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Compared to wandering around randomly, the arithmetic can at least give him a possible direction to explore.
……
Late at night, two hundred miles outside Feng'an City, a thick fog so thick that one could not see one's hand in front of one's face was silently crawling towards the city.
At a certain moment, it was like thunder flashing in the clouds, and dots of pale green light appeared on the gray clouds.
next moment.
Swish!
Like a sudden downpour of rain, countless balls of green fire as big as human heads fell from the sky and smashed into the white clouds like thousands of arrows.
Boom boom boom...
There was a series of loud explosions and green flames shot up into the sky.
The white cloud of mist on the quiet bridge suddenly burst into a shrill scream, and a huge meat ball about seven or eight stories high with countless strange snake heads appeared.
A pale green flame covered it and continued to burn. The snake head and flesh ball kept rolling, trying to put out the flames, but to no avail.
Immediately afterwards, densely packed snake heads spewed out dark venom at the same time, and the stench filled the sky.
The rapidly spreading green flames slowed down, as if they had encountered a hurricane, and the raging fire suddenly shrank by half.
But the fireballs in the sky continued to appear, and in the blink of an eye, the power of the flames was restored.
No matter how the strange flesh mass struggled and roared, it eventually fell into the sea of fire and was covered in the green flames. Finally, it exploded with a loud bang and turned into countless dark insects with human heads that scattered everywhere.
A gray gust of wind swept across the sky, and the pale green flames like a sea of fire suddenly went out, disappearing completely in the blink of an eye.
Above the clouds in the sky, Lu Liang and Lu Shisan, who were caught in the dark and gloomy clouds, breathed a sigh of relief at the same time.
"Master, this is the fifth strange monster since the beginning of winter, right?" Lu Shisan said solemnly, "Does Qingyang City already know that the city lord has gone to the outer world?"
"I may not know it for sure, but I definitely have some guesses." Lu Liang looked unhappy: "After all, he hasn't shown up for half a year. It's already the limit to be able to conceal it for so long."
"Then these monsters that keep approaching recently are probably a test." Lu Shisan's face was grim: "This is forcing the city lord to show up."
"If the city lord shows up, he will be able to repel the evil monster. If he doesn't show up, it means there is something wrong with the city lord. They might use the evil monster to destroy Feng'an!"
Lu Liang nodded slowly, his brows furrowed into a river.
"Young Master, how about you leave Feng'an City first and take shelter?" Lu Shisan couldn't help but persuade him.
"I can't leave." Lu Liang shook his head and sighed, "I'm afraid that the outskirts of Feng'an City have been set up by Qingyang City, waiting for me to show up."
"As soon as I run, they will immediately attack me and use me as a weakness to attack my father."
"We can only defend Feng'an and create the illusion that my father is still practicing in seclusion to get away with it."
Lu Shisan wanted to continue persuading him, but after opening his mouth, he remained silent.
"Mr. Lu hasn't been found yet?" Lu Liang asked.
"The demon spirit is fine. Mr. Lu is most likely still alive." Lu Shisan shook his head: "But we don't know where he was sent to."
Hearing this, Lu Liang looked grim: "We were able to easily kill the strange monsters these few times, thanks to the mountain-carrying secret method taught by Mr. Lu."
"It's a pity that Qingyang City is closing in step by step, and the secret spies in the city are keeping watch everywhere, so we can't conduct a large-scale investigation."
"That hometown in Qingyang City deserves to die!"
"Alas... the situation is like this, there's nothing we can do." Lu Shisan said to comfort him.
"I have sent two more teams to continue searching for the round-faced secret agent."
"If we find that person, we might have a chance to find some clues."
"Alas... this is all we can do for now." Hearing this, Lu Liang couldn't help but sigh: "I wish Mr. Lu great fortune."
(End of this chapter)
Chapter 502 Calculation
The sky was covered with thick gray clouds, and the light in Heifengao was dim.
On the porch of the wooden house, Chen Mu lay in a rocking chair with his eyes narrowed, his left hand tucked into his wide sleeve, while his right hand resting on the armrest kept pinching.
At a certain moment, a crystal white dot came into view, and Chen Mu's movements slowed down.
"It's snowing."
He stood up and walked to the edge of the corridor, staring at the increasingly dense snow. Unconsciously, he had been in Heifengao for two months.
When I came to my senses, a gray wall appeared before my eyes.
Five Dragons Sutra: 3117/10000/Level ;
Nine Cups Arithmetic: 43/10000/Second Order;
Over the past month, my progress on the Five Dragons Sutra was acceptable, but my progress on Sutra Calculation was extremely slow, and it was only yesterday that I entered the second stage.
