The Fire Spirit Beast could not possibly have lured away two Black Armored Dao slaves in such a short time. Yang Chen had searched the memories of that half-step Spirit Disk Stage Fire Spirit Beast, so he knew a thing or two about this.
"If that is the case, have forces akin to the royal family finally stepped in?" Yang Chen pondered inwardly.
If so, he would have to be even more cautious from here on, or he could easily fall into an abyss of eternal damnation.
This also made Yang Chen avoid Dao slaves whenever he encountered them, refusing to fight them. First, given his strength and his current reserves of true qi, he truly had little chance of hunting Dao slaves. Second, he had quite a few key fragments and complete keys on him already, so he had no real desire to hunt any more.
After all, relying on Caiyi and the complete penetration of his divine soul along the way, he had obtained no small number of keys through hunting. On top of that, he held a Crystal Key, whose value surpassed anything else by far. What meaning was there in continuing to hunt?
The key was to keep everything firmly in his own hands.
Yang Chen was already considering leaving the Pingyang Mountain Range. If the Fire Spirit Beast truly began searching for him on a large scale in an attempt to kill him, then the Pingyang Mountain Range would hardly be safe for him. The trump cards he had left were insufficient to help him contend against the Fire Spirit Beast.
Thus, as he fled all the way, Yang Chen encountered people from several factions. Most of them were from the Ling Nü Sect and the royal family, along with people from the Southern Region.