At night, the Fire Cloud Valley still had a faint red light flashing. That was where the 'Scorching Sun Berries' were grown, and it was also the most prominent symbol of the Fire Cloud Valley at night.
Thirty miles away from Huoyun Valley, a man was observing the Huoyun Valley in the distance.
The aura on his body was obscure, making it impossible for people to sense his realm, and even more so for the sect's formation, even though he was very close to them, they were unable to sense his presence.
This person is none other than the Director of Fengyi, a powerful being at the False Infant Realm.
Although he was extremely powerful, he had no intention of forcibly attacking the Fire Cloud Valley's formation. He even didn't want the Fire Cloud Valley to discover his actions.
Although Huoyun Valley is not a large sect, its influence is extremely terrifying. The relationships it has established through elixirs over countless years are spread throughout the entire Northern Shu continent.
If Tianxing Trading Company offends Shushan Sect, it will be difficult for it to move within the Shushan Sect's sphere of influence. If it offends Huoyun Valley, it may encounter unexpected troubles anywhere in the Northern Shu Continent.
Besides, if Director Feng Yi could retrieve the 'Red Infant Ginseng Fruit' without being discovered, not only would he not offend Huoyun Valley, but he would also not let Shushan Sect know about his actions against Li Shiming.
Of course, even under a strong attack, Huoyun Valley's sect formation would be able to hold him off for a while, giving Huoyun Valley time to send out a distress message.
With the relationship with Huoyun Valley, it is enough to invite the Nascent Soul Patriarch to take action, and then his troubles will be even greater.
Director Feng Yi sat down cross-legged. He waved his hand lightly and a formation plate appeared beside him. The formation plate emitted rays of light that covered his figure, and soon his figure disappeared.
This is a fourth-grade formation plate made by a formation master. The formation has only one effect, which is hiding.
This is not ordinary concealment, but an isolated independent space is formed inside the fourth-grade array. Everything inside the array has no connection with the outside world.
Director Feng Yi had a calm expression on his face. He slowly closed his eyes, and above his head, a little man jumped out of his body.
The face of the little man is the same as that of the Director of Fengyi, but he is very small and only one inch tall. Upon closer inspection, the details of his body are simply reduced in proportion, and there is no difference between him and the Director of Fengyi himself.
Even the clothes on the little man are the same as those of the current Director Fengyi. This little man is exactly the fake baby of Director Fengyi.
The fake infant is actually also an original infant, but it is an imperfect original infant.
The fake baby came out of the body of Director Fengyi with a slightly nervous look on his face, as if he was extremely afraid of the outside world.
A normal Nascent Soul can leave the body of the Nascent Soul ancestor for a short period of time during the day, but the fake Nascent Soul is too weak compared to a normal Nascent Soul and can only leave the body at night.
That's it. The fake infant must also be careful of the weak strong winds that normal cultivators from the outside world cannot perceive. The weak strong winds in ordinary environments will not have any effect on the bodies of cultivators, let alone ordinary mortals.
However, the weak strong winds that are everywhere in this world pose a fatal threat to the separated fake baby.
The fake baby jumped to the hand of Director Feng Yi's body, swept the space ring on his finger, and took out a piece of clothing.
This piece of clothing is a magic weapon. The fake baby blew a breath of spiritual power towards the clothing, and the clothing instantly wrapped around the fake baby's body.
With the protection of this magic weapon, the fake baby finally showed a look of relief on his face.
The fake baby took out another talisman and didn't take anything else.
It’s not that the fake baby doesn’t want to bring more things, but Director Feng Yi wants to sneak into Huoyun Valley, so he can’t bring anything with too strong spiritual power.
The robes on the fake infant are extremely special Nascent Soul treasures, made specifically for Nascent Souls, so they can be used.
If the fake infant took a powerful magic weapon, it would probably be discovered by the Fire Cloud Valley's formation as soon as it left the range of the formation.
Huoyun Valley is not a poor sect. The formation it has arranged is extremely sophisticated and is extremely sensitive to the breath of cultivators.
The fake baby jumped out from the formation. The one-inch-tall fake baby would be difficult to be discovered even in the daytime, let alone at night.
Combined with the effect of the robes, not a single breath leaked from the fake baby.
The fake baby came to the outside of the Fire Cloud Valley's formation. His smart eyes looked at the defensive shield hidden in the void, with a hint of sarcasm in his eyes.
