Becoming an immortal against the will of heaven

Although the decision to retreat had already been made, because they had ventured too deep into the West Mi Mountains and could encounter demonic beasts at any time, everyone felt that it would take at least two days to safely return to the headquarters of the Shi Xiang Pavilion.

With this realization, everyone took a deep breath, feeling that it was better to be as careful as possible in such a dangerous place.

However, to everyone's surprise, what happened next completely exceeded their expectations.

As they had anticipated, during their retreat, they encountered several waves of violent demonic beasts. Like phantoms, they suddenly emerged from the depths of the forest without anyone noticing, pouncing fiercely as if wanting to devour them.

Seeing this scene, everyone was alarmed, but they hurriedly picked up their magical treasures, intending to meet the attack.

But at this moment, an anomaly occurred. The beasts, which had been displaying ferocity just moments before, suddenly paused as they approached the group, as if sensing some terrifying aura. They stopped their advance and instead scurried back as if fleeing for their lives.

Even more, one or two low-level demonic beasts with weaker strength were so terrified that they fainted instantly, falling straight down from the sky and shattering into pieces.

Seeing this bizarre scene, everyone's faces were filled with shock. They held their magical treasures, looking at each other in confusion, unsure of what had happened.

To be honest, when they had been advancing, all the demonic beasts they encountered had been extremely violent. Even knowing they couldn't defeat them, these beasts would still pounce without hesitation, as if nothing existed in the depths of their souls except revenge.

But on the way back, these demonic beasts seemed to have suddenly changed their nature. Not only did they not attack them, but they were extremely afraid and fled backward.

This was truly strange. Everyone racked their brains, but they couldn't figure out what had happened.

In the beginning, they thought it was a trick by the demonic beasts to lure them in, so they didn't relax their vigilance and continued to move forward slowly and cautiously.

But later, the demonic beasts they encountered also scattered as soon as they approached, just like the previous ones, not daring to attack at all. And they were already flying close to the edge of the West Mi Mountains, which finally allowed them to breathe a sigh of relief.

Although they were very surprised by this anomaly, being able to walk out of this ghostly, misty mountain range alive was an extremely exciting thing.

Like Chen Tian, Liao Yu Fan, who was flying beside him, had also been gloomy from beginning to end, staring at Chen Tian thoughtfully all the way. He had wanted to ask him something several times, but in the end, he didn't say anything.

After flying forward for a while, everyone finally arrived on land.

As soon as they landed from the air, these people who had survived the disaster embraced each other, and some emotional ones even shed tears.

Yes, they had all thought that their lives might be lost in the West Mi Mountains, but who would have thought that they could still fly out alive? How could this not make them happy?

After congratulating each other for a while, everyone seemed to think of something. They walked to Chen Tian, knelt down to him, and kowtowed repeatedly.

Seeing this scene, Chen Tian temporarily put away the strangeness on his face and asked in confusion, "What are you doing? Get up!"

But the crowd did not listen to Chen Tian's words and immediately get up. One of them said emotionally: "Captain, if you hadn't helped us along the way, I'm afraid we would never have been able to get out of this mountain range. You are our reborn parents, so please accept our humble thanks!"

Saying that, everyone kowtowed to Chen Tian nine times in a row.

Seeing this, Chen Tian shook his head helplessly and sighed: "We are all cultivators, and being able to meet here is also a kind of karma, but since I have safely brought you out, then the karma between us will be cut off. From now on, I, Ye, will not be responsible for your life or death. Do you understand?"

Everyone was a cultivator, so of course they knew what Chen Tian meant, so they nodded one after another, and after kowtowing again, they stood up.

To be honest, Chen Tian originally thought that he could bring all thirty people out safely, but he didn't expect that in the end, he only brought out thirteen people.

After sighing, Chen Tian asked the survivors to bury the deceased.

After doing all this, Chen Tian continued to fly with them towards Shi Xiang Pavilion.

At this time, nearly twenty days had passed since Chen Tian and others entered the West Mi Mountains. The cultivation world had also learned about what happened here, so they urgently formulated a plan and sent most of the cultivators to stop the demonic beasts from invading, so the situation was temporarily alleviated.

When Chen Tian and others flew over, they could see many cultivators patrolling back and forth along the way, presumably humans had once again occupied the control of the land.

Thinking of this, Chen Tian and the others no longer hesitated, released their speed, and flew back to Shi Xiang Pavilion with a bang.

As soon as they arrived at the door, everyone bowed to Chen Tian and said goodbye, and then they dispersed to find the person in charge to receive the reward.

Because Chen Tian was the captain of the Spirit 引灵 Stage, he was different from the others and needed to go to the middle-aged man to receive the Dragon Saliva Pill 龙涎丹, so he bid farewell to them and then followed Liao Yu Fan to his master's room.

It's just that on the way, Liao Yu Fan was still as gloomy as before and didn't speak.

Chen Tian saw all this in his eyes, and then smiled lightly: "Okay, Brother Liao, there are no outsiders here, only the two of us. If you have anything you want to say to me, then just say it directly. I think if you hold it in any longer, you'll get sick."

Speaking of which, Chen Tian still liked the talkative and cheerful Liao Yu Fan before, but now that he didn't speak, Chen Tian felt a little uncomfortable.

After hearing Chen Tian's words, Liao Yu Fan, who had been walking forward, paused, stopped, turned his head in surprise and said: "Brother Ye, how did you see that I have something to say to you?"

Looking at the naive Liao Yu Fan, Chen Tian was really a little helpless, shook his head and said: "You almost wrote your thoughts on your face! You've been frowning all the time, as if I owe you money and didn't pay it back."

"Hehe, Brother Ye is really humorous." After hearing Chen Tian's teasing, Liao Yu Fan's face suddenly smiled awkwardly.

Chen Tian glared at him unhappily, and then said again: "Okay, tell me, what did you want to ask me along the way?"

"Since Brother Ye is so straightforward, then I won't beat around the bush." Liao Yu Fan seemed to have made a major decision, took a deep breath, stared at Chen Tian seriously, and said: "Brother Ye, the reason why those demonic beasts avoided us when we came back, is it related to you?"