Han Li had left the Drifting Cloud Sect for over half a year now.
After departing from Tian Luo that day, he headed straight for the Heaventide Prairies.
Under his cautious disguise of both cultivation and identity, things started off quite smoothly. He even disguised himself as a free Immortal Master, diving into several Soaring Tribes' settlements and exchanging cultivation insights with some of their cultivators, all without incident.
However, as he crossed the vast majority of the prairie and reached the southern part of it, trouble found him unexpectedly.
In a remote wildland far from any Soaring Tribe settlement, when he routinely released all his Gold Devouring Bugs to cultivate the strongest batch, he coincidentally encountered a mid Nascent Soul Stage elder from the Soaring Tribes who was pursuing an unknown demonic bird, using a mature Gold Devouring Bug.
