The women sat at three in number, they were looking around with their proud eyes as they surveyed the whole formation, their eyes moved on the spot that Yun Jhin stood in but they didn't suspect a thing as Yun Jhin's stealth technique was quite advanced.
The women immediately started to get bored as they investigated the scene, they realized that there was nothing here and that the culprit who came already left a while ago, their formation had no traces of use as the person who came from outer space wouldn't have triggered any use of the launching pad formation, the only reason why Yun Jhin even landed here was that the locations of the launching pad formations were linked, so if one used the launching pad of the azure dragon planet that person would land at the respective launching pads of the other planets and vice versa.
Yun Jhin heaved a sigh of relief inside as he finally thought these people would leave, after this, he would have enough time to rest and maybe get to a city to gain some information and see how he could infiltrate the upper continents where he could get to the civilians with the highest concentration of blood purity, he did want to get his hands on cultivators but killing 100,000 of them would enrage and awaken the peak God Realm expert presiding over the planet, he already became an enemy with the azure dragon planet sovereign, making more enemies at the peak wasn't a good thing.
Yun Jhin's ears twitched as he heard the women talk about something that interested him a bit, it was the reason why Ruxandra couldn't follow him inside the formation:
"Even if it's someone from the other planets they shouldn't be at the God Realm so they should be pretty weak, however, it seems they came with bad intentions as they didn't introduce themselves, who knows they might not even be from the four-planet alliance!"
Another woman nodded at her comrades' words as they made sense and chipped in with a few words as well:
"It seems the contract from 50,000 years ago is still holding fast, there haven't been any internal wars for such a long time and everyone is prospering."
The last woman who was seemingly the leader of the small squad bonked the both of them on the head with her fists as she said:
"That's enough history lessons, we have looked around for enough time and there is no life force aura or residual ki auras left so even if we want to trace the person who came here it's quite impossible at the moment, we can only wait for any suspicious individuals to appear so we can apprehend them, let's go!"
The male of the group stood there for a bit of time before he made enough courage to say to the others who were ready to leave:
"Why don't we stay for a little bit more? We haven't really searched everywhere and we only did a perfunctory scan of the surroundings, who knows maybe the person is injured and he is hiding underground? Or maybe he is hiding in the waters below?"
The squad leader snorted as she put her finger on the male phoenix' chest and told him:
"Aren't you a bit too presumptuous to question my orders, you useless male?"
The male gulped the saliva that was stuck in his throat and took two steps back as he was quite scared of the squad leader, it would be with a reason as he was the only one in the group below the Emperor realm, he was at the peak of the 9th stage of the King Realm, he was also very close to breaking through.
The squad leaders eyes moved from his chest to his lower legs as she said with a big smile:
"Girls, why don't we teach this man how to act in front of goddesses like us?"
A scared expression appeared on the man's face as he started to run away, the plateau with the formation was above an ocean so the man wanted to dive into the ocean to escape only for his hands to be grasped by the duo, the squad leader pushed him down as she stripped herself and ripped the male's clothes as well.
The other two females waited their turn...
Yun Jhin ignored what was happening in front of him, he was just annoyed that they decided to do this right here, he wanted to heal himself and leave already but now he couldn't because these people decided to do their bullying activity here...
Yun Jhin sighed as he watched the squad leader go at it for almost 6 days!
The man below her looked weakened and almost without any strength left but that's when the other two women jumped on him at the same time, one at his head and one at the lower body.
Yun Jhin felt pity for the man after 3 more days he collapsed, even though he wasn't dead his Yang energy was exhausted to the point that he wasn't sure if it would recover for any time soon.
The women however looked to be full of energy as they grabbed the collapsed man and hummed a small song as one of them carried him over the shoulder like a sack of potatoes, the squad leader looked at the horizon and told both of her subordinates:
"Well I guess it's time to return, we have 'investigated' enough around here, now the matriarch can't say anything even if we come back empty-handed as we left for so many days, we might even be rewarded for our hard work!"
The other women chuckled as they followed their squad leader of the plateau and they started to quickly fly and disappear into the horizon.
Yun Jhin sighed as he left his stealth mode as soon as he couldn't sense their energy anymore, his lungs were burning and his ki pathways were twisted because of being overused while he was injured but those were injuries he could heal with his expertise, all he needed was energy.
Yun Jhin decided to use the ocean below him to his advantage before he used his soul to catch small aquatic animals and fish to use them for his healing process but now he wanted to go deeper to get some stronger animals, after all, the surface ones were weaker than middle stages King Realm experts.
Yun Jhin jumped down into the ocean from the plateau and sank for a few kilometers before he felt the auras around him being at a level he could handle without straining himself too much, tons of needle-like protrusions appeared out of his body as they snaked around in the dark waters around him.
Every time a needle returned to him it would come with the corpse of a strange fiery fish or an aquatic animal with the same aura, the ocean on the Vermillion bird planet was way hotter compared to the Azure dragon one, it was almost boiling in temperature!
However, Yun Jhin's body was tempered and strengthened and he could easily use the surrounding waters to help him heal instead of damaging his body.
After a few days of staying in the waters combined with his energy-sapping from the marine creatures made him heal around 20% of his injuries, thus he went further down into the ocean so he could sap stronger creatures.
As he went further into the ocean he reached the ocean floor where he met with creatures around the first stage of the Emperor realm, however by that time Yun Jhin's injuries were healed around 80% and around 3 months passed since he came to the Vermillion Bird planet.
1 more month passed and he was back to full health and he was also ready to break through to the 7th stage of the King Realm using the time laws!
During his healing session, his cultivation base got stronger as some of the remaining energy from the fishes seeped into his 6th jewel helping it reach the last stage of refinery slowly, even though he gained some impurities in it this way he used a fiery technique that conformed to the surroundings of the planet to purge them all out of the jewel.
Considering all of his experience combined with the abundant energy on the seafloor he could technically breakthrough in the 7th stage right now!
Yun Jhin sat cross-legged at the bottom of the ocean as he looked at his soul's crown then decided it was time to attach one more jewel to it.
The same thing as before happened, a clepsydra came out of his soul and Yun Jhin used his techniques to transform it into a jewel which he slowly inserted into the 7th slot of his crown.
After a short while he smoothly broke through to the 7th stage of the King Realm, however, he couldn't refine his jewel at all as all the surrounding energy was used up while he broke through, he also didn't want to change locations as the launching pad formation above him was scaring the stronger underwater predators and he didn't believe that the only marine creatures that existed in the ocean were at the 1st stage of the Emperor realm, there must be something embedded in the formation that scared away the stronger beings that could destroy it.
Yun Jhin looked around and since he already broke through and healed all of his injuries there were no more reasons for him to remain here.
It was time to see the civilization of the Vermillion Bird planet and integrate himself into it little by little...