After leaving, Li Dalong adjusted his course and continued toward Black Wind Valley. Having slain that powerful late-stage Taiyi Golden Immortal Silver-Scaled Rhinoceros-Horn Beast, he gained a deeper understanding of his own strength and became more confident.
Still, he had to exercise due caution. Carefulness kept great mistakes at bay; careless people did not live long in this world.
Rather than fly on his sword, he continued on foot, scanning his surroundings with his divine sense to keep watch and clear the way, while holding the Starry Sky Divine Shield ready to defend against a sneak attack.
While Li Dalong trained in the wilderness outside No. 65 Small Base, Ouyang Zhihua of the Spirit Beast Sect grew angrier the more he thought about things back at the Immortal Realm Alliance's main base.
After seeing Li Dalong leave the auction house, he had immediately sent several disciples to follow him, intending to find an opportunity to intercept and kill him to vent his anger, while also obtaining the things he had won at auction.
He had not expected Li Dalong to act so swiftly and decisively that the Spirit Beast Sect's people lost him. After receiving the pursuing disciples' report, Ouyang Zhihua flew into a thunderous rage. He gave them a thorough scolding, then mobilized the sect's resources to search for Li Dalong.
Whether his luck was good or bad, he actually managed to learn that Li Dalong had headed to No. 65 Small Base.
He therefore brought six subordinates to No. 65 Small Base, but by the time he arrived, Li Dalong had already been gone for almost a day.
Still unwilling to give up, he used the Spirit Beast Sect's unique affinity with demon beasts and released quite a few Hummingbird Beasts raised by the sect. These were low-level