Song Yan was drawing out the Wind-Thunder Spirit from the dead wood, and the Sword Dao Seed began to rotate slowly.
He looked toward another cliff, where two men and a woman stood.
His Truth-Seeking Spirit Art swept over them. Aside from one male cultivator at Qi Refining, fifth layer, the other man and woman were both at Qi Refining sixth layer.
"Sister Han, the two mountains meet here, and the ground is broad and level. This should be where the Foundation Establishment senior practiced his arts, as described on that stele."
"Obtaining that Incomplete Spell Scroll has already made this trip highly rewarding. If we can..."
The Rogue Cultivator wore yellow scholar's robes. There was something scholarly about his brows and eyes, and he looked quite amiable.
He suddenly paused and looked into the distance.
On the cliff across the valley, a man and a woman stood to one side, while a young cultivator sat cross-legged before a branch of dead wood, drawing wind and thunder with his fingertips.
"Brother Zhao!"
The red-robed female cultivator pointed toward Song Yan. "That's... a thunder-aspect Supreme Spiritual Object!"
"As the inscription down in the valley said, if we can supplement our cultivation with Supreme Spiritual Objects of the fire, wind, and thunder aspects, our progress with the spell scroll can cover a thousand miles in a day!"
The two exchanged a glance, then rushed forward without asking the opinion of the cultivator at Qi Refining, fifth layer.
"A-Ming! Go disrupt that man's cultivation, then come help us."
"...Y-yes, elder sister."
The cultivator at Qi Refining, fifth layer was young, no older than Song Yan, but seemed rather timid about fighting others.
Rong Xiaofeng frowned. Together with Wu Huaguo, he walked to the middle of the cliffside passage and stopped the three.
"Fellow..."