C87 (1/2)

Lin Jin got down to the side of the road to calm his excitement. He waited until the bus disappeared into the horizon, dragging a trail of yellow dust with it before he started to look for the way up the mountain.

He looked around and discovered that although the mountain here was a bit steep, there was still a gap between the mountains that could be climbed.

Adding on the more vines and trees growing in the mountain, with Lin Jin's training in the Tung Shan, it wasn't difficult for him to climb up. His clothes were only slightly cut by the thorns mixed among the trees.

After passing over the first mountain, he noticed that the distance between the second mountain and the third mountain had calmed down a lot. Both mountains connected together at the middle of the mountain. It did not take him much time to reach the top of the third mountain that his consciousness had seen.

Looking down from the top of the mountain, he saw a jade-green lake. At a glance, it was sparkling. Compared to what he saw with his consciousness, it was much clearer and different.

The lake was surrounded by a nimble circle of mountains, with only one side being the mountain and the other three being a patch of green grass. Fortunately, Lin Jin was on the grassland right now, otherwise, he would have to swim if he wanted to reach the other side of the lake.

As he watched, a sudden gust of wind blew past, causing a ripple on the surface of the lake. Lin Jin even smelled a slightly fishy smell unique to aquatic plants from the wind, causing him to perk up.

However, what made him a little disappointed was that the strange person who was walking on the waves and carrying the two bundles of firewood had disappeared without a trace. No one knew where he had gone to hide. And there was no sign of human habitation around the lake.

After looking for a while, Lin Jin started to look for a path down the mountain.

Although the mountain he was on wasn't tall, it was still fifty to sixty meters high and was very steep.

Looking down, he saw a steep slope that was close to eighty-five degrees. With a glance, Lin Jin discovered that other than a few unnamed weeds, there were no other plants on the stone slope.

After searching for a while, he found a few places where he could barely land. However, even at the very bottom, he was still about forty meters from the ground. He could not help but feel troubled.

Although Lin Jin had the protection of the zhenqi, he had only jumped down from a distance of around ten metres before. Even though he had formed a Jindan, there were still a lot of zhenqi. He was not confident that he could jump down from such a high place without getting hurt.

He had to spend more than half an hour climbing the next hill before he reached the lake.

The grass by the lakeside was very dense and soft. When he stepped on it, his shoes immediately sank halfway into the ground.

After removing some thorny branches that were still hanging on his body, because he did not know if there were any swamps on the grass by the lake, Lin Jin did not dare to step too far into the swamp.

He walked towards the direction where the person had disappeared and discovered that there were no signs of human habitation at all. Where did that man go?

He looked around and all he could see was a vast expanse of green mountains. There were mountains outside the mountain, and the mountains were connected to each other. It was an original ecology. Furthermore, it was filled with dense vegetation, and there wasn't even a single path. From the looks of that person's footwork, as long as the place where he lived was a little far away, it was likely that he would be unable to find him even after a couple of days if he did not have a direction deep in the forest.

With that in mind, Lin Jin couldn't help but think of using his consciousness to leave his body to look for someone.

Thus, he found a clean patch of grass and sat down cross-legged with his eyes closed. Then, he went into meditation. However, his consciousness had only appeared out of the blue before. This time, he had deliberately thought of it, but it did not come out. This made him anxious. Plus, after walking so far in the morning, he was exhausted from climbing up and down three or four mountains, so he accidentally fell into a deep sleep.

When he woke up, he realized that the sun, which had been in the middle of the sky, was already almost at the top of the mountain.

He patted his head in frustration. He knew that he had been too hasty, so he had no choice but to enter a meditative state again.

With the experience from before, Lin Jin would naturally not make the mistake of falling asleep again. After half an hour, his consciousness finally floated out.

He did not dare to have any other thoughts as he quickly flew up into the sky.

Flying in the air and looking down on the mountains, this time, he finally found what he was looking for.

On the left side of the lake, on a mountainside that was shaped like an inverted funnel shaped mountain, stood a somewhat dilapidated wooden house.

Beside the wooden house, a silver-white stream flowed down from the mountain stream, zigzagging down to the lake below.

At a glance, the mountain peaks, the houses, the streams, and the lakes seemed to be filled with an extremely harmonious and leisurely atmosphere, brimming with the aura of nature.