Chapter 132: Chapter 40: Crisis Amidst the Chaotic Army

A Fake Pill Master, three Foundation Establishment, and the rest are probably late Qi Cultivation Stage.

Such a team is undeniably strong.

Besides, appearing here likely means a prominent family collectively migrating.

Li Jizhou hesitated not for a moment, immediately changing course and rushing eastward.

In the forest, the ancestor of the Liu family, a great family in the Cold Wind Valley region, sensed the sudden change in direction with a suspicious face.

“Strange, but he’s only at the Foundation Establishment Stage. He can’t sense us,

moreover, we’ve set up a Quasi-Third Tier Concealing Array that even a True Core expert can’t detect. Why did he suddenly change direction?”

“Could it be a True Core expert is concealing their cultivation?” The Liu family patriarch tested.

The Liu family ancestor pondered for a moment, firmly shook his head: “Impossible! Alone, with True Core middle stage strength, he would definitely head north to Yan Kingdom. How could he, like us, traverse the Spiritual Wasteland region?”

“Could there be a flaw in our setup?”

The Liu family ancestor flew to the sky, examined repeatedly, yet found nothing.

“Move!” After descending, he decisively gave the order.

“Move? Then… isn’t the effort on this Array wasted?”

“Ancestor, with over three hundred members behind us, without enough Spirit Stones and Qi Replenishing Pills, most of them will lose their foundation.”

The Liu family, a prominent cultivation family in Cold Wind Valley, earned its status not by the peak cultivation strength of its members, but on mastery of array skills.

This time, when the final barrier of Inverted Mountain broke, with Blood Fiend yet to emerge, the array master Liu family ancestor immediately sensed something was wrong, issued warnings, and urgently urged the still bewildered three hundred core clan members to migrate south.

They were the first family to act in the entire Qi Kingdom.

However, in the haste, they didn’t manage to acquire enough Qi Replenishing Pills.

And recently, they had hoarded substantial array materials from the Inverted Mountain treasury, causing the clan’s Spirit Stone reserves not to be plentiful.

Now, to ensure the safety of the core clan members, they resorted to robbery.

“We’re least lacking array materials, finding another spot. This place being avoided by him must indicate some unknown leak.

Rest assured, those arriving later are more likely to be well-supplied!”

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It was only after leaving that patch of forest that Li Jizhou started moving south again.

This time, he directly summoned a top-grade Flying Ship, ascending to nearly the First Layer of the skies, increasing speed dramatically.

The appearance of the Flying Ship made those along the way often kneel in prayer, willing to exchange everything to ride the Flying Ship through the Spiritual Wasteland.

“Gua~” Gua Gua lazed around in the luxurious seat of the top-grade Flying Ship, occasionally grabbing a handful of Illusory Spirit Powder to swallow, while a few bottles of Qi Replenishing Pills sat in front, leisurely.

Bai Yi kept a timid distance from Gua Gua, always lingering by Li Jizhou’s side.

Nonetheless, he was quite pleased.

After years of painstaking alchemy, Li Jizhou didn’t deceive him and actually bought a top-grade Flying Ship.

Both little fellows were quite relaxed, only Li Jizhou couldn’t enjoy the leisure temporarily; he continually explored the surroundings with Divine Sense, amplifying the longevity sensing effect to the maximum.

After three months, Li Jizhou had mostly surpassed all migrating groups, and at this moment, what he observed below made him grimace and quickly called Gua Gua over to see.

Gua Gua lazily lay at the Flying Ship’s edge, looking down.

“Gua Gua~” Trembled all over instantly.

Below, a cultivator, running out of magical power in their Dantian, with no replenishment, slaughtered the spirit beast they had journeyed with for years, intending to use its meat for replenishment.

The cow-like spirit beast, having traversed the Spiritual Wasteland for so long, drained of spiritual qi and nearly barren, did not resist or plead before being slain, instead, it knelt before the cultivator, eyes shedding tears.

“Gua Gua!” After witnessing this scene, Gua Gua immediately abandoned its pampered posture, diligently running to Li Jizhou, wanting to do something.

Six months later,

On this day, with the top-grade Flying Ship moving at full speed and ample Qi Replenishing Pills in supply, a thin yet noticeable sensation of spiritual qi swept toward them.

After nine months, finally passed through the one hundred thousand-mile-spanning Spiritual Wasteland without incident.

According to the map purchased from Celestial Secret Tower, this cultivation country is called Chu Kingdom, barely a middle-tier cultivation country, but at most a third-tier, as there’s only one Tier Three Spirit Vein within and only one True Core level sect.

The cultivation realm of Chu Kingdom is entirely ruled by this Celestial Spirit Sect.

Because with only this Tier Three Spirit Vein, strictly speaking, only Celestial Spirit Sect in Chu Kingdom could achieve Core Formation.

Thus, Celestial Spirit Sect is an undefeated sect within Chu Kingdom.

Furthermore, the more southward, the weaker the spirit veins, the scarcer the resources, which worsened the centralized power and monopoly.

And continuing south from here, secular countries grow increasingly common.

Due to fewer spirit veins and expanding Spiritual Wastelands, regions governed by mortals become vast.

For Chu Kingdom, Li Jizhou holds no interest; such heavily monopolized places are extremely xenophobic, so he plans to fly directly past.

“Hmm?” Yet, as he slightly relaxed, thousands of cultivator’s auras formed a surrounding circle, slowly closing in.

For a brief moment, Li Jizhou doubted whether his Divine Sense was mistaken.

Thousands of cultivators besieging?

In two lifetimes, Li Jizhou had truly never witnessed such a scene.

Although, within Divine Sense, nine-tenths of those closing in are Qi Cultivation Stage small cultivators, only a dozen Foundation Establishment among them, and all are directing commands behind the smaller cultivators.

Yet Li Jizhou instantly elevated his vigilance to the highest!

Human-wave tactics remain effective even with two major realm differences.

If speaking solely of Li Jizhou’s true strength, only Middle Stage Foundation Establishment, if they successfully contain him with over a thousand Qi Cultivation Stage, it could surely deplete him here.

Li Jizhou, uncertain of the situation, unwilling to bring unwarranted trouble, immediately turned back, attempting to re-enter the Spiritual Wasteland.

“Boom~” Yet, just as the Flying Ship attempted passage, a huge wall of fire surged at that boundary.

Immediately, Li Jizhou could sense a Fake Pill cultivator appearing at the Spiritual Wasteland’s edge, blocking his path.

“Haha, escaped from Qi Kingdom?”

“In the Spiritual Wasteland for nearly a year, what capabilities do you still possess? Be quick to surrender, permit us to handle you.” The leader no longer hid and laughed.

Li Jizhou withdrew the Flying Ship, landing atop a giant tree, calmly watching the Fake Pill Master.

“What do you intend, sir? I’ve never visited this place or held grudges; why do you block my path?” Li Jizhou’s disguised ferocious-looking figure angrily berated.

“Less nonsense, if you realize, surrender obediently; what you should know will be revealed; don’t, hmph, chop you into pieces amidst chaos, leave you restless even in death!” The Fake Pill cultivator snorted coldly.

Li Jizhou slightly frowned, truly unexpected misfortune.

Even now, he had no immediate clues.

“Hmm~ Could it be leaks from Celestial Secret Tower?”

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