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

Chapter 85: Returning to Liyang Sect

"No?"

Under the scanning of his divine sense, Xu Mu did not find the existence of the stone chamber.

"Could it be that I came to the wrong place?"

Xu Mu flew into the sky and looked around. Within a radius of ten li, there was only this solitary island.

"It's impossible to be wrong! When I left, I confirmed with Elder Lu several times, and this sea area nearby is not a dangerous place. There is a complete sea chart, and there is no similar place!"

Xu Mu landed on the island and looked around. He had a clear impression of several places, so he couldn't be wrong.

But no matter how he used his divine sense to investigate, the interior of the island was empty, except for rocks and soil. There was no stone chamber at all.

"Could it be that the stone chamber, like the spatial rift, disappeared?"

Xu Mu's face became increasingly unsightly. Reluctantly, he slapped a ground sinking talisman on himself and drilled into the island.

Soon, he appeared inside the stone chamber.

"This, this..."

While Xu Mu was delighted, he was also quite shocked.

"When I left, I thought my perception was weak, so I couldn't find the stone chamber."

"I didn't expect it to actually have the ability to deceive divine sense!"

He reached out and touched the cold stone wall. No matter how he looked at it, he couldn't see that it had such a magical function.

Originally, Xu Mu wanted to cut off a piece to examine, but he was afraid of damaging its function. If it affected the spatial rift, he would truly cry to death here.

"In any case, let's return first! We can study it later if we have the chance!"

The top priority is to return to the original area.

"I originally thought this stone chamber was made by Xiao Yi, but now it seems that he shouldn't have the ability!"

"If it's not Xiao Yi, then who could it be? And why did they give up on this place?"

The value of this spatial rift is self-evident.

Not to mention being able to sell goods on both sides, just being able to easily cross millions of miles is enough to make a Nascent Soul stage cultivator's heart race.

The other party created the stone chamber to obviously conceal the existence of the spatial rift and enjoy it alone, but now they have abandoned it, which is hard not to be suspicious of.

"Could there be some hidden danger in this spatial rift that I don't know about?"

A layer of gloom suddenly covered Xu Mu's heart.

But he couldn't easily give up on this invaluable spatial rift.

You should know that if his reselling plan succeeds, the profit he obtains each time is enough to make a Gold Core stage cultivator's heart race. Moreover, as it continues to develop, the profit will only increase.

What should he do?

Not doing it?

What dangers could there be?

Various chaotic thoughts kept flashing through his mind.

At this moment, above the sea.

Streaks of light streaked across the sky and landed on the islands. The streaks of light dispersed, revealing stunning and unique beauties.

The white junior sister who wanted to recruit Xu Mu as a cauldron was also among them, at the end of the team.

Leading them was a girl with long hair that reached her waist, dressed in white. Her face appeared to be only sixteen or seventeen years old, but her eyes were as old as if she had seen through the vicissitudes of the world.

An extremely powerful divine sense emanated from the girl's body, sweeping around but yielding no results.

The white-clad girl furrowed her brows slightly, causing the many Gold Core female cultivators following behind her to tremble in fear.

Only a woman with strange blue hair and watery eyes calmly stepped forward.

"Master! We have been searching here for over a year, but there are no traces of spatial fissures appearing. Disciple thinks that the map is probably fake!"

After the woman with blue hair finished speaking, she stood to the side.

The female cultivators behind her all became tense.

They had been ordered to search the nearby sea area for over a year, which was quite exhausting. If it weren't for the imposing presence of the white-haired girl, they would have given up long ago.

The white-haired girl closed her eyes and fell silent for a moment before suddenly speaking.

"Let's go back!"

After speaking, the white-haired girl glanced back, turned into a white rainbow, and shot towards the north. The female cultivators hurriedly followed.

The white junior sister hesitated for a moment, thinking about the excellent material for the cauldron, but ultimately fearing to anger her master, she quickly transformed into a streak of light and chased after them.

...

It was unknown how long it had passed, whether it was a day or half a day, when a faint light spot suddenly appeared in the originally empty stone chamber.

Xu Mu's mind shook, instantly retracting all his chaotic thoughts, and focused his attention on that light spot.

The light spot continued to expand, as if an invisible hand was spreading it, revealing a forest scene with yellowed leaves.

The familiar scenery that came into view inevitably excited Xu Mu's heart.

When the light spot expanded enough to pass through a person-sized passage, Xu Mu couldn't wait any longer and rushed in.

The air carried the familiar scent of grass and trees, and the ears were filled with the continuous chirping of insects and the roars of beasts. At this moment, the suspended heart finally settled.

Although he had speculated countless times in his heart that there shouldn't be any problems, until he truly returned, his heart couldn't help but be restless.

After taking a look at the still expanding spatial fissure, looking around, and making sure that nothing was left behind, Xu Mu decided not to cleverly set up any concealment formations.

After destroying the cave he had originally opened, Xu Mu looked around and made sure that nothing was missing before heading towards the direction of the Sun Sect.

...

It has been almost three months since Xu Mu left Liyang City.

When he left, it took Xu Mu half a month to avoid the demonic beasts due to his insufficient strength.

Now, Xu Mu is eager to return, and with his increased strength, it took him less than seven days to reach the area where Liyang Sect is located.

On the way, he also killed a foolish fourth-level flying demonic beast.

The outline of Cuiling Market has appeared in his line of sight.

Xu Mu landed on the ground, dispelled his invisibility technique, and changed into an ordinary mage robe, rushing towards Cuiling Market.

