Nine days later, Shi Shuangzhi and the bamboo body began to fuse. Song Xia instructed her daughter to carefully preserve the bamboo roots before leading them away from the desert and heading towards the far west.
Shortly after they left, the people from the Shenyuan Sect and Xuanguang Sect finally followed the clues and found the palace complex. Seeing the well-preserved buildings, everyone was overjoyed.
"It was worth the long and dangerous journey we took to get here. It wasn't a waste of our energy."
However, the laughter soon stopped, because they saw the traces of life, and the traces were obviously new.
Shi Tiankui's expression changed drastically: "Who could have gotten there before us? Could it be that that person also told someone else about it?"
“The Soul Searching Technique cannot be faked; he did not inform anyone else.” The elder who had previously performed the Soul Search said in a low voice, “Perhaps another cultivator accidentally wandered in here. Don’t worry, he may not be able to take the inheritance here.”
They could only continue walking with this hope, but because there was no small beast to guide them, they encountered many dangers and lost several people.
Even with such a great sacrifice, they gained no inheritance whatsoever, and everyone's faces grew increasingly dark.
"Someone beat me to it!" Shi Tiankui gritted her teeth. "I absolutely mustn't find out who this person is, or they'll pay the price!"
Everyone thought the same way, including Shi Tianning, who felt regretful and disappointed.
“Look at these leftover bones, the person who left definitely didn’t stay for more than a month.”
Shi Tiankui's eyes flashed: "So, it's highly likely that the other party hasn't left the desert yet? Go find them immediately!"
"But the desert is so vast, which direction should we search in?"
Shi Tianning looked at the elder with a strange expression and asked, "Have you discovered something?"
"My intuition tells me that there should be another place with abundant spiritual energy nearby. Let's head this way."
The group followed in his footsteps and arrived at the crater where the Bamboo of Ten Thousand Forms grew in less than a day. Seeing the traces of excavation, the anger in their hearts intensified!
“There must have been rare spiritual plants growing here before. They must be extraordinary to survive in such a place. What is this person’s background? Not only did he take away the inheritance, but he also took away the spiritual plants!”
"To receive the inheritance first and then the spiritual plant, is there any cultivator in the world with such profound fortune?"
Upon hearing this, Shi Tiankui gripped her spirit sword tightly. Clearly, she and her brother were the saviors, so why was such great fortune taken by someone else?
At this moment, she felt a sense of emptiness, as if something that originally belonged to them had been taken away!
"Who exactly is it? Who in the entire cultivation world could possibly escape the notice of our Divine Origin Sect and Profound Light Sect?"
"Yes!" someone exclaimed. "If any cultivator or force took away so much of the inheritance, it certainly wouldn't just disappear like that. It would definitely cause a stir afterward. As long as our two sects investigate carefully, we will definitely be able to find some traces."
"He dared to steal our things, we'll make him pay the price!"
Upon hearing this, everyone turned to look at him. The man chuckled and then declared righteously, "Everyone knows the current crisis in the cultivation world. Knowing that the saviors are in our Divine Origin Sect and Profound Light Sect, yet he hoards items that could help save the world and refuses to hand them over, he is a sinner in the cultivation world!"
After hearing this explanation, everyone nodded in strong agreement. That's right, they weren't robbers, nor were they using their power to coerce people; they were simply doing it for the sake of the entire cultivation world!
"But before that, it's best to find this person first. Time is of the essence. Everyone, split into four groups to track him down. If you get any news, send a message immediately."
"yes!"
Everyone from the Divine Origin Sect and the Profound Light Sect on this trip was seething with anger. They had traveled so far, expended so much energy and resources, and even lost several elders, only to have someone else beat them to it. Who wouldn't be annoyed? Who wouldn't be furious?
Some even had a violent temper and vowed that once they found the person and retrieved the items, they would cut the person into a thousand pieces.
But they never considered that in the cultivation world, things that are unclaimed are naturally first-come, first-served. Why do you assume that all the good things in the world belong to your Shenyuan Sect and Xuanguang Sect?
Under the guise of saving the common people, you actually commit despicable acts. Little do you know that the crisis in the cultivation world was caused by people like you!
Perhaps it was because there were too many people cursing, that before the people of the Divine Origin Sect and the Profound Light Sect had even left the desert, a massive amount of demonic energy and evil energy began to rise from the center of the desert, wantonly reaping lives.
Shi Tiankui's Eyes of Salvation seemed to have seen something ominous, and her expression changed drastically: "Everyone, run!"
The demonic energy and evil energy spread very quickly, and some disciples who did not have time to escape soon let out screams. Shi Tiankui turned around and saw that the disciples who had been friendly with each other before were now fighting each other with weapons, having lost all reason.
"What exactly are these?" Even the experienced elders became nervous, completely baffled.
"Could this be the divine punishment calculated by the Nine Heavens Palace? Just like the one that happened to Thousand Departure Island back then?"
This conjecture shocked everyone. They looked at Shi Tianning and Shi Tiankui. The two of them had not yet fully grown up, and the heavenly punishment had already descended. Was there any way for them, the cultivators, to survive?
Some people couldn't help but feel panicked, and even began to look at Shi Tianning and Shi Tiankui with suspicion. If they really could save the world, why did they not have any power to resist in the face of this crisis? At least in their opinion, they should have some kind of suppressive effect.
To the relief of the cultivators from the Divine Origin Sect and the Profound Light Sect, the speed at which these demonic and evil energies spread across the desert slowed down, and the terrifying aura within them also weakened considerably.
But no one can guarantee that these things will continue to spread in the future, and if they do, there's nothing anyone can do about it.
"I wonder if the person who received the inheritance escaped. What if he dies in this desert..."
Everyone fell silent at this conjecture. At this moment, they would rather that person be safe and sound, at least there would still be a chance to inherit the legacy in the future.
"They should be fine. Since they were able to inherit the legacy, they must have great fortune." Although they didn't want to admit it, everyone had to agree and have expectations.
Meanwhile, Song Xia and his group, who were wanted by the Shenyuan Sect and Xuanguang Sect, successfully reached the far west.
Although the far west is not an ideal place for ordinary cultivators to cultivate, some cultivators with innate lightning-attribute spiritual roots love this place, and some body cultivators also like to train their bodies here. Whether they are lightning-attribute spiritual root cultivators or body cultivators, their combat power is higher than that of ordinary cultivators.
Upon arriving here, Shi Liuchuan felt right at home. Having rarely engaged in actual combat with cultivators, he finally had the opportunity to spar with them.
Soon, his reputation for warlike nature and formidable swordsmanship made him famous in this far western region.
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