"Has everyone rested enough? If you have, let's go."
Although Li Ling could take everyone into his minor cave heaven and travel swiftly, there was no hurry. To give his disciples more experience, he waited patiently.
Only after everyone said they had recovered did he lead them onward.
During this time, Li Ling activated the talismans that could contact Radiance Heavenly Lord and the others. Only then did he learn that the Earth Spirit Sect and Primordial Origin Sect of Shengzhou, along with the White Sun Palace and Crimson Refinement Sect of the Flame Continent, had all sent cultivators stationed in the region to Jizhong Island.
The Heavenly Court had already been campaigning in the South Sea, countering the Demonic Path's many maneuvers.
Now that this incident had occurred, they immediately set everything else aside and concentrated their elite forces here.
Fortunately, the Netherworld Sect likewise had no attention to spare for its surrounding interests and made the same choice.
For a time, winds and clouds converged. Clashes erupted constantly nearby, while places farther away actually grew peaceful.
Li Ling and his companions encountered no obstacles along the way. Only several days later, as they approached Jizhong Island, where the incident had occurred, did they run into several patrolling unorthodox cultivators.
Their counterparts rode magic treasures with escape techniques, charging about without the slightest restraint. Seeing Li Ling's group, they assumed they were rogue cultivators drawn by the news and intended to question them.
But Li Ling had already sensed the evil aura on them. That nauseating stench of decay was clearly something acquired only through prolonged contact with corpses, steeped into their very bones. No one would believe they were not practicing the Corpse Immortal Sect's arts.
Li Ling signaled Chi Yingting, who immediately stepped forward and brought forth