After Li Yan and the other two settled on this plan, the person they left beside the teleportation array in the market was a Divine Thought clone of Pei Buchong. The three of them quickly departed from the courtyard in the woods.
Pei Buchong's Divine Thought clone would handle everything that followed, including sending word to Qianyu Sect and destroying the teleportation array.
His clone did indeed see the face of the cultivator teleporting in. It was unmistakably Su Nanzi. But while the power of the teleportation space still lingered, he could not tell that the arrival was Su Nanzi's clone. At the time, he truly thought it was Su Nanzi himself!
None of this affected the trio's next steps. They had already decided to destroy the teleportation array at once, whoever came through, so identifying the arrival was never their aim.
Here, they would kill as many as they could. Killing two Body Integration Realm cultivators would be ideal, but the heart of their plan lay elsewhere.
After leaving the courtyard in the woods, the three did not linger in Yuanqi Market. They immediately flew toward Qianyu Sect at full speed.
But after covering roughly half the distance, they stopped in the dead of night, swiftly descended onto a mountain peak, and soon found a place to hide.
Throughout the flight, Ping Tu spread his Divine Sense wide, surveying their route and everything within tens of thousands of miles around it. His powerful mind committed it all to memory.
Only when they reached this place did the crucial part of their plan truly begin. What was Ping Tu? He was the Artifact Spirit of the Five Elements Dao-Evil Bead, refined by True Lord Qianzhong.
Aside from his bonded treasure, the Five Elements Dao-Evil Bead was one of the two