Wu Shattered Star River

Jiang Han and the others flew rapidly for hundreds of thousands of miles. Then, Wu Ji led them to a cave below, quickly setting up a formation to conceal their aura.

They waited quietly. Sure enough, after half an incense stick's time, a sneaky immortal tracked them from behind.

This was a demon, with a heavy demonic aura. It seemed he knew some tracking techniques. He tracked them all the way to the vicinity and actually stopped. His nose twitched, and he quickly flew down, lurking.

“Buzz~”

The divine formation within the cave deactivated, and Wu Ji and Lu Yu shot out, charging towards the demon immortal.

Che Yongxuan flew out with Yang Siya, while Feng Lingzi quietly observed Yang Siya's expression. Jiang Han walked at the rear.

“Bang, bang, bang, bang!”

Wu Ji and Lu Yu attacked the demon. The demon pretended to be innocent, desperately resisting while loudly questioning them. Wu Ji and Lu Yu said nothing, relentlessly attacking.

This demon's combat strength wasn't strong, but his movements were good. He was quickly injured under the joint attack of Wu Ji and Lu Yu. After being severely wounded, Lu Yu captured him directly.

“咻!”

Che Yongxuan flew over and kicked the demon in the lower body. He then rained punches on the demon's head, leaving him bloodied.

He said fiercely, "Speak! Who sent you to track us?"

In fact, everyone already had the answer in their hearts, they just wanted to confirm it.

The demon was tight-lipped, constantly protesting his innocence. Che Yongxuan grew annoyed. He took out some insects from an ancient pagoda. These insects flew into the demon's body, and soon the demon let out a heart-wrenching scream.

The demon didn't hold out for long and confessed everything. It was Shi Zhenxian and Shi Zhenhao, the brothers, who had sent him to track them, wanting to find out where they were going.

“Hmph, hmph!”

Che Yongxuan snorted coldly, his eyes flashing with killing intent. He said in a deep voice, "I will kill those two brothers sooner or later!"

“Ha!”

After speaking, Che Yongxuan punched the demon's head, causing it to explode. A faint light flew out, and the demon's soul tried to escape, but Che Yongxuan scattered it with a palm strike.

Che Yongxuan turned his hand into a sharp claw, grabbing into the demon's abdomen and pulling out a millet-sized immortal seal. He also took the demon's spatial ring before releasing a flame to incinerate the demon into ashes.

After examining the spatial ring, Che Yongxuan's face showed disdain. He threw the immortal seal and spatial ring to Wu Ji, saying, "A poor ghost, only a few dozen immortal stones and a piece of trash immortal artifact."

Wu Ji shrugged, not surprised. How many immortal stones could a scout have?

“Let's go to the Dark Mountains!”

Wu Ji waved his hand, and the group flew west. After circling around, they flew north. They flew discreetly, close to the ground, not daring to be too conspicuous.

After flying for more than an hour, a group of fierce birds flew overhead, all golden roc birds. Each roc bird had an immortal standing on it, wearing the same robes with the words “Tai Xuan” on the left chest.

“People from the Tai Xuan Sect!”

Everyone's heart tightened. The strength of these immortal sects was indeed powerful. These golden-winged roc birds were of considerable level, and the immortals on them all had soaring qi and blood, clearly powerful individuals.

The immortals from the Tai Xuan Sect noticed them but didn't care, only glancing at them indifferently. The golden-winged roc birds tore through the sky and flew away.

The group continued forward. They encountered two more teams on the way, but they sensed each other from afar and avoided each other, each continuing on their way.

After flying for more than three days, the group arrived at the outskirts of the Dark Mountains.

There was a small town at the foot of the mountain, which didn't seem like an officially built town. Che Yongxuan glanced at the town from afar and said, "Shall we go in and investigate the situation?"

“We can't go in!”

Wu Ji shook his head and said, "This small town is full of spies. Those immortal bandit groups must have eyes here. If we go in to investigate their situation, isn't that just courting death?"

“The problem is…”

Che Yongxuan frowned and said, "We know nothing about the situation here. We don't even know where the immortal bandits are entrenched. The Dark Mountains are so big. If we rush in, we'll easily be targeted by powerful immortal bandits. At that time, we might not even be able to escape."

Wu Ji took out another map and said, "I've actually figured out the situation. There are more than thirty large and small groups of immortal bandits here. Five groups of immortal bandits are very powerful, and their strongholds are fixed. I've circled them all."

“The rest of the immortal bandits are mobile, so as long as we don't go to the territory of these five major immortal bandit groups, there shouldn't be a big problem.”

“Not bad!”

Che Yongxuan asked in surprise, "Old Wu, how did you get this information?"

Wu Ji touched his nose and said, "There is a black market in Tianqing Mountain, where information is sold. I sold an immortal artifact in exchange for the information…"

Che Yongxuan, Feng Lingzi, and Jiang Han were somewhat surprised. Feng Lingzi asked, "Where is the black market?"

Yang Siya smiled and said, "It's in a small mountain south of Tianqing Mountain. There are several large halls inside. It can't really be called a black market, the public name is Tianyin Pavilion."

“Tianyin Pavilion exists near every city in the Heavenly Court. As long as you have immortal stones, you can buy anything you want. Tianyin Pavilion should be a super large force behind the scenes. Tianyin Pavilion is also the largest chamber of commerce in the Heavenly Court, without any competition.”

“Oh, oh!”

Jiang Han and the others understood. This Tianyin Pavilion was similar to the Dark City of the Star Dust Realm and the Ruyi Pavilion of the Myriad Worlds, all doing business.

Such chambers of commerce generally have powerful backgrounds, possibly with an immortal emperor-level powerhouse standing behind them.

Che Yongxuan nodded and said, "Then how do we proceed? Go into the mountains to find immortal bandits?"

“No need to find them!”

Wu Ji smiled and said, "We'll just hunt immortal beasts and search for natural treasures in the outer area. Naturally, immortal bandits will come looking for us. Let's all restrain our aura a bit. Do you guys know any immortal techniques for restraining aura? If not, I'll teach you one."

“I know!”

Che Yongxuan's immortal power flashed, and then his aura rapidly weakened.

Yang Siya smiled, and her aura also quickly weakened. Feng Lingzi and Lu Yu exchanged glances and began to restrain their aura.

Wu Ji looked at Jiang Han, who hesitated. He did know some Taoist techniques for restraining aura, but his immortal body had vigorous qi and blood, making it difficult to completely conceal. He cupped his hands and said, "Brother Wu, please teach me."

Wu Ji took out a parchment scroll and threw it to Jiang Han, who quickly began to read it.

“Wasting time!”

Che Yongxuan looked at Jiang Han impatiently and said, "Why don't you just hang out your immortal badge? Who would care about a pseudo-immortal?"

“Uh…”

Jiang Han was stunned. Wu Ji and the others exchanged glances, realizing that Che Yongxuan had a point.

The immortal badge of a pseudo-immortal is different from theirs. In the upper realm, pseudo-immortals represent the lowest level of existence, and all true immortals will instinctively look down on them.

“Alright!”

Jiang Han took out his immortal badge and hung it on his waist. However, he didn't return the parchment scroll to Wu Ji, intending to study it later.

“Let's go!”

Wu Ji didn't care, waving his hand and leading the group towards the mountains, saying as he walked, "The powerful immortal bandits are all in the depths of the mountains. We'll just wander around in the outer area. It's estimated that it won't be long before the immortal bandits take the initiative to come to our door!"