Screee!
Wang Chen looked up at the sound.
A black hawk falcon swept past high overhead, vanishing in the blink of an eye amid the vast mountains.
Such a sight would ordinarily have been nothing unusual, but Wang Chen knew full well that someone was using the hawk falcon to monitor his movements!
He had sensed prying eyes before; now, he had locked onto the target.
What was coming would come in the end!
But Wang Chen did not halt. He rode the yellow dappled horse onward along the Heavenly Road.
The mountain path was desolate, thick forests crowding both sides without a trace of human habitation.
Quite a few bandits and brigands lurked within the Hundred Thousand Great Mountains, often raiding the Heavenly Road. Therefore, aside from the rare lone travelers whose skill was bold enough to match their courage, merchants and passersby traveled in large groups.
The road ahead curved, and a long plank road appeared before Wang Chen.
The Heavenly Road had many plank roads. These had been built by road workers driving thick, hard timber beams into sheer cliff faces. Beneath them lay hundred-zhang precipices. Though railings stood along the outer edge, a single misstep could send one plunging into the abyss below.
They were exceedingly dangerous.
As Wang Chen urged his horse onto the plank road, the hawk falcon from before appeared once again!
Although the bird made no cry, it could not escape Wang Chen's keen perception.
Here they came!
He had only traveled about a hundred paces along the plank road when a thunderous crash sounded overhead. Massive rolling boulders, trailing countless shards of sand and stone, came raining down.
On such a narrow plank road, this kind of attack was incomparably dangerous!
Yet Wang Chen had long been prepared. He clamped his