Returning to the Ghost Realm with Su He, Li Mu had a lot on his mind.
He had pondered over the matter of Yanzhou for a long time. He informed everyone that from now on, they had to be extremely vigilant. They didn't need to worry about spirit jades, and they had to be prepared to use the ultra-long distance transmission array at any time.
The demonic path's relative strength was at its peak in the last ten thousand years. Once they took action, they would be unstoppable.
As for himself, he had to personally go to the Juku Continent to investigate.
That was the last headquarters of the demonic path. If the demonic path had set up their headquarters in Yanzhou for this purpose, then the Juku Continent would have already become a purgatory on earth.
With the Earth Shrinking Technique, Li Mu could travel through the ten continents and three islands in a day. From the Ghost Realm to the Juku Continent, crossing the West Sea would only take a few hours.
The demonic path's spies were everywhere. If Li Mu left with great fanfare, he would not be able to hide it from them.
This trip to the Juku Continent was a secret investigation. In order to avoid alerting the enemy, Li Mu didn't bring anyone. He quietly left the Ghost Realm alone and headed west from the West Sea.
When he arrived at the Juku Continent, what Li Mu saw was a plague that had swept through the entire continent.
Countless people died in the plague. The Juku Continent's only large country, the Ying Country, did nothing, allowing its people to be swallowed up by the plague. Li Mu knew that the Ying Country had long been controlled by the demonic path. Including the royal family, all the officials in the court were part of the demonic path. This was the result they wanted to see.
In the Juku Continent, Li Mu also discovered something unusual.
In the first city he came to, the number of people who died was in the tens of thousands. But in the entire city, there wasn't much death energy. The small amount of death energy was slowly rising, floating towards the sky.
Under normal circumstances, death energy would gather in low-lying areas, affecting the soil there, causing it to become barren and gradually become a place to raise corpses.
The death energy didn't fall but instead rose. There must be something strange about it.
Li Mu hid his figure and followed the death energy slowly rising, moving in a certain direction.
Along the way, Li Mu had already discovered that death qi was rising from all over the Cave Gathering Continent, converging in the same direction. Until two hours later, a huge cloud of death qi appeared in front of Li Mu's eyes.
In the entire Ju Ku Continent, hundreds of thousands of people who had died from the epidemic had gathered their Death Qi here, causing the originally formless Death Qi to become corporeal.
Li Mu's eyes flashed with a golden light. His gaze pierced through the clouds of death qi, and he saw a grey-robed figure sitting cross-legged in the clouds. This person was currently absorbing the death qi in the clouds, and above his head was a simple and unadorned page. It was obvious that the death qi in the Gathering Cave Continent was attracted by this page.
"Heavenly Book!"
When he saw the page, Li Mu was shocked. At this moment, the grey-clothed man in the death aura seemed to have sensed something. He suddenly opened his eyes and turned to look in Li Mu's direction.
There were no pupils in his eyes, only a grey-white color. His entire person was filled with a strange and strange feeling.
In the next moment, the grey-clothed man's figure vanished from the clouds. When he reappeared, he was a thousand feet away from Li Mu. He stared at Li Mu with his grey-white eyes, and shock appeared in his eyes as he said, "It's you!"
Li Mu wasn't curious that this person would recognize him. To possess a Heavenly Book and have such a cultivation, he must be a top powerhouse of the Demonic Path. He might even be one of the First or Second Ancestors.
As the grey-clothed man's voice fell, he turned into a beam of light and fled into the distance.
This person's understanding of Li Mu was clearly deeper than Li Mu had expected.
He and the Demonic Path were originally like fire and water, and both of them wanted to obtain the other's Heavenly Book. If the Demonic Path Ancestors saw Li Mu, they would do everything in their power to capture him, so how could they flee without fighting?
The only possibility was that this person knew that he was no match for Li Mu.
With the Sun Shooting Bow in hand, Li Mu was invincible below the Eighth Realm. As long as this person hadn't reached the Eighth Realm, he didn't have the strength to contend with Li Mu.
He was clearly aware of this point, so he didn't linger in the battle. Instead, he chose to flee. But how could Li Mu let him do as he wished?
This person's identity was likely to be one of the Demonic Path Ancestors, and one that hadn't advanced yet. If Lin Ming didn't take advantage of this opportunity to deal with him, there would be even greater trouble in the future.
The Sun Shooting Bow instantly appeared in Li Mu's hand. Li Mu immediately shot out an arrow that contained 10% of his magic power.
Although the Sun Shooting Bow was the most powerful when shooting out an arrow at full strength, unless Li Mu had the confidence to kill this person with a single arrow, he had to be extremely careful when shooting.
First, he would use a less powerful arrow to exhaust himself, and at the same time quickly restore his cultivation. This way, he would have a decent endurance and wouldn't fall into a state of emptiness after shooting out an arrow, becoming a lamb waiting to be slaughtered.
Swish!
With Li Mu's current cultivation, even an arrow that only contained 10% of his magic power directly pierced through space, creating a spatial crack. It arrived behind the grey-robed person in the blink of an eye.
This arrow was enough to kill a regular seventh level cultivator.
Just as the arrow was about to pierce through the back of the dark-robed person's heart, he suddenly turned around and punched out.
Boom!
