Li Yaotie followed the family's two children up an immortal mountain. His steps were slow as he forcefully suppressed the unease in his heart. He had thought he was the only one feeling this way, but when he looked at Li Tianyi and Li Jianshu, the two children had clearly already been here once, yet they were just as afraid to go up the mountain as he was.
He could sense the auras of Immortal Child, Daoist Shan Chen, and the others within the immortal mountain. That only made him less daring to climb it.
Halfway up, he simply sat down in the middle of the stone steps, taking in the cool autumn air while Yu Prefecture's flames of war had yet to reach the immortal mountain.
Li Tianyi and Li Jianshu looked back, then sat down behind Li Yaotie as well.
Mortal World Immortal hesitated, then could only say, "Then I'll be going first?"
No one paid her any attention. She shrugged and headed into the immortal mountain.
After waiting for a long while, Li Yaotie finally asked in a deliberately casual tone, "Did you tell the family?"
"I did. We shouldn't have brought Mortal World Immortal and the others along. They've all got loose lips, and I couldn't keep them in check. They turned around and told the family." Li Tianyi rubbed his face hard and explained the situation. "Just as I said before, we were going to find an immortal's head to hang in Ancient Sage City. The Heavenly Immortal in that mountain couldn't guard against us; not a scrap of news got out. Just as I was about to take her life, she wanted to trade a treasure for it."
Li Tianyi tried his best to speak evenly. "Once she died, the treasure would still be