"No!"
Niu Ding shook his head and said, "There really aren't any nearby. The big cities are too far away. If the two of us went on foot, we might not get there even in ten thousand years!"
"But we could join another great lineage!"
An idea struck Niu Ding, and he said excitedly, "Right, young master! Among the great lineages around here, there's also the He Family. They're even more powerful than the Xia Household. The He Family controls two ingredients used in the Divinity-Pacifying Pills in this area. They're quite something!"
"Let's go seek shelter with them!"
He Pingsheng curled his lip. "Is something wrong with your brain?"
"We seek shelter with the He Family, become Servant Disciples of the Outer Sect, and then go through the blessing test?"
"And then I run away again?"
"Uh..." Niu Ding rubbed his head and said, "Looks like that's how it would go... That makes things difficult!"
He Pingsheng asked, "I heard that under the control of the great lineages in this area, there are quite a few smaller lineages. Their territories are connected in stretches, forming towns!"
"That's no use!" Before He Pingsheng could finish, Niu Ding waved his hand and said, "They give themselves the fine-sounding name of lineages, but they don't actually qualify as lineages at all. They aren't worth a damn!"
"Those settlements have no resources at all!"
"But now that you've mentioned it, young master, a place does come to mind!"
"Have you heard of... Divine Dream Mountain?"
He stopped walking and looked at He Pingsheng.
He Pingsheng shook his head. "Never heard of it. How would an ascended divine mortal like me have heard of these things? Go on!"
"Yes, yes, yes..." Niu Ding said, "Ordinary Divine Generals all depend on great lineages like the