A silvery-white streak of rainbow light cut across the sky.
Li Ping stood aboard the flying boat, gazing down at the scenery racing beneath him. His eyes were unfocused, his thoughts churning like rivers overturning and seas heaving. His emotions refused to settle.
Not long ago, after leaving the Treasure-Gathering Tower, he had not departed Heavenly Dao City immediately.
Instead, he had visited more than a dozen other major merchant associations in the city.
To resolve his doubts, he had abandoned secrecy and bluntly asked to purchase the complete Marsh Water Life-Nourishing Art from them.
Yet purchasing the cultivation method was out of the question.
Not one of the dozen well-informed Core Formation cultivators had even heard the name "Marsh Water Life-Nourishing Art"!
If Shen Yu alone had known nothing about it, Li Ping might have thought him poorly informed or incompetent at his job.
But when more than a dozen major merchant associations throughout Heavenly Dao City had not the slightest information about it, Li Ping could hardly stop his imagination from running wild.
Scenes from his memories flashed through his mind.
Soon, he recalled how he had obtained the cultivation method, and details he had previously overlooked rose to the surface.
I had already inherited second-tier mid-grade talisman crafting. All I needed to do was earn enough spirit stones with that skill, then buy a high-tier cultivation method from a merchant association in Immortal City.
As he recalled the past, Li Ping's expression grew increasingly grave. Given my personality, shouldn't I have taken the steady, cautious approach? Why did I risk being caught by Windmist True Person to sneak into Immortal City's Secret Arts Pavilion and select a cultivation method?
He had discovered something unreasonable about his actions.
Back then, Gu Musheng had told him that the Wang