Chapter 118 (1/2)

Chapter 118: Blood-Gus.h.i.+ng Mountain

Translator: _Dark_Angel_ Editor: Kurisu

Ling Han laughed, and released Li Si Chan’s hand before saying, “Have you finished packing?”

Just now, he and Li Si Chan were in charge of sending the two little girls over, while Liu Yu Tong was in charge of packing their stuff.

“I’ve finished,” Liu Yu Tong said with a nod. The gaze she directed at Li Si Chan was not very friendly, as she pondered whether or not she should secretly kill off the girl in the wilds.

“Then let’s go!” Ling Han seemed to be filled with antic.i.p.ation.

What actually lay underneath the underground river that high-level Spirit Tools would flow out from it?

They went on their way, left the Academy and traveled out of the Imperial City, heading towards the Blood-Gus.h.i.+ng Mountain that was about two thousand miles away. The mountain was named thus because every so often, the rivers and streams that surged from the mountain would be dyed red, as if it was blood flowing in the rivers, not water.

Because the journey was quite long, all three of them rented horses. Otherwise, they would have to spend quite a few days merely on the journey itself.

“I am an orphan, and it was only when I was found out to have remarkable talent in alchemy that I gradually left poverty, but it is not entirely a good thing when a woman is born too beautiful. As I grew older, I became the target of desire of more and more people.”

On the journey there, Li Si Chan began to reveal her circ.u.mstances.

“Unlike Miss Liu, who has a powerful Clan behind her to protect her, I could only try my best to keep a low profile, and hide. However, I may be able to hide for a moment, but could never hide for my whole life. In the end, I became the target of the Seventh Young Master of the He Clan. But thankfully, I encountered my master at that time and he took me in as a disciple, allowing me to escape from a tragic fate.”

This was indeed a very pitiful story, but Liu Yu Tong was extremely displeased, for she was used for comparison.

You just see, how pitiful the other was. Sigh, beautiful women suffer unhappy fates, how easy was it to incur the sympathy of men? And her? From birth, she was the princess of the Liu Clan, enjoying all the luxuries and wealth granted to her ident.i.ty!

d.a.m.n this scheming woman!

During the journey, they would travel by day and take rest at night, and with the company of the two girls, Ling Han did not feel too bored. A journey of about two thousand miles couldn’t really be considered too long, and as they managed to travel about eight hundred miles in a single day, three days later, they finally arrived at Blood-Gus.h.i.+ng Mountain.

The Blood-Gus.h.i.+ng Mountain did not occupy too large an area. From east to west, north to south, it only occupied about a hundred miles square or so. But the mountain was extraordinarily tall and steep, as if it was an arrow shot towards the clouds, going straight up into the sky. If one raised their head to look, no matter how good their sight was, they wouldn’t be able to see the top.

The extreme height of the mountain put it in a cla.s.s of its own.

There was a large amount of greenery on this mountain, and the tall trees covering the mountain could even approach a thousand metres in height, as if they were the t.i.tans of the ancient times standing proudly on the mountain. But, strangely enough, there were not many animals here.

Ling Han and the others very quickly arrived at the location of the underground river. It was very easy to find, because Blood-Gus.h.i.+ng Mountain was not too big. The recent earthquake caused the appearance of an underground river, and it could be easily spotted from afar.

The ground cracked, and out appeared an underground river about a hundred feet wide. The river water was extremely clear, and when they got close to it, they could feel a piercing cold.

They followed the river upstream, and after about an hour, a blockade appeared in front of them.

This was a man-made fence created from bamboo. It was only half-completed, and there were people all around it being busy. From the looks of it, they were ordinary villagers. However, when Ling Han and the others went closer, “Xiu,” immediately a figure shot out to block their advance.

“Halt, you are not allowed to advance further!” The man shouted. He looked to be in his forties, and was quite tall and st.u.r.dy, as if he was an iron tower.

Ling Han scanned over this person, and could already tell the person’s cultivation level—ninth layer of Gus.h.i.+ng Spring Tier.

“Yi, Seventh Uncle!” Liu Yu Tong quickly stepped out from behind Ling Han and greeted the middle-aged man.