Da Xuan Martial Saint

Chen Mu's thoughts stirred slightly, and then with one step, he walked into the yellow sand, immediately feeling a void under his feet as he began to sink into the sand.

However, he didn't retreat but advanced instead, not just setting foot in the sand but also burrowing down into it, disappearing into the quicksand in an instant.

He traveled downward along the sand flow.

Chen Mu could sense that the nearby Earth Pulse's Power was flowing irregularly, forming a channel almost similar to the one created after an earth vein eruption during a flood disaster, only this one was more stable.

It seemed that the previous sand disaster had depleted too much of The Power of Heaven and Earth, resulting in these earth cavity areas recovering very slowly. It felt like it would take at least three to five days to return to normal.

Just like that.

Chen Mu didn't know how deep he had gone, but after about a hundred feet, he finally broke through the sand flow, entering a small earth cavity filled with flowing sand.

To say it was an earth cavity, the space was actually quite small and filled with moving sand.

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No sooner had Chen Mu landed in the yellow sand and glanced around than he felt a change underfoot and, with the speed of lightning, a black spike emerged from beneath the sand, aiming at his body.

However, he merely let out a cold snort and nonchalantly swatted with his right hand, bending the black spike with a smack, then stomped his foot, shaking the sand beneath him. Along with the sound of something being crushed, 'crack'.

Next.

Chen Mu grabbed the now-immobile bent spike and yanked it upward, pulling out a giant scorpion from the sandy ground, comparably large as a human. Even though its life force was fading, the demonic power brewing inside it was still tumultuous.

It was a fifth-rank demon scorpion.

Looking at the demon scorpion, whose body was nearly crushed by his strike, Chen Mu emotionlessly tossed it aside. Then with another stomp, the sand underfoot churned, and from it, numerous translucent demon eggs surfaced.

Crack! Crack!!

Cracks appeared on the surface of the demon eggs, and then they shattered one after another. In an instant, a swarm of small, half-translucent scorpions the size of fingers crawled out from them.

Chen Mu's expression unchanged, he slapped down with his palm, and in an instant, all the hatching and unhatched demon eggs were crushed into a mush, mixing with the sand into a sticky mess.

Though demons were considered a resource to humanity, with many proving to be useful, desert scorpions were not among them, so there was no need to deliberately preserve them.

Swish.

After eradicating the nest of demon scorpions, Chen Mu briefly sensed his surroundings, ultimately digging out a withered yellow ore with obvious bite marks from one corner of the sand.

"Xuan Sha ore..."

He shook his head and discarded the piece of Xuan Sha ore.

Similar to Xuan iron, Xuan Sha ore also had unique value, but it wasn't worth collecting for Chen Mu at that moment, especially since this piece had been gnawed on by the demon scorpion and most of its essence drawn out, resulting in extremely poor quality.

Crack.

Chen Mu then took the dead demon scorpion, casually breaking off its stinger, which still held considerable value. If it were fashioned into certain special hidden weapons, it could pose a threat even to someone in the Five Viscera Realm.

After one final check and making sure there was nothing else of interest, Chen Mu leaped up, diving back into the winding paths of the flowing sand and quickly returning to the surface.

Swish.

Chen Mu's figure broke through the sand, landing on the sand dune, and then he looked up to the darkened sky, slightly squinting his eyes.

Even though the sky was already dark, he could still vaguely see a flying beast circling high in the clouds, but because it was too far away, he could only barely see it and couldn't sense its presence.

It was quite normal for there to be flying beasts in the desert.

He had killed some while on duty at Yunlu City Pass in the past.

"Have I seen this flying beast before?"

Chen Mu paused to ponder.

During his time at Yunlu City Pass, he had seen flying beasts circling high in the sky more than once. Some flew too high for him to shoot down. However, those that flew too high he could barely see clearly, and he couldn't even discern their species.

Given that they flew extremely high, Chen Mu didn't pay them much attention, lacking the help of sandstorms he couldn't fly up there himself, unless he used the Evil-Breaking Thunder Spear... but that also had a range limitation, and if they were too high, they were still out of reach.

"If only I could fly through the air without the help of sandstorms," he thought.

Chen Mu quickly withdrew his gaze.

Flying through the air without support was a hallmark of a Marrow Cleansing Grandmaster.

Although he wasn't capable of this yet, he did possess the complete Qiankun Artistic Conception. Perhaps without becoming a Grandmaster, and simply by stepping into the Six Viscera Realm and cultivating the Qiankun Artistic Conception deeper, he might be able to fly.

He continued on through the vast desert.

By now.

Night had fallen, and the desert had seemingly transitioned instantly from scorching heat to bitter cold. The severe chill was enough to produce frost, but Chen Mu remained calm, walking under the night in the Sand Sea, sensing the changes of heaven and earth.

The Qiankun Eight Phases encompasses all things between heaven and earth. Like the law of bitter winter, he could employ it now, combining Xun Wind and Kan Water, assembling the Yin properties of Kun Earth to form water into ice, freezing all around.

"The changes between heaven and earth, this removal and growth, are truly mysterious," he reflected.