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

Chapter 78: Cangming Sea Area

Xu Mu took out a third-grade Earth Escape Talisman and slapped it on himself.

A layer of earthy yellow light quickly enveloped him.

Xu Mu flew towards the stone wall above his head, and in the moment of contact, his body melted into it like water.

What Xu Mu didn't know was that as soon as he entered the stone wall, that mysterious entrance began to slowly shrink.

...

Not long after, Xu Mu pierced through the stone wall and flew out from the other side.

The air was filled with a salty sea breeze, and as far as the eye could see, there was a vast and boundless sea.

The dazzling sun above his head shone on the sea, creating sparkling waves. The sea water crashed against the reefs, splashing waves and white sea birds flew high in the sky, emitting loud cries.

This was the sea that he had only seen in his previous life.

At this moment, he finally realized.

That was not some secret realm entrance or formation entrance, but the legendary spatial rift!

"No wonder the external light can't penetrate, and there are no traces on the stone wall, as if it appeared out of thin air! Now everything makes sense!"

He had most likely ended up thousands of miles away from the Cloud Summit Mountain Range.

According to the information he had collected, the nearest sea to the Cloud Summit Mountain Range was a hundred thousand miles away.

"Xiao Yi is probably from here, and the owners of those two skeletons might have been killed by him!"

"That's not a treasure map, just a map to go home!"

"But Xiao Yi probably wouldn't want to come back!"

Xu Mu closed his eyes and felt that the spiritual energy in the air was very thin, even lower than in the stone chamber and much worse than in the jungle.

In a place like this, it would be a problem just to survive, let alone cultivate.

Just staying here would constantly consume spiritual power.

"Discovering a spatial rift is certainly a joy, but this place seems to have no value at all! It's impossible for any treasures to be born here, let alone high-level cultivators!"

There must be cultivators, otherwise Xiao Yi's cultivation technique couldn't be explained.

If Xiao Yi hadn't cultivated, as an ordinary person, he wouldn't have been able to escape to the Baihe Market, where there were monsters everywhere in the jungle.

Looking around, there were no traces of humans nearby.

The place where he stood was just a solitary island with a radius of a hundred steps.

"Let's go back first. I'll come back to explore this place when I have time!"

He was not prepared at all, and everything in this place was unknown. No one knew what he would encounter.

His top priority now was to break through the Foundation Building stage, not to explore an unknown area.

He recalled the Crimson Crow and slapped a sinking talisman on himself, returning to the lower stone chamber.

"Damn!"

Looking at the space rift that was now only the size of a human head, Xu Mu's face turned pale but he was powerless.

He hesitated for a moment, took out a third-grade flying sword, and slashed towards the shrinking opening.

Snap!

In the instant the sword touched the edge of the rift, it broke into two like mud, with one piece falling on the other side and one piece in Xu Mu's hand.

Xu Mu looked at the smooth cut on the sword, his face even more grim.

This was a third-grade magical weapon worth dozens of medium-grade spirit stones. It could cut iron like mud and break a hair with a puff of air. It could be considered a family heirloom for an ordinary Qi Refining stage cultivator.

But in the face of spatial power, it was as fragile as tofu.

Xu Mu completely gave up on the idea of forcibly passing through and watched helplessly as the spatial rift disappeared completely.

"I left enough spirit stones at home, and Yingying and the others should not lack cultivation resources for the time being!"

"With Chi Feiyan taking care of them, and with Yu Heng's relationship, Jin'er should have broken through to the late Qi Refining stage. As long as they don't cause trouble themselves, their safety should not be a problem!"

Xu Mu could only console himself in his heart.

"I hope my guess is correct, and he will open it again in a month at the same time, otherwise..."

Xu Mu didn't dare to think about it.

He stayed in the stone chamber for a day and a night, and seeing no signs of the spatial rift reappearing, Xu Mu could only reluctantly give up.

Since he had already come here, he couldn't stay here forever.

Xu Mu decided to take this opportunity to explore the surrounding area.

Since Xiao Yi had crossed over from here, there should be people nearby. After all, Xiao Yi was only at the Qi Refining stage and couldn't cross thousands of miles of sea.

Leaving the stone chamber, Xu Mu arrived at the sea surface and released his flying sword, flying towards the high altitude.

When he was about to reach the stratosphere, he stopped and looked into the distance with his hand shading his eyes.

In the northwest direction, a small moving black dot appeared in his line of sight.

"It should be a ship!"

Xu Mu hesitated for a moment, controlled his muscles, changed his appearance, and used invisibility technique. Then he controlled the flying sword and flew towards the direction of the black dot.

