C11

At the third fragment of the night, Cheng Siqi stopped cultivating and slowly let out a mouthful of impure air. A smile appeared on his face as he said, "I've reached the second level of the martial general!"

With a flip of his hand, a jade slip appeared in his hand. He immersed his divine sense into the jade slip, and a short while later, a message appeared in his mind.

"Demonfire! It's actually like this!"

Compared to the heavenly fire, the demonic fire was also different from normal ones. Compared to the heavenly fire, which only existed in the legends, the demonic fire was much more common, and some fire type demon beasts were born with it. In order to obtain the demonic fire, one would have to obtain it from the fire type demon beasts.

"Looks like I have to go out and fight, looking for elixirs and demonic fire. Otherwise, according to my current speed, I won't be able to concoct Pei-Yuan Dan!" Cheng Siqi sighed.

He had read about the Pei-Yuan Dan from the jade slip left behind by Elder Dong. It was a great help to cultivation in the Pre-Sky Realm. The most important thing was that it could be used again and again.

In addition, Cheng Siqi had also learned from the jade slip that demon beasts lived in the same place as spirit herbs, where the spiritual energy of heaven and earth was relatively dense.

Closing his eyes, he continued to analyze the information in his head. He secretly made up his mind that when Li Yuan went to the Heavenly Sword Sect, he would take his father and leave this place. Only by going out on a adventure would he be able to reach the Innate Realm faster than he could, and at the same time, find a way to heal his father's legs.

He quickly released his soul consciousness. Cheng Siqi could clearly feel that a team of masked men in black was rushing over from the street outside the courtyard. They seemed to have blended into the darkness, giving him a sense of familiarity.

Strangely, as the man in black moved forward, there were no more occasional barking. It was extremely quiet.

Cheng Siqi was a little curious about the purpose of this group of people.

"Could it be?"

Cheng Siqi suddenly remembered that this familiar aura was unique to the members of the Demonic Sect. Thinking of this, he couldn't help but break out in a cold sweat.

Feeling the man in black getting closer and closer to the small courtyard, Cheng Siqi didn't dare to delay and rushed into his father Yang Yi's room, directly interrupting his cultivation. Yang Yi didn't even have time to speak before Cheng Siqi's hand covered his mouth.

Yang Yi was alarmed and immediately felt the abnormality.

Cheng Siqi carried his father on his back. Without any hesitation, he rushed to Li Yuan's room. Li Yuan had also been shocked awake and was about to leave the room. The two of them nearly bumped into each other.

"Don't talk, let's go!" Cheng Siqi said anxiously.

Li Yuan turned around and opened the window. The three of them swiftly flipped out and disappeared into the night.

All of this happened in an instant. When the three of them disappeared from the street, the black robed figure stopped at the entrance of the small courtyard. One of the skinny old men turned around and asked the masked youth with triangular eyes, "Is it here?"

The voice seemed to come from hell itself, filled with an eerie aura.

"Yes, my lord, it's here. They must be inside!" Pointy Eyes said with a resentful look in his eyes, nodding his head vigorously.

If Li Yuan and the others were here, they would definitely recognize that this triangular eye was the same young man who had ambushed Qi Zhiyuan earlier in the day.

"Surround this place. The four of you, follow me inside." The old man pointed at the three of them, and when he said those words, he frowned slightly, because he could feel with his divine sense that the courtyard was empty. With that said, five figures flew into the courtyard, and the others quickly spread out and surrounded the courtyard.

It had to be said that Cheng Siqi and the other two were very lucky. This group of people were from the Demonic Sect, but luckily, none of them saw them and their cultivation levels were not high. Otherwise, the three of them would have no way to enter Heaven and Earth.

"He escaped!" A burly man with a masked face walked out of the room and said to the old man standing in the hall.

"Chase them! Split up and search the entire city. They shouldn't have gone far. There's still their presence here!" The old man shrugged his nose and said.

At the same time, two figures quickly passed through an alley and stopped under a tree near the city walls.

"Martial Uncle, take my father and head north. Take this! Remember, apply it as soon as you leave the city walls, please! " Cheng Siqi handed his father over to Li Yuan while handing him a bottle of medicine.

That was the Breath Suspending Elixir that Cheng Siqi had concocted using an herbal concoction. This elixir could conceal one's presence, of course the formula was obtained from elder Dong's storage ring.

Li Yuan did not reply. Carrying Yang Yi, he nodded to Cheng Siqi before turning around and leaping up. After nodding a few times on a big tree, he climbed up the city wall.

"Si Qi, be careful!" Yang Yi's worried voice sounded.

Li Yuan wasn't worried at all. He was very clear that even though he was currently higher ranked than Cheng Siqi, he might not be her match. Of course, he didn't know that this was all thanks to the Great Chaos Formula.

