Three months of relentless travel, day and night.
Thanks to Don Freecss's guidance, the group had always been able to avoid all manner of creatures and Calamities in advance, allowing them to travel at maximum speed.
The Ancient Passage leading to the "Swamp" was located within a vast forest that stretched beyond sight. Its vessel was a moss-covered stone tablet embedded in the trunk of a tree.
Without Don Freecss leading the way, finding the vessel of the Ancient Pipeline in this sprawling forest would have been like searching for a needle in a haystack.
The tree containing the stone tablet had a trunk diameter of over a hundred meters. It also stood uniquely tall among the surrounding forest, a truly towering giant tree.
Compared to it, the stone tablet, no larger than an ordinary door panel, was as tiny as an ant against the hundred-meter-wide trunk. Covered and entangled by moss, vines, and branches, it was exceedingly difficult to spot.
However—
When Don Freecss brought Moyu before this enormous tree, even without Don Freecss's guidance, Moyu could have used the aura of Post-Mortem Nen to pinpoint the Ancient Pipeline's exact location.
Nearly all Ancient Pipelines scattered throughout the Dark Continent were Post-Mortem Entities left behind by ancient humans. That was the only reason they could endure for so long without dissipating.
This meant Moyu could use his unique qualities to locate Ancient Pipelines hidden within various environments across a certain range.
Of course, nothing was absolute.
Not everything that emitted a post-mortem aura was an Ancient Pipeline. It could also be any number of highly dangerous Post-Mortem Entities beyond human understanding.
So when it came to locating Ancient Pipelines, caution was always essential.
Around the towering tree was a barren clearing where not a blade of grass grew. Farther