Gan River Lower Courtyard.

At the north side of the mountain peak’s Daoist platform.

Mo Wuzhou stood respectfully in front of the incense table.

On the curtain woven from strands of blue smoke, the figure of Rong Qiu appeared.

"Soon, a group of people from the Hundred Workshops Hall will secretly proceed to the Gan River Lower Courtyard."

"Find them a more hidden location so they can concentrate on building the deep-diving ferry." Continue reading at

Mo Wuzhou’s expression turned grave, "Master, are we really going to relocate the sect to Hai Province?"

Rong Qiu sighed, "Sporadic records in ancient books say that Earth Spirit Vital Energy is like waves with peaks and troughs."

"We’ve had the misfortune of being born in a year of great change, and Yunzhou has hit a low point in the energy wave."

"We can only prepare early, to chase the energy wave, if we want a chance to continue cultivating."

Mo Wuzhou nodded solemnly, "Master, rest assured, I will safeguard the Gan River Lower Courtyard."

"Don’t feel too pressured. Your Elder Brother Liang Yi has gone to the Stone Cave Lower Courtyard to do similar work."

"Jilong Road isn’t placing all its hopes in one location; several alternatives have been prepared," Rong Qiu reassured with a gentle voice.

Mo Wuzhou immediately breathed a sigh of relief.

Rong Qiu chuckled lightly before turning serious, "You need to be wary of troublemakers. Elder Song has already started investigating."

"These people’s backgrounds are mysterious. We still don’t know which Dao Sect they belong to, so you must be on your guard."

Mo Wuzhou’s eyebrows furrowed, his mind instantly going to the group of black-clothed oddities he had encountered on Jilong Mountain.

After resolving some of Mo Wuzhou’s doubts about cultivation, the figure of Rong Qiu slowly faded away.

"Crafty humans," the smoky beast Tu suddenly voiced his thoughts in amazement.

"On the surface, they banish you to this godforsaken place, but in reality, they have you supervise the construction of the Gan River ferry site in preparation for the sect’s relocation."

"That cheerful elder who took over Jilong Mountain, is he in for bad luck? Tsk tsk..."

"You didn’t even tell him about the relocation plans, and I bet he doesn’t know about the ghosts and demons lurking around Jilong Mountain either, does he?"

Mo Wuzhou’s lips curled slightly, "That white mist creature is called a ghost demon?"

"Sinister! Truly sinister!" Tu exclaimed, "Your human hearts are much dirtier than us ’Heavenly Demon Path’ beings."

"At least we humans don’t hide inside someone else’s Jade Seed and refuse to come out, do we?" Mo Wuzhou sneered.

"How do you know no one does that?" Tu asked back merrily.

Mo Wuzhou paused.

It wasn’t so far-fetched; there might indeed be people who covet others’ bodies for power and longevity. He had heard of something called the Six Desires God-Slaughtering Technique, a Soul Transference Secret Technique that supposedly allowed one to take over the bodies of demons for an unnatural long life.

"No response, huh?" Tu chortled eerily.

"Shut it!"

"Heh heh..."

Wooden hut’s corridor.

Five days after feeling the vibration in his right chest, a brand-new Divine Orifice appeared as naturally as water flows in a channel.

Chen Mu sat at the edge of the corridor, leaning against a pillar.

With a flash of black smoke in his right hand, a chunk of dusky metal appeared, the leftover corner material from when he had previously forged the Vermilion Feather Sword.

He sensed carefully, a wave of Ghost energy emerging from the metal ingot.

As naturally as one would blink, Chen Mu instinctively activated his Escape Skill.

The next moment, the metal ingot seemed to possess the ability to phase through walls, effortlessly passing through his palm and falling to the ground.

He then took out an unrefined piece of reddish ore and again triggered his Escape Skill, the ore similarly easily going through his palm.

"From now on, even if I come across hard rock veins, I dare to smash my head against them!"

"Haha!"

As expected, with the opening of a new Divine Orifice, his Escape Skill had once again improved.

"They say those on the ’Heavenly Demon Path’ are stupid brutes, suffering in practice and achieving unattractive results."

"But in my case, this ’Heavenly Demon Path’ isn’t entirely useless."

"Indeed, the method remains the same, it really depends on who practices it. Heh heh..."

While he was feeling proud, ripples appeared in the open space to the west of the small courtyard, and the figure of the big toad Yuanbao slowly emerged.

Next to him floated a strange fish, over a meter long, with tiny arms, thick whiskers, a golden shimmer, and a body covered in black scales.

