Da Xuan Martial Saint

Chapter 613: Chapter 363: Cave Heaven

Chen Mu did not know that the carcass of the Red Jiao he had abandoned had been subsequently divided up by some Grandmasters. Even if he had known, he would not have cared too much, for indeed, only the blood essence of the Red Jiao was worth taking; the rest were not necessary to take if inconvenient.

He continued his exploration on the Fourth Layer, and several days passed in a blur.

“The changes in the Earth’s Veins are so great, could it be that it can no longer be found?”

Chen Mu was still searching according to the records on the Demon Skin Map, only temporarily without any gains.

It was not entirely true to say there were no clues at all. In fact, the map marked some special areas as indicators, and Chen Mu had found one or two of these areas.

For example, the crevice he had passed by earlier, a region where magma surged, was one of the markers.

But the problem was that he had only found that marking, and continuing the search from there, he suddenly lost any other clues. With the Earth’s Veins having shifted over the years, either sinking or rising, some positions might be entirely reversed.

However.

Just as Chen Mu was losing hope in finding further clues.

“…hm?”

His gaze suddenly flickered, a hint of difference flashing in his eyes as he looked toward a certain direction in the distance.

Then he quickly moved, traversing over ten miles in the blink of an eye, arriving at the place where a solitary, sharp peak jutted out from the desolate wasteland. Calling it a peak was somewhat inappropriate, as it was only about thirty to sixty feet tall and was made entirely of greenstone.

“Mount Qing Stone.”

Chen Mu recognized this type of stone material for its extreme hardness and resistance to both moisture and drought, unaffected by wind and sun, typically remaining unchanged for a thousand years. If found on the surface, it would be one of the minerals worth mining to build strong fortresses, but here in the Earthly Abyss, it was not a rare item, and for someone like him, it was useless.

However, the nearest mark on the Demon Skin Map to the depicted area was exactly a Mount Qing Stone Forest.

Chen Mu had been running back and forth in search of that Mount Qing Stone Forest, but he had not found it until now.

“…”

At this moment, Chen Mu reined in his gaze, looking past the protruding Mount Qing Stone. However, looking out over the sprawling wasteland, he could not see a second piece of Mount Qing Stone; it seemed that this was the only one here.

“Even if the changes in the Earth’s Veins are significant, it is unlikely that a piece of Mount Qing Stone would be separated and transported a thousand miles away in just over a hundred years. Since there is one here, the Mount Qing Stone Forest should be nearby, not too far,” Chen Mu thought to himself.

He immediately centered on that piece of Mount Qing Stone and began exploring the surrounding area. At last, roughly twenty miles to the south, he caught sight of a scattering of greenstone protrusions in the distance.

The Mount Qing Stone Forest marked on the Demon Skin Map was supposed to be a towering stone forest, but after a hundred years and the shifting of the Earth’s Veins, almost all of it had been buried underground, leaving only the tips exposed.

“The Mount Qing Stone Forest is here, so the location indicated by the map should also be…”

Chen Mu stood atop a protruding Mount Qing Stone, surveying his surroundings. Then he closed his eyes slightly, sensing the environment of Heaven and Earth nearby, and soon he took a deep breath.

He found it!

It was indeed right here!

The Mount Qing Stone Forest marked on the Demon Skin Map was growing on top of a ‘Stone Vein,’ and the ultimate destination recorded on the map was within that vein. Having found the Mount Qing Stone Forest, he naturally found the Stone Vein beside it.

“Let’s see what this map marks, what exactly is there,” Chen Mu said as he looked towards the rear of the Mount Qing Stone Forest. He then walked a few steps forward, quickly reaching the edge of the Mount Qing Stone Forest and arriving at the Stone Vein underground.

A ‘Stone Vein’ was actually a mountain, a rock mountain buried beneath the ground.

Whoosh.

Chen Mu stepped down, and immediately, the soil churned beneath his feet while The Power of Heaven and Earth roiled under the sole of his shoe. The earth and stones split to either side as he quickly plunged underground.

In the Fourth Layer of the Earthly Abyss, even he could not burrow through the ground at ease. Influenced by the environmental conditions, he could not effortlessly turn tangible to intangible, consider the earth and stones as nothing, and directly burrow in as easily as on the surface; he had to harness The Power of Heaven and Earth to forge a path.

Soon.

Chen Mu arrived about seventy to eighty feet underground.

If he were above ground, not to mention seventy to eighty feet, even seven to eight hundred feet would have been insubstantial to him, but on the Fourth Layer of the Earthly Abyss, merely plunging seventy to eighty feet underground subjected him to a pressure far greater than two to three hundred feet above ground.

After feeling that intense heaviness and pressure, Chen Mu did not forcibly continue downward. Instead, he closed his eyes slightly, took a few steps forward, and carefully sensed the situation ahead.

Although underground and momentarily blind, his perception still enabled him to sense the enormity of that Stone Vein, its entirety being an underground stone mountain, yet comprised of a chaotic array of different stone materials displaying almost every type of stone.

Among them, there were types like Mount Qing Stone.

Even more,

Chen Mu roughly sensed that the vein contained many kinds of Jade Mines like ‘Cold Jade’ and ‘Flame Jade,’ all embedded within, complex and intricate. Instead of a stone mountain, it seemed more like some abnormal movement of Earth’s Veins had piled various stone materials and minerals together, forcibly compressing them into an underground Stone Vein.

Chen Mu quickly approached the vein, placing his hand over the exposed surface of the Stone Vein, touching a cold metallic sensation—it was a bare piece of iron ore and seemed to be embedded with a piece of Cold Jade Mine deeper inside, which he could tell was sizable just by a rough touch.

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