As early as after Tianxing Trading Company started cooperation with Huoyun Valley, Tianxing Trading Company used this relationship to send a master of formation into Huoyun Valley to observe and study the large formation of Huoyun Valley.
What the fake baby of Director Feng Yi was holding in his hand was the formation-breaking talisman made by the formation master.
This is a formation-breaking talisman made by the formation master specifically for the Fire Cloud Valley sect's formation. Although it can only create a very small gap, it is enough for the fake infant to enter freely.
Of course, after this formation-breaking talisman is used, once Huoyun Valley discovers that the formation has been broken, they will immediately strengthen the sect's formation to make up for the loopholes in the formation.
Although Manager Feng Yi is the manager of the Northern Shu Continent branch of Tianxing Trading Company, he is exceeding his authority by using this formation-breaking talisman.
All the information that Tianxing Trading Company has investigated in the Northern Shu Continent plays a more important role.
But Director Feng Yi didn't care. What could be more important than him getting back the 'Red Infant Ginseng Fruit'?
He no longer had time to look for other spiritual objects like the 'Red Infant Ginseng Fruit'. Without decades of time, great luck, and a lot of wealth, it would be impossible to obtain such a spiritual object again.
Director Feng Yi paid so much for the 'Red Infant Ginseng Fruit'.
By taking the 'Red Infant Ginseng Fruit', he could live a few decades longer, and then he would have time to look for other spiritual objects that could prolong his life.
When one reaches the level of Supervisor Feng Yi, immortality becomes a luxury, but he absolutely does not want to die. Even if there is only a glimmer of hope, he will desperately grasp it.
The fake infant mobilized a trace of spiritual power, and the formation-breaking talisman emitted a soft light, falling on the defensive shield of the sect's formation in front of it.
The array-breaking talisman turned into a circle composed of countless patterns. These patterns connected the array patterns on the array's defense shield in series and did not cause any fluctuations in the array.
And in the center of the circle formed by the formation-breaking talisman, a small hole appeared, and there was no large formation defense shield there.
Without any hesitation, the fake baby passed through the cave and entered the Fire Cloud Valley.
The fake baby turned around and waved his little hand lightly towards the location of the Breaking Formation Talisman, and the circle formed by the Breaking Formation Talisman disappeared.
This formation-breaking talisman can last for the time of an incense stick. He has that much time to enter Fire Cloud Valley and find Li Shiming.
The fake baby looked towards the Fire Cloud Valley, which was not obstructed at all, with a ferocious look on his little face.
This time he didn't come just for the 'Red Infant Ginseng Fruit', he also came for Fang Lu's death.
Since he sent Fang Lu to retrieve the 'Red Infant Ginseng Fruit' for him, it shows that he trusts Fang Lu, which is extremely rare in the world of immortal cultivation.
It is extremely difficult for monks to build trust with each other, as they are full of calculations towards each other.
Fang Lu is his subordinate, as well as his Taoist partner and lover. She was the spy he had planted in the Yin Yang Sect many years ago.
Fang Lu did some work for Tianxing Trading Company in Yin Yang Sect and revealed some flaws. Then she half-left Yin Yang Sect and returned to his side to gain his trust.
Whenever he thought of Fang Lu being killed, Director Feng Yi couldn't hold back his anger.
The anger on the one-inch fake baby's face made it not scary at all, but rather a little cute.
It was obvious that Director Feng Yi was very clear about Li Shiming's information, and the fake baby went accurately to the cave prepared for Li Shiming in Huoyun Valley.
Of course Li Shiming was not in the cave. He was in a formation. He had a blindfold on his face and was observing something.
At different heights in the sky, two drones are hovering and monitoring everything below.
A drone is flying at an altitude of 10,000 meters, and its built-in system uses low-light cameras to monitor an area of thousands of miles.
A thousand meters away, the camera of another drone had multiple functions turned on to monitor the situation outside Huoyun Valley.
When Director Feng Yi arrived and stood still thirty miles outside Huoyun Valley, he was discovered by a drone.
Although Director Fengyi used some secret method to hide his own aura, he did not hide his own heat.
It's not that there is no way to hide the body heat, but few monks would do so, or they have never thought of hiding the body heat.
Because the great formation cannot detect human body heat, it senses the breath of the cultivator.
Of course, it is very easy for a monk to hide the heat. Any low-level ice spell can do it.
But it was obvious that Director Fengyi, like most monks, had not considered that body heat would expose himself, and he had absolute confidence in his secret method.