"Fortunately, my efforts were not in vain." Chen Mu couldn't help but stretch out his hand to catch a snowflake.
Yesterday he calculated the weather and guessed that there would be heavy snow today, but he didn't expect it to come true.
“People with rich life experience can roughly estimate weather changes.”
"The effectiveness of the arithmetic still needs to be tested."
"Well, you can try to find the nearest gathering point of evil spirits."
……
three days later.
The sky was still gray, and the entire Heifengao was covered with heavy snow, and it was all white wherever you looked.
The one-meter-tall burdock tree was covered with snowflakes, and its fiery red leaves huddled together, motionless as if it were asleep.
Chen Mu walked out of the wooden house, turned around, and disappeared as a breeze.
Following the direction given by the Suanjing, he did not stop all the way, following the cold wind, and drifted straight to the southeast. He was more than 300 miles away from Heifengao before he reappeared at the foot of a small hill.
Chen Mu stood at the foot of a nearly vertical steep cliff, looking around with some disappointment.
Even though it was covered in snow, he could easily see that there were no signs of ghost life in this place.
"Tsk... After all, it's only the first level of perfection. I really can't have too high expectations for the Mathematical Scripture."
"Go back and continue with the liver?"
Chen Mu couldn't help but grin as he thought of this.
The Nine Cups Calculation is difficult to understand, and can only be practiced through repeated calculations, and experience progress is slow. If you want to practice to the third level, it will probably take at least a year or so, and it will not be achieved.
Moreover, the feedback during practice was so bad that he really didn't want to practice.
Just as I was about to turn around and leave, a strange sound came to my ears.
Chen Mu's heart moved, and he immediately activated the method of listening carefully. Then he raised his eyebrows and looked at the ground with interest.
Thousands of meters below, there was a space as big as two classrooms. A strong man over two meters tall was cooking in it?!
"We are kindred spirits!"
Chen Mu couldn't help but smile.
……
The next day, inside a wooden house on the eastern hillside of Heifengao.
"Feng'an City?" Across the square tea table, a simple-looking man with small eyes looked puzzled: "There is actually a city in this wilderness?"
This……
Chen Mu was speechless for a moment when he heard this.
The people in Heifengao had at least heard of the rumors about the city, but the strong man in front of them had never even heard of the rumors about the city.
The strong man was the evil spirit he discovered yesterday. He had the ability to escape underground. In order to avoid the dangers on the ground, he dug a hole underground to survive.
The hole dug by the other party was too deep. If Chen Mu hadn't had sharp ears, he would have almost missed this person yesterday.
He has the ability to escape underground, which greatly improves his safety when he goes out, and his range of movement far exceeds that of the evil spirits in Black Wind Valley. But even so, the other party still doesn't know the existence of the city, which is enough to show that the surrounding area is indeed desolate.
"Have you ever encountered other gathering places of evil spirits?" Chen Mu continued to ask.
"I did encounter one a few years ago, but unfortunately, before I could plan to move in, the village suddenly disappeared overnight." The sturdy man said, with a hint of fear on his face.
This is also the reason why he dug the hole so deep.
"Where is the village?" Chen Mu became interested.
"It's just to the north of the hill where I live, about two hundred miles away, in the middle of a valley." The strong man did not hide it.
More than two hundred miles to the north, a valley?
This location...could it be the mountain stronghold where Old Yang stayed before?
Chen Mu hurriedly asked and checked carefully, and after a few words, he couldn't help but sigh.
Although there were still some differences, he was basically certain that the valley was most likely the ruins he found.
It's a waste of joy.
"By the way, do you still remember where the Forgotten River you climbed out of is?" After a while, Chen Mu calmed down and continued to ask.
"Gone." The strong man looked puzzled: "I went back to look for some of my companions. But they disappeared completely in such a big river. I didn't find anything."
"I remember that location very clearly." The sturdy man looked puzzled and could not understand this strange phenomenon.
Chen Mu couldn't help but narrow his eyes.
He guessed that the Forgotten River here might not be fixed. It sometimes disappeared and sometimes appeared, and there was no fixed section of the river.
When he killed the strange monster before, the shadow of the Wangchuan River that suddenly appeared and disappeared aroused Chen Mu’s interest.
He specifically inquired about relevant information in Black Wind Valley, intending to find the Wangchuan River and then go up the river to look for traces of the city. However, he found that the directions indicated by everyone were varied, and he found nothing after checking them one by one. Only some traces of dry riverbeds could be seen in some places.
Just as the sturdy man in front of him said, soon after the ghost crawls out of the Forgotten River, it will disappear out of thin air.
"But why doesn't the Wangchuan River near Jiugu City and Feng'an City change?"
"I don't understand..." Chen Mu scratched his head.