Tainted will

Inside the fog was a marsh that took up most of the area, and under the marsh was a giant cave. There were numerous tunnels connecting the giant cave to smaller caves and tunnels from those caves to others. The entire underground area was covered with big and small caves connected to each other.

Inside the largest cave, there were two youths dressed in the Red lotus sect's official disciple robes, both of them were peacefully meditating.

Buzzz...

"What is this?" The youths stopped meditating as they stood up and swiftly retreated hundreds of meters from the formation, they intently stared at the formation with piercing gazes.

The formation on the ground lit up with bright lights and sent a ripple through the air. Slowly, a black-haired youth came out and, the moment he appeared, he released a burst of overwhelming killing intent causing the youths to involuntarily take a few steps back.

Bai Ming revealed a vigilant expression as he quickly surveyed his surroundings, his gaze filled with killing intent immediately landed on the youths causing them to feel a wicked chill in their spine, but they quickly recognized Bai Ming, and a sense of relief sprouted in their vigilant hearts.

'I don't sense any threat here,' Bai Ming coldly stared at the two youths who didn't dare move a muscle under his overbearing killing intent, Bai Ming scanned his surroundings repeatedly before finally retrieving his killing intent.

Once Bai Ming retrieved his sinister killing intent, the color on the faces of the youths returned. They slightly bowed and clasped their hands in greetings to Bai Ming.

These two youths were the few subordinates Teng Zhe had provided Bai Ming with. Initially, Bai Ming had placed zero importance on them, he had just seen them as meat shields to be used as fit. And to a certain degree, he even considered them to be a hindrance.

But after pondering a bit, it all changed when he came up with an adequate use for them. Bai Ming was wise enough to hand them transfer arrays before entering the mystic realm. Doing this gave him another layer of security, but there were limitations to this brilliant method too.

For starters, the transfer array only had a range of 100 thousand miles. Fortunately, when Bai Ming activated the transfer array on his side there was another transfer coordinate within the transferable range. The mystic realm's nature is to randomly teleport people when entering, which was a great help to Bai Ming in a certain aspect.

As for worrying about the fact that other cultivators might also utilize these transfer arrays was rather low, With Bai Ming's calculative nature he had made subtle adjustments to these teleportation formations.

Normally, Operating formations required one to infuse their divine sense into the formation to get it started. However, with these particular transfer arrays, things were a bit different as they only worked on Bai Ming's divine sense. Of course, these wonders were all thanks to his grandmaster realm attainment in the formation path.

"Both of you, good work. I'll be sure to reward you handsomely for your hard work after returning to the sect, but for now, stay guard and don't disturb me." Bai Ming praised the youths with a smile, before consuming a tier 5 healing pill and silently began recuperating.

The two youths quickly thanked Bai Ming with satisfied smiles on their faces, they wanted to discuss a few things with Bai Ming but remembering his words, they didn't dare to bother him. And after exchanging words internally with each other, they swiftly stood guard with even more vigor than before.

Bai Ming secretly monitored their actions, seeing that they didn't have any unwanted thoughts he relaxed slightly. Of course, he naturally placed a dozen defensive formations around him, just in case. Even in his current miserable state killing them wouldn't be all that difficult for him.

Two hours quickly passed, and Bai Ming stood up retrieving all the defensive restrictions he had previously placed. With Bai Ming's terrifying recovery speed aided by the astounding medicinal effects of the tier-5 healing pill, returning to his peak state within two hours wasn't all that difficult.

Bai Ming next spent some time digging for information from the two youths, but there wasn't anything particularly interesting.

'Hmm, there hasn't been any disturbance in this place. Either this place is pretty isolated or there is an extremely powerful Demonic beast residing nearby, or it could be something else. But for the time being this transfer coordinate is somewhat safe.' Bai Ming mused as he lightly tapped his storage bag.

Bai Ming then read the contents of the spirit herb that Teng Zhe had given him before entering the sect, Bai Ming discovered that it was an extinct tier-8 spirit herb in the outside world, and he also learned that it was an extremely rare spirit herb.

However, Bai Ming wasn't familiar with the exact use of this spirit herb. But it wasn't difficult for him to discern the tremendous value of this spirit herb.

An urge to harvest this spirit herb immediately sprouted in his heart. But Bai Ming quickly cast it away, he was already a target of Teng Zhe. Bai Ming didn't yearn to be targeted by Zhou Yi as well when leaving the mystic realm.

Bai Ming intended to silently leave the Mystic realm while creating chaos and shifting all the focus of those supreme realm cultivators on Zhou Yi's disciples.

After creating a great disturbance in the sect, Bai Ming would then utilize those newly bought tier-6 beast wings to escape far away from the Red lotus sect's reach.

For Bai Ming, it was best if Zhou Yi's disciples could quickly get a hold of the tier-8 spirit herb, once that happens it won't be Bai Ming running away from them. Instead, it would be the opposite. Zhou Yi's three disciples would make an effort to stay far away from Bai Ming.

To keep the spirit herb safe with them they would surely try their best to avoid confrontation with him like any smart person would. At least this was what Bai Ming believed to be the case.

He then took out a blood-red scroll, he opened the scroll only to see an illusionary golden arrow slowly moving in a circular direction.

Bai Ming bit his finger and dripped a drop of his blood on the golden arrow, the second his blood was absorbed by the arrow, it shook violently before the golden arrow melted into the scroll.

Bai Ming patiently observed the scroll, and a pair of black lips suddenly rose from the scroll. It wasn't much later, the pair of lips spread out and made way for a pink tongue with a snake insignia on it to slither out.

Bai Ming's eyes lit up, he quickly grabbed the pink tongue and ripped it off, then he casually tossed it in his mouth before he continued to munch on it.

After swallowing the tongue, Bai Ming closed his eyes for a brief second before reopening them just as quickly.

'So, right now I am in the inner area of the mystic realm. The Violet stellar grass is roughly 400,000 miles away from this place. Hmm...' Bai Ming stared at the ground as he thought secretly, this blood-red scroll was a treasure gifted to him by his so-called teacher to help him locate the spirit herb.

'Sigh, for now, I'll just concentrate on removing the divine sense marker placed on me by that Old fart.' Bai Ming made up his mind and took out another formation from his storage bag.

Bai Ming had already made tons of preparation beforehand, he was a person who always planned dozens of steps ahead while playing the dangerous game called life.

Even though Bai Ming was a hardcore opportunist at heart, at the same time he was a cautious individual who preferred to have things firmly in his control, and wouldn't let his emotions get the better of him or his cold heated decisions.

In this game of life and death, Bai Ming was determined to succeed!

Bai Ming spent the following few days inside the divine sense-eradicating formation, After the fourth day, the formation lights dimmed out as Bai Ming finally walked out with a slight smile on his cold face.

'At last, I am free from Teng Zhe's grasp. Hehehe, it feels good to be unrestricted. But it would have been better if I could somehow get rid of this problematic curse mark, maybe there is a method of getting rid of this curse in the core area of the mystic realm.'

'From my understanding, The eccentric Ancestor was a martial frantic whose thirst for knowledge knew no bounds, for his goals he even made life and death enmity with the five great powers of the Azure Cultivation world. Fearless and admirable, he was quite a character but it's a pity that he still died in the end...'

Bai Ming's mind wandered for a second but he shook his head and quickly returned to reality. Then, he directly walked into the transfer array and vanished once again.

He was going to slay a crab.