I Have a Compass for Opportunity

Xu Hetong left, and as Liou Yuan watched him disappear into the distance, he naturally didn’t really intend to pursue him. Instead, he breathed a sigh of relief due to Xu Hetong’s departure.

Yan Yingsi, however, took Liou Yuan’s words seriously.

As soon as Xu Hetong left, Liou Yuan saw Yan Yingsi casting the Red Robe Swallowing Dome Spell and chasing after him.

"You!" Liou Yuan instinctively called out to Yan Yingsi, raising his hand in an attempt to stop her.

Realizing that Yan Yingsi might not actually catch up with Xu Hetong, he swallowed the words he was about to utter.

"Even if she does catch up, Xu Hetong, severely injured, is likely no match for Yan Yingsi."

"Might as well play it out completely!" Liou Yuan thought to himself.

At this point, Liou Yuan could no longer hide his exhaustion, his face visibly paling.

The depletion of his Spiritual Power left him unsteady on his feet, his vision darkening, and his body swaying, nearly falling to the ground.

Fortunately, at that moment, a pair of strong hands reached out from behind him, propping up his back and stabilizing his body.

Liou Yuan’s eyes showed surprise as he forced himself to turn around wearily, seeing the Wind Chasing Division’s three remaining disciples still capable of fighting.

One disciple clad in black wielding the Bone-Piercing Nail, a middle-aged disciple with a large medicine pouch at his waist, and a youth around Liou Yuan’s age at the Qi Cultivation Seventh Layer.

The disciple who supported Liou Yuan was the one wielding the Bone-Piercing Nail.

After Xu Hetong fled, they were the first to emerge from the Earth Mother Prison Array to check on Liou Yuan’s condition.

After all, the injuries Xu Hetong had inflicted on Liou Yuan earlier were not light, his body was covered in wounds.

"Liou Yuan Junior Brother has guts, being able to scare off Xu Hetong even in this state," commented the black-clad disciple first.

This person had hawk-like eyes, with a black leather nail pouch hanging from his waist, containing over a hundred Bone-Piercing Nails, all engraved with strange runes, their tips glowing with a sinister bluish-green, seemingly poisoned.

"Just call me Hu Weihao," he said.

The black-clad disciple clearly had a natural ease, smiling amiably at Liou Yuan.

"Ah, it’s Mr. Hu," Liou Yuan vividly remembered Hu Weihao.

When Yan Yingsi went out to confront Xu Hetong, Hu repeatedly took the lead in the array.

At the crucial moment, it was the Refined Gold Breaking Mountain Array, under Xu Hetong’s attack, that saved Yan Yingsi, and Hu’s contributions were indispensable.

"Please don’t call me ’senior,’ I can’t take it!" Hu Weihao said, shaking his head repeatedly, quickly adding, "Just call me by my name."

Liou Yuan’s battle had shown the Wind Chasing Division disciples the prowess of his Canglan Sword.

He fought against Golden Core descendant Xu Hetong, nearly collapsing the cave, and ultimately won a move.

The momentum of their battle was such that outside of Lan Chenyu, there was no one in Five Extremes Mountain’s Outer Sect who could intervene.

Mr. Hu definitely didn’t want Liou Yuan to call him ’senior.’

The remaining two introduced themselves.

The middle-aged man was named Lu Chenyun, an old hand in the Wind Chasing Division, skilled in Alchemy Dao.

His medicine pouch contained some Healing Medicine, and while Liou Yuan and Hu Weihao conversed, he began applying some external Elixir on Liou Yuan.

Whether the Elixir would be effective wasn’t immediately clear, but it provided pain relief as soon as it was applied, instantly dulling the burning pain.

The youth was Liao Gaolang, although young, he joined the sect three years before Liou Yuan.

By rights, he should address Liou Yuan as ’junior brother,’ but instead, he stepped forward and respectfully called Liou Yuan ’senior brother.’

This left Liou Yuan momentarily stunned before he quickly responded, "Mr. Liao."

He began to pay a bit more attention to Liao Gaolang.

In truth, Liou Yuan held these three individuals in considerable esteem.

They were the only ones in the Wind Chasing Division who could still stand.

Aside from the four who died in battle, the other Wind Chasing Division disciples were all slumped over the array’s nexus.

These people were already injured and had their Spiritual Power drained by the array, with many having fainted.

These three standing before Liou Yuan were clearly exceptional among the disciples.

Having acquainted themselves with each other, Lu Chenyun, after finishing tending to Liou Yuan, looked meaningfully at the cave entrance and smiled, "Mr. Yan certainly has guts, daring to chase out there."

"If it were me, I’d just make a show of it, afraid of Xu Hetong counterattacking," he said.

"But the pursuit is necessary, Mr. Yan fears Xu Hetong’s return; the fiercer she chases, the faster Xu Hetong flees," Hu Weihao added with a sly grin.

Liou Yuan realized that they had all long since noticed that his Secret Technique was reaching its limit.

If they could notice, surely Yan Yingsi could as well.

Recalling Yan Yingsi’s earlier eye contact, Liou Yuan muttered, "That crazy woman played her part well; even I was almost fooled."

The group, including Liou Yuan, felt assured about any potential mishaps Yan Yingsi might encounter.

Xu Hetong was already severely injured, and everyone had witnessed Liou Yuan’s Sword Qi nearly shredding Xu Hetong’s body.

"Even if Xu Hetong wanted to kill Yan Yingsi, it’s uncertain he truly could."

With this thought, Liou Yuan relaxed, and under the care of Hu Weihao and the other two, entered the Earth Mother Prison Array.

Liou Yuan needed rest as his Spiritual Power was depleted, and the Earth Mother Prison Array was the safest place.

As Liou Yuan entered the array, the heavily injured or Spiritually exhausted Wind Chasing Division disciples within the array’s protection struggled to rise, casting reverent glances towards Liou Yuan.

Having been trapped here for days, they relied entirely on Liou Yuan to turn the tide, annihilate the demon cultivators, and even drive away the Golden Core descendant, Little Ming King.