More than twenty fire snakes gathered to form a fire python, which ruthlessly wrapped the white-clothed youth who was turning around and running away, along with various colored light shields on his body, into a ball and swallowed them all at once.

  After the red light dissipated, only a bulging storage bag was left on the spot.

  The yellow dagger, having lost its master's control, transformed back into a yellow talisman and slowly fell from the air. Before it even hit the ground, Zhao caught it with one hand, overjoyed.

  Zhao Di looked at the small knife talisman, and the yellow knife drawn on it was still vivid, but the yellow spiritual light emitted from it had dimmed a lot. It seemed that the previous battle had consumed a lot of its power.

  Zhao Di didn't have time to study it carefully, he skillfully retrieved the opponent's storage bag and tidied up the fighting scene a bit before sticking a earth escape talisman on it, then burrowed into the ground dozens of feet deep and walked away in the distance.

  In this battle, he lost a medium-grade spiritual tool and nearly a hundred talismans. The loss was not insignificant, but compared to the gains, it was nothing!

  Thinking of this, Zhao Di, who was meditating with high-grade spirit stones in the depths of the underground to recover his spiritual power, couldn't help but reveal a hint of a smile.

  Apart from the hard-to-obtain Symbolic Treasure, the contents of the white-clothed youth's storage bag were truly rich.

  Not only were there seven or eight excellent pieces of jade, but also a piece that looked ordinary, yet was extremely hot to the touch, about the size of an egg. Upon closer inspection, golden flame-like stripes could be seen within the stone, constantly flashing and very eerie.

  This is the Golden Flame Stone, an excellent material for refining fire-attribute magic treasures, and a specialty of the Golden Flame Nation. Some cultivators even believe that the name "Golden Flame Nation" originated from this very material.

  This time's Zhujidan reward task also has a Golden Flame Stone.

  This way, he can easily exchange for three Foundation Pills!

  There was also something peculiar in the storage bag that caught Zhao Di's attention.

  This is a palm-sized pale blue jade disc, with one side carved like a compass with different directions, and the other side carved with a five-clawed golden dragon riding on clouds. It seems to be a special ritual object for detecting and indicating direction.

  Although he didn't understand what was special about this object, Zhao Di still put it away in a square jade box.

  Of course, these things are nothing compared to the mysterious cloak called "Law's Tattered Cloak" by the White Robed Scholars in the storage bag.

  Zhaodi lovingly stroked the semi-transparent cloak flowing with a faint yellow glow, and upon contact, there was a warm, smooth feeling, unlike ordinary silk or animal hide, but somewhat like thin soft jade.

  He tried to use his spiritual sense to probe the cloak, but as soon as his spiritual sense came into contact with it, he was inexplicably transferred elsewhere. If he hadn't seen the cloak in his hand with his eyes open and had only probed with his spiritual sense with his eyes closed, he wouldn't have even noticed that this treasure was right next to him.

  It has a transfer effect on the divine consciousness, and it is completely imperceptible! No wonder the white-robed cultivator wearing this object, even if he was only 7 or 8 zhang away from Zhao Di, still had no perception.

  Zhao Di was planning to hide secretly for a few days, best if no monk would bump into him, this cloak could come in handy.

  Then, with the help of a high-order spiritual stone, Zhao Di sat down and recovered his spiritual power. He casually found a cave, covered himself with a mysterious cloak, and tidied up his storage bag.

  There were too many spoils of war, and one storage bag was not enough. Zhao Di carefully sorted them out, categorizing the useful and important treasures into a separate storage bag, while the rest of the unwanted materials were packed into another storage bag.

  After finishing all these things, he picked up a jade slip with the "Bai Qiao Pu" recorded on it, stuck it to his forehead, and slowly sensed its contents.

  Although the top-grade artifact is flexible and powerful, it consumes a lot of spiritual energy. In comparison, spiritual objects are more suitable for Zhao Di, so he has been contemplating the refining method of spiritual objects these days. Zhao Di plans to refine a batch of spiritual objects after returning to Tai Xu Men to enhance his strength.

  Fighting against a White Robed Disciple was indeed a shocking experience for him. If he were to encounter two such elite disciples in a row, Zhao Di felt that his chances of survival would be slim.

  He secretly thought that no wonder the survival rate of the cultivators in the previous trips to the Dragon Descent Valley was so low. With his possession of multiple rare treasures, he still ended up like this; if other cultivators were to encounter an elite disciple like the white-clothed youth, they would definitely be powerless to fight back.