As the distance closed, the black dot gradually enlarged and became clear.

Indeed, it was a huge ship, nearly a hundred meters long.

Through his perception, Xu Mu discovered that there were about one or two hundred people on the ship, with only one Qi Refining early-stage cultivator among them.

This situation was within Xu Mu's expectations.

After all, the spiritual energy here was too thin. Unless one had exceptional talent, it was impossible to become a cultivator.

Sensing that there was no danger, Xu Mu dispelled the invisibility technique and flew directly towards the deck.

The sailors who were looking out from the mast were startled when they saw Xu Mu flying from the sky.

The sailor shouted, and everyone on the ship, including the cultivator, ran out.

Xu Mu put away the flying sword and slowly descended from the sky.

All the ordinary people on the ship knelt down and kowtowed, while the cultivator respectfully bowed.

"May I ask, Fellow Daoist, where is this place?" Xu Mu returned the gesture and asked.

The cultivator looked confused, as if he didn't understand what Xu Mu was saying.

Xu Mu repeated his question, but the cultivator shook his head.

"..."

It seemed that they were far apart, to the point where they couldn't understand each other's words.

Xu Mu could only use his fingers to gesture, indicating that he came from a faraway place. The cultivator finally understood and started gesturing and speaking in the local language.

The two of them communicated back and forth for a while.

At this moment, Xu Mu noticed that although the language difference was significant, it was not completely different. There were at least three or four similarities.

With Xu Mu's powerful mental strength and the similarities, they were able to communicate without hindrance after two days.

The cultivator on the ship was an old man in his seventies named Lu Zhaoxi. Everyone on the ship called him Old Lu and respected him greatly.

Through Old Lu, Xu Mu gained a general understanding of the surrounding situation.

The area he was in was called the Cangming Sea, but Old Lu didn't know exactly how big it was. He only knew that there were numerous islands here, large and small, like stars in the sky.

Both cultivators and mortals lived on these islands.

From Old Lu's words, Xu Mu learned that there were not only many cultivators in the Cangming Sea, but possibly even more than in the area where the Tianhe Sect was located.

The reason for this was all because of Pulse Techniques!

Or it should be called Fixed Pulse Techniques!

The so-called Fixed Pulse Techniques involved first finding the dragon veins of the earth, then connecting them with formations to mobilize the power of the dragon veins, gathering dense spiritual energy within a radius of hundreds or thousands of miles, creating a place of exceptionally rich spiritual energy for cultivation.

The reason the spiritual energy in the air was so thin was due to the excessive use of Fixed Pulse Techniques.

In the area of the Tianhe Sect, anyone could become a cultivator, but in the Cangming Sea, it was extremely difficult to become a cultivator without entering a cultivation area.

Most of the cultivation areas in the Cangming Sea were controlled by three major forces.

These were the Four Seas Immortal Palace, the Heaven-Replenishing Pavilion, and the Starry Gate.

The Four Seas Immortal Palace had the largest number of members but the weakest strength. As long as one had spirit stones, they could join. Most of its members were wandering cultivators.

The Heaven-Replenishing Pavilion practiced the dual cultivation of charm techniques. They operated brothels and gambling dens in most cultivation areas.

When Xu Mu heard about the Heaven-Replenishing Pavilion, he thought of the Heaven-Replenishing Technique he obtained from Xiao Yi, as well as the Heaven-Replenishing Token and the Yin-Yang Tongji One Hundred and Eight Forms that had helped him multiple times. However, he didn't know the exact relationship between the two.

As for the Starry Gate, it was the strongest and most mysterious. Old Lu didn't know much about it.

One day later, the ship docked at the nearest island. Xu Mu gave Old Lu a few spirit stones as a token of gratitude, then disembarked and bid farewell to everyone, heading alone towards the cultivation city on the island.

Old Lu was the mentor of this ship and needed to follow it until the mission was completed, so he couldn't serve as Xu Mu's guide.

The mission was accepted from the Four Seas Immortal Palace, with a reward of five low-grade spirit stones per month.

However, before disembarking, Old Lu gave him a letter to deliver to his grandson who was cultivating in the city. If Xu Mu needed assistance, he could ask his grandson to be his guide.

Xu Mu continued forward, flying for more than five hundred li, and saw a huge city in the distance. It was located in the center of the island, with cultivators coming and going in an endless stream.

That was the cultivation city Old Lu mentioned—

Zhufeng City!

It was larger and more magnificent than Liyang City.

However, what Xu Mu was concerned about was whether there were the main ingredients for refining Foundation Building Pills here.

(End of this chapter)