Eternal Life Begins with Learning

Chapter 456: Chapter 420: 9-Dragon Divine Flame

Chu Mu gazed in the direction of the Spatial Rift, his eyes dark and his expression unreadable.

After a moment, he suddenly looked up at the sky. That day, a palm had appeared, blocking the hundred-zhang Ancient Halberd for him, saving him from certain death...

His motive was still unknown.

But based on the feeling of near-total control he’d experienced while refining the Heart of the Demon Realm...

He knew that every word he spoke and every move he made in this Secret Realm was undoubtedly under the Master of the Secret Realm’s watch, if the Master so wished.

This held true whether it was when he first entered the Secret Realm or now as he roamed about undetected.

In any case, at least for now, that mysterious man in the Dragon Robe seemed to bear him no ill will.

Chu Mu scanned the now-quiet sea of magma and fire around him. After a moment of contemplation, he leaped, and a fiery red glint of his blade flashed before he once again vanished into the sky.

This time, however, he wasn’t just wandering aimlessly as before. He had a clear destination and headed straight for it.

「About a day later.」

Mountain peaks towered like blades, their reflections rippling on the lake’s surface as if the water were gently caressing a sword’s edge.

A memory from the distant past slowly merged and intertwined with reality.

Chu Mu took a quick look around, then took a step. In the next instant, he was hovering over the lake’s surface. Following the path in his memory, Chu Mu moved forward across the water.

Finally, he stopped in the center of the lake. His figure flickered and plunged into the water, speeding toward the bottom. In just a moment, an underwater mountain range came into view.

The Tier Two Demon Beast aura simulated by the Heavenly Deceit Pill was enough to grant him unobstructed passage in this Secret Realm, even here at the bottom of Sword Washing Lake.

Having wandered the Secret Realm for several months, he was more or less certain that, for some unknown reason, there seemed to be no Demon Beasts above Tier Two in this Secret Realm Heaven and Earth.

The highest Cultivation was only Tier Two Perfection.

Even with his injuries yet to heal, he was far beyond what an ordinary Tier Two Demon Beast could handle.

As he traveled, the Demon Beasts on the lakebed scattered and fled.

The tranquility of the lake bottom seemed to be completely shattered by the arrival of this foreign "Tier Two Demon Beast."

Faint roars echoed one after another, as if questioning and testing this unfamiliar Tier Two Demon Beast.

There was even a reckless Tier Two Demon Beast that brazenly charged at him.

But after he slew an unknown Tier Two Demon Beast with swift and brutal force, the turmoil at the bottom of the lake seemed to quietly subside.

Faced with the threat of death, the Tier Two Demon Beasts that had been provoking and testing him instantly fell in line.

Chu Mu sped along the lakebed, stopping and starting as he moved through the remnants of an ancient battlefield. After wandering for a while and collecting a large number of Soul Condensing Stones left behind by Ancient Puppets, Chu Mu finally turned his gaze toward the underwater mountain range.

Following the route from his memory, he traveled for about a quarter of an hour, weaving his way through the underwater mountains of varying heights. Finally, Chu Mu stopped before a stone wall covered in layers of various seashells.

Aside from a new, thick layer of seashell remains, the stone wall hadn’t changed much from when he had last seen it.

Chu Mu stared in a daze for a moment. Recalling the past, he couldn’t help but feel a wave of wistful emotion.

When he left this place back then, he had never been able to forget it.

Who would have thought that after all this time, he would find his way back here again?

He sighed emotionally for a long while before seeming to come back to his senses. With a wave of his hand, a Jade Scroll from the Immortal Dao Sect hovered in his palm.

Just as he had seen back then, as the Jade Scroll appeared, the stone wall before him seemed to react. It trembled, and the piled-up shells tumbled down. Then, an indentation the size of the Jade Scroll emerged on the wall’s surface. The Jade Scroll fit into the slot perfectly.

He placed the Jade Scroll into the indentation. A faint Spiritual Light flickered, and in the next second, the original stone wall transformed into a portal flashing with a fluorescent glow.

The portal pulsed with a pure, white glow.

Just like last time, he tried to probe it with his Divine Sense, but there was still an invisible barrier. Even with his current Cultivation, he couldn’t perceive the slightest thing inside.

Chu Mu hesitated. Within the Secret Realm, he could still move undetected by using the Heavenly Deceit Pill.

After all, based on what he had learned from refining the Heart of the Demon Realm in the Demon Realm, the so-called rules of a Secret Realm were likely just something its controller had forcibly imposed upon the Secret Realm Heaven and Earth.

These rules weren’t an intrinsic part of the Secret Realm Heaven and Earth itself. Limited by the rule-maker’s own perception, they naturally couldn’t be foolproof.

Something like the Heavenly Deceit Pill, since it allowed him to go undetected, most likely existed outside the detection parameters of the Secret Realm’s "pseudo-rules."

’But... the Heavenly Deceit Pill might fool the Secret Realm’s "pseudo-rules," but if I enter the Inheritance Hall, that Illusory World constructed by the Immortal Dao Sect... can it continue to keep me hidden? That’s clearly an unknown.’

’Considering the "Refining Illusion into Truth" I witnessed in that Illusory World, that Inheritance Land for the Hundred Skills of Cultivation Immortal with its vast stores of information and knowledge... the chances of remaining undetected seem... slim.’

Chu Mu pursed his lips, his hesitation growing.

Just as he was hesitating, the calm, glowing portal suddenly flickered. He instinctively became alert, but in the next moment, an irresistible suction force enveloped him.

He tried to retreat instinctively, erupting with his full Cultivation regardless of his injuries, but it was useless.

The feeling of powerlessness washed over him once again.

Then, pulled by the suction, he was uncontrollably drawn into the glowing portal. After a dizzying sensation of the world spinning around him, his feet were once again on solid ground. He was now in a vast, white world that was quite familiar to him.

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