Longevity Begins With The Birth Of A Daughter At An Old Age

Chapter 77: Ironback Rhinoceros

Three days later.

Xu Mu arrived at the Cui Lingfang Market.

After inquiring about the news and confirming the situation with the Luo family, he temporarily put it aside and purchased a positioning artifact before entering the Cloud Peak Mountains.

The positioning artifact was somewhat similar to a compass from his previous life, allowing cultivators to determine their direction.

The location on the map was quite far away, and without the positioning artifact, he would have to take many detours.

Being cautious, Xu Mu immediately concealed his aura and activated his invisibility technique as soon as he entered the mountains.

On the way, as long as he noticed anything unusual, he would rather take a longer route than take any risks.

In this way, Xu Mu spent half a month and finally arrived at the marked location on the map.

"Did I make a mistake? Or is there something wrong with the map?"

In front of Xu Mu, there was only a lonely little mountain, with nothing else.

Unwilling to accept this, Xu Mu meticulously searched every inch of the mountain several times, but still found nothing.

"Could it be that I made this trip for nothing?"

Although he had anticipated the possibility before coming, he couldn't help but feel a bit disappointed when it actually happened.

"What kind of treasure can a Qi Refining stage cultivator have? Maybe I was too naive!"

Xu Mu sighed.

"But, I can't really go find that woman, can I?!"

The woman Xu Mu mentioned was the non-human "Lan Shijin" he encountered when he came from Baihefang Market.

The other party had extraordinary strength and most likely possessed the Dragon Heart Nine-Leaf Mushroom.

That was another reason why he came to the Cloud Peak Mountains.

Xiao Yi's map, on the other hand, seemed more like a gamble.

Xu Mu took out the map again and stared at the two characters marked at the destination.

"Yue Chen?"

Throughout the journey, he had been pondering the meaning of these two characters.

Unfortunately, he couldn't grasp it.

These two characters seemed like scene names, but also like specific times, and even resembled some kind of code.

"If 'yue' refers to the moon, then 'chen' might refer to the stars. Could it be that the treasure can only be opened on a night with stars and the moon?"

Xu Mu pondered, rubbing his chin.

Could a treasure at the Qi Refining stage be so exaggerated?

It made it seem like Alibaba!

"If it requires a specific time and environment to open..."

Xu Mu's heart suddenly raced.

It was somewhat like a legendary secret realm!

"Then, should I wait a few days?"

Since he had already come this far, he couldn't just turn back after taking a glance.

After careful consideration, Xu Mu decided to wait for a while.

He had left a communication array at home, and if there were any urgent matters, Lan Shijin would naturally pass on the message to him.

Afterward, Xu Mu opened a temporary cave on the mountain and set up various small and large alert formations nearby, so that he could detect any abnormalities as soon as possible.

Xu Mu didn't put all his hopes on the elusive treasure. These days, he would occasionally go out and continue searching in the vicinity.

...

Boom!

A massive Ironback Rhinoceros, as tall as a small mountain, chased after Xu Mu with its eyes turning red.

With each step it took, the ground would be littered with flying gravel, and the ancient trees along the way would be shattered.

"I only took one spiritual herb from you, is it necessary?"

Xu Mu, constantly jumping and dodging among the trees, helplessly said.

The Ironback Rhinoceros paid no attention to these words and continued to pursue relentlessly.

Not wanting to be entangled, Xu Mu activated his invisibility technique and disappeared on the spot.

Roar!

The Ironback Rhinoceros roared, stomping on the ground fiercely. Countless spikes surged from the ground, reaching several zhang high.

Bang!

Xu Mu's figure reappeared in the void.

"You big guy! You're just asking for death!"

Xu Mu's gaze turned cold.

Caw!

The Crimson Crow instantly flew out from his body, emitting a piercing cry from its beak. Invisible sound waves swept in all directions.

Roar!

The Ironback Rhinoceros swayed, its eyes becoming even redder as it roared in response, engaging in a confrontation.

The Crimson Crow suddenly spread its wings and flew into the sky. As its wings flapped, countless fireballs condensed in the air and smashed towards the Ironback Rhinoceros on the ground.

The Ironback Rhinoceros emitted a yellowish light all over its body, condensing numerous earth spikes in front of it, shooting towards the Crimson Crow in the sky.

The fireballs and earth spikes collided, creating a continuous explosion in the air.

The Ironback Rhinoceros was clearly weaker, quickly being suppressed by the fireballs, and it seemed like it was about to attack its body.

