two instances of magic to better suit his own use, he had still nearly failed, almost sacrificing his own Essence and Qi as fuel.

This just went to show how difficult and perilous it was to create, compile, or alter a cultivation method!

However, Shen Mo was not discouraged. This time, he was filled with confidence that he could perfectly combine the Three-Heads Six-Arms True Immortal Technique and the Withering Pursuit Soul Palm.

After consuming an Elixir to adjust his condition to its peak, Shen Mo once again attempted to perform the Withering Pursuit Soul Palm.

HUM!

Mana and vitality, just as before, surged into his palm.

However, this time, the palm Shen Mo used to execute the Pursuit Palm belonged to his newly grown second pair of arms.

Moreover, having experienced the previous failure, he now had a much clearer understanding of this Sacrificial Magic's characteristics and was confident he would not lose control again.

CRACK!

CRACK!

Shen Mo heard several strange sounds emanating from his soul.

It sounded like glass or jade shattering. If an outsider could perceive the form of his soul, they would be astonished to discover...

His Three-Heads Six-Arms soul form, at this moment—the two heads on the left and right, along with the second and third pairs of arms—appeared as if severed by a sword, breaking away from the soul's main body.

Swiftly, these severed soul-heads and arms were drawn into the swirling black hole, then ground into pure Origin Power.

In the blink of an eye, this power blended with the vast Mana and vitality.

It gradually began to exude an aura of senility, decay, silent extinction, and withering—characteristic of a cultivator approaching the end of their Lifespan!

After undergoing numerous profound changes, Shen Mo's second pair of hands became saturated with a concentrated Withering Force.

BOOM!

The manifestation of this aura was like a dragon swimming through black smoke.

With one palm strike, he instantly left a withered and scorched palm print on the stone wall. The area around the print appeared weathered, identical to the mark left by the Pursuit Palm he had executed earlier.

I did it!

A glint of joy flashed in Shen Mo's eyes.

At this moment, the left and right heads on his body, and the two pairs of arms sprouting from his ribs and back, rapidly began to show signs of aging and decay, much like an elderly person.

The skin on the faces of the left and right heads sagged, teeth fell out, and hair turned white.

The two pairs of arms were similarly affected; their muscles and skin shriveled and withered, resembling dry firewood.

The soul and the physical body are connected in countless intricate ways!

If any part of the soul is damaged, the corresponding part of the physical body will also degenerate into dead flesh.

If one possessed a strong physique and was regularly nourished by vitality, this wouldn't be a major issue.

However, when Shen Mo executed the Withering Pursuit Soul Palm, he had sacrificed this portion of his vitality, and even the corresponding parts of his soul had become fuel to drive the Sacrificial Magic.

Naturally, these organs and limbs began to age and decay!

In the next instant, Shen Mo activated the Three-Heads Six-Arms True Immortal Technique. Bolstered by an ample supply of blood essence primality, the left and right heads and the two pairs of arms transitioned from decay back to full vigor, regaining their youthful vitality.

And his soul within his body once again transformed into the divine form of Three-Heads Six-Arms!

Upon careful assessment, Shen Mo found that the pale Gold Mana in his Spirit Sea had decreased by a full two-tenths, and his overflowing blood essence primality had been depleted by as much as three-tenths.

However, Mana could be restored by pursuing the Alchemy Path and refining nature's spiritual energy.

The initially abundant blood essence primality could also be replenished by practicing external magic.

If the recovery felt too slow, he could also utilize the Dragon Elephant Blood Fiend Body to draw vital essence from the corpses of demonic beasts, Demon Cores, and soul cores to replenish his own vitality!

In summary, Shen Mo had indeed managed to reduce the side effects of the Withering Pursuit Soul Palm to an acceptable level.

If the Senior who created the Three-Heads Six-Arms True Immortal Technique knew I was using this technique in such a manner, I'm afraid... even if he were in another realm, he'd probably come all this way to teach me a harsh lesson!

Such a thought inexplicably surfaced in Shen Mo's mind.

He recalled that the True Immortal Technique was obtained from Death Jaw, and Death Jaw was exceedingly peculiar, seemingly existing in this realm and others, in this time and others, all at once.

The possibility that this external magic originated from a Senior from the Outer Realm was not out of the question.

In any case, Shen Mo had never heard of such a divinely profound and mysterious external magic among the cultivation method manuals of the Five Great Sects!

He also knew that the Three-Heads Six-Arms True Immortal Technique was a divine war magic.

Using it to fuel Sacrificial Magic was undoubtedly a heretical application...

However, Shen Mo was not a pedantic person.

If, one day, a casual sword strike from him possessed power far exceeding that of the Withering Pursuit Soul Palm, then he certainly wouldn't sacrifice the fundamental for the trivial by using the characteristics of the True Immortal Technique to offset the detrimental consequences of employing Sacrificial Magic.

With the Withering Pursuit Soul Palm as a precedent, I can also cultivate the Sacrificial One Sword of the Heaven Sword Sect, the Gecko Divine Skill of my Riverside Sect, and the Sacrificial Magic of other immortal sects!

The principles behind such Sacrificial Magic are largely the same!

Now that Shen Mo could offset the negative consequences of Sacrificial Magic and thus perform the Withering Pursuit Soul Palm, he could also perform other types of Sacrificial Magic like the Sacrificial One Sword and the Gecko Divine Skill without limit.

One shouldn't underestimate the Gecko Divine Skill of the Riverside Sect; despite its unassuming name, its effects were extraordinary!

By severing half of one's body, it catalyzed the creation of a duplicate that was indistinguishable from the real body.

Moreover, this duplicate's strength far exceeded that of the real body!

A horizontal bisection would typically be fatal.

Therefore, when cultivators from the Riverside Sect who had practiced the Gecko Divine Skill faced a life-or-death crisis, they would mostly sever their entire lower body, leaving most of their Mana, vitality, and soul power within the severed part.

This duplicate would then engage the enemy in a bloody battle.

Alternatively, it could serve as a decoy, trigger traps in perilous situations, absorb Curses, or bear other attacks on behalf of the original body!

Of course, the outcome of using this method was similar to that of the Withering Pursuit Soul Palm; one could barely cling to life.

Many cultivators from the Riverside Sect who employed this method found their cultivation Realm stagnated completely thereafter. They would constantly regress until their vitality withered, their Lifespan was exhausted, and they died.

Thus, Shen Mo did not see a large number of cultivators within the sect who were left with only the upper half of their bodies.

I still have two profound level cultivation methods to claim.

When I return to the Riverside Sect this time, I'll go to the Magic Tower and obtain the Gecko Divine Skill. Using a newly grown head for the Tail Cutting will make it a rather formidable magic.

Furthermore, this type of Sacrificial Magic is different from other martial arts and cultivation methods.

Requesting the Sacrificial One Sword from the Heaven Asking Sword Sect, or asking other major sects for their respective Sacrificial Magic... it shouldn't be too difficult. If the opportunity arises, I could cultivate them as well!

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