"Damn it! Luo Zhong, what nonsense are you spouting? Hurry up and protect this young master while we run!"
That group of young people finally came running over.
Despite their exhaustion seeming even worse than that of Luo Zhong and his sister,
the extreme terror in their eyes still made the young man of clearly highest status shout aloud.
This young man was named Du Shijie, the young master of the City Lord's Mansion in Tianbei City, a city not far from the edge of this great mountain.
He was only seventeen this year.
By all rights, he should not have entered a place as terrifying as the Cangming Mountain Range.
But recently,
a major event had occurred in Tianbei City, making all of Tianbei City—or, on a larger scale, the entire Northern Heaven—desperately seek Rogue Cultivator experts for help.
During this recent period,
let alone him, the young master,
as far as Du Shijie knew, even his youngest sister, the twelve-year-old Du Yue'er, had left Tianbei City under the protection of City Lord's Mansion experts.
Though the Cangming Mountain Range Du Shijie had entered was an exceptionally dangerous place,
their party was one of the three strongest teams, and they had only been active around the outskirts of the Cangming Mountain Range. Nothing dangerous should have happened.
Yet he had never imagined
that what should have been a simple search would become extraordinarily perilous merely because the young master of the Luo Family who had accompanied them carelessly stepped on and crushed a bird egg.
That bird egg had merely been lying in the grass, and there had only been one of it.
As they traveled through mountain forests where the grass rose above their knees everywhere, and as a group with no experience in the wilderness whatsoever, how