ninety thousand miles

Chapter 309 Mountain Climbing

This time, they walked down the mountain steadily and reached the foot of the main peak.

Li Chuan looked at the blue sky above his head and suddenly fell into a trance.

What time is it now?

When the sacrificial activities at the Shenxia Temple ended, it was already past noon. It has not stopped since then, and it has lost its sense of time.

He looked at Wen Guying and Luo Xueli. Wen Guying's expression was more cautious, while Luo Xueli's eyes were very focused as he stared ahead.

"Li Chuan."

Li Chuan heard Luo Xueli calling him and quickly replied: "What's wrong?"

"Have you kept all the murals you painted in mind?" Luo Xueli asked.

Li Chuan answered honestly, "No, I just repaired the broken place."

"I'm referring to the break. If we walk there later, can you still recognize it?" Luo Xueli asked.

Li Chuan looked up at the sun hanging in the smooth blue sky for a while, and then said after a moment: "Probably."

"Can you still make up for it here?" Luo Xueli asked.

Li Chuan said in a deep voice, "You can give it a try."

Luo Xueli nodded, then turned to Wen Guying and said, "Wen Guying, I have compared and calculated in my mind. To reach the position of the boat in the mural, the path to take should be the road that once led to the sky."

"I'll open the way." Wen Guying said.

Luo Xueli shook her head and said, "I'm here. This is an illusion, and you are not as good as me."

"What can I do?" Wen Guying said.

"I suspect that those fractures are where the shadows have tampered with the Way to Heaven." Luo Xueli said clearly, "Then I can only rely on you."

"Understood." Wen Guying replied.

"Want me to try and see if I can lead the way?" Li Chuan suggested, "Maybe we can get there just by walking?"

"No need for now." Luo Xueli objected. He said: "You lead the way. Although it is the easiest and safest way, you don't know where you will go, and we don't know where we will be taken. So. I still think we should try first to see if we can walk over normally."

Li Chuan understood Luo Xueli's concerns and said, "Okay, I'll follow you anyway."

After everything was assigned, they stood in silence for a while.

Until Gong Er asked: "After cultivating the way to the sky, if we walk there, will we become immortals?"

Luo Xueli gave a rare smile. He patted Gong Er's head with his fingers and said, "You little devil, you really dare to think about it."

Then he explained: "No, and we can't completely make up for it. This is just an illusion, maybe just a shadow in Tiansu's memory... If it is the real Chishan Mountain, when we see those shadows, I’m already out of my mind.”

"Is it so powerful?" Gonger still didn't believe it.

Luo Xueli said: "What I said is an understatement. No one has set foot on the real Katy Mountain for hundreds of thousands of years."

"It's almost time to rest, let's go." Wen Guying said.

Luo Xueli threw the dice again. After the dice stopped in mid-air, Luo Xueli walked forward and said, "Let's go."

This time, there was no magnificent phantom like the Rainbow Bridge. Everything around him seemed to have not changed at all, but Li Chuan knew that there had been changes. As he walked on the snow-covered mountain road, he felt that it was not much different from the plains.

Li Chuan then had enough energy to take a closer look at his surroundings.

The feeling of standing in front of the wall and admiring the murals is completely different from that of being in the mountains. Li Chuan has no idea where he is now. He has been using the sunlight to enter and exit mysterious states.

He soon became dizzy.

But he didn't stop.

Gradually, he was able to stay in a mysterious state while walking, but everything in his field of vision became layer by layer, full of chaotic dots and horizontal lines.

He didn't dare to go into the deepest level, otherwise he wouldn't be able to see the way at all, and he didn't dare to stay at the shallowest level, because that would be a waste of time.

Therefore, it is impossible to judge whether there is a road ahead and whether it can be walked. But he could see the bright cock's tail in front of him, and he relied on the cock's tail to lead him forward step by step.

He memorized the mysterious structure of the fractured lines of the mural. As long as it appeared around him, he could capture it.

It's just that he walked really unsteadily and stopped from time to time.

Wen Guying stretched out his hand several times, thinking of simply pulling him away, dragging him, or carrying him on his back. But every time Li Chuan still stabilized and continued to move forward.

This is the practice of the heirs of the Pattern Sutra.

Wen Guying retracted his hand.

After walking for an unknown amount of time, Li Chuan finally saw a corresponding structure ahead. He said, "Stop, ahead..."

Luo Xueli stopped, but Li Chuan did not. When he almost bumped into him, Wen Guying pulled him back. Then, wherever he looked, the towering cedars slumped and fell like snowflakes.

Wen Guying immediately drew his sword and flew towards the empty place ahead. The next moment, his figure suddenly disappeared, and only the red sword light occasionally reflected on the white snow.

Li Chuan rubbed his brow and heard Gong Er ask: "Senior Brother Luo, what's wrong? Where is Senior Brother Wen?"

