Other disciplines were surprised by Li Chi's behavior because his personality was very strange. He didn't lower himself before anyone, even if someone was chosen as one of the main families. Others paid respect to every chosen member of the main families, as they had a much higher influence in the sect. In one word, their fate was sealed, even if they didn't like them.
As they saw Li Chi, who was also hit by the strange light as he set off on his flying sword, other disciplines immediately left the place. The whole area of the city was suddenly full of sect disciplines, who were using their spirit sense to find out who was the burned man standing not far away from Mei Lin, who looked like she was about to kill someone.
No one recognized that a young cultivator who looked like a burned torch was Song Shen because after light destroyed his face, spirit sense, and arm, he was unrecognizable. It was better that his face was burned because his pride was destroyed in the moment when light flashed from the storage bag. He only thought about what would happen once he arrived back at the sect.
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Mei Lin felt, that her cultivation base was unstable, and her natural energy was pathetically depleted. Slow pain and exhaustion enveloped her body. Mei Lin knew, that staying here any longer would only bring more trouble as the sect would quickly start to investigate, so Mei Lin stood up and as she looked at Xia and Yu Lan, she didn't see Xia, only her things lying all around.
Mei Lin tried to at least look around to see, where was Xia, but she was not there and only one, knew that the golden token was in her storage space. 'Xia and Yu Lan didn't get hurt once the light from that strange token flashed all around, so where did Xia go?'
Mei Lin's eyes were blood red and shining with killing intent as she once again looked in the direction of Xia and Yu Lan. She didn't believe her own eyes. All things from their storage spaces were still lying on the ground, but only two things were missing. Xia and her storage bag were nowhere to be found. Mei Lin quickly looked all around but didn't find Xia anywhere.
A deep feeling of rage suddenly filled Mei Lin as she started emitting a blood aura from her body. Mei Lin suddenly forgot that she was injured as she circulated her unstable natural energy, and her aura looked very unsynchronized more likely missing where not long ago was her left hand.
Mei Lin's spirit sense spread all around not carrying that she used her spirit sense to look for any clue not even remotely polite about provoking others. In the meantime, her spirit sense inspected Yu Lan's body, and she found out that Yu Lan was only unconscious from cultivation pressures, which emitted disciplines that were around.
As Mei Lin tried to find some sense in what was going on, all sect disciplines left and she along with Yu Lan were left there alone. It took more than half an hour and after taking care of everything, Mei Lin sat next to Yu Lan in the lotus position and entered the cultivation state.
Mei Lin's mind slowly merged with her Cultivation Sea and started sensing her state. Her Cultivation Sea was still depleted, even though she was cultivated before arriving here. Mei Lin was slowly sensing any change and slowly, she found out what was happening.
Her body was in too bad shape and with a missing hand, her own body was passively trying to heal as fast as possible, and her natural energy was not to recover without cultivation. Mei Lin decided to start cultivating to replenish her natural energy.
It took a while, and Mei Lin opened her eyes after recovering a bit of her natural energy. In the meantime, she discovered that as she lost her left hand, her lotus position, which she always sat in when she was cultivating for better absorption of natural energy from the surroundings, was quite reduced.
She tried to think about what to do about this problem and tried to remember what she read in her cultivation book. She didn't expose her cultivation book, because she was afraid that someone could still watch her.
As she tried to remember other cultivation positions, she didn't manage to remember any other, because everyone in the blood cultivation book was using the lotus position, only someone was cultivating in blood pools, but only the cultivation technique was in there was based on the lotus position without any different methods.
Without any other waste of time, Mei Lin went to Yu Lan to wake her up, so they could leave. As she woke up Yu Lan, she felt a blood aura all around Mei Lin and the additional smell of real blood didn't add any more charm to Mei Lin.
"Yu Lan, do you know where Xia went?" Mei Lin didn't wait and as she helped her to her feet, she saw that Yu Lan was looking around to see if she will gonna see Xia, she didn't see her anywhere, only two covered bodies, and she didn't have any more strength to answer Mei Lin.
As soon as Yu Lan was able to stay on her own feet, they started walking forward to the green zone. As they were moving through the streets Mei Lin though about something and stopped in her tracks.
"Yu Lan, show me you're identification token. I managed to find one from the green zone so you will gonna take it and you will be able to buy the house in the green zone and you will not gonna need to stay in the yellow zone if I will leave in the future."
Yu Lan fished out her identification token, and Mei Lin gave her identification tokens from the bandits. It looked simulator to the one she had, but unlike hers, this one was jade green.
Mei Lin used her natural energy to extract the blood from inside the jade token and as she gave it to Yu Lan, she cut her hand and spilled it on the token. Yu Lan was quite happy that she switched the token, but Mei Lin found that using her natural energy to guide the blood of someone else herself was more exhausting than she thought before.
Unlike Mei Lin's token, this token was different from her and wasn't branded with spirit sense, but with blood. This will prevent anyone from stealing from each other. Even with the help of cultivators, this blood print will prevent them from changing the ones. Only cultivators with the QI Condensation realm could dispel the blood from the token, but if someone discovered that the token was tampered with, they would feel immediate consequences for their actions.
Fortunately for Mei Lin, with blood pa, she could extract all blood from the token and did not leave any traces behind. After then imprinting Yu Lan's blood inside, they continued forward.