He wanted to inquire along the way if anything significant had happened in Liyang Sect in the past two months, especially regarding the great battle between Tianhe Sect and Tongyou Sect.

"Huh? Why are there so few people?"

Just as Xu Mu entered the outskirts of the market, he sensed something unusual.

It is currently early autumn, still in the peak season for hunting demonic beasts, but the cultivators in the market are even scarcer than when he came in winter last time, and each of them wears a troubled expression, full of suffering.

"Could this place have been affected by the war?"

Xu Mu, feeling uneasy, quickly grabbed a passerby and handed over a spirit stone.

"May I ask, Fellow Daoist, has anything significant happened recently? Why does everyone look so troubled?"

...

The passerby who received the spirit stone showed surprise upon hearing Xu Mu's inquiry.

"Fellow Daoist, how long have you been closed off? You don't even know about the ghost cultivators!"

"Ghost cultivators? What are ghost cultivators? Could Fellow Daoist please explain in detail!"

Xu Mu's heart skipped a beat, and his sense of unease grew stronger.

Seeing that Xu Mu's expression didn't seem fake, the passerby began to explain, "You know about the great battle between Tianhe Sect and Tongyou Sect, right?"

"I do!"

Xu Mu nodded.

He thought to himself, "Could this be another misunderstanding?"

"Just over a month ago, Tianhe Patriarch led many Gold Core experts and finally pushed Tongyou Sect into a desperate situation. The Nascent Soul ancestor of Tongyou Sect, in order to avoid annihilation, proposed peace talks and agreed to cede half of their territory and seal the mountain for three hundred years!"

"But Tianhe Patriarch refused and insisted on killing him!"

At this point, there was a hint of resentment in the passerby's tone.

"Later, that Tongyou ancestor, who knows what was wrong with him, actually gave up the chance to reincarnate and turned everyone in the sect into ghost cultivators, including himself!"

"Although the strength of ghost cultivators is not much stronger than ordinary cultivators, their means of escape and concealment are beyond the reach of ordinary cultivators!"

"Faced with the ghost cultivators of Tongyou Sect, the encirclement led by Tianhe Patriarch fell apart without any attack. Now, the ghost cultivators of Tongyou Sect have spread to all the areas under the jurisdiction of Tianhe Sect. They come out every night to carry out assassinations. In less than a month, thousands of cultivators from major sects have died. Even us wandering cultivators are unlucky. Under these circumstances, who can have a good mood!"

Xu Mu was shocked to the core.

He never expected that such a major change would occur in just a short two or three months.

If the massacre of the Qinghe Sword Sect by the Lianhun Sect was considered excessive, then the Tianhe Ancestor's slaughter of the demonic sect's Gold Core sect with his Nascent Soul stage strength was like tearing off his face and flipping the table.

The current actions of the Tongyou Sect are equivalent to peeing in the pot.

Xu Mu also has some understanding of ghost cultivation.

Becoming a ghost cultivator indeed has many benefits, such as hiding and escaping as mentioned by the passerby.

Ghost cultivators have another name, called soul cultivators, which means they only cultivate the soul and not the body.

If Luo Lie, who lost his body in the past, had ghost cultivation techniques, he could also transform into a ghost cultivator.

Because ghost cultivators don't have a physical form, they can easily change and distort, doing many things that ordinary cultivators cannot do, such as passing through walls, burrowing underground, and hiding among plants and rocks.

Because they don't have a physical body, they are not bound by things like wind resistance and gravity, making their flying speed even faster.

It can be said that they truly achieve the state of being without a trace.

At the same time, without a physical body, they also have no lifespan limitations. As long as their soul is not destroyed, they will live forever.

Ghost cultivators don't need to consume pills and are not troubled by food, clothing, shelter, and transportation. They can directly devour the souls of others to advance, somewhat similar to Xu Mu's beast soul.

Despite having so many advantages, ghost cultivators are rarely seen in the cultivation world.

The reason is that their disadvantages are even greater.

First, because ghost cultivators have too much Yin energy, they are greatly suppressed by sunlight during the day, and weaker ones will instantly turn into smoke.

Second, while devouring souls allows ghost cultivators to easily advance, they also have to face the consciousness impact within the opponent's soul. If they devour too many souls, they will form inner demons.

The number of inner demons that ghost cultivators face is thousands of times more than ordinary cultivators.

Very few ghost cultivators can survive for hundreds of years under the erosion of inner demons. The so-called endless lifespan is just a joke.

Those ghost cultivators who have lost their minds due to inner demons have become the targets of condemnation in the cultivation world.

And that's not the worst part. The real reason why countless cultivators would rather die than take the path of ghosts is because once they cultivate the path of ghosts, there is no turning back. They either become mindless evildoers or their souls scatter.

Nascent Soul stage ghost cultivators are even more unlucky. Not only do they have to face the aforementioned problems, but they also have to face the tribulation that occurs once every three hundred years.

It is already extremely difficult for normal Nascent Soul cultivators to resist the tribulation, but for Nascent Soul stage ghost cultivators, it is almost like seeking death.

The actions of the Tongyou Sect are completely driven by madness. They would rather die than let the Tianhe Sect off the hook.

"Oh no! I hope Yingying and the others are safe."

Xu Mu's heart was filled with worry.

Without any mood to inquire further, Xu Mu released his flying boat and immediately rushed towards Liyang City at the fastest speed.

Looking at the departing flying boat and then at the spirit stones in his hand, the passerby was shocked and speechless for a while.

"Fuck! That person just now couldn't be a Foundation Building stage cultivator, right?!!!!"

(End of this chapter)