"Good thing I had the sense to cut off my tail like a lizard and get out while I could..."
Li Fan chased after them for several miles, riding his Qi. Once he sensed no one was watching him with Divine Sense, he immediately dispersed his Sword Qi and dropped into the woods. He found a hollow in a tree and crawled inside, covered himself with a pile of leaves, slapped on an Invisibility Talisman, and lay down on the ground. His body and bones shrank back to their original, teenage size.
The effects of the Dragon Fetus Feathering Pill had worn off. His Inner Landscape and Qi Sea were now completely drained, so he needed some time to recover. And to avoid poisoning himself, he couldn't take the Xuanpin Pill right away.
Fortunately, whether intentionally or not, Li Fan had strengthened his own body while studying Mo Hainiang's Dao body. That meant he had managed to withstand the pill's effects when he transformed just now. Otherwise, he might have ended up completely paralyzed and unconscious, at the mercy of anyone who found him.
He'd barely hidden himself when he saw a dozen streaks of light pass overhead. They were clearly at least Golden Core cultivators, and some might even be at the Nascent Soul Realm. They were chasing Lü Daolian's escape light out to sea.
Earlier, when Li Fan had lingered above the Lü Family's estate, so many Divine Senses had swept over him that he'd broken out in a cold sweat, his hair standing on end and goose bumps rising all over. He was certain that more than a dozen Nascent Souls had been lurking outside the Lü Family's gates. For all he knew, besides the Xuan Sects, cultivators from other sects—and even Divine Transformation monsters like the