He had spent several months in the Jiang Kingdom, settling his ties to the mortal world.
Only then did Li Ping plan to return to the Immortal City. Before leaving, he also received the cultivators of the Ji and Yan families with a smile and bestowed pills on each of them.
Aboard the flying boat, Li Ping glanced at the scenery below, then turned away. At his mental command, the Flying Shuttle shot out, becoming a streak of light heading toward the Western Region.
After this visit, he might not return to the Jiang Kingdom for many years.
Just as Li Ping steered his flying boat back toward Windmist Immortal City, in a canyon several thousand miles from the city...
Two figures landed, one after the other.
The coldly beautiful girl in front seemed utterly disgusted by the young man behind her. As she landed, she deliberately put some distance between them.
They were Wei Yiling and Hua Hong, the Bloodshadow Sect cultivators sent to the Immortal City to investigate Yan Liming's leak of secrets.
Wei Yiling swept the valley with her divine sense but found not the slightest trace. Her expression instantly turned cold. "You said you might have found traces of Yan Liming. Where?"
"Don't be impatient, Senior Sister Wei." Hua Hong shook his head with a smile. "I followed the trail of this item here."
As he spoke, he took a ring-shaped demonic artifact from his Storage Bag. "Take a look, Senior Sister."
Wei Yiling examined it closely and immediately recognized it as an artifact unique to the Bloodshadow Sect. The aura it gave off unmistakably belonged to that old bastard Yan Liming.
Had Li Ping been there, he would have recognized it as something he had discarded after inspecting Yan Liming's Storage Bag. Who knew how