Lu Ping used the Spirit Concealment Technique to hide his cultivation level to the Sixth Layer of the Blood Condensation Realm. As soon as he emerged from the underground cave, he immediately smelled a faint smell of blood. Lu Ping's heart skipped a beat. He quickly used the Mirage Robe to conceal his tracks, and at the same time, he used the Invisible Sword Art to conceal his aura. Then, he stood at the entrance of the cave and observed his surroundings.
This was a mortal's courtyard. Lu Ping was currently in the backyard of the courtyard. The entire courtyard was littered with the corpses of seven or eight cultivators dressed in the same bright silver robes as the ones in the cave. The corpses had obviously been searched, and their storage items were nowhere to be found.
Lu Ping turned around to look at the cave that he came out from, but he discovered that there was only a pile of hay there. There was no cave at all. What a brilliant illusion array! Lu Ping rubbed his chin with his fingers. There was no spirit vein here, so it was obviously an illusion array set up with an array disk. The cultivators who killed the silver-robed cultivators obviously did not discover this underground cave. However, these cultivators were too inexperienced. They even forgot to destroy the corpses.
Lu Ping brandished the Qinghan Sword and slashed at the pile of hay. The pile of hay was instantly torn apart like a painting, revealing a dark cave entrance.
Lu Ping took out a small array disk that was embedded above the cave entrance. On it were densely engraved Spirit Sparking Wires, forming a delicate but extremely complicated array formation. There were more than a hundred low-grade spirit stones embedded in the disk, but they were all turned to dust by Lu Ping's sword strike.
Lu Ping felt a headache coming on as he looked at the complicated array formation on the disk. He decided to give this to Hu Lili to study in the future. He didn't know if Hu Lili had safely returned to the sect. Yuan Zhan would definitely arrange for people to assassinate him and Hu Lili in order to prevent them from returning to Zhenling. However, he didn't expect that Lu Ping had already seen through his plans. With Hu Lili's craftiness, it wouldn't be difficult for her to avoid these assassins and return to the sect safely.
This was not a place to stay for long!
Lu Ping thought about it and released Samling from the Spirit Beast Bag. Samling spat out its forked tongue and sniffed around. After that, Lu Ping kept it inside the Spirit Beast Bag and turned the corpses on the ground to ashes. He made it look like the murderer killed the silver-robed cultivator in the courtyard and accidentally found the hidden crypt. Finally, he destroyed the teleportation array in the crypt and escaped.
After doing all this, Lu Ping turned into a blue escape light and disappeared from the courtyard.
He didn't expect to be in the East Ocean!
In his hand, Lu Ping held a jade slip that he obtained from the cultivator guarding the teleportation array in the crypt. Inside the jade slip was a map of the East Sea.
At this time, Lu Ping's location was on a small island in the northern part of the East Sea. If this island wasn't deliberately marked on the map by the cultivator, Lu Ping was afraid that it would take some time before he could determine his location. Although this map was vast, it only marked small islands and above.
Lu Ping was now going to the nearest medium-sized island called Ma Jia Island. It was called San Jia Island.
As the name suggested, this island was jointly controlled by three cultivator clans. There were three cities built on the island. Most of the cultivators in the cities were rogue cultivators, so Lu Ping was not afraid of attracting attention.
San Jia Island occupied a large area, almost a quarter of the size of this medium-sized island. As soon as Lu Ping entered the city, the buildings and the bustling market immediately attracted Lu Ping's attention. Even though Lu Ping was quite knowledgeable, he still felt a little dizzy.
A city managed by three medium-sized cultivator clans was almost as prosperous as Di Kun Island, which was managed by a large sect like Zhenling. Moreover, according to the map, San Jia Island was located at the northernmost part of the East Sea. Its geographical location was not ideal. From this, it could be seen that the legend of the Middle East Sea being the wealthiest in the Outer Seas was not a lie.
At this time, a dozen or so cultivators, led by a peak Blood Condensation female cultivator, hurried through the city gate. Two of them were seriously injured and could no longer move. The other cultivators used levitation techniques to carry them into the city.
Lu Ping stepped aside and heard the cultivators beside him whispering.
"Isn't that the young miss of the Li Family?"
"I heard that Miss Li has reached the peak of the Blood Condensation Realm and has been preparing to condense her core?"
"That's right. Miss Li went out to sea this time to hone her cultivation. At the same time, she was looking for a few precious materials to prepare for condensing her core."
"I see. But it seems like the process did not go smoothly!"
"That's right. The Li Family's cultivators are all in the late Blood Condensation Realm. Five of them are in the Ninth Layer. I didn't expect two of them to be seriously injured and unconscious."
"It's not that easy to enter the Endless Sea. That's the territory of the monster race. From the looks of it, did Miss Li's group encounter a Core Forging monster cultivator?"
"It's hard to say …"
Lu Ping listened to the discussions of the cultivators around him. He looked at the Li Family cultivators in the distance with a playful expression. He stroked his chin with his left hand and patted the spirit beast pouch on his waist with his right hand to calm the agitated Samling inside.
Lu Ping waved his hand and called over a Minor Repairs Guide. Every city would have a few rogue cultivators with a low cultivation of Minor Repairs Cultivation. They would act as guides for unfamiliar cultivators at the city gates to earn some spirit stones to improve their cultivation.
The guide called over by Lu Ping led him to a cultivator's inn. This Li Family Inn was the property of the Li Family in the Three Families City.
There used to be a small spirit vein on the Three Families Island. Later on, the three families divided the spirit vein into three branches and nurtured them meticulously. After hundreds of years, each branch returned to the level of a small spirit vein.
The cultivator's inns were actually Immortal's Caves. Because these Immortal's Caves were located on the outskirts of the Zhang, Wang, and Li Family's encampments, these Immortal's Caves allowed the cultivators to absorb some of the Spiritual Qi from the three families' encampments.
Through the conversation with the Minor Repairs Guide, Lu Ping gained some understanding of the Three Families Island. Seeing that the Minor Repairs Guide had brought him to the Li Family's inn, Lu Ping asked in confusion, "Little Sima, why did you come here? Didn't the Zhang and Wang Family's cultivator inns have more abundant Spiritual Qi because their Immortal's Caves are cultivated better?"
The guide, Little Sima, replied, "What Senior Lu said is correct. However, the Immortal's Caves in these two inns have always been in short supply. Moreover, they are extremely expensive. If you are not familiar with them, you will not be able to rent one. Although the Li Family's inn is also very popular, there isn't much of a rumor. As long as you have a spare Immortal's Cave, you can buy one. "
Lu Ping nodded and followed Little Sima into the Li Family's inn. The innkeeper quickly came forward and asked, "Sir, are you here to rent a Cave?"
Lu Ping was impressed by the innkeeper's straightforwardness, so he nodded. The innkeeper quickly called for a waiter to serve tea and said, "Our Li Family's Cave is divided into three classes. The outermost class is for Early Blood Condensation cultivators, the middle class is for Mid Blood Condensation cultivators, and the innermost class is for Late Blood Condensation cultivators."
Lu Ping took a sip of the spiritual tea. This tea was made from the lowest grade of spiritual tea, so the Spiritual Qi contained in it was nothing special. The spiritual water used to make the tea was still acceptable, but it was not as good as the underground spring in Lu Ping's Huang Li Island cave.
The innkeeper was a discerning person. He saw Lu Ping take a sip of the tea, frowned, and put down the cup. He knew that this was a big customer, so he asked, "Sir, are you here to rent a mid-grade Cave?"
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