Unsheathed

Chen Ping'an put away the military book and flipped open a book that was similar to the Flax Robe Sect's Be At Ease Compilation. This book was called Spring Dew in Winter, and it was a small book that introduced the immortal force that owned this immortal ship. The book was quite interesting, and there were stories both long and short talking about which sword immortal of the Northern Complete Reed Continent had rested on their mountain before, which earth immortal had drank tea and discussed Dao at which famous landmark, what poems and essays the literati had written for their mountain, what paintings the literati had composed, and so on.

Chen Ping'an was traveling on an immortal ship owned by the Spring Dew Garden, and the main income source of this immortal ship was from selling strange and wonderful plants raised by the immortal force as it traveled to the different regions. Among these plants, there were three types of immortal flowers that were essentially monopolized by the Flax Robe Sect, thereby creating a huge income source for the Spring Dew Garden. Because of this, the route of the immortal ship started and finished at an area between Skeleton Shoal and the Fine Wood Mountain Range, where the Spring Dew Garden was located.

The Spring Dew Garden belonged to the School of Agrarianism of the Hundred Schools of Thought, and the majority of cultivators in this immortal force were female cultivators who largely had warm and gentle personalities.

At the same time, the Fine Wood Mountain Range was rich with wonderful wood and plant spirits, and this allowed the Spring Dew Garden to become a very wealthy second-rate immortal force in the southeastern region of the Complete Reed Continent. In addition to this, the Spring Dew Garden had many friends and few enemies, so the Fine Wood Mountain Range was a place that young official immortals from the south would definitely travel to when they left the mountains to travel and train.

There were three reasons why Chen Ping'an had chosen to take this immortal ship. Firstly, traveling on this immortal ship would allow him to take a detour around Skeleton Shoal. Secondly, the Spring Dew Garden had three unique treasures passed down through the generations, one of which was an old locust tree that had lived in the Fine Wood Mountain Range for ten thousand years and measured dozens of meters tall. Chen Ping'an wanted to take a look at this locust tree and see how it was different from the old locust tree from his hometown.

Lastly, the Spring Dew Garden would host a Farewelling the Year Banquet whenever New Year's Eve was around the corner. At this time, thousands of wandering merchants would gather together to sell their wares, creating a grand event where immortal coins flew around everywhere. Chen Ping'an planned to do some small business at this banquet.

The small book introducing the Spring Dew Garden wasn't thin, but compared to the extremely detailed Be At Ease Compilation that was like a nagging parent at home, it was ultimately still fewer in the number of pages.

In reality, Chen Ping'an felt slightly disappointed that he hadn't been able to collect similar books at the Parasol Leaf Continent's Planchette Writing Sect and the other immortal forces.

After finishing the small book, Chen Ping'an started to practice the six-step walking meditation. In the end, he was essentially half asleep as he continued to walk from the window to the door as he practiced the fist stance, yet his footsteps didn't stray in the least.

Dawn arrived, and Chen Ping'an opened his eyes and stopped practicing walking meditation, returning to the seat beside the table and sitting down to wait. Only when someone knocked on his door did he stand up and answer it.

A steward of the immortal ship was standing outside, and he was an elderly Golden Core Tier cultivator and one of the few male cultivators in the Spring Dew Garden. He appeared lethargic and aged, and he couldn't compare to the Flax Robe Sect's Du Wensi or Yang Lin at all. They were all at the same cultivation base, yet the gulf between them was still incredibly large.

If they were to engage in a fight, it was very likely that victory and defeat would be decided in the blink of an eye. However, this wasn't to say that cultivators from the Spring Dew Garden were pushovers, and it was instead a reflection of the fact that cultivators from the Flax Robe Sect were a special breed who treated life-and-death battles as normal everyday occurrences.