Several days later, Lu Xiaotian sat cross-legged on a grassy patch beneath a waterfall. A few ordinary beasts and low-tier spirit beasts passed by from time to time. This place was already at the edge of the Black Sky Mountains, less than a thousand li from Woundless City. High-tier demonic beasts were relatively scarce here. Water flowed through the mountain streams, and white clouds drifted across the vast blue sky overhead. The mountain breeze carried a rich fragrance of spiritual energy.
After using Ice Healing for the second time, the saber wound the brown-bearded old man had inflicted on him had fully healed.
Looking at the Spirit Spring Amber in his palm, its spiritual energy practically spilling out of it, Lu Xiaotian rarely allowed a smile to appear on his face. The process had been a little convoluted, but all in all, he hadn't faced much danger. Instead, he'd reaped quite a few benefits. Take the Lixue Qianyue Formation, for instance. After he repaired it, it could be used once more—enough to deal with some of the top Golden Core Late Stage experts. Then there was the large sum of Spirit Stones he'd received afterward. Most important of all, of course, was this Spirit Spring Amber. It was truly too important to him. As for Xiang Lian'er and her companions, he hadn't had much of a connection with them to begin with. If they wanted to turn against him, so be it—and he'd even managed to get another piece of Spirit Spring Amber out of them.
Still, Xu Wan and Yuan Gang had clearly plotted carefully. If he hadn't happened to have materials that could partially repair the Lixue Qianyue Formation, then after driving back the Fate-Taking Infant Monk and his group, he would have been thoroughly trapped by their