"Sorry, fellow Daoists. I couldn't help myself."
Soon, Mu Yunyan finished paying her respects, cleaned up the ashes of the paper money, and rejoined the group.
"It's all right. Let's keep moving."
They were all grasshoppers tied to the same rope now. As long as no one went too far, they had to tolerate what needed tolerating.
They were all hundreds of years old, long past the age of thinking the world revolved around them, and each maintained considerable restraint.
Merely paying her respects was still within acceptable bounds.
Once Mu Yunyan returned beneath the Azure Soul Gauze, the five resumed their journey shortly afterward.
The stars wheeled across the sky, and the stars and moon gradually faded. A thread of morning light cleaved the darkness. Dawn had arrived.
After half a day's travel at an escape speed of roughly two thousand li, Liu Yu's group reached their first obstacle-Skyhawk Ridge.
Following a brief exchange through divine sense, all five streaks of escape light stopped simultaneously, and their divine senses probed ahead.
With a thought, Liu Yu sent his powerful divine sense spreading from between his brows, sweeping across the eighty-li range ahead.
Dozens of li away, a towering spirit mountain stood out above everything else.
The mountain rose nearly two thousand zhang, with a third-tier upper-grade spirit vein. Ancient trees formed lush forests upon it, and vegetation grew wild.
But Liu Yu's greatest concern was clearly not the spirit mountain itself, but the Heavenfrost Eagle clan living there.
With a sweep of his divine sense, he instantly located their nests.
They lay on a precipitous cliff covered in jagged rocks, its face incredibly steep.
It stood in the upper-middle reaches of the third-tier spirit mountain and contained several spiritual energy nodes, making it the place with the densest