Chapter 623 Bone Sacred Mountain
Two hours later, the hidden teorites and the black mist ahead started to change, and a dark road gradually erged.
Shan Tian looked rather tense and solemn.
The Sword of Freedom he drove traveled at an uneven pace, cleaving the dense mist of Yin Qi and continuing to move forward.
All the protective tactical deploynts on the Sword of Freedom had been switched on.
A streamlined, fish-scale-patterned shield had wrapped the huge space shuttle in. Like a fish, the huge space shuttle was now swimming in the haze of Yin Qi.
Li Mu had noticed that so of the alchemical objects in the martial arts civilization, such as the space shuttle, the flying shuttle, and the magic treasures with all kinds of functions, had obviously adopted the principles of biological mimicry, which simulated animals’ appearance so as to optimize the function. This was quite similar to the biological mimicry instrunts invented on Earth.
While cautiously observing the surrounding Yin Qi and the hidden teorites, Li Mu silently morized the route and he secretly tested so asures the old faker used to take to deal with the Yin Qi. Gradually, he had a plan in his mind.
Next to him, the body of Second Senior Fellow Apprentice began to change. And the changes were getting more and more conspicuous.
His figure beca brawnier, and a white mane of a pig as sharp as steel needles sprouted out from his neck. At the sa ti, his face beca fierce. Four long and sharp white fangs stuck out of his thick lips. A kind of ferocious and violent aura that was rarely seen in him was quietly emitting from him. There was a faint low roar in his throat, which sounded like a giant beast that would devour any person he saw. He was extrely horrible.
Li Mu looked back thoughtfully.
anwhile, Ding Yi had already returned to the inner cabin of the Sword of Freedom. With the help of the power of the tactical deploynt, he was able to resist the invasion of the dense Yin Qi.
For a Worm Realm cultivator, entering this kind of environnt was like an ordinary person falling into a vast ocean. It was extrely depressing as well as dangerous.
This was especially the case with the dense Yin Qi. If it invaded one’s body, it would cause damages to one’s cultivation, cut back one’s lifespan, and bring one serious illness. The power of Yin Qi was indeed frightening.
About four hours later.
The Sword of Freedom covered about 5,000 kiloters in a stop-and-go manner and eventually stopped in front of a mountain-sized giant teorite.
“Hero Li, this is the furthest that my shuttle can reach,” said Shan Tian, who accompanied Li Mu and the others to the top of this giant teorite.
One could see so artificial carvings, worn-away stone steps, as well as so caves and platforms on the top of the mountain. It was perhaps a temporary stop, a sentry post, or sothing like that.
“This is a provisional safe harbor built by the older interstellar sailors. It enjoys a history of more than 10,000 years and has been nad the Cliff of the Living. Every year, only a handful of people would co here. Generally speaking, only the most experienced sailors know this place.”
There was a hint of pride in his words.
He was born in the most powerful family on the Opposite Bank Star. But he had liked to travel in the universe since he was a child. He had sneaked onto many space shuttles and learned all about sailing. Without relying on the power of his family, he purchased a space shuttle of his own. He was also a captain who could be ranked in the top three in this Star Region.
He had been to many places where ordinary interstellar sailors didn’t dare to go, seen countless secret realms and dangerous places, and completed many challenges that ordinary cultivators couldn’t even imagine. Visiting this ancient safe harbor called the Cliff of the Living was one of his great adventures.
“If you keep going, you have around 10,000 miles to go before you enter the Ghost Rally Star. The space shuttle can’t go any forward, so you can only rely on our own cultivation power from this mont on.” Shan Tian looked at Li Mu and advised, “Hero Li, as bold and powerful as you are, you still need to be careful and think this over.”
Li Mu opened his Third Eye, stood on the top of the teorite mountain, and looked ahead.
Layers upon layers of teorites and the Yin Qi as thick as the sea lay head. Ghastly and ominous auras kept blowing against his face.
