298: Chapter 298 Blockade of Qishan

"Brother, the Four Major Factions of Heiyuan Valley have already blockaded the Qishan Sect. If we go out now, we are likely to run into trouble," Li Qingling said worriedly.

They had already overheard this while those Foundation Establishment Cultivators were talking just now, which was why they were worried.

The strength of the two was indeed not weak, but the opponents were three Pseudo-Core Realm Experts, and this was their territory. Even if they could escape from their hands today, it was not certain they could safely leave Heiyuan Valley.

"First hide our aura well, and then leave when the opportunity arises. I suppose the Four Major Factions wouldn't dare to offend so many Cultivators," Chen Changqing suggested.

Hearing this, Li Qingling thought for a moment and nodded.

After making their decision, the two suppressed their auras to the Foundation Establishment Stage. Both of them had cultivated a breath-concealing type of Cultivation Technique from the Wanta Sect. With this Cultivation Technique, the stronger the Divine Sense, the harder it was for others to detect one's aura.

Of course, if the opponent's cultivation far exceeded theirs, such as a Pseudo-Core Realm Expert, they might not notice if they were far away. But if the distance was too close, or if they carefully probed, they truly wouldn't be able to escape.

Before they could make a move, within their perception range, a group of Foundation Establishment Cultivators approached. Not only that, but they were also releasing their Divine Sense to scan the surrounding area.

Chen Changqing and the other exchanged a glance and left in the direction they had come from.

This direction was not necessarily safe, but it was definitely much safer than other places. After all, this direction was an area they had already explored.

Not long after the two left, several Foundation Establishment Cultivators who had stayed here previously eventually ran into the Foundation Establishment Cultivators of the Four Major Factions.

In the end, this group of Foundation Establishment Cultivators who had fled here had to swallow their pride to escape a calamity, each handing over the supplies on their bodies for the other party to inspect. There were also some who were unwilling and got into a fierce fight with them, but most of them met a bad end and were directly executed on the spot.

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"Senior Brother, that is a Pseudo-Core Realm Expert. Even if severely injured, it's not something we can deal with. The alliance actually sent us Foundation Establishment Cultivators to search for him; isn't this asking for our lives?" In the patrol team of the Rogue Cultivators Alliance, a youth asked directly.

The old man called Senior Brother shook his head and explained, "We do whatever the alliance tells us to do. As for whether we will run into that Pseudo-Core Realm Expert, rest assured, with the Divine Soul of us Foundation Establishment Cultivators, even if the opponent is right in front of us, we still won't be able to discover them."

"Then why does the alliance...?" The others were also puzzled.

"Our task is to patrol and check all unfamiliar Foundation Establishment Cultivators we encounter. As for the purpose, it's very simple. If we really run into him, it's just our bad luck; but if we don't, we can take advantage of the alliance's pretext to loot the treasures of these Cultivators. Do you understand?" The old man's gaze was sharp and bright.

"I see." They more or less understood the old man's meaning.

In essence, it was treating them as bait. Whoever had good luck wouldn't die and could even take the opportunity to plunder treasures. But if their luck was bad and they were casually killed by the opponent, it was just their own bad luck. Anyway, in Heiyuan Valley, dead was dead, and no one would avenge them.

Beneath a certain dense forest they passed by,

in a dark corner, low coughs kept coming.

If anyone were here, they would definitely recognize that this person was none other than that Pseudo-Core Realm Expert of the Tianli Sect.

Ever since he escaped after being surrounded and attacked, he had constantly changed hiding places, seizing every opportunity to recover from his injuries while trying to transmit the news here to the outside world.

It was a pity that the Four Major Factions had blockaded everything here, preventing him from sending out any news.

Among the Purple Palace Cultivators who had come with him earlier, several had died, but the Purple Palace Cultivators belonging to the Tianli Sect were all suppressed. The opponents did not intend to kill them here to prevent the Tianli Sect from noticing anomalies in their soul lamps and sending people over.

If he had known that the embryonic form of a Magic Treasure would bring him a life-and-death crisis, he wouldn't have taken it in the first place. But it was too late to regret now. However, if given another chance, he still wouldn't be able to suppress his greed and would still seize that embryonic Magic Treasure.

"Hmm?" Just as he was preparing to heal his injuries, two streaks of light flew over from not far away.

Those two were precisely Chen Changqing and Li Qingling.

The two of them had spent a full day, in order to bypass the patrols of a large number of Cultivators, and had only traveled less than a thousand miles.

This was still because they already had a way to bypass those Foundation Establishment Cultivators. If it were replaced by other Foundation Establishment Cultivators, there was no telling when they would be targeted.

It was just that Chen Changqing, having just arrived here, suddenly felt a gaze locked onto him, yet he didn't discover anything. He had no choice but to remind Li Qingling to leave this place quickly.

Li Qingling didn't know why, but she didn't question Chen Changqing's decision. Since they needed to leave this place quickly, they would leave quickly and ask for the specific reason later.

Not long after the two left, the gaze of the Tianli Sect Elder fell into deep thought. He had carefully observed the two just now and found that they had not only concealed their auras, but their auras were also quite strong.

He hadn't expected that in order to deal with him, they had actually prepared such methods.

On the other side, Chen Changqing and Li Qingling sped up to distance themselves from the previous location, stopping only after about a hundred miles had passed.

"What's wrong? Brother, what happened?" Li Qingling asked in puzzlement.

"It's nothing. Just now, I sensed that someone was watching us, but I couldn't locate where that gaze came from. I suppose it must have been that Tianli Sect Elder," Chen Changqing explained.

"Fortunately you discovered it early, Brother. I didn't notice anything just now," Li Qingling said in surprise. Her Divine Soul had already reached the eighth layer of the Purple Mansion, yet Chen Changqing's Divine Soul seemed to have reached an even higher level.

"Yeah, if I hadn't made a Breakthrough to the fifth layer of the Purple Mansion, I might not have been able to perceive anything. Fortunately, we consumed that thunder spirit fruit," Chen Changqing glanced back, stopped thinking about it, and smiled faintly.

"Right, Brother, don't you find it very strange? Clearly we've encountered so many Foundation Establishment Cultivators along the way, yet we haven't encountered a single Purple Palace Cultivator. There were as many as twenty of them who came, plus three Pseudo-Core Realm Experts, but where could these people have gone?" Li Qingling suddenly remembered something and asked.

Hearing this, Chen Changqing frowned and fell into deep thought. He had also noticed this problem earlier, but no matter how he thought about it, he couldn't figure out why those Purple Palace Cultivators weren't also making a move to search for the hiding Tianli Sect Elder. Where could they be right now?

How should he put it?

The territory of this Qishan Sect was actually not large. From the outermost to the innermost, it was merely a distance of four thousand miles. For Purple Palace Cultivators, even during normal travel, it only took two days.

Since that was the case, why didn't they come out to search? Even if they were afraid of being ambushed by the Tianli Sect Elder, a group of twenty or so people could resist for a while even if divided into several teams, and this time would be enough to hold out until those three Pseudo-Core Realm Experts arrived.

Yet they remained completely inactive, seemingly with no intention of finding the Tianli Sect Elder.