In the silent forest, Chen Jue passed the lake where he had collected water yesterday again. This was the farthest point he had explored the day before.
He examined his surroundings. There were indeed only the traces he himself had left when passing through yesterday. Aside from the crater he had cracked open with a stomp, there were no signs of living creatures anywhere else.
He scooped up some water with his cup and tested its quality again. The results were the same as yesterday, so Chen Jue confidently drank several cups to replenish the water his body needed. He also used his folding entrenching shovel to dig a pit beside the lake, put his backpack inside, and pulled some leaves over it.
For the rest of the journey, Chen Jue did not intend to bring the cumbersome backpack. Instead, he would travel light the whole way, wearing his Aerospace Combat Suit with a Tang Dao on his back and eight Retractable Spears mounted on him for self-defense.
Circling the small lake, which was over two hundred meters wide, Chen Jue headed at an unhurried pace straight toward the edge of the forest where the [Mystic School Qi Observation Technique] revealed a Golden Light Barrier.
With his current Breakthrough 5 agility attribute, if he wanted to cover the hundred kilometers quickly, he could probably reach it in under half an hour by sprinting the whole way.
But Chen Jue wanted to conserve his strength, so he mostly walked briskly.
With the status bonus from [Divine-Traveling Taibao], the forest's uneven terrain felt like level ground to him. Moreover, these alien trees had broad crowns and stood more than ten meters apart, unlike the old forests of Gongshan he had visited before, where the paths were narrow and thick with shrubs.