The days passed one by one.
Aside from cultivating his Dao Foundation, Chen Mu spent most of his time hunting Demons.
He used the Nine Cups Calculation Scripture to calculate their locations and the Plague Immortal Method to release Demon Poison. Numerous Nether Demon Heaven Demons were brought down, while the reserves of essence, blood, and flesh within the Bottomless Pool steadily grew.
One day, following a location calculated by the Calculation Classic, he arrived outside a mountain valley.
He activated the True Hearing Supernatural Ability and soon discovered a rather familiar middle-aged man.
The man was bald, his eyes blood-red. Fine bloodlines spread from the corners of his eyes to the top of his head, outlining petal-like lotus patterns with an eerie sort of beauty.
"Is that... Zhou Tong?"
Chen Mu's heart tightened.
Before he could figure out why Zhou Tong had changed so drastically, more similar figures gradually appeared within the range of his True Hearing Supernatural Ability.
They were the Huodao City Dao Soldiers who had followed Zhou Tong.
Every one of them had changed greatly. Their eyes were blood-red, their bodies gaunt. Their faces were full of violence, like cats with their fur perpetually standing on end, ready to fight at the slightest disagreement.
In the brief time Chen Mu had been watching, three conflicts had suddenly erupted.
Not only did the onlookers fail to stop them, they instead gathered around and shouted excitedly. Their eyes even gleamed with blatant greed, as though they were looking at prey rather than companions.
Something was wrong with this group!
Chen Mu's scalp prickled.
The Calculation Classic had clearly indicated that Nether Demon Heaven Demons were here, yet what had appeared were these Dao Soldiers with mutated bodies...
Did this... mean it had classified Zhou Tong and the others