After the World Mutation, agriculture experienced tremendous development, and the common people seemed to be hardly affected, continuing their lives as usual.

Especially for the rural farmers, it was almost as if there were no changes to their crop cultivation.

Between the villages, a prosperous scene unfolded.

Xiao Mu silently nodded in approval, and his mood improved considerably.

Without stopping, he followed the Golden Human Skin forward.

Suddenly, the Golden Human Skin stopped in an area shrouded in shadow.

At that moment, sunlight was shining directly from above, but when it reached this particular spot, the light twisted, creating a shadow.

This abrupt shadow existed in the bright daylight, yet it seemed like an isolated patch of night.

The Golden Human Skin paused briefly before stepping into the shadow.

Xiao Mu hesitated for a moment, then followed suit.

Behind the shadow was another world.

Heaven and Earth were dull yellow, and the atmosphere was filled with dense Yin Qi.

Xiao Mu, who had experienced similar events many times before, was not alarmed at all; he knew clearly that this was the Netherworld.

After entering the Netherworld, the Golden Human Skin continued to walk unabated.

"Stop!"

Xiao Mu shouted lowly and used the Earth Escape Technique to hasten his pace and intercept the Golden Human Skin.

The Golden Human Skin seemed not to sense Xiao Mu at all and bumped directly into his body.

"After all, it's just a piece of human skin with little spirituality," Xiao Mu shook his head in disappointment. Even a Divine Spirit possessed little power when reduced to just a skin.

He reached inside the skin and pulled out the Black Wood Plaque.

As soon as the Black Wood Plaque was removed, the skin began to wither and shrink toward the ground.

Xiao Mu promptly stretched out his hand and caught the skin.

"Let me do the exploration instead; you would only expose our whereabouts."

Xiao Mu said to the skin, storing it casually and releasing his Ghost Servant.

"Greetings, my lord!" The Ghost Servant bowed to Xiao Mu in respect.

"I want you to scout ahead and see what's there. Do not confront anyone you meet," Xiao Mu instructed the Ghost Servant.

"At your command!"

The Ghost Servant responded and disappeared into the ground, turning into a shadow, and one could see a shadow gliding swiftly across the ground towards the inner parts of the Netherworld.

Xiao Mu followed at a measured pace.

The Ghost Servant was fast and returned in about half a day to report to Xiao Mu, "My lord, there is a Land God Temple ahead, and it seems a Mutated Being from the Curse Gate is searching for something."

"Just one?"

Xiao Mu was slightly surprised, as it was rare to see a Mutated Being from the Curse Gate acting alone.

He quickly asked, "What does that Curse Gate Mutated Being look like? How strong is he?"

The Ghost Servant hurriedly said, "The person is very strong, probably in the late stages of the Yin God Realm. I was afraid of being discovered, so I didn't dare get too close. However, from a distance, the person looked a bit strange. Besides the normal head, there was a smaller head under the earlobe. This little head had no life; it might be a unique Divine Technique of the Curse Gate."

"Oh!"

Xiao Mu uttered thoughtfully. Divine Techniques of the Curse Gate were often bizarre and harmed one's body when cultivated.

Some Divine Techniques, once practiced, led directly to bodily mutations.

Xiao Mu had encountered such Curse Gate Mutated Beings before.

"Do you know what he's looking for?"

The Ghost Servant shook his head apologetically, "I don't know. But the person has smashed the divine statue and damaged the temple. He is currently digging around, as if he would dig three feet into the ground to find the object."

"Dig the ground?"

Xiao Mu's face showed a trace of excitement. An item that a Curse Gate Mutated Being was determined to find by digging three feet deep must be extraordinary. He signaled the Ghost Servant, "Come, take me to see."

"My lord."

The Ghost Servant then said, "When I came back just now, I also found traces of humans. Someone from the Human world might have already come here."

"Someone from the Human world has come here?" Xiao Mu paused and asked, "Did you see who it was?"

The Ghost Servant shook his head, "I didn't see them. It seems they were using some method to conceal themselves. I didn't dare get too close for fear of being discovered, so I couldn't see clearly."

"Oh!"

Xiao Mu briefly fell into contemplation.

It could be troublesome if Mutated Beings from the Human world had come in.

Currently, he couldn't determine who the World Mutant from the human world entering the area was, and even struggled to assess whether this person was friend or foe.

If it was a friend, that wouldn't be too much of a problem, but if it was an enemy, it could be quite troublesome.

