Li Ping immersed himself wholeheartedly in arduous cultivation.
Before he knew it, three years had passed.
The spirit herbs he had specifically planted and nurtured on Second Gray Island for refining Mind-Clearing Pills had finally reached the required age.
Just as Li Ping was about to emerge from seclusion and refine the Mind-Clearing Pills,
the Desolate Fire Sparrow, Earth Spirit Mouse, Scarlet Flood Dragon, and Mountain-Suppressing Softshell Turtle returned from their treasure hunt.
The four beasts had clearly defined roles.
The Desolate Fire Sparrow was a transformed spirit bird with astonishing speed, capable of carrying the other three beasts on swift flights to more distant regions.
The Earth Spirit Mouse possessed an innate talent for treasure hunting and could sense the locations of treasures.
However, under the influence of the deathly aura, most treasures that had survived by chance were buried deep underground.
As for the Scarlet Flood Dragon and Mountain-Suppressing Softshell Turtle, one could use Earth Escape, while the other possessed a powerful body and boundless strength.
Once the Earth Spirit Mouse found a treasure and marked its approximate location, they could work seamlessly together to dig it out from deep underground.
Over those three years, the treasure-hunting squad had searched an area spanning several million li around the Heavenly Craft Sect.
This region had endured the erosion of the deathly aura all the way to the present.
That was because it had been the heart of the cultivation world in Elder Antiquity, a truly blessed land where the world's spiritual essence gathered and nurtured greatness.
The four beasts had indeed found quite a few treasures in this region.
There were reasons they had returned at this particular time.
First, Li Ping had instructed the Desolate Fire Sparrow to stand guard when Wei Yiling attempted to break through to