The moment they left Wind Gate Village, all three of them felt a sense of unreality.
Especially Zhong Cai. After being trapped for nearly half a month, he had finally stepped beyond the boundaries of Wind Gate Village.
It felt as though a lifetime had passed.
Perhaps it was the excitement of leaving the village, but Qi Ning hadn't made a sound as he carried Chen Miao along the mountain path.
Even after Chen Miao checked the book, found no second afterword, and told them they should be safe, neither of them stopped walking.
Chen Miao felt rather helpless.
It seemed that once they left Wind Gate Village, his say in things had dropped back to that of the kid brother.
Chen Miao had wanted to check the book to see what he had gained this time, but the aftereffects of the Corpse-Substitution Technique were too much for him.
After all, he had taken a blow from that half-finished Flying Jiangshi.
Although his body had been repaired in his half-corpse state, once he released the Corpse-Substitution Technique, the consequences caught up with him all the same.
Chen Miao couldn't hold out. He fell asleep on Qi Ning's back, and the book he had been gripping tightly slipped to the ground.
Zhong Cai picked it up.
He was very curious about Chen Miao's book, since Chen Miao had opened it at critical moments more than once.
But he had looked at it himself then, and it had seemed like a perfectly ordinary book.
He didn't understand why Chen Miao did that, but he had no desire to pry.
All he needed to know was that Chen Miao had saved him. Tucking the book into Chen Miao's shoulder bag, Zhong Cai recalled the abilities Chen Miao had revealed in Wind Gate Village.