At dawn, the sky was just beginning to brighten.

Greenwood City, Mo Family Residence.

With the passing of the Mo Family Patriarch, the Mo Family Residence was now shrouded in a somber atmosphere. The Mo Family could no longer hold its position as the top power in Greenwood City.

Outside the Mo Family Residence, all was silent.

Yet beneath this silence, many eyes were fixed on the Mo Family Residence, waiting for the right moment to strike.

Finally, as the first rays of the morning sun broke through the clouds, dozens of cultivators surged forth from three other locations in Greenwood City, charging toward the Mo Family Residence.

"Hahaha, today the Mo Family will be annihilated!"

"Indeed! Once the Mo Family is destroyed, it's every man for himself. Whoever grabs the loot keeps it!"

"Agreed!"

"Attack—"

After days of planning, the other three families in Greenwood City gathered all their forces to wipe out the Mo Family, which had long dominated the city.

After all, the Mo Family was wealthy, and a Divided Spirit stage patriarch would have left behind many treasures.

Now, with no one left to guard these treasures, they were grateful to the powerful Tribulation Crossing cultivator who had slain the Mo Family Patriarch.

The previous generation plants the trees, the next enjoys the shade.

...

Outside Greenwood City.

In a forest, Gu Heng watched the countless auras rising from the city and sighed.

"Greenwood City has indeed changed."

Last night, he had finalized his affairs, packed his belongings, and sold his Medicine Hall. Yet, barely out of the city this morning, chaos had erupted.

Though Gu Heng was a mortal, he understood the law of the jungle among cultivators. The sudden death of the Mo Family Patriarch left the family unprepared, and others wouldn't miss the chance to feast on their riches.

Of course, when the city gates catch fire, the fish in the moat suffer. When cultivators fight, mortals find it hard to escape unscathed.

Luckily, he left quickly.

"Hmph, I should have acted sooner and wiped out those ants. Now the master has to move to avoid exposing his true strength and continue living a mortal life elsewhere..."

The silver cat, Su Jinxi, lay on Gu Heng's shoulder, displeased as she looked toward Greenwood City.

At the tenth level of the Tribulation Crossing stage, her spiritual sense could easily discern the quality of cultivators in Greenwood City—none were worth mentioning!

The strongest three were only at the ninth level of the Out-of-Body stage, and to them, the Divided Spirit stage was an insurmountable gap. In short—they were trash.

Even without lifting a finger, merely releasing her aura could crush them to death, but unfortunately, Gu Heng didn't want to reveal his identity. He had entered the mortal world, opened a Medicine Hall, and even used treasures of heaven and earth to refine medicine. To prevent humans from being overwhelmed by the medicine's potency, he dispersed the medicinal power in a way that was wasteful...

All this, just for three words—"to experience life."

He truly enjoyed it.

After all, he was so powerful, had received enough praise and admiration, and perhaps was tired of it, wanting a change of pace.

"Fine, if the master wants to leave, then let's go. With so many cities in the human empire, the master will surely find one he likes."

With this thought, Su Jinxi continued to lie on Gu Heng's shoulder, lazily waving her paws and tail.

"Here, eat this."

Seeing Little Xi fidgeting, Gu Heng immediately understood and took out a candy pill from the System Backpack—something he had refined last night after packing up. He made over a hundred of them to replenish energy on the road, and they worked wonders.

He had one this morning and felt he wouldn't need to eat all day.

Su Jinxi extended her cat tongue and rolled the purple pill into her mouth.

Meow!

"Mm... this seventh-grade Essence Solidifying Blood Congealing Pill is quite potent, far superior to what I've had before."

Su Jinxi felt her life was quite comfortable.

Except she couldn't transform into human form.

Gu Heng seemed to prefer her in her beast form, and she had to act like an ordinary cat, at least when he was around, behaving like a wild cat without intelligence.

Of course, with such good pills to eat every day, even her clan leader would have to obediently turn into a cat and beg Gu Heng for food.

Simply because he was so generous.

As Su Jinxi slowly refined the medicinal power, she suddenly noticed the scenery around her changing almost instantly!

What was happening?

Looking down, she saw that Gu Heng was indeed walking step by step, but with each step, the scenery shifted rapidly, as if...

Gu Heng was covering several miles with each step!

...

By dusk, as night approached, Gu Heng stood halfway up Solitary Mountain, looking at the dense forest ahead. After some thought, he decided to make a fire here first.

Ten miles away was a city, but after nightfall, the gates would be tightly shut to prevent bandits from entering. They wouldn't care about mortals who hadn't entered the city by sunset.

Of course, this didn't concern cultivators, who had their ways of entering the city. Those who could fly didn't bother with such rules, entering from above.

Gu Heng thought these rules were just to make life difficult for mortals.

But complaints aside, Gu Heng decided to rest in the forest for the night.

He ventured into the deep woods, found a dry clearing, and didn't even bother collecting firewood. The System's mall had plenty. He casually took out two or three bundles, tossed them down, and lit them with a flick.

As the flames crackled, Gu Heng leaned against a nearby boulder, took out a candy pill, and fed it to Little Xi on his lap.

"Mm... still a day's journey to White Emperor City."

Gu Heng quietly took out the map.

It was a map of the Sunflare Empire.

White Emperor City was still far from his current location... but in just one day, he had already covered half the distance.

All thanks to the "Divine Movement Boots" on his feet.

These were incredibly useful!

Among the items gifted by the System, the Divine Movement Boots were the most practical. They didn't do much else but allowed him to travel quickly. In one day, he had covered over a thousand miles from Greenwood City, but the Sunflare Empire was vast, or rather, this world was vast. Cultivators could travel distances far greater than mortals.

Fortunately, with the System's "generous gifts," Gu Heng didn't have to spend years reaching White Emperor City.

"Meow meow!"

Little Xi suddenly cried out.

Gu Heng looked to the left, hearing rustling sounds from the dark forest.

"What on earth?"

Gu Heng became alert, and suddenly!

From the darkness, a giant serpent, several meters long, lunged out!