Only after Master Kang saw a smile appear on the woman's cool, beautiful face and heard her politely thank him did his taut nerves relax a little.
Capitalizing on his "generous" gesture of handing over eight Route Passes, he worked hard to dilute everyone's impression of his stupidity and further emphasize his importance. He became very talkative, even a little excessively flattering. "Miss Yan'er, we just used a void Supreme Treasure to escape through the city... those Fulong Pavilion agents won't possibly track us here anytime soon. By my reckoning, the Myriad Spirits Garden Secret Realm will open in less than half an hour at most. All we need to do now is hide in the woods and conceal our auras. Even if they catch up, they won't easily sift through so many cultivators. Once the Secret Realm opens, we'll rush straight inside. Those Fulong Pavilion agents are all remnant souls, so they'll be powerless against us."
"Mm."
Yan'er took the Route Passes and distributed them among her squad members, then said quietly, "Let's wait a little. Once the immortal mist clears, we'll head up the mountain."
"All right, I'll keep meditating to recover." Master Kang bent down and sat cross-legged again, slowly drawing on the spiritual energy in his abdomen to digest the pills he had taken earlier.
The woods were quiet. Yan'er and the others were cautious and silent, either gathering in twos and threes to exchange a few quiet words or watching their surroundings vigilantly, sensing the situation nearby.
Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh...!
A bright full moon and brilliant stars hung in the night sky. Streaks of divine rainbow light occasionally crossed overhead, all cultivators coming out of the Heavenly Capital. Some had come to see friends off into the Myriad Spirits Garden Secret Realm, while others held