Rong Jiaojiao clapped her hands: "Congratulations, congratulations! You've finally surpassed me by two levels again."

Mo Bai's lips twitched: "Is that how you congratulate someone?"

"Isn't this a pregnancy?" Rong Jiaojiao blinked.

She still remembered that when they first met, Mo Bai pretended to be a mid-stage mage to deceive her.

Mo Bai: "..."

If he knew what Rong Jiaojiao was thinking, he would definitely say: "Didn't you also pretend to be a mid-stage mage back then?"

Qing Xuanzi interrupted their bickering with a smile: "Alright, now that everyone has recovered, we should discuss our next plan."

Mo Bai said, "Let's first check if there's anything on our bodies that has been marked by the demon spirit."

Rong Jiaojiao spoke up: "Mo Bai, Senior Mo, I suspect that the mark was placed on you."

Qing Xuanzi said, "We should also check our bodies, otherwise it will be too much trouble and dangerous."

Rong Jiaojiao looked at Ziling: "Ziling, you are sensitive to demonic energy, can you help me find it?"

Zi Ling sniffed everyone and shook her head: "Master, you are all very clean. Would you like to see the items?"

Everyone couldn't help but think of the Qiankun Ring and its contents. After they laid them all out, Zi Ling still shook her head: "Master, I didn't find anything."

Everyone took out their own items and asked Zi Ling to check them one by one. When it came to Mo Bai, he immediately took out the Demon-Devouring Blade. Zi Ling squeaked twice: "There's something wrong with this blade. There's a tracking demonic seed parasitizing it."

Everyone remembered that this knife had absorbed the blood of the Golden Tooth Monster.

"The Demon-Devouring Blade?" Mo Bai's expression changed drastically, and he hurriedly threw the black longsword in his hand to the ground.

The blade vibrated and hummed, and a few faint blood-red lines could be seen wriggling on the edge.

Zi Ling jumped to the ground and looked at the twisting black pattern: "That's it!"

Everyone was shocked upon hearing this. Mo Zhizhou immediately made a hand seal, and a golden light imprisoned the Demon-Devouring Blade: "No wonder the Blood Fiend Sect can always find us, so this is where the problem lies."

Rong Jiaojiao leaned closer to examine it and discovered that the blood-red patterns on the blade resembled tiny insects. She gasped, "This demonic seed... is it alive?"

“It’s not just alive.” Qing Xuanzi said solemnly, “It’s using the blood essence absorbed by the Demon-Devouring Blade to grow stronger. If it had been discovered any later, it might have given birth to even more new demonic seeds.”

Mo Bai's face was very ugly. He had been carrying the knife with him the whole time and hadn't even noticed.

Mo Zhizhou said, "It's possible that when we killed the Golden Tooth Monster, the demonic seed inside his body took the opportunity to parasitize him."

As he spoke, he took out a compass, cast a spell on it, and the compass emitted a golden light that enveloped the Demon-Devouring Blade.

Before long, the demonic seed was purified into black smoke.

Mo Bai said to Zi Ling, "Zi Ling, check again to see if there is any trace of the Demon Seed."

Zi Ling sniffed carefully and even opened her Eye of Truth to check, then shook her head: "It's gone, the Demon-Devouring Blade is completely clean."

Rong Jiaojiao then showed her belongings to Ziling for inspection. Finding no problems, everyone felt relieved.

Zi Ling said, "Now, we don't have to worry about being hunted down anymore."

Rong Jiaojiao rubbed her head and said, "The demons won't give up chasing us, it's just that they're demons without a fixed location, so they can't find us quickly."

Mo Bai added, "Another advantage is that they can't concentrate all their forces to pursue us."

Mo Zhizhou said, "This place isn't too far from where we fought before. Let's leave first, or we'll get surrounded."

“Wait a minute,” Rong Jiaojiao said, taking out the Moonflower Mushrooms. “Let’s divide them up first. We can eat them to improve our cultivation when we have time.”

