Guo Xingyue spent several months refining a batch of ordinary pills. His alchemy techniques became increasingly proficient. In particular, he discovered that the lightning ball within his body had a special effect on enhancing the fire intensity and harmonizing the medicinal efficacy. Guo Xingyue attempted several times to merge the lightning ball with his true essence power but failed. Both could flow within the meridians yet operated independently without interfering with each other. Guo Xingyue couldn't figure out what was going on. Thinking that it was not a bad thing anyway, he decided to let it be.
Guo Xingyue sorted out all the magical artifacts, various pills, and rare treasures in the palace. There were a total of twelve treasure-level artifacts and twelve semi-immortal artifacts. The most precious ones were two Tribulation Pills. There were also several bottles of high-level pills such as Guiyuan Pills and Huanshen Pills. Additionally, there were a batch of middle-grade and top-grade magical artifacts refined by himself and a considerable number of ordinary pills. As for the materials for refining artifacts and alchemy, there were still many. Guo Xingyue put these into his newly refined storage ring separately. For this ring, Guo Xingyue creatively superimposed four layers of the mustard seed and Mount Sumeru formation. Unexpectedly, he found that this storage ring actually had four spaces. Moreover, each space was quite large, just right for separating and placing the magical artifacts and other items in the palace.
After getting everything ready, Guo Xingyue walked to the palace gate. He respectfully bowed to Haotian's portrait on the screen wall and said softly, "Elder, I'm about to leave now. Thank you for the gifts you gave me. If I can cultivate into the immortal world or the divine realm one day, I will definitely come back and tell you. May your spirit in heaven bless me to successfully pass the tribulation. I swear that one day I will uncover the mystery of why loose immortals cannot pass nine tribulations and give you an answer."
Guo Xingyue stood at the palace gate, looking at the palace where he had spent more than four hundred years. After a long silence, he turned around. He formed a series of hand formulas and set up a four-layer maze formation. The function of this maze formation was to prevent outsiders from seeing the palace and block people who accidentally came here. Then he took out a treasure-level artifact as the eye of the formation and set up a golden lock annihilation formation. This was the only formation among the three great killing formations that did not require someone to be in charge. If someone could break through the four-layer maze formation, this golden lock annihilation formation would remind the person to turn back. If they insisted on breaking in, they would surely face death or injury.
Flying rapidly in the air on his flying sword, Guo Xingyue was thinking about how to get some justice from the Changmo Sect. Although he had obtained a lot, he had narrowly escaped death several times. If it weren't for his good luck, he would have already been destroyed. No matter what, he had to get some payback for this suffering. Guo Xingyue had no intention of confronting the Changmo Sect head-on. Originally a killer, he was very familiar with how to avoid the strong and attack the weak. Although he didn't know where the Changmo Sect was or what powerful people they had, he wasn't afraid. He planned to start investigating from the mortal world of Giant Horn Star. After finding out the situation, he would teach the Changmo Sect a lesson. Although he wouldn't destroy the Changmo Sect, he still wanted to beat them into a mess.
At this time, Guo Xingyue was already at the late stage of Out-of-Body. What he used was also a top-grade treasure-level artifact. His flying speed was extremely fast. In just a few days, he saw a huge oasis from a distance. Guo Xingyue didn't want to expose his identity, so he immediately descended and landed in the desert. Standing in the desert, Guo Xingyue used the spell of shrinking the ground into inches and walked towards the oasis on foot. With his speed, he could reach the oasis in one day.
After about an hour, Guo Xingyue had walked several hundred miles. Suddenly, he felt a burst of murderous aura coming from behind a sand dune dozens of miles ahead. Listening carefully, he vaguely heard people shouting and the clashing of weapons. It seemed that there was a battle. Speeding up, he reached the top of the sand dune in an instant.
On the back of the sand dune, two groups of people were engaged in a fierce battle, shouting words that Guo Xingyue couldn't understand. The side facing away from Guo Xingyue had fewer people. They wore different clothes and were covered in dust. They were desperately defending in front of a circle of camel-like beasts. This kind of beast seemed somewhat similar to camels on Pangu Star, but it was much larger. The beasts were carrying goods. Judging from this, the defending side should be a caravan. The attacking side had several times more people than the defenders. Everyone was wearing white clothes and pants. They were extremely fierce and showed no mercy. They didn't spare even the injured. There was no survivor among those they attacked. Guo Xingyue judged that these should be desert bandits. The weapons used by both sides were generally the same, all curved knives. The moves they used were completely different from those in the martial arts world of Pangu Star. The moves were simple but extremely fierce. Once they attacked, there would be bloodshed.
The defending side had higher martial arts skills than the attacking side, but there were too few people. At this time, the casualties were extremely heavy and they were about to be unable to hold on. Guo Xingyue thought for a while and decided to help. However, he didn't intend to expose his identity as a cultivator. He decided to use the martial arts of Pangu Star to deal with these bandits. Guo Xingyue quickly rushed down the sand dune, casually took the knife from a white-clothed person, and with a move of "Fighting in All Directions at Night", he knocked all the knives out of the hands of the surrounding white-clothed people. Then Guo Xingyue wandered around like a butterfly among flowers. In a short time, all the white-clothed people were unarmed. Seeing the change in the situation, the defenders immediately turned from defense to offense and chased the white-clothed people away. Guo Xingyue casually grabbed a white-clothed person in the crowd. With a twist of his hand's magic formula, he pressed a copy technique on the white-clothed person's head. In just a moment, he extracted all the information from the white-clothed person's mind. Just as he expected: These white-clothed people were the giant bandits in the desert - White Whirlwind. And the ones being besieged were a caravan.
All the bandits had lost their weapons. Under the pursuit of the caravan people, they left dozens of corpses and fled in all directions. Guo Xingyue casually threw the white-clothed person in his hand aside. It wasn't that Guo Xingyue was merciful and didn't dare to kill. As a cultivator, killing these mortals had no meaning at all. Guo Xingyue simply didn't bother to kill him.
After chasing for a while, the people in the caravan all returned. Everyone looked at Guo Xingyue with surprise. The martial arts skills Guo Xingyue had just used were extremely brilliant. In just a few moments, he defeated the famous White Whirlwind in the great desert. The people in this caravan were all experienced people who had traveled far and wide. The martial arts skills used by Guo Xingyue were something they had never heard of. A person could defeat hundreds of people. Unless it was an immortal, it was impossible. (The mortals on Giant Horn Star call cultivators immortals.)
A group of women, children, old people, and the young came out from the circle of camel-like beasts. The elder leading them parted the crowd and walked up to Guo Xingyue. Putting his hands close to his chest and bowing deeply, he said, "Thank you, immortal, for saving us." Guo Xingyue quickly reached out to stop the old man who was about to kneel down and said, "Elder, don't do this. I'm not an immortal. I'm just a tourist passing by."