Just as the Ironback Rhinoceros began to show signs of fear, a figure appeared in front of it like lightning. Before it could react, half of its neck was severed.

"Heh! Heh!"

Fresh blood surged as the massive body of the Ironback Rhinoceros crashed heavily to the ground.

Gah!

The Crimson Crow let out a cry and shrank in size, landing on Xu Mu's shoulder.

Four eyes opened, pupils swirling like four tiny whirlpools.

Roar!

The essence of the Ironback Rhinoceros, under the influence of an invisible force, was slowly drawn out and struggled and roared in the air.

The Crimson Crow opened its beak and directly sucked it in.

The four eyes returned to normal and once again merged into Xu Mu's body.

After Xu Mu cut up the body of the Ironback Rhinoceros, he stored it in a storage bag and quickly left the area.

On this day, as he was meditating and cultivating in a cave, he suddenly felt a disturbance in his chest.

He immediately stopped his cultivation, opened his eyes, and took out the thing that caused the disturbance in his chest.

It was a formation compass!

After injecting spiritual power into it, Xu Mu immediately activated a light screen, on which an area kept flashing with a green light.

"The alarm formation I set up has reacted!"

Xu Mu frowned and thought, could it be that some foolish monster had broken through?

He put away the compass, concealed his aura, and cast a concealment spell on himself before leaving the cave and quickly heading towards the location where the reaction occurred.

"What is this?!"

Looking at the scene before him, Xu Mu's body trembled in shock.

The ordinary mountain wall had unexpectedly developed a crack as tall as a person, pitch black inside, with nothing visible, as if it had appeared out of thin air.

Xu Mu looked up at the distant sky. The sun had just risen, the hour of Chen in the day.

"Could it be that the 'Chen' on the map represents the hour of Chen?"

"And the so-called 'Yue' could it mean a month?"

He hadn't been here for long, so it would be unlikely for him to be so lucky as to encounter it just once a year.

"Specific time, specific location, could this really be a hidden realm?"

Xu Mu's heart raced.

Originally just a casual guess, he never expected to actually stumble upon it.

This kind of good fortune actually happened to him.

Wait!

Xu Mu suddenly woke up and shook his head inwardly.

Hidden realms are independent small spaces, either supported by peerless experts or maintained by powerful formations relying on top-grade spiritual veins. Otherwise, hidden realms cannot exist independently.

A hidden realm with a top-grade spiritual vein, even if one simply cultivates inside, it would probably be no problem to break through to the Foundation Building stage.

If it really was a hidden realm, Xiao Yi would not be foolish enough to abandon it and struggle outside.

"It's possible that it's just some kind of magical formation!" Xu Mu thought to himself.

He picked up a stone and threw it inside.

The stone made a crisp impact sound and bounced back out.

"There's a stone wall inside!"

Xu Mu pondered for a moment, took out a talisman, and threw it inside.

The talisman instantly exploded inside, turning into a fireball that completely illuminated the space.

It was a closed stone chamber, with two skeletons lying in the corner, a ten-step radius, and nothing else.

He pulled on the rope around his waist, and the rope came alive, wrapping around the two skeletons and pulling them out.

After careful inspection, Xu Mu found that they were just ordinary skeletons. There were no treasures, not even clothes, just the most common fabric, already rotten.

"Is this the so-called treasure? This is too ridiculous!"

Xu Mu was greatly disappointed.

He felt like he had been played by a dead person.

Unwilling, he grabbed a Black Scale Beast and threw it in. After finding nothing unusual, he went in to investigate himself.

After the inspection, he was even more disappointed.

It was just an ordinary stone chamber, without even a formation. The spiritual energy inside was extremely thin, lower by eighty to ninety percent compared to the outside, making him feel uncomfortable all over.

He knocked on the stone wall, but there was no clear echo, indicating that there was something solid behind it, not hollow.

"To make such a magical place and only create such a stone chamber, how idle must this person be!"

Xu Mu felt frustrated and wanted to vomit blood.

He felt like he had wasted so many days for nothing.

Still somewhat unwilling, he sat cross-legged and formed hand seals.

Gah!

The Crimson Crow flew out from within him, shimmering with light, gradually becoming ethereal, and flew towards the stone wall.

Without any earth-shattering changes, the Crimson Crow merged into it.

In Xu Mu's mind, scenes of the stone wall appeared.

The next moment, the Crimson Crow suddenly broke free from the stone wall and flew up into the sky. In his sight, there were rolling waves and an endless sea.

"..."