Chapter 408 - Chapter 408: Chapter 377: Brilliant Use_1

Chapter 408: Chapter 377: Brilliant Use_1

“Stop pursuing! First, let’s deal with these tree spirits!” said a middle stage Nascent Soul cultivator who had rushed over.

“Damn it!”

The young Nascent Soul chose to stop reluctantly. Although the enemy only captured several insignificant minions who were fake pill stage, it was a loss of face for him to have been ambushed and lose personnel from right under his nose.

With the cooperation of the three, the tree spirits hastily conjured by magic were quickly exterminated one by one.

However, during the post-fight damage control, all three turned black in the face, as the ambush had cost them half of their minions, making the upcoming exploration of the secret realm extremely difficult.

“This guy! He deserves to die!”

The young Nascent Soul’s eyes were filled with murderous intent, causing those from the Cluster Stars Sect around him to tremble, avoiding eye contact, not daring to look directly at him.

“There’s something strange about his aura, he doesn’t feel like a Human Clan cultivator!” said a middle-aged Nascent Soul cultivator with white eyebrows.

“I also noticed that he has the smell of the Sea Race!” said another Nascent Soul cultivator with a hooked nose.

“This is the Cang Ming Ocean Territory, it would be difficult even for Sea Race Nascent Souls to get close, let alone know the method to enter the Xuan Yang Secret Realm, which is known only to our three forces. Even if the Sea Race found a way in by luck, they wouldn’t dare to send a Nascent Soul cultivator in! This person must be from one of the other two forces pretending to be a Sea Race, purposely here to sabotage our good fortune!” the youth spoke in an icy tone.

The middle-aged cultivator with white eyebrows and the old man with the hooked nose looked at each other and couldn’t help but nod in agreement.

The possibility of the enemy being of the Sea Race was indeed low. Moreover, such a pointless move is quite in line with the style of the other two forces – not wanting to make enemies of them, but trying to drag them down in order to derive more benefits themselves.

Otherwise, given the number of Sea Race Golden Pill Stage cultivators, they wouldn’t need to loot their party.

“Do we know who were taken away by him?” the Nascent Soul with white eyebrows asked.

“The situation was too chaotic at the time, there wasn’t enough time to investigate!” the youth explained as he shook his head helplessly.

At that time, he had been too busy fighting. He didn’t have the time to focus on minor details, and as a high-ranking Nascent Soul True Monarch, he couldn’t be expected to remember the details of every minion.

“Let our subordinates investigate, we might get some clues!” said the elderly Nascent Soul with the hooked nose.

“Understood! Uncle Master!” the young Nascent Soul Cultivator replied respectfully.

“Is there any reaction from the locator?” the white eyebrowed Nascent Soul asked.

To prevent the minions from escaping, they had placed a locator restriction within each minion, which could provide a vague direction even if they ran millions of miles.

“Not yet!” the young man shook his head again.

“Perhaps it is being interfered with by the secret realm, let us join forces to locate them again later. If it still doesn’t work, just kill them!” said the Nascent Soul with white eyebrows indifferently.

They didn’t care about a few minions, but they definitely wouldn’t let the enemy gain an advantage.

“Agreed!”

…

“Upon doing so, even if the other party dreamed, it should not suspect me at all!” Xu Mu thought to himself.

Indeed, the one who just disguised as a member of the Sea Race and kidnapped people was none other than Xu Mu.

He had caught up with the Cluster Stars Sect’s team a long time ago, but hadn’t found a perfect opportunity to strike. This time, the opportunity wasn’t perfect, but given the current situation, he had no other choice but to act.

Fortunately, the timing wasn’t too terrible, and with the tree spirits causing chaos, that should have been enough to mislead everyone.

If they could still trace the actions back to him, then he would just blame it on his bad luck.

As for where the people were now?

Naturally, they was in the God Refining Tripod, as that was the only place he could hide them.