This Moonflower Mushroom is filled with moonlight energy; eating it is like eating a top-grade spirit stone.

Everyone's eyes lit up upon hearing this.

Moonflower Mushrooms are rare and precious natural treasures that would be coveted by countless cultivators in the outside world.

Qing Xuanzi stroked his beard and smiled, "Jiaojiao is right. This medicine should indeed be taken as soon as possible, lest things get complicated."

Excluding the five that Rong Jiaojiao and Yueying Jiaomang exchanged, they had a total of seven mature Moonflower Mushrooms in their hands.

Mo Bai said, "The Moonflower Mushroom was discovered by Rong Jiaojiao. One each for me and Lao Zhou is enough. You can share the rest."

Qing Xuanzi also said, "I'll take one. I'll take it when I break through to the mid-stage of the Earth Master realm to ensure a smooth breakthrough."

After giving one flower to Ziling, Rong Jiaojiao picked up two more flowers, divided each flower into five petals, and then divided the Moonflower Mushrooms equally.

She said, "We'll split these equally, but I won't share the other five with you."

Mo Bai: "That's not fair to you."

"There's nothing unfair about it. I've noticed that your fights are quite fair, aren't they?"

Seeing that Mo Bai was still going to decline, Qing Xuanzi advised, "Since Jiao Jiao has made up her mind, she won't change it. So don't decline."

"Okay, thank you, Jiaojiao!"

Rong Jiaojiao waved her hand: "You're welcome."

He ignored Mo Bai's constantly changing way of addressing him.

After securing the cabin and the formation, continue onward.

They wandered in the forest for months, but the Blood Fiend Sect and the Demon Spirits never found them again.

They didn't find any jade or spirit stone mines, only two miniature spirit veins. Rong Jiaojiao only allowed the small secret realm to collect a small portion of each vein each time. The small secret realm didn't level up, and neither did Rong Jiaojiao.

Today, she found quite a few rare and precious materials to aid her cultivation. With the addition of the Moonflower Mushroom, Rong Jiaojiao's cultivation level has increased significantly.

However, the further one progresses, the more difficult it becomes. Rong Jiaojiao felt that even with spiritual medicines to aid cultivation, it would take her at least one or two years to reach the late stage of the Profound Master realm.

At this moment, Rong Jiaojiao and the others were standing on a steep cliff. Rong Jiaojiao said, "Aren't we going home?"

They were in the mountains, perhaps thousands of miles away, and had no way to contact their parents. Rong Jiaojiao was afraid they would worry.

Qing Xuanzi said, "If you miss home, go back. Your master will accompany you."

Rong Jiaojiao looked at Mo Bai: "Are you going back?"

Mo Bai shook his head: "We're not going back. I want to gain more experience and go back into seclusion before breaking through to the Earth Master realm."

"Then we'll take our leave. Take care while you're away."

There wasn't much else to say; they simply wished each other well and parted ways.

Rong Jiaojiao and Qing Xuanzi did not separate and fly on their swords. Instead, each of them would take turns leading the sword for a while, and then Zi Ling would take over for a while.

Qing Xuanzi calculated the directions and flew for half a month before finally returning to the Dragon Kingdom, which was celebrating the New Year at that time.

Rong Jiaojiao and Qing Xuanzi returned home in the middle of the morning. The courtyard gate was not closed, so they entered the house.

The house was quite lively, and Rong Jiaojiao subconsciously scanned it with her divine sense.

His parents were not the only ones at home; his older brother was also there.

In addition, there was a middle-aged couple, a young man in his twenties, and a girl in her early twenties.

Rong Jiaojiao was taken aback. Was her older brother home visiting relatives and already looking for a partner?

Rong Jiaojiao thought for a moment and added a few smoked chickens and rabbits to the cloth bag she used to deal with her neighbors. She made these when she was tired of training and rested for a day or two.