In the evening of the fifth day after Li Chengfeng left for Luoshi City,
in a groove behind the village, under the illumination of the setting sun, a ghost-like silhouette was moving back and forth amidst the trees, sometimes rushing forwards, sometimes moving sideways, sometimes backing off. And sometimes it even dashed straight up a large tree then ‘ran’ down as if the tree was the flat ground or turned to one side and moved forwards nearly horizontally.
This silhouette was moving extremely fast, almost creating a long blur, but strangely enough, there were no sounds of footsteps. Only the sounds of the clothes flapping could be vaguely heard. If an ordinary person came across this scene, he would most probably shout “Ghost!” then run away like crazy.
This silhouette was of course not a ghost. It was none other than Bai Yunfei.
Since Li Chengfeng had left for Luoshi City, he had been feeling a trace of uneasiness in his heart. For five days in a row, instead of using the Upgrade Technique again to improve his soulforce, he had spent nearly all his time studying and practicing the acupoint control method.
A greatly increase effort naturally led to highly effective training and great results. One day ago, he had finished practicing the various major basic acupoints in his legs, finally meeting the demands he had placed on himself earlier, and had begun to practicing the soul technique called Wave Treading Steps.
This long-awaited soul technique indeed did not disappoint him. Even at the most elementary level of mastery, it already made him so unimaginably fast and nimble.
Only when Bai Yunfei saw smoke begin to curl upwards from the kitchen chimneys in the village did he stop training. Wiping the sweat from his forehead, he felt extremely comfortable.
“It’s really like seeing an oasis in the desert… Now that I have this Wave Treading Steps, I’m even more confident of dealing with the upcoming crisis!” While pondering to himself, Bai Yunfei walked towards the village, from which the smell of food was wafting out gradually, “Very soon, I’ll have to say goodbye to this tranquil lifestyle! It’s highly probable that I won’t be able to avoid the Zhang family’s manhunt. But in my current state, I’m not afraid of them either! I’m going to counter soldiers with arms, water with an earth weir! When I leave this Qingyun Province, I’ll be like a free fish in an endless sea, a flying cloud in the limitless sky!”
At night, Bai Yunfei was lying on the bed with the back of his head resting on his hands, looking at the several beams of moonlight shining into the house and pondering over the current situation.
“It’s kind of strange… It’s already been seventeen days since I killed Zhang Yang. Why haven’t the Zhang family’s men found this place yet? Even if those gangsters tried their hardest to run away, not all of them would have been able to escape. It would have taken the Zhang family several days at most to chase them down. Then, using their confessions and the Zhang family’s power, it would have been easy to find out who I am. At that time, the Zhang family would have carried out a large-scale search. According to what I thought at first, it would have taken them around ten days at most to find this place…
“This means… it’s possible that when I killed Zhang Yang, Zhang Zhenshan wasn’t at home at all! Plus, he was quite far away from Luoshi City! There was no decision maker in the Zhang family so they had to wait for Zhang Zhenshan to return, wasting several days…