Xuantian Immortal Cultivation Record

"Huh? He's gone again!"

"Yes, even with an invisibility talisman, my Spirit-Seeking Beast wouldn't lose its target."

"Could it be some spiritual artifact that isolates spiritual power?"

"Generally, they can't isolate it. This Spirit-Seeking Beast doesn't rely on the five senses but on a natural sensitivity. The more active the spiritual power, the stronger the sensation."

"That's strange. Under what circumstances does the Spirit-Seeking Beast usually lose its target?"

"Either the distance is too far, or the spiritual power fluctuations disappear, or… right, if the spiritual power target is buried deep underground, it's harder for it to find."

"Heh, could this person be a rat, born to burrow holes?"

"Hahaha, isn't he called 'Rat Daoist'!"

…

Five cultivators from the Heavenly Devil Abyss stood casually in a stream valley, chatting with relaxed expressions. They had been tracking Zhang Yuanjing for nearly a day and a night, traveling over ten thousand miles. They had caught up with Zhang Yuanjing several times, but lost sight of him within a short distance.

However, after two quarters of an hour, they would find his tracks again. Therefore, losing their target again was nothing to them. It was a good opportunity to recover their magical power slightly. With their numbers and the strange beast that was good at tracking cultivators, they were confident of victory. Now they were just playing a game of cat and mouse.

"He's appeared, southwest. Hehe, this kid changes direction back and forth, but he's always heading west. I'm afraid he's still going to Mount Shumi."

The cultivator holding the Spirit-Seeking Beast was a middle-aged scholar, with a long face and small eyes, and an ugly appearance. However, he wore a carefree scarf and a Heavenly Mystery Robe, putting on an air of being romantic and conceited.

"Senior Brother Guo, if we capture that confidant of the Xuantian Sect Leader, we will have made a great contribution to the sect, and you will be the first to be credited!" said a man in his thirties with red eyebrows and blue eyes.

"Yes, yes," the other three echoed.

The few people laughed and sacrificed their flying swords, heading towards the southwest.

Zhang Yuanjing flew with all his might, and after two hours, he noticed someone chasing after him. He thought to himself, this won't do. The low-grade high-quality Wind Riding Talisman had already been used up, and several times of sneaking in the earth had consumed a lot of energy. He was unable to maintain high-speed flight. On the other hand, the other party could take turns resting, and the time they could persist far exceeded his own.

"When I遁into the earth, they didn't notice anything, but why can they catch up as soon as I come out of the ground!"

Zhang Yuanjing couldn't figure this out. He was confident that the other party couldn't have left a marker on him, and he hadn't left any items that could be used for tracking. Moreover, the other party was a group of Foundation Establishment cultivators, how could they accurately find his route from dozens of miles away?

Whenever he was about to be caught up, Zhang Yuanjing would use the Earth Escape Technique to hide his tracks. The first time, he only traveled a dozen miles underground, but he was quickly caught up by his opponent. At that time, he thought that someone on the other side had a strange technique like Clairvoyance, which could see the movements on the ground from a distance in the sky, thus discovering his tracks.

The second time the enemy chased him, he sneaked for three quarters of an hour in one breath, crossing more than thirty miles, but the result was still the same. After several times, he kept increasing the distance. The last time, he used the Earth Escape Technique to the limit, and at the cost of consuming 70% of his mana, he sneaked for six hours in one breath, escaping nearly six hundred miles, but still couldn't escape the opponent's tracking.

In this way, even if Zhang Yuanjing was ignorant, he guessed that the people behind him must have tracking objects. If he didn't get rid of that thing, he would have no chance of escaping.

This place is nearly two hundred thousand miles away from Mount Shumi. For more than twenty years, due to the repeated battles between the Heavenly Demon Abyss and the Xuantian Sect cultivators in Mount Shumi, the surrounding small sects have moved away.

Along the way, dangerous mountains and rivers can be seen everywhere. Occasionally, there are several mortal kingdoms, stretching in the mountain valleys and plains by the water, which is a prosperous scene. However, if you want to deal with the pursuers, you can't seek any help, you can only rely on yourself.

Zhang Yuanjing thought about it, and the only means he could rely on was the Earth Escape Technique. He had to choose a suitable terrain to deal with those people.

He stood with his hands behind his back on the flying sword, looking into the distance, constantly searching in front of him. The best place to use the Earth Escape Technique is in complex and changeable mountains. In such a place, even if he can't defeat the enemy, he can at least be invincible and save his life.

The enemy behind him was getting closer and closer, only ten miles away. He didn't have much time to choose. At this time, he saw a high mountain piercing into the clouds in his left front. The mountainside was connected to several small hills, covering an area of two to three hundred miles in radius.

"Let's do it here!" Zhang Yuanjing made up his mind, and suddenly pressed down on the sword body, drawing a diagonal line in the sky, landed on a bare hillside of the high mountain, and then used the Earth Escape Technique to drill into the mountain, disappearing without a trace.

"It's this trick again!"

"Well, he's at the end of his rope! Haha!"

The people who came after him laughed and stopped on this hillside. "Senior Brother Guo," who was holding the Spirit-Seeking Beast, said, "Several junior brothers, you meditate and recover. I'll keep an eye on it."

The others didn't say much and meditated as instructed.

Soon, seven or eight hours passed.

"Huh? There's still no movement." "Senior Brother Guo" said in surprise.

A young cultivator in black tight clothes stood up and said, "Senior Brother Guo, I'll go up and take a look."

