With Zhao Immortal Official handling matters, I temporarily entered seclusion. With the help of a large amount of high-purity immortal crystals, my cultivation rose steadily. Di Xianchen had been right. After reforging my cultivation, I encountered no bottleneck at all and charged straight up to roughly the Eight Trigrams Realm of the lower realm.
Three days later, when I emerged from seclusion, an order for our arrest had come down. All of us who had smuggled ourselves up from the lower realm had been branded as rebels. The major cities strengthened their patrols, and all the lone rebels they caught were sent to Huanhe City—more than three hundred of them, roughly speaking. As Guanzhong City and Panguan City were the rebels' main strongholds, they naturally bore the brunt.
Before long, my name, Xia Yitian, was ringing in the ears of Huanhe City's leaders. A large-scale purge was about to begin. It was said that each city had gathered around five hundred patrol troops, and they had assembled at Huanhe City before advancing straight in to wipe out the rebel forces in Guanzhong City.
But who knew that the rebels now had five thousand regular troops? The transformation technique passed down by the Wolf Emperor was highly effective. Forcibly transforming immortal bodies was indeed feasible. Of course, incomplete transformations still made up the majority, but even half-complete transformations, backed by powerful immortal energy and high-purity immortal crystals, progressed rapidly. By the time Huanhe City's main force reached the vicinity of Panguan City, our regular spellcasting troops were already ready for deployment. Surrounding and destroying them would be easy.
Most of the cultivators who had come up from the lower realm had been trained into elite troops. Dealing with the patrols' minor rabble was no problem at all. One side consisted of