Having quickly consumed a few healing pills, Mo Wuji went to the two cultivators he had killed and took their storage bags.

He also put their magical treasures into his own storage bag before digging a pit and burying them.

In another place, he might not have bothered to bury them. But now, Mo Wuji suspected that this was the extraterrestrial cultivators' lair, so he didn't dare to leave the two corpses lying around.

After burying the two corpses, Mo Wuji suddenly remembered his contribution point jade token. He quickly took out the token hanging from his waist and looked at it. Sure enough, there was a line of text added to the token: "Loose Cultivator 2705, Contribution Points: 22, Ranking: None."

Mo Wuji thought to himself that he had only received 22 points for killing two guys with higher cultivation levels than him. He wondered how many extraterrestrial cultivators those guys with over ten thousand points had killed.

It seemed that earning contribution points wasn't easy. After lamenting this, Mo Wuji quickly left the area. Regardless of whether this was the extraterrestrial cultivators' territory, it wasn't wise to stay in this place.

This entire Thunder Mist Forest seemed to have been destroyed, with desolation everywhere. He didn't know if it was caused by the great battle or deliberately destroyed by the extraterrestrial cultivators.

Two hours later, Mo Wuji finally passed through this desolate area and entered the misty forest again.

After entering the Thunder Mist Forest, Mo Wuji finally breathed a sigh of relief. Even if this was the extraterrestrial cultivators' controlled area, they couldn't possibly be stationed in the Thunder Mist Forest.

Mo Wuji had been to the Thunder Mist Forest once before, but only in the outer regions. And he knew that once you got lost in the Thunder Mist Forest, you could easily lose your life.

Even top-tier earth realm experts wouldn't dare to venture deep into it. He would hide here first and figure out the situation.

As soon as Mo Wuji entered the Thunder Mist Forest, he could hear the constant sound of thunder arcs striking. Perhaps because of the successive battles between the extraterrestrial cultivators and the cultivators from the five empires, Mo Wuji didn't see a single demon beast after entering the Thunder Mist Forest.

The reason why people didn't dare to venture deep into the Thunder Mist Forest was because of the demon beasts and various poisonous mists. Of course, the most terrifying thing was the lightning strikes. If one accidentally fell into a Thunder Marsh or was struck by a sudden thunder arc, it would be difficult to get out of the Thunder Mist Forest.

Mo Wuji wasn't worried at all. After entering the Thunder Mist Forest, he desperately ran deeper into it.

He was a Fourth Grade Earth Pill Refiner and didn't care much about poisonous mists and various poisonous insects. As for the deadly thunder arcs, he could use them to cultivate his thunder techniques.

For an entire day, Mo Wuji was struck by various sizes of thunder arcs no less than a dozen times. If it were an ordinary cultivator, even a Transcending Mortality Realm one, they would probably have been knocked down. Mo Wuji wasn't knocked down. Besides one particularly thick thunder arc that injured him slightly, he withstood all the other thunder arcs. Not only that, but he also accelerated his speed deeper into the Thunder Mist Forest.

Three days later, Mo Wuji stopped. He finally saw demon beasts.

Seeing demon beasts meant that this place was safe. Demon beasts were sometimes more sensitive to threats than human cultivators. Since demon beasts were appearing around here, it meant that there weren't any major problems in the vicinity.

After carefully lurking for several hours, Mo Wuji finally found a safe place to stay. It was inside a cliff in a thunder valley.

In the Thunder Mist Forest, there were not only Thunder Marshes but also Thunder Valleys, Thunder Pools, and Thunder Forests.

Thunder Marshes were fine; most people would be wary of them and wouldn't enter them carelessly. Thunder Forests were the most dangerous places. They looked like ordinary forests, but once you entered, you would immediately be surrounded by countless thunder arcs until you were blasted to death. Most of the cultivators in the Thunder Mist Forest died in the Thunder Forests.

Thunder Valleys were common in the Thunder Mist Forest. These places were covered in thunder arcs year-round, and the valley entrances were narrow. Relatively speaking, not many cultivators died in Thunder Valleys. This was because Thunder Valleys were too obvious; you could see the thunder arcs swirling around them from a distance, and only a fool would go to a Thunder Valley to die.

Precisely because of the danger of Thunder Valleys, Mo Wuji chose to dig a cave in the cliff of a Thunder Valley. The Thunder Valley he was in was extremely narrow, with the cliffs on both sides only two feet apart. A large number of thunder arcs constantly blasted out from the bottom of the valley, forming arcs that then exploded in the air.

Mo Wuji was struck by the thunder arcs in the Thunder Valley at least dozens of times before he managed to dig a cave in one side of the cliff to stay in.

Only after blocking the entrance of the cave with a primary defense array did Mo Wuji completely relax. In any case, he was safe for the time being.

As for whether he would get lost in the Thunder Mist Forest, Mo Wuji wasn't worried at all. What if he couldn't get out? He was a pill refiner and could absorb thunder arcs to cultivate his techniques. It didn't matter if he slowly spent time in the Thunder Mist Forest.

Mo Wuji dared to think this way because he had no attachments now.

After settling down, Mo Wuji took out the two storage bags. He was very curious to know if there were any good things on these extraterrestrial cultivators.

