Li Mu stayed in Shenzhou East for more than a month.

For more than a month, he neither cultivated nor refined pills, but stayed with Yue Ling.

According to the original plan, they would return to Fuxing City and wait for the Xu family's teleportation array to be activated.

Upon arriving here, he wanted to use the barrier to leave beforehand.

The reason he was so certain that he could get out of this barrier was simply because of his intuition.

Even if he makes a mistake, he can still return to Fuxing City and borrow the Xu family's teleportation array.

In the past month, he has almost untied Yue Ling's knot in her heart. At least on the surface, Yue Ling has accepted his arrangements.

He crafted a flying sword for Yue Ling, leaving behind a magical villa, a large quantity of pills, and five thousand spirit stones.

That's all he can give right now. These pills and spirit stones should be enough for Yue Ling to cultivate for several years.

What he told Yueling most often was not to act impulsively, and to wait until he came back to deal with anything that couldn't be resolved.

Yue Ling is simple and honest, not a simple-minded fool.

The fact that she and her widow lived in the village for many years without being ostracized shows that she was intelligent.

She understood everything Li Mu said.

In order to provide Yue Ling with a better environment for survival and cultivation, he decided to take her to the Northern Cold Palace.

The purpose of going to the Northern Cold Palace was clear: to entrust Yue Ling to Qu Wanting's care.

A day later, the two visited the Northern Cold Palace and met Palace Master Qu.

Upon learning of Li Mu's intentions, Palace Master Qu acted very enthusiastically, even showing a strong desire for Yue Ling to stay in the Northern Cold Palace.

Yue Ling's current cultivation level has reached the fourth level of Qi Refining, and her strength is equivalent to the peak of the Earth Realm or above.

The Northern Cold Palace also has two female cultivators, both at the eighth level of Qi Refining.

After a series of tests, he was directly accepted as a core disciple by Patriarch Qu, and his status was immediately on par with that of Palace Master Qu.

For this favor, Li Mu spent three days discussing Dao with the Ancestor at the Northern Cold Palace.

Before leaving, he gave away a jade slip containing immortal techniques and a whole bottle of Great Qi-Nourishing Pills.

Then, with tears in her eyes and reluctance in her eyes, she said goodbye.

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A day later, Li Mu returned to the barrier.

The martial artists who roamed the edge of the mist seemed to have changed; most of them were new faces.

He didn't rush into the fog and observed it from the outside for three days.

Over the past three days, he finally figured out why these martial artists were waiting here: it was because of the tide.

The fog here rises and falls periodically.

At low tide, martial artists would enter the fog-covered areas and frantically search for ores.

These ore fragments come in a variety of shapes and sizes, but they are not large or numerous, and obtaining them depends entirely on luck.

Li Mu didn't join in the fun; he had also made some gains in the past three days.

Previously, he had focused his divine sense into a line and seen some things inside the barrier. As long as his attention was not focused, it would revert to its original state.

When he splits the gathered divine sense into two or more streams, the range of vision becomes wider, and the duration also increases.

Not only that, he can also re-establish the divine sense line at the point where it disappeared.

In other words, as long as his spiritual sense is strong enough and he can set up spiritual lines quickly enough, he is not worried about getting lost in the fog.

With these findings, he conducted two more days of testing outside the fog, verifying the feasibility of the method.

The only concern now is whether what we see in our consciousness is a mirror image or a reflection. This can only be confirmed after entering the mist.

After swallowing a resurrection pill, he got up and prepared to enter the mist.

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Li Mu took out another Rejuvenation Pill and pressed it under his tongue before walking towards the dividing line of the mist.

As he drew closer to the mist, a murmur of conversation arose behind him.

"Hey! Look, isn't that person about to enter the fog?"

"Huh! It really is true. I heard someone went in there a while ago. Is it true?"

"Really! I have a feeling this person is the young man who went in a while ago."

"Don't talk nonsense. How could someone who's been in there dare to go back in? Aren't they afraid of getting lost in a maze?"

These whispers gradually faded from Li Mu's ears, as he stepped into the mist.

Although he had his divine sense fully activated, he did not rush forward with large strides, but moved forward very carefully, step by step.

After taking the third step forward, he felt a pulling force.

After that, with each step he took, the pulling force increased.

He stopped after walking more than ten steps.

Because a path appeared in his consciousness, and this path was in a different direction from the teleportation array.

A new situation has arisen, and he hesitates about what to do.

He didn't know if he had crossed the barrier; the hundreds of array flags he had previously crafted didn't even have a chance to be deployed.

He could sense the existence of the teleportation array and could also see the path clearly, confirming that it was not a mirror reflection.

Moreover, one can sense fluctuations of spiritual energy within the formation, indicating that it is in operation.

Occasionally, something resembling sand or gravel would fly out from the formation.

The flying sand and stones were most likely fragments of ore picked up by those martial artists.

Li Mu, who had been standing still, realized that his spiritual sense could not hold on for more than a few seconds, so he quickly swallowed the Soul-Returning Pill in his mouth.

Although his spiritual consciousness was replenished, he felt the pulling force on his body getting stronger and stronger.

Now, he had to decide whether to head towards the teleportation array or the side path.

He could sense that if he continued to stand still, his body would likely be torn apart by the pulling force.

Ultimately, guided by his intuition, he took the path.

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As he took a step toward the path, the pulling force on his body actually lessened considerably.

Unsure if he had made the right choice, he had to keep going since he had chosen the side path.

After taking more than ten steps, a strange phenomenon occurred.

At that moment, he couldn't even feel his own existence.

Is this the moment of crossing the barrier?

Then, strange images flashed through the depths of his soul, overwhelming him.

Is this what mirror reflection is?

When he sensed his own existence again, a feeling of weightlessness was reflected into his brain.

This weightlessness is like an entire standing planet falling from the sky.

"Snap!"

With a soft crack, his knee made a snapping sound, but he didn't feel any pain.

When everything stopped, all he saw was desolation.

The path we had taken before had vanished without a trace.

He carefully scanned the area within a kilometer radius with his divine sense, but there was no trace of any formation, let alone any barrier.

In his previous life, he had heard about barriers, but he had never experienced one.

A barrier? Is that what it is?

Li Mu was in a daze for half an hour. After swallowing a few healing pills, he began to circulate his cultivation technique.

Another hour later, his leg injury was basically healed, and he exhaled a breath of stale air.

Judging from the concentration of spiritual energy, he must have left Shenzhou; the atmosphere here is more like returning to China.

"Have you made it out yet?"