That very day, Xu Changqing decided to head for the border.
He handed Azurewood Sect's daily affairs over to Mo Qiushui and Xuan Yan.
This time, he directly took away half of the peak masters from the seven peaks.
People such as Xiao Sha, Tuoba Ye, Luo Qingyi, and Yin Jiuyou.
Chu Qiu, Mo Cha, Pei Mo, Qin Baili, Li Lingbi, and the others came along as well.
As for Li Sancai, Han Su, Zhang Su, and Yu Caiqing, they all remained at Azurewood Sect.
There was no helping it. Some of them lacked sufficient cultivation, while others were not skilled in battle. They would be more useful staying at the sect than going to the battlefield.
To everyone's surprise, the place was quite lively.
Less than a hundred li from the border stood a temporary market of considerable scale.
Calling it a market was generous—it was more like a sprawling, disorderly camp.
The streets were lined with Rogue Cultivators' stalls, selling everything from inferior pills to damaged Dharma artifacts.
Moreover, many of the items were exceedingly fresh, with traces of blood still lingering on them.
Qin Baili understood after only one glance, a trace of mockery in his voice. "These fellows used to be Marauding Cultivators and Evil Cultivators from the Hands-Off Region.
"Who would have thought even beasts could one day turn over a new leaf!"
Ordinarily, these people were targets of suppression by the major sects and could only hide in the Hands-Off Region.
Now that the Heavenly Origin Realm was in chaos and Demon God Kong Fang had invaded, they could only move toward the Eastern Domain to survive. Yet their reputations were too foul for them to truly enter governed territory, so they had found a relatively safe spot at the border and