When it was very late in the night, like around 3 A.M, Xiao Lin chose to rest for sometime in the cleanly cleared forest.
Then many minutes later, he stood from where he was resting and quickly dashed back to the inn before morning will arrive, or if he was caught under the sun, then that would be his doom.
And, with his Vampiric Enhanced Hearing ability on, he used it to hide himself away from the town Nightwatch guards who would be out patrolling since 11 A.M.
So, once he heard any strange footsteps approaching from far, he would quickly conceal himself somewhere so as not to to be discovered. Then when the footsteps who he couldn't possibly guess who the owner is, turns in another directions and walks away, he would resume dashing towards the inn.
Not long, after carefully moving about to avoid the government officers since his ugly experience that first time in the night in this town, he arrived at the inn.
Then since he couldn't enter the inn since the doors would be locked by this time, he chose to climb up to his room from the window side.
So, leaping quietly from one windowsill to the next, he eventually arrived at his room's window which was wide open. He then went in and immediately shut the window and pulled the curtain close.
He then sat down in the cross-legged position on the ground and began to deeply ponder of what to do concerning how to pull out those sects' disciples out of where they were residing to a particular place so he could have his way with them.
He then made up his mind to go through many parts of the town the next day's evening, just so he could make some of them, if not all of them to come to that place and would be able to perpetrate his evil act without disturbance or interference from any one.
After deciding this, he closed his eyes to cultivate Spiritual Energy. And this he did till the evening of the next day. He didn't even stand to listen to any information again as he felt that he had gotten all the information that he would need.
When the sun set meaning that evening had come, he shot up to his feet and directly left his room and then the inn to move to parts of the town where he would get places that he could lead the disciples of those sect to.
After going round the town from 6 P.M till 10 P.M to discover many places, he stopped at one of them and began to train again to increase his degree of mastery of the many, powerful battle techniques that he had studied.
After practicing all of them in one hour, he quickly left where he was and returned to the inn before the Night Patrol officers would come out.
When he arrived in his rented room at that inn and began to go through the numerous places that he had visited in his head, which he had also learnt what areas that they could be found at, he made up his mind to finalize his first, grand ominous scheme. And as he did this in his now stony heart, he seriously hoped that his carefully orchestrated plan would work out well for him, or he could be doomed.
He understood that what he was was doing was extremely risky, but he had to take the chance to do so as he musts get stronger at all costs, as in, by all wicked and evil means necessary. And if the heavens wouldn't provide for him, he must provide for himself. Also, if luck won't smile at him, he would smile at luck and make it to become an interdependent part of him, he would make it become an integral component of his being and life.
After going through his plans over and over again, he resumed his cultivation.
At this point in time, he had broken through into the 6th-layer Spiritual Ascendance stage. But this was because he was consuming good-tier, Spiritual Cultivation Resources that filled the spatial rings of the two government Night Patrol officers that he killed many days ago.
So, using a divine-grade technique called Spiritual Refinement Conversion technique in the Primordial Heretic Force spiritual cultivation art, he was able refine the Spiritual Energies that he had accumulated within himself, which he got from the massive consumption of many of those Spiritual Cultivation resources in the spatial rings, and then fully transform the gathered energy into his usual dark-colored, overbearing and uniquely strong Spiritual Energy.
Therefore, with just that, he was able to quickly break through into the 6th-layer Spiritual Ascendance stage from the 5th-layer Spiritual Ascendance stage.
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Not long, evening approached, causing the sun to set.
When it finally did, Xiao Lin hurriedly left his room and went into the street to purchase numerous colored ink bottles and many paper-like materials that he could write or draw on.
Then after purchasing a lot of them from many different sellers in different streets and swiftly ran off without paying money for them after the deep, careful observation of his immediate surroundings, he headed back to his room in that inn.
Also, he had purchased different colors of fitting, buttoned hooded cloaks which he didn't pay for and only shot away when both the seller and no else were looking at him, since he knew how to blend into the background and not appear even slightly noticeable or conspicuous.
When he arrived in his room and placed the paper-like materials on the ground, he began to write things, as in words into them.
Many minutes later when he was done and allowed the ink on them to totally dry so that they won't rub off, he rolled the paper-like materials that he wrote things into and stowed them all away into his spatial ring.
When he was done, he left the inn and headed into the street where he entered a beast-drawn carriage to lift him to the center of the town.