Da Xuan Martial Saint

Traveling east along Yu State, crossing the border of Yu County, lies Bi Prefecture.

Among the seven prefectures of Yu State, Yu County is the furthest and most remote from the State Government Office, and Sha Prefecture has the harshest environment, but when it comes to the complexity of the terrain and isolation from the world, Bi Prefecture undoubtedly belongs, and it is unquestionable.

The mountains surround it, towering thousands of feet high!

Although Bi Prefecture occupies the smallest area on the map among the seven prefectures, in terms of actual land area, it far exceeds any other prefecture because Bi Prefecture has hardly any plains, it's all undulating mountains and rivers, steep slopes and canyons, rocky layers and caves, making its population one of the smallest, comparable to that of Sha Prefecture.

"So that is Bi Prefecture..."

Chen Mu, dressed in simple commoner clothes, stood firm on a mountaintop, gazing into the distance.

The spot he was in was right on the boundary line between Yu County and Bi Prefecture. From the mountain peak towards Yu County, it seemed quite tall, but looking towards Bi Prefecture, it was just a small part of thousands of mountains.

But the terrain of Bi Prefecture far off in the distance seemed to be thrust a thousand feet higher than Yu State, with countless peaks partially obscured and soaring into the clouds. These peaks were not like the usual Hills but were like towering stone walls, steep and straight up and down, daunting to anyone who looked upon them.

Chen Mu took a quiet step forward.

He entered Bi Prefecture and continued forward.

Bi Prefecture had almost no official roads, and from its prefectural government, there were only a few passable roads; other directions were surrounded by complex mountains and rivers. Whether there were paths in the mountains, which caves could be passed through and where they led were often only known by the local mountain folk who had lived there for decades or even centuries; they were not marked on any map.

But this was not much of a problem for Chen Mu. Although unable now to fly or burrow through the earth, as one of the top beings in the Five Viscera Realm, even the steepest mountains were like flat ground to him, and he needed not detour.

"Dangerous, truly dangerous."

Chen Mu strode through the mountains, frequently hopping from rock to rock and deeply feeling the essence of the land, feeling a great magnificence rising in his heart.

In such steep and complex mountains, even a Martial Artist in the Skin Toughening Body Refinement Realm could easily lose their way or accidentally step into a loose rock and fall off a cliff, unable to move freely like him.

Because of this,

other than many unique aspects such as large ore veins and the Bi Prefecture Prefectural Government, which the Seven Profound Sect had long governed, many other areas could be said to be isolated from the rest of the world.

But at this moment, as Chen Mu walked through the steep cliffs, all sorts of insights continuously rose in his heart. If Sha Prefecture was a place where Xun Wind thrived, then Bi Prefecture was the land where Gen Mountain stood.

Here,

the most robust force of The Power of Heaven and Earth within the Qiankun Eight Phases came from Gen Mountain. The layered mountains he stepped upon and the steep peaks all around were brewing the immense Power of Gen Mountain.

"It's right for me to have come to Bi Prefecture. Even without those Yunni Sky Steps, just traversing these mountains on foot in Bi Prefecture, stepping over thousands of them, I can accumulate a large amount of insight and further advance in Qiankun Artistic Conception."

Chen Mu now stood on the peak of an extraordinarily high mountain. Initially, this mountain was the tallest he saw, but once he climbed it, he could see, through the distant mist, even higher mountains sitting majestically.

There are mountains beyond mountains.

One mountain still towers over another.

These descriptions he had read in books, although he knew their meaning, were far from the shock given to his heart when he personally came to such a place and saw such scenes with his own eyes.

"Ha ha!"

Gazing at the mountains and continually gaining insights, a sense of boldness suddenly surged in Chen Mu's heart. He stood on the mountain peak, suddenly stepped forward, and stepped directly into the air, stepping into the clouds.

In an instant, he began to fall from the peak, heading straight for the cloud valley.
Experience tales at empire

But just then,

the Artistic Conceptions of Xun Wind and Kan Water quietly arose, suddenly making the mist cold and the water gather. From the edge of the steep peak, a layer of ice spread forward from his feet.

He stepped on the ice surface, ascending among the clouds, spanning a hundred yards in a flash, and then as the clouds cleared, he fell into the open air, his feet finding no foothold, once again plummeting towards the mountains and rivers.

But immediately after,

Chen Mu's expression remained calm as his hands came together in front of him, where Xun Wind and Thunderbolt Artistic Conception met, transforming into the Wood Spirit of the Five Elements. This suddenly caused vines in the mountains dozens of yards away to wildly dance and stretch out tendrils towards him.

He stepped on the vines, climbing the mountain step by step. The vines under his feet gathered more and more, crazily growing into a giant dragon that supported him across the peak top, then twisted and coiled, and with a fierce snap, flung him like a cannonball toward the next distant mountain peak.

Throughout his journey, there were no set paths, yet everywhere he stepped, paths were formed, the clouds freezing under his feet, and the dead pine vines winding beside him.

If this scene were seen by some isolated mountain folk, perhaps it would give rise to new legends of immortals in the mountains.

Qiankun Eight Phases technique uses everything.

From the moment he mastered Qiankun Artistic Conception, he had the ability to command everything for his use, but at first, his understanding and mastery of Qiankun Artistic Conception were somewhat crude. Now, based on the second step of Qiankun Artistic Conception, he had delved much deeper than when he first grasped it, perhaps not much more powerful, but he could now freely demonstrate using the Qiankun Eight Phases Technique in myriad ways.