The "damage" forbidden here covered a very broad range of things. For instance, no one could step on fallen red maple leaves or casually touch any red maple tree on the mountain. Even accidentally stepping on their fallen branches or leaves would incur a punishment.
These were the rules of Red Maple City, and of Red Maple Mountain as well.
Su Jiu frowned slightly, but ultimately said nothing.
Every place had its own customs, but in Su Jiu's view, wasn't all this a little too harsh?
"Still, we'll be flying straight over on our swords anyway, so we shouldn't have any effect on Red Maple Mountain. As long as we're careful not to provoke that Red Maple Tree Spirit, there won't be any problems."
Thirteen explained as they traveled, seemingly afraid that Su Jiu and the people behind her would violate some taboo.
Yet sometimes things were just that coincidental: the less you wanted something to happen, the more likely it was to come.
While they were still some distance from Red Maple Mountain, Su Jiu's group saw the mountain range that had appeared in the mirage.
No wonder everyone called Heavenly Cloud Mountain a mountain range floating in the air. The description was undeniably apt. Now that they were closer, Su Jiu could see through the mist that Heavenly Cloud Mountain was indeed completely separate from Red Maple Mountain.
It floated entirely in midair. Compared with what they had seen before in the Linnan Region, this Heavenly Cloud Mountain looked far more like the illusion reflected in the mirage.
"Looks like this is the real Heavenly Cloud Mountain." Perhaps because he had finally seen what he wanted to see, the Ghost Market cultivator's expression, which had been sour all along, finally improved somewhat.
Earlier, while Thirteen was using a