Chen Wentian decided to involve Wu Qianyu in the rescue operation as she was already quite reliable and it would be good for her to see the wider world of immortals. They left Black Rock City after breakfast and headed for distant lands, following the leads that Jasmine provided for the three immortals. After several teleportation hops and using the maximum speed of Turtle Can Fly, they arrived at the first location which was a dusty border town at the edge of a vast desert. The town was called Death Town. Wu Qianyu frowned when hearing that but Chen Wentian explained that there were certain groups of cultivators that tended to be quite morbid. The immortal they were looking for was called Immortal Dust Scorpion and he specialized in poisons. The guy was born in this town and it was a good lead to start out.
Chen Wentian instructed Wu Qianyu to observe from the carriage and flew down to the town, exposing his immortal spiritual aura for everyone to see. He had five days before the escape operation and he didn"t have time to sneak around. If the immortal wanted to hide, there wasn"t much he could do as not even He Zicheng could do much to catch them.
With blue flame on full blast, he rocketed down to the town hall. As expected, the mayor had rushed out to greet him.
"Sir immortal!" The nondescript middle aged man bowed in fear when he approached.
"Rise, I am Immortal Blue Dragon. I am looking for another immortal, have you heard of Immortal Dust Scorpion?"
"Yes sir immortal. Immortal Dust Scorpion is the hero of Death Town. But he is not here, I don"t know when he will return."
"But he will return at some point?"
"Certainly, this is his home. I"m also his descendant." The mayor had a hint of pride in his voice.
Chen Wentian pulled out a sealed letter and handed it to the mayor, "That"s good, give this letter to him if he returns within four days. If not, destroy it. Understood?"
"Yes!"
"Good, farewell!"
Chen Wentian didn"t delay and left the town, leaving a bewildered mayor behind. The letter had Jasmine"s spiritual signature and instructed her adopted father"s subordinates to answer her call. A immortal out on errands could be anywhere in the world and finding a family member was good enough.
He apologized to Wu Qianyu for the boring trip and headed towards the second location. He made it up to her by helping her stabilize the gains in her spiritual sea.
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The second one was called Immortal Sleeping Tortoise. For this guy, Jasmine didn"t have a whole lot of information as he was a total sloth and simply liked to eat and sleep. He didn"t even like to do any sect work or take disciples and had the least amount of followers of all the immortals in Beast G.o.d Sanctum. There was also a special aspect of his lazy turtle art that gave him a longer lifespan than ordinary Spirit Lords. Apparently he was more than three hundred years old and depending on who was asked, the rumor was that he was either close to dying of old age or close to breaking through to the next realm.
Chen Wentian led Wu Qianyu and visited numerous provinces that had a mild climate and plenty of vegetation, ideal places for a lazy turtle, but there was no sign of the guy. Chen Wentian was running out of patience as they had wasted two whole days searching with nothing to show for it. He wondered if the old fellow simply kicked the bucket from all the stress of the Snake Lord"s death.
"Really master?"
"Maybe?" Chen Wentian shrugged.
Wu Qianyu laughed, "So bad, how can a venerable immortal die like that? Wouldn"t he want go out in a blaze of battle and glory?"
"... that is an interesting thought..."
Chen Wentian had a fleeting moment of insight from her words but couldn"t infer anything intelligent from his thoughts no matter how hard he tried. He could only give up and move on to the last immortal as he only had two days left.
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Chen Wentian and Wu Qianyu discussed the last one while they flew towards a peculiar establishment. Immortal Embracing Python as she was called really liked to live up to her name. She had an infamous habit of collecting more husbands than could be counted and she also had more male lovers over her lifetime than the leaves on a tree. She was truly an insatiable woman!
It was quite sad that all of her lovers might have been killed in the purge and she would most likely drown out her sorrows at a certain type of brothel that catered to female clients. There was only a limited number of such establishments on the continent with male entertainers good enough to satisfy an immortal and they were currently headed to the most likely one.
Wu Qianyu looked at him in disbelief, "Are you being serious? Women can be like that?"
"Hmm, like what?"
"... Like a man." She finally blurted out, though she quickly turned away, blus.h.i.+ng and not daring to look at him. She hoped he wouldn"t get offended.
"Haha, it"s okay Qianyu, you make a good point."
Chen Wentian scratched his head and smiled wryly. It was actually not as rare as one would think for female immortals to take advantage of their power to make a male harem. n.o.body was going to stop them from doing so but people would certainly look down upon them behind their backs. This was quite unfair, perhaps? Wu Qianyu was right and it was a great hypocrisy that men could have and were expected to have multiple wives but the contrary was not true for women.
"I guess if its purely for l.u.s.t and pleasure, I can"t really judge her..." Chen Wentian muttered, "But, if we consider building stable relations.h.i.+ps and families... it might be a bit unfair but it"s basic human biology."
"If a woman has multiple husbands and male lovers, she can only be pregnant with one child at a time and there would only be one father. Out of the crowd of men, only a few of them would get the chance to have a child with her. It seems unfair to the ones that would miss out on the chance. But a man can form a family with multiple wives because all the women can get pregnant with his child. They are bonded through the children and its a more of less stable relations.h.i.+p..."
"Master, that was very profound and mature. Perhaps you"ve had some experience in this aspect?" Wu Qianyu asked curiously.
"No... what? Of course not... I was merely thinking out loud."
Chen Wentian"s cheeks reddened ever so slightly and he quickly changed the subject. He couldn"t tell his girls about He Xingping"s child yet...