Two days later.
At the western mountainside of Mist Smoke Mountain, in front of the wooden tower Dan Rooms’ entrance.
Chen Mu was huddled in a rocking chair, gazing absentmindedly at the horizon.
The Liyang Path Fire Method was formidable, and two days had passed with many places in the mountains still billowing black smoke.
As he was pondering over when the chaos would end, a figure agilely emerged from the dense forest, a gleaming bald head catching his eye.
Jia Tian?
A smile curled on Chen Mu’s lips.
It seems the little baldy also successfully avoided this calamity.
"I just knew Senior Brother’s fortunes were as vast as the heavens, and nothing would happen to you!" Jia Tian approached with a face full of surprise.
"It was a narrow escape." Chen Mu smiled and gestured for Jia Tian to sit down on a bamboo chair beside him."Alas, why has it become so chaotic these past two years." Jia Tian sighed.
Chen Mu joined in the sigh, "Indeed, instead of cultivating diligently, they keep stirring up trouble."
In the years since Chen Mu had arrived in Yunzhou, he had constantly been on the run, hardly having a few years of peace.
Unfortunately, the human heart is unpredictable, and how can the vicissitudes of the world always conform to one’s desires?
Shaking his head to dismiss further thought, Chen Mu changed the subject to ask about the situation on the mountain.
"Nothing much happening." Jia Tian thought for a moment and shook his head, "It seems they haven’t finished fighting. The mountain is still ok, but I hear it’s still chaotic down below."
Then he added gleefully, "The Sun Family is completely finished this time."
The Sun Jian’s deeds exposed, implicated?
That Sun Jian...
Pretending to be puzzled, Chen Mu inquired without showing any emotion, "How can the Sun Family’s old ancestor, so formidable, be finished?"
"Hey! It’s because Old Ghost Sun colluded with Liyang Path," Jia Tian laughed.
"The old guy got chopped by the Scripture Pavilion Qingdu Institution. Once the supporter falls, retribution comes, doesn’t it?" Jia Tian chuckled again. ŗ₳ɴô𐌱Ęᶊ
Sun Jian is dead?
Chen Mu’s heart skipped a beat, "The Sun Family’s old ancestor’s Thunder Law was so sharp, he died just like that?"
"Is there any doubt?" Jia Tian looked completely certain, "Right near Jilei Mountain, one of my assistants saw it with his own eyes."
"They said that the snowstorm was like a sword rain that chopped Old Ghost Sun into mincemeat!"
Chen Mu was dumbfounded.
There’s such a good thing?!
Ha!
The Qingdu Institution is awesome!
...
Through roundabout probing and idle chatter, Chen Mu finally confirmed that the Sun Family truly met their doom this time.
At least the members of the Sun Family on Mist Smoke Mountain were done for.
The main branch members who weren’t dead had fled; only some distant branches and junior members were left and even they were detained and monitored by the Inspection Courtyard.
"How wonderful."
The heavy stone that had been pressing on his heart finally fell to the ground.
"Don’t be in a hurry to leave, let’s have a meal together later," Chen Mu said, beaming at Jia Tian.
Unfortunately, this was the wild mountains of East Ridge, with no place even to listen to music, wondering if the Upper Court might be a bit better.
"It seems I’m in for a treat today." Jia Tian’s eyebrows rose with joy.
Seeing Chen Mu in a good mood, Jia Tian’s eyes rolled around, and he broached the subject carefully, "Senior Brother, I’m not sure about that batch of All-Disease Pills..."
At those words, Chen Mu looked askance, "I was wondering, with all this chaos, how you could spare the time to be here."
"It turns out Your Highness isn’t here to see me, but to enquire about your batch of All-Disease Pills?"
Chen Mu had been somewhat moved to see the guy bounding over to him earlier.
Jia Tian looked genuinely aggrieved, "Senior Brother, how could you think so little of me?"
Chen Mu rolled his eyes and with a wave of his hand, a wooden box appeared out of thin air.
"Wasted some poisonous miasma, only managed to refine just over three hundred pills."
He couldn’t have made more even if he wanted to; the poisonous miasma was used up in the underground caverns, and even the storage gourd had been shattered by Yin Thunder.
Jia Tian’s grievance vanished instantly, as he joyfully hugged the wooden box to his chest.
His mouth followed with a series of flattering remarks, no cost spared.
But then he suddenly started to act coy.
"What’s the matter?" Chen Mu was curious.
"Senior Brother doesn’t know." Jia Tian wore a pained expression, "That group of bastard sons of bitches from Liyang Path, not only did they rob my business, but they also set fire to my shop."
