Published: March 2, 2025
Chapter 172: Departing Calmly
“In my opinion, it's better to see you off!”
Liu Yu said expressionlessly, looking down at the three spiritual plant cultivators with indifference. By the end of his statement, his tone had turned chillingly cold.
Hearing these words, the three spiritual plant cultivators immediately changed color, their expressions filled with extreme terror.
Their eyes widened involuntarily as they looked up at Liu Yu, opening their mouths as if to say something.
However, Liu Yu’s gaze was filled with indifference; he had long retracted any unnecessary compassion. He opened his mouth and expelled three strands of pale blue flames, instantly shooting toward the three.
“Ah!”
At such a close distance, the three had no time to react and were directly engulfed by the blue flames. In less than a breath, the flames expanded and spread across their bodies, reducing them to ashes.
Sometimes life is this fragile, with life and death turning in the blink of an eye.
Controlling the three strands of azure yang devil fire to fly into his dantian, Liu Yu carefully experienced the changes in the demonic fire.
Burning three qi refinement stage cultivators only resulted in a slight enhancement of his power, which was far from the level of a foundation establishment cultivator.
However, Liu Yu was mentally prepared for this situation. After all, the transition from the qi refinement stage to the foundation establishment stage represents a fundamental enhancement of life, and there is a gap between the essence of life for the two, whether in the physical body or the primordial spirit.
To put it another way, every ascension in a cultivator's realm is a transformation of the essence of life, moving from mortal to immortal, from ordinary to extraordinary, step by step detaching from the domain of “human” and entering the realm of “immortal.”
It is not merely a qualitative change in magical power or an increase in strength; more crucially, it is the transformation and sublimation of the primordial spirit and physical body!
Stretching out his hand, he grabbed the three storage bags and pulled them into his possession from a distance, casually tying them to his waist.
Of course, Liu Yu was not interested in the few spiritual stones they possessed; rather, he thought that as spiritual plant cultivators, their storage bags should contain many seeds of spiritual herbs, as well as books related to spiritual planting.
Although he did not plan to specialize in this field, it would still be quite necessary to gain some understanding whenever he had free time.
After doing all this, Liu Yu was about to perform the earth escape technique and leave when he suddenly felt a movement in his heart, sensing two foundation establishment cultivators approaching rapidly from the ground.
Without time to think, unwilling to confront the cultivators of the Heavenly Harmony Sect, he immediately patted the storage bag, and a slightly yellow spiritual talisman appeared in his hand.
This was a first-tier high-quality earth escape talisman that he had preserved since his time in the fourth layer of qi refinement and had never used. It could travel about five miles underground.
Using the spiritual talisman was extremely simple and quick. Liu Yu slightly infused a trace of magical power, activating the earth escape talisman. In an instant, it turned into a yellow spiritual light that enveloped his figure, and he vanished into the ground.
At the same time, he concentrated his mind and activated the concealment technique, working hard to suppress his aura and minimize any fluctuations.
In the spiritual herb garden, after three or four breaths, the two foundation establishment cultivators from the Heavenly Harmony Sect, who had been guarding the entrance, finally arrived at the scene, only to stare blankly at a few piles of black ash.
They stood at the entrance for half a cup of tea's worth of time before finally realizing something was wrong. Logically speaking, the white-bearded elder, a seasoned mid foundation establishment cultivator, should not have taken this long to deal with an early foundation establishment kid, especially since there were no signs of a duel.