Mo Hua had grown up in Immortal City since childhood. He had long been used to it and had never thought much about it.
But now that he had learned Phecda and understood Karma, when he turned back to ponder it carefully, he found it somewhat strange.
Why?
Why had no one realized that this remote, desolate, obscure "Immortal City" actually contained the Karma of the character "immortal"?
Had some transcendent existence used some method to "shield" people's awareness of that character?
Thus, everyone could see the three words Immortal City and often spoke them aloud, yet they had never realized what those three words truly meant.
They had never realized that this little Immortal City was different from other immortal cities. It had truly been named after the character "immortal."
Immortal City—what it connected was immortals?
The more Mo Hua thought about it, the more alarmed he became. He began to wonder whether he was being overly suspicious and making a mountain out of a molehill.
Perhaps Immortal City really was simply too far from the emperor, too remote, too poor, and overlooked by the Dao Court, which was why it had not been stripped of the character "immortal."
Yet the deeper he thought, the more he felt it could not be so simple...
For instance... why had his master, whose cultivation had been profound and who had been skilled in Heavenly Calculation, specifically gone to hide away in a small city in a corner of Li Prefecture?
The world was vast. With his master's abilities, where could he not have gone?
Even if he had been gravely wounded, relying on Phecda Stealth, he could have hidden anywhere across the Nine Provinces and four seas.
Why had he chosen to live in seclusion in Immortal City?
Had his master