His fist was wrapped in a deathly aura. When it collided with the arrow, the grey-robed person flew back a thousand feet. However, the arrow directly collapsed into specks of light and vanished into the surroundings.
The grey-robed person was unharmed after shattering the arrow from the Sun Shooting Bow with a single punch.
The grey-robed person clearly realised something. He looked at Li Mu from several thousand feet away and pursed his lips. He said, "What? You don't dare to use your full strength?"
Even Xuan Ming would have been injured if he received Li Mu's arrow, but it didn't cause any harm to the grey-robed person. His cultivation was much stronger than Xuan Ming's. He was probably only a step away from the eighth level.
Li Mu looked at him and asked, "Which ancestor of the Demonic Way are you?"
The grey-robed person smiled faintly and said, "You can call me Second Ancestor, or you can call me Yuan Luo."
Li Mu had seen Yuan Luo's name in Ao Qing's diary. He was Ao Qing's old rival from 8,000 years ago. Before Ao Qing's lifespan ended, they still couldn't determine a victor.
As expected, he was one of the two ancestors of the Demonic Way that Li Mu had never met. Yuan Luo's cultivation had already reached this level. Once he completely refined the deathly aura, he would definitely step into the Way Integration Stage. Together with the First Ancestor of the Demonic Way, the Demonic Way would be invincible.
Li Mu couldn't just watch this happen. Against such an opponent, it was useless to waste his energy. He put away the Sun Shooting Bow and a long spear appeared in his hand.
The grey-robed person looked at the long spear in Li Mu's hand and sighed. "Ao Qing, you have indeed been an unforgettable opponent for me over the past 10,000 years. 8,000 years ago, the two of us couldn't determine a victor. I hope you won't disappoint me when we fight again today …"
As soon as he said that, a long gray spear condensed in his hand.
Li Mu gripped the Heaven-Breaking Spear tightly and said coldly, "You won't be disappointed …"
As soon as he said that, he and Yuan Luo disappeared and reappeared at the same time.
Clang!
The tips of the spears collided with an ear-piercing sound. A black spot suddenly appeared where the tips of the spears met before spreading into countless black lines. The space there shattered like a mirror.
The two of them tacitly didn't choose to fight with their abilities. At their level of cultivation, even the most ordinary move would have the power to destroy heaven and earth after being entwined with the power of heaven and earth.
In the void, the two of them were difficult to capture. The only thing that could be seen was the intertwining green and gray light and the shattering of space.
Clang!
The green and gray light collided once again. Yuan Luo was sent flying hundreds of meters away. An abnormal red color appeared on his face as he forcefully swallowed a mouthful of blood essence that was about to spit out.
A trace of doubt appeared on his face before he disappeared again.
Clang!
After another attack, Yuan Luo was sent flying hundreds of meters away again. He looked at Li Mu, who was still standing on the same spot. The doubt on his face finally turned into shock.
Something wasn't right!
His true cultivation was higher than this person's. In such a head-on clash, he should have the absolute upper hand. But why was he the one who was injured every time he was sent flying?
Even if this person had battle experience that wasn't inferior to his, there shouldn't be a situation where he was suppressed despite his higher cultivation.
After thinking about it, Yuan Luo finally realized the reason.
Every time their artifacts collided, Li Mu's spear would be entwined with the power of heaven and earth. However, the power of heaven and earth entwined around his spear would always strangely disappear when it got close to Li Mu.
This was equivalent to using his powers to fight against the power of heaven and earth. How could he possibly have the upper hand?
Yuan Luo was an old monster with ten thousand years of experience. In an instant, he figured out the problem. He said in shock, "Domain! You're only at the seventh level. How can you control the power of a domain!?"
Even with his ten thousand years of experience, he couldn't hide the shock in his heart when he realized this.
The power of a domain could only be controlled after one's cultivation reached the eighth level. Controlling the power of heaven and earth was the biggest difference between the seventh level and the eighth level, as well as between the Transcendence Realm and the Unification Path.
In his ten thousand years of experience, Yuan Luo had never seen anyone who could control the power of a domain at the seventh level. His ten thousand years of common sense had been shattered by Li Mu today.
Li Mu controlled the power of a domain. Before Yuan Luo's cultivation reached the eighth level, it was impossible for him to defeat Li Mu. No one at the seventh level could defeat Li Mu either. In a battle of techniques with the same cultivation level, Li Mu was in an invincible position right from the start.
After realizing this, Yuan Luo didn't want to continue fighting and immediately teleported away.
How could Li Mu let him go? He took a step forward and used Ground Shrink. When he appeared again, he was already in front of Yuan Luo. However, at this moment, Yuan Luo suddenly raised his head, and a strange smile appeared on his face.
This smile caused Li Mu to feel a chill in his heart. At this moment, Li Mu suddenly sensed that the power of space in a city in front of him had started to become extremely active.
Li Mu wasn't unfamiliar with this situation. This was the appearance of an ultra-long-distance teleportation formation when it was activated.
A pillar of light appeared in the center of the city.
The next moment, a figure walked out of the pillar of light.
It was an old man who looked like a skeleton. There didn't seem to be any flesh on his body. It was like a piece of dried human skin stuck to his bones. There were no eyes in his eye sockets, only two balls of ghostly fire flickering.
When those two balls of ghostly fire looked in Li Mu's direction, Li Mu's body suddenly turned cold. It was as if he had fallen into an ice cave.
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