Earth Immortal Realm, Lower Immortal Realm.
Countless towering mountains rose one higher than the next.
A figure flashed swiftly through the mountain ranges on Spirit Stepping Boots.
He moved at incredible speed, with two spirit rats perched on his shoulders.
One had jade-ring ears, emerald-like and exceptionally beautiful; the other had an enormous nose and a round belly.
The two spirit rats each occupied one shoulder.
At last, the figure stopped. Holding a fragment of the Eight Trigrams Treasure Mirror, he began surveying the surroundings. The jade-ring-eared spirit rat squeaked as it reported its findings, while the Heavenly Treasure Rat beside it anxiously looked toward a certain direction.
Yet after looking at the mirror fragment and then at the two spirit rats, the figure headed off once more in the direction from before.
That figure was none other than Ye Jingcheng.
Over the past few days, it had taken him more than ten days to travel here from the secret realm.
The place where he was to meet Ye Xuecang was considered a remote corner of the Lower Immortal Realm and lay somewhat in the opposite direction. Thus, getting to Gourd Mountain had taken even longer than he had anticipated.
Fortunately, there were not many cultivators robbing and plundering these days. Ye Jingcheng raced all the way here without encountering any obstruction.
Whenever he ran into other cultivators along the way, Ye Jingcheng swiftly departed. Neither side greeted the other.
At this moment, most cultivators carried some treasures on them, so naturally no one wished to engage in much conversation.
Ye Jingcheng even suspected that some Golden Core cultivators had already begun hiding.
Whether Union Madam, Feng Daoran, and the others could hide safely until the Righteous Path Sect gathered its cultivators and then rejoin the sect would be crucial