He had also taken the initiative to abandon using the "Return Home" shop to pass along messages. He had even seen branches of that shop in two large markets, but had not entered them again.
Gong Chenying had only just returned after turning in a sect mission when she saw a jade slip darting about wildly within the restriction outside the bamboo courtyard.
She and Zhao Min both lived in the bamboo courtyard Li Yan had chosen. After reaching the late Nascent Soul stage, the two women would periodically leave to carry out sect missions.
Within the Phantom Sect of the Immortal-Spirit Realm, cultivators below the Void Refinement Realm had to complete three missions within every hundred years.
Previously, they had spent all their time in seclusion, striving to break through to the late Nascent Soul stage, so naturally they had not completed a single mission.
Now that they had advanced, not only did they choose to complete their assigned missions, they often took the initiative to visit the Mission Hall and seek out dangerous tasks.
After arriving in the Immortal-Spirit Realm, they had once again become low-level cultivators. Thus, the two women rediscovered the feeling they had once possessed during the Foundation Establishment stage.
More peaks lay ahead, waiting for them to climb without cease. Naturally, they could no longer merely cultivate bitterly in seclusion. Late Nascent Soul cultivators had only just begun to comprehend the laws of heaven and earth, and they needed more experience and insight.
Zhao Min had returned to the sect only two months earlier. Her mission had been to capture a mid-stage fourth-rank sea clan Demon Beast. It was not to be killed, which multiplied the difficulty severalfold.
Yet while completing that mission alone, she had encountered a pair of Demon Beasts fighting a