He was one of the eldest and strongest being in the entire Immortal Realm, rivaled only be Ancestors of another two Sects. In terms of raw physical power, no one could supress him, not even Xian Li. That is, only in terms of physical power.
He had been in seclusion for more than 200 years. But now, He was finally out only to attend to this sect-threating situation.
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In the Azure Sky Mortal Realm.
In the same place near the village, from a door which seemed to come out of nowhere, a young man wearing ordinary robes came out. He looked effortlessly elegant and his slow and steady movement moved in a flow like that of water.
His long white hair cascaded down his back, rippling in the gentle breeze and trailing behind him like a silvery river. As he fully emerged into the fading sunlight, air seemed to hush in silence around him.
Only when he looked sidewards did his face came out of the blurring winds of the evening. His expression was calm, almost otherworldly.
There was a subtle knowing curve to his gracefull and omniscient smile.
He looked around and took a deep breath, same as last time. Except, this time he did not cough almost as if he adopted it in a matter of moments.
He then hovered once more towards the same direction he had previously taken. He stood in front of the gate. A villager packing his goods noticed him and could not help but be suspicious because he looked similar to that guy. He rubbed his eyes and opened them again. But this time Xian li was nowhere to be seen. He was taken back but shook his head thinking it just as an illusion of his eyes.
Xian Li vanished into thin air.
He reappeared in the Chief's House, nobody being able to detect his presence. When he appeared, there was no movement at all, almost as if there was no one in the house. And there really wasn't. Howerver this wasn't enough to change the expression of Xian Li.
He quitely sat down on the floor in a lotus position and wait for someone to return. That someone was obviously Feng.
Mwanwhile, he started to cultivate. He released his aura which was at the peak of Immortal Tranformation Realm(Highest realm in a mortal world). He did not release it like any cultivator would do, instead, he formed a line beyond which, his released aura would not release. Protecting him from being found if he needed to. This was the technique he thought of while sleeping. Yes! While sleeping in the mysterious space. He found or rather thought of some more techniques which are similar to this technique.
These techniques may seem very trivial and not worth the effort, which is true for those who are weak, but to the monsters like Xian Li and othere old cultivators, these provide a very good strategic advantage. The Previous Xian Li, too had ignored such techniques labeling them 'cowardly'.
After being Reforged, he finally understood the importance of these techniques in the long term. He began to see them in new colors and even 'developed' a few. One of them was the "Aura Suppressing Technique'' as he liked to call it.
He began cultivating using the Aura Supressing Technique.
He began absorbing the spiritual energy. He already knew waht he needed to know and was just lacking the spiritual energy. Due to the the poor quality of the spiritual energy in the mortal world as compared to the Immortal Realm, his cultivation was rather slow, extremely slow!
This was accompanied by the friction caused by continuously using The Aura Supressing Technique which was depleting his spiritual energy though not in large amounts.
He cultivated for about 10 hours until finally opening his eyes in a solemn expression with the trace of calmness not disappearing from his face.