With two puppets comparable to Foundation Establishment Early-stage cultivators at her side, and Yan Zhantian, whose cultivation had reached Foundation Establishment Late-stage, accompanying her, Yan Ruyan's safety was well assured unless she provoked a Core Formation cultivator.
Meanwhile, outside a Spirit Stone mine jointly controlled by Yue Country's Seven Sects, a thousand miles from Yanling Fortress, another uninvited guest had arrived—Dai Changsheng, who had come from Yellow Maple Valley.
Butian Pill, Ancient Teleportation Array, and Blood Jade Spider—I'm coming!
Gazing at the heavily guarded Spirit Stone mine in the distance, a glint flashed through Dai Changsheng's eyes. He took out a prepared Earth Escape Talisman and burrowed deep underground.
Although the defensive array around the Spirit Stone mine was formidable, its underground defenses were relatively weak, extending at most a few dozen meters below the surface.
As long as Dai Changsheng went more than a hundred meters underground, he would not have to worry about triggering the mine's defensive array. Otherwise, the Blood Jade Spider hidden in the underground cavern would have been discovered by the Seven Sects long ago.
After traveling through the dark, oppressive underground for a while, Dai Changsheng suddenly felt the ground vanish beneath his feet and promptly fell into a spacious underground cavern.
Dai Changsheng looked around and saw that the cavern connected to all directions, with more than a dozen passages branching out from it.
"Bang! Bang! Bang..."
Seeing this, Dai Changsheng immediately slapped his storage pouch and summoned over a dozen humanoid puppets, controlling them to enter different passages.
As those humanoid puppets continued deeper, some quickly encountered dead ends. Dai Changsheng hurriedly controlled them back to his side before entering the passages that led to other caverns.
After several days of carpet-like searching, Dai Changsheng finally found the underground cavern containing the