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    Four days later in the afternoon

    Behind Low Mountain, in a small mountain hollow.

    Chen Mu stood on the mountaintop, looking down at the hollow, his right hand holding the Black Gourd, muttering words under his breath.

    As the Curse Command was uttered, Chen Mu suddenly felt his brow chakra open, a coolness rushing out.

    Boom!

    Like a flamethrower, a stream of blue flame erupted from the mouth of the Black Gourd.

    The flames surged, quickly forming a three-meter-diameter fireball in mid-air.

    The air itself twisted from the intensity of the heat.

    The next moment, the fireball thundered forth, crashing into the hollow.

    Pfft!

    A muffled sound.

    The ground in the hollow instantly blasted open, leaving a five to six-meter-wide crater.

    Chunks of black-red semi-melted rocks soared into the air, scattering in all directions.

    Hum!

    Amidst billowing black smoke, Chen Mu appeared at the edge of the crater. The Spiritual Armor around him automatically activated, resisting the still-unquenched scorching flames.

    "So powerful!" Chen Mu''s heart shrank.

    Thankfully, he had interrupted Lu Ku''s spellcasting in time.

    Otherwise, it would have been hard to say who would have emerged the victor!

    However, it seemed the flames he had unleashed were slightly stronger.

    After some thought, Chen Mu had a moment of clarity, "It must be related to the method of activation."

    Lu Ku could only use his own blood as the energy source.

    But he could use the Spiritual Armor Technique to absorb and refine the Earth Spirit Vital Energy for casting spells.

    Is this the correct way to use a Magic Artifact?

    Chen Mu suddenly realized.

    "I have another ace up my sleeve!" Chen Mu joyfully let the illusion of a gray wall appear before his eyes.

    Fire Cloud Curse: 563/10000/First Rank;

    Let''s get to work! With such power, it definitely needs to be leveled up!

    ...

    Two days later.

    Chen Mu, as usual, rode the Ghosts Yin Cloud to deliver medicine to Shang Huan and collect payment.

    Long before reaching the estate, he stopped as usual and released the Five Ghosts Yin Spirit to scout.

    But no sooner had the ghosts drifted into the estate,

    than they saw a man in his twenties with a wooden expression staring coldly in their direction.

    The man''s eyes flashed golden, and then he leaped onto the estate wall, instantly locking onto Chen Mu''s location.

    Chen Mu''s pupils constricted. Without pausing to consider the man''s identity, he turned and ran.

    More than that, he began muttering words, activating the Void Cloak Technique. With an extra boost of repulsion force on his feet, his speed instantly doubled.

    He was like an arrow shot from a bow, streaking across the Yellow Bud Rice Fields in a straight line and disappearing beside the estate in an instant.

    All he could hear was the rushing wind, but Chen Mu didn''t dare to slow down.

    That man could see the invisible Five Ghosts Yin Spirit?!

    Who is it?

    What does he want with me?

    It''s surely another mess stirred up by the seven brothers of Wu Mountain!

    In his hurried glance just now, he had seen several people in Shang Huan''s estate, all looking... Hmm? They seemed to be conversing amicably?

    With that dark smoky face and pale complexion, aren''t you the dangerous one?

    Mo Wuzhou didn''t speak; at this point, he was somewhat undecided.

    Previously, after a conversation with Old Hao, he found that this person seemed truly unrelated to Lin Su''s attack.

    "It seems to be a misunderstanding," Mo Wuzhou said calmly.

    However, this man''s aura was cold and his secret technique exuded a malevolent air; I wonder what his intentions were...

    Forget it, it has nothing to do with me. I''ll just inform Brother Liang.

    Moreover, this person''s strength was formidable, and it was uncertain what the outcome of a confrontation would be.

    Thinking this, his expression softened, and he dispelled the golden Light Secret Technique.

    "Mr. Gongsun, let us meet again in the future."

    As he spoke, his right hand gestured, and a swallow-shaped paper kite suddenly descended from the sky.

    Mo Wuzhou leaped up from the ground and jumped onto the paper kite.

    Before leaving, he pondered and then added, "Mr. Gongsun, the Secret Technique you cultivate is imbued with a forbidding chill. If you practice it for too long, you will inevitably damage your vital foundation."

    "For the sake of your Daoist path, it would be best to use and practice it less."

    Without waiting for Chen Mu''s response, the paper kite spiraled up and then quickly tore through the air, disappearing into the horizon.

    Not until the other party had vanished did Chen Mu finally sigh with relief.

    He quietly dispelled the Five Ghosts Moving Mountain he was about to cast.

    If he hadn''t been concerned about the man''s status, he would have swallowed him whole earlier.

    Suppressing the weakness in his body,

    Chen Mu quickly made his way to Shang Huan''s residence.

    He casually handed over twenty Calming Pills as if everything was normal.

    Then he gestured to the six siblings of Wu Mountain, "Go back to cultivate and stay out of trouble."

    Soon after, he vanished under a cloud of black smoke.

    ...

    Five days later, at the summit of Low Mountain, a distance of about two miles from Old Hao.

    A gnarled old tree with peeling bark stood silently at the peak. A mass of black smoke earnestly condensed into a ball, crouching obediently among the dense foliage.

    It wasn''t until a giant swallow-shaped paper kite with a wingspan of five meters spiraled upwards and disappeared into the sky that it quietly slipped out of the tree and returned to the Yellow Bud Rice Fields.

    Inside the Low Hill Courtyard,

    Chen Mu lay in the rocking chair, unable to resist letting out a long sigh of relief: "He''s finally gone."

    Although Mo Wuzhou had left at the time, he had later sought out Old Hao for a detailed talk.

    He must have been confirming whether I truly had no connection to Lin Su''s incident.

    "There should be no more trouble now,"

    "But, can that guy actually see Ghosts?"

    It might have been some secret technique, Chen Mu remembered the golden light in his eyes at the time.

    "I won''t be able to use the Five Ghosts so recklessly in the future."

    "And that Daoist cultivation." Chen Mu tapped the arm of the rocking chair lazily with his finger.

    To practice perception following the secret technique, it seems it required more than just the White Jade Coins.

    "Ah well, I''ll deal with it when the time comes," shrugged Chen Mu.

    He was still days away from attaining the Spiritual Light,

    And cultivating Illusion Breaking would have to wait until next year.

    There was no rush.

    Suddenly, he thought of Mo Wuzhou''s vehicle, the large black and white paper kite mixed with colors.

    "Upper Court disciples sure have it good," Chen Mu said with envy on his face.

    A Magic Artifact that can fly!

    Save money, save money, I must save money!