The road is vague

Chapter 314 Escape intact
As dawn broke, Li Mo and the returning bounty hunters returned to the Qian Kingdom's main camp.

The quartermaster is tallying last night's harvest.

Under the respectful gaze of everyone, Li Mo walked straight forward and placed two identity tokens and a storage bag on the table. The bounty hunter, whose harvest was being recorded, was about to get angry when he saw someone cutting in line, but he immediately calmed down when he saw that it was Li Mo.

The quartermaster was shocked when he saw the two identity tokens that Li Mo handed over.

"Liu Can, Zhao Wu!"

During his military career, he was constantly exposed to various intelligence on cultivators from the State of Lu, and he was no stranger to these two true disciples of the Duotian Sect.

The bounty hunters who had been cut in line by Li Mo looked somewhat puzzled.

Many bounty hunters are unfamiliar with these two individuals, as they have only recently transferred from the Lu Kingdom headquarters to the Contract Department, and their names may seem somewhat foreign to them.

Only after the quartermaster emptied the contents of the storage bag did the crowd of onlookers change their expressions.

These two were, after all, true disciples of the Heaven-Seizing Sect. Even after Li Mo had picked and chosen along the way, the items in their storage bags, which were mostly dispensable for exchanging for military merits, were still far more than those of the others. The quartermaster spent almost a quarter of an hour just recording these items, causing gasps of surprise from those queuing to watch.

After the quartermaster finished taking the count, he presented Li Mo's identification badge with both hands.

Li Mo nodded and turned to leave.

He went straight to the quartermaster department.

"Hello."

Li Mo handed over his identity badge.

"I want to use my Class A bounty hunter status to exchange for Jade Essence Liquid through a special agreement with the military. I wonder how many military merits I need?"

After examining Li Mo's waist tag, the quartermaster quickly made contact via a communication talisman and ultimately provided a figure that was not much different from the military merits Li Mo had accumulated over the past few days.

Jade Marrow Liquid is a precious material for advancing to the Nascent Soul stage. Even though Li Mo has accumulated a lot of military merits over the past few days, plus the two storage bags contributed by Liu Can and Zhao Wu last night, all the military merits combined can only barely be exchanged for one pot of Jade Marrow Liquid, and it will take another month to wait, as it seems to be transported from the Great Qian Kingdom.

"Okay, then I'll wait a month."

Li Mo agreed.

From then on, Li Mo disappeared without a trace, never going to Yixiantian again to participate in hunting operations, and all information about him from Lu Kingdom's Moonlit Pavilion also vanished completely.

The bounty hunters of Lu immediately realized that this person had chosen to retire gracefully after making such a great name for himself in order to avoid retaliation.

……

the other side.

After learning that Liu Can and Zhao Wu had gone to Yixiantian to hunt down Li Mo, a true disciple of the Lingmu Sect, Yuanhun Zhenren was instead killed by Li Mo. The palace remained silent for a long time.

After a while.

He then conveyed new instructions to the anxious Golden Core cultivators under his tutelage.

"Able to fight two opponents and kill two of our sect's true disciples, this person will surely become a great threat in the future. Pass on my order that if you encounter this person on the battlefield in the future, kill him immediately at all costs."

"Yes!"

After the anxious Golden Core cultivators left, the Primordial Soul Ancestor suddenly let out a cold snort.

However, as many days passed...

There was no more information about Li Mo in the Moonlit Pavilion, which made Yuanhun Zhenren, who had been paying close attention to the matter, increasingly anxious.

He began to feel some regret.

They shouldn't have stayed at Baiyu Square to preside over the meeting in the first place to save face. Instead, they should have hunted down this person at all costs. Otherwise, so many troubles wouldn't have happened.

"Let's inform Sky Bear King about this person's current situation. Sky Bear King will never let go of the grudge of his main body being destroyed. As for the Rainbow Bird, we can only let it go."

After letting out a long sigh, Yuanhun Zhenren took out a flying sword.

