A month earlier.
To utterly destroy those bizarre blood shadows, Li Ping had been forced to burn an earthen city of the Tuluo people to the ground. The hundreds of thousands of Tuluo people living there had all been reduced to ashes.
Those hundreds of thousands included tens of thousands of Tuluo cultivators, and even two Core Formation cultivators.
The Tuluo Core Formation cultivators all kept Life Tokens in the Holy Temple, so the moment they died, the Holy Temple knew.
After uncovering the truth, the Holy Temple assembled more than ten Core Formation cultivators, including two at the late stage, to intercept Li Ping on his return to the Western Wasteland.
They swore that the human cultivator who had dared enter the wasteland and slaughter their people would never leave.
Facing the Tuluo ambush, Li Ping naturally refused to surrender without a fight. He immediately summoned the Desolate Fire Sparrow, Xuan Er, and the Earth Spirit Mouse to battle them head-on. As for the result of that battle-
Li Ping unleashed his Heaven-Defying Divine Ability and wiped out all the Core Formation cultivators who had come to surround and kill him. Naturally, all their Storage Bags fell into his hands as well.
Because the Tuluo people frequently migrated, several of these Core Formation cultivators had more than one Storage Bag hanging from their waists.
The one who left the deepest impression on Li Ping was a beautiful female cultivator at the middle stage of Core Formation. Judging by how the others addressed her, she seemed to be the Tuluo Holy Maiden. She carried no fewer than three Storage Bags.
Although her cultivation was not particularly high, her divine abilities rivaled those of a late-stage Core Formation cultivator. She also wielded a special Ancient Treasure, and Li Ping had expended