Everyone discussed the stone tablets further into the night before resting. Early the next morning, the group resumed their journey. Today's travel proved far more difficult than expected. They repeatedly ran into Heavenly Dao Sect search parties and had to make numerous detours, wasting a great deal of time.
By the third day, the situation grew even worse. The road ahead was heavily blockaded by men from the Heavenly Dao Sect and the Mystic Wood Palace, making any progress nearly impossible. The group had to take cover in an abandoned mountain villa to wait for an opportunity.
"It seems Elder Fengye's strategy worked," Luo Tianxing observed. "The main force of the Heavenly Dao Sect has indeed been drawn toward the southwest, but they haven't forgotten to deploy men to blockade the other main thoroughfares."
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