Cloud Pot Immortal Elder fled for his life.
He had already covered his chest with his robes, but beneath them was still a shocking wound that pierced clean through him.
Unlike people from major sects, most Rogue Cultivators carried all their possessions on them. The vast majority had no particularly fixed residence, and almost none of their cave abodes possessed especially powerful protective Formations—unless they were Rogue Cultivators of exceptionally profound cultivation who had happened to obtain cave abodes left behind by ancient cultivators or powerful sects.
Without powerful formation protection, it was all too easy for someone to secretly clean out one's cave abode while one was away. The safest course, naturally, was to carry all important things on one's person.
Cloud Pot Immortal Elder was also a Rogue Cultivator who carried his important possessions with him. Moreover, a Rogue Cultivator like him, with abundant experience in magical combat and over a century of cultivation, possessed quite a few valuable things, such as miraculous medicines for healing.
Ordinarily, with the techniques Cloud Pot Immortal Elder cultivated and the healing spiritual medicines he carried, even a wound like this one, pierced straight through, could have been almost fully restored. But Luo Bei's Natal Sword Essence had surged with incomparably powerful sword intent and Sword Qi. The remaining sword intent and Sword Qi in his wound were still like blade after blade, obstructing the recovery of his injuries.
Thus, even after using up all the healing pills on his person, Cloud Pot Immortal Elder had merely stopped his injuries from worsening and barely refined away the Sword Qi and sword intent left in the wound.
At a time like this, Cloud Pot Immortal Elder knew there was only one thing he needed to do: quickly find a place rich in spiritual