Several days later, deep at night.
Chen Mu lay in a rocking chair atop the Dragon Boat, carefully observing the sky.
Several days earlier, in midmonth, the Emperor Flow Paste had failed to arrive as scheduled, and even the stars in the sky seemed to have changed somewhat.
These past days, aside from traveling and searching for traces of Qi Refining cultivators, he came out to watch the stars every night.
After a good while, Chen Mu looked at the translucent Grey Stone Gate floating before him.
Lesser Cosmic Stars Formation: 1719/10000/second tier;
"Another hundred-odd experience points."
"As expected, the stars in the sky have indeed undergone some unknown change."
He had never had much of a concept of the stars filling the sky before, but he had learned the Lesser Cosmic Stars Formation back at the Heavenly River Water residence in Yizhou.
Though its rank was low, it happened to let him perceive the changes in the Celestial Stars.
This campaign in Mili Heaven is probably truly about to end, Chen Mu realized.
More than half a month later.
Mili Heaven, on a small floating island less than three li across.
Amid a string of popping and crackling sounds, streams of yellow mist shot into the sky and swiftly swept across the entire island.
Chen Mu, who stood atop a rock absorbing Demon Qi, was instantly engulfed by the yellow smoke.
Chen Mu glared at the mutant beasts not far away—each the size of a yellow dog, with three pairs of fleshy wings and resembling oversized Yellow Immortals—and his eyes immediately turned red.
"This damn stench is too much!"
"I only wanted to gather a little Demon Qi. It's not like I committed some monstrous, unforgivable crime. Why do I have to suffer this retribution?!"
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