Li Wei flew towards Mei Long, with his spear in his hand, increasing his weight just before the impact.
The sect master swiftly activated a shield technique in the shape of a flower, managing to block the attack. However, his eyes widened in surprise as he noticed a crack forming in his shield.
'He's at the high-level of the Golden Core Realm, but his power rivals the mid-level of the Nascent Soul Realm... and that spear of his is highly unusual', Mei Long thought, astonished.
'If he were still in my sect, I would take him as my disciple'
"Impressive power", Mei Long said calmly, "but still not enough"
With a flick of his hand, he summoned a mystical flower and hurled it toward Li Wei.
'I can sense a massive amount of energy within that flower, I must avoid it at all costs', Li Wei thought while watching the flower.
The flower chased him at an incredible speed. Realizing he could not dodge him, Li Wei had no choice but to reveal his dragon wings to gain more speed.
Black wings came out of his back, stunning everyone who were seeing the battle except Mei Hua, who already knew of his wings.
The flower pursued Li Wei for a while but failed to catch him, eventually detonating mid-air. The explosion obliterated several disciples' homes and left a massive crater in the ground.
'If that flower reached me, I would be seriously injured', Li Wei thought with tiredness because I spend a lot of energy trying to escape
"Now do you understand the difference in power between us?", Mei Long asked, gazing at Li Wei. "It would be wise to surrender without further resistance"
'He is right, I can't beat him', Li Wei thought in frustration at his lack of strength.
'I'll have to escape and quickly increase my strength to destroy the entire sect', Li Wei thought before turning around and activating his stealth technique to escape.
Mei Long saw what he was trying to do and stopped him by appearing behind him and throw a blow that hurt Li Wei a lot.
'Damn, it hurts a lot', Li Wei thought as he hit several houses before stopping.
'I can't escape using my movement technique, I'll have to use the escape technique for the first time.'
'The downside is that it consumes too much energy and leaves me weakened after using it', Li Wei thought while activating the technique.
Li Wei felt a powerful energy envelop his feet, and as soon as he started to flee, his speed tripled.
Mei Long was surprised by Li Wei's speed but even more surprised when Li Wei disappeared like a ghost without leaving any trace.
'What an annoying technique, I should have killed him in the first moment', Mei Long thought with annoyance.
"you let Li Wei escape, now he will cause us many problems because of you", said Mei Hua while looking at her father with disappointment.
"Silence, if you hadn't told me to capture him alive, he would already be dead", Mei Long responded, silencing Mei Hua.
Mei Hua was annoyed by what her father said, but instead of responding, she went silently to her room.
In the room, she moved the bed, revealing a formation carved on the floor. After activating it, a hidden passage with stairs going down opened.
After descending, she arrived at a secret room where there were several torture instruments and a table in the center with the unconscious body of Zhang Yin.
Mei Hua grabbed a torture tool and said with a crazed voice, "Even though Li Wei escaped from me, At least I can have fun playing with you"
...
Li Wei landed in a river after being totally exhausted with a feeling of weakness, and took a recovery pill.
'I couldn't do anything to him in his normal state, if he uses demonic energy, his strength will be greater' Li Wei thought after spending 2 hours recovering
'I need to hurry, according to Han Jing, all demonic cultivators will attack soon'
'The good thing is that while I was fighting Mei Long, I realized that I would have an opportunity, and as revenge, I'm going to steal it'
[Future opportunity: 3 days later, the flower you cultivated for 100 years will mature, and eating it will increase the level of your spiritual root.]
'With this opportunity, my strength will rise a lot because I will finally be able to unlock the book that belonged to Xiao Lan', Li Wei thought before starting to fly following the guide of his ability.
After flying for a while, he reached an ordinary mountain, but Li Wei immediately realized that there was something strange.
'There are several rank 3 formations that surround the mountain, it will take a while to unlock all the formations without alerting the person who created them', Li Wei thought before descending from the sky and starting to modify the inscriptions of the formations.
It only took Li Wei 40 minutes to deactivate all the formations, and the mountain that was originally normal changed its appearance drastically.
"What disgustingness, that damn Mei Long must pay for what he did", Li Wei said, a little horrified by what he was seeing.
After the formations were deactivated, it was revealed that the mountain was full of corpses feeding a red flower at the top.
Li Wei flew over all the corpses and got close to the plant.
'It still hasn't matured, it needs one more day', Li Wei thought after inspecting the plant.
'While I wait, I will configure a couple of formations to hurt Mei Long'
One day later, the plant finally matured, and Li Wei consumed it after carefully unearthing it.
A huge avalanche of energy started circulating through his body, and feeling it, he sat in a meditative position to try to control it.
As the energy increased the level of his spiritual root, Li Wei felt terrible pain but gritted his teeth and endured it.
It took him 3 hours to modify his talent, and when he succeeded, he smiled with happiness but quickly left the place because he didn't want to meet Mei Long.
'Let's see if I can unlock the book now', Li Wei thought while flying to his base.
When Li Wei took out the book, a ray of light shot towards his forehead, and an avalanche of information appeared in his mind.
"This method is incredible", Li Wei said while reviewing the memories that appeared in his mind.