Chapter 376: Chapter 345: Relying on One’s Own Efforts_1

“Let me introduce you to these three!”

Xu Mu called Xu Tianmei and the others over and introduced them one by one.

Xu Tianlei smiled, but inside was full of complaints. Her father was such a philandering carrot.

Phoenix and Xu Yin didn’t react much; they already knew about this collaboration between the Palace of Pure Heart and Whale Sea Gang, having met several times before. The only ones kept in the dark were the youngsters.

After the introductions, Xu Mu let Xu Yin show them around while he and Phoenix returned to their dwelling.

After being apart for so many years, they were due for some proper compensation.

For several days, Xu Mu lost himself in their company before going to see Mo Wuxin.

“You’ve been doing so well outside, why did you come back?”

Mo Wuxin’s face, as beautiful as smoke and clouds, showed no expression, but the jealousy in her tone was almost overflowing.

“What else could I do but come back for you?”

“…”

After some intimate conversations that led him to fulfill his desire, Mo Wuxin’s jealousy finally evaporated and Xu Mu started talking about business with her.

“How is the information I asked you to find?”

After saving Ming Lingchun, Xu Mu had already passed on information to Mo Wuxin to help find a way to restore innate deficiencies and life force.

“There are five methods to restore life force and only one to supplement innate deficiencies,” Mo Wuxin said.

“Are there really?”

Xu Mu was surprised.

He thought that if Mo Wuxin could find a method to restore life force, it would already be impressive, but she even found a way to supplement innate deficiencies.

This was such an against-the-heavens development he initially thought something like this did not exist in the Cang Ming Ocean Territory.

He took the jade slip Mo Wuxin handed over and immediately permeated his divine intent into it to start reading.

“Xuan Yang Secret Realm? Xuan Yang Holy Water?!”

According to the jade slip, the Xuan Yang Secret Realm is the most mysterious and precious secret realm in the Cang Ming Ocean Territory, on par with the Fragmented Space Secret Realm in the Outer Sea, opening only once every hundred years.

The spiritual energy therein is rich, producing a large number of treasures each time, the most precious among them being the Xuan Yang Holy Water – hence the name of the secret realm.

The primary function of Xuan Yang Holy Water is to heal injuries. It can keep a person alive and regenerate flesh and bone. Even those in the Nascent Soul Stage can benefit from consuming it.

No matter what a cultivator does, be it cultivating or fighting, they will inevitably sustain internal injuries. Especially those of a spiritual nature, are very difficult to cure. Typically, it might not have much impact, but when attempting to break through a bottleneck, it can form a major obstacle.

That’s why all are extremely eager for Xuan Yang Holy Water!

But the Xuan Yang Secret Realm is not a safe haven; it’s teeming with danger, and even those in the Nascent Soul Stage need to tread carefully.

It’s for this reason that no one has been able to find Xuan Yang Holy Water for several hundred years.

Of course, there was another reason, namely, wanting to enter the Xuan Yang Secret Realm isn’t that easy.

The entrance to the Xuan Yang Secret Realm is not fixed.

Or rather, it doesn’t really have a conventional entrance. Each time it reaches the opening limit, several spatial cracks linked to it would appear randomly. These cracks are difficult to locate and even harder to detect using divine intent.

Only the three major powers of the Cang Ming Ocean Territory have the capability and resources to locate these cracks. So, most of the time, the entrants are their people. Only a very small number of loose cultivators might stumble upon it by pure luck.

It is said that five hundred years ago, the Bu Tian Pavilion had a fixed entrance, but for some reason, they lost its location.

But the Bu Tian Pavilion has the Heavenly Spirit Treasure, the Starry Disk; as long as they’re willing to pay the price, finding it isn’t difficult.

The jade slip also recorded the previous opening time.

Xu Mu calculated it and couldn’t help but be stunned.

“How is it that the time is similar to when the spatial channel experienced fluctuations?”

When he was in Foundation Establishment Stage, the spatial channel had experienced fluctuations and connected to an unknown space.

At that time, he was scared of the danger and chose not to take any risks, opting to go to other cities to sell pills instead. This decision led to a disagreement with Mu Yunwan and eventually had to flee to the Outer Sea, resulting in all the subsequent events.

“Could that unknown space possibly have been the Xuan Yang Secret Realm?”

Thinking of the various things he discovered in the spatial channel, which were all related to Butian Pavilion, it also corroborated another piece of information in the jade slip – that Butian Pavilion used to have a fixed entrance to the Secret Realm.

Xu Mu didn’t hide it, he told Mo Wuxin about it and asked for her help to analyze this situation.

The shocked Mo Wuxin, having been informed of the full story, was even more surprised.

She once vaguely heard Xu Mu say that he came from a distant place, and she also heard some bits and pieces from Xu Yin. But she wasn’t overly curious. If Xu Mu didn’t talk about it, she didn’t ask either. But she didn’t expect these surprising twists and turns – a fixed spatial rift connecting two places, a Bu Tian Pavilion token, a Bu Tian Pavilion Secret Skill…

“If it’s really as you said, then the space at that location is very likely the Xuan Yang Secret Realm. However—” Mo Wuxin frowned. “By the time the Secret Realm opens, they will definitely guard it with many formations, and they might even send out Nascent Soul Stage masters. Even if you know the way, you won’t be able to get in.”

“But there is a way. We can inform the high-ranking members and ask for their help, in exchange for one or two entry spots.

“The only problem is that doing this will likely expose the fact that you have previously used the spatial rift. Everything will be connected to you by then, and many secrets will no longer be hidden.”

“Who says I can’t get in!” Xu Mu laughed.

“What do you mean by that? You aren’t thinking about barging in, are you?” Mo Wuxin asked, a bit annoyed.

Do you think this is a game?

If they catch you, there’s a good chance you’ll die.

Xu Mu didn’t say anything but simply released his concealed aura.

“Na, Nascent Soul Stage!!!!!”

Mo Wuxin’s eyes widened in disbelief.

She didn’t know about Xu Mu’s breakthrough to the Nascent Soul Stage. Not that Xu Mu intentionally kept it from her, but mainly because there wasn’t any necessity and it wasn’t something to be publicized.

On the other hand, he had caused quite a stir in the Outer Sea.

Especially for the likes of the Blood Demon Ancestor, if they were to find out that he’s connected to the Palace of Pure Heart, that would spell trouble.

In his current situation, it would be best if fewer people knew he was in the Nascent Soul Stage.

Therefore he didn’t tell Mo Wuxin and the only two people who knew were Xu Yiren and Zhang Tianluo.

Now, Mo Wuxin was the third to know.

“The person who advanced in the Outer Sea…was it you?” Mo Wuxin instantly remembered the news she received not long ago. It was said that a new Nascent Soul had appeared in the Outer Sea, but no one knew their specific origin. Now that she thought about it, it could be no other than Xu Mu.

“Correct!” Xu Mu withdrew his aura and laughed.

“How is that possible? How did you cultivate?”

Even with the real and tangible aura of the Nascent Soul Stage, Mo Wuxin still found it hard to believe.

When she broke through to the Golden Pill stage, Xu Mu was still at the Foundation Establishment Stage. Now, while she was only at the Golden Pill’s sixth level and was regarded as a genius by her peers – hoping to reach the Nascent Soul Stage in two hundred years – she had never expected that Xu Mu, who was at a lower cultivation level than her, had not just caught up with her but had even surpassed her.

“Of course, it’s all due to my own hard work!”