"Take me to have a look, avoid the people from the Curse Gate and the humans, try not to let them discover us," Xiao Mu instructed the Ghost Servant.

"Yes, my lord. Please follow me, my lord."

The Ghost Servant agreed with a sound and once again submerged into the ground, transforming into a shadow gliding silently across the surface.

The Spirit Escape Technique is truly marvelous!

Xiao Mu watched, silently marveling.

The Ghost Servant's Spirit Escape Technique might not be as fast as Xiao Mu's Earth Escape Technique, but it had the advantage of being silent and traceless. Unless one was deliberately attentive, it was very difficult to detect.

Perhaps this was a method exclusive to Yin Spirits.

Following the Ghost Servant, they moved on, keeping a distance to avoid being detected.

Xiao Mu applied the Earth Escape Technique, silent and traceless, and later even resorted to using the Yin and Yang Steps, wielding the power of Yin and Yang to move forward, so the light from escaping wouldn't be too conspicuous and alert the opponent prematurely.

From a distance, when they saw a ruined Grand Hall, the Ghost Servant suddenly stopped.

Xiao Mu looked up towards the Grand Hall from afar.

The Grand Hall was almost toppled, with broken bricks and shattered tiles piled up like ruins.

Among them, a broken plaque was carelessly discarded on the broken bricks and tiles.

On one fragment of the plaque, Xiao Mu could clearly see the character "Land."

Land God Mansion?

Based on that character, Xiao Mu deduced the origin of the Grand Hall.

If not surprisingly, a plaque with the character "Land" could only belong to the Land God Mansion.

So, that Golden Human Skin was actually the Land God?

Crack! Boom! Clang!

Sounds of hammering and smashing echoed from behind the Grand Hall, brimming with violence.

"Seems like the person from the Curse Gate is quite ferocious?"

Xiao Mu thought to himself.

Just from the commotion alone, he sensed that the being from the Curse Gate was not an easy one to deal with.

"My lord, the being from the human world has disappeared," the Ghost Servant suddenly sent a message to Xiao Mu from underground.

"Disappeared?" Xiao Mu heard this and was momentarily stunned, "Can you still find his tracks?"

"It's difficult!" responded the Ghost Servant.

"Try to search for a bit," Xiao Mu ordered the Ghost Servant.

The Ghost Servant agreed and, using the Spirit Escape Technique, began to move slowly to the right close to the ground, searching for traces of the Mutated Being from the human world.

Xiao Mu used the Yin and Yang Steps, following far behind the Ghost Servant to avoid being detected.

The Ghost Servant's search pattern was to move around the Land God Grand Hall.

To avoid detection by the violent individual from the Curse Gate who was causing destruction, the Ghost Servant intentionally took a longer route, maintaining a distance from the Land God Grand Hall.

They soon completed half a circle and reached the other side of the Land God Grand Hall.

Clang! Boom!

The sound of violent hammering and devastation came again, and now on the other side of the Land God Temple, Xiao Mu could clearly see a medium-height Two-headed Man holding a Weapon resembling a Giant Hammer, furiously pounding the ground.

Each hammer blow created a huge, deep pit in the earth.

"Idiot!"

Seeing the Two-headed Man's actions, Xiao Mu couldn't help but curse under his breath.

The Weapon resembling a Giant Hammer held by the Two-headed Man clearly didn't belong to him, as it was imbued with Yin Qi, which seemed to be a Weapon of Yin Soldiers.

Near the Two-headed Man, not far off on the ground, were several corpses of Yin Soldiers. Various Weapons were haphazardly strewn beside the bodies, including knives and swords.

This Two-headed Man, however, stubbornly forsake the more suitable excavation tools like knives and swords, opting to use the Giant Hammer to pound the ground.

Besides excavation, the Two-headed Man seemed to also be venting; he appeared to be ecstatic about the sensation of pounding the earth with the Giant Hammer. Every time the Giant Hammer struck the ground with a thunderous crash, his face revealed an expression of both exhilaration and ecstasy after venting.

"Idiot!"

Seeing the expression of thrill and ecstasy on the Two-headed Man's face after venting, Xiao Mu once again cursed silently.

Just then, a sinister and angry voice suddenly rose beside Xiao Mu's ear, speaking to him through transmitted sound, coldly saying, "I don't care who you are or whether you're from the Great Tang Ruins, get the hell out of here right now!"

It was the man from the human world.

Hearing this voice, Xiao Mu immediately guessed who was talking to him.

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