After the plan to divide Chu State was finalized, Shi Wendlou of the Wan Beast Sect took his leave first. He didn't have much to chat with these old freaks from the Yuan Infant Stage, and he felt stifled in front of them. As the master of a sect, he looked like a grandson in front of these few people.

  The remaining four Yuan Ying old monsters restored their harmony, and then they talked about Zhao Mingjiu's "Broken Carriage", Che Yutai's Extinguishing God Mallet, Zhuo Yang's Heavenly Devil Dark Flag, and Shen Wuyan's Maid and other topics.

  Most of these Yuanying-stage cultivators spend most of their time in closed-door meditation to break through to the Tribulation stage, occasionally coming out for a walk and gaining no small benefit for their mental state.

  Li Hui and Xiao Shaojun stood behind Zhao Mingju, feeling extremely bored and yet not daring to show any unusual expression, it was truly painful.

  However, what was even more tangled in Li Hui's heart at this moment was that the Demon Dao army would set out tomorrow to fight the final battle with Zixuanmen and Bishuimen, and he would inevitably follow Zhao Mingyu to attack Bishuimen.

  Although he didn't have deep feelings for Bi Xiang Men, and probably wouldn't need him to take action against those former fellow disciples, Li Hui still felt somewhat uncomfortable.

  He was originally a disciple of the Bixiao Sect, but now he has become a disciple of the Mo Dao Lie Tian Sect. After the Bixiao Sect is attacked and taken over, the Lie Tian Sect will also move to where the Bixiao Sect is currently located.

  "Back to square one!" Li Hui thought to himself with a sneer.

  At this time, his mood was very complicated. Faintly, Li Hui always had a feeling that the Bi Xuan Gate could not escape this disaster and would ultimately end up with the destruction of the sect and the destruction of the Taoist tradition. In theory, whether the Lie Tian Sect won or the Bi Xuan Gate won, it had nothing to do with him. He just needed to find an opportunity to escape from Zhao Lao Guai's clutches, but he always had a strange feeling in his heart.

  "Never mind, what's the use of thinking about these things? I'd better think of how to escape from Old Zhao's clutches!" Li Hui put aside his entanglement and started thinking of ways to escape.

  This battle can be said to be Li Hui's best opportunity, and also his last good chance. Once the Bi Xiao Gate is breached, the entire Chu State, except for the Qi Feng Sect in the south, will likely become the territory of the Xiu Mo Zhe. At that time, if he is imprisoned by Zhao Lao Guai again, it will be even more difficult to escape.

  People are the chopping board, and I am the fish meat! This sentence is used to describe Li Hui's current situation. Zhao Mingjiu's unlimited supply of spiritual stones and elixirs for him, creating various cultivation conditions for him, was just waiting for him to practice the "Dragon Elephant Golden Vajra" to the Red Gold Body realm, and then use him to refine the Dragon Elephant Golden Puppet.

  The Dragon Elephant Golden Body is actually just a walking corpse, completely controlled by Zhao Mingjiu. In fact, after attaching Zhao Mingjiu's divine consciousness to it, it became Zhao Mingjiu's incarnation. What existed was only a shell, not Li Hui himself.

  To put it bluntly, Li Hui is now a pig being raised to be slaughtered after being fattened up, and this pig doesn't even know how fat it needs to get before the knife comes down.

  "No matter what, this time I must take a chance!" Li Hui secretly made up his mind.

  ……

  The four old monsters had been talking for several hours, and they dispersed one after another. Zhao Mingyu lived with Li Hui and Xiao Shaojun in a temporarily opened cave mansion.

  As soon as he entered the temporary cave, Zhao Mingjiu immediately took out a small flag emitting spiritual light from his storage ring and casually threw it out, but in fact, he was secretly following a certain rule to insert these flags in various parts of the cave.

  Then Zhao Mingjiu made a move, and a mysterious fog suddenly appeared outside the cave, covering the entire cave. The inside of the cave was also shrouded in a huge light screen.

