Longevity through Upgrading Buildings Chapter 1027 - 380: Encounter; Young Friend

However...

Ji Yuan glanced up and down at Yan Jin, suddenly saying, "Those two female cultivators from the Black and White Divine Hall in the team, you killed them, didn’t you?"

Yan Jin was not surprised to hear this; instead, he chuckled and said, "Better to benefit us than outsiders. It’s just that the commotion with them was too big, which attracted Xun Tianji."

Upon hearing this, Ji Yuan had only one thought: these scoundrels, not a single one is a good person...

Just like this Yan Jin before him, who first killed the two female cultivators from the Black and White Divine Hall. When Xun Tianji arrived and things weren’t looking good, he sold out his two teammates for a chance to escape.

So... Ji Yuan ultimately chose to act on his own, and Yan Jin had the same idea, so the two quickly reached an agreement.

But just as Ji Yuan was about to leave, Yan Jin suddenly said:

"The communication talisman Qi Xiu gave you has a tracking function. If you don’t want to be targeted by him, you should get rid of it."

After saying this, without waiting for Ji Yuan to reply, he turned into an escape light and left.

Ji Yuan sensed something and immediately extended his divine sense to follow.

At first, he felt that Yan Jin’s speed was extremely fast, far exceeding an ordinary late-stage Core Formation cultivator, even comparable to Qi Xiu just now.

Just as he was about to leave his divine sense’s detection range, Ji Yuan suddenly found that he had stopped.

It was as if Yan Jin sensed something, turning his head to look in the direction he flew, or rather, he was looking at Ji Yuan.

He waved his right hand as if saying goodbye.

Just when Ji Yuan thought this encounter was over, he saw him form a spell, a teal light flashed across his body, and his face changed to reveal...

Master Qingcheng!

Ji Yuan instinctively widened his eyes. Just from this brief encounter, he anticipated that Yan Jin’s identity would be extraordinary.

But he never expected it to be Master Qingcheng!

"Before setting out, I happened upon Brother Long, who told me about you. Now that the core area isn’t open, I thought I’d drop by to see you first."

In Ji Yuan’s sea of consciousness echoed Master Qingcheng’s voice.

"It’s good to see you. The inner and outer domains shouldn’t confine you. If fate allows, we’ll meet again in the core area."

After Master Qingcheng finished speaking, he turned into a teal escape light again, heading straight into the depths of the mist forest.

... So it was Brother Long who told him about me, but how did he find me?

It wasn’t merely by coincidence that he just happened to be assigned to my team. Ji Yuan certainly didn’t believe it was purely coincidental.

Thinking back to how he was once allied with the Mansion Master of Xuan Snake, Ji Yuan thought they in the Nascent Soul circle... might really know a lot, or perhaps, they could have some dealings with the Ghost Envoy.

"And when he removed his disguise earlier and said ’everything for the sect’, was it said unconsciously, or was he hinting something to me?"

With this thought in mind, Ji Yuan took out the communication talisman given by Qi Xiu.

He didn’t destroy it right away; pondering briefly, he released a Qi Cultivation stage corpse puppet from the Chaotic Burial Mound and placed the talisman on it, sending it towards the outer area of the Hundred Ghosts Mist Forest.

As he watched the corpse puppet’s back, Ji Yuan solemnly uttered a line.

"Everything for the sect!"

After speaking, Ji Yuan, who was about to leave, thought again, and sought a quiet place, releasing the Guardian of Hundred Insects Old Immortal, directly performing the "Severing Divine Art".

Severing his last thread of connection with the Fire Spirit Ghost Mother.

As for the injury... that was from when he initially severed the divine soul earlier; since recovering, the wisp of divine soul with the Fire Spirit Ghost Mother was insignificant to him.

When he first entered this Rashamon Sea, Ji Yuan considered severing the divine soul right away, but doing so back then would have been too suspicious.

With his current strength, how could he have died immediately after entering?

Now, encountering a formidable character like Qi Xiu, even meeting an unfathomable figure like Xun Tianji, it’s quite reasonable for someone at his mid-stage Core Formation level to meet their end.

After severing the divine soul connection, Ji Yuan felt a lightness, free from that oppressive sensation.

In his view, Hu Beizhi was already dead, and from now on, the Bone Nightmare Sect was no longer worth returning to.

With this in mind, Ji Yuan turned into an escape light and departed.

Next, it was time to activate his hunting mode.

...

Meanwhile.

At the entrance of the Hundred Refined Corpses Cave in Rashamon Sea’s Inner Realm.

The Fire Spirit Ghost Mother, who had been resting with closed eyes, suddenly opened them, and the Bone Nightmare Old Demon, always by her side, sensed something odd and immediately sent a voice transmission asking:

"My lady, what happened?"

The Fire Spirit Ghost Mother seemed slightly incredulous; after once again checking her sea of consciousness, she hesitated to transmit:

"Hu Beizhi... is dead."