Two Months later.

Han Li and Shi Chuankong were seated across from each other on a pair of long benches in a pavilion outside East Mountain City.

"Brother Shi, I've been thinking the past few days, and I feel like it would be best for us to avoid using the teleportation array in East Mountain City," Han Li mused.

"Why is that?" Shi Chuankong asked.

"We should avoid appearing in the city on multiple occasions as much as possible. There's no guarantee that there are no high-grade cultivators or spies of your eldest brother's lurking in these cities, so it'll be safer for us if we show ourselves as little as possible," Han Li explained.

"That does make sense. My eldest brother's intelligence network isn't as extensive as my third brother's, but he's certainly no slouch in that regard. Otherwise, he wouldn't have become aware of our arrival in the Ten Hazards Mountain Range so quickly," Shi Chuankong replied with a nod.

"According to the map that you gave me earlier, the nearest city to East Mountain City...