At six in the morning, Xu Feng "got up" too.
Though getting up wasn't quite the right word. He had barely rested the night before.
Truly efficient sleep required little more than a couple of hours of deep sleep. Xu Feng slept in fragments, spending much of the night using the Breathing Method to gather his scattered thoughts. The technique was apparently called Nurturing the Divine Embryo.
A Daoist he had once met had told him that.
Xu Feng rose and prepared to return to the mountain. He planned to leave a note.
He had no intention of waking Chen Ye.
He would let Chen Ye sleep properly before coming to find him.
But Chen Ye had slept fitfully too. He woke as soon as Xu Feng got up, so Xu Feng told him to catch up on sleep in the passenger seat.
Xu Feng drove back to the mountain himself.
While stopping for fuel and a break, Xu Feng bought breakfast and checked the news on his phone, especially the rescue operation from last night. He had dealt with the Giant Alligator's lingering Earth Qi, so the professionals should have been able to handle the rest.
Then he opened the forum.
He saw a reply from Holding a Bagua and Watching Cartoons.
Xu Feng sensed the user's wariness in the reply.
He was in no hurry.
He wasn't worried about it and decided to take things slowly.
He wrote back, "It's nothing like that. I'm just a local.
"I'm from the old district, in fact.
"I used to see the stele you mentioned, the one for Song Chuming, all the time when I was little. That's why I got curious when you brought it up.
"If that worries you, how about this? We don't have to meet. I just