After the initial chaos, the camp quickly returned to calm.
Chen Mu continued idly grinding experience in Thousand Lantern City.
He had thought Shen Yan would keep trying to persuade him indirectly, but the fellow acted as though nothing had happened, honestly continuing to water the fields and farm.
Chen Mu watched him uneasily for several days. Seeing that Shen Yan made no further moves, he simply stopped bothering about it.
He chanted the "Calm Heart Scripture" every day. As his experience steadily rose, more than twenty days passed in the blink of an eye, and he could now forgo reciting the incantation.
That day, as he activated the Calm Heart Scripture, a thread of familiar coolness flowed in, immediately filling his body with vigorous vitality.
"Who would have thought the River of Forgetfulness, like a river of sulfuric acid, would contain such life-filled power? How strange." Though it was not his first summoning, he could not help but marvel.
He released his control and let the thread of Weak Water flow into his brow. Just as he was about to continue cultivating, the Brow Secret Aperture suddenly began to throb.
He glanced at Shen Yan next door, who was obediently watering the plants, then immediately stood and went inside.
He released the Heavenly Demon True Form and poured his consciousness into it, instantly sensing an abnormality.
The Silver Ghost Marks covering his entire body flickered, blooming with silver radiance as though they were breathing.
Specks of special power, like sparks, emerged from the network of Ghost Marks.
Then, this power began to move upward from the soles of his feet. It was drawn and gathered along the way, passing through his legs, chest, abdomen, and brow. Finally, with a buzz and a faint tremor in the air, a walnut-sized