Suspected Immortals

There might be immortals.

After the morning court session, Wang Yue was still at home having breakfast with his wife when a messenger from the palace arrived. The emperor wanted to see him, the messenger said, and he was to change quickly and come at once.

Wang Yue had no idea Gao Yao was helping him. He calculated that, given Meng Tian's speed, there probably wasn't enough time for him to have arranged things so quickly that the emperor would grant Wang Yue command of troops. He couldn't help feeling puzzled and anxious.

It was no wonder Wang Yue was eager to go to the former territory of Qi. Based on the messages his Secret Guards had been sending lately, he was increasingly starting to suspect that there really were cultivators in this world. Cui Wenzi was likely one of them.

The Secret Guards under Wang Yue were all highly skilled. They had searched the entire area around Mount Song, yet hadn't found a single trace of anyone ever having lived there.

Meanwhile, according to reports from Youjian Inn, Divine Doctor Cui and another Taoist priest had once been seen near Mount Tai.

Mount Song and Mount Tai were a considerable distance apart. Even a martial arts expert couldn't have traveled back and forth without leaving a trace.

All these signs suggested that this was no ordinary world. It was like the world of A Week of Friends—the remnant of a mythological world.

For Wang Yue, that was good news. It seemed the recipe for the Elixir of Immortality might actually be real.

But if this really was the remnant of a cultivation world, Wang Yue would need enough power to compete for the elixir. Or, rather, he would have to unify the entire country. Only then would he have