"This way! The magnetic field interference here is very intense; there must be a malevolent spirit slumbering."
Chen Mu led the group into a damp and dark forest.
A cold wind blew by, and although everyone had their cultivation to protect them, for some reason, they all felt a chill seep straight into their hearts.
"Waaah... my head! Give me back my head!"
Suddenly, a fierce spirit clad in heavy armor but without a head appeared behind Lingming, raising a blood-stained axe and hacking fiercely at Lingming.
Among everyone present, Lingming's cultivation level was undoubtedly the weakest. However, he had a naturally keen intuition and quickly ducked down and rolled away to avoid the evil spirit's attack.
"Certainly!"
Chen Mu's right eye flashed, and countless golden runes shot out from it, transforming into chains of divine order that firmly bound the evil spirit.
"Roar~!"
Although the evil spirit was headless, it could still emit a tremendous roar. This sound disregarded space and distance, as if it were echoing in the depths of everyone's heart, sending chills down one's spine.
Crack!
Despite Chen Mu's use of many talismans to ward off evil spirits, they seemed to have little effect on this ancient ferocious spirit. The chains of runes broke one by one, and it looked as if the ferocious spirit was about to break free again.
At this moment, Di Yun and Gu Ningbi could no longer remain calm. The evil spirit always appeared and disappeared without a trace. If it broke free now, it would only be more difficult to deal with later.
Whoosh! Snap!
Two powerful attacks struck the evil spirit, weakening its spiritual form considerably.
"Don't kill it, leave it to me!"
Chen Mu formed hand seals, and lightning crackled around his body. Then, a terrifying lightning dragon shot out from above his head and rushed towards the headless evil spirit, firmly binding it.
There's something strange about this area!
Although the evil spirit was restrained, it struggled violently, as if it were being sustained by an inexhaustible force.
Chen Mu pressed his hand to the ground and finally discovered the problem: the ground within a radius of several miles contained a blood-red energy, which should be left by the body of the headless evil spirit before its death.
"Heaven and Earth, Eight Trigrams, Bind the Spirit!"
He channeled his Dharma Power, and countless runes spread outwards from his palm placed on the ground. In just a moment, the crimson energy underground was isolated by his runes.
After losing its crimson energy, the headless demon in the air gradually weakened and soon became too weak to struggle any longer.
"The state of this malevolent spirit is somewhat similar to the Specter Legion of Shi Xing."
After Chen Mu created the prototype of the world, the Specter Legion was nourished by the prototype and could no longer remain solely by Chen Mu's side.
The Specter Legion is currently left in the Chen Kingdom, but Chen Mu can still summon them to his side through the World Embryo whenever needed.
"Those who can become evil spirits are all because they have an unyielding obsession."
Because they cannot escape the cycle of time, most of them are highly aggressive; even if we manage to capture them, they are of little value.
Gu Ningbi examined the weakened headless demon in the air and explained to Chen Mu.
"It's alright, this battle was very meaningful to me, let's keep moving forward!"
This headless demon is indeed very powerful. If it weren't for Chen Mu's runes being able to specifically counter spirits, even a typical Demigod might not be able to defeat it.
Chen Mu has gathered enough data in this battle, so even if he encounters stronger spirits later, he will have a greater chance of winning.
Whoosh... whoosh...!
Chen Mu threw out a Sealing Talisman, sealing the weakened headless evil spirit inside. He then stored it within the nascent world within his body, where the supercomputer continued to process and analyze the evil spirit's data.
The group continued their journey. After this battle, Di Yun and the others had witnessed Chen Mu's methods for dealing with spirits, which boosted their confidence in this operation.
"Look over there, that used to be World Crystal Mountain."
Ten thousand years ago, there were countless World Crystal to mine there, but unfortunately, after that cataclysmic calamity ten thousand years ago, World Crystal no longer appeared there."
Since Chen Mu had mentioned World Crystal Mountain to Gu Ningbi before, when the group crossed a towering mountain peak, she specifically pointed out the location of World Crystal Mountain to Chen Mu and Mingye.
Looking down from the mountaintop, the World Crystal Mountain site is now just a collection of pitted holes, plowed up countless times, and has clearly lost all its value.
"It's a natural Chaos Source-Gathering Array, what a pity."
Chen Mu's expertise in formations was considerable; he immediately recognized that this was one of the rarest super-terrain formations in the myriad realms, and that once such a natural terrain was destroyed, it was virtually impossible to repair.
"Let's go! This World Crystal Mountain is abandoned; there's nothing to see here."
For people from outside the realm like Chen Mu and Gu Ningbi, the War of the Gods had been over for ten thousand years, but for native residents of Kunlun Heaven like Di Yun, that calamity had only lasted for less than a thousand years.
Because the flow of time in Kunlun Heaven is only about one-tenth that of the Pan Emperor Continent, and the lifespan of the beings in Kunlun Heaven is long, Di Yun's ancestors even participated in the struggle for the remaining World Crystal of World Crystal Mountain, so they are very clear about the situation there.
Urged on by Di Yun, the others, knowing there was no profit to be made, continued their journey deeper into the Primordial Beginning Mountain Range.
The deeper one goes into the primeval mountains, the harsher the surrounding environment becomes. Although the concentration of Primordial Power is still ridiculously high, it is also extremely violent. Unless one is at the level of a god or above, it is impossible to harness this energy for one's own use.
"We can't go any further. The Jianmu Hill is just ahead, shrouded in God-Slaying God Domain. Entering it without divine protection is tantamount to suicide."
Upon arriving deep within the Primordial Beginning Mountain Range, Di Yun called for everyone to stop.
"Young Master Chen, this is your first time in Kunlun Heaven, so you may not know the legend of the God-Slaying God."
Before his fall, the God-Slaying God was the strongest being in Kunlun Heaven. He used to live in seclusion deep within the Primordial Beginning Mountain Range. If he were still alive, the Primordial Beginning Mountain Range wouldn't be in their current state.
Di Yun sighed, a look of regret on his face.
Chen Mu turned to look at Gu Ningbi. It seemed that Gu Ningbi had not yet told Di Yun about her identity as a descendant of God-Slaying God.
"The gods of Heavenly Court cannot enter Kunlun Heaven, so their altars could not be set up inside Jianmu Hill."
"Let's walk along the edge of this Jianmu Hill; we should be able to find the people from Heavenly Court."
Gu Ningbi didn't explain to Di Yun, and instead told everyone to change direction.
With Chen Mu's detection radar providing guidance, the operation went much more smoothly than expected, and they didn't waste any time, continuing to search for traces of the Heavenly Court's visitors.