One hour after Ye Mo left the area, five men in hoods and black clothes arrived in the jade forest. They were moving so fast it was like they were gliding on the wind.

A couple minutes later they arrived at a place with broken trees and claw marks but couldn't find traces of anyone.

A tall man at the front removed his hood and crouched down. He had short white hairs and a scar running across his left eye.

Passing his hand on the ground he caught a thin long strand of hair.

"The young miss was definitely here." He exclaimed in a grave tone.

"Elder, could she have been fighting with a beast?" One of the men asked.

"Yes and it's at least a level one mid tier beast."

The man gasped. Beasts and monsters have nine levels according to their power and each level was further divided in low, mid, high and peak-tier.

As for humans they started with the qi gathering realm composed of nine ranks before they could breakthrough to the foundation establishment realm.

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The weakest level one mid tier beast could easily dispatch a rank four qi gathering cultivator while most of them could deal with rank five and six.

Liu Hualing and her group were only around the rank four of the qi gathering realm while merely two of their members were rank five and six respectively.

If they really met this kind of beast by themselves it was very unlikely they survived.

"But something is wrong..." The white haired man furrowed his brows "Beasts are very territorial creatures and would attack any intruders but we have been here for some time now and didn't encounter anything. Also if they were killed by a beast why is there nothing left? No blood, bones or even clothes remains."

"Could they have been helped and managed to escape?" Someone wondered.

"Maybe, in any case we will have to report this to the patriarch" Putting his hood back, the scarred man and the others departed as fast as they came.

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Back at his small house Ye Mo took a nap.

It's been a long time since he did that but the last days were exhausting and he needed to rest.

He woke up in the afternoon completely refreshed.

Getting up he retrieved a small green pouch from his pocket. It was the one he took from Liu Hualing.

It was a spatial pouch containing three cubic meters of space. It immediately caught his attention when he met Liu Hualing because he once saw a scary man leaving the city while taking a huge axe out of one of those.

Only the most important clan members and disciples of martial institutes had one as it wasn't easy to make and required the help of a master in formations.

Taking a look inside Ye Mo found three gold coins which showed how poor was the Liu clan. As the daughter of the patriarch he expected much more but he wasn't disappointed, it wasn't what he was looking for anyway.

Next Ye Mo grabbed several bottles with all kinds of pills inside. He didn't know their use so he randomly opened one and took a sniff inside.

"They are odorless, i will need to find out about them later." Taking note of this he continued.

Finally he retrieved a small box, his eyes shining. Opening it he found the moon pacifying herb. It was round like a full moon with grey petals. Putting it back inside Ye Mo kept rummaging until he seized a small green book.

Wind Flow battle skill. Yellow rank - low tier martial art.