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While making his way down from the mountain summit, Chen Ping'an decided to put on the Hundred Eye Taotie Dao robe after a brief hesitation.
Golden Sweet Wine was too eye-catching, and he had exchanged Hundred Eye Taotie for a normal robe earlier as a precautionary measure, concerned that wearing a Dao robe while traveling along the length of the great river would attract unnecessary attention. However, he had since changed his mind.
At the moment, he was at the Willow Tendon Tier, which was often a difficult obstacle to bypass for vagrant cultivators like himself, and in wearing a Dao robe, he would be able to absorb spiritual energy from heaven and earth at a faster rate.
The Peony Prefecture was the largest prefecture of the Sacred Lotus Nation, and there was a strong scholarly culture there. Chen Ping'an had purchased quite a few miscellaneous books from the bookshops in the prefectural city, which included one particular book of note that had been gathering dust for many years up to the point of Chen Ping'an's purchase.
It was an anthology containing the agricultural encouragement edicts released by the Sacred Lotus Nation at the start of spring each year, and it was quite an interesting read, and Chen Ping'an had read carefully through the edict during his travels.
Chen Ping'an briefly visited all of the noteworthy locations in the Peony Prefectural City, then rented a room in an old inn in the prefectural city.
After entering the Peony Prefecture, he had intentionally begun suppressing his Dao robe from absorbing spiritual energy in order to avoid attracting the attention of the city god pavilion and the scholarly and martial sage temple.
In reality, any Qi refiner, particularly ones of the Middle Five Tiers, was bound to attract some attention while traveling through mortal empires and the mortal world.
However, generally speaking, it was not against the rules for them to take in spiritual energy from the environment around them, and as long as they didn't overdo it, to the point that the spiritual energy in an area was excessively overdrawn, then the mountain...
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