Investigating the Golden Saber Academy, Entering the Desert

[Day 18, Night]

[You set fire to several corpses]

[This is the seventh wave of assassins you've killed]

[You're past being surprised]

[You continue heading north]

[You only travel at night, spending the days cultivating in inns]

[When traveling at night, you cover your face completely, only revealing your eyes as you sneak along]

[Like a celebrity just off a plane]

[Your fully mastered Aura Concealment Art is constantly running at full power]

[You disguise yourself as an ordinary person]

[You don't head straight north when traveling]

[The route you take is winding and circuitous]

[You know which direction to go next only a split second before your pursuers do]

[You spend three months hiding like this]

[The people chasing you gradually fall behind]

[You haven't neglected your cultivation on the road]

[Your Heavenly Desire Formless Skill has improved greatly]

[In less than two months, you've cultivated the Heavenly Desire Formless Skill to the late stage of Skin Refinement]

[There are two reasons why you're cultivating so quickly]

[First, you've greatly increased your martial arts talent]

[Second, your state of mind is indeed very suitable for cultivating the Heavenly Desire Formless Skill]

[You feel that the True Qi within your body is more easily manipulated]

[The person who created this skill reached a terrifying level of understanding of True Qi]

[No one understands True Qi better than him]

[Moreover, you have no side effects from cultivating the Heavenly Desire Formless Skill]

[Unlike Wan Qingluan, who has the flaw of having a different personality every seven days]

[You don't know why this is]

[You don't have time to think about it]

[You continue on your way]

[One day, you accidentally find yourself back in Xian'an City]

[You originally wanted to leave directly]

[After all, you don't know who is behind the Golden Saber Academy]

[But you ultimately decide to investigate briefly]

[You use your traditional skill and sneak into the County Magistrate's office]

[You find the files on the Black Tiger Martial Hall's extermination from that year]

[You read them carefully several times]

[You discover that the record in the files is almost the same as what you know]

[The only slightly strange thing is]

[After the Black Tiger Martial Hall was exterminated]

[Before the case had been fully investigated]

[The Xian'an County Magistrate, Zhang Hongwen, repeatedly urged for a quick resolution]

[In the end, the case was hastily closed]

[You suspect that there's something wrong with this Zhang Hongwen]

[That night, you sneak into Zhang Hongwen's home]

[You search Zhang Hongwen's residence]

[Finally, you discover a large number of letters to and from Danzhou Prefect Duan Qian in his study's secret room]

[Xian'an County is under the jurisdiction of Danzhou]

[It's perfectly normal for Zhang Hongwen to report to his immediate superior]

[You don't understand why these letters are still kept in the secret room, making it all so mysterious]

[You look through all the letters]

[After finally discovering the Golden Saber Academy had been destroyed]

[Zhang Hongwen had taken the initiative to report this situation to Duan Qian.]

[Duan Qian's reply stated that he was sending a team of experts down.]

[The next day, the Black Tiger Martial Hall was destroyed.]

["So, Duan Qian, the County Magistrate of Danzhou, sent people to destroy the Black Tiger Martial Hall!"]

[You understood.]

["But if the Golden Saber Academy was connected to Duan Qian, how could they have just watched as the Black Tiger Martial Hall destroyed them?"]

[You thought about it.]

["It can only be said that Duan Qian didn't usually take special care of the Golden Saber Academy!"]

["Could it be that the relationship between the Golden Saber Academy and Duan Qian wasn't that close?"]

["Then why would Duan Qian send people down for revenge after the Golden Saber Academy was destroyed?"]

[You stroked your chin thoughtfully.]

[You thought for a moment, and suddenly your eyes lit up.]

["That's it! Duan Qian must not have wanted something from the Golden Saber Academy to be obtained by the Black Tiger Martial Hall, so he destroyed the Black Tiger Martial Hall to get it back!"]

[You roughly understood the whole story.]

[You had a clear idea in your mind.]

[You planned to plow the Golden Saber Academy several times over after the simulation ended.]

[To find whatever Duan Qian was looking for.]

[The Golden Saber Academy was likely hiding some kind of unparalleled treasure.]

[You left Xian'an County.]

[You continued towards the Azure Mesa Desert.]

