After resolving the Yinhun Monster piloting issue, Chen Mu's life returned to a regular rhythm.
Every day, he cultivated the Jade Cicada Secret Manual, steadily advancing his Dao Foundation cultivation. During breaks, he continued studying the Plague Immortal Method.
Every three to five days, he captured a Calamity Demon. Before long, the number of Yinhun in the Five Ghosts Bag reached twelve thousand.
As though they shared a symbiotic, complementary relationship, the space inside the Five Ghosts Bag slowly began expanding under the Yinhun Monster's influence.
"There must be some profound mystery between the two." Chen Mu seemed to realize something.
The Five Ghosts Bag cultivation method came from the Thousand Mountains Scripture. The Five Ghosts Little Paper Man, one of its core elements, was refined using Yinhun Monsters.
"Perhaps only the complete Thousand Mountains Scripture contains records of it. What a pity I can't see it."
The Thousand Mountains Scripture was widely circulated, but most copies were incomplete fragments.
Over the years, he had traveled far and wide and browsed many collections of scriptures within several Daoist sects, but he had never found any related volumes.
Chen Mu thought about it briefly, then stopped paying attention to it.
After all, it was not something related to life and death.
As long as he went far enough along the path of Qi Refining immortality, he might encounter it eventually.
He would leave it to fate.
Outside cultivation, Chen Mu would occasionally gaze up at the stars and speculate about the current state of the Nether Demon Heaven Demon invasion on Huodao Star.
Sometimes, he also worried that Demons would descend from the sky and reenact the Haizhou Upheaval.
But there were countless stars in the heavens, and he did not know how to read them. In the end, he could