Day by day, time passed.
Apart from cultivating his Daoist Foundation, Chen Mu spent most of his time hunting demons.
He used the Nine Cups Calculation Scripture to determine locations, releasing demon poison with the Plague Immortal Technique. Many Nether Demon Heavenly Demons were felled, and the Essence Blood Flesh stored at the Bottomless Pool grew day by day.
On this day, he followed the location calculated by the Calculation Scripture and appeared outside a valley.
With the Truth Listening Divine Power activated, he quickly discovered a somewhat familiar middle-aged man.
The man’s head was bald, and his eyes were blood-red. Thin threads of blood extended from the corners of his eyes to the top of his head, outlining lotus petal-like patterns with an eerie beauty.
“Is this… Zhou Tong?”
Chen Mu’s heart chilled.
Before he could figure out why Zhou Tong’s appearance had changed so much, similar figures began to appear one after another within the perception of the Truth Listening Divine Power.
They were the Daoist Soldiers of Fire Dao City, following Zhou Tong.
At this moment, their auras had drastically changed, their eyes blood-red and their bodies emaciated. Their faces were filled with brutality, like cats with their fur bristled, ready to fight at any moment over the slightest disagreement.
During Chen Mu’s observation, three disputes spontaneously erupted.
The onlookers not only didn’t stop them but were excitedly cheering around. Their eyes even gleamed with blatant greed, looking at their companions as if they were prey.
These people, something is not right!
Chen Mu felt a chill run down his spine.
The results from the Calculation Scripture clearly indicated that there were Nether Demon Heavenly Demons here, but what appeared were these Daoist Soldiers with altered forms…
Could it be… this categorized Zhou Tong and the others as Nether Demon Heavenly Demons?
Chen Mu looked up at the blood-red sky, then looked down at the drastically altered Zhou Tong and the others, and suddenly felt a shiver all over.
This Nether Demon Blood Light can actually mutate Qi Cultivators into Nether Demon Heavenly Demons?!
Hiss!
“No wonder when the Nether Demon Heaven invaded before, they only slightly chased away Zhou Tong and the group of Daoist Soldiers, allowing them to disperse. They were waiting here!” Chen Mu felt a chill in his heart.
But why am I fine?
Is it because of the Underworld God Transformation?
Chen Mu had a hypothesis in his mind.
He could no longer care about hunting demons and immediately returned to the underground cavern, diving into Thousand Lanterns City.
Then he dispersed the Vermilion Feather Sword to search for Li Jiu and Fei Zhao and discovered that both of them and their Daoist Soldiers had varying degrees of mutation.
Once keen on escaping Fire Dao Star, now they spent every day competing with the surrounding demons for territory, having seemingly turned into local demons of the Nether Demon Heaven.
“This Fire Dao Star… is no longer livable.”
…
More than ten days later, in Thousand Lanterns City.
Dozens of gigantic Soul-Attracting Lamps floated in mid-air, illuminating the pitch-black Thousand Lanterns City.
On the vast, flat ground, only one three-story wooden building stood, with Chen Mu lying with eyes closed in a rocking chair at its entrance.
His mana slightly fluctuating, his consciousness seemed to be immersed in an ever-surging gray fog sea.
The fog gathered and dispersed, forming familiar and unfamiliar images.
At a certain moment, a three-tenths unfamiliar, seven-tenths familiar hill appeared in his mind.
“Qiluo Mountain, it’s done!”
Chen Mu’s lips curled up, and he opened his eyes.
With a slight thought, a gray wall surfaced before his eyes.
Nine Cups Calculation Scripture: 337/10000/Fifth Rank;
After discovering Zhou Tong’s mutation and knowing the strange effect of the Nether Demon Blood Light, Chen Mu had stayed inside Thousand Lanterns City without daring to step out these days.
To leave as soon as possible, he began to practice the Nine Cups Calculation Scripture with full effort, yielding quite pleasing results.
“This Calculation Scripture isn’t entirely useless after all.” Chen Mu chuckled.
After reaching the Fifth Rank, the gray wall provided substantial feedback, gradually revealing the profoundness of this Secret Technique.
“Using the Calculation Scripture to calculate fate is nonsense, but using it to determine tangible things isn’t entirely impossible.”
“Its function is less about calculation and prediction, more about theft.”
“Theft of the information already existing between heaven and earth.” Chen Mu understood.
