Chen Lifeng said, âJinting, thanks for your help. If it werenât for you, I would have died.â He paused and asked suspiciously, âDid you find something was wrong long ago?â
Xiao Jinting thought for a while before he said, âSenior Chen, you told me how you got the map, and I thought it was too good to be true.â
Chen Lifeng paused. It dawned on him now. He was blinded by the prospect of finding the treasures.
It was odd how the map ended up in his hand. Right after he got the map, they came to him. He was so excited by the rare opportunity that he didnât think too much. Looking back, they had schemed against him from the beginning.
He had suspected them, but he thought he could run away if things went wrong. After all, he was an advanced Nascent Soul.
Looking back, Huangfu Xuan and Hu Tian were familiar with the cave. And there was Liu Ying, who was good with arrays. He might have got trapped and killed. Thankfully, they failed in the first attempt to crack the major array because Liu Ying didnât have strong soul force.
Looking at the bell in Xiao Jintingâs hand, Chen Lifeng said enviously, âThe Soul Bell is marked with the Deity Transformationâs soul. Itâs not easy to use it.â
Xiao Jinting worked up his soul force and removed the soul mark from the bell without any effort.
Chen Lifeng was shocked.
He asked, âJinting, when you put your soul force in the key point of the array, you didnât have to take the pill, did you?â
Xiao Jinting shook his head and said, âNo.â
Chen Lifeng paused. When Xiao Jinting took the pill after he did, he had a vague suspicion, which was now confirmed. He couldnât help giving a bitter smile. Decades ago, Xiao Jinting was a Golden Core who needed his protection, but now he was far ahead of him.
Xiao Jinting and Chen Lifeng stayed in the cave for several months. They searched around it many times and made sure they didnât leave out anything before they left.
Right after he stepped out of the cave, Xiao Jinting had a bad feeling.
A huge hand tried to grab him, and Xiao Jinting quickly ran away, leaving Chen Lifeng behind.
Watching Xiao Jinting leaping away, Chen Lifeng was bewildered.
A white figure swiftly chased after Xiao Jinting.
Chen Lifeng saw from afar that Xiao Jinting activated a teleportation talisman and disappeared.
Chen Lifeng watched them disappear, not knowing what was going on.
When Xiao Jinting left, he sent a message to Chen Lifeng âRun!â
Xiao Jinting dealt with the advanced Nascent Souls effortlessly. Who could scare him away like this? There was probably only one answer. Deity Transformation Cultivators.
Chen Lifeng felt his heart beating faster. After a while, he calmed down and left.
After he witnessed how Xiao Jinting attacked the advanced Nascent Souls, Chen Lifeng knew that he was far inferior to Xiao Jinting in strength. Therefore, he couldnât afford to offend the enemy that Xiao Jinting was so frightened of.
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Sensing the Deity Transformation cultivator chasing him, Xiao Jinting swiftly activated several teleportation talismans.
At the same time, he sent messages to his family thousands of miles away.
Xiao Xiaodong read the message and turned grave. He said, âBing Wu is chasing Father.â
Xu Lingfeng asked in confusion, âWhy does she do that? They are not enemies.â He recalled that Bing Ning came to talk to Xiao Jinting outside the secret realm formed by fragments of the Immortal World. Was there anything going on between them?
Chen Xu read a message and frowned. âGrandfather sent me a message, saying that he invited Father to explore a secret realm. When they came out, someone attacked Father.â
âGrandfather suspected it was someone from the Huangfu family because they killed Huangfu Xuan in the secret realm. But, the one who is chasing Father is a Deity Transformation. There are many Nascent Souls in the Huangfu family, but they donât have any Deity Transformation cultivators.â
Xu Lingfeng thought for a while and asked, âWhy are you so sure that itâs a Deity Transformation? Perhaps itâs a powerful Nascent Soul.â
Chen Xu replied, âIt should be a Deity Transformation. Grandfather said that Father killed the advanced Nascent Souls like ants. If it is a Nascent Soul, Father doesnât have to run away.â
Xu Lingfeng was dumbfounded. He said, âXiao Jinting killed the advanced Nascent Souls like ants? When did he become so powerful?â Was Chen Xu exaggerating?
Xiao Xiaofan looked at Xu Lingfeng and said in confusion, âWhy are you so surprised? Father is good at challenging cultivators higher than his level. Itâs not surprising that he did that.â
Xu Lingfeng was speechless. Wasnât this unusual?
Xiao Xiaodong said sullenly, âAlthough Father is powerful, he is not the rival of a Deity Transformation.â
Li Yi glanced at Xiao Xiaodong and said, âDid your father make the Ice Marrow Pill?â
Xiao Xiaodong paused and nodded in relief.
Xu Lingfeng widened his eyes. âYour father is powerful. He can make the Ice Marrow Pill. I thought it was an ugly old monster.â
He had thought some ancestor pretended to be mysterious, and he had never expected that it was Xiao Jinting. How could it be him?â
That explained why Bing Ning came over and talked about the alchemist who saved her life. Where did Xiao Jinting get the Ice Marrow Grass of ten thousand years? Xu Lingfeng suddenly thought of Xiao Jintingâs spiritual swords, which were made of spiritual wood of ten thousand years. What else did he have?
Xiao Xiaodong gritted his teeth. Xiao Jinting sent the message and asked them not to worry about him and to take care of themselves. Xiao Xiaodong clutched at the message talisman, feeling helpless.
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