Li Shiming observed that location, and Director Fengyi disappeared. Through the observation of two drones, he did not find Director Fengyi's figure in other places. He judged that Director Fengyi should have used some kind of formation to hide himself.
He was also patient. He used two drones to keep a close eye on that location and waited for Director Feng Yi to reappear.
But he did not find the fake baby of Supervisor Feng Yi. The two drones, especially the one at a thousand meters, used multiple functions, including infrared and low-light methods, but were unable to observe the fake baby that was so small as an inch and had no heat response.
So when Supervisor Feng Yi entered the Huoyun Valley, Li Shiming still did not detect any trace of the enemy.
The fake baby moves at an extremely fast speed. It can be imagined that the fake baby is made entirely of energy and is not a physical entity.
Therefore, the fake baby does not need to consider the shackles of the body when moving. The fake baby can also use the secret of flying. When the fake baby uses the secret of flying, it can reach several times the theoretical speed of the secret of flying.
The fake baby floated in the dark night like a ghost, nimbly passing the detection of the formation in the valley and arriving outside Li Shiming's cave.
Elder Zhao was sitting not far from the cave, his spiritual thoughts were always open, guarding the cave.
Today is the last day. Tomorrow morning all the alchemists participating in the event will say goodbye to the three alchemy masters. This ceremony is to thank the three alchemy masters for their help in the past three days. After that, Li Shiming can return to the sect.
Elder Zhao, who was in the Jindan stage, didn't mind not sleeping for a year. In order to protect Li Shiming, he stopped his practice.
Fang Lu’s previous attack had already made him lose face, and he couldn’t let Li Shiming be in danger again.
But even he didn't know that there was no trace of Li Shiming in the cave. In order to avoid being discovered by him, Li Shiming returned to the cave ahead of time when the event ended today. In fact, he hid far away.
Elder Zhao suddenly sensed a crisis. Just as his innate flying sword was about to move from its golden elixir, he felt his body stiffen and fell down.
The fake baby appeared from behind Elder Zhao. The fake baby did not kill Elder Zhao. He recognized Elder Zhao. Although killing one more Elder Zhao in addition to killing Li Shiming was not a big deal, he thought more about it. There were many ways to avenge Fang Lu.
If he could control Li Shiming and make him obedient, then Li Shiming's life and death would be in his hands. After he had fully utilized Li Shiming's value, he would take Li Shiming's life, or torture him to death.
Before making the final decision, Director Feng Yi did not want to kill Elder Zhao. Killing Elder Zhao would almost certainly create a mortal feud with the Shushan Sect, leaving no room for maneuver.
The fake baby stood outside the cave. The formation of the cave was almost nothing to the fake baby.
He stretched out his little hand and grabbed lightly, and the formation in the cave was shattered by the terrifying force without even being able to issue a warning.
At each formation node inside the cave, the spiritual objects that served as formation flags were turned into dust. The fake infant's strength was so high that the formation was completely destroyed from the inside out by this blow.
The fake baby looked at his work with satisfaction and floated into the cave.
He did not sense Li Shiming's presence, but heard a slight burning sound.
Although the burning sound was extremely faint, the fake baby's five senses were so strong that it heard it as loud as thunder.
There was no fluctuation of spiritual power, no perception of danger, and even after hearing the sound of burning, the fake baby still had no intention of dodging.
Monks ignore ordinary things, and no monk would think that ordinary things can hurt themselves.
The fake baby's gaze fell on a small strange object above its head. It was a cylindrical object with a metal shell and the front was made of carefully polished colored glaze. It looked extremely delicate.
The fake baby waved his little hand, and the object flew into his hand. He curiously observed the object from a close distance.
After a while, he exerted a little force, and everything scattered, revealing the even stranger interior.
The fake baby looked around and didn't see anything special about this object, it just seemed a little weird.
"Then why isn't Li Shiming here?" Director Feng Yi's fake baby murmured to himself.
After spending so much effort to sneak into the Fire Cloud Valley, he thought it was safe and would not fail, but he found the cave was empty and there was no sign of Li Shiming.
Supervisor Feng Yi thought of Elder Zhao outside. The fake baby was about to turn around to interrogate Elder Zhao when red light flashed simultaneously under his feet and on the four walls.
With a loud "bang", the high explosives placed in various places inside the cave were detonated. Having lost the protection of the defensive formation, the cave was first swept by high temperature and shock waves, and then the cave could no longer withstand the explosion. The shock wave of the explosion broke through the entrance of the cave and rushed out.