  Those small flags turned out to be an array of flags, and the formation Zhao Ming had set up was called "Small Five Elements Confusion Array". It could block the spiritual probing of Yuan Ying period cultivators and also prevent the attacks of Jindan cultivators from getting through. However, Zhao Ming's main intention was still to isolate spiritual probing and serve as a warning.

  Even a wealthy cultivator in the Qi Refining stage would prepare a simple Point Array Formation to carry with them, no one wants to be ambushed or interrupted at a critical moment of their cultivation. Not to mention someone like Zhao Mingyu, a Yuan Ying cultivator. Only someone who possesses a heavenly treasure like Li Hui's Immortal Mansion would not have this awareness.

  After setting up the formation, Zhao Mingjiu went to the inner room to meditate and cultivate. Leaving Li Hui and Xiao Shaojun standing outside.

  "What bad luck! The people who built this temporary cave mansion are really idle, and they're still so grandiose even if it's just for one night!" Li Hui cursed in his heart as he looked at the cave mansion, which was seven zhang wide, over ten zhang deep, had several rooms, and was currently sealed off by Zhao Mingyu's array on the outside.

  Originally, the plan was to separate from Zhao Mingjiu and find a nearby pile of rocks to hide in, which would have been a successful escape. However, looking at this spacious and luxurious cave that could accommodate several more people, Li Hui felt a bit helpless.

  It's not that the people who built this cave are to blame, but receiving a primordial infant is no trivial matter. If they were to slightly offend these ancient creatures, it's likely that in an instant, everything would be reduced to nothing but dust and smoke.

  But this plan was the best intention, it's a good thing that falls from the sky, since there is no chance now, Li Hui didn't force it either.

  "Li Shidi, what are you thinking about?" At this time, Xiao Shaojun walked over with a smile.

  Li Hui's thoughts were interrupted, and he turned to see Xiao Shaojun, saying lightly: "Just recalling some past events, thanks for your concern, brother."

  "Oh? Past events? Could it be that my junior brother is recalling the past in Chu State?" Xiao Shaojun's mouth still held a smile, but his words carried a hint of something else.

  "Not bad, circling back to Chu State again, it's indeed a feeling that some things in life are hard to predict." Li Hui detected the sting in Xiao Shaojun's words but didn't expose it, and instead responded with a sigh of his own.

  "It's not obvious that this junior brother is still a sentimental person!" Xiao Shaojun also felt somewhat depressed. He had originally intended to remind Li Hui, with his words laced with thorns, that he came from the Chu State Cultivation Sect, which in their demonic path was considered "of illegitimate birth". But who knew this guy didn't react at all, and instead sighed about how unpredictable life was... This was like punching a cotton ball, and he had to accompany him in his sighs.

  "It's just that the scene evokes emotions, and I have some feelings, but it's probably laughable to Master!" Li Hui pretended to be sentimental, and continued to bicker with Xiao Shaojun in a refined tone.

  Xiao Shaojun was speechless, but turning his head to think about it, he also thought it was his own fault for seeking trouble. As a proud Jiedi cultivator and the young master of Lie Tian Sect, he was actually competing with a mere waste spirit root Qi refining cultivator.

  Xiao Shaojun also lost the mood to continue lamenting about life with Li Hui, and a smile appeared on his face: "Junior brother doesn't have to be too heartbroken, anyway our sect will move to Chu State in the future, so I won't bother junior brother again." He cupped his hands and bid farewell to Li Hui.

  "Thank you for your concern, brother. I've also returned to my room." Li Hui also bid farewell to Xiao Shaojun in a serious manner.

  Returning to the room, Li Hui couldn't help but burst out laughing. This young master Xiao seemed like a harmonious and gentle soul on the surface, but in reality, he was always intentionally or unintentionally making things difficult for himself, and today he must have been stifled to the point of great distress.

  Since there's no chance to escape at Chi Meng Ridge, let's continue to endure. When Zhao Mingyu leads the troops to attack Bi Xiao Gate, it will inevitably be another chaotic battle. At that time, Zhao Mingyu will have to take action personally and won't have time to spare, so I'll definitely have an opportunity. What I'm afraid of is being locked in a carriage like last time, then I'll be out of luck again.

