Southeast.
A full twenty thousand kilometers away, the pupils of the female disciple clad in the robes of the Seventy-Seven Ringed Mountains trembled. A savage, feral aura rushed straight at her, locking onto every part of her being in an instant.
Roar! Roar!
Across the empty wilderness, pairs of sinister eyes shot toward her. That was right—they were the natives of the Jade Bamboo Mountains, little White Spirit's ferocious beast underlings, sworn to defend the Five Aggregates Sect's Spirit Medicine Garden to the death!
"This junior... this junior is Yu Hua Qian, peak master of Nine Palaces Mountain..."
Fear showed on the woman's face. Her delicate fists were clenched so tightly that they were nearly sweating as she said in a low voice, "I have come to request a spirit medicine, the Nine-Palace Lotus. I have brought Elder Dao Tian's letter of introduction and Ox Ancestor's restriction-breaking token."
"Hmph, wait there. This garden-guarding ferocious beast must check the sect register first!"
White Spirit spat, then pulled out an enormous booklet—the Five Aggregates Sect Register—and carefully examined it. "Mm... Nine Palaces Main Peak, correct. Yu Hua Qian?"
"Boss, could she be an impostor?! Maybe there's no such person at all?!" A ferocious beast bellowed noisily. "What outrageous audacity, daring to come to our Five Aggregates Sect and steal precious medicine!"
Its surging power of blood and qi had already begun to circulate. It was time to show what it could do!
"Shut up! Aren't I checking?!" White Spirit let out a shrill cry, its brows knitting faintly as it gently turned the pages with its wing feathers. "Oh... found her. There really is such a person."
The ferocious beast that had spoken earlier immediately wilted, lowering its head with an embarrassed chuckle.
"Good. Little ones, next, inspect her divine soul, inspect