
Du Shijie darted flying into several mountains and valleys, trying to help his father, Du Qiang, to search for Ling Tian's whereabouts. However, after searching for hours, he still could not find Ling Tian's existence within those mountains and valleys.
"Dad!" sapa Du Sijie shook his head as he returned to the side of Du Qiang who was still standing in midair.
Du Qiang was silent for a while, then said, "Go back first to the Sect! I will go to the Medicine Valley to set up a Protective Formation. I also want to keep watch there, because maybe the intruder will come back again to take the Growing Spirit in the valley."
"Mmc ... Alright, Dad!" du Shijie replied as she nodded her head, then immediately disappeared from her place.
Furthermore, Du Qiang slightly expanded his search area. Even he had reached the mountain range where Yan Xifeng and Ning Qian Qian were fighting against the Five-Line Piton.
There, Du Qiang only found the remnants of the battle alone because there was no one else in that place. He finally returned and went to the Medicine Valley to set up a Protective Formation.
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In a mountain range quite far from the Medicine Valley, inside one of the small caves hidden there, a blue-clothed youth who looked a little tattered sat leisurely within the Sealing Formation. That young man was Ling Tian.
He continued to circulate his spiritual senses to check the circumstances around him. After feeling that the situation had truly been safe, Ling Tian finally heaved a sigh of relief.
When Ling Tian made Du Qiang's consciousness interrupted for less than a second using his Dragon Auman Technique, he added it by giving a hard kick to Du Qiang's chest to have his consciousness slightly disturbed even longer.
It was at that moment that Ling Tian got a chance to escape. Without wasting it in the slightest, he instantly used his full speed to disappear from Du Qiang's sight.
Previously, the small Cave had entered into Ling Tian's vision as his spiritual senses enveloped the entire mountain area. After arriving at that place, Ling Tian quickly set up a Sealing Formation for the aura of his existence to vanish and be undiscovered by Du Qiang's spiritual senses.
"Reph ... I almost got killed at the hands of that old fucking jackass grandpa. Fortunately in the last moments I still had time to think of a brilliant idea to escape from it," Ling Tian muttered in a complaining tone, then continued, "Hmph ... Just wait! I will immediately avenge this humiliation many times over. How dare those wrinkled, dirty hands hit me in the face."
Ling Tian hurriedly took out various sorts of Spirit Plants from his s.p.a.ce Ring, including the ten stalks of Star Spirit Grass that he had successfully retrieved from the Medicine Valley. Of the ten stalks of the Star Spirit Grass, Ling Tian would make ten grains of the Nine Hearts Milk Pill to immediately increase his cultivation.
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Within the Poison Mist Sect, Ling Tian's face painting was already scattered to the various sect members. The Elders also summoned all the disciples from each of his respective divisions to check on them.
In the place of the Core Disciple Division, Yan Xifeng and Ning Qian Qian were gathered together with the other Core Disciples in a very spacious courtyard. The two of them were greatly shocked when they saw a picture that was in the hands of an Elder. It was a painting of Ling Tian's face, which was being sought by the Poison Mist Sect.
To avoid suspicion from those around him, the two of them quickly hid their shock and immediately pretended to be ordinary as if they had never met the person in the painting.
Some Elders noticed all the faces of the Core Disciples to match them with the facial structure of the image. But none of them managed to find him.
"Okay, Elder!" answer all Core Disciples simultaneously.
"We also learned that there were three Core Disciples whose Soul Crystals had been destroyed. It indicates that the three are dead. Maybe it has something to do with the young man in this picture. So, you need to be even more careful," continued the Elder, then added as he nodded slowly, "Mmm ... Return to your activities!"
Yan Xifeng and Ning Qian Qian rushed back to their own residence without speaking the slightest, for fear of inadvertently saying related things about Ling Tian.
At the same time, in the Inner Disciple Division's place, Shen Tu Jiang and his friends also took a look at the image that was in the hands of the Elders who were there. Their faces all instantly turned extremely pale when listening to the explanation from one of the Elders.
In fact, the faces of the three Elders who were carrying Shen Tu Jiang and the others from Luan City also turned pale as well. Because, the three Elders felt that they were the ones who brought in an intruder into the Poison Mist Sect.
Most importantly, it was not an ordinary intruder, but rather a Monster who pretended to be a weak cultivator and only had a cultivation level at the first stage of the Diamond Star.
None of them had ever expected, that a young man who was around 21-22 years old had the same cultivation level as their sect leader.
Surprise, fear and admiration were mixed in the hearts of all those who were in that place. However, different things had also happened with the female disciples. Their eyes twinkled as if they were filled with stars as they looked at the extremely handsome face within the picture.
"It-it ... This can't be, can it?" Shen Tu Jiang asked stuttering as he turned to his friends to make sure that what he had just seen and heard was something wrong.
"This ... Here goes! It's really him!" said Nalan Peng stammeredly responding to Shen Tu Jiang's question. His body was shaking violently. Without him noticing, cold sweat had poured down his face and clothes.
"It turns out all this time we've been played with him! But, we should feel lucky that Ling Tian did not kill all of us for already daring to offend him and even having ill intentions towards him." Qingxue added.
"Had he never been afraid of us. Because, we are all just a small ant in his eyes," Ming Cheng said in a depressed tone.
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Inside the Sealing Formation, Ling Tian had already finished preparing all the ingredients to concoct the Nine Hearts Milk Pill. Divine Flame immediately appeared in his palm, preparing to purify all of those materials.
The purification process only lasts for a few minutes. Then continue it again to the pill formation process. Before doing so, Ling Tian first melted the entire ingredients of his potion. After becoming liquid, he also began to form the Nine Hearts Milk Pill. A few minutes later, 10 grains of the Nine Hearts Milk Pill were already in his hands.
"Hmmm ... To increase my cultivation to the fifth stage of the Earth Star, it seems like I need about 6 or 7 grains of this pill," Ling Tian murmured softly in a very excited tone, then continued, "Alright, "Alright, let's get started!"
Ling Tian threw 6 grains of the Nine Hearts Milk Pill at once into his mouth, then stored the others into his Space Ring. After that, he began to absorb the energy contained in the pill.