Butterfly Valley.
"Ancestor, we've sealed the Coiling Dragon Tower's entrance shut, but with the Blood Rain Forest's restrictions in place, we couldn't set up a barrier."
"You've done well. Just hold it for the time it takes an incense stick to burn, and This Old Man will be able to reclaim the Coiling Dragon Tower."
"Yes."
"Sixth, you must be cautious. Don't repeat the mistakes of Third and Qi Yu."
"Rest assured, Ancestor. We'll be careful."
"But Ancestor, now that the Dusk Rain Forest barrier has been activated, won't you be affected as a Transformation Realm expert?"
"I will, but it's no matter. At most, it will suppress This Old Man's cultivation to half-step Spirit Refining."
"Then I can rest easy."
"..."
Concealed in a massive tree at the valley entrance, Xu Taiping quietly listened to the conversation between the old man and a middle-aged man up ahead at the mouth of the valley, finally learning where these people came from.
It's actually the Qi Household's ancestor?
Xu Taiping frowned.
This was the same Qi Household that Qi Yu, who had planned to rob and kill him back at the Relic-Seeking Studio, belonged to.
He simply hadn't expected these people to actually pursue him into the Blood Rain Forest.
But judging from their conversation just now, the ancestor had likely sensed the Dragon-Trapping Tower's aura and followed it to Butterfly Valley, rather than discovered him.
That ancestor seems to know a great deal about the Dragon-Trapping Tower. He even knows how to refine it anew.
And even suppressed by the Dusk Rain Forest's restrictions, he still has Spirit Refining Realm cultivation. In my current condition, breaking past him would be troublesome.
After carefully studying the old man, Xu Taiping began considering ways to deal with him.
Had he been in