One day later, in the sky.
The dark silver Flying Boat did not head toward the Western Wasteland, but instead flew deeper into the Cloudmist Mountains.
This puzzled Qu Youkong, who had followed their trail.
As he understood it, wasn't Meng Qingyi planning to go to Donghua Mountain?
What was he going to the Cloudmist Mountains for?
Surely he wasn't going there to attempt Core Formation.
There were indeed third-tier spiritual veins in the Cloudmist Mountains, but powerful Demon Beasts were bound to inhabit them. Were they confident they could kill the Demon Beasts within a spiritual vein, then use it to attempt Core Formation?
No, even if they can kill the Demon Beasts there, the commotion from the battle will alarm the others. When Demon Beasts come pouring in, blotting out the sky and blanketing the earth, forget attempting Core Formation-even escaping alive will be difficult. Qu Youkong silently shook his head.
As he stealthily followed the silver Flying Boat, he pondered how to handle this.
The simplest solution was, of course, to rush over and kill Meng Qingyi.
But doing so would inevitably bring him into contact with Li Ping and expose his movements.
If someone reported him to the Defender Alliance, he would have botched his assignment.
As for killing Li Ping as well?
Qu Youkong himself was only a newly advanced Core Formation early-stage cultivator. Otherwise, he would not have been sent on this sort of assignment.
He was confident he could defeat a Rogue Cultivator of the same stage.
After all, without a sect's support, a Rogue Cultivator's resources and Treasures were inferior to his. What could they possibly use to fight him?
But there was one ability in which Rogue Cultivators actually surpassed sect cultivators.
Their ability to escape!
Rogue Cultivators with inadequate means