Huang Lei then asked about information, whether those people were still in Immortal Lord City.

"Alas, grandson, you're too late. Just a few hours ago, those people took off with a powerful magical treasure. We couldn't get close at all, nor could we track the opposing side's magical treasure. It's too amazing, too fast,"

Family Head Huang sighed.

"We didn't notice anything unusual when we came back, right? Didn't see any fast-flying magical artifacts!"

Huang Lei felt it was unlikely, considering one might miss some flying artifacts in the sky. If they were that fast, there would be traces of them passing by.

"Ah, grandson, it's understandable that you don't know the flight trail of the opposing side's magical treasure. Our people tried to track them when they left, but in an instant, they vanished without a trace, almost as if their magical treasure was invisible!"

After hearing his grandfather's words, Huang Lei felt somewhat disheartened; they simply couldn't compare in terms of magical treasures.

"How many people can their magical treasure carry?"

Family Head Huang was envious and jealous, not only were their magical treasures inferior, but their abilities were also not a match for others.

"Alas, I don't know how many people were inside their magical treasure. Our surveillance reported that they counted from a distance and estimated several hundred people boarded that magical treasure. It doesn't look big, yet it can hold so many people, such a pity we don't have such a magical treasure!"

The Acting Family Head felt the same envy. Their family's magical artifacts were outdated, their pills inferior to others', and in all sorts of skills, they were lacking.

"Indeed, we are inferior to others. If we continue like this, not to mention keeping up with top-tier families, we might even be overtaken by second-tier families and left far behind!"

Having heard what his grandfather and father said, the previous excitement from mastering powerful swordsmanship and gaining confidence suddenly faded for Huang Lei.

Even if his skills had improved, the lack of good resources hindered him. Buying just one Supreme Elixir would deplete all their savings. It would require robbing many people to gather enough wealth to buy even one pill!

Unhappy, Huang Lei went out to look around and gather information; he couldn't let things remain so nonsensical.

Huang Lei also made some alterations to his appearance. The people outside would recognize him; he needed to disguise himself to spy in the enemy's shop.

Firstly, he went to a shop of the Luo Family, pretending to be a customer, and the shopkeeper saw a stranger who came to their Cultivation City.

It was not unusual for them to have cultivator strangers visiting during this period, but recently, it seemed that fewer strangers were coming to this place.

Even those who came to shop would quickly disappear after a while, supposedly because it had been unstable outside lately, with bandits around.

"Guest, what would you like to buy?"

The shopkeeper's question put Huang Lei in a difficult position, as he had entered a decoration materials shop, not one that sold magical treasures. Purchasing these items would be useless to him!

"Shopkeeper, are these decorating materials that you sell so expensive? Does anyone buy them? Moreover, there aren't many places that need construction around here; I need to see if there's anything I can use."

The shopkeeper, quite shrewd, aimed to showcase their family's strength by claiming that their construction materials were very popular and, despite the high prices, people were still buying them.

"The guest might not be aware, but recently, we've not only been selling building materials within the city. Many cultivators have been buying materials to take away, and they've been buying in large quantities."

Huang Lei noticed a loophole in the shopkeeper's words. It seemed some people were moving items to another place. Could it be that mysterious Black Mist area?

Without purchasing any goods, Huang Lei wandered around Immortal Lord City and observed that shops selling foodstuffs had fewer customers.

On the contrary, those dealing in seasonings and building materials were very popular, bustling with activity.

Huang Lei wondered... Could it be that those people don't need to buy their food?

Perhaps, in the Black Mist area, they could cultivate their own food, which he could surmise. His curiosity grew as he longed to uncover the secrets hidden within the hundreds of miles covered by the Black Mist!

Unfortunately, by only questioning the shopkeepers, he'd find no answers to where the purchasers took the materials afterward.

Huang Lei speculated that if they were buying so many construction materials, then the area within the Black Mist must be desolate. What kind of structures were they building in there?

Huang Lei returned to his family and took some young men with him to the vicinity of the Black Mist, hiding in the same cave as before.

They still couldn't enter that part of the Black Mist, nor had they seen anyone emerge. They waited there for several days.

"Woof woof woof"

While Huang Lei and his companions were in the cave, they suddenly heard the faint sound of a flying artifact passing through the sky. They quickly moved towards the cave entrance to look up into the sky.

They only saw the disturbance created by the passing flying artifact; its speed was so fast that they couldn't make out its shape with their eyes.

"Oh my goodness, that's such a fast-flying oddity of a flying artifact; no wonder we can't see it or track it!"

"Yeah, we can't even make out the shape of its trail, this speed is just heartlessly fast!"

As they lamented their inability to penetrate the mist or pursue others, they wondered what to do next. They couldn't just wait there forever!

"We can only wait here. I refuse to believe they will only ever use the magical treasure to emerge and never open their area, skulking around like thieves and dogs!"

Huang Lei was the most patient among them, contemplating the future of their family and remembering the vengeance for his elder brother yet to be carried out.

He needed to grow stronger and refuse to live in such a muddled state.

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