Ruan Qingyun is a loose cultivator from Fengg Country with an Early-Stage Foundation Establishment cultivation and a high-grade spirit root talent.

In his youth, he accidentally obtained a jade scroll containing a set of puppet heritages.

With the help of this heritage, he successfully became a puppet master.

He is quite famous even in Fengg Country!

Although Ruan Qingyun is exceptionally talented, being a loose cultivator and a puppet master requires a lot of resources.

After many years, his cultivation was still stuck at the third layer of Foundation Establishment,

which is the direct reason why he took the path of tribulation cultivation. If he relied only on himself, when could he have gathered enough puppet beasts and breakthrough resources!

Now that Golden Cloud Valley has opened, it has given loose cultivators in Xui Country and several nearby cultivation countries a chance to leap over the dragon gate.

He naturally wouldn't miss it.

So he brought all his belongings and went straight there.

As soon as Golden Cloud Valley opened, Ruan Qingyun eagerly rushed inside.

The valley, worthy of its renowned treasure land,

In just a few days, he harvested several Tier Two spirit medicines.

As for Tier One spirit medicines, they were too numerous to count.

Each day inside was equivalent to a year's harvest outside.

On this particular day, he entered a canyon.

Soon after he went in, he discovered a cultivator team working on breaking a restriction.

Upon closer inspection, he saw one middle-stage Foundation Establishment cultivator, two early-stage Foundation Establishment cultivators, and the remaining seven were just Qi Refining Cultivators.

For him, although he couldn't win, escaping would be no problem.

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In his life, he had two major skills he was proud of.

One was his puppetry technique,

He became a Tier Two Low-Grade puppet master by self-learning with just one puppet heritage.

It made him extremely proud.

The other was his escape technique!

This was an odd skill passed down from his ancestors, allowing him to burst mana and increase his speed by fifty percent in a short time!

After pondering, Ruan Qingyun decided to stay.

After all, a place that could hold a ten-person cultivator team was surely not ordinary.

The scene that followed made him utterly glad he made that decision.

Once the cultivator team broke the restriction, a medicine garden appeared, and to his excitement, the garden contained a Tier Three High-Grade spirit medicine!

It was a heaven-sent opportunity.

Purple Spirit Crystal Reishi, a treasure that even True Pill Cultivators craved.

If he could obtain it, the legendary deeds of Master Heming would be mirrored in his journey.

This was undoubtedly the greatest opportunity he had encountered since birth.

So, when the cultivator team opened the restriction and discussed the treasure division, Ruan Qingyun unhesitatingly used his escape technique to dart to the Purple Spirit Crystal Reishi.

He snatched it up and put it into his storage bag.

Then, using his puppet beast to entangle the cultivator team, he made his escape.

However, since the Xu Family is one of the four great cultivation families in Xui Country, their disciples were no fools.

As Ruan Qingyun was fleeing, they successfully placed a tracking mark on him.

After dealing with the puppet beasts, the Xu Family cultivators quickly gave chase.

With the mark on, Ruan Qingyun was quickly found while resting, the two sides erupting into a fierce battle.

The Qi Refining Cultivators on the Xu Family's side, due to slower speed, hadn't caught up; only the three, all Foundation Establishment Cultivators, were there!

Ruan Qingyun still had many Late-Stage Qi Refining puppets and even two Tier Two puppets.

The strength of both sides was quite balanced, with little difference.

The fight was intense, with Ruan Qingyun's over twenty Late-Stage Qi Refining puppets all scrapped,

and only one of the two Tier Two puppets remained, severely damaged.

Meanwhile, on the Xu Family's side, one Early-Stage Foundation Establishment cultivator perished, and the middle-stage Foundation Establishment cultivator was severely injured.

Even so, the Xu Family did not give up!

After all, the Purple Spirit Crystal Reishi could allow the Xu Family to produce another Fake Pill!

Thus, with their injuries, they pursued Ruan Qingyun forcibly.

Due to controlling the puppets, Ruan Qingyun was not greatly injured himself.

Thus his escape speed wasn't reduced, and he soon shook off the Xu Family cultivators.

Exiting Golden Cloud Valley, he finally found an uninhabited valley to settle down.

After being found by the Xu Family last time, he realized a tracking mark was certainly placed on him.

So he spent several hours erasing that mark.

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"Hahaha!"

In a deserted valley, thirty thousand miles northwest of White Cloud Immortal City's territory.

Ruan Qingyun laughed heartily at the sky.

Before him lay a jade box, with a spirit medicine entirely purple and appearing like a crystal reishi inside.

It was the Tier Three High-Grade spirit medicine, the "Purple Spirit Crystal Reishi!"

After erasing the tracking mark,

he deliberately set up an array on a nearby hill to wait.

After several days without seeing any sign of Xu Family cultivators, he was sure he had successfully shaken them off.

Then he continued his flying escape without hesitation, changing direction multiple times, eventually selecting an uninhabited valley to descend to.

He set up a temporary cave mansion there.

"With this top-level spirit medicine in hand, should the Xu Family become furious, they might spread the news,"

"By then, the entire Xui Country may issue a warrant for me!"

"I should hide here for two to three years, waiting for the uproar to die down before leaving!"

They would never guess that I would stay near Golden Cloud Valley, right under their noses!

This reverse strategy of mine is truly shrewd!

As for Fengg Country, I don't plan to return.

Using so many puppets in Golden Cloud Valley was too conspicuous, and it would be easy to trace back to me.

With this spirit medicine, there is nowhere I can't go!

When the time comes, after traversing several cultivation countries, I will focus on cultivating to Foundation Establishment Peak, and then exchange this spirit medicine for a Core Formation opportunity.

Maybe I'll even have a chance to glimpse the True Pill Dao!

This decisive action has truly paved the way for my future!

Xu Family! The day I form my core will be the day of your destruction!

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Meanwhile, Zhou Xun divined again and discovered that the Hundred Beasts Evil Monarch hadn't changed location. He immediately understood this person's thinking.

In Zhou Xun's past life parlance, this was the dark under the lamp.

Utilizing people's habitual thinking, reversing the expected logic.

Zhou Xun couldn't help but admire this person's mind; if he were part of the Xu Family, he might not have guessed that the person was hiding thirty thousand miles near Golden Cloud Valley.

There isn't a single good one among those who take the path of tribulation cultivation!

However, the Hundred Beasts Evil Monarch probably didn't expect me to have such an odd skill like divination tracking in my hand.

Under such a dimensional reduction strike, all of his actions are a joke.

No matter how he sets up barriers, no matter how clever his mind,

Under my tracking technique, it is all for naught.

With a thirty-thousand-mile distance, given Zhou Xun's current cultivation, he could reach it in two days with full-speed flying escape.

At two hundred miles from the Hundred Beasts Evil Monarch, Zhou Xun descended from his escape light.

Cultivators have keen senses and can see exceptionally far.

In the uncluttered sky, it isn't a myth for a Foundation Establishment cultivator's sight to have a hundred-mile view.

To avoid being discovered, Zhou Xun landed early.

Then stopped, took out a Qi Recovery Pill and consumed it, before starting meditation to restore his mana.

After several hours, Zhou Xun's mana was replenished and at his best state.

Only then did he continue his journey through the mountains and forests.

Until he was ten miles from that valley, he stopped again.

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