After chanting incantations for a moment, he communicated with a spirit, then placed the communication talisman on the flying sword and activated the flying sword message transmission technique, watching the flying sword quickly disappear into the distance.

After infiltrating the territory of the Qian Kingdom and massacring the city, this clone of the Bear King was wanted by the Qian Yuan Holy King and immediately realized that he had made a grave mistake.

From the perspective of the Sky Bear King, it was truly wronged. It was almost an undeserved disaster. Chen Youyou came to its door for no reason and killed its main body without saying a word. If it didn't find a way to take revenge, it would go crazy.

Unfortunately, the Qian Kingdom was too domineering, and this matter even alarmed the Holy Ruler Qian Yuan.

It knew that there were countless powerful people in the Qian Kingdom.

Since the Holy Lord Qian Yuan was able to send Chen Youyou to suppress its true form with the Tongtian Ice River Tower, he could send other powerful figures to kill it again.

The heartbroken Sky Bear King immediately sought refuge with the military headquarters of the State of Lu.

However, its actions were truly disgraceful and violated a major taboo in the State of Lu. Even the cultivators of Lu could not openly support it. Therefore, they could only arrange for it to temporarily hide in a secluded place, and make further plans after the impact of its massacre of the city gradually subsided.

Among the few Lu State cultivators who knew their temporary refuge was Yuanhun Zhenren of the Duotian Sect.

……

Inside a cave.

Since the main body of the Sky Bear King was killed by the Tower of the Ice River, its two clones have been in a state of aggregation and separation.

They cannot be too far apart, otherwise the pain of their souls being torn apart will cause them to gradually lose their minds.

At the same time, they dare not get too close, otherwise they will instinctively want to absorb the other party, become the sole entity, and then master all the legacy of the Sky Bear King, restoring their power to the level of a transformed Great Demon King.

Thus, the two embarked on completely different paths.

After investigating the truth, one of them infiltrated the Great Qian Kingdom and carried out a retaliatory massacre in Bai'an City. He was subsequently wanted by the Great Qian Kingdom and forced to seek help from the Lu Kingdom's military camp, where he went into hiding.

The other, disgusted by the cowardice of the Heavenly Longevity Turtle in failing to stop Chen Youyou, chose to follow the Mountain-Crushing Giant Ape, becoming a man-eating monster in the Southern Barbarian Lands, constantly fleeing and waiting for an opportunity to strike. Meanwhile, the Sky-Piercing Bear King's avatar, which had chosen to lie low, suddenly opened its eyes and looked at the flying sword floating in front of it.

"Yuanhun Zhenren?"

The Sky-Piercing Bear King showed a hint of apprehension towards this elder of the Heaven-Seizing Sect. After using its spiritual light to capture the transmission talisman, it infused it with a trace of magic power, and then transmitted the voice of the Primordial Soul True Person.

“Bear King, your enemy, Li Mo, a true disciple of the Lingmu Sect, has appeared in the Qian Kingdom's camp.”

This single sentence instantly enraged the Sky Bear King's clone.

Although it is an avatar, it inherits all the emotions of the original body.

From its perspective, this undeserved disaster was entirely due to the Lingmu Sect disciple's guilty conscience. After killing a black bear spirit, he was afraid of being retaliated against and actually begged the Ice Goddess Chen Youyou to kill him as well. He was simply a heartless and wicked villain.

However, there are at least several thousand black bear spirits on Mount Motian; how could it possibly remember them all?

Furthermore.

Its true form is a grizzly bear spirit, so how could it possibly have offspring of a black bear spirit?

"I cannot quell my hatred without killing this man!"

After roaring to the sky, it crushed the communication talisman in its hand, then walked out of the cave with a ferocious expression and quickly disappeared without a trace.

……

One month passed quickly.

Over the past month, Li Mo has carefully sorted out the many gains he has acquired from the storage bags.

Some alchemy materials and weapon-refining materials will not be mentioned for now.

He had already obtained more than 30,000 spirit stones, and more than ten bottles of various spirit pills that Foundation Establishment cultivators could use, although the vast majority of them were just Spirit Gathering Pills.

