A year later.
Relying on the escape speed of the Seven-Wondrous Demon Body, Wei Tu successfully reached the border of the territory controlled by the Snow Infant Clan.
However, he did not immediately seek out Xue Qiongyu. Instead, he first settled into a small market town called Southern Bright Market.
First.
There was still time before the Sea-Calming Immortal Ruins opened.
Seventy or eighty years was more than enough for him to contact Xue Qiongyu.
Second.
It was out of wariness toward the Snow Infant Clan.
Granted, he and Xue Qiongyu had formed a blood pact through the Blood Curse Secret Book. Unless a Mahayana cultivator intervened, this pact could not be removed, and with the Snow Infant Clan's power alone, it would be exceedingly difficult for them to free Xue Qiongyu from the backlash of the blood pact...
But one had to remember that behind the Snow Infant Clan stood the Mist Ghost Clan, a race capable of standing shoulder to shoulder with the human race. And a mere Xue Qiongyu was not someone who could not be sacrificed in the face of such tremendous interests.
—What he held now was not merely an Immortal Ruins Token for the Sea-Calming Immortal Ruins. He had also allegedly obtained the inheritance of a Mahayana immortal—Xuanling Fairy.
The latter was enough to make the Snow Infant Clan take desperate risks.
If he went too early, he would undoubtedly forfeit his initiative and give the Snow Infant Clan ample time to prepare against him.
Third.
He was confident that, over the next seventy or eighty years, his strength could rise another level.
By then, even if the Snow Infant Clan went back on its word and plotted to seize the opportunities on his person, so long as the Mahayana cultivator of the Mist