Chapter 334: Purification

Li Mochen's car had only driven two blocks when he sensed a surge of demonic energy from the east. He and the others in the car looked out the window in astonishment. The city's magic tower array had fully activated, projecting dazzling, deadly light toward the origin of the demonic tide. Layer upon layer of sealing arrays spread out in that direction.

"What's going on?"

Elisa looked bewildered, uncertain and alarmed: "I think I sensed a legendary being? Is it the Fenrir wolf?"

After all, her power and perception were borrowed from the Calamity Flame Apostle, and she lacked sufficient experience at this level.

"It's not him."

Li Mochen shook his head. Though he had never met this Fenrir, the aura of a magical beast hunter wouldn't be so violent. Otherwise, how could it hide itself before ambushing its prey?

"But it's hard to say whether it's an accomplice of the Fenrir wolf—"

With that, Li Mochen turned to the half-elf maid beside him, Isadora Wicks: "Go see what's happening. If it feels dangerous, don't go too deep. I don't necessarily need to know the situation there."

Isadora immediately opened the car door, flashed out, and vanished from the spot. The Otto I that Li Mochen was riding in continued toward the Unicorn Apartment, encountering dozens of police cars and armored military vehicles along the way. More than one powerful divine sense swept toward him.

Three minutes later, Isadora returned to the car, her shoulder injured and her face pale: "Master, it's Dacia Rockefeller and his playmates. I saw over twenty convertibles there, all with their wheel hubs and tires blown out. But the people inside should be fine—probably kidnapped. However, their bodyguards and escorts suffered heavy casualties; more than a dozen modified armored vehicles were all destroyed."

Li Mochen was stunned. Although he had guessed from the location of the demonic energy surge that something had happened to Dacia Rockefeller, he still felt surprised and bewildered after confirmation. After all, that guy had just finalized a deal with him.

And the one who kidnapped all those rich young men—he wondered which faction it was. To dare commit such a major crime with the magic tower array operating around the clock, their strength must be extraordinary, and they were incredibly audacious.

He wondered if it was related to the Fenrir wolf.

But Li Mochen soon snapped back to reality and turned his gaze to Isadora's shoulder: "So what's this about?"

It wasn't a serious injury—just a graze on the shoulder. But the fact that it could pierce Isadora's 20s-grade cloth armor meant the attacker was quite powerful.

"I was discovered. I don't know which family it was. They might have suspected I was involved in the kidnapping and tried to capture me."

Isadora explained: "But once I caught up with your car, they just gave up."

Li Mochen frowned slightly, then continued gazing out the window, lost in thought.

"A-Mo, my advice is to just watch. This has little to do with us."

Eliza interjected: "True, Dacia did reach an agreement with us, but this is their own affair. The Rockefeller family has the ability to handle it."

Li Mochen thought the same. He had no intention of intervening; he was just pondering how the situation in Atlanta would change after this incident.

It was foreseeable that, whether or not this was the work of the Fenrir wolf, this already turbulent city would only become more fraught with undercurrents and upheaval.

…

After returning to the Unicorn Apartment, Li Mochen entered seclusion again.

First, he took out the blood from the legendary dragon and the legendary Titan warrior. The method of use was simple: place them in a 'Zhou Tian Star Spirit Array' he had prepared, wash and refine them with star power, then integrate them into his body.

These so-called 'secret bloods' in the West contained the original owners' mental will and soul imprints, making them much harder to handle than the three energy crystals he had obtained earlier.

A month ago, Li Mochen would never have dared to do this. But now, he had further digested the residual power of the Life Spring, healing the wounds on his divine soul more than before.

Moreover, the successful first round of financing for Xuri Electric Retail Company, the accumulation of over a billion shields in wealth, and the robust growth of his own forces had gradually brought the two souls into harmony.

Although they had not yet fully merged due to the unresolved knot of the original owner's parents' death, Li Mochen could now suppress the original owner's desires in many situations without being rejected by the latter.

Li Mochen was confident he could resist the mental will in these 'secret bloods' and erase the imprints.

But the most crucial factor was his experience in purifying and washing the three energy crystals, which gave him confidence. The existence of the 'Divine Fortune Purple Gold Tower' was also enough to back him up. So he specially set up this array to refine the 'secret bloods.'

The result did not exceed Li Mochen's expectations. When he summoned the three emperor dharma forms and manipulated the gathered Zhou Tian star power to forcefully wash them, the mental imprints in the blood showed signs of collapse.

After weakening them to a certain extent, Li Mochen swallowed them into his body, completely shattered the mental will within, and then fully integrated the bloodline power into himself.

At that moment, every bit of flesh and every cell in Li Mochen's body began a violent transformation. They cheered and rejoiced, but also struggled and wailed in the extreme pain caused by the transformation.

Li Mochen's face twisted, cold sweat pouring down. Yet he endured the pain, silently visualizing the 'Divine Fortune Purple Gold Tower' in his mind, earnestly making a wish.

The wish he made this time was: 'Perfectly absorb the secret blood, leaving no residual will or impurities from the original owner!'

The next instant, as Li Mochen's blood surged and his divine soul swelled, a large number of black blood spots were forced out of his pores. A powerful wave of soul energy burst from his brow, causing a gale to swirl in the room and triggering even more extreme pain in Li Mochen.

It wasn't until the fifth pair of secret blood was integrated into his body that the pain, a hundred times more excruciating than being sliced alive, slowly subsided. However, the pace of his body's transformation also gradually slowed.

By the time the seventh pair of blood was fully refined, Li Mochen felt refreshed and energetic, as if he had inexhaustible strength within him.

At this moment, Li Mochen sensed that a portion of the 'essence blood' within him had taken on a faint golden hue.

On the surface, it was invisible—the blood remained bright red. But if one observed with micro-level perception, they would see faint golden patterns at the core of the blood.

At this same time, completely unbeknownst to Li Mochen, in a secret laboratory in Atlanta's North District, two elderly men were staring at a glass jar made of a very special material.