"You didn’t put it in your mouth, did you?" Chen Mu stared at the big toad with a suspicious face.

Yuanbao’s eyes were full of helplessness, "Croak..."

"Caught it with mana? It’s been floating beside you? Well, that’s fine."

"Croak."

"You think I’m nagging, not trusting you?"

"Heh!"

Chen Mu, with a sour face, activated the Qi Forbidden Hundred Miles and drew the golden-whiskered black-scale strange fish to his side, "Ever since you told Mo Wuzhou about my information, there’s no such thing as trust in you with me!"

The big toad drooped its eyelids and slowly turned its body, facing its butt towards Chen Mu, and stared up at the sky on its own.

Chen Mu: "..."

How dare you flash your butt at me? Do you still want the Primordial Energy or not?!

"I want to eat fish again tomorrow!"

"Croak..." The big toad dragged out its croak reluctantly..

Chen Mu smiled with satisfaction.

He carried the golden-whiskered strange fish into the kitchen.

To prevent being captured and used as a Primordial Energy experience pack, Chen Mu had been staying inside his log cabin and not showing his face for some time.

After years of adventuring, he had collected a variety of vegetable seeds in his Five Ghosts Bag, and with the Third Rank Planting Technique, he was not short of fresh wild vegetables.

As for Exotic Beast Meat, necessary for preparing the Replenishing Origin Soup...

Chen Mu chuckled as he looked at the Cold Moon Toad in the small courtyard.

With this big demon-grade amphibious hunter around, he felt he would soon be able to eat all kinds of exotic beasts around the Lower Courtyard of Gan River.

Chen Mu hummed a little tune while his right-hand fingers flicked in succession.

Accompanied by the swooshing of the Three Yin Demon-Slaying Qi Blade, the tender parts of the strange fish quickly turned into thin fish slices. He casually threw a Minor Frost Descend Method over to temporarily freeze them for freshness. Then, he separated the tough parts and threw them into a wooden barrel, soaked them with cold water and medicinal herbs, ready for extraction into the Replenishing Origin Soup.

The large golden-whiskered strange fish was quickly and skillfully processed.

Wind chimes tinkled in a corner of the corridor.

The big toad crouched in the yard, its eyelids drooping as it dozed off.

Five little paper figures dove into the vegetable patch, hopping and jumping as they caught bugs.

Chen Mu settled back into the rocking chair, sipped some mountain tea from a wooden cup, pulled up the grey wall interface, and focused on one of the entries.

Netherworld Grand Summary: 7990/10000/Seventh Rank;

Lately, he had been devoting more time and energy to refining the Divine Orifice Talisman. After years of cultivation, he had become increasingly skilled at consolidating the talisman. Even though there were more and more varied talismans, the refinement speed was noticeably faster than in previous years.

"It’ll be at most a month before the next phase," Chen Mu murmured as he leaned back in his rocking chair and squinted his eyes comfortably amidst the creaking sound.

...

Night

Bright moonlight spilled into the Gan River.

A small black canopy boat was quietly floating in the middle of the river.

Despite the rushing and turbulent water, the boat was motionless, pinned in place as if it were a rock in the river.

"What’s the strength of this person?" asked a tall and skinny man in a grey robe from inside the cabin.

Opposite him, a burly man wearing half armor shook his head, "Hard to say."

"Based on the intelligence delivered by the Night Walker, it seems that about a year and a half ago, the target exchanged for the Netherworld Grand Summary and appears to have a good number of strange secret techniques at hand," the grey-robed man continued.

"He looks just so-so on the surface, but the Spiritual Master has instructed us to wait for General Jin Er to arrive before taking action."

"Ho! Likes to play pig to eat the tiger? He’s hiding his strength," the middle-aged man in the grey robe couldn’t help but raise his eyebrows.

The man in black armor nodded, "Otherwise, the Spiritual Master wouldn’t be so cautious."

"But we can’t just do nothing in the meantime," the man in the grey robe shrugged, "I don’t want to see that Barbarian giving me a dirty look."

"Start by checking if he has any acquaintances around the Lower Courtyard of Gan River," suggested the black-armored man.

"Then we set a trap to lure him out. It’s risky to take action near the Lower Courtyard of Gan River, it’d cause too much commotion."

The man in black armor nodded, but with a helpless look, "You might not believe this, but since he arrived at the Lower Courtyard of Gan River, he hasn’t shown up even once."

"Not even anyone in the courtyard knows such a person exists."

"As for acquaintances," the man in black armor’s expression turned strange, "does Mo Wuzhou count?"

"Tsk... What a hassle."

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