Even in a good Spirit Beast Carriage, the trip from Yinyun City to the Northern Sorrow Imperial Capital took over a month. A round trip would take two months, and Lin Mo had no intention of waiting around that long.
Besides, Lin Feng and the others had left only a few days ago. If he set out now, he could still catch them.
With that thought, Lin Mo turned around and left without taking a break.
Hong Xuan hurried after him. "Are you going after Lin Feng? Take me with you. I want to go too. I've seen everything there is to see in Yinyun City, and I'm bored out of my mind. If Lin Feng hadn't told me to wait here for you, I'd have secretly followed them the day before yesterday."
Lin Mo neither agreed to let Hong Xuan come nor refused him.
Hong Xuan did not even pack his bags. He simply followed Lin Mo out of the city.
After more than five days of pursuit, two ordinary-looking Spirit Beast Carriages finally came into view.
All along the way, Hong Xuan had been telling Lin Mo about the academy competition and its significance. Hong Xuan did nearly all the talking; Lin Mo barely responded.
That evening.
The two Spirit Beast Carriages stopped in a fairly open area.
The two teachers leading the group and all six competing students, including Lin Feng, got out. They gathered firewood from the surrounding woods and built a campfire before dark.
After sitting around the fire and eating some dried rations, they all began meditating and cultivating.
Lin Feng had barely begun when a small pebble suddenly flew out of the woods behind him to his right.
Just before it struck the back of his head, Lin Feng tilted his head and