Mo Di: What they feared still happened.
A day ago, a Frost噬 Giant Spider turned Nanfeng City into a frozen wasteland, where residents either froze into ice sculptures or were devoured by the giant spider after freezing.
The biting cold wind blew from Nanfeng City to Greenlawn City, causing the temperature here to drop significantly.
“That’s the situation. The entity codenamed ‘Frost噬 Giant Spider’ has been confirmed to be foraging,” Ling Tianfeng reported during the online meeting.
Most of the others at the meeting were frowning, while a few were gloating.
Mo Di sat beside Ling Tianfeng, silent, acting as a quiet background.
‘This world is ridiculous. All the major corporations and conglomerates have their own unique black technologies, like the tech behind this online meeting.
It allows high-ranking humans to maintain smooth communication even when global communication methods are largely ineffective, but unfortunately, I can’t get my hands on it.’
He naturally coveted these technologies, but unfortunately, apart from the Ling Family’s experimental laser weapons, he couldn’t access any of the others.
The meeting continued, and a high-ranking official from one company asked, “Are our nuclear weapons effective against it?”
“Nanfeng City tried, but it had no effect. The nuclear weapons were detected by it before they even got close and were teleported to an unknown location using some kind of spatial transfer technology,” another high-ranking official said expressionlessly.
These words made Mo Di frown.
If this was true, then it was likely not an ordinary Frost噬 Giant Spider, but an Elder of their clan.
Every Frost噬 Giant Spider Elder possesses considerable spellcasting and precognitive abilities, which they use to locate new worlds and open teleportation channels.
Such beings are even harder to deal with.
‘I might have to consider what comes next.’
He still had one point of confusion: Frost噬 Giant Spiders were supposed to be a gentle species and wouldn’t forage so frequently.
What caused this Frost噬 Giant Spider Elder to be so frenzied?
He didn’t understand, and the high-ranking officials in the meeting couldn’t come up with a solution either, so the discussion ended inconclusively.
The leaders of the cities closest to Nanfeng City were on pins and needles, worried that after the Frost噬 Giant Spider finished ravaging Nanfeng City, it would come for them, the nearest ones.
Ling Tianfeng felt the same; he didn’t believe Greenlawn City had the ability to deal with such a monstrous natural disaster.
Stepping out of the meeting room, a gust of cold wind made him involuntarily sneeze.
“Senior, if that giant spider really attacks, what should we do?”
“I don’t know,” Mo Di answered honestly.
“Even you, Senior… well, even a Xiantian Realm expert is still human. How could anyone deal with something like that?”
He gave a self-deprecating smile and changed the subject:
“Senior, after the outer mist dissipated, many things not belonging to our world appeared in the areas that were once misty. The company is already forming an expedition team. Are you interested in joining?”
After spending this time together, Ling Tianfeng had learned a lot about Mo Di and knew that he liked to research strange but useful things.
Perhaps he would be interested in those otherworldly regions.
“Otherworldly regions?” Mo Di stroked his chin, thought for a moment, “I have some minor matters to attend to right now, so I can’t spare the time. I’ll go take a look once I’m done.”
His trip to Lianxin Village had yielded many good things, and he needed to find time to process them.
As for the otherworldly regions, he was equally interested and wouldn’t miss out.
Returning to his residence, Mo Di activated a barrier to prevent prying eyes.
He took out several of his flesh puppets; since returning from Lianxin Village, black qi had constantly lingered around their bodies.
Before her death, the Black Sky Buddha Mother poured all her remaining curses into them, which conveniently benefited him, allowing him to acquire several of the most valuable curse samples.
“Still, I need to be careful, otherwise, curse leakage could easily occur.”
After setting up another curse-fire barrier for emergency curse removal, he carefully circulated the modified 【Earth God Qi Devouring Method】, taking a deep breath.
The black qi from one of the puppets was slowly drawn into his abdomen.
Curses, in essence, are similar to incense offerings—both are a form of wish power.
However, incense wish power is mostly the condensation of positive emotions and thoughts, while curses are the opposite.
Theoretically, the 【Earth God Qi Devouring Method】, a divine path cultivation technique that absorbs incense wish power for cultivation, could also absorb curses for cultivation.
It’s just unknown what kind of entity would ultimately be cultivated.
Most likely, it would be an evil god, similar to the Black Sky Buddha Mother, or possibly a mad god, the completely insane kind.
Mo Di initially planned to experiment with incense offerings, but he found that even the most flourishing temples had no trace of wish power.
This path was directly blocked, so he simply turned to curses, seeking a way to utilize them without affecting his sanity.
Initially, he intended to use curses to create magical items to harm others until he inadvertently discovered the extremely high compatibility between the Wendigo Bloodline and curses, and things spiraled out of control.
‘The Wendigo Bloodline inherently carries an evil nature, so it’s normal for it to resonate with these inherently malicious curses. It’s just me; otherwise, who else could suppress this naturally evil bloodline?’
That’s right, it would be absolutely impossible.
Having eliminated another major crisis for the world, Mo Di felt deeply that he had sacrificed a great deal.
