On a nameless island, fierce waves relentlessly battered the reefs with thunderous booms.
Beneath the countless splashes of spray, a spirit insect quietly crawled onto a reef.
The moment the insect reached the reef, a figure landed beside it.
He wore tattered blue robes and looked utterly bedraggled, his entire body drenched in blood and grievously wounded.
"Damn it! If not for those two shifty-eyed thieves, how could I, Lan Yuanqing, have ended up in such a sorry state?" He gritted his teeth in bitter resentment, then suppressed his anger, took out a spirit pill, and swallowed it.
He knew full well that he had not yet escaped danger completely.
The Cloud Crane Demon Emperor could catch up at any moment.
Thus, recovering as soon as possible was his top priority.
"Fortunately, I wasn't the one who took those two Sixth-Order Spirit-Attracting Stones. Otherwise, I might truly have lived to take them but not to use them." A short while later, Lan Yuanqing sighed again.
He was a Nascent Soul rogue cultivator, and his greatest sources of pride were his concealment techniques and the many escape abilities he had mastered.
But he was only a cultivator at the Nascent Soul middle stage, with a breakthrough to the Nascent Soul late stage still nowhere in sight. That was why he had set his sights on the spirit-attracting stones.
After all, if he obtained a Sixth-Order Spirit-Attracting Stone and secretly awakened a sixth-stage spirit vein, he might truly be able to draw upon its vast, pure spiritual energy to break through in one fell swoop.
Unfortunately, quite a few Nascent Soul cultivators had infiltrated the place that day, including several from immortal sects.
Among those he recognized were Nascent Soul cultivators from the Mu Family and the Azure Abyss Sect.
Thus, at