"Hmph."
Xian Ya turned and left, then paused. "Ling Wei'ao's cousin is looking for you for revenge. He is a direct disciple of Yan Qing Zong of the Five Cities of Dihai, Bei Ming Yuan, named Lai Xiao Yang. He is also the sect leader of Da Fa Shang Men. Be careful yourself for the sake of Senior Sister Qing Xia."
Ming Zhi Tian had killed Ling Wei'ao and was wondering why no one was seeking revenge on him. Here they came. "Oh, thank you for the information."
After they left, Ming Zhi Tian also set off. Besides finding refining materials for Tian Nan Jie, he also needed to find mechanical equipment to improve his mechanical arts. Ahead, there was a tree...
Beneath the tree was the needed mechanical equipment. He took out excavation tools from his storage bag and gathered materials on the spot.
It seemed that very few people understood mechanical arts, that even such conspicuous equipment went unnoticed.
Continuing forward, his cultivation was suppressed, and space rifts could not be torn open effectively, otherwise, he would have long caught up with the main group.
But he was not in a hurry, because most people would only take spiritual materials for alchemy and refining materials. Many mechanical equipment items were not coveted by anyone and all became Ming Zhi Tian's spoils.
Suddenly, several demonic beast corpses appeared ahead. Ming Zhi Tian ignored them and continued forward for five hundred meters, arriving at a pile of rocky mountains. He saw a light emanating from a crevice in the rocks, and Ming Zhi Tian could easily discern signs of an attack.
Ming Zhi Tian tried to unleash a punch! The giant rock trembled and made a "rumbling..." sound, but it did not move an inch.
"Star Dragon Jade Flower Halberd Art!"
"Bang!"
The crevice in the rock exploded, but Ming Zhi Tian, at the first level of the Alchemy Realm, used this divine-level technique, almost depleting half his strength!
"Whoosh!..."
Ming Zhi Tian gasped for air with difficulty. "It seems I cannot use the Star Dragon Jade Flower Halberd Art frequently here."
He entered the cave and discovered it was a cultivation dwelling!
Ming Zhi Tian quickly took stones to fill the hole he had created, to prevent others from finding out.
This was once an immortal's cave dwelling. If Ming Zhi Tian had not used this divine-level technique to break it, no one else could have discovered it.
Looking at the magical artifacts placed on the walls, Ming Zhi Tian casually collected them. "Hmm? What grade of magical artifact is this?"
"Immortal-grade hidden weapon, Nine Gods Dragon Roar? I'll put it away first."
Then, piles of spiritual materials, raw materials, equipment, and so on, were all stored by Ming Zhi Tian into his storage bag.
He couldn't help but exclaim, "I'm rich, I'm rich!"
Ming Zhi Tian summoned a large pile of mechanical equipment and arranged them in order, then began to study according to the computer graphics information of Level Three Mechanical Arts in his mind.
After a long while...
Ming Zhi Tian had already created no less than a hundred mechanical beast bodies and mechanical traps, along with other powerful weapons.
He successfully reached Level Five Mechanical Arts!
Mechanical arts also consumed a lot of physical energy. Ming Zhi Tian couldn't help but verify what Bai Ju, the ancestor of mechanical arts, had said about why only martial cultivators could practice mechanical arts.
He collapsed weakly on the ground, sweat-drenched, and with trembling hands, he summoned bottles and jars of elixirs from his storage bag.
He didn't care about anything else, he was almost out of strength, so he quickly grabbed a few bottles without looking and desperately guzzled them down.
After absorbing the medicinal power and regaining a trace of energy, he sat cross-legged and gradually recovered.
There was nothing else to take from the cave dwelling. Ming Zhi Tian walked out, stretched lazily, unaware that two days had passed.
He hurried to catch up with the main group, not forgetting to bring the spiritual materials and refining materials for Tian Nan Jie as promised.
...
He sped all the way, traveling for a day and a night continuously, before he vaguely saw the figures of disciples from some major sect.
Upon closer inspection, he realized they were the twelve sect leaders of Lan Shan Hu Hai from the north, currently facing over twenty demonic beasts at the eighth level of the Ascending Dragon Realm.
Ming Zhi Tian, taking a 'what has nothing to do with me' attitude, bypassed them and continued forward.
"Fellow Daoist Senior Brother, please wait! Please join us in fighting these demonic beasts!"
Ming Zhi Tian ignored them. "Are we that familiar?"
"You!..."
The few were struggling, almost meeting their end there, but they managed to repel the over twenty demonic beasts.