Chapter 69: Return, Li Wuyou
The Bai family settled into calm, and you devoted yourself to cultivation, shutting out all news of the outside world.
In the nineteenth year since you took up residence with the Bai family, your cultivation broke through to the fifth layer of the Nascent Soul!
It’s time to leave!
You walked out of the small courtyard where you had lived for nineteen years.
Before departing, you sought out Bai Sanhai to say farewell. Over these years, you had often sparred with him and benefited greatly.
“Leaving already?” Bai Sanhai came out of seclusion and looked at you as he asked.
“Mm, I’m leaving.” You nodded.
“How about waiting a couple more days before you go?” Bai Sanhai asked.
“Why?” You couldn’t help but ask curiously.
“Cough, cough, nothing. Fellow Daoist, where are you headed?”
“My homeland, the northern part of the Heaven Mystery Continent!”
You left. Bai Sanhai had not been able to make you stay.
With your Nascent Soul cultivation, half a day was enough to reach Xuanfeng Commandery City.
You took out ten thousand mid-grade spirit stones and bought a slot on the teleportation formation heading north.
The north was scarce in resources, and few high-tier cultivators ever went there.
Those with low cultivation could not produce so many spirit stones. Naturally, it was difficult to gather a hundred people.
You wandered Xuanfeng Commandery City for a day. Seeing that the teleportation formation could not be activated for so long, you decided to buy up all the remaining slots!
During your years with the Bai family, though you had consumed quite a few spirit stones in cultivation, the share of spirit stones the Bai family gave you was clearly even more.
After all, the Bai family’s current prosperity was inseparable from you.
Wealthy and imposing, you arrived at the place selling teleportation formation slots and were about to buy up all the rest.
“Hold on!”
A black-clad man stepped forward and blocked your way.
You turned to look, your brow furrowing slightly, because among the newcomers there was someone you knew!
The black-clad man raised his hand and tossed a token to the teleportation formation steward, then spoke. “How many slots to the north are left? I’m buying them all!”
The teleportation formation steward glanced at the token and was so frightened he hurriedly stood up, stammering. “Replying to Senior, there are still fifty slots.”
The black-clad man tossed out spirit stones and proclaimed arrogantly. “Hurry and gather the people. We depart within one hour! Those who disobey will bear the consequences!”
“Yes, yes!”
The entire time, the black-clad man acted as if you did not exist, and the teleportation formation steward no longer paid you any attention either, passing the token over to the black-clad man instead.
You frowned but said nothing more. Your goal had been achieved anyway, even if in this manner.
“Fellow Daoist, we meet again.” Behind you, among the group of black-clad men, a Spirit Transformation cultivator transmitted his voice to you.
“Fellow Daoist Wuyou, how have you been?” Without turning your head, you already knew that the one transmitting to you was the Spirit Transformation cultivator you had previously hired, Li Wuyou!
“Thanks to you, Fellow Daoist, I just landed a big job!”
“It’s just that I never imagined, Fellow Daoist, that you could pass the Heart Demon Tribulation without using a Nascent Soul Breaking Pill!”
“Back then, it gave me quite a scare. I even thought you had died under the Heart Demon Tribulation!”
Hearing this, your brow furrowed slightly. Only two people knew that you had broken through without the Nascent Soul Breaking Pill.
Bai Ruoxi would naturally not reveal it, but this Li Wuyou before you might not be so certain!
An hour later, the teleportation formation activated. As your cultivation had reached the Nascent Soul stage, the discomfort from the teleportation formation had eased considerably.
After the light faded, you stepped out of the teleportation formation. Twenty-nine years later, you had once again set foot in the northern part of the Heaven Mystery Continent!
The black-clad man led his group away. When Li Wuyou passed by you, he patted your shoulder, his expression unreadable.
After everyone had left, your half-step Spirit Transformation divine sense permeated your entire body and finally found a trace of a mark Li Wuyou had left within you.
You sensed it and found it had no real effect on you, merely a tracking marker.
You smiled and did not erase it. To you, there was no concept of guarding against a thief for a thousand days.
Quickly leaving the city, you settled down in a desolate, uninhabited place.
And around your cave residence, you covertly laid down two Tier-Four Formations and waited patiently.
A month later, you suddenly opened your eyes mid-cultivation and gazed into the distance.
“Oh? You actually discovered it? Interesting!” Li Wuyou suddenly appeared. Cautious by nature, he did not rashly step inside.
“Fellow Daoist Li, it has been a while!” You stood up and walked out of your cave residence.
“Why is Fellow Daoist cultivating in such a desolate place? You weren’t waiting specifically for me, were you?” Li Wuyou said with a half-smile.
“Why not come in for a cup of tea, Fellow Daoist?” You did not answer, instead extending an invitation.
“I’m afraid I wouldn’t have the life to drink it!” Li Wuyou stood at the outer edge of the formation, refusing to take a single step forward.
“With your Spirit Transformation cultivation, Fellow Daoist, who in the north could kill you?”
“That’s not necessarily so. Fellow Daoist, you’re a Body Cultivator, an existence invincible in close combat!” Li Wuyou said cheerfully.
“Ah, fine. Since you won’t step forward, Fellow Daoist, I’ll come out.” You sighed and slowly walked toward Li Wuyou.
“Hold on!” Li Wuyou’s expression changed drastically, and he hurriedly retreated, widening the distance between you.
You acted as if you had not heard, continuing forward on your own.
Li Wuyou continued to retreat, maintaining distance from you, his expression terribly grim.
“Fellow Daoist, you placed a divine sense mark on me precisely to find me, didn’t you?”
“So why do you not dare come closer today?”
Seeing your confident, self-assured demeanor, Li Wuyou could no longer maintain his composure and turned to flee!
Since he has already seen through my intentions, this person must have a countermeasure! I must retreat quickly! I’ll think of a way another day! Li Wuyou thought as he ran.
Having cultivated to the Spirit Transformation stage, Li Wuyou had his own way of doing things. He never did anything he was not certain about.
But you had prepared for so long. How could you let him escape and leave behind future trouble!
The power of Heavenly Lightning emerged beneath your feet. You took a step, directly shortening the distance by over a thousand li to arrive not far from Li Wuyou.
Li Wuyou looked back, his face filled with shock!
You took another step, this time appearing directly behind Li Wuyou.
Before Li Wuyou could even react, your Heavenly Lightning Fist had already arrived!
A punch slammed heavily into Li Wuyou’s back, directly sending him crashing to the ground. You followed right behind, giving Li Wuyou no chance to react at all, and rushed in to engage in close combat!
Over a dozen punches later, Li Wuyou’s Earth-rank lower-grade defensive artifact was smashed to pieces by you!
Seizing the moment, Li Wuyou hurriedly widened the distance from you, gaining a moment to breathe.
Badly wounded, Li Wuyou stared at you with bloodshot eyes, feeling both fury and terror in his heart!
Looking at Li Wuyou in the distance, over a hundred flying swords appeared above your head, merging into one at an extremely rapid speed!
With a swoosh, they shot straight toward Li Wuyou!