"So?" Chen Mu asked, his eyes half-closed and looking sideways at him.
"Hehe, about the payment for the goods..."
"Are you thinking of delaying it for a couple of days?" Chen Mu rolled his eyes.
So, you’re not only eyeing the All-Disease Pill, but you also don’t want to pay?
"Get lost, quick!"
"Thank you, Senior Brother!" Jia Tian chuckled, grabbed the box, and ran off, shouting as he went: "Don’t worry, Senior Brother, at most half a month, once I have the funds, I will surely repay double."
Chen Mu couldn’t help but shake his head with a smile.
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"You should thank Sun Jian."
"If you hadn’t brought the news of Old Ghost Sun’s death, do you think I would let a scoundrel like you buy on credit? Hah!"
Huh?
Sun Jian is dead, the Sun Family is done for, doesn’t that mean the Red Gourd Sword Box is completely mine now?
Haha!
...
Three days later.
In a small valley on the east side of Mist Smoke Mountain.
The valley was shrouded in mist, with streams of water babbling through patches of hillside creeks.
In an instant, a gleaming white Escape Light suddenly broke through the clouds and landed with a ’bang,’ scattering the pebbles on the stream bank.
"The Longitudinal Rainbow Light travels through the land and enters the azure abyss; this is the style of a true Qi Cultivation master," Chen Mu said, beaming with joy.
"Although the Five Ghosts’ Dark Flame Escape Method is fast, its howling ghosts and wailing wolves are just so unprofessional."
"I’ve decided, for future Flying Escapes, I’ll use... uh, the flying kite method, I guess."
Being just a small cultivator with the Perceptive Illusion Breaking and Primordial Talisman, he dared not show off with the Longitudinal Rainbow Light.
Summoning the grey wall, Chen Mu looked at one of the sections.
Netherworld Grand Summary: 82/10000/Sixth Rank;
The Fifth Level Grand Summary has finally reached perfection. It was the advancement that made the Longitudinal Rainbow Light capable of Flight.
At this moment inside the Jade Seed, five layers of hollow spherical Divine Orifice Talismans nested within each other.
As they rotated chaotically, strands of Mana drifted out, rapidly filling the once again enlarged Jade Seed.
"Huh, I can still slightly strengthen my physique? Strengthening the body through the Grand Summary and transforming through the Divine Orifice are two different things?" Chen Mu suddenly realized.
"Then let’s try the Five Ghosts Possession again."
With a thought, billowing black smoke entered his body, and he quickly grew taller.
In the blink of an eye, a five-meter-tall, burly silhouette appeared in the midst of the mist.
Surrounded by black smoke that turned into black and red streamers, they slithered around him like fire snakes, causing the air to appear subtly distorted wherever they passed.
Feeling the devouring desire to destroy that assaulted his consciousness, Chen Mu slowly dissipated the Five Ghosts Possession.
"The strength has increased, but the side effects have diminished."
"Was it the thunder strike?"
He stared at the section on the grey wall where the Five Ghosts Moving Mountain Curse was listed.
A vague epiphany hovered at the edge of his mind.
"Did the thunder strike cause some unknown change, making me more in tune with the Five Ghosts Possession?"
"Can thunder strikes actually aid in the Five Ghosts Possession?"
"This... this is going off track, isn’t it?"
"I’m aiming for the style of ’a white-robed immortal with a transcendent aura,’ not getting further and further into this Yin Mysterious Method."
Chen Mu browsed the grey wall unwillingly.
Although he had learned many Secret Techniques, none were as powerful as the Five Ghosts Possession.
Is it irreplaceable then? Tsk!
"With the Sun Family gone, I wonder if that Kui Water Yin Thunder has made it into the Scripture Transmission Institute." Although Chen Mu would have loved to kill Sun Jian himself, he genuinely coveted his Thunder Law.
"Once I get to the Upper Court on Jilong Road, I must find time to check it out."
"For now, let’s take out that treasure first."
Chen Mu activated the Truthful Listening Technique, and all sounds within ten miles fell upon his ears.
Then, as if stepping into the void, he swooped down into the ground with a ’swoosh’ and disappeared.
When he reappeared, a Red Gourd as tall as his forearm was floating beside him.
He didn’t plan on inspecting it closely, and with a reverse swing, he stored it in the Five Ghosts Bag. Levitating into an Escape Light, he shot into the sky with a ’swoosh.’
"With the turmoil at Mist Smoke Mountain mostly settled, it’s time to send that distress signal for those folks in the cave; after all, I did take their money for saving lives."
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