Chapter 1829: Chapter 919:

Xiao Yuli: “Shall we go to the Star Heaven Dao Sect or the Eastern Wilderness first?”

Chen Lingming: “Let’s split up. This way, even if the Demon Path finds us, at least we have a better chance of survival.”

Xiao Yuli: “Where do you plan to go?”

Chen Lingming: “You choose first, and I’ll go where you don’t.”

Xiao Yuli eventually chose the Star Heaven Dao Sect since she needed the Three Lights Divine Water.

As the two were planning to separate at the teleportation array, a violent surge of spiritual energy suddenly erupted from the center of the Fang Market.

Then several Core Formation auras flew out, seemingly fleeing in haste, but soon an orange-red beam flashed and gave chase.

Heads began to fall from the sky.

…

Chen Mobai naturally didn’t know that after more than a hundred years, the Yi Yuan Dao Palace had sent out the Taoist Child and Saintess again.

He was busy overseeing Bright Mirror Mountain, directing Yue Zutao on the East Land side to gather the main and auxiliary medicinal ingredients.

In the Immortal Gate, there is a Xuan Yang Condensing True Pill that can help fire attribute cultivators improve their cultivation level and condense true qi.

It’s also the best elixir for Pure Yang Nascent Soul cultivators, but it was only during the time of Yuan Yang Ancestor that a few furnaces were refined, mainly to enhance his disciples’ cultivation so they could wield the Primordial Yang Sword.

After confirming that Ming Wang Star had completely moved away from Earth Element Star, this wasteful practice was halted.

After Chen Mobai’s Nascent Soul Formation, Qing Nu began improving the alchemy recipe.

However, this Rank-4 Superior Grade elixir was almost as difficult to refine as the Infant-Feeding Elixir. Even for her, it took a long time to complete.

Hundreds of auxiliary herbs were mostly gathered from the Eastern Wilderness and the East Barbarians, with eight or nine-tenths collected. Occasionally missing ones were purchased by Yue Zutao in the East Land.

But the main Rank-4 ingredient was extremely rare, even in the East Land.

It was basically impossible to buy with spirit stones, and could only be exchanged with medicines or spirit materials of the same rank needed by the other party.

Luckily, the Five Elements Sect was wealthy and, coupled with the resources obtained from Wang He Sect, Yue Zutao quickly finalized a deal in the East Land.

However, the Rank-4 medicinal herbs were excessively rare, and Yue Zutao felt if he personally went into the East Land forces to trade, he’d likely be robbed by rogue cultivators as soon as he stepped out of the mountain gate. So he strongly insisted Chen Mobai go in person.

Considering the local customs, Chen Mobai thought Yue Zutao’s reasoning made sense.

Even though he didn’t really want to go to the East Land, since it was crucial for his cultivation and given his proficiency in Void Walking, Chen Mobai deemed the trip safe and used a large-scale transmission array to visit the East Land.

Remembering that Ye Qing wanted to introduce him to the Profound Heaven True Monarch, Chen Mobai didn’t notify him upon reaching Nine Heavens Immortal City and quietly joined Yue Zutao, bringing the Rank-4 medicinal herbs sourced from Wang He Sect for the negotiated trades with various major factions.

As it turned out, Yue Zutao’s concerns were justified.

Every time they completed a trade and exited, Chen Mobai could sense a faint gaze following him.

Every single time!

However, few dared to act, except for two factions, probably not realizing Chen Mobai’s cultivation level, that persistently sent people to shadow him.

On this day, Chen Mobai arrived at a mid-sized Fang Market, established by a Nascent Soul force called Tayan Palace.

In this Fang Market, after exchanging a piece of Rank-4 Purple Qi Wood with a sect pharmacy he had an arrangement with, he planned to leave when he unexpectedly found the door shut tight.

Then six Golden Core cultivators emerged from the shadows, holding array flags, and formed a Fourth Rank Lower Grade formation.

“Act quickly; we ought to show some respect to Tayan Palace,” said the leading Golden Core cultivator.

Since the Fang Market was established by a Nascent Soul major faction, safety inside was naturally assured.

But that’s the way of the East Continent; as long as one acts discreetly, Tayan Palace wouldn’t bother investigating for the sake of the dead.

This kind of thing was something that pharmacy had done several times.

So after the leader spoke, all five Core Formation cultivators nodded, then infused spiritual power into the array flags, transforming into a dark purple smoke screen that descended upon Chen Mobai and Yue Zutao.

This was a Fourth Rank Lower Grade Dark Purple Smoke Net Array, produced by Tayan Palace, capable of rendering even ordinary Nascent Soul cultivators unable to mobilize their true qi for a short period when enveloped by the screen.

Initially intended to protect the Fang Market’s pharmacies, it had instead become their weapon for ambushing Core Formation cultivators.

As the dark purple smoke screen was about to envelop the two, the leading Core Formation cultivator noticed Chen Mobai and Yue Zutao’s unchanged expressions and suddenly felt a pang of dread.

At that moment, Chen Mobai opened the stopper on the green-skinned gourd at his waist and released the Primordial Yang Sword Evil he had recently perfected, a Fourth Rank Great Achievement one.

With a flash, an orange-red beam effortlessly sliced through the dark purple smoke curtain, and the two leading Core Formation cultivators were bisected before they could even react.

“Not good, a Nascent Soul monster!”

Upon witnessing this, the remaining few instantly realized they had provoked someone formidable.

They immediately used their array flags to detonate the Dark Purple Smoke Net Array and used the upheaval of the Fang Market’s spirit veins and the surging spiritual energy to flee in different directions.

Amidst the thunderous explosion.