Black Tortoise Kingdom, Lin Family Ravine.
A carriage drawn by a Mutant Beast traveled slowly along the muddy road.
Chu Xingchen had given the two of them plenty of Spirit Stones, gold, and silver. After all, money sometimes did the talking best.
To give them a little presence, he had also had Cui Hao rent a carriage.
Lin Luoyu guided the carriage gently, watching the increasingly familiar path. As a child, she had run back and forth here like a little wanderer.
She had searched for wild fruit and vegetables to fill her stomach. Through the haze of memory, she could almost still see her little self hunting for treasures among the weeds.
There had been plenty of insects in the grass back then. Finding edible weeds meant feeding a few bugs, too.
She also remembered mistaking weeds for edible vegetables as a child, eating some unknown plant, and vomiting and having diarrhea until she had nearly failed to pull through.
Back then, the hardship had seemed endless. Every day when she opened her eyes, hunger had greeted her first, followed by a boundless sense of bewilderment.
Would I find anything to eat today? Was I about to starve to death?
At this moment, it felt rather as though it had all been only yesterday-that self of hers dressed in shabby hemp clothes.
The Lin Luoyu of those days could never have imagined that she, too, would set out on the path of immortality from here.
Cui Hao poked his head out of the carriage. "Senior Sister, are we there yet? My backside's been rattled to pieces."
Lin Luoyu came back to herself and said in a rather unfriendly tone,
"It'd be better if it really fell to pieces. I don't know why you insisted on tagging along."
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