The Hu family gradually gave up the search. Only the families of those who had died were still searching blindly, but no information surfaced at all.
After escaping, Zu Liming swiftly returned to The Valley.
The society outside was far too complicated. Though he was fairly clever, he had never been one to scheme since childhood. He could only obediently stay in The Valley and wait for the heat to die down.
This time, he was quite happy. Even though he had been captured and nearly killed, he was still overjoyed.
A decades-long obsession had finally been resolved in a single day. How could he not be happy?
Yet while he had let go of his obsession, a life without direction was boring. It might even leave him at a loss.
He had cultivated for decades solely to take revenge, solely to kill Anka. Nothing else had mattered. Now that he had finally taken revenge, he instead felt as if he had lost his direction.
Thus, several days after returning to The Valley, Zu Liming found another purpose for himself: taking revenge on the Hu family and killing the Hu family elder who had captured him and nearly killed him.
Having set his goal, he began cultivating.
However, cultivating in The Valley progressed extremely slowly. The main reason was that there were no longer many Cultivation Resources left there. In particular, the remaining areas protected by formations could not be broken open in a short time.
As for the areas that were easy to break open, he had already opened them long ago and gathered up their resources for use. The resources he found in The Valley were what had allowed him to cultivate to his current level.
Though he had considerable talent for cultivation, cultivating with resources and cultivating