Lu Xiaotian left the secret cave beneath the marsh with practiced ease and emerged at the wooden hut on the surface. As he sped over the marsh, just as he had on his way in, the muddy wetlands below were swarming with black masses of demon mud frogs and demon flies. With a cold laugh, he took several sections of python-transforming vine from the barrier and sent them straight down. He had been cultivating for many years and had long since reached the Golden Core stage. He had also roamed the Moonwatch Cultivation Realm and the Blue Demon Sea, and fought his way through many places, including Woundless City. The barrier held a wide variety of spirit herbs, including many common ones and even some rare varieties. Without those herbs in the barrier, Lu Xiaotian would never have dared to come back alone.
His body flickered several times, and he had already crossed the marsh. Following the route he had taken on the way here, he hurried back to Woundless City. Lu Xiaotian was incredibly fast; even ordinary Golden Core Early Stage cultivators, and some in the Golden Core Middle Stage, couldn't keep up with him.
Along the way, Lu Xiaotian relied on his divine sense, stronger than that of most Golden Core cultivators, to avoid trouble in advance. Still, the Black Sky Mountains were far more densely populated with demonic beasts than the Moonwatch Mountains had been. A steady stream of auras, strong and weak alike, drew closer, and cultivators also appeared from time to time. Lu Xiaotian had several encounters with other demonic beasts and cultivators. Most of the time, he simply left them behind with his speed. A few fools stubbornly pursued him, and in a fit of anger, Lu Xiaotian killed several of them.
He passed