CHAPTER 413: CHAPTER 416: THE STRANGE THATCHED COTTAGE

If you consider the giant rat as a small cat or dog, then Mu Can’s size now is no different from that of a little flea.

And now, this tiny flea was about to make a move. As it turns out, size isn’t everything.

When Mu Can reached the giant rat’s leg passing through the dilapidated city on its back, the giant rat didn’t even notice his presence. It was still focused on healing the terrifying wound on its back caused by Mu Can’s recent explosive attack. Although Mu Can’s size was just a fraction of the giant rat’s, the attack that he had launched with all the Fire Attribute Spiritual Power in his body had indeed inflicted some damage on the giant rat.

Without any obstacles, Mu Can smoothly arrived at the giant rat’s leg. Truly a massive creature indeed—its thigh was like the Sky-reaching Pillar, its skin looked extremely tough. The hairs lying flat on its skin each shimmered with a sharp gleam.

Mu Can knew that once the giant rat was attacked, its leg hair would turn into terrifying long arrows that would shoot out. Just imagining a sky-full of arrows shooting towards him gave Mu Can a chill. Failing to dodge in time meant he would surely end up looking like a hedgehog.

This was also a form of self-defense for the giant rat.

"What should I do?" Mu Can pondered while looking at the giant rat’s sturdy leg.

He had planned to disable the giant rat’s leg completely; without mobility, the giant rat would become a lamb waiting for slaughter. However, the means of disabling the leg, right before him, still posed a problem.

Mu Can had almost used up all the Ice and Fire Attribute Spiritual Power in his body during the previous attack. To recover, he would need the time of two incense sticks burning, and he wasn’t sure if he had that much time. Therefore, he decided to launch a forceful attack on the giant rat’s right hind leg.

Mu Can took a deep breath, his wings appearing behind him, flapping slowly as he soared into the air.

He had not undone his Mystic Dragon Nine Revolutions transformation since activating it.

As he stealthily approached the base of the giant rat’s thigh, he suddenly sensed danger and quickly dodged to the side. In the next second, the giant rat’s long, whip-like tail furiously lashed towards him—just like how a cow swats flies with its tail, the giant rat was using its tail to attack Mu Can.

Fortunately, Mu Can’s timely evasion spared him from the attack. The tail snapped loudly against the giant rat’s body without causing it any harm, showing the giant rat measured its attack.

However, Mu Can knew that if the tail had hit him, the outcome would not have been minor.

"Damn it, this is too dangerous. How can this challenge possibly be passed? The Banna Clan wouldn’t set an impossible challenge with no hope, right?" Mu Can bitterly contemplated a solution.

Even the hardest challenges, since they weren’t meant to kill, must have opportunities to pass. Mu Can couldn’t believe that the Great Power who created Tongshen Mountain had left an impassable test here.

"There must be something I’ve missed," Mu Can thought.

Before entering this Heavenly Pillar, he and Wang Cai had a discussion: if Mu Can was an ordinary Cultivator and reached this point without the help of the Reincarnation Pearl and Wang Cai’s Array, how would he pass the challenges of the previous Heavenly Pillars?

The answer lay in there actually being a way, albeit extremely difficult, which showed that the Creator of Tongshen Mountain did indeed leave a slim chance of survival in these Nine Heavenly Pillars’ tests.

Thus, Mu Can pondered where the retained lifeline of this tenth Heavenly Pillar could be.

After all, the disparity between Human Clan Cultivators and this giant rat was too huge, so massive that sheer size could compensate for many things.

Mu Can firmly believed that even a Void-Level powerhouse, if hit directly with his full power release of five Ice and Fire Glaze bursts, would be injured. But for the giant rat, aside from making it feel pain, Mu Can noticed no significant effect from his attacks.

"Where could the opportunity possibly be? If Wang Cai were here, what would we do?" Mu Can thought seriously, recalling everything that had happened since he entered the ninth Heavenly Pillar.

"This city, this city built on the back of a giant tree, must be hiding something, something that could counterbalance this giant rat." An idea struck Mu Can.

"Right, if a city were built on a less active animal, like a giant turtle, that might be understandable. But building this city on a giant rat, if the rat ran uncontrollably at high speeds, the city would definitely be damaged," Mu Can reasoned further.

If this city had no constraints on the giant rat, then building it on its back would have been pointless.

Mu Can flapped his wings and flew directly back onto the giant rat’s back.

After his offensive, the city had nearly become a ruin. In this setting, Mu Can floated in midair, observing some peculiar spots in the city.

Previously, his fire spread indiscriminately, so almost every visible part had been scorched by raging flames.

However, as Mu Can hovered and observed, he noticed a strange building in the city center that remained intact.

This indicated the building’s uniqueness; all other structures around it were burned black, but this building remained unscathed, leading Mu Can to assert that it definitely hid a secret.

Mu Can flew directly towards the building without marks of fire damage, landing right at its entrance.

Unexpectedly, it turned out to be a thatched hut.

This made the hut’s extraordinariness even more pronounced. The fire summoned by Mu Can was no ordinary flame—it was mixed with the Origin Fire from Dragon Group, the Fire Attribute oddities from the Scripture Pavilion, and the Fire Spiritual Power from the bodies of the Molten Rock Giants that had been absorbed into the New World of the Reincarnation Pearl. It could be considered one of the strongest fires in the Three Realms.

Yet now, it couldn’t even burn down a simple thatched hut, further proving the hut’s extraordinary nature.