  A few days later, Zhao Di was meditating on the "Bai Qiao Pu" in a mountain cave when he felt a ripple in the mysterious cloak. He smiled slightly, knowing that this meant there was a cultivator nearby using their divine sense to investigate the area.

  It's been over 20 times in the last few days. Moreover, most of the divine consciousnesses are extremely violent, apparently searching for a target. Only a small number of divine consciousnesses are cautious when probing, mostly to detect danger.

  And these days, it's also the last madness of Dragon Descent Valley!

  Ordinary 13th-level disciples and cannon fodder cultivators don't even need to be mentioned, they can only be described as having a tiny number left. Even the peak Qi-refining period cultivators who consider themselves elite disciples suffered heavy casualties!

  Some elites who have not obtained enough treasures, even if they see opponents with similar strength, will no longer tacitly leave each other, but choose to take a risk and fight to the death.

  With the mysterious cloak, Zhao Di, who didn't even need to use Stealth, quietly hid through this crisis moment.

  But lacking effective concealment means and mediocre escape techniques, even if the cultivator intentionally tries to hide, it is difficult to escape the elite disciples' pursuit.

  Zhao Di calculated that it was exactly one month since he entered the valley. On this day, the Jijin period cultivators who were waiting outside the Dragon Descent Valley would use the Seven Lin Great Array to open an exit in Ping'an Valley. As long as he reached this exit, his trip to the Dragon Descent Valley could be considered a complete success.

  Zhao Di, who was in a good mood, was about to stand up when he suddenly felt another wave of spiritual energy coming from his cloak, indicating that another nearby cultivator had appeared.

  It was strange that this seemingly ordinary and unremarkable divine sense, after sweeping over the cloak, suddenly seemed to lock onto it, not being transferred elsewhere, but instead plunged into the cloak. Zhao Di hastily used his full strength to employ the Conceal Spirit Technique, covering up all of his aura. After a few breaths of time, the cloak finally stopped transmitting the divine sense's fluctuations, and this mysterious divine sense had left the cloak.

  Zhao Di carefully extended his divine sense to a distance, repeatedly scanning the area within a range of over 200 meters that he could roughly detect, but did not find any other cultivators.

  Zhao Di was startled and patiently stayed in the cave for another two hours. Then, with the help of the earth escape symbol, he directly slipped into Ping'an Valley from under the ground.

  Just as he was about to approach the exit, Zhao Di suddenly put on seven or eight protective light shields of different colors and drilled out of the ground. Although he had already sensed that there were two other cultivators existing one or two hundred feet away from him, seemingly fighting, he didn't care much and directly rushed towards the seven or eight meters in diameter, dark hole-like exit.

  The exit of the cave was pitch black, making Zhao Di a little apprehensive, but it was extremely short, only about 30-40 feet. At Zhao Di's speed, in an instant, he burst out of the Dragon Descending Valley and immediately saw dozens of cultivators with various attire, divided into seven teams, standing near the exit, casting surprised, ridiculing, disdainful, indifferent, and joyful glances at him.

  "Zhao Shidi, you can come out safely, that's great!" A pleasant girl's voice rang out, it was the Golden Leaf Fairy who had just seen Zhao Di rush out of the valley and was very happy. At this time, beside her stood a young man from the Tai Xu Men in the 12th layer of the Refining Qi period, who was also a fellow apprentice who had slaughtered the Bi Han Jiao with Zhao Di and Golden Leaf Fairy.

  "Thank you for your concern, Senior Sister!" Zhao Di said to Jin Ye Xian Zi, then knowingly joined the ranks of the Tai Xu Gate.

  "It's no wonder that your esteemed sect is the number one in Jin Yan Country, as three of your Qi Refining stage 12th layer cultivators have actually completed the survival test of Dragon Descent Valley! I wonder what kind of life-saving divine abilities these low-ranking cultivators possess?" A pale-faced, thin Jie Dan middle-stage cultivator from Bai Ling Men said with a tone of sarcasm and ridicule, looking at Zhao Di who had just walked out.

  The implication of his words was clear: Zhao Di and several others were greedy for life and afraid of death, so after entering the valley, they hid in a remote and uninhabited place and did not come out to move around, which is why they managed to survive.

  So after hearing this, Zhao Di's fake face turned red, which was a tacit acknowledgement of the other person's ridicule and judgment. As for what really happened, he couldn't be bothered to explain or clarify, anyway, the more others underestimated him, the more beneficial it would be for him.

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