Being a Late Bloomer in the Cultivation World

’I wonder if Si Qing’s Storage Bag contains a way to leave this Nanhua Sect’s Remnant Land?’ Wei Tu mused as he erased the Magical Power Mark she had left on the Storage Bag.

He had no desire to grow old and die here.

Si Qing and Wei Tu had the same Cultivation level; both were at Middle-Stage Foundation Establishment.

As such, Wei Tu opened Si Qing’s three Storage Bags with little effort.

The first was the Storage Bag Si Qing had originally worn at her waist.

Wei Tu probed it with his Guardian Map Divine Sense and found that aside from some Middle-Grade Spirit Stones, the other items in the Storage Bag were of limited value.

Wei Tu wasn’t disappointed by this.

If he had Si Qing’s means of concealing Storage Bags, he wouldn’t have placed his valuables in the most obvious one either.

As Wei Tu expected, the two Storage Bags found inside the small, transparent pouch yielded a much richer haul.

Inside one of the Storage Bags, Wei Tu found a large number of jade boxes filled with Spirit Medicine.

He presumed the Spirit Medicine in these jade boxes was loot Si Qing had acquired by killing the Huang Family Cultivators.

’The Huang Family Cultivators didn’t even enter the core area, yet the Spirit Medicine they gathered... includes two Core Formation Spiritual Objects...’ Wei Tu raised an eyebrow.

Seeing this, he instantly understood that, just as he suspected, the intelligence the Hee Mountain Huang Family had provided him about the Yunze Secret Realm was full of omissions.

’Si Qing is a Tributor, just like me. How could she have known about the hidden Spiritual Land the Huang Family Cultivators visited? Unless... one of the Huang Family Cultivators is colluding with her?’

Wei Tu mused.

After entering the Yunze Secret Realm, the Huang Family Cultivators had acted secretively. They hadn’t gone to the seven inner Spiritual Lands marked on the Jade Scroll; after all, Core Formation Spiritual Objects didn’t grow in those locations.

So, the fact that Si Qing was able to precisely ambush and kill the Huang Family Cultivators was very telling.

’There’s too little information to determine which Huang Family Cultivator is the traitor.’ Wei Tu shook his head. Besides the deceased Huang Caiyu and her two companions, any of the four remaining Huang Family Cultivators could be the traitor.

At a glance, the contents of the final Storage Bag didn’t seem as plentiful as the last. This was clearly Si Qing’s personal Storage Bag.

Inside, apart from a few Jade Scrolls, some Healing Elixirs, and a small, jet-black bowl, the rest was Si Qing’s personal undergarments and a few changes of clothes.

Wei Tu focused his attention on the Jade Scrolls and the jet-black bowl.

Based on the time Si Qing had entered the Medicinal Field, he easily deduced that she must have found something else in the Stone Hall beforehand. Only after finishing her "real business" there did she make her way to the Medicinal Field.

However, to Wei Tu’s disappointment, no matter how he studied the jet-black bowl, it remained unresponsive, like a common artifact. If not for the fact that it was indestructible, he would have truly thought it was just an ordinary object.

Wei Tu sighed, returned the jet-black bowl to the Storage Bag, and then patiently used his Guardian Map Divine Sense to examine the remaining Jade Scrolls.

One of the Jade Scrolls contained the Hee Mountain Huang Family’s intelligence on the Yunze Secret Realm. It detailed nine Spiritual Lands, two more than the seven Wei Tu had previously known about. Coincidentally, these two locations were home to the two types of Core Formation Spiritual Objects found in Si Qing’s possession.

The remaining Jade Scrolls mostly contained information on the Celestial Maiden Sect’s Demon Techniques. However, they didn’t include the sect’s Main Cultivation Technique, only some supplementary Demonic Divine Techniques.

Skimming past these Demon Cultivation Methods, Wei Tu turned his attention to the final Jade Scroll.

This Jade Scroll contained the information about the Nanhua Sect’s Remnant Land he had been longing for.

The contents of the Jade Scroll were written from the perspective of a superior.

The message was simple: the Yunze Secret Realm was once a medicinal garden belonging to the Nanhua Sect, and it might contain the sect’s legendary Spiritual Treasure, the Heaven-Mending Bowl. Si Qing had been given a special mission to infiltrate the Hee Mountain Huang Family, wait for a chance to enter the Yunze Secret Realm, and find the Heaven-Mending Bowl.

A rough map of the Nanhua Sect’s Remnant Land was appended to the end of the Jade Scroll.

’The Heaven-Mending Bowl?’ Wei Tu’s brow furrowed. He immediately thought of the jet-black bowl from earlier, the one that seemed like an ordinary object.

’Unfortunately, this Jade Scroll doesn’t explain how to actually use the Heaven-Mending Bowl.’

Wei Tu sighed to himself.

He possessed a great Treasure but had no idea how to use it. He was like a rich man in a famine, whose wealth couldn’t buy him a single bite of food.

’First things first, I need to find a way out of this Remnant Land.’ Wei Tu composed himself and continued to carefully study the map on the Jade Scroll.

After about ten minutes, he located a spot on the map inside the Stone Hall that might contain a Teleportation Array leading out of the Remnant Land.

After all, Si Qing, a Tier Two Array Master, had only managed to repair a Damaged Array to teleport inside this Remnant Land. Correspondingly, there was a high probability that a one-way Teleportation Array leading back to the outside world also existed somewhere within.

After he finished, Wei Tu looked toward the White Jade Stone Gate. He was currently in the medicinal garden behind the Stone Hall. To reach the location of the Teleportation Array, he would have to open the White Jade Stone Gate again.

But the cultivators from the Chisong Jia Family had been here just a few days ago, and he couldn’t be sure if they had left yet.

’I’ll wait.’

’The Qiyue Zhao Family, Master Qin, and Hongying will eventually break free. I’ll wait for them to run into the Jia Family cultivators. After the inevitable battle, then I’ll make my move.’

’There are still two years until the passage out of the Yunze Secret Realm opens. The Teleportation Array is hidden in a Secret Land within the Stone Hall... The gate there bears the same insignia as this White Jade Stone Gate. Without the Token, they shouldn’t be able to open it.’

After careful consideration, Wei Tu made his decision.