Jiang Ba and his tribesmen were all cultivators, having already set foot onto the connate great dao. They’d taken only ten days to travel from Wei River to Qingqiu Mountain.

The villagers, however, were ordinary mortals with frail bodies and their speed more than ten times slower than Jiang Ba’s. Thankfully, the Yan Tribe had been alerted ahead of time and sent their people out to welcome the delegation. They hewed a primitive dirt path through the wild forest, but it still took the villagers three entire months to reach the tribe’s camping grounds.

They made it just before the worst of winter arrived, running into many troubles and setbacks along the way. Danger visited them often, and many fell sick or were injured. It was only due to Ah Bao’s presence and Lu Yun’s medicines that no lives were lost.

Lu Yun didn’t stop identifying various herbs along the way, making useful discoveries...