The fifth day of their journey.
Jiang Qiao caught sight of a range of mountains towering into the clouds.
The journey had been fairly smooth. They had not encountered the legendary ghost bears or man-tigers in the forest, nor had they come across any mysterious villages that had been cut off from the outside world for decades or even centuries.
However.
They occasionally found some thought-provoking traces along the way.
For example, when they passed a large tree, they found a sign nailed to its trunk. It read: "Old Friends Tavern."
"Heh."
Unless someone had been bored out of their mind.
And deliberately come all the way into a primeval forest just to leave behind a sign.
Otherwise.
This was quite interesting.
For another example.
As Jiang Qiao crossed a patch of soft, muddy ground, he found a black Funeral Shoe in a moss-covered crevice between some rocks nearby.
Even stranger was the fact that footprints remained inside the crevice.
The footprints stretched onward.
Before disappearing into the depths of the crack.
It looked as though someone wearing Funeral Shoes had walked into the crevice and accidentally lost one shoe.
But the problem was.
The crevice was less than half a foot wide. An ordinary person simply could not fit inside!
Unless...
What went in was not human.
The two of them had seen quite a few traces like these along the way. They did not appear to carry any Supernatural Aura, yet the more one thought about them, the more unsettling they became.
"This mountain is really tall."
Jiang Qiao looked toward the distant mountain range. From its midpoint upward, it was covered in snow, while the peaks vanished into the clouds, appearing and disappearing intermittently, impossible to make out clearly.
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