Li Mu gazed for monts and said, “Second Senior Brother and Brother Ding, wait for here. I’ll be back soon.”
At last, he decided to enter the Ghost Rally Star.
By this ti, Second Senior Fellow Apprentice had completely turned into a giant white-haired pig. A kind of violent and fierce aura in ancient tis spread out from his body. There was also a scarlet beam swirling in his pupils. Hearing this, he nodded slightly.
Knowing his cultivation and strength, Ding Yi also understood that he was unable to accompany Li Mu on the rest of the quest. If he insisted on going, he would beco Li Mu’s burden instead. Therefore, he also nodded helplessly.
In the end, Shan Tian gave Li Mu a small life-saving shuttle as a tool to cross the void.
Li Mu, like an independent hermit who had left the world, boarded the small boat. As if a man sailing the ocean in a canoe, he left the Sword of Freedom by himself, parted the thick dark mist in front of him, and headed for the Ghost Rally Star.
“Hero Li, I’ll wait here for you for a month. If you don’t co back in a month, the supply of the Sword of Freedom would run low. Then, I would have to head back. If you return after that, please wait for at the Cliff of the Living. I’ll co to pick you up after I reload the supply. Bear this in mind. Don’t ever leave the Cliff of the Living by yourself, or you’ll be easily lost in this spooky land.”
Shan Tian’s voice ca from behind.
Li Mu felt a surge of gratefulness in his heart.
Shan Tian was indeed a warm-hearted man.
Li Mu advanced for two hours.
The hull of the life-saving boat had been seriously corroded by the dense Yin Qi. When he arrived in this area, even Li Mu started to feel the pressure. The aura of the living gradually thinned. The dense Yin Qi around him was like the shadow of death that continued flinging at him.
In the end, the black Yin Qi seed to beco tangible and pressed down upon him. The horrible pressure was so strong that even an expert in the Soldier Realm would be instantly crushed into powder.
It was no wonder that Shan Tian had ntioned that if one wanted to enter the Ghost Star, one must have either a strong physical body or a special magic treasure.
Otherwise, the chances of survival would be very slim.
Fortunately, Li Mu’s physical body was strong enough to crush average General Realm cultivators, so it was not hard for him to bear this kind of pressure.
In the end, unable to stand the pressure, the life-saving flying boat began to cripple.
Li Mu imdiately abandoned the life-saving flying boat.
He put out a piece of jade, and streaks of silver light draped from the jade. As if pouring hot oil on thin snow, the light easily shielded Li Mu from the extrely dense Yin Qi.
“The old faker’s Taiqing Ghost-repelling Talisman works beautifully.”
Li Mu clicked his tongue in wonder.
This piece of jade was made in a hurry on his way here. It was engraved with the Taiqing Ghost-repelling Talisman that the old faker had taught him. Li Mu used to believe that this was just a spooky thod used by the old faker when he “engaged in superstition”. But now, it seed that the talisman was real and was very effective to isolate the Yin Qi.
That could be considered one of Li Mu’s secret ans.
This way, to Li Mu himself, the greatest threat the Ghost Rally Star posed on the living had basically been diminished.
The 24 flying willow-shaped broadswords whizzed out of the case and spread out behind Li Mu like a pair of blade wings. As the broadswords vibrated, Li Mu sped up and rapidly advanced toward the Ghost Rally Star.
Several hours later, a huge black planet ca to Li Mu’s sight.
“This must be the Ghost Rally Star, isn’t it?”
Li Mu heaved a sigh of relief.
But at this mont, he was surprised to find that the originally extrely dense Yin Qi suddenly disappeared when he was about 10,000 ters away from the Ghost Rally Star. A clear void had separated the boundless sea of Yin Qi from the Ghost Rally Star, just like the egg white separating the yolk from the eggshell.
The arrangents of the universe were truly amazing.
