The Undying Immortal System

The Path of Body that led to Yellow City looked very different from the one on the way to Earth City. Instead of being a dense jungle, this one was more like a rocky wasteland.

The entrance to the path was a stone arch that made my space affinity tingle, so I couldn’t be sure the path was truly located on the mountain. When we passed through the arch, our surroundings didn’t change, but I felt that we had been teleported.

I carefully surveyed the area for any possible threats. There were a few large boulders that could conceal hidden enemies, but this area was far more open than the version of the path higher up the mountain.

To guard against anyone lying in ambush, LiTing and I left the path and made wide loops around any boulders or depressions in the ground. If there was a place where people could hide, we avoided it. To stop any illusionists from sneaking up on us, I deployed a few defensive formations that would provide us with a thin layer of defense and give us warning of any surprise attacks before they happened.

I also switched on my energy vision to keep a constant eye out for any potential dangers. Leaving it on for extended periods was taxing on my eyes, so I usually didn’t do it, but we were in a dangerous situation. We needed to be as careful as possible. Not only could my energy vision help me detect hidden opponents, but it would also light up dangerous energy-dense projectiles or insects that were too small to notice with normal vision.

Even though we took these precautions, I didn’t expect to be targeted by an ambush. I had no doubt that Lord Hao wanted revenge against us for killing his men, and I had noticed spies checking in on us over the years, but our departure from Mortal City was sudden enough that I didn’t expect him to have anything ready to go. Instead, I was worried more about someone targeting us simply because they felt that we looked like easy targets for a robbery.

As we made our way through the rocky terrain of the Path of Body, we were not attacked by evil cultivators even once. Instead, the two of us were constantly assaulted by hordes of low-level beasts. They only had the strength of mid-level Martial Masters, so they were easy to defeat, but the constant assaults slowed us down.

After the first day of nearly non-stop fighting, I realized that waiting to ambush someone on this path was a fool’s errand. Anyone who tried to hide themselves would quickly be exposed by the hordes of attacking beasts. No matter how well a cultivator tried to hide on this path, the demon beasts would soon find and attack them.

Still, knowing that these animals were not a real threat and that we needed to stay prepared for what lay ahead, LiTing and I refrained from blasting the animals with qi to conserve our energy. We also refrained from using her refined weapons in case anyone was somehow watching us from hiding, no matter how unlikely that seemed under the circumstances. So to fight, we relied on enhancing our bodies with qi and defeating our opponents in unarmed martial combat.