In this world, there was always someone who would support you unconditionally, who would help you accomplish what you wanted to accomplish, even if he was cold and unapproachable.
Yet he would always stand behind you, watching you all the while.
Those two simple words brought a hint of a smile to Su Jiu's eyes.
Silver Snow followed with a somewhat resigned air, while Ning Fan had never even considered backing down.
Even if the road ahead was strewn with thorns, there would always be someone willing to walk it with you.
The farther the group climbed up the mountain, the more jumbled the energies around them felt. Yin qi, baleful qi, resentful qi, and all sorts of other energies were tangled together.
Anyone whose resolve was weak could easily be affected.
Su Jiu gradually understood why cultivators below the Nascent Soul Realm were advised against coming to Netherworld Mountain. After all, they risked being influenced.
Gradually, they discovered that they were encountering more and more ghost cultivators along the way.
Among those ghost cultivators, they stood out like outsiders.
Su Jiu heard them whispering, "What are these Dao cultivators doing on Netherworld Mountain?"
"Who knows? Maybe they're here looking for thrills again."
"Could they have learned about our method for quickly raising our Cultivation Level and come specifically to see it...?"
"Shh, keep your voice down, or people will start calling it a crooked, heretical path again."
"So what? Their Dao cultivators are allowed all sorts of ways to quickly raise their Cultivation Level, but when it's us, we're not allowed to use them?"
A thoughtful look flickered through Su Jiu's eyes.
"A way to quickly raise their Cultivation Level? They mean absorbing baleful qi, don't they?"
"But haven't these ghost cultivators encountered wraiths like the one just