The dense weeds beneath their feet swallowed the path. Farther ahead, towering trees spread their lush branches, and even traveling at midday, they could not help feeling stifled by the oppressive atmosphere.
According to the apprentice named Liu Sheng, the wilderness was always like this. If no one walked through an area, even one full of jagged rocks, it wouldn't take long for it to become overgrown with weeds.
The Four Great Sects' immortals were presumably to blame.
It was worth mentioning that, according to the usual procedure, after an incense medium finished handling a matter, the client was supposed to arrange a banquet for everyone.
But after Lu Bai relayed Lord Bai the Fourteenth's words to Grandpa Tao, the old incense medium immediately decided to take Lu Bai and his apprentices back to the county seat. They didn't even rest for long in the village.
At first, Lu Bai didn't have much of an opinion about it. It wasn't as if he had any attachment to that village.
However, as they traveled, Grandpa Tao told him about Lord Bai the Fourteenth's standing in the jianghu, and Lu Bai began to feel that something about the previous night's events had been suspicious.
Two Hu Men Immortals showing up at once to cause trouble was one thing, but wouldn't those two Fox Immortals have known that this was Lord Bai the Fourteenth's territory?
And after seeing Grandpa Tao commune with spirits and summon Lord Bai the Fourteenth, they hadn't fled. They'd even dared to fight back.
That was practically asking to die.
Unfortunately, Lu Bai still knew too little. He thought it over, couldn't come up with a reasonable explanation, and decided the two Fox Immortals must have gone mad.
As they ventured deeper into the woods, they noticed the surroundings