Da Xuan Martial Saint

That's why he must go to Seven Profound Sect to comprehend higher-quality Imitative Diagrams, and even in the future, he will need to look for the whereabouts of "Painted Eight Phases Diagram" and even the "Primordial Eight Phases Diagram," only then will he be able to cultivate faster and master the Qiankun Artistic Conception.

Crack.

Chen Mu reached out to pluck the lotus pod and then gently squeezed it. The pod cracked like jade and then shattered bit by bit, leaving only six seeds about the size of a finger tip in his palm.

After a closer look, Chen Mu took one out and handed it to Meng Danyun, saying, "Senior Sister Meng, this Earthly Green Lotus Seed should be what you need. I also want to thank you for your guidance on my cultivation of the Artistic Conception."

Meng Danyun was not shy and took the lotus seed with open grace. She then removed the bundle she was carrying, opened it, and revealed a pile of assorted rare and exotic items, saying:

"Indeed, this Earthly Green Lotus Seed is something I urgently need. I will not decline it, these are the treasures I have collected. Junior Brother Chen, feel free to take what you need. If there's anything you need help with in the future, just let me know, and I will help you as much as I can."

"Senior Sister need not do this, we should simply exchange what we need."

Chen Mu smiled, also producing a bundle, which contained some treasures he had found but did not need.

Meng Danyun looked at Chen Mu and nodded lightly, "I don't need much, only this Earthly Green Lotus Seed is of great use to me, I don't lack anything else."

As a true disciple of Seven Profound Sect, ordinary treasures and minerals truly weren't of much use to her, and since she was not a family clan member with many dependents who relied on her, she genuinely had little interest in things she did not urgently need.

However, among Meng Danyun's collection, there were indeed a few items that Chen Mu needed, including a small piece of gold-threaded jade, which was a main material for forging Treasure Armor, thus completing his requirements, and there was also a complementary material that matched well.

Additionally, there were two Water Element Beads.

Like the Earth Element Pearl, they were of the same type of spiritual objects, but with water properties, they could assist in the cultivation of the Kan Water Artistic Conception. Considering that Meng Danyun herself also practiced the Kan Water Artistic Conception, Chen Mu only took one.

"The shattering of Earth's Veins should not be far from repairing, we should almost be heading up."

After exchanging what they needed with each other, Chen Mu and Meng Danyun each shouldered their bundles again. At this moment, Chen Mu was actually carrying quite a few things, not only the heavy bundle but also Han Guang's bamboo stick and the Evil-Breaking Thunder Spear within the folds of his robe on his back.

"Mm."

Meng Danyun nodded slightly.

She was actually even more eager to go up now. With the Earthly Green Lotus Seed in hand, she had lost interest in exploring the Underground Cavern any further. She needed to find a suitable place as soon as possible to enter seclusion for cultivation and to comprehend the Artistic Conception.

Whoosh!

Together with Chen Mu, they leaped into the water, ascending along the watery path.

"I should go directly back to Yu City for seclusion, which may take two to three months. If Junior Brother Chen is not in a hurry, wait for me to come out of seclusion and we'll go back to the sect together, or I'll write you a letter. Junior Brother can take the letter to visit my master on the mountain."

Meng Danyun looked at Chen Mu with a touch of emotion in her heart.

A few months ago, Chen Mu was asking her for details and secrets on the Xun Wind Artistic Conception. A few months later, he was now capable of traversing across a county, pursuing Han Guang, deterring Hua Nongying, and defeating Gu Hong with a single strike.

Although Chen Mu had become famous in Yu County before, his reputation was only limited to Yu County. In the entirety of Yu State and even the nearby states, his name was not known. But after today, Chen Mu's name would no longer be limited to Yu County; it would be known throughout Yu State, even shaking the sects of the Northern Path!

"Senior Sister, just go and enter seclusion. I also have some matters to attend to," Chen Mu responded after a moment of thought.

He did indeed need to go to Seven Profound Sect, but right now the flood disaster had not yet ended, and he still had to take care of the aftermath. Moreover, after the flood, he had his wedding with Xu Hongyu to attend to, as well as the forging of the Treasure Armor, among many other trifles, which would roughly take two or three months to handle.

Suddenly, Meng Danyun looked at Chen Mu with a flicker in her eyes, as if she had remembered something, "I heard that you seem to have a marriage engagement with a girl from the Yu Family of the Inner City. It must be in these two or three months, right? If I am in seclusion, I might not be able to congratulate Junior Brother Chen in person, so I wish you joy in advance."

"Thanks for your blessings, Senior Sister."

Chen Mu smiled at Meng Danyun in the water.

The two of them made their way through the water. As they delved deeper into the rifts in Earth's Veins, they could sense that the rifts were beginning to show signs of closing, and they each sped up. They soon burst through the silt.

Above the silt, what was originally just a shallow expanse of water had now seemed to become a deep lake.

Almost as soon as Meng Danyun burst out of the silt rift and emerged at the muddy bottom of the lake, there came an astonished shout from nearby: "Meng Danyun!"
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Then, a figure was seen hastily fleeing into the distance.

It was an Inner Sect Disciple of the Heavenly Sword Sect, who seemed to be exploring the lake bed silt.

Martial Artists who had not stepped into the Five Viscera Realm had difficulty delving into the underground caverns to explore and could only sift through the lake bed silt for treasures or minerals that might have been washed up with the surging of Earth's Veins. The Inner Sect Disciple of the Heavenly Sword Sect was naturally taken aback upon seeing Meng Danyun emerge from below and quickly fled.

Meng Danyun, however, did not trouble the ordinary disciple from the Heavenly Sword Sect. With a brief sensing in the water, she discerned a direction and then swiftly skimmed through the water, quickly arriving at the nearest lakeshore.