Heavenly Merit -100
The notification that suddenly popped up in his vision gave Wang Chen, who was moving away from Nameless Valley, a slight start.
By now, Wang Chen understood these inexplicable deductions of Heavenly Merit quite well. Someone had definitely used the Heavenly Secret Art to calculate along the thread of his karma.
Though it was only a deduction of 100 Heavenly Merit points, that number indicated the one making a move was a Nascent Soul-level cultivator!
And this development was undoubtedly connected to his fierce battle with Lu Hongye and the others earlier.
Wang Chen was very glad that he had acted decisively enough. Otherwise, there was an eighty or ninety percent chance that a True Immortal would be blocking him inside his Cave Mansion right now.
How things would turn out then was truly hard to say.
This was another reminder to Wang Chen.
In the Cangqing Realm, he stood at the very peak—the unrivaled strongest person.
But upon returning to the Haotian Realm, he was merely a small fish.
Golden Core cultivators, even high-level Golden Cores, were not all that powerful!
After fleeing over a thousand li in one breath, Wang Chen found a hidden spot amid the rolling mountains and spent half a day excavating a secret cavern deep underground.
It would serve as his temporary foothold.
After setting up a warning formation at the entrance to the tunnel, Wang Chen hid inside the cavern and began taking stock of his gains.
He had descended into the Cangqing Realm for nearly ten years. Though he was still far from controlling this small world, he had truly touched the Origin of the World in the Cangqing Realm and established his own Daoist marker within it.
In the future, there would be no need to