The Cliff

"Kyaaa!"

As Lei Kongming moved towards the Azure Dew Flower, the first one to notice him was the only woman among the three Qi-refining cultivators. Her scream startled the other two cultivators, who thought someone had sneak-attacked their companion. But before they could even look around, they were quickly dumbfounded when they spotted the naked man with a bag covering his head running towards the azure dew flower.

They even forgot to defend themselves against the attack of adult rabbits.

"Ugh! Stupid rabbits!"

"Your home is being stolen, and you're still attacking us?"

By the time those adult rabbits noticed him, Lei Kongming had already subdued the young rabbits that were guarding the Azure Dew Flower.

Lei Kongming didn't bother to harvest the Azure Dew Flowers carefully; instead, he quickly grabbed them with one hand while using the other hand to hold the bag on his face to prevent it from flying away. He ran towards the nearest exit, which was just wide enough for him to run through instead of crawling like the one he used to enter.

Grabbing the Azure Dew Flower like wild weed will likely damage the flower which will lower its final price. However, Lei Kongming can't afford to be caught by the adult rabbits. If by any chance his bag was blown away, then what awaited him was not only complete social death but also the ruin of the Lei family's reputation and his parents.

As Lei Kongming entered the exit, he noticed that only half of the adult rabbits and young rabbits that were fighting against the Qi-refining cultivators of Purple Cloud Palace were actually chasing him. The rest of them were still fighting against those Qi-refining cultivators.

As Lei Kongming dashed out of the burrow, he noticed that the adult rabbits chasing him bumped into each other due to the narrow space, causing chaos for the young rabbits at the back.

'Although Qi refining realm beasts are intelligent, their intelligence is limited,' Thought Lei Kongming. 'The previous arrangement of gathering all the adult rabbits to guard the azure dew flower and sending the young rabbits to gather food near the burrow was likely organized by the leader rabbits.'

Scanning his surroundings, Lei Kongming tried to figure out where he had set his trap. However, he became dumbfounded because he found that the fight between the leader rabbit and the disciple of Purple Cloud Palace was happening right between him and the cliff where he had previously laid his trap.

'Ugh! Another Trouble.' Thought Lei Kongming as he felt that he may have angered the Taoist Ancestor.

In a split second, Lei Kongming decided to enter the middle area of Jade River Mountain because the forest could not only help him cover his naked figure, but he could also try to use other beasts to get rid of the rabbits that were pursuing him. Although the risk of encountering foundation-building beasts would increase, in his current situation, the most important thing was to avoid complete social death, and the forest was very helpful in this regard.

Just after running for a few minutes, Lei Kongming suddenly discovered a snake attacking him—or more precisely, attacking his little brother. A chill ran down his spine as he realized the cultivation world's morals were slipping, with even beasts resorting to dirty moves.

"Where did this perverted snake come from?" he muttered.

Although the attack was somewhat unexpected, it was not difficult for Lei Kongming to dodge it, as the snake only had the cultivation of the peak of the Qi refining realm.

After dodging the attack, Lei Kongming punched the snake towards the pursuing rabbits and entered deeper into the forest.

....

At that moment, Lei Kongming was sitting inside a hollow tree. Next to him was the corpse of a squirrel, which was also at the peak of the first grade.

After escaping the rabbit pursuit, he had been looking for a place to get dressed and properly handle the Azure Dew Flower. He found a hollow tree that seemed suitable, but just as he tried to enter it, he was attacked by the squirrel. Thankfully, he was able to deal with it without attracting other cultivators or beasts.

"I never thought I would ever take such a big risk for an Azure Dew Flower," said Lei Kongming. "It would be good if I could find a way to use a space ring or anything similar, otherwise I might awaken some strange hobbies."

Lei Kongming started getting dressed and then poured the remaining dragon blood water into the corner. After cleaning the bottles that had contained the dragon blood water, he placed one Azure Dew Flower in each bottle. Then, he put these bottles inside the corpse of the squirrel to hide and safely smuggle them out of Jade River Mountain.

After doing all of this, Lei Kongming headed to the exit of Jade River Mountain. He wanted to leave this place before Purple Cloud Palace could respond and start checking on everyone who exited the mountain. After all, he dared to snatch treasure from the discipline of Purple Cloud Palace inside their own training ground, which was a slap in their face.

'I don't know why, but I have a feeling that I'm forgotten something.'

.....

"Senior Brother Yang, we really want to chase that pervert, but those stupid rabbits won't allow us to leave."

"Yes, Senior Brother Yang, they were firmly blocking us. I think they started attacking us even more crazily after that pervert stole away the Azure Dew Flower."

At this time, three Qi-refining cultivators, whom Lei Kongming had seen in the burrow, were standing in front of a man while bowing their heads in shame.

Surprisingly, this person looked very weak, with a pale face devoid of any color, and his breathing was distorted. Even his hands shook from time to time. Despite this, the Qi-refining cultivators called him Senior Brother and showed great respect towards him.

"Of course! They will attack you because they think that you are in the same group! I asked you to snatch the Azure Dew Flower, not to exterminate all the rabbits! Why do you attack them directly? Can't the two of you just attract their attention while Junior Sister snatch away the Azure Dew Flower and ran?"

Whether out of anger or weakness, the Purple Cloud Palace disciple surnamed Yang, started shaking.

"How dare you delay even when you know I was using a secret technique to temporarily enhance my combat power against the leader rabbit!" exclaimed the disciple surnamed Yang, breathing heavily. "You're fully aware of the severe consequences of this secret technique. At this moment, even a third-level Qi refining realm cultivator could easily injure me!"

The disciple surnamed Yang took a deep breath to calm himself down and thought angrily, 'Last week, something went wrong with my cultivation, and now I can easily lose control of my mind and even become temporarily crazy.'

"I've spent all my spirit stone on a pill to heal this, but it won't be delivered until next month. I urgently need Azure Dew Flower or something similar to calm my mind, but now because of your negligence, someone has snatched the food from my mouth."

The disciple surnamed Yang glared at his three juniors for the last time and said angrily, "Let's go and ask the deacon to block all the exits and check all the cultivators to find that pervert."

The disciple surnamed Yang and the three Qi refining cultivators headed towards the exit of Jade River Mountain. On their way, a cliff appeared in front of them. To save time, the disciple surnamed Yang moved forward to jump down instead of walking around.

"Senior Brother! Be careful, you are injured."

"I am not so injured that I will get hurt after jumping from a small cliff," said the disciple surnamed Yang arrogantly.

Surprisingly, if Lei Kongming were here, he would definitely recognize this cliff.

"AHHHH! It HURTS! Which scoundrel laid a trap here!"