Under Xuanxiao Peak, Li Mu was dressed in white and stood still in front of a mountain wall.

In the Fu Bao Building, he bought more than 20 high-grade spirit runes of the same grade as the Qinglei Fu in one go, and spent more than 2,000 spirit stones to buy more than 100 second-level spirit runes in case of emergency.

Li Mu faintly felt in his heart that this trip, what awaited him would be an extremely severe test.

How would Ma Chuyuan, the son of the mission pavilion master, deal with himself in the late stage of Huafan?

It stands to reason that the task pavilion forced Li Mu to accept the task in such a way that the conflict was already on the table. If something happened to Li Mu in the process of carrying out the mission, the Mission Pavilion would not be able to get out of it.

Although the Fu Department has declined over the years, there is still a three-grade talisman master with such a noble status as Guo Zhuting, and his influence is still not to be underestimated, and it is not something that the Mission Pavilion can compete with at all.

Moreover, the Xuanming faction has strict rules, and it is okay to fight in secret, but disciples are never allowed to kill each other and frame each other, if Li Mu has a problem in this mission, the task pavilion master must give an explanation to the Fu Gong Department.

In fact, in the final analysis, all this is just his speculation, after all, does Ma Chuyuan really have such a deep impression of himself? I'm afraid not.

From his own point of view, this person's behavior is certainly hateful, and even at that time he wanted to kill him as soon as possible. But from Ma Chuyuan's point of view, the waste disciple who was robbed of the elixir by him more than a year ago may have long been forgotten.

But the heart of the cultivator is even more unpredictable. No matter what Ma Chuyuan thought, Li Mu couldn't help but speculate about him with the greatest malice, because he would go to the talisman assessment as soon as he returned to the mountain gate, in order to protect himself to the greatest extent.

The revenge that should be avenged still has to be avenged, and the grievances that should be settled will have to be settled sooner or later, but there is no hurry. Ma Chuyuan was just a small stumbling block in his cultivation journey, and Li Mu would not sacrifice too much of his cultivation time specifically to deal with him.

Now that the Mission Pavilion has come to such a trick, it is very likely that Ma Chuyuan can't hold his breath and has to strike first. Although Li Mu was vigilant, he was not afraid.

What supported his confidence, in addition to his own cultivation, was also an important reason for the more than 100 spirit runes in the storage bag. You must know that there are more than 20 of them, but they are used to deal with the high-level spirit runes in the foundation building period. Although Li Mu's cultivation realm was not enough to exert too much power of these spirit runes, as long as the disciples were still in the mortal transformation stage, he was not afraid.

Could it be that Ma Chuyuan could still invite the core disciples of the foundation building period in order to deal with him? Li Mu felt that it was impossible, even if Ma Chuyuan had a father in the late foundation building period to support him, no disciple in the foundation building period would dare to be driven by him to assassinate a promising young talisman master.

Li Mu thought about it while walking out of the secret passage of the sect, this time the exit was different, I really don't know how many such secret passages have been opened up by the Xuanming sect in this mountain.

He looked for the direction and headed west. Further west, it was the deepest part of the 100,000 Great Mountain, and the Spirit Beast Mountain he was going to was among them.

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In the records of the sect's classics, the Spirit Beast Mountain was the first mountain of demon cultivation 10,000 years ago, and there were three major demon kings in it, all of whom were profoundly cultivated, and they were the most powerful demon cultivators in the Xuanying world at that time. The overall strength is similar to that of today's Terran Race Cultivation Sect, the Seven Swords Sect, which can be described as a behemoth.

It's just that in a great war eight thousand years ago, the faction fell apart, and a situation of confrontation between several demon kings slowly formed. The huge Spirit Beast Mountain no longer existed, and after barely supporting it for five thousand years, it was defeated and retreated by the Xuanming Sect Patriarch with one person and one sword, and since then he has given up his own foundation and retreated to the North Sea to beg for a living.

No one knows how the battle of the three thousand years was going on, and the classics of the Xuanming faction are also vague, but the five demon kings joined forces and were still defeated by Xuanmingzi, which is an indisputable fact. When Li Mu read this, he couldn't help but feel a little yearning.

The five demon kings were defeated but did not die, and after retreating to Beihai with their disciples and grandchildren, they reunited and established today's Beiquan Mountain. After three thousand years of development, it has re-established itself in the Xuanying Realm, and is one of the three major demon king forces.

Beiquan Mountain and the Xuanming Sect have been fighting endlessly, and for three thousand years, the two sides have not known how many disciples they have killed each other, but the strange thing is that the hatred between the two sides is getting shallower and shallower, and by now, almost all of them have returned to normal relationship between the demon sects.

However, a demon clan near Beiquan Mountain, under the influence of the Three-Eyed Golden Lion clan, has turned into a first demon, and their hatred for human beings has not decreased, and their hatred for the disciples of the Xuanming Sect is even deeper into the bone marrow. And Spirit Beast Mountain, as the origin of its ancestral door, is an important place that it has always wanted to take back.

The Spirit Beast Mountain is located at the source of the Canglan River, thousands of feet high, stretching for dozens of miles, the grass and trees under the mountain are flourishing, the mountain is covered with snow, but the top of the mountain is pitch black, emitting black smoke all the year round, it looks mysterious and wonderful.

