"By the way, Fellow Daoist Boqi, weren't you going to Junping? You'll need to be extra careful there."
Their words reminded Song Yan.
Judging by the map, the Junping Prefecture Boqi had mentioned earlier was actually not far from the Eastern Wastes.
"Fellow Daoist Boqi?"
"Ah-"
Boqi seemed to have been thinking about something just then. "Sorry, I lost myself in thought again."
Song Yan wanted to learn more, but their discussion of the subject came to an abrupt halt there.
Clearly, before the truth behind a senior's passing came to light, they were unwilling to speculate or make guesses.
And so their discussion returned to the cultivation resources each of them needed.
The things the others were seeking remained unchanged.
After all, if those things were so easy to find, they would not have needed to turn to their family in the Realm.
However, Fellow Daoist "Boqi," on his right middle finger, did bring up something new.
"Battle arts."
According to Boqi's description, these battle arts were mostly performed using "battle intent" as their foundation. They typically involved close combat and could be considered a form of body cultivation, though there were subtle differences from pure body cultivation.
It sounded rather like Li Yi's path of cultivation.
Song Yan knew that, in most people's eyes, close combat seemed clumsy, and body cultivators were crude.
He himself, however, held no stereotypes or prejudices about body cultivation versus spell cultivation, or fighting up close versus at range.
Perhaps it was because he had witnessed Li Yi's and Han Yuan's strength. Song Yan knew very little about this field. He had always assumed that Li Yi's fighting style and combat techniques were things he had devised himself.
Perhaps he had taken some mundane martial techniques and battle arts and used them