However.
It was at that moment.
Suddenly, the talisman plaque at his waist trembled violently, the runes condensed from demonic light flashing without pause.
"Young Mistress Cai has come under attack—" Wei Tu opened his eyes, lowered his head to glance at the message conveyed by the talisman plaque, and his expression changed slightly.
This time, although his secluded breakthrough at the Stone Prison Branch could use the spatial secret realm here to conceal the commotion of his advancement, it also invisibly brought added danger.
For instance, an "enemy attack"!
Heavenly Abyss Sacred City was a place of order. Under the control of demon gods and Devil Ancestors, no one dared act recklessly.
However, the remote Stone Prison Branch was entirely different.
Here, he did not need to fear demon gods or Devil Ancestors discovering that he was breaking through to the Body Integration realm of spiritual cultivation. Yet precisely because of this... he had, in another sense, lost the "protection" of those demon gods and Devil Ancestors, leaving him to face danger alone!
Of course, in his view, the likelihood of the latter was not great. After all, he had not been in Heavenly Abyss Sacred City for long. Other than making a grand appearance at the Demon Venerable Ceremony, he had consistently kept a low profile and rarely gone out. By all reason, he should not have offended any mortal enemies.
At the very least, commercial competition—
In his view, was still unlikely to develop into a life-and-death struggle that completely tore away all pretense between both sides.
For this reason, he had not refused when Young Mistress Cai volunteered to escort demonic medicinal ingredients from Heavenly Abyss Sacred City and deliver them here for his pill refinement.
After all, this matter was also urgent. Seventh-rank demonic medicinal