Liu Changxu's patrol team was small. Apart from their captain, Sun Xuance, it consisted of sixteen Void Refinement Venerables, including Liu Changxu and his wife.
Although the team was small, it was the strongest force the Purple Sky Sect could muster, accounting for nearly twenty percent of the sect's combat strength at Void Refinement and above.
Still, everyone felt quite relaxed about this patrol.
After four years of all-out encirclement and suppression by the Great Brightness Temple, the band of evil cultivators ravaging its territory had suffered a crushing blow. More than half of their Void Refinement cultivators had been killed, and their two Body Integration Realm cultivators had been severely wounded. Had cultivators of that realm not possessed such formidable means of preserving their lives, they would most likely have died as well.
The surviving evil cultivators had long since fled the Great Brightness Temple's territory, though exactly where they had gone remained unknown.
The main purpose of Liu Changxu's patrol was to search for the remnants of that band, lest their dead ashes flare to life again!
To broaden their search, the team did not gather aboard a single flying boat. Instead, they spread out in their own flying boats, following their designated routes.
That morning, Liu Changxu and his wife, Zhao Qi'er, stood on the deck of the Ruyi Void-Escaping Shuttle, watching the land race backward beneath them with a sense of helplessness.
They had been out for half a year, yet had not seen so much as the shadow of an evil cultivator. After so long, even Liu Changxu had grown weary of the search, let alone the others.
Zhao Qi'er could no longer muster any interest in searching for evil cultivators, though she still could not get enough of the scenery below.
The Ruyi Void-Escaping