Looking at the backdoor from where the Shen family just departed, Young Master Mo brow furrowed, and he muttered thoughtfully,
"It seems he was expecting our arrival. How did he know that we were chasing him?"
Then his expression became ruthless, and he ordered coldly, "Chase them; they can't run far with a child."
Meanwhile, far away on the mountain, Shen Yi took the baby and his wife and appeared inside a cave, closing its entrance, and then he walked forward amidst his wife's surprised expression and lit up the candle in a corner, revealing two wooden beds inside and a fully enclosed cave of a few square meters in size.
"What is this place?" Shen Yue asked in surprise, looking at the cave.
"This is the cave I organized before for hiding."
Shen Han replied calmly, looking at her, and then he walked forward and started looking outside through the tiny hole, looking at the bushes and trees around illuminated with moonlight.
"How did you find out that they are chasing us?" Shen Yue then asked curiously, sitting down on the wooden bed.
Shen Han glanced at the empty path outside, seeing that no one was following them, then he sighed in relief and then walked toward his wife and replied solemnly,
"I received a letter from a friend a few days ago; there was a warning inside that young master Mo was searching for us and he was looking for the carriage owner that dropped us here."
He sat down on the other bed and sighed, looking at his wife and son.
Shen Yue fell silent seeing her husband's expression; she stood up, appeared beside him, and then sat down, patting his shoulder while speaking consolingly.
"Don't worry, everything will be alright."
Then she put her head on his shoulder, closing her eyes, while both of them didn't notice their baby son was looking at them both with a thoughtful expression that shouldn't have been on a baby face at this age.
'It seems I have to do something.'
He thought to himself, and then his eyeball turned and glanced at the direction of the cave exit, which is closed by stones.
Click! Click!! Click!!!
Suddenly Shen Han's and his wife's expressions changed hearing the branch clicking noise from outside the cave. He hurriedly gestured silently toward his wife and blew out the candle; the whole cave turned dark.
Meanwhile, a five-figure outsider passed by the cave entrance, ignoring it because of the moss on the stone at its entrance.
After searching around, one of them whispered,
"Young master, it seems they didn't come in this direction; should we split up and follow them on other paths?"
Young Master Mo's brow furrowed seeing the empty forest around and the mountain; except for the worms ringing, they didn't hear any other sound.
After thinking for a while,
"Let's go; it looks like we lost them. Find out about this mountain. Which clan's territory is this?"
Young Master Mo spoke, taking a deep breath and suppressing the anger in his heart, and then all of them descended the mountain.
Meanwhile, Shen Han and his wife sighed in relief inside the cave after noticing their departure, then both of them lay down silently on the wooden beds.
'I have to increase my strength quickly; it seems reaching the third star of Dou disciple will take more than twenty days at the current pace.'
Shen Yi thought to himself silently, and then an idea struck his mind.
'Wait, I can try controlling and locking the dou qi in my meridians. Like that, my personal qi won't be used for healing purposes; instead, my physique will borrow all the dou qi from the surroundings to heal my injuries.'
He felt the idea was feasible, and he started focusing on the warm energy in his body, which he could sense but couldn't see. At the same time, he started stacking the force in his body.
As he started practicing again, the stars in the dark started blurring, and the sun rose up from the other direction of the continent.
The next early morning, Shen Han left the cave secretly, and after a while, he returned with a loaf and milk for his wife, then he spoke in anger, clenching his fist.
"That Mo bastard and his servant occupied our house and waited for our return."
Shen Yue was startled, and then her expression became anxious looking at her husband. "Can't we do anything about it?"
Shen Han shook his head and replied with a sigh, "We just have to be careful and stay hidden before they give up the chase."
Shen Yi glanced at his parents and then closed his eyes and started focusing on his practice, as he can't do anything in this situation.
Even if he uses force techniques, his strength won't rival a fifth- or sixth-star adult dou disciple, let alone deal with the duo practitioners' lackeys of young master. Even young master Mo himself is a nine-star dou practitioner.
While the Shen family was staying hidden in the cave, the young master Mo became extremely annoyed with each passing day.
On the other hand,
In just two days, Shen Yi controlled and confined his dou qi inside his meridian using the force technique and found a new way to increase his strength, which is to permanently stack the force in his physique and slowly increase it as his body gets used to pressure and injury.
Such a way increased his dou qi absorption speed, as his physique is pressurized and squeezed more and more, like compressing the sponge; as it is compressed more and more, the dou qi storage and gathering capacity increases accordingly.
In just three days, he reached the three-star dou disciple, then five days later four stars, five stars in eight days, six stars in twelve days, and finally seventeen days later he reached seven stars of the dou disciple realm.
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