Chapter 99: Pursuit

The time until the end of the Mystic Realm was getting closer and closer.

On the plaza, disciples were appearing suddenly without stop.

However, these suddenly appearing people were becoming fewer and fewer.

After all, no one would cut it so close to the deadline.

Finally, once the time for the Mystic Realm to close arrived, eighteen guards in golden Daoist robes stood at the entrance of the Mystic Realm's formation.

"Everyone... the Mystic Realm has ended, please leave quickly!"

Dozens of sects and over a hundred families each piloted their own flying ships away.

Heavenly Talisman Mountain was naturally no exception.

Finally, the entire plaza was left with only the Grand Tai Xu Men's ship, which hadn't started yet.

"I say, Junior Nephew Master Yude, we should be going!" The Golden Core Elder Xuan Yang looked at Master Yude and said, "Accidents happen to anyone who enters this Mystic Realm; it's understandable that Linglong had an accident, and you can't keep me waiting here forever!"

"Elder, you go back first; I'll wait here a while longer!"

Master Yude still wouldn't give up.

He naturally knew Linglong was gone; he was waiting for He Ping.

But from start to finish, he hadn't seen a shadow of He Ping.

"Fine!" Xuan Yang waved his hand and started the flying ship to leave.

On the vast plaza, only Master Yude was left.

He felt that He Ping must be afraid of him and didn't dare to come out.

It didn't matter if he didn't dare to come out, but he had to come out eventually; if he didn't come out soon, once the guards patrolling the Mystic Realm went inside, he would be dead for sure.

But Master Yude waited here for two hours straight and still didn't see He Ping.

"This is really strange, where did this brat go?" Master Yude's brow furrowed tightly: "Could he have left with another family's ship?"

"Impossible, if another sect suddenly had an extra disciple, they would definitely investigate!"

"Then... could he have died in the Mystic Realm?"

That was a possibility.

After all, Master Yude had been here for many days already.

Who knew what had happened in these past few days?

It wouldn't be strange if He Ping died.

"Hoo..." Master Yude felt a sense of stuffiness in his heart, then took a deep breath and stepped on his flying sword, heading toward the Grand Tai Xu Men.

He was going to the Jade Tranquility Palace to take a look and see whether this He Ping was dead or alive.

An hour later, Master Yude arrived at the Grand Tai Xu Men; he flew on his sword and landed directly at the entrance of the Jade Tranquility Palace.

"Wang Shixiong?" Master Yu Ning walked out of the palace, looking at Master Yude with a confused expression.

Master Yude asked, "Tian Shimei, is the life-bound jade tablet of He Ping in your palace still intact?"

Master Yu Ning said, "Intact and undamaged, why?"

"Why?" Master Yude said angrily: "This brat killed Linglong, and then I waited at the entrance of the Mystic Realm for several days and didn't see him come out; his jade tablet is intact, yet he didn't come out of the Mystic Realm!"

"You tell me why?"

Master Yu Ning's expression changed drastically, and she said, "Wang Shixiong, don't make false accusations; Linglong was killed by someone, how can you be certain it was my disciple?"

"Besides, what cultivation base does He Ping have? Only the seventh layer of Qi Refining; your disciples are all at the peak of Qi Refining, even if given the chance, how could He Ping manage it?"

Actually, Master Yude wasn't certain if He Ping killed Linglong.

Everything was speculation.

Being told this by Master Yu Ning, he had no way to argue, only saying, "I'll go see if He Ping's jade tablet is complete."

After speaking, without waiting for Master Yu Ning's consent, he stepped forward, walked into the Jade Tranquility Palace, went to the back in a few steps, and reached out to take He Ping's intact jade tablet into his hand.

"What are you doing?" Master Yu Ning's expression was gloomy.

Master Yude said, "Tian Shimei, don't be nervous; this is just He Ping's life-bound jade tablet; even if I crushed it right now, it wouldn't have any effect on him!"

Master Yu Ning nodded.

Master Yude was right; if a life-bound jade tablet was intentionally destroyed by someone, it wouldn't affect the body; it only served as an indicator.

An indicator of the body's life or death status.

"I will explain all the causality to you later!"

"I'm leaving first!"

After speaking, Master Yude left directly with He Ping's life-bound jade tablet.

Master Yu Ning immediately felt that things were not looking good, but by the time she walked out of the palace, her Wang Shixiong Master Yude had long since turned into a beam of light and vanished into the horizon.

"Not good, not good..."

Master Yu Ning was sweating profusely from anxiety.

Although this life-bound jade tablet wouldn't affect the body, if one used the life-bound jade tablet as a guide and performed some secret techniques, they could quickly lock onto He Ping's location.

Why was Master Yude looking for my disciple's location?

It must be to avenge his granddaughter Linglong.

Wouldn't my disciple He Ping be in mortal danger?

"Whoosh..." At this moment, Master Yu Ning also flew into the high sky on her sword, chasing in the direction where Master Yude had vanished.

She couldn't sit by and watch her Wang Shixiong harm her own disciple.

"Many thanks, Senior Qiao!"

"Many thanks, Senior Sister Qiao!"

The Heavenly Talisman Mountain flying ship hovered in a certain void.

He Ping stood on the flying ship and cupped his hands toward Seeing Qiao Huizhu and the Golden Core Daoist nun: "I will never forget the grace of your protection!"

"I shall take my leave!"

Seeing Qiao Huizhu didn't speak, but the Golden Core Daoist nun spoke up: "You're welcome; you saved our Heavenly Talisman Mountain disciple, we were just helping you cover your tracks, it's a trivial matter!"

"If you have nowhere to go in the future, come to Heavenly Talisman Mountain to find me!"

The Daoist nun was very generous!

He Ping cupped his hands: "Many thanks, Senior, this junior shall take his leave!"

Then, He Ping took out a paper crane, mounted it, and soared into the sky with a flap of wings, leaving the flying ship.

Seeing Qiao Huizhu's eyes flickered a few times, she looked at the direction He Ping left in for a few moments, then said, "Start the ship!"

The large ship started again, rumbling all the way toward Heavenly Talisman Mountain.

As for He Ping, he rode the paper crane through the void for about half an incense stick's time before feeling dizzy and lightheaded again.

No way around it, his spiritual sense was too fragile.

Riding the crane also required using spiritual sense to control it.

To protect his spiritual sense from further damage, he had no choice but to pilot the paper crane down to the ground.

This was the depths of a vast, continuous, and uninhabited mountain range.

What to do?

He Ping's brow furrowed slightly.

Originally, his plan was very simple: run to the Matou Mountain market, buy some 【Yu Shen Dan】, and after recovering his spiritual sense, leave the Dao Xuan Alliance's territory directly to find another place to cultivate slowly.

Being a rogue cultivator in the future wasn't impossible.

After all, with a treasure like the Treasure-Gathering Basin in his hands, as long as he was careful and kept a low profile, there would always be a day when he could become a great power.

But he hadn't expected that his current spiritual sense couldn't even support him in going to the Matou Mountain market.

"Forget it, forget it..." After thinking it over, He Ping carved out a cave entrance on the mountain body here and walked inside.

Let's recover his spiritual sense first.

Cultivate and nourish his soul here for a month, then find a carriage to head to the Matou Mountain market.

Take it one step at a time and plan slowly.

Although Master Yude was a Foundation Establishment disciple, He Ping wasn't afraid of him now.

After all, a Foundation Establishment disciple's spiritual sense only covers a few dozen zhang, maybe a hundred zhang at most.

Could he really find me here? ===== CHAPTER 100 =====