Ji Yuan had originally planned to leave before dawn. He had lingered only because he feared the Suiyuan County Town God's Office might come looking for him; asking for directions had been secondary. Yet even after daybreak, no emissary from this county's Underworld Bureau had appeared. After giving it some thought, Ji Yuan decided not to stay any longer.
This situation differed from when he had stayed in Ning'an County. Back then, no matter how people in the county spread word that Ji Yuan was an extraordinary person, it was merely private gossip. It had little to do with ordinary people's lives, and once they had gossiped enough, it passed. He could still run into people while eating out on the street, and people still saw him as a living, breathing man.
This time, however, he had directly fought a demon, which carried far greater implications. One only had to look at the villagers' reactions to know that.
As for that snake demon, even if it had not died, it had certainly suffered grievous damage to its vitality. With the various departments under the Suiyuan County Town God surely now on guard, there should not have been much of a problem.
He directly stopped several merchants and carefully asked them for the best route to Chunhui Prefecture—where he should stop and where he should turn off. Once he had finished asking, Ji Yuan used the excuse of returning to the little house at the village entrance for another nap. In truth, after entering the house, he cast an Illusion Technique and quietly slipped away.
When the village chief warmly came in person at noon to invite Ji Yuan to lunch, he found that Ji Yuan had long since vanished. He asked the nearby villagers, but all said they had not