Five Powers Toad Wives

After Fang Shu left the mountain gate.

He hesitated again, wondering whether he should make a trip to Guling Town and return home to visit his family.

But in the end, he suppressed the thought.

Even if the two immortal sects went to war, market towns like Guling Town would rarely be dragged into it. Or rather, they would deliberately be preserved, with only those too closely connected to the immortal sects being purged.

This was because market towns where mortals and immortals mingled were like crops to the immortal sects. Once conquered, all the immortal seeds they produced thereafter would belong to the victor.

Moreover, such market towns were less useful to an immortal sect than even the sect's menial servants.

Rather than slaughtering a market town, it was better to leave it be. Occasionally, disciples would disregard the war and plunder such towns at will, only to be hypocritically punished by the various immortal sects to calm the people and prevent the towns from collapsing.

Thus, Fang Shu's decision not to return to the market town was a prudent one.

If he went back and his whereabouts were exposed, he would instead bring trouble upon the Solitary Gu Hall, and even all of Guling Town.

The thought faded.

Fang Shu traveled through Mount Lu astride a paper horse. It moved lightly, and within a few days, it had carried him beyond the borders of Nine Rivers, racing toward the mortal world.

Yet Fang Shu's destination this time was not to blend into the mortal world.

The mortal realm was filthy, its spiritual qi thin. He had long since lost any attachment to it.

He had already chosen where to go after descending the mountain—Floating Mountain.

Within the Jade Kingdom, this mountain was the second greatest place to seek