Chapter 138
Fang Qing steered the Fire Luoba Bowl, flying eastward in a bold and open manner.
Whenever he encountered fleeing cultivators along the way, those at the Qi Ingestion level immediately dropped to their knees in respect. Even the few Dao Foundation cultivators who spotted the Buddhists glow of the Six-Syllable Great Radiance Mantra respectfully made way, their attitudes humble and deferential.
“Fang Family Fort… is still in Ba Commandery. Back then I was only a minor cultivator whose footsteps could not stray far from home. I had no way to find a better place to settle them.”
Although he had decided there was no need to acknowledge them or deliberately guide the Fang family onto the immortal path, they were still the clan of this body. It did not feel right to simply watch their bloodline die out.
Fang Qing resolved to take a look.
After all, Ba Commandery had become a frontline now. There was no telling when it might fall.
Endless warfare, displaced refugees, and thousands of li of scorched earth were all commonplace.
As he traveled, the devastation grew heavier the farther east he went. Countless starved corpses lined the roadsides.
Boiling bones for soup and trading children for food were no longer mere words in books. They had become a blood-soaked reality that struck the face head-on. The eyes of the fleeing refugees held no other emotion, only numbness.