Formation Secret

Having accomplished their mission, the two had no desire to linger and eagerly retraced their path to withdraw.

For one, the Undying Mountain forbidden zone was inherently fraught with danger, with killing intent everywhere.

For another, Ye Fan remembered that an expert at the quasi-emperor level was active within Undying Mountain: the Headless Knight who rode a stone-horse Holy Spirit, the loyal attendant of the Stone Emperor, lord of Undying Mountain.

Do not be fooled by how easily the Headless Knight was suppressed by the future Lord of the Divine Court. The latter was a peak quasi-emperor on the verge of attaining the Dao, comparable in realm to Gai Jiuyou at his prime.

Against the Headless Knight, even a peak Great Saint wielding an imperial weapon could easily escape alone, but protecting a human Sacred Body at the Dragon Transformation realm would be difficult.

Before leaving, Ye Fan specifically took the remains of that Ancient Heavenly Court King of Assassins with him. In the future, returning them to the descendants of the Ancient Heavenly Court would be a costless way of winning their favor.

Return their ancestor's remains—would they be moved or not? If they were moved, that was all that mattered.

When they passed through the area again, the Enlightenment Tea Tree had already vanished without a trace.

As an undying divine root, the Enlightenment Tea Tree possessed self-awareness. It could fly through the heavens, burrow through the earth, choose its own habitat, and do virtually anything.

Perhaps the Enlightenment Tea Tree had realized that outsiders had discovered it and deemed this place unsafe, so it pulled up the roots buried deep beneath the earth and quietly slipped away.

In truth, aside from the Enlightenment Tea Tree, Undying Mountain also contained another undying divine root: the Xuanwu Divine Medicine