The first storage bag was opened, and the first thing he saw was a pile of spirit stones. Mo Wuji didn't lack spirit stones. Putting the spirit stones aside, Mo Wuji took out three jade boxes, several bottles of pills, and some cultivation techniques. Mo Wuji wasn't interested in opening the pills; he opened the three jade boxes. To Mo Wuji's disappointment, the three jade boxes contained only slightly higher-grade spiritual herbs, nothing more.

Opening the cultivation techniques, there wasn't a single one that Mo Wuji liked.

Disappointed, he threw these things aside and took out the second storage bag. Quickly breaking the storage bag's imprint, there was another pile of spirit stones and pills. Better than the first storage bag, Mo Wuji also saw a spiritual weapon in this storage bag.

As for the other things, there was still nothing that he liked. The only good thing was that he had two more storage bags.

Putting these things away, Mo Wuji poured out a pile of spirit stones. He decided to cultivate in seclusion here and at least reach the tenth level of Spirit Building before leaving. If he had been at the tenth level of Spirit Building before, he wouldn't have been injured when ambushing those two cultivators.

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Outside the Thunder Mist Forest of the Star Han Empire, tens of thousands of cultivators were fighting together.

The booming of magical treasures, the explosions of magical techniques colliding with primordial energy, constantly intertwined. Under the dazzling lights, cultivators were being killed or seriously injured every moment.

Cultivator battles were completely different from army battles. Here, everyone's spells were different, and everyone needed a certain amount of space to cast their spells. More precisely, all the cultivators were fighting independently, blasting at each other.

Perhaps cultivator armies could integrate their combat power, but there were no cultivator armies here. The five empires had always been controlled by the mortal world, and even if there were battles between the various sects, they wouldn't form cultivator armies. And the extraterrestrial cultivators who had entered the five empires didn't seem to have formed cultivator armies either.

Both sides were evenly matched, forming a melee.

However, the extraterrestrial cultivators had noticed this problem earlier, and they had slowly formed the momentum of cultivator army combat. Therefore, in the recent battles, the number of cultivators from the five empires who had fallen was increasing.

Cen Shuyin's hand seals intertwined continuously, and each blast unleashed a thunder arc explosion. Each thunder arc explosion resulted in a cultivator being seriously injured or killed.

Since she came to the Star Han Empire's garrison, this was her fifth time participating in the great battle with the extraterrestrial cultivators.

She was very grateful to Mo Wuji. If it weren't for Mo Wuji's "Thunderclap," she wouldn't be fighting so easily. Several times she faced the danger of falling, but "Thunderclap" saved her. She also had ice-based techniques, but the power of ice-based techniques was much weaker than "Thunderclap." Besides the fact that the "Thunderclap" created by Mo Wuji was indeed powerful, there was another main reason: "Thunderclap" could be continuously condensed with the help of the thunder source. And the Thunder Mist Forest had no shortage of thunder sources.

She really wanted to find Mo Wuji and thank him. But since Mo Wuji separated from her three months ago, she hadn't heard from him again.

Cen Shuyin once again condensed several thunder arcs and blasted a first level Transcending Mortality cultivator into pieces. A deep, resounding howl came over.

Cen Shuyin stopped. Having participated in many battles, she knew what was happening. This battle was over, and the next battle would probably come soon. She needed to collect her spoils of war and recover her strength as soon as possible.

Although each battle involved tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of cultivators fighting together, the course of the battle was actually dominated by the strongest experts.

Cen Shuyin put away her spoils of war and looked at the identity jade token hanging from her waist. The points above had reached 781 points, and the ranking on the Hundred Sects Alliance contribution list had reached one thousand five hundred and sixty-third place.

This was not the most surprising thing to Cen Shuyin. The most surprising thing was that after three months of life-and-death battles, she was about to break through to the Yuan Dan Realm. Now, all she needed was to seclude herself for a period of time.

"Shuyin, Junior Sister," a slightly hoarse voice called out to Cen Shuyin.

Cen Shuyin turned around and saw Ren Tianxing. Ren Tianxing was still some distance away from her when he called out to her.

"Greetings, Senior Brother Ren. Congratulations, Senior Brother, for crossing the Human Realm and advancing to the Yuan Dan Realm. I believe that with Senior Brother Ren's talent, you will surely break through the Earth Realm and enter the True God Realm," Cen Shuyin stopped and gave a respectful salute to Ren Tianxing.

Ren Tianxing had just advanced to the Yuan Dan Realm, and his spiritual rhyme was exuding outward, and his cultivation had not been completely stabilized.

Ren Tianxing chuckled, "I used to be somewhat proud of my aptitude, but now I really can't be proud anymore. You should know Junior Sister Yan'er of the Pill Tower, right? How long has she been in the Pill Tower? She is already at the fifth level of Transcending Mortality Realm. Compared to her, I am nothing but trash. Let's not talk about this. I heard that you came with Junior Brother Mo Wuji. Do you know where Junior Brother Mo went?"

Cen Shuyin fell silent for a while before saying, "I separated from Junior Brother Mo in Anyang. He said he would come to the Extraterritorial Battlefield. I haven't seen him here. I'm afraid..."

Cen Shuyin didn't say the rest of the words, but Ren Tianxing understood what she meant, which was that he was probably in more trouble than good.

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