Chapter 1045 - 876: Chopping Wood and Making a Fire (Part 2)

The words of self-reproach came from the True Heart; regarding Shi Chun's situation, he must have made some inquiries before departing, but indeed did not take Shi Chun seriously.

With such a large group of masters in the Heavenly Immortal Realm taking action, how could they have possibly taken Shi Chun, who's used to small skirmishes, seriously?

Shi Chun's past glorious battles, in their eyes, were merely minor scuffles between small fry, truly not worth putting in their eyes.

In their view, their group was dispatched to handle the competition from other forces. If they happened to encounter Shi Chun, it was simply a matter of convenience; they never dreamed they would end up cooperating to gang up on Shi Chun.

Nor did they expect that their joint efforts would still allow Shi Chun to escape.

Now indeed, they felt their faces burn with shame.

Luo Yuanfeng said, "It shouldn't be only the 'Four Extremes Immortal Slaying Array'; there must be other Magical Treasures protecting him, otherwise with his cultivation, it would be impossible to escape our joint siege using the 'Four Extremes'. There's not even the slightest chance. Is it the Boundless Banner?"

Yu Yifu replied in a serious tone, "The problem now is whether his mount is with him. It's said that his mount can be stored in his Qiankun Bag and carried along."

Someone sighed, "It might actually be with him, otherwise why would he linger at the entrance? Because once the mount leaves, it's hard to re-enter and make a fortune."

Yu Yifu's eyes flashed suddenly as he remembered Li Hongjiu had encountered Shi Chun. Who knows if he knew whether Shi Chun's mount was with him? He immediately looked around and called out, "Li Hongjiu, Li Hongjiu, where is Li Hongjiu?"

The crowd also looked around, searching all over, but couldn't find the figure who was always shrinking back.

Only then did this group realize Li Hongjiu was nowhere to be found.

Someone worriedly said, "Could he have been accidentally injured during the chaos earlier? He's Qu Wuming's closed-door disciple—a promising talent with a future. If he was killed upon arrival, Qu Wuming won't just let it go easily."

These words tightened Yu Yifu's heart somewhat; although he usually didn't take Li Hongjiu seriously, he couldn't ignore Li Hongjiu's background. The colossal Yanbao Sect had influential positions within the Nanshan Royal Court. If not for having the royal mandate, the sect might not have responded when he went up the mountain to fetch Li Hongjiu, let alone allowed him to take Li Hongjiu away.

He was the one who took Li Hongjiu away and promised safety. Should there be any accounting later, Qu Wuming would first target him. Facing Yanbao Sect's retaliation isn't something just anyone can handle.

He immediately turned back and shouted towards a cloaked individual, "You take a few people to the previous battleground and search—whether alive or dead, we must see him."

In truth, he wanted to leverage the other's Demon Eye ability to find him, at least to determine Li Hongjiu's fate.

That cloaked person naturally understood the intention and waved to gather three people, and together they swiftly departed.

Given their cultivation, the site wasn't far away, and they arrived quickly.

The cloaked person raised a hand to signal the companions to stop, then floated forward alone, avoiding the notice of those behind before his eyes glowed with the red light of the Demon Eye, scanning the scene with his scarlet gaze.

After flying around the scene searching, he directly flew towards a direction and stopped from a distance.

The three companions exchanged glances, then flew over too, but hadn't approached yet, when the cloaked person raised his hand to halt them, signaling them to stop and not to come closer.

He didn't want others to easily see him using the Demon Eye.

Someone couldn't help but ask, "What's wrong?"

The cloaked person snorted and laughed coldly, "The person shouldn't be dead, this is interesting."

His Demon Eye had already traced the movement of Li Hongjiu's aura, but that's secondary. The main point is that, due to the special environment of Yanfu Continent, unless encountering certain conditions, the aura left here doesn't easily dissipate, therefore he also saw the path Shi Chun's aura took towards the exit.

What's interesting is that Li Hongjiu's aura path coincides almost perfectly with Shi Chun's incoming path.

In other words, Li Hongjiu went towards the direction Shi Chun came from. Maybe it's a coincidence, but is it really?

Given Li Hongjiu's background, he couldn't make baseless accusations, nor could he publicly explain what his Demon Eye had discovered, so he still needs verification. Thus, he waved his hand, "Let's go!"

He led the way flying ahead, taking the others to quickly pursue along the route of the two auras.

Here, they could fly with speed unconstrained, unafraid of being heard...

At the entrance of Yanfu Continent, the pit Shi Chun had dug was about ten feet deep, reaching the bottom line of the Protection Array underground.

If he could reach the center of the array and dig down, he might dig even deeper.

But there was no need anymore. Shi Chun raised his head and estimated the depth, judging based on past experience that the depth should be sufficient.

He then climbed out; the exit path was somewhat winding, first digging diagonally, then straight, not wanting those flying around above to see what he was doing inside the hole.

After crawling out onto the ground, he took out the Boundless Banner and poured out a pile of wood. Unintentionally, he poured out too much; it was simply because there was too much stored inside, and with weak Mana, it was hard to accurately gauge.

The people outside the Protection Array saw this and were at a loss for words, not knowing why the fellow carried so much wood with him.

"Could this fellow be planning to build a house here?"

"Isn't it using a pile of wood to heal?"

Little did they know, all of it was collected by Shi Chun using the Boundless Banner inside.

Then Shi Chun took out a knife, chopping wood swiftly, swallowing a Spirit Pill, and somewhat recovering his Mana, quickening his actions.

He next set up an iron pot, poured water, lit a wood pile, and boiled the water.

The spectators exchanged glances, murmuring and discussing; the Beijiu Guard General couldn't help but shout from outside, "Starting to live here now, Shi Chun, what do you take this place for?"

Shi Chun replied loudly, "Got bitten quite badly by 'mosquitoes', can't help but save myself, though it's unsightly to watch, I have no choice."

After the water boiled, he poured some random things into the pot, creating a foul smell, then took some wood and crawled back into the pit.

Arriving at the bottom, he set the wood alight once again, producing a fire, took out a small pot containing Death Refusing Incense, scraped a bit onto an iron tool and placed it into the fire. At the same time, he used spells to gather the smoke from the burning Death Incense; although some would escape, he was eager to test his theory and couldn't worry about that right now, so he just tried to muddle up the outside air with some distinctive smells for cover.

Of course, for verification, it wasn't necessary to burn too much of the Death Incense.

After gathering enough of the Death Incense smoke, he immediately extinguished the burning iron tool and quickly threw out a corpse, using spells to drive the collected smoke towards the corpse.

Quickly, his Right Eye Superpower saw strands of gold thread emerging from the corpse, trapped by the green qi he had laid, swaying within the green qi's cage.