After completing his morning exercises and cultivating his Path Origin, Jiang Wang sent Jiang Anan off to school and then headed out of town to see off Du Yehu.
Leaving on a long journey in those days wasn't easy, but rather filled with the bitter sorrow of life and death separations.
One reason humans gathered to live in villages, towns, and cities was the endless presence of wild beasts, including the fierce and mystical creatures hidden in the mountains and wilderness.
Towns were safe places, and beyond them, there were the official roads. It's not that the Array Patterns etched into the official roads were infallible — Zhuang Ting could neither afford nor manage such an enormous endeavor. In fact, the effectiveness of those Array Patterns was mostly to deter.
