The more they talked, the more they hit it off. They simply sat side by side and poured out their hearts, finding their interests increasingly aligned. They immediately decided to travel together in search of immortality and the Dao. The woodsman swiftly gathered his shoulder pole and hatchet, then set off with Jiang Ziya. He introduced himself as Shen Gongbao.
Who could have guessed that Shen Gongbao was actually a Leopard Demon who had been lurking in this mountain for a thousand years? The day before, he had left his cave to hunt and spotted a burly man sleeping soundly in the forest. Just as he was about to devour him, a sudden burst of pure white light erupted from the man's body and scorched his claws. His heart jolted, and he immediately concluded that this man was no ordinary person. He quietly transformed into human form, disguised himself as a mountain woodsman, and deliberately approached to make conversation, all to discover the man's true background.
How could he have known that Jiang Ziya was the man chosen by Heaven's Mandate to Invest the Gods, wrapped in protective fortune? Moreover, he had descended into the world as the White Tiger Star. The Investiture of Gods was already a foregone conclusion—how could he possibly fall in some desolate mountain wilderness?
From then on, the two traveled together. They crossed steep ridges, waded through rushing streams, walked through clouds and mist, and passed through dense forests. They ate in the wind and slept beneath the dew, using the sky as their canopy and the earth as their mat. Even in the face of countless hardships and dangers, their determination to seek the Dao never wavered. Later, they heard that the Jade Void Palace on Kunlun Mountains was the Saint Primordial Lord of