Chasing the Deer

Baiyue region, Great Deer Kingdom.

The people living here had gone through several thousand years without the slightest change.

Everything remained as it had been at the start. Even if Li Qi sealed his cultivation and went off to haul boats as a tracker, there would be no problem at all. Techniques at the level of Wave-Pushing Strength were still their tools of production.

There had been absolutely no development whatsoever. The feudal age had endured for who knew how many years... unchanged, day after day, almost as if it were Immortal Heaven.

This was Baiyue.

The Baiyue Sovereigns did not care how the mortals beneath them survived. It could even be said that they deliberately maintained this state of affairs.

Even the Song Kingdom, which had once been occupied, had not changed in the slightest. Human Path had clearly entered it, yet had gone no further. Song Kingdom had introduced Human Path, but its new sovereign still kept Song Kingdom at the stage of "Human Path has just arrived," refusing to advance another step.

Because, to the Baiyue Sovereigns, the nations of Baiyue were the foundations of their Dao, and naturally, the steadier those foundations were, the better.

What use was rapid development or cultivating talent?

Their Dao Paths had long since been severed, and they had no possibility of breaking through in this lifetime. Only then had they relied on Baiyue, using the methods of Human Path to forcibly establish their Dao and break through to the fifth rank.

Under such circumstances, a prosperous nation and rapid development could instead become destabilizing factors. When the entire country began to descend into internal strife, reform, or even sought sweeping, large-scale changes, that would be the day the Baiyue Sovereigns' Dao foundations shook. They might even lose rank over such