"Senior Brother Guo" nodded, looking at the Spirit-Seeking Beast in his arms with a solemn expression.

This Spirit-Seeking Beast was a white beast the size of a rabbit, with rat-like eyebrows and eyes, a dog-like nose, long whiskers and a sharp mouth, and occasionally made a soft "purring" sound. Feeling the master's anxiety, it "chirped" twice and then shook its head.

The young cultivator in black tight clothes had flown dozens of feet into the air, circling around this mountain area for a few weeks, but seemed to have found nothing, so he raised his altitude again to more than a hundred feet.

At this time, the other three also woke up from their meditation.

"Huh, so much time has passed."

"Yes, Senior Brother Guo, has he not appeared yet?"

"No, this time is a little different, it seems that kid is not a fool." "Senior Brother Guo" frowned and said, "Junior Brother Jin is monitoring from above, but with this mountain blocking the view, I'm afraid there will be omissions. Junior Brother Xu, you go too, go around the back of the mountain."

An old man with gray hair and a hunchback responded, sacrificed his flying sword and rushed into the clouds.

The other two looked at "Senior Brother Guo", and "Senior Brother Guo" nodded imperceptibly. This was indeed his intentional arrangement, sending the two away, so that the opponent would feel that there was an opportunity to take advantage of, and come up to attack.

However, another hour passed, and there was still no movement. "Junior Brother Jin" and "Junior Brother Xu" both fell from the air. The five people looked at each other, and for a while, they were at a loss.

"Could it be that he has run far away?" A thin middle-aged man in a green robe was the first to break the silence.

"It shouldn't be. If he could do it, he could have done it several times before, there is no need to spend it until now."

"Senior Brother Guo, what is the maximum sensing distance of the Spirit-Seeking Beast?"

"If there is no special terrain obstruction, a thousand miles is not a problem!"

"If it's a thousand miles, we might as well wait a little longer."

Everyone was silent. They would definitely be unwilling to fail after tracking all the way. Therefore, several people had some gains and losses, and did not know how to decide.

Finally, everyone looked at "Senior Brother Guo". This person had the highest cultivation level and was the oldest, and was the default leader of this group. "Senior Brother Guo" gritted his teeth and spit out a word: "Wait!"

After Zhang Yuanjing遁into the earth, he began to meditate. The cultivation environment in the earth is much worse than on the ground. In addition, the consumption caused by the pressure of the earth force in all directions, the speed of mana recovery is less than one-tenth of that of meditation on the ground.

Therefore, Zhang Yuanjing entered定for three days, and his mana recovered a little.

Submerged in the earth, it not only consumes mana, but also consumes physical strength. He meditates in the earth, which can ensure a constant flow of mana, but cannot maintain physical strength.

With his physical strength, he can stay underground for up to seven days. He also needs to save enough physical strength to deal with the enemy, so he can't consume too much.

But he didn't know that his meditation for these three days had made the five people outside anxious. If he really supported it in the soil for seven days, or even without seven days, only four or five days, these people would leave this place in a hurry and chase forward.

The greatest pressure was of course on "Senior Brother Guo", who was regarded as the leader. For three whole days, several people were trapped in a remote mountain area, and the tracked target did not show any movement for a long time. The anxiety and uneasiness in their hearts can be imagined.

The rest of the people couldn't help but "look" at "Senior Brother Guo" and his Spirit-Seeking Beast from time to time. "Senior Brother Guo" was secretly annoyed, but had nothing to say, so he had to suppress his anger and persevere.

Night fell, the surroundings were pitch black, the birds and beasts that were a little noisy during the day fell asleep, and the free and unrestrained mountains and fields completely quieted down.

"Chirp, chirp!" Two sharp beast cries suddenly sounded, piercing the long sky of the night and waking the birds from their dreams.

"East, there is movement, very close! Go quickly!" "Senior Brother Guo"'s eyes widened, and his face was full of exhaustion, pointing to the east, and loudly ordered.

Several people immediately jumped up, drove their flying swords straight to the east. "Senior Brother Guo" was a late Foundation Establishment cultivator, and had cultivated spiritual consciousness, which could cover a range of four or five miles.

"Here, come down!" "Senior Brother Guo" stood at a dark cave entrance and shouted to several junior brothers.

"This is the burrow of the Scale Rat Beast!"

"Well, smelling this smell, it should be."

"Senior Brother Guo, is that person hiding here?"

"It's inside. The cave is about eighty feet deep, but it's too small."

"Are we going in? What is that kid doing inside! It smells so bad, can he really stand it!"

"Well, he seems to be meditating."

The middle-aged man in the green robe clapped his palms: "He must have a spiritual artifact that allows him to hide in the soil, but it consumes a lot of energy, and he can't hold back his mana, so he hurriedly found a place to meditate and recover. Senior Brother Guo, let's go in quickly."

"Senior Brother Guo" was moved by the words, but when he saw the cave entrance, which was only half a person high, he couldn't help but feel his scalp tingle. In such a narrow space, not only is the numerical advantage lost, but the attacking side is in an extremely unfavorable condition. If you are not careful, you will fall on the spot.

"Senior Brother Guo, what is the passage inside the cave like? Is there any possibility of attacking directly from the entrance?" An ugly cultivator wearing a black cloak with strange patterns engraved on his face asked.

"Senior Brother Guo" glanced at him and said, "The cave is very tortuous, so ordinary attacks are of course impossible. Junior Brother Chen, your poisonous insects can go in and try."