This mountain as the demon clan once the mountain gate, there are not many buildings, but there are a lot of caves and holes, but this mountain is very huge, those small holes are all over the mountain, after thousands of years of vicissitudes of life, most of them are covered by the trees that grow, and they can't see really.

In addition, the demon clan chose this place as the basis of its sect 10,000 years ago, so it was naturally relied on.

First of all, the main peak of Spirit Beast Mountain is the first peak of the 100,000 Great Mountains, and the spiritual energy of Zhong Tiandi is the most abundant in the entire range of the 100,000 Great Mountains.

Secondly, the Spirit Beast Mountain is located in the birthplace of the Canglan River, directly in front of the Canglan Mountain, the Canglan River is surrounded by water, forming a lot of lakes under the Spirit Beast Mountain, and adding a lot of aura to this place.

Last but not least, the black smoke emitting from the main peak of Spirit Beast Mountain actually shows that this mountain is a volcano, and it is also an active volcano, which may erupt at any time.

At that time, the three kings of the demon clan used their unpredictable abilities and cooperated with the formation treasures to detain the magma in this mountain and prevent it from erupting, so that the belly of this mountain was in extremely high temperature all year round. The higher the status of the demon clan in the Spirit Beast Mountain, the closer the place where they live, the closer it is to the center of the mountain.

On the one hand, you can exercise your body with the help of the blazing heat, and on the other hand, such a pure fire aura will also greatly promote the cultivation of the demon clan.

After Xuanmingzi drove the demon clan away, the reason why the Xuanming faction was not built here was because the sealing circle in this place had been broken - imagine that a few shape-shifting demon kings, even with the help of external forces, could seal this volcano. But how long can it last before the great power of heaven and earth?

The moment the seal of the Spirit Beast Mountain was damaged, it also announced that the huge Spirit Beast Mountain had fallen apart.

For 8,000 years, Spirit Beast Mountain still erupts flames from time to time, but its frequency has decreased a lot. According to the records of the sect's classics, the last eruption on Spirit Beast Mountain was five hundred years ago.

In the past five hundred years, the surrounding area of this mountain has returned to its lush appearance, and many demon beasts have entrenched here, absorbing the aura near this mountain. The Xuanming faction ignored it, and only when the Yuan Demon appeared, would it send disciples from the sect to kill it.

There are many demon beasts in the Spirit Beast Mountain, and within a radius of a hundred miles, I don't know how many low-level demon beasts are hidden, and even some Yuan Demons who have avoided the detection of the Xuanming faction are also hidden here.

Li Mu traveled all the way west, and spent more than ten days on a small hill not far away, looking at the direction of Spirit Beast Mountain from afar.

There are many large and small lakes around the Spirit Beast Mountain, these lakes are as clear as a mirror, extremely clear, reflecting the sky and clouds, flowers and trees, quite a bit of the atmosphere of the fairy realm.

There are many low-level demon beasts near Spirit Beast Mountain, but there are also a lot of ordinary beasts that inhabit here, and demon beasts often feed on them. But the attraction of Spirit Beast Mountain is too great, and even if a large number of beasts are not killed every day, these ignorant beasts still come in a steady stream.

Li Mu stood on this hill and watched for a while, and saw that several wild deer drinking by the lake were dragged down by the water demons outcropping in the water, and a few bison grazing leisurely were killed by a small black shadow penetrating their bodies, without any power to resist.

These low-level demon beasts are certainly fierce, but they also depend on the object they are facing, although their intelligence is low, if Li Mu enters them in this white robe, they will hardly be disturbed and attacked.

Over the past three thousand years, the Xuanming Sect has continuously killed the Yuan Demons in the 100,000 Great Mountains, and the white-clothed figures of the Xuanming Sect's disciples have been deeply imprinted into the minds of all the demon beasts in the Spirit Beast Mountain. There is a lot of hatred, but more often than not, there is instinctive fear.

This is also one of the reasons why Zheng Yunjie is not worried about Li Mu at all, otherwise, dozens of demon beasts will come out of the Spirit Beast Mountain to besiege Li Mu, I am afraid it will be enough for him to drink a pot.

Just looking at the huge Spirit Beast Mountain not far away and the many peaks around it, Li Mu couldn't help but feel a little worried. The jade tube given to him by the mission pavilion described the information of the clouded leopard in great detail, but there was no real explanation of its specific location, only a fluttering sentence near the "Spirit Beast Mountain".

There is a radius of nearly 100 miles near Spirit Beast Mountain, how can he find a small clouded leopard!

He spent more than ten days on this trip, and he didn't know if the clouded leopard had survived the thunderstorm. Li Mu could only secretly pray that he had not yet survived, and he jumped off the hill and approached towards the Spirit Beast Mountain.

His steps were light, and the aura on his body was restricted, trying not to alarm the beasts here. He knew that in the shadows around him, there must be many demon beasts watching him, and it was very likely that among them was the clouded leopard that was about to survive or had already survived.

There is the Canglan River under the Spirit Beast Mountain, and there are also many lakes of different sizes, covered by trees, very dense, Li Mu's white-clothed figure quickly disappeared after entering it.

He already had a faint idea in his mind about the goal of this trip, and then, it was up to him to guess. (To be continued.) )