After an unknown amount of time, Si Yue, who lay nearby, slowly opened her eyes.
Through her grogginess, she saw Lu Shang talking to a fox and initially thought she was dreaming. Only when the fox flew back to Lu Shang's waist did Wen Siyue realize she was not.
She then realized that the fox must have been some kind of spirit beast.
"S-Senior..."
"You're awake."
With that, Lu Shang turned and walked toward Wen Siyue.
Just then, Wen Siyue suddenly remembered the cultivator who had abducted her and cried out in panic, "Senior Lu, a cultivator at least at the Core Formation Stage grabbed me just now. Where is he?"
Lu Shang said nothing and simply summoned Hanqing.
When Wen Siyue looked, wasn't this the strange cultivator who had abducted her that day?
But by now, Wen Siyue had also caught on.
Although she did not know exactly what was going on with Hanqing, she understood that Lu Shang had left Hanqing behind to protect her.
After this incident, Lu Shang planned to visit Tianxing City to see how Zi Ling was doing.
Once he confirmed that she was safe, he would return to the Heavenly South after breaking through to the nascent soul middle stage.
Along the way, Lu Shang found that neither the Inverse Star Alliance nor the Star Palace had apparently changed their plans because of the sudden appearance of a cultivator whose strength rivaled the nascent soul late stage.
Every island he saw along the way had taken numerous defensive measures.
They remained constantly on guard against a sudden outbreak of war.
"This is still too slow. Flying back to the Miaoyin Sect would probably take more than a month. It would be faster to borrow a Teleportation Formation on some island."
With that,