Cheng Siqi didn't answer and climbed up the city wall as well. His lean body appeared even more nimble than Li Yuan's. Without any hesitation, Cheng Siqi directly ran towards the east.

A moment later, Cheng Siqi had already entered the forest to the east. At the same time, the group of masked men in black had also arrived under the big tree at the foot of the city wall.

"It's here. There's no mistake. Let's continue chasing!" At the same time, he took the lead to leap onto the city wall. With a sniff of his nose, he chased after Cheng Siqi.

Entering the forest, Cheng Siqi took out a small bottle from her bosom and opened the bottle cap. A faint medicinal fragrance came from the bottle. It was the Breath Suspending Elixir. After smearing a little on his body, he continued to head east.

He estimated that after walking about fifty kilometers, all of the Breath Suspending Elixir had evaporated. He did not apply the medicine again but instead continued to flee at full speed.

When Cheng Siqi took out the medicine, all the masked men in black had arrived. However, when they arrived, there was no trace of them.

The masked old man frowned. He removed the black cloth from his face, revealing a sinister old face. The other masked men around him could feel the old man's aura, and didn't dare to breathe too loudly.

"Continue searching in the forest, it should be here!" The old man said in a low voice.

About a quarter of an hour later, a young man quickly ran up to the old man, cupped his fist, and said: "Elder, we found some Qi in the east!"

"Let's go!" The old man turned into a black shadow and chased towards the east.

Just like that, Cheng Siqi kept running, but the distance between the two was getting further and further apart. Along the way, he kept eating Inedia Pills and various other foods to replenish his physical strength. He even changed directions several times.

A dozen days later, outside of a marketplace where the crowd was relatively dense, a twelve to thirteen year old beggar wearing tattered beast skin with a broken bowl in his hand, with disheveled hair, entered the marketplace and began to beg along the street.

It was none other than Cheng Siqi. At this moment, he seemed like a completely different person. When placed in the crowd, no one was even willing to look at him.

A few days ago, he had already escaped, completely getting rid of the group of black-clothed people. However, he knew in his heart that getting out of danger was all thanks to the Suffocation Potion left behind by Old Dong. He discovered that the Suffocation Potion could not only block one's aura, it could even block one's consciousness.

Actually, the most important reason was that the Demonic Sect did not dare to openly act in the Western Continent. Otherwise, it would be hard to say.

In addition, he had originally wanted to go back and find his father and Li Yuan, but after hesitating for a long time, he still hadn't returned, mainly because he was worried about meeting those people from the Heaven Demon Sect, and during this period of time, he had been constantly playing hide and seek with those people from the Heaven Demon Sect. He knew very well how powerful those people were, and if he was half careful, he could be caught by them.

After thinking clearly about it, he gave up on that idea. At that time, his father and Li Yuan should have escaped after leading that group of people for more than ten days. Now, he could only wait until he was stronger before going back to look for them.

Cheng Siqi came to the entrance of a grocery store and bowed to an old shopkeeper in his sixties. "Uncle, can you give us some water to drink?"

The reason he came to this shop was because the signboard outside attracted Cheng Siqi's attention.

"Heaven and Earth will be split in five thousand years. I know all east, south, west, ninety thousand miles!"

"Come in!" The old shopkeeper lifted his glasses and glanced at Cheng Siqi before pouting, "Pour it yourself. It's on the cabinet!"

Cheng Siqi nodded her head and bowed as she thanked him. She went over to pour a cup of water. After drinking it, she said, "Shopkeeper, may I ask if the books here are for sale?"

"You can look at it here. One gold coin every two hours is also possible!" The shopkeeper said indifferently.

"Oh, thank you!" Cheng Siqi bowed once more.

After leaving the grocery store, Cheng Siqi thought to himself, "There's still another place like this. It looks like I'll have to come to this place more often to make up for it!"

Only, he didn't dare stay here for too long. Otherwise, he really wanted to stay here for a period of time and properly make up for it.

Half a year later, outside the city gates of a magnificent city, there was a young man dressed in coarse clothes in sackcloth. Carrying an old basket filled with herbs, there were also two bulging cloth bags on his shoulders. This young man was Cheng Siqi.

Entering the city, Cheng Siqi directly entered a pharmacy. After bargaining with a middle-aged shopkeeper, he sold the herbs to the storekeeper for 40 gold coins. At the same time, he spent 10 gold coins to buy 5 Fasting Pills as a precaution.

After finishing all of this, Cheng Siqi walked over to a shop called the Parade Shop that he had heard from the drugstore owner.

Entering the shop and chatting with the shopkeeper, Cheng Siqi paid 5 gold coins and sat down to read. Maybe it was because of the time period, but no one was there.

Cheng Siqi walked up to a bookshelf with a geographical label and selected three bundles of bamboo slips. After some hesitation, he stopped and sat down at a table and started to read carefully.