Before leaving the World of Divine Path, Shen Mo and Chen Mengze had helped Village Chief Ma, a disciple of the Godslaying Hall, relocate the village deeper into the Boundary Mountains.
Nearly three hundred years had now passed. Village Chief Ma and the others had long since become a puff of dust, but he would surely have passed down the identity of a Godslaying Hall disciple. Shen Mo simply did not know whether that nameless mountain village still stood where it had been.
With a stir of thought, Shen Mo guided the auspicious cloud beneath him toward Thorn Mountain.
After two days of travel, Shen Mo and the two women found the nameless mountain village of old in a valley.
This village had once enjoyed a period of great prosperity while Shen Mo and Chen Mengze had been active, but after their departure, it had swiftly declined again under the suppression of the false god disciples.
Fortunately, after True Immortals Jade Spring and Myriad Saints entered the World of Divine Path, they had become hidden hands and stirred up an epoch-shaking divine war in this world. Many false gods of Qing and Ji had fallen, and neither nation had recovered even now. Thus, life in the nameless mountain village, a Godslaying Hall stronghold, was still fairly tolerable—far better than the desolate sight Shen Mo and Chen Mengze had seen back then.
Just as Shen Mo had expected, the Village Chief Ma who had once received them had long died of old age. Even his grave had been buried underground during an earthquake.
Fifty years ago, Village Chief Ma's tenth-generation blood descendant had accidentally fallen off a cliff and died while gathering herbs. He had left behind no direct descendants, only an adopted son.
The nameless mountain village had now been