As for how the crisis came about? That doesn't matter; just look at the result.
With the curses entering his body, the 【Earth God Qi Devouring Method · Modified】 ran methodically, transforming the external curses into his own power.
The original version of the 【Earth God Qi Devouring Method】 required an Earth God divine position bestowed by the Great Xuan Dynasty to cultivate.
Even an ordinary person like him, if they obtained the technique, wouldn’t be able to cultivate it.
To break the hateful Great Xuan Dynasty’s monopoly on the wish power system, Mo Di brought out his ultimate secret technique.
【Mengel Spirit Fusion Ritual】
Although this technique had many pitfalls, it wasn’t without its merits.
For example, in the aspect of fusing heterogeneous powers like malevolent spirits and beliefs.
“Spirit fusion” was originally a general term. Menger, that old man, believed that all things had spirits, and he created this technique to insert a divine corpse into his own body.
Through the part of this technique that fuses heterogeneous powers, Mo Di could convert wish power for his own use, even without a divine position.
As for other aspects like absorbing wish power and maintaining sanity, those were handled by the 【Earth God Qi Devouring Method】.
The former draws wish power from a container into the body, while the latter filters out the influence of wish power to prevent oneself from being shaped into another person by the wish power of the populace.
These were all original contents of the 【Earth God Qi Devouring Method】.
The transformed curses strengthened his spirit and also interfered with his magic, imbuing it with the nature of curses.
If he wished, he could spread and amplify curses through spells at any time.
Under the stimulation of the curses, the dormant 【Nightmare】 aspect in the Wendigo Bloodline stirred, showing signs of resurgence, but it was suppressed by the other three, unable to cause any ripples.
“I didn’t expect curses to be compatible with the 【Nightmare】 aspect,” Mo Di’s expression was strange. “The most dominant aspects in my body are first Blood, then Frost, and finally Scale.”
Typically, most people, like him, would have a maximum of three aspects. Any more would likely lead to collapse due to conflicting aspects.
“The conversion between curse magic and cold blood true qi is still too troublesome. There’s also a loss during this process. If I could integrate my own powers…”
After thinking for a moment, Mo Di saved this idea, similar to creating a new folder called “Power Integration Project,” and then there was no “then.”
Currently, his conditions do not support the advancement of this project.
He would have to wait until his spirit was powerful enough to perfectly control both energies before he would attempt the next step.
He was still some distance from that realm.
“Curse magic. In the future, my spells, in addition to blood flames and frost, can also carry the curse debuff.”
Imagining himself in action, Mo Di suddenly fell silent.
Bloody, eerie, bizarre—he was increasingly approaching the stereotype people had of Blood Mages and Necromancers.
He continued to absorb and transform curses, and not long after, the legacy left by the Black Sky Buddha Mother was completely absorbed by him.
The excessive curses caused him to unconsciously emit an eerie aura, with a lingering sense of strangeness.
“Does this count as a constant Secret Aura? Will it attract annoying detectives?”
Mo Di reined in his curses and put on his black-rimmed glasses, which finally suppressed the Secret Aura lingering around him.
At least now he wouldn’t scare children with a single glance… Outside Greenlawn City, in an area once shrouded in mist, an expedition team set up camp.
Several white-haired old professors were gathered around a stone slab, constantly exclaiming in awe.
“We’ve never discovered this kind of writing before. Could it be from a lost civilization?”
“Old Zhang, you’re behind the times. The otherworldly theory has been confirmed. This should be writing from an otherworldly civilization.”
“Otherworldly theory? When did that happen?”
“Just a few days ago, shortly after the outer mist dissipated.”
“Stop talking, is there a way to translate the text on this? Why hasn’t that translation expert the higher-ups mentioned arrived yet?”
“I’m here.”
A gentle but somewhat hoarse male voice came, and the old professors all turned their heads to see a tall young man wearing black-rimmed glasses push aside the curtain and enter the tent.
“Hello everyone, I am the translation expert sent by the company to assist.”
Mo Di scanned the group and found that apart from marveling at his youth, they had no other reaction.
‘Very good, it seems my disguise is still very effective.’
Standing still for two or three seconds, the professors finally reacted and pulled him over to the stone slab.
“Are you really a translation expert? You’re so young?” Professor Zhang asked suspiciously.
“I wouldn’t call myself an expert; I just have a few tricks,” Mo Di smiled.
【Comprehend Languages】 also counts as a trick, so it’s certainly no problem for him to moonlight as a translation expert.
Another professor pulled Professor Zhang aside and whispered in his ear, “Don’t underestimate this expert. He’s said to be a Xiantian martial artist and also a high-ranking executive in the group. He might just be skilled in maintaining his youthful appearance.”
After the Mist Disaster, news of martial artists circulated in certain circles, and these professors had all heard relevant rumors.
Professor Zhang suddenly understood, treating Mo Di as an equal, “In that case, let’s begin as soon as possible.”
Mo Di nodded, his gaze shifting to the stone slab, and he raised an eyebrow.
Carved on this stone slab was not the script of the Great Xuan Dynasty, but another kind of otherworldly writing he had never seen before, yet found somewhat familiar.