Chen Jue had found a clay pot in the old house, dug up some soil, and replanted the rock cabbage he had picked the day before. It was not a precious medicinal herb anyway, and it could serve as a potted plant. Whether it would survive, he did not know. If it did, he could leave it for Brother Biao and his family to enjoy.
With his bulging backpack on his back, he strode up to the little hilltop in Wazhai and gazed at the morning sun rising in the east, fiery red and blazing hot.
Chen Jue drew a deep breath of the refreshing chill of a highland morning, then took out his phone and opened the compass. Choosing a heading roughly twenty-five degrees off yesterday's, he once again set off in a straight line.
Since he had just learned the Flower-Piercing and Butterfly-Chasing Skill, Chen Jue deliberately moved more slowly this time, making a point of practicing its dodging and maneuvering movements whenever he passed through dense woodland.
Only after crossing hills and ridges all morning and reaching a U-shaped river channel a little over ten meters wide did Chen Jue stop. He planned to rest beside the river and grab a quick bite to restore his stamina.
Over the course of that morning, he had already trained the Flower-Piercing and Butterfly-Chasing Skill up to Lv2. Like the Eaves-Walking and Wall-Scaling Skill, it leveled up extremely quickly.
He sat down among the clean pebbles on a riverside shoal and took out his phone to check the offline map. It appeared that this river was a tributary of the Dulong River.
There were two relatively famous rivers around Gongshan. Besides the Nujiang River, the other was the Dulong River.
The surrounding area was entirely deserted. His phone signal showed