After spending a lot of money at the auction house, word of his wealth spread to the low-level people of the city overnight. This led to various rumors about him and some strange names spreading throughout the city, such as Fortune's Favorite Fool, Fortune's Ass King, Divinely Blessed Idiot, etc.
Due to which various unscrupulous people were constantly after him to snatch his wealth. However, due to the strict rules and regulations of the city, no one attacked him in broad daylight. Still, he often felt people's eyes on him, and if he entered any secluded area of the city for any reason, he would be attacked in various ways to loot his wealth.
For this reason, about a month after the auction, Jiutian was changing his lodging and dining places in different parts of the city, but people's greed for his wealth had increased so much that he was not spared constant trouble and attacks.
After reaching the city, the various kinds of injustice and corruption happening in front of him repeatedly, along with the attacks and oppression on him for his wealth, were crossing the bottom line of his prideful nature day by day.
Then, when the situation gradually became so serious that his back was against the wall, which stood as an obstacle in the path of his life's existence and the last promise given to his father, he could not tolerate any more, even if it meant his death.
And for this reason, to conquer his goal by adapting himself to the environment and situation, he began to make himself even stricter.
At that time, Jiutian's naivety as a boy was slowly moved from rough diamond to polished diamond. Because of that, his merciful and forgiving nature began to change, and Jiutian later understood that true justice is not always fulfilled by just punishing and forgiving, but for complete justice, it is necessary to cut the root of the main evil from the core.
As Jiutian's cultivation evolved day by day, the abilities he gained from his merged golden bones also further improved.
His physical strength, instant wound healing, and energy recovery being several times faster than normal cultivator which obtained from mysterious Golden Bone, coupled with Jiutian's Heavenly Hearthflame Judgement Root, made him confident enough to fight any mid-stage Qi Consolidation cultivators.
Besides that, by using some special items, he was confidently able to save himself from the hands of initial late-stage cultivators. This matter was not only unimaginable and impossible for the people of this entire city, but according to the information he gained, overcoming a small stage gap was almost impossible.
Moreover, in any previous incident in the city, Jiutian had never revealed his full strength to anyone; even despite being attacked repeatedly, he used his early second cultivation in difficult and risky situations.
Because he knew that if the attackers once gained knowledge of his strength, then the next time, even more powerful people would attack him. For this reason, to save his existence, he carefully and strongly against the injustices towards him in the dark alleys of the city at night. As a result, several attacking evil or loose cultivators, driven by their greed, were killed by his hands.
But how Jiutian killed his attackers, others did not know. They only knew that maybe Jiutian had killed them using some powerful item.
According to others, he was previously just an unknown loose cultivator who had perhaps just dug up the wealth left by some powerful cultivators and became rich overnight.
So, although Jiutian's capabilities were revealed from time to time, the people of the city saw his abilities as the result of powerful items and tricks.
Since everyone in the city more or less underestimated him as an early-stage cultivator, they think as a lucky one because several times he used different types of artifacts and talismans to escape from the clutches of death.
And so on; he would often kill the attackers and burn them with his Heavenly Heartflame, so there would be no trace of his attack and murder.
But still, despite adopting such a policy, Jiutian was too late because, by then, the roots of this cause had spread so much that it was impossible for him alone to completely cut the roots of evil.
Moreover, his name had spread throughout every corner, because of which various rumors about him were more or less, in almost all the taverns and restaurants of the city.
Later, when Jiutian's killing spree, along with the attention of powerful cultivators, grew, the situation began to grow more complicated. Now, not only early-stage, but sometimes powerful mid-stage, and even a few early late-stage cultivators started to trouble him.
After that, he realized deeply that if he could not get out of this situation quickly, his survival would become uncertain. And just then, as if Heaven smiled upon him, he suddenly heard a piece of news, and it was the recruitment exam of the Mountain Sect.
And so he decided to leave this city, where his situation was getting worse day by day, and he wanted to join the powerhouse where the answer lay.
The distance to the nearest city of the Azure Mountain Range Country from here is more than ten thousand kilometers. Most of this vast distance is covered by forests, mountain ranges, and lairs of powerful beasts and evil cultivators. For this reason, traveling without being a powerful cultivator is equivalent to walking the path of death.
Therefore, after much effort and wearing various disguises for several days, he carefully selected a group of people who were heading for the Thousand Mountain Sect's exam.
Later, within a day or two, a party of 80 individuals, together with a powerful hired foundation establishment cultivator and three peak-stage and six late-stage qi cultivators, headed off in around 20 high-speed carriages drawn by horses and some formidable beasts.
As a result, Jiutian departed the city with them securely and without incident.
Then, after about four months, on the way, they were already attacked several times by wild spiritual beasts and even some evil cultivators, which the elite cultivators had already dealt with.
Apart from these minor problems, their group had safely crossed almost eighty percent of the way to their destination without any other trouble. But just then, when they were nearing the thousand distance of the city, a smaller group of 30 or 35 cultivators, dressed in camouflaged black clothing and red masks with tiger patterns (🐯), surrounded and attacked them from all sides.
Then, a massive, chaotic battle began between them. Because of the sudden attack by powerful cultivators, Jiutian's group failed to defend themselves, and later, because the foundation establishment cultivator of Jiutian's group fled, the others, fearing for their lives, started to flee.
Then Jiutian, being a low-stage cultivator, after fighting with a few members of the disguised group, managed to escape with his life, avoiding the notice of other attackers. But several people who were fleeing nearby recognized him as Verdant Pulse City's 'Fortune's Ass-King', a name famous throughout the city, and they also started following him while fleeing, and one such group is still following currently…
These people who were chasing Jiutian were quite different from the previous ones. Because in the last two hours, Jiutian had managed to escape by tricking several such people. Although there were a few mid-stage cultivators among them previously, due to Jiutian's physical strength his speed had surpassed that of mid-stage cultivators, so he easily outpaced them.
But the people currently chasing Jiutian, perhaps being from the same Clan or group, are actually using a special movement formation method. This is why, except for one mid-stage cultivator, the rest, being early-stage, were still following Jiutian closely. As a result, Jiutian could not shake them off in any way; wherever he went, they found him.
For this very reason, Jiutian now stopped trying to escape and formulated a plan in his head.
He directly entered a dark, eerie valley covered with dense trees, located between two mountains. Despite it being noon, it was quite dark due to the dense foliage.