After leaving Tianyuan City, Qin Xin did not go directly into the Dead Leaf Forest.
The outer perimeter of the Dead Leaf Forest no longer offers Qin Xin much benefit for his cultivation.
After his martial spirit advanced to six stars with the help of the spirit-devouring stone, the souls of ordinary level five demonic beasts were no longer of any help to the black stick martial spirit.
Some high-level level 5 demonic beasts are even stronger than those in the Yuanfu realm. For Qin Xin, it would be extremely difficult to subdue these demonic beasts, and he might even lose his own life.
Qin Xin is now heading to Zhongzhou. Along the way, he will need to pass through many cities of the Great Xia Dynasty. After passing through Suiye City, he will travel through the depths of the Dead Leaf Forest before arriving in Zhongzhou.
This Suyab city is a border city of the Great Xia Dynasty, and it is a city built deep in the Dead Leaf Forest.
This place is guarded by the most elite troops of the Great Xia Dynasty, partly to prevent powerful monsters from the Dead Leaf Forest from rushing out and harming the people of the Great Xia Dynasty, and partly to protect the warriors traveling to and from the Central Plains.
There was already little connection between Zhongzhou and Donghuang, so if Suiye City were to be captured by demonic beasts, it could very well cause Donghuang to lose contact with Zhongzhou.
This is something that no force in the entire Eastern Wilderness wants to happen.
Therefore, in addition to the army of the Great Xia Dynasty, the five major sects of the Eastern Wilderness would also take turns sending disciples to protect the safety of Suyab City.
Throughout the journey, Qin Xin was extremely cautious in order to reach Zhongzhou safely.
He knew that after the Second Prince of the Great Xia Dynasty escaped, he would definitely look for him again. In addition, Yun Yi and Ji Ju were both killed by him. If Yun Lei knew this, he would definitely fight his way out of the Eastern Wilderness Academy to seek revenge. If his whereabouts were exposed, it would be difficult for him to leave the Eastern Wilderness.
As for the safety of the Qin clan in Tianyuan City, Qin Xin naturally wouldn't have too much to worry about. Now that the Qin clan in Tianyuan City has Zhennan Prefecture as its backer, even if the Great Xia royal family wanted to make a move, they would have to think twice.
Moreover, now that Elder Mo has recovered, he will be a hidden trump card for the Tianyuan Qin Clan. If an enemy attacks, they will naturally not be able to return unscathed.
Qin Xin passed through several cities along the way, but he wasn't in a particular hurry, because he had to go deep into the Dead Leaf Forest to enter Zhongzhou, which meant that there was still great danger waiting for him after leaving Suiye City.
Therefore, Qin Xin was also collecting some spiritual herbs and refining some cultivation and healing pills to store up in case of emergency.
As for the pill towers in these cities, Qin Xin did not step into them, because he did not know whether these pill towers were connected with the royal family of the Great Xia Dynasty, and if he were to expose his identity after entering the pill tower, it would probably cause him a lot of trouble.
Fortunately, the day before Qin Xin left Tianyuan City, his third grandfather, Qin Lin, gave him nearly ten thousand gold coins as travel expenses. However, due to the needs of the family's growth, his third grandfather did not give Qin Xin any spirit stones. The spirit stones given before were the result of many years of accumulation by the Qin family of Tianyuan.
In an inn in a small town, Qin Xin slowly exhaled a breath of stale air.
Suddenly, a fluctuation emanated from the location of his dantian. As if breaking through a bottleneck, the eye of his dantian suddenly grew larger, and instantly the surrounding spiritual energy of heaven and earth surged towards Qin Xin's location.
The spiritual liquid continuously condensed within Qin Xin's martial core, eventually flowing into his dantian.
"Eighth Level of Qi Sea Realm!"
Qin Xin was pleasantly surprised; through his hard work over the past few days, he had finally achieved a breakthrough.
At this moment, Qin Xin held a spatial ring in his hand, the soul imprint on which had been directly erased by Dan Qing.
This spatial ring was the one Qin Xin snatched from Jia Yan, along with the spatial rings of Ruan Yuan, Yun Yi, and Ji Ju.
Because of their inherently weak strength, Qin Xin easily erased the soul imprints of Ruan Yuan, Yun Yi, and Ji Ju's spatial rings and effortlessly retrieved all their contents.
Of course, these people didn't have many low-grade spirit stones, and even the things in Yun Yi's spatial ring were pitifully few.
However, Qin Xin also found a good thing in Ji Ju's spatial ring. It was a scroll that recorded a martial art, namely Yun Lei's Purple Thunder Nine Seals Technique. Qin Xin naturally accepted it without hesitation.
Fearing that these people's rings might contain something that could be used for tracking, Qin Xin discarded them all early on.
As for Jia Yan's spatial ring, Qin Xin could not erase the soul imprint. If he forcibly opened it, everything inside would likely disappear due to the spatial collapse.
Therefore, Qin Xin entrusted the task to Dan Qing.
Danqing spent a considerable amount of time erasing the soul imprint on the ring, and handed it to Qin Xin as soon as he finished.
Qin Xin couldn't wait to open Jia Yan's spatial ring. Looking at the various spiritual herbs and neatly stacked bottles of pills inside, his eyes lit up instantly.
Jia Yan's spatial ring was like a warehouse. However, looking at the jade bottles containing pills, all of which bore the mark of the Eastern Wilderness Academy, Qin Xin could guess that these things were accumulated by Jia Yan from plundering the cultivation resources of the disciples in the outer courtyard of the Eastern Wilderness Academy.
After Qin Xin transferred all the items to his spatial ring, a letter caught his attention.
The letter bore a distinctive longsword mark, identical to the one Qin Xin had seen on the disciples of the Xuan Tian Sword Sect.
When Qin Xin opened the letter, its contents surprised him even more.
The letter instructed Jia Yan to collect cultivation resources and send them to the Xuan Tian Sword Sect. The letter was signed by Qin Haotian.
"So Jia Yan is one of Qin Haotian's men!"
A smile appeared on Qin Xin's face. Being able to kill Jia Yan and intercept so many cultivation resources must make Qin Haotian feel quite pained.
After casually tossing Jia Yan's spatial ring aside, Qin Xin quickly left the small town.
Previously, his advancement to the eighth level of the Qi Sea Realm caused fluctuations in the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, which would likely attract the attention of some powerful individuals.
Qin Xin was now fully prepared and was heading straight towards Suyab City at high speed.
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Meanwhile, in Suyab.
The atmosphere was extremely tense at this moment.
A few days ago, Yun Lei stormed into Suiye City in a fit of rage, and in his fury, he even caused several low-level martial artists to explode and die.
Rong Ling also rushed to Suyab City.
A conflict broke out between the two, and if it weren't for the intervention of the other four major sects in the Eastern Wilderness, the entire Suiye City would probably have been destroyed by them.
At the banquet in Suyab, the royal family of the Great Xia Dynasty hosted a feast for the people of the Five Gates.
“I say, Yun Lei, it’s inappropriate for you to rush to this Suyab City and indiscriminately kill innocent people. This is a complete slap in the face to the Great Xia royal family!” Rong Ling said, lying to the side with a wine gourd in his arms, as if deliberately stirring up trouble.
"Rong Ling! If you stop me from killing that Qin Xin brat, I will kill you too!" Yun Lei roared furiously.
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