Great Green Mountain was the environment he knew best. Now, with Little Purple Sable, a highly intelligent companion, helping him hunt for treasure,
and with his strength as a First-grade Martial Artist, entering the mountains to search for medicinal herbs, hunt rare beasts, and even explore dangerous places he had once not dared to venture deep into,
would yield far more than waiting around in the county town or taking on ordinary jobs.
Besides, the apprenticeship banquet his master had mentioned was not something that could be arranged overnight.
A Third-Rank Martial Artist formally taking on a disciple was no small matter in Qinghe County. The prominent figures from every trading house, Martial Arts School, and even the yamen
would most likely receive invitations and come to witness the ceremony.
When the time came, fish and dragons would be mixed together. There was no telling whether someone might take the chance to stir up trouble. Rather than wait passively, he might as well take the initiative and seize every moment to strengthen himself.
Besides, there was also a touch of darkness beneath the lamp.
Black Heart Tiger, County Lieutenant Wu, and anyone else who might be watching him in secret probably would never have imagined
that after narrowly surviving an assassination attempt, at a time when he ought to be hiding away and training hard to avoid disaster, he would actually dare to leave the city alone and return to the peril-ridden Great Green Mountain!
He reckoned that, at this very moment, he might actually be at his safest.
At the very least, according to the habitual thinking of those important people, he would not make a move.
He intended to exploit this gap in timing, before everyone had fully reacted and their arrangements had stabilized,
to obtain resources as