Deep within the Qiling Ruins stood a towering mountain ten thousand zhang high, hidden amid clouds and mist.
Ji You and Yuan Chen reached its waist and found thunder rumbling through the sky, while the Killing Intent within the mountain swayed ever more fiercely. Yet it was precisely in this direction that the light of the jade disk searching for people shone brilliantly.
"Brother-in-law, I'll pay you extra..."
"You really know how to behave."
Ji You held his sword across his body and led Yuan Chen over the small hill before them, following the rugged mountain path toward that towering peak.
This had been their original plan.
They would avoid every easy road, lest they run into Immortal Sect disciples harboring ill intent. Then, once they found their target, they would swiftly withdraw through the mine tunnels.
Yet what they had not expected was that this rugged path would bring them an unexpected surprise.
On the winding cliff road ahead, where withered vines hung down, several carriages stood in plain sight.
Everything within the ruins had belonged to the ancient survivors. This was the first time they had seen something familiar.
Yuan Chen stumbled his way over and examined the carriages closely, only to end up somewhat disappointed.
He had thought they were carriages used by their Alchemy Sect to transport pills, but they were not.
Ji You, however, picked up a flag from one of the carriages. After studying it for a long while, his heart sank.
They were carriages from Yanxing Post Station.
If Luo You's wife had not lied, these should have been the carriages that transported infants here.
Yet even now, Ji You could not understand what they had brought so many infants here for. Most of those babies had been abandoned by poor households unable