"Mm. I’ve processed all the demonic beast corpses you brought back. These few bottles should be enough for you for more than a year. These two bottles are prepared for An Yu. They are slightly inferior to yours, only Tier 2. You can distribute them as you see fit. The rest is enough for me and the Water Qilin for a while. After you and An Yu reach Ten Thousand Beast Mountain, do not sell the demonic beasts you hunt. Bring them back to me directly," Xiao Shou instructed.

Fu Young nodded. "Mm. Yesterday I went to Ten Thousand Wisdom Hall and specifically bought a few storage bags that can freeze time flow, specially used for storing spirit plants and spirit medicines. With them, the demonic beast corpses brought back will not decay and will stay fresh."

"Young’er has grown up. You really think things through," Xiao Shou praised.

He thought to himself that he had been careless.

Because ordinary storage bags already slow down decay and greatly reduce time flow, he had forgotten about this detail.

Fortunately, his disciple was meticulous and had already made arrangements.

Fu Young’s face turned warm.

He had been praised by his master.

He felt so happy that his mood soared as he followed behind Xiao Shou all the way to the lightning chamber.

At the entrance, Xiao Shou stepped in and glanced at him in surprise. "Young’er, Little An is still too young and cannot enter the lightning chamber. If you are coming in, first settle him properly."

"Uh, I am not going in. I just wanted to see you off," Fu Young said awkwardly while forcing a silly laugh. Then he hurriedly turned around with An Ho in his arms and ran off at full speed, even using movement techniques.

Xiao Shou found it strange but closed the door to the lightning chamber anyway.

He sat down cross-legged and began cultivating.

Before entering deep cultivation, he still found it odd that his usually clever disciple had just acted a bit foolishly.

Ten days later, inside the lightning chamber.

At the center surrounded by spirit stones, a beautiful young man who looked about twenty years old sat quietly.

The spiritual energy gathered aroundhimher like mist and was rapidly absorbed into his body.

If one looked closely, one would see faint arcs of lightning constantly jumping against his skin.

Xiao Shou calmly circulated his energy and absorbed the spiritual power.

After a while, a crisp series of bone cracking sounds echoed from his body.

When the sound stopped, he suddenly opened his eyes and tested his clenched fist.

Good.

Fifth rotation of Peak Qi Refining.

He had not expected that with the help of spirit spring liquid, the lightning chamber, and demonic beast cores, he would reach this level in just ten days.

As he adjusted to his rapidly increased cultivation, he also thought that Fu Young and An Yu had already left for Ten Thousand Beast Mountain three days ago.

It was time for him to start acting as well.

Half a month later.

At the foot of a mountain covered in purple leaves, a strange fluctuation occurred.

There was no visible figure, but two faint small footprints appeared on the ground.

A male voice could be heard murmured something.

"This should be Endless Grief Mountain. The location is correct, but the novel only said it’s near Endless Grief Mountain, what does ’near’ even mean?"

"East, west, north, south, which direction is it?"

"South?"

"North?"

"East or west?"

"Where exactly is it?"

"Little An is only accompanied by Tier 3 puppets. Is he scared? He should be fine. The Tier 3 puppets are already very human-like."

"And there are formation restrictions too. Nothing below late Nascent Soul can break them. If a Nascent Soul cultivator really appears, then I am completely helpless."

"Sigh, is there any hint at all? I have been searching for two days. What does ’nearby’ even mean?"

After another wasted day, Xiao Shou returned to the temporary cave residence helplessly.

He then dispelled the Tier 4 invisibility and concealment talismans and sat down on a cushion weakly.

After taking a fasting pill, he tried to meditate, but soon stood up again and began pacing back and forth.

While pacing, he muttered inwardly.

Who would have thought Endless Grief Mountain was this big?

It was at least ten times the size of Snowy Cave Mountain.

That word "near" is a scam.

Could the author not have been more specific?

He thought carefully.

Was there any other way to search?

Tomorrow night would be another full moon night.

If he could not find it before then, another person might die.

"Is there any usable tool?"

That cave residence belonged to an ancient cultivator.

It was also connected to a spiritual vein, with dense spiritual energy and even a special stone capable of gathering moonlight power.

Dense spiritual energy...

Ah, right!

Back then in order to fully understand his body data, spiritual root aptitude, and purity, Xiao Shou had bought a spirit measuring desk and fused and upgraded it.

One of them had fused with an unnamed ore he bought when he encountered Yu Lin, resulting in a mutated spirit measuring disk that became a Spirit Chaser Plate.

The spiritual needle on the disk would always point toward the place with the densest spiritual energy within a hundred-mile radius.

If there was no place nearby with denser spiritual energy than the ancient cultivator’s cave residence, then following the direction indicated by the Spirit Chaser Plate would definitely be correct.

After Xiao Shou figured it out, he stopped hesitating and immediately took out the Spirit Chaser Plate from his storage belt.

He inserted spirit stones to activate it.

The needle spun rapidly several times before stopping and pointing southeast.

Southeast?

Right now it was a dark, windy night, perfect for action.

Xiao Shou reactivated his Tier 4 invisibility talisman and concealment talisman, which even late-stage Nascent Soul cultivators could not see through.

He immediately leapt onto a Tier 4 flying wooden crane puppet.