Luo Xueli said, "Don't worry about him." He turned to Li Chuan and said, "Can it be repaired?" "I'll try." Li Chuan said, he rubbed his sore eyes and looked at it again.

Finally no more walking around.

The snow-capped mountains decomposed steadily in his eyes layer by layer, until finally, the structure he had seen before appeared in front of him again.

It is not much different from repairing murals. As Li Chuan thought about this, he found that the dots and horizontal lines had changed again, and the dot he had just added dissipated.

Li Chuan replenished it twice more, and both stayed for a short while before dissipating.

After all, it was an illusion created by the Ancient Immortal Sky Su. Li Chuan smiled bitterly, and then he clicked again, but this time he incorporated the structure he had learned in the black stone before. After this point was settled, it shook for a moment. It didn't dissipate, and then he fell down again and stabilized.

Li Chuan felt a layer of sweat on his body and felt a little more relaxed.

Then make up for it slowly.

After a while, he heard the strange rhythm sound that seemed to be there but not there. What is this sound? Where exactly does this voice want to pull him?

Li Chuan thought as he repaired it. After an unknown amount of time, the break was finally repaired.

Li Chuan opened his eyes and saw Wen Guying walking from the front dragging his sword. There was a tear in the corner of his clothes. It seemed that he had experienced a hard battle.

Wen Guying walked up to them and handed out an object in his hand. He said, "It is this object that caused the abnormality here."

Li Chuan looked at the object and saw that it was a polyhedron with a small hole on each side. It was very smooth and had no discernible texture or function.

Luo Xueli said: "It seems to be part of some kind of magic weapon."

"I think so too." Wen Guying took out a jade box, put it in, and placed several restrictions before saying, "When I found it, it was still affecting everything around it. I doubt anyone else would There is something like this at the break."

"A magical weapon belonging to the White Walkers?" Luo Xueli speculated.

"It's hard to say. I feel like they landed on the Wet Mountain, maybe not what they wanted." After Wen Guying said something, he said, "Let's leave here first, and then we can discuss it."

So Luo Xueli asked Li Chuan: "How are you doing? Can you walk?"

Li Chuan nodded and said nothing.

"Brother, you look so weak. Do you want to eat something?" Gonger asked.

The other three asked Wen Guying: "Senior Brother Wen, is there any elixir that I can give to my elder brother?"

Li Chuan said aloud: "No need now, I'm fine."

He could hear the strange rhythmic sounds at any time. They came from the ground, from the wind, and from the falling snowflakes.

He was afraid of being pulled in by them, but listening to these sounds, he could indeed make up for it better, and maybe he could once again enter the state of leading the way before.

He said: "Brother Xueli, let's go."

Luo Xueli nodded, turned around and continued walking forward.

The sun in the blue sky seemed to move slightly, and its light fell on Li Chuan's eyes.

Wen Guying looked up.

Li Chuan felt that he was not so dizzy this time. His vision was still filled with various real and illusory scenes, but he gradually became able to distinguish them clearly.

He identified it bit by bit, trying to summarize some rules and organize them. His steps gradually became regular.

Finally, I no longer have to look at Gong Er’s butt when walking.

Both Luo Xueli and Wen Guying noticed the changes in Li Chuan. So Luo Xueli speeded up, and Wen Guying no longer paid attention to Li Chuan's situation, but devoted his energy to observing the surrounding environment.

From time to time, they would chat a few words. About halfway up the mountain, Li Chuan found the second breaking point, and Wen Guying also found the second part, which was a rectangular bar.

After that, they walked to the broken mountain peak, and encountered the third, fourth... The closer they were to the top of the mountain, the more broken places they had.

Li Chuan became more and more comfortable, and became more and more silent. Finally, the small boat appeared in their field of vision.

The boat hung on the edge of the mountain, covered in snow and teetering on the edge.

"That's the ship." Luo Xueli also breathed a sigh of relief and said, "Why do you think Tiansu left a ship here?"

"Maybe he finally noticed something strange at some point in the future, so he took this boat, traveled back in time, and finally stopped here." Wen Guying looked up at the sky and said, "The sun is going to set. Come on, let’s go there quickly.”

Only then did others realize that the sun's position had been changing along the way.

Luo Xueli stared at the west-slanting sun disk for a while and said, "The sunshine here is real."

They continued to move forward, but there were more breaks on the road than they had encountered before. Li Chuan tried his best to speed up. When it was dark, they still had half the way to go.

Li Chuan listened to the rhythm in his ears and said, "Let me lead the way."

He could see the condition of Wen Guying and Luo Xueli. Wen Guying's robe had been torn in many places, half of the sleeves were missing, and Luo Xueli's face was blue and black.

He stared at the boat and said, "Now I can see where I'm going."

(End of this chapter)