The next morning.Qiu Fu woke from a deep sleep.She opened her eyes blearily, looked around in confusion, and then abruptly realized sothing.Why had she slept so deeply last night?What if they had been discovered?What if soone had ambushed them?She imdiately sat up and noticed that Xia Li had really let her use his leg as a pillow for the entire night.And at the mont, Xia Li still had his eyes closed and looked completely asleep.Qiu Fu slowly brought her face closer to his.For so reason, she suddenly wanted to kiss him.But...once she drew near enough, Xia Li's hand moved up and blocked her."Um... I..."Qiu Fu wanted to explain herself, but then she realized Xia Li had not even opened his eyes.His breathing was steady and even. He was clearly still asleep.Then why had his hand blocked her?Qiu Fu refused to believe it and started fiddling with his arm.Only then did she discover that Xia Li's hand seed to have a will of its own.No matter how tricky the angle she tried, that single arm of his kept knocking her back.Annoyed, she directly pinned down his arm and reached her other hand toward his head.And at that very mont...Xia Li opened his eyes."What are you doing?"He shot her a sowhat displeased look.The Heaven Chip had been alard badly enough by her antics that it forcibly woke him, and Xia Li had thought they were under attack.He had not expected the attacker to be Qiu Fu."I... I saw that your hand could still move even while you were sleeping. I was curious.""It's one of my secret arts. Even if I'm sleeping deeply, I can still sense the outside world. Stop ssing around."After pushing Qiu Fu aside, Xia Li climbed out of the tree hollow.The forest was blanketed in heavy morning mist, but that layer of fog was precisely what gave him cover.[Heaven Chip, report last night's data.][Your location was scanned twenty-eight tis by soul-force and probed one hundred and thirty-two tis by spiritual-energy detection. The closest of these ca within twelve ters.][Did you mark them?][All targets have been marked, though all have since left the detection range.]While communicating with the Heaven Chip, Xia Li stretched lazily.When he was asleep, if danger approached, the Heaven Chip would automatically judge the threat level and decide whether to wake him or handle it on its own.When various detection thods were used against him, it would also automatically activate the anti-detection field.That was why Xia Li could sleep at all.And sleep boldly at that."We were pretty lucky last night. We both slept deeply and still weren't found."After climbing out of the hollow, Qiu Fu felt a lingering fear as well.In their current situation, they ought to have been taking turns on watch."You think that was luck? Think carefully. Has there been a single night when they actually found us? I already told you they couldn't. You're the one who didn't believe .""Because it goes against common sense. Your body is asleep and your divine soul is resting. Under those conditions, your perception of the outside world should be completely cut off.""Have you considered the possibility that besides my fleshly eyes and my spiritual eyes, I also have a third eye?"Xia Li's third eye was an electronic eye.As long as the Heaven Chip was not damaged and he did not manually disable the function, it would continue observing the surrounding environnt at all tis."Can I cultivate this path too?""You can't.""Is it because my ability isn't enough?""Mm. At present, yes."Xia Li nodded.Though to be precise, it was not really a matter of insufficient ability.It was that he did not trust her enough yet.After that, the two of them continued toward Sunscorch Valley.Everyone who had probed Xia Li with divine sense or spiritual energy had been marked by the Heaven Chip, so once they entered a certain range, they would imdiately show up in Xia Li's sight.The more those people searched, the less chance they had of ever catching him.So when facing pursuit from the demon race's Human-Subjugation Army, Xia Li and Qiu Fu had run into them frequently at first, but later on, they managed to avoid every single one.A few tis, Qiu Fu encountered isolated Human-Subjugation Army squads and wanted to attack, but Xia Li stopped her every ti.Sparing enemies he could easily kill was not rcy.It was because keeping them alive let them continue serving as markers.The more marked targets there were, the safer Xia Li beca.
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Over the following days...Qiu Fu completely gave in to admiration.Under Xia Li's lead, forget demons. They could not even see a single demon hair.The Human-Subjugation Army seed to have vanished as well.That finally gave Qiu Fu real confidence that they might survive this after all.If nothing else, Xia Li's skill in escape itself was truly unparalleled.Even when surrounded by enemies or targeted by great demons, he never panicked. He always found the flaw in the other side's net and the one path that still led to life.It was obvious at a glance that he had been bullied by stronger foes and larger numbers often enough to beco experienced at it."Xia Li, I rember when we first t, you said you were being hunted. You're ridiculously good at running and hiding."Two days later, after Xia Li once again led Qiu Fu away from under the nose of a Soul Transformation demon lord, Qiu Fu could not help sighing in admiration.Xia Li was practically so immortal from the upper realms in charge of the law of escape."Do you think I wanted this? I was being chased by Golden Core cultivators back when I was still in Qi Refining. Later it escalated all the way to Nascent Soul and Soul Transformation. What was I supposed to do? One by one, these major cultivators just stopped caring about face!"The mont Xia Li brought this up, he got annoyed again.Things like this happened on Earth too, but Earth at least had safe zones and basic laws.Even the Corporate Alliance had rules on the books. Taking action because a takeover failed was illegal.Even the evil Corporate Alliance was civilized far beyond this world.At least it still pretended to care about appearances."That sort of thing happens among demons too.""The Azure Dragon holds power, the Black Tortoise guards the frontier, the Vermilion Bird cultivates ten thousand fruits, and the White Tiger slays evil transgressions.""If any great demon becos too overbearing and ignores the laws of nature, the White Tiger shadow force will act. Even if they can't beat that great demon directly, they'll target the demon's descendants and wipe out its line. Nothing is off-limits."Qiu Fu then explained the circumstances of her own life and why demonkind could not tolerate her.Because she was one of the maintainers of order."And what do demons consider the laws of nature? Isn't it just the strong preying on the weak?""Yes and no. Even beasts without intelligence don't kill without reason once they're full. A wolf starving to death still won't catch ants to eat.""The laws of nature are a kind of balance. Snakes, insects, ants, elephants, each has its own place. They restrain one another and depend on one another.""That is why the White Tiger, born as a demon and king among demons, also slew demons.""It's a pity the White Tiger Division has already been wiped out."Qiu Fu spoke of the old order among demons.Using strength to bully the weak was normal. The laws of nature did include the strong feeding on the weak.But everything had a limit.To bully ten and kill a hundred might still be within reason.To butcher thousands and tens of thousands was excess.Demons had shed the instincts of beasts and gained wisdom.Was that really just so they could slaughter the weak more efficiently?Obviously not.So if a great demon went too far in bullying the weak, then that demon had better keep its whole clan well protected, because from that day on, the entire clan would be bullied in turn by those stronger than them.You might be Soul Transformation, but was your entire clan Soul Transformation too?Were your descendants born that strong?Could you stay beside them forever?And if you did, would you still be able to cultivate?At that thought, Xia Li was reminded of an organization he had dealt with before:Drunken Flower Tower.That group had not seed bothered at all by his extermination-of-nine-generations style of vengeance. If anything, they rather approved of it.Which ant balance still existed.It was just fragile now, no longer capable of managing anything beneath Soul Transformation.But experts above Soul Transformation were still being watched.That also indirectly suggested that Soul Transformation was a threshold.The number of great powers above it likely dropped off a cliff, which was why they could still keep an eye on them.The mont he thought that through, Xia Li felt as if clouds had parted and the sun had finally erged.So that was why he almost never encountered Void Refining experts personally making a move.This was the critical point!
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