Li Mu put away the piece of jade and continued to approach the vast black planet.
Gradually, he could feel a strange gravity coming from the direction of the vast planet.
Li Mu flapped his blade wings and swooped down.
The mountains and rivers on the surface of the vast planet below gradually beca visible.
Li Mu turned on his Third Eye to observe the environnt. But at this precise mont, a voice suddenly ca from the vast planet—
“Who are you? How dare you break into my Ghost Star?”
The black cloud vibrated, then, turned into a huge ghost claw swiftly grabbing at Li Mu.
“Why being so hostile?”
Li Mu sped up, took a sharp turn, and arced across the sky. He dexterously dodged the huge ghost claw and eventually landed on the continent on the Ghost Rally Star.
The terrain of the Ghost Rally Star was quite similar to that of ordinary planets. But there was one thing unique about the planet—the light was rather dim here. There seed to be no day and night here, as though it was always dusk.
It was extrely quiet in the surroundings.
There were no trees. All Li Mu could see were black rocks.
Countless strange stones stood on the land.
There was no wind. Air did not seem to exist, either.
The sky was always gloomy, and the surrounding mountains were dark and mysterious. The sky and earth seed to be the sa color. There was a kind of oppressive vibe, as though it was really not a world of living people but a dwelling of the dead.
Li Mu couldn’t sense any trace of the Spiritual Qi of Heaven and Earth, either.
But there was another kind of energy that he could not figure out.
Li Mu took out a black Ghost Mask and put it on. Then, he changed into a large black robe. When he walked, he looked like a head floating in the air above the robes.
He was playing a ghost.
He did that because he had found so information on the Immortal Net before he ca to the Ghost Rally Star.
“It is said that on the Ghost Rally Star, there will also so living people blending in with ghosts. There are a lot of ghost sects on that planet. Except for their special cultivation thods, the ghost sects are just like other sects of the living cultivators in the universe and are divided into different classes and parties...”
Li Mu mused while heading forward.
About half an hour later, he passed by so villages and towns and saw so real ghost cultivators. They were souls of the dead. It was very simple to distinguish the realm of their cultivation—the more concrete the soul was, the more powerful his strength was.
In the next few days, Li Mu blended in with the ghost cultivators and inquired for information. He also figured out the specific division of the cultivation realms for ghost cultivators.
From the lowest to the highest, there were the Wandering Soul, the Ghost Spirit, the Ghost Soldier, the Ghost General, the Ghost Lord, the Ghost Emperor... and eventually the Celestial Demon.
Upon becoming the Celestial Demon, a ghost would finally be freed from the half-dead state. They would again beco living beings and transcend the cycle of life and death. They would possess an inconceivable order of cultivation and power, and even be able to grasp the divine abilities of reincarnation.
“So, Yu Hualong, Wu Ming, and the others can only be regarded as Wandering Souls. Without a Ghost Cultivation thod, they can’t increase their strength at all. In the current state, they are just a little better than real dead people.”
Li Mu ca to a rough judgnt.
He had learned from various sources that the nearest ghost sect, that was the Bone Sacred Mountain, was a rising ghost sect that had two great Ghost Lords.
It was said that this Bone Sacred Mountain had only been established for less than five years. But it quickly thrived and rose to power. In a short ti, it gobbled several ghost sects in this area and took over this land, becoming an upstart on the Ghost Rally Star.
This was quite rare in the history of the Ghost Rally Star.
Because generally, the ghost clan needed to take a lot of ti and effort to grow stronger. There were very few shortcuts on this front. Most of the high-level Ghost Lords had cultivated for thousands of years before they got where they were. So, it was simply inconceivable for Wandering Souls who ca to this planet only about five years ago to rise to the Ghost Lord Level in such a short span.
“I’d better go to the Bone Sacred Mountain and take a look. Maybe I can find so good Ghost Cultivation thods there.”
Li Mu knew what he needed to do next.
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