Seventy-Nine, In the Sea of Clouds

  "Has the person left?" The old man frowned, then said gloomily: "You're not trying to avoid suspicion and deliberately deceive me, are you?! Before coming, I had investigated that the child was going to participate in your whatever 'Luozi' competition, and there's still a month before the competition, how could he suddenly say goodbye?!"

  The invisible pressure enveloped Ruri instantly, forcing her to take a deep breath and drive away the timidness in her heart. She calmed down and said: "I swear on my honor as a junior that I will not deceive you, senior. That little friend was originally going to stay here until the start of the Alchemy Grand Prix, but because she broke the rules of the garden, she has already voluntarily resigned herself. If senior doesn't believe me, you can ask around again. If there's even a bit of deception, I'll accept any punishment from senior!"

  The old man saw her attitude was humble and sincere, so he no longer had any doubts. He grunted: "Hmph! Since you've sworn a heavy oath, I'll believe you. You wouldn't dare deceive me! Now tell me, where has that little one gone? Or where might he go?"

  "This..." Luli Ji paused, then said: "You don't know, Rong Rou Xiao You didn't sell herself to me at Bieyuan, and even if she was still in the courtyard, we wouldn't interfere with anyone's affairs."

  The old man's face was expressionless, just as he was about to speak again, Wan Chuan wiped the blood from his lips and interrupted: "If you want to find this young woman, there is a way. The Refining Instrument Competition will be held at Zhuxing Pavilion on the main island, ten days later, Zhuxing Pavilion will send a flying boat to Yufu City Pier to pick up the contestants for this competition. That female cultivator is a famous refiner and has been lucky enough to enter the final round. You can go to Yufu City Pier to look for her."

  This time, Luliuji frowned. She also knew that the old man from the Heavy Soft Sect would go to the Jade City to take the floating airship, but seeing the old man's ill intentions, she had some private thoughts and didn't mention it. Unexpectedly, Wanchuan spoke out, now she could only hope that Zhong Rou would be lucky.

  However, the old man did not heed Wan Chuan's reminder and merely sneered: "No need for you to intervene, I also know what to do! Disciple, let us leave!"

  Blinking, the dark clouds dispersed, and the figures of the old man and the young man also disappeared without a trace, as if they had never appeared before.

  Wan Chuan's expression relaxed, and with a wave of his hand, the mask was once again perfectly in place on his face. As he passed by Luliu Ji's side, he tossed out a sentence: "I will report this matter to Master Xing."

  In short, you brought this trouble in and you should bear the consequences.

  Luli Ji didn't think it was a threat, and she still had an elegant demeanor. She replied to him, "Thank you for your concern, Master Wanchuan. The Star Master is a person of great justice and will surely handle this fairly."

  The two passed each other by, parting in displeasure.

  Similarly, the onlookers dispersed gradually after the departure of the old man. However, as a result of this incident, both the old man and Xiao Yao became the hottest topic in Baiyu City for a while. The cultivators who had reached the Unity stage were extremely rare in the Eastern Extreme and even in the four realms of the Xianling, some cultivators might not have been lucky enough to see one even after they had sat in meditation until their bodies had turned into relics. These great abilities, except for the four realm masters, were mostly hidden world high-ranking officials who were beyond the reach of most cultivators and were pursuing the last step of breaking out of their cocoons and becoming immortals! Therefore, everyone was guessing how this Rejuvenation Daoist had offended such a great ability and where he was now.

  This incident that occurred within the White Jade City was naturally unknown to Xiao Yao, who had already left the city. Even if she could have known about it, she probably wouldn't have had the time to think about it anyway. At this moment, she was being pursued by three Nascent Soul stage cultivators and two Foundation Establishment stage cultivators. As the saying goes: "A louse is not afraid of being bitten, one batch of trouble is troublesome, two batches of trouble are also troublesome, there's no difference."

  It all started when Xiao Yao left White Jade City, evading the three small tails. At first, she used her "Disguise" technique to successfully evade the surveillance of the three and leave White Jade City. Although she had guessed that she would inevitably be discovered at the city gate, she went to inform Liu Zilan, but the transmission talisman was delayed in finding someone to chase after her, which took about an hour. This amount of time should have been enough for her to escape. However, she underestimated Liu Zilan or rather Liu Qianyun's methods, and before she could even get far away, the pursuing soldiers had already left the city. Great, this meant there were now five people chasing after her, including two Spirit Refining cultivators who were full of murderous intent, looking like they wouldn't stop until they killed her.

  Xiao Yao had no choice but to speed up her escape, but the foot bucket was only a fifth-grade spiritual artifact. In the Taiji mortal realm, it might be a rare item, but in the Dongji, it became a worthless thing. The speed was far inferior to the copper-yellow flying artifacts under the feet of the pursuing soldiers behind her. In desperation, she could only transform into a lightning wing and escape, but at the cost of consuming her yuan force, the effect was minimal, and the distance between them was still gradually shortening.

  Just as she was about to be caught up, she made a desperate decision and fled towards the valley below. Under the cover of the trees on the mountain, she hastily told the leopard to open up a void and hide inside, narrowly escaping disaster.

  In fact, since arriving at the Eastern Extreme, Xiao Yao rarely closes the entrance directly after entering the void. After all, the Eastern Extreme is vast and dangerous, who knows what will happen if the void is closed, whether they will fall into an even more dangerous situation next time. Unless it's a critical situation, she generally won't take risks easily. Now that the situation is pressing, there's no time to think twice.

  Later, under the protection of "Shen Xi", Xiao Yao spent four or five hours. She calculated with her fingers that it should be around midnight when there were fewer people outside. She ordered Bao Zi to open up the void, and after confirming that neither her divine sense nor her five senses could detect any danger from outside, she plunged into the darkness of night.

  Xiao Yao saw a patch of clear and cold moonlight outside, reflecting the white clouds below as if covered with a layer of frost. She raised her head to look around, only to discover that today was the full moon. Looking around again, she found that wherever her gaze fell, there were silver-white clouds, and her consciousness touched upon no floating islands, as if she were the only one in the world.

  Xiao Yao was also a bit stunned, the location of this outing seemed to be quite far away. Facing the vast cloud sea, she could only distinguish between east, south, west and north. How could she return to Meishan Floating Island?

  Don't be fooled by the bright moonlight, which illuminates the cloud sea with a silver glow. However, the cloud layer hides unknown dangers everywhere. Staying here is not wise at all. She must find the floating island as soon as possible, even if it's not Meishan Floating Island, it's much better than being in the domain of the empty beast.

  Xiao Yao chose a direction, relying on her five senses and divine consciousness to hold her breath as she darted through the cloud layer. Although she encountered some low-level void beasts attacking her along the way, they were no big deal. After flying for more than half a time, her divine consciousness suddenly felt three strands of human cultivator aura over 100,000 miles away!

  Shrink update, crawl away