Besides.

He also collected a lot of the cultivation techniques and secret arts of various sects in Lu State. Even if he could not practice them immediately because the techniques were not compatible, he could still use them as a reference in the future. Among them was the Dark and Sunless Sealing Technique that Liu Can and Zhao Wu had used.

As for various top-grade magical artifacts, there are more than ten pieces, and more than twenty high-grade magical artifacts.

Even if these top-grade magic artifacts are of lower quality, they are still worth thousands of spirit stones. Magic artifacts like the Heavenly Mystic Pearl and the Water Storage Flag, which belong to the Liu Can and Zhao Wu brothers, are comparable to the Heavenly Golden Sword and are worth at least four or five thousand spirit stones.

this day.

Li Mo arrived at the quartermaster department and finally got his wish, obtaining the Jade Marrow Liquid.

After a brief moment of excitement, he went to the division headquarters, carefully packaged the item, and entrusted it to the division headquarters to take back to his sect and hand it over to his master, Lu Qi.

The Lingmumen Division of the Qian Kingdom's military camp regularly exchanges letters and goods with Qingming Mountain, making it convenient for Li Mo to transport and mail them.

He didn't make a fuss about it, treating it as just an ordinary item being mailed.

Meanwhile, Li Mo learned from Ye Shoutian that they would be setting off to attack Corpse King Mountain the next day.

"Zombie King Mountain?"

Li Mo's face showed a solemn expression.

"My master once told me that deep within Corpse King Mountain, there is a deep palace protected by the Profound Yin Array, where there is at least one Corpse King comparable to a Nascent Soul cultivator. Why would we provoke such a terrifying existence during the great war with the State of Lu?"

Ye Shoutian was obviously aware of this, but he didn't seem to care much and just smiled lightly.

"Do you still remember the Nine Nether Soul Refining Array that you offered up back then?"

"this?"

Li Mo's mind raced, and he quickly gained some insight.

"Could it be that the imperial court has completely mastered the Nine Nether Soul Refining Array and is preparing to use the Yin Souls of Corpse King Mountain as raw materials for refining the Nine Nether Soul Stones?"

"not only that."

Ye Shoutian was no longer going to hide it, and a smile appeared on his face.

"The palace deep within Corpse King Mountain is likely the site of the former capital of the Great Zhou Dynasty, or at least a part of it. It must contain the secret of the eighteen-layered Netherworld teleportation array. The Nine Nether Soul Stone, combined with this, is enough to elevate our Great Qian Kingdom to another level. Therefore, this time the imperial court not only dispatched the Eastern Route General to assist, but also sent Lord Si Ming Jin from the Pacification Commissioner's Office to be specifically responsible for attacking Corpse King Mountain."

"Lord of Fate?"

As far as Li Mo knew, the three Fate Masters of the Great Qian Kingdom were all Nascent Soul stage cultivators.

Among them, the one who was the Master of Fate of the Road Guiding Division, namely Lord Zhong, whom Li Mo had met twice, was the one he had seen the most and was most familiar with. As for the other two Masters of Fate, he had only heard of them.

Since the three Sima hold important positions with great power and heavy responsibilities, their personal strength must be guaranteed to a certain extent. Even if they are not as powerful as those great cultivators who can make Nascent Soul cultivators wary, they should at least be able to be someone that these great cultivators can be wary of.

"Is this the opportunity that Uncle Ye mentioned earlier?"

However, Li Mo did not intend to get involved.

a few days later.

After completing the relevant procedures, Li Mo immediately left the military headquarters and headed to the Motian Mountains.

The main peak of Mount Motian is still frozen, and the air at the foot of the mountain is exceptionally cool.

Compared to three months ago, there were significantly fewer people at the market down the mountain. After Li Mo completed the long-term rental procedures here, he quickly integrated into the environment.

During this period.

He would come to the teahouse every day, gazing at the distant snow-capped mountains, remaining motionless for a long time, as if he had gained some insight.

(End of this chapter)