[However, along the way, two or three more groups of people ambushed you.]

[You had killed too many people on the road before, and had already attracted more hatred.]

[In the sixty-eighth year, you finally arrived at the Azure Mesa Desert.]

[The scorching sun hung high in the sky, and as far as the eye could see, there was an endless expanse of yellow sand.]

[The air was so hot that it distorted the view.]

[Normal people simply couldn't live in it.]

[But you weren't a normal person; your Simulation Space was full of water and food.]

[You could live in the desert for decades without any problems.]

[During the year or so of traveling, you directly cultivated the Heavenly Desire Formless Skill to the late stage of Bone Tempering.]

[You were only a small realm away from catching up with the realm of the Desolate Heaven Saber Technique.]

["I'm such a genius!"]

[You were very happy.]

[You took out the house-building materials you had bought in advance from the space.]

[And put them together like building blocks.]

[You built yourself a large villa in the desert.]

[In the desolate desert, your three-story luxury villa was extremely conspicuous.]

[But no one would come to the depths of the desert anyway.]

[It didn't matter if you showed off your wealth.]

[You settled down in the Azure Mesa Desert.]

[In your spare time from cultivation, you would also play with some flowers and plants.]

[Of course, flowers and plants couldn't be grown in the sand.]

[But you dug up several thousand tons of fertile soil from outside and filled it around the villa.]

[You planted flowers, plants, and trees around it.]

[Your afforestation project was very successful.]

[Your living environment became filled with the singing of birds and the fragrance of flowers.]

[You also opened up a pond and fed some fish and shrimp.]

[You were the first person to raise fish and shrimp in the desert.]

[Your place became the only oasis in the depths of the desert.]

[And also became a beautiful sight.]

[If others were to see it, they would only think it was a mirage at sea.]

[They wouldn't dare to imagine that this was a real place.]

[Three months later, your Heavenly Desire Formless Skill broke through to the peak of Bone Tempering.]

[You also felt that your Desolate Heaven Saber Technique had reached its limit.]

[Next, you would launch an assault towards the Marrow Cleansing realm.]

[Although your Bone Tempering realm had already reached its limit,]

[you were still unable to touch the threshold of Marrow Cleansing.]

[You knew you had encountered a bottleneck.]

[But you had a good attitude.]

[You still cultivated normally.]

[Only the cultivation time was relatively shorter.]

[The rest time increased a lot.]

[This day, the sun was scorching.]

[You rested briefly after cultivating.]

[You were eating iced watermelon in the villa.]

[Your True Qi could be transformed into ice-cold attributes, perfect for icing a watermelon.]

[You also created many ice bricks in the room to cool down.]

[Your villa was as cool as if the air conditioner was on.]

[Your life was very comfortable.]

[Suddenly, you heard a burst of footsteps outside the villa.]

[At the same time, there was a soft voice saying, "No wonder this evil villain is hiding in the desert and not coming out; it turns out he found such a treasure land!"]

[You knew trouble had come knocking again.]

[You instantly appeared outside the villa.]

[The group of six were startled by your sudden appearance.]

[Seeing your appearance clearly, the six people's expressions froze.]

["It really is you, the evil villain of the Extinction Sect; return my brother's life!"]

[The person speaking was a female martial artist.]

[She was tall, fair-skinned, and looked at you with a face full of resentment.]

[Behind the female martial artist were five people, men, women, old and young.]

[They looked like a family.]

[This female martial artist was quite strong and was also the most cultivated person, with a mid-stage Divine Organ cultivation.]

[Two major realms higher than you.]

[But were you afraid?]

[You were not afraid.]

[Although you were only at the peak of Bone Tempering,]

[your actual combat power could kill martial artists at the peak of the Divine Organ realm.]

[The usual terms of early, middle, and late stages of a conventional realm were no longer sufficient to describe your martial arts realm.]

[You usually called yourself late-stage Bone Tempering.]

["He Yu, you evil villain, our whole family has been searching for you for several months, experiencing all kinds of hardships, and today finally..."]

["Alright, alright." You directly interrupted the female martial artist's words.]

[One extra for a bit part.]

[You beckoned your hand: "Come at me together."]