Time flowed on, and in the blink of an eye, several months had passed.
Shen Mo and Chen Mengze had settled down at the foot of a great mountain called Yuanbao Mountain in the Boundary Mountains.
The mountain resembled a gold ingot in shape. Moreover, its forests teemed with birds and beasts, while precious herbs could sustain the mountain folk's livelihoods and earn them gold and silver. Thus, it was given this name!
Whether on Yuanbao Mountain or throughout the Boundary Mountains, there was no shortage of villages formed by frontier mountain dwellers.
However, most mountain villages did not allow outsiders to settle within them. Thus, several li away from a mountain village called "Tao Family Village," Shen Mo and Chen Mengze used mountain rocks, tree trunks, thatch, and other materials to build a tranquil little courtyard with three rooms.
Over the past few months, Shen Mo and Chen Mengze had often entered the mountains hand in hand, gathering rare herbs from all manner of perilous places. They then boiled them into medicinal soups and drank them, relying on the medicine's effects to preserve as much of their original cultivation as possible.
Yet the Immortal Dao had faded in this world, and there was not the slightest trace of spiritual energy.
The various herbal ingredients possessed little spiritual nature as well. They could only rely on their original medicinal properties to barely nourish one's vital energy and blood.
There were also so-called "spiritual medicines" and "divine weapons," but just as Shen Mo had anticipated, these extraordinary items all involved the existence of gods. They could not be obtained easily, and even if there were channels through which they could purchase "spiritual pills," they would not put them in their mouths.
From the Blood Scar General, the two had obtained quite