Jin Cicada, Laughing Monk, and their two companions went out to search the hillsides for Plant Spirits that had taken form. Naturally, they found none. Spiritual herbs that had attained sentience like these were rare in the entire world.
After searching for half a day without finding anything, they dared not linger outside. Sun Nan urged everyone to hurry back at regular intervals, and in the end, they could only return to the mountain in disappointment.
They entered through the Thirteen Left Origin Restrictions again, agreeing among themselves that none of them would tell anyone.
The four lacked sufficient magical power and thought only of the beginning, not the end. Under the Emei formation's normal operation, the passage would have closed automatically once they left, leaving them unable to return. It was Shi Feiyang who had kept the door open for them.
After returning, they could barely restore even some of the restrictions. Had Lady Miaoyi or Master Canxia inspected the area, she would have spotted something wrong at a glance. Once again, Shi Feiyang restored everything completely, leaving not a trace. For the moment, none of them noticed.
Only Laughing Monk noticed this, but he merely assumed that his own Emei Sect's immortal formation was so Gods-wondrous that it could restore itself. He gave it no further thought.
Once something like this happened the first time, there would be a second. Once there was a second, there would be countless more.
Over the next three months and more, the four sneaked out over a dozen times. They even brought Yi Zhou's two grandsons, Yi Ding and Yi Zhen, into the group.
Yi Zhou also had a thousand years of cultivation and formidable magical power. Long ago, he had taken his entire family and "ascended with house and all" from