I Have a Compass for Opportunity

Bai Ling left with Liou Yuan. Liou Yuan had accomplished his matters on Qiwen Mountain, and his mission outside the mountain was more or less completed. There was no need to stay in Qingyou Prefecture.

Now, he just needed to return to the Disciplinary Hall with the heads of Zhai Yuzhu and Zhou Meng to pass the disciple assessment and smoothly gain the status of a disciple of the Disciplinary Hall.

So, without delay, the man and the bird headed straight towards the direction of the Five Extremes Mountain.

During this journey, Liou Yuan naturally inquired about the Foundation Establishment battle that had taken place above Yufengcheng that night.

The Fire Fox’s cave was destroyed because it was caught in the aftermath of that battle, prompting it to come and seize Bai Ling’s territory.

As a local snake, Bai Ling surely knew about this.

"You mean that battle where Miss Anyang of the Jin Dynasty and Lei Hanchi from Yanluo Sect joined forces against Daoist Huixie."

Sure enough, Bai Ling knew about this. To demonstrate its intelligence-gathering ability, it flapped its wings, proudly recounting the information it had obtained.

"That battle ended in Miss Anyang’s defeat. That Daoist Huixie is extremely malevolent; he could actually control Star Evil."

"The Star Evil, which had previously defeated the Jin Dynasty Foundation Establishment Cultivators, was manipulated by him. It was ferociously relentless, pushing Miss Anyang and her companion into constant retreat, pursuing them out of Qingyou Prefecture."

Liou Yuan had been present during the battle of Daoist Huixie’s trio and had witnessed it with his own eyes, so he knew the process better than Bai Ling, focusing only on the outcome.

Upon hearing that Miss Anyang and the two Foundation Establishment Cultivators were chased out of Qingyou Prefecture by Daoist Huixie, he quickly asked about Miss Anyang’s safety: "Miss Anyang should be safe, right?"

"Who dares to check? No one knows where they ended up, but Daoist Huixie never returned."

Mentioning Daoist Huixie, Bai Ling’s dark eyes showed indescribable fear.

"Demon Cultivators from Foundation Establishment are appearing in Qingyou Prefecture, this place is getting more chaotic. Even if you didn’t bring it up, I wouldn’t want to stay in Qingyou Prefecture any longer."

Bai Ling muttered more about the Demon Cultivators’ information.

Claiming that during Liou Yuan’s disappearance, the traces of Demon Cultivators became more frequent, and even previously non-demonic Loose Cultivators became Demon Cultivators.

Moreover, quite a few sect disciples began secretly cultivating demonic techniques.

Not only were human Loose Cultivators suffering, but mountain Spirit Beasts were increasingly harmed, and so on.

Liou Yuan automatically filtered Bai Ling’s complaints, pondering to himself: "Miss Anyang is a princess of the Jin Dynasty; she must have life-saving aces up her sleeve. Killing her won’t be easy for Daoist Huixie."

"After all, Bai Ling is a Qi Cultivating Spirit Beast with limited information; to know the exact truth, I can only inquire back at Five Extremes Mountain."

"Something this big, Five Extremes Mountain’s intelligence network must have noticed."

Thinking like this, Liou Yuan began chatting half-heartedly with Bai Ling.

During this time, his left hand occasionally experienced disturbances of Spiritual Power, impacting the emerald ring on his ring finger.

It was a storage ring he had taken from the Cyan Feather Gui Character Crossing, which contained restrictions left by ancient cultivators.

Over time, the restrictions had lost most of their power, to the extent that Liou Yuan could impulsively break through them.

Looking unobtrusively at his hand hidden under his sleeve, Liou Yuan thought to himself: "Just need half a month, and I can completely erode the restrictions and retrieve the items inside."

Bai Ling could feel the fluctuations of Liou Yuan’s spiritual power, but being clever, it didn’t ask many questions.

Instead, it asked if Liou Yuan wanted to ride it for faster travel; at its speed, they would reach the Five Extremes Mountain in less than ten days.

Liou Yuan declined, citing the danger of the Evil Star Shift and the perils in the sky.

If it weren’t for the fear of Evil Stars in the sky, he would have flown on his sword long ago, and his speed wouldn’t be slower than Bai Ling’s.

Bai Ling just mentioned it casually and didn’t say more. It also understood the hazards of Evil Star Shift.

As Bai Ling’s babbling voice continued, night fell.

Nights during the Evil Star Shift periods were far more perilous than daytime; even with the Night Concealing Mask, Liou Yuan could still move freely, but Bai Ling couldn’t.

The man and the bird had no choice but to find a nearby city to stay in, waiting for the Evil Star Shift period to pass before continuing their journey.

Wind City, one of the few cities at the border of Qingyou Prefecture’s region.

Having completed all his tasks, Liou Yuan naturally had no need to hide his identity as a disciple of the Five Extremes Mountain. He easily gained the city cultivators’ trust as he entered with his badge.

No one even questioned why he had a Spirit Beast with him.

After all, within the cultivators, there were those who maintained Spirit Beasts, and for Liou Yuan, as a disciple of the Five Extremes Mountain, having a Spirit Beast companion was reasonable.

However, Bai Ling hadn’t learned the technique to conceal its aura, and its Qi Cultivation Eighth Layer cultivation attracted many cultivators’ attention in the small city of Qingyou Prefecture.

In the city, where Foundation Establishment cultivators were rare, the highest standing cultivators were generally at Qi Cultivation Ninth Layer, and a Qi Cultivation Eighth Layer Spirit Beast was considered among the top-level experts in town.

With Bai Ling’s deterrence, they avoided quite a bit of trouble.

Due to its identity as a demon beast, Bai Ling had never entered a human city before, and upon entering, everything seemed curious and amusing.

Then, the man and bird, under the warm hospitality of the City Lord, settled into one of the City Lord’s private courtyards.

With no outsiders disturbing them and daily meals delivered, Bai Ling tasted human food for the first time, finding everything delicious, and ended each day with a round belly.

He openly declared those things he’d eaten in the past were nothing compared to this.

In Bai Ling’s daily indulgence, Liou Yuan, on the other hand, announced his seclusion, intending to use the Evil Star Shift time to completely break the restrictions of the storage ring.

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