After Lu Changyuan finished speaking, we split up and left.
Afterward, the nine of us drove two Wranglers along the mountain road on the left. The farther we went, the higher the road climbed, until we were traveling along sheer cliffs.
It was an old mountain road. Lu Changyuan and the others had said on the way here that the road existed because a mineral vein had once been discovered in the area.
But the vein's reserves had been limited. Once it had been mined out, the mountain road was abandoned as well.
In such a remote forested mountain region, a road left unrepaired for years would become extremely difficult to traverse.
There was all sorts of vegetation, loose gravel, mudslides, and more.
We drove along the mountain road for about two hours. At roughly three-thirty in the afternoon, we could no longer continue forward.
The road ahead had completely collapsed.
Below was a cliff, as well as the waters of an icy river.
"We can't go any farther. Looks like we can only continue on foot!"
Master said as he looked out the car window.
Everyone saw the situation clearly and nodded.
"Then let's hurry. We should try to reach the planned location before dark."
"Mm!"
"Everyone get out. We'll continue on foot."
"..."
So we all got out, picked up our backpacks and tools, and began walking onward.
The collapsed section ahead was around ten meters wide.
For ordinary people, that distance was practically an impassable chasm.
But for people like us, it was nothing much.
With Master's level of cultivation, he could have jumped straight across without a problem.
But that would consume quite a bit of Daoist qi. Instead, we spotted protruding rocks along the cliff wall, each roughly five meters apart. Using them as stepping