It was noon, and the sky was bright.
A packed dirt road cut across the wilderness, with weeds growing thick on either side and few signs of passersby.
This was the main road.
Every so often, several mournful cries rang out in the distance, like ghosts wailing.
Tap, tap, tap...
As his clothes rustled through the grass along the road, Zheng Que activated the Spirit Eye Technique. He cautiously surveyed his surroundings as he hurried along.
Qing Li and Ku Lan followed at his sides, one on either hand.
The town chief, Xu Houde, had told him that if he followed the main road southwest, he would reach Taiping County Town.
Master Lu, the cultivator who had set up the wards protecting Changfu Town, lived in Taiping County Town. And there was more than one cultivator like Master Lu in the whole county town.
So Taiping County Town was the safest place he could go right now.
His next tribulation was forty-eight days away.
If possible, he hoped to enlist several more cultivators to help him by then...
As he thought this over, Zheng Que discreetly glanced at Ku Lan beside him. Three Imperial Edicts had now accumulated between his brows, and he could confer an office on Ku Lan at any time.
But when Qing Li had accepted her conferment, she had fought Old Lady Zhao alongside him and slain the Cui Family's Water Ghost...
Ku Lan, on the other hand, had done nothing to earn her merits yet. If he conferred an office on her now, wouldn't his Underworld seem like some little workshop with no rules at all, in the eyes of both Qing Li and Ku Lan?
So, to be safe, he would have to wait until Ku Lan had slain a few ghosts and earned