If the entirety of heaven and earth was likened to an enormous database, the Calculation Scripture was akin to a hacker program. It could intervene in heaven and earth through special calculations, thereby acquiring certain information.
Calculating the positions of demons on Fire Dao Star was one such use; now, calculating the whereabouts of the Heavenly Demon Body in Luandu County, Yunzhou, was another.
…
Two days later, in the underground cavern.
Chen Mu stood on the stone platform by the rock wall, the bulging Five Ghosts Bag floating not far from his chest.
Inside the Secret Acupoint in his brow, the Yin Spirit Divine Fetus wrapped in invisible flames slowly rotated, thin strands of Yin Spirit Divine Power flying out and penetrating the Five Ghosts Bag.
Suddenly, streaks of black smoke shot out from within the Five Ghosts Bag.
With the Mountain-Carrying Scripture in operation, clusters of black smoke gathered into a black cloud mid-air.
Chen Mu softly chanted the Jade Gate Curse.
The black cloud began to slowly churn.
Buzz!
All at once, the black cloud converged towards the center. In a matter of breaths, a ten-meter-tall gray arch-like stone gate appeared in mid-air.
A curtain resembling a semi-transparent water veil covered the portal, beyond which lay pitch-black depths with no end in sight.
The Ghost Gate had taken shape!
“After more than two months of preparation, it’s time to leave Fire Dao Star.”
Chen Mu reached out his right hand, and twelve thin red lines pierced through the rock ceiling above. The Vermilion Feather Swords scattered outside returned, swimming nimbly like fish into his sleeve.
The Qi Forbidden Hundred Miles activated, and the Extinguishing Breath Stone set in the rock wall, along with the Absolute Breath Talismans, floated up, being recovered by Chen Mu one by one.
With a last glance at the underground cavern, Chen Mu no longer hesitated, a golden flash, and he dived into the Ghost Gate.
The massive Ghost Gate also transformed into streaks of black smoke, spiraling inward to contract. Amidst flashing black light, it vanished into thin air with a snap.
And just as Chen Mu and the Ghost Gate disappeared, a formless force swept across the entire cavern.
Heavenly Pass Star, Heavenly Pass City.
Sitting cross-legged deep within the Star Monarch Hall, Meng Qingchan suddenly opened her eyes.
“Ground Shrinking and Moving Void? This guy actually has such Secret Supernatural Powers?” she said, surprised.
“Hiding underground and using a special Array to conceal aura and form, no wonder this guy always inexplicably vanished when tracked before.”
“It’s hateful that my essence was damaged, preventing me from quickly infecting Jiao Mu Star Lord, failing to fully harness the Star Lord’s power, otherwise…” Meng Qingchan bit her lip, looking at her child-sized hands.
Thinking about the current situation caused by Chen Mu extracting too much Vital Energy from the Inheriting Heaven Gourd and disrupting the Golden Cicada Shell Shedding Technique, she couldn’t help but secretly resent.
Taking several deep breaths, Meng Qingchan tried hard to calm her fluctuating emotions.
“That petty thief got lucky.”
“Forget it, what’s done is done, running away is just that. The urgent task at hand is to quickly devour Jiao Mu Star Lord.”
“Compared to the Dao path, these petty grudges are insignificant.” She gritted her teeth, comforting herself.
…
It wasn’t Chen Mu’s first time using the Ghost Gate to shrink ground.
Before his eyes was the familiar, phantasmagoric scene. His body stretched and twisted bizarrely, yet there was no discomfort.
At a certain moment, it felt as though he had suddenly broken through an invisible membrane, resembling a firework explosion, causing a burst of bright white sparks around him.
Then it was as if a switch had been pressed.
Bang bang bang…
A series of star points burst forth, making the already surreal passage even more dazzling.
Chen Mu silently counted in his heart. After thirty-two bursts of sparks, the lights in front of him abruptly disappeared. Instantly, a bright blue sky filled his view.
Swish!
In a stretch of mountains and forests, Chen Mu suddenly appeared.
Energy swept up dust and leaves, spiraling outwards.
Chen Mu stood up, looked at the somewhat familiar hill underfoot, and a smile spread across his face.
“Finally made it back to Yunzhou safely.”
He raised his head, the Fire Dao Star occupied by demons now completely obscured by the brilliant blue sky.
A sense of relief welled up inside Chen Mu.
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