  "Opportunities will always arise, if the Bi Xiao Gate is breached, it'll be a mess then too, when cleaning up the chaos, there should be a chance to escape." Li Hui can only comfort himself like this now.

  ……

  The second day, the sky above Chi Meng Ridge was empty.

  Zhao Ming stood with the wind, beside him were Shi Wendlong, the sect master of Wan Shou Sect, Xiao Yuanchi, the sect master of Lie Tian Sect, and other Jindan cultivators of Lie Tian Sect. Li Hui and Xiao Shaojun still stood behind Zhao Ming.

  On the ground, all disciples of Lie Tian Sect and Wan Shou Sect, as well as half of the disciples allocated from Tian Gang Gate, were fully armed and ready to go.

  What surprised Li Hui was that almost all the disciples of the Wan Beast Sect had a ferocious demon beast standing beside them. There were demon beasts with strength equivalent to the Refining Qi stage, and there were also those with strength equivalent to the Building Foundation stage. Beside several Golden Elixir cultivators of the Wan Beast Sect, there were even over a dozen Golden Elixir stage demon beasts!

  These Golden Core stage demonic beasts didn't know how to restrain their aura like human cultivators, and with the complete release of their Golden Core pressure, no one dared approach within dozens of meters!

  Monsters can transform into human form when they reach the Yuan Ying period. The golden elixir monsters are actually highly intelligent, but these monsters are naturally ferocious and will not restrain their aura to consider the feelings of humans.

  The golden elixir stage's demonic beasts are almost impossible to tame, and the Wan Beast Sect's golden elixir stage demonic beasts were all those that had advanced from the foundation building stage.

  "This is the true power of the Wan Beast Sect! Among the five major sects of the demonic path, although only the Wan Beast Sect does not have a Yuan Ying cultivator, there is absolutely no sect that dares to provoke the Wan Beast Sect! Otherwise, it would not have existed in Liangzhou for so many years. The law of the jungle has always been the iron-blooded rule of the demon cultivation world."

  Zhao Ming looked at these golden elixir stage demonic beasts and sighed: "Wen Long, your beast-taming skills in the Wan Shou Sect are truly amazing. If there were a few more of these golden elixir stage demonic beasts, I'm afraid my Demon Dao Five Sects would have to acknowledge the Wan Shou Sect as the leader!"

  On the side, Shi Wendlong, the sect master of the Wan Beast Sect, heard this and felt a chill in his heart. He detected the hint of disdain in Zhao Ming's words and hastily smiled: "Elder Zhao is overpraising me. These are just some minor, peripheral techniques. The methods of my Wan Beast Sect are crude and ordinary, without even a single cultivator who can advance to the Yuan Infant stage. We're barely managing to preserve our Dao lineage."

  Zhao Mingjiu smiled and didn't say anything more, he just spoke out of feeling earlier. The other cultivation methods of the Wan Shou Sect were indeed ordinary, without a Yuan Ying cultivator, they couldn't become a top-notch power.

  "Zhao Lao Guai, are you ready on your side? We're about to set off!" came the voice of Tian Geng Men's Che Yu Tai from afar.

  "Che Lao Gui, hurry up and leave, with you around, even our ears can't be at peace!" Zhao Ming Que also transmitted his voice.

  "Haha, take care Zhao brother, we'll go ahead first!"

  "Take care!"

  Zhuo Yang and Shen Wu Yan's voices also came over.

  Next, on the other side of Chi Meng Ridge, under the leadership of the three great Yuan Ying masters, the cultivators of Huaxue Cave, Wusai Sect, and Tiangang Gate rose into the air, their troops covering the sky and sun, flying towards the direction of Zixuan Gate.

  "Let's go too." Zhao Mingjiu waved his hand and released the Fissure Wind God Car, taking Xiao Shaojun and Li Hui into the car.

  Next, the disciples of the Earth-Shattering Sect and the Ten Thousand Beasts Sect also launched their flying boats into the air, advancing in a mighty procession towards the direction of the Azure Void Gate.

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