Xu Yi concealed himself with the Hidden Spirit Pearl, radiating his spiritual sense across a ten-mile radius. He proceeded cautiously, dodging anything in his path and searching carefully.
Perhaps the forces of the Chaotic Star Sea had all gathered. He traveled more than a hundred miles without encountering more than two or three people, all of them low-level cultivators whom he easily avoided.
"What exactly are you looking for? You keep wandering around, dragging your feet. Are you worried the Yun fellow won't catch up?"
Young Master Xu chided him.
"I'm looking for a place to take shelter, somewhere easy to defend and difficult to attack. Otherwise, with the little we have, how are we supposed to wear down the Yun fellow?" Xu Yi said.
Young Master Xu laughed. "You should've said so sooner! That Yun fellow cultivates fire-element true essence, which is overbearing and fierce. Naturally, the best place to counter him is in the water."
"Of course I know that. This boundless sea is a natural barrier, but with our cultivation, we wouldn't be able to fight for long underwater. In the end, we'd still have to surface, and then we'd be walking straight into certain death. Besides, who knows if the Xu fellow has a water-repelling treasure? We might end up walking right into his trap."
Young Master Xu smiled at him and produced a transparent, teardrop-shaped pearl in her palm. Xu Yi cried out in surprise, "The True Spirit Water Repelling Pearl! How did you get your hands on this?"
He had seen the True Spirit Water Repelling Pearl at an auction before. It had fetched an extremely high price and sparked a bidding frenzy.
That was because this True Spirit Water Repelling Pearl was different from an ordinary Water Repelling Pearl. Ordinary ones could only