Killing Intent in the Shadows, Touring the Mountains and Rivers

Yang Chan looked at the familiar exit and felt deeply moved.

More than a year had passed since he had last left through here to attend the Divine Pill Ceremony. The year had flown by, yet Yang Chan had felt little of it.

That was because he had spent most of his time refining pills and rarely left the Pill Pavilion.

Most of his time had been spent at Yuanqing Courtyard and the Spiritual Medicine Tower.

During this time, he had finally advanced to become a Top Alchemist. He was no longer affected by figures like the Holy Son and Saintess. Their struggle for the position of the next Tianxuan Holy Master could no longer reach him, granting him a sufficiently detached status.

This time, he was not taking many people with him when leaving the Tianxuan Holy Land. Chiyu Peak had arranged three people for him, all with Internal Refinement of Lungs and Viscera cultivation. They were not particularly strong.

The Saintess's side had sent two people, both with Marrow Cleansing Realm cultivation.

Although the Tianxuan Saintess had attended the East Sea Martial Arts Exchange Conference, most of her people had remained within the Tianxuan Holy Land. Once they learned that Yang Chan was leaving the Tianxuan Holy Land and had even sought out protectors of the Dao, they naturally arranged for people to accompany him.

The two were both newly entered Marrow Cleansing Grandmasters, not especially strong.

Those left behind in the Holy Land were mainly there to keep it running normally. They would not affect the Saintess's people, and they possessed some ability to respond to situations, but no overly powerful individuals would be left behind.

Experts like Steward Li and Li Yuelai, who had undergone Marrow Cleansing three times, followed the Tianxuan Saintess to the East