“I need to increase the distance first, then see if there is a way to remove the restrictions on Feng Que!” He spoke.

The reason he had captured several people was not just to create a diversion, but also to have subjects for experiments.

“Hiss!”

As Xu Mu was flying, he abruptly halted. On his thigh, a half-existing wound emerged, revealing the severed leg bone within.

A small spatial crack had slashed him previously. It was so sharp that it had completely severed his leg before he could react.

“These spatial cracks are seriously troublesome!”

Observing the rapidly recovering wound on his leg, Xu Mu couldn’t help but furrow his brows.

The larger ones were easy to detect, but these extremely small ones were just too hard to notice and increased exponentially as you went deeper into the secret realm, he had begun to be affected.

At the moment, the ones affecting his body wasn’t harmful and was beneficial in honing his Indestructible True Body, but if he were to damage his skull, heart or even his core Nascent Soul, it would be a real problem.

“If only I had a magical artifact that could help me fend off attacks on vital areas!” Xu Mu sighed.

With such an artifact and his Indestructible True Body ability, he could at least tread safely in the Xuan Yang Secret Realm, even if he couldn’t rampantly roam around.

All of a sudden his eyes lit up.

“Don’t I have an artifact like that?”

What Xu Mu was referring to was not the God Refining Tripod. Although the God Refining Tripod could withstand the destructive power of the spatial cracks, unfortunately, his current abilities only allowed him to control it lightly, without being able to use it for flying.

What he was referring to was another artifact – the Sky-splitting Halberd!

Although he hadn’t refined the Sky-splitting Halberd, he could use it as a regular weapon.

All he needed to do was to use the Sky-splitting Halberd as a shield in front of him while he flew.

As for the problem that the Sky-splitting Halberd is too slender with a limited load-bearing surface, it wasn’t a big issue for him now. He could solve this with his bone shrinking ability.

No sooner said than done, Xu Mu’s body creaked as if all his bones were softening, transforming him into a meat pancake. Then, taking out the Sky-splitting Halberd and positioning it vertically in front of him, he began to fly forward with one hand on it.

“Hmm?”

After flying for a while, Xu Mu found something strange.

Starting from when he took out the Sky-splitting Halberd, he hadn’t encountered a single spatial crack. Considering that he made no attempt to detect or avoid them, this situation was obviously not normal.

He halted in his action, reverting to a normal pose. He then cast a spell to find a nearby micro-spatial crack and carefully placed the Sky-splitting Halberd on top of it.

Something bizarre happened. The spatial crack vanished the moment it came in contact with the Sky-splitting Halberd.

“No, it didn’t disappear, it seems more like…” Xu Mu muttered, looking at the Sky-splitting Halberd in his hand: “It got absorbed by it! Incredible! Unbelievable! This Sky-splitting Halberd actually has this ability!”

This situation was something Xu Mu never expected. Even though he did not understand the principle behind it, this feature would undoubtedly play a significant role for him at this point.

“Damn it! Why didn’t I try it out earlier! If I had known that the Sky-Splitting Halberd had this ability, I could have easily done as I pleased within the Cluster Stars Sect’s team, instead of being so careful and calculating!”

The reason the Cluster Stars Sect didn’t pursue him was partly because his cultivation level wasn’t low, but also because the spatial cracks were too dangerous, risking a possibility of involving themselves in it.

Faced with a secret realm filled with micro-spatial cracks, neither the people from Cluster Stars Sect nor Xu Mu dared to fly at full speed.

But now that Xu Mu had the Sky-splitting Halberd as a shield, at least in terms of speed, no one could catch up to him.

“Although I didn’t discover this earlier, it doesn’t seem too late now!”

Xu Mu’s eyes shone brightly. To him now, the entire Xuan Yang Secret Realm was like a treasure trove where anything he picked up was a treasure.

Like the Divine Sun Wood that the Cluster Stars Sect had just found previously!