For now, however, the most crucial thing for him was to continue tailing the Snake-Scaled Old Crone and Jade Qilin, waiting for that "opportunity" to seize their treasures.
Thus, after shaking his head and temporarily suppressing the thought, Wei Tu rose into the air and pursued the Snake-Scaled Old Crone and Jade Qilin in the distance.
Yet... after leaving the Deer Mountain Daoist Grounds, the two did not immediately head elsewhere. Instead, they lingered in the air as though waiting for another cultivator, patiently biding their time.
Wei Tu was not surprised by this. He understood that they were most likely waiting for Chief Chai to arrive.
This reincarnation was of utmost importance to the Snake-Scaled Old Crone. Anyone else could be absent, but Chief Chai—the one capable of lending her a helping hand—could not.
Moreover, Chief Chai was not someone the Snake-Scaled Old Crone could fully trust.
There was no way she would expose the location of her new reincarnation before Chief Chai arrived, giving him an opening to harbor sinister designs.
After the two waited for several days.
Chief Chai, who seemed to have only just descended to the lower realm, finally arrived belatedly.
Then, under the front-and-back "watch" of Jade Qilin and the Snake-Scaled Old Crone, the three set off once more. Their rainbow streaks shot toward a certain direction without pausing for even an instant.
"This is... the Cloudmist Desert?"
After following them for over ten days, Wei Tu, who trailed behind the Snake-Scaled Old Crone and Jade Qilin, finally understood where the new "reincarnation site" chosen by the Snake-Scaled Old Crone was when he saw the intensely familiar scenery before him.
That was right! This was the Cloudmist Desert, the place from which he had escaped through a "spatial rift" when he first entered this