Chapter 1285 - 1284: Immortals in Wuyi Mountain
The group expanded their Divine Thought and saw the current situation of those hiking adventurers.
...
In the deep mountain forest, there’s no flat terrain. Although they were at the foot of the mountain, the path was still very rugged with slopes and obstacles everywhere, and lower mountain ravines and cliff walls beside them.
Perhaps it was the slippery wet ground of the mountain, or maybe their minds were unsettled; whatever the reason, two people accidentally slipped, and started rolling down the slope.
"Careful!" The others shouted urgently, and a person’s pupils suddenly contracted.
Because at the bottom of the slope, there was a small cliff, seven or eight meters high.
Though it wasn’t tall, and there were trees halfway down, if they fell, they’d be injured, if not dead.
The main concern was, if two companions were injured with fractures, how could they continue hiking?
Among the two, a man and a woman, the man was the one who wanted to make friends earlier. He rolled down, reaching out and grabbing wildly, managing to clutch a shrub and steady himself halfway down the slope.
The other was the woman who heard the flute, Xiao, and Guqin sounds earlier. She wasn’t so lucky; the area she rolled through was filled with loose stones and weeds, and she couldn’t grab onto anything, directly rolling to the bottom.
In panic, she looked downwards at the seven or eight meter cliff.
"Help!!!"
The woman shouted loudly, and then rolled off the slope, plummeting directly downward.
However, in the next moment...
Her heart nearly jumped out of her chest, and she closed her eyes, bracing for impact, but suddenly felt a softness beneath her.
Then she heard her companions let out a series of exclamations.
"Whoa!"
"What the hell is that?"
"What’s this?"
The woman cautiously opened her eyes, seeing her companions seemingly at her same level.
"Huh?"
She called out in surprise, barely controlling her still shaking body, her gaze inadvertently glancing downwards, seeing that she was held up by...
A mass of white cloud!
"What?"
She was directly stunned!
Her companions were also stunned!
Staring blankly, minds wiped clean, hearts pausing momentarily.
Just dumbly watching the two-meter-square white cloud, supporting her, gently float over to the group.
Then the cloud landed, dissipating, leaving the woman still half-reclined in place.
The group and the woman exchanged glances, each dying to pop out their eyes, but none spoke.
As if speaking might bring some terrible consequence.
"Whoo—"
"Whirl-whirl-whirl—"
The wind howled past, causing a rustling in the mountain forest trees.
"The mountain forest is dangerous, night has Fierce Ghosts, you must leave promptly."
An old male voice suddenly appeared in everyone’s ears.
"Whoa..."
Someone blurted out the first word of a curse but held the rest back.
Then the group waited for a moment, yet there was no further sound from the speaker, prompting them to breathe a sigh of relief together.
"Just now, that was..."
"Oh my god..."
Only then did people dare to speak, with several rushing to help the woman up, reaching out to grab around her as if trying to catch the earlier cloud.
"Immortal?"
"Or a cultivation person, but that’s about the same as an Immortal!"
"Are there really Immortals in the world?"
"I never believed before..."
"There was a feng shui master in my village when I was young, but they couldn’t do this!"
"Let’s go seek apprenticeship!" The man who wanted to make friends earlier exclaimed with enthusiasm, "This is an opportunity with the Immortal!
The Immortal just saved Li Jie; he’s a kind Immortal, and if we sincerely plead, surely we’ll be able to move him!
This kind of opportunity may come only once in a lifetime, so we must seize it!"
The group couldn’t help but look at him, some gazes were odd, while others had hearts stirred.
However, in the next moment, a green shadow suddenly landed on his shoulder.
The man turned his head, jumping up in fright, shouting in surprise.
"Ahhh!"
A bamboo green snake the length of an arm bit his shoulder, then "whoosh," it darted off, disappearing in the underbrush.
"Ahhh, I’ve been bitten, venomous snake, venomous snake, quick, quick, quick, snake medicine, snake medicine!"
Being in mountain wilderness hikers, besides using insect repellent, carrying antidote serum was routine practice.
Nearby someone hurriedly took off his backpack, extracting serum and injected it.
"Whoa, where did the poison..."
As he said this, he suddenly paused, not daring to speak further.
The others glanced at the woman, and then the man, unsure what to do in the moment, but none continued following the man’s earlier words.
"That Immortal just said, the mountain forest is dangerous, what else comes at night?" The lead adventurer suddenly asked.
"Night has Fierce Ghosts," the woman referred to as Li Jie said, "it’s synonymous with monsters or spirits."
"My word, really?"
"Whether it’s true or not, let’s hurry and leave," someone suggested, "stop going forward, the way back is closer, let’s just return."
The group looked at the man’s injury and dared not seek Immortal opportunity anymore, holding the man and woman with urgency, quickly retreating.
...
At the mountain top, Shen Ying blinked and asked Lu Zheng, "Was revealing your presence before everyone appropriate?"
Lu Zheng shrugged and said, "It’s not a big issue, in the deep mountain forest they didn’t record any video, mere word of mouth, just an urban legend.
Besides, we didn’t show our faces, so it doesn’t count as revealing our presence. Remember, I did something similar in Huang Mountain, and it even made the news."
What Lu Zheng referred to was painting oil paintings with Si Lingxi on Celestial City Peak, which incidentally led to saving an elderly woman.
There were quite a few witnesses on the mountain top who saw the elderly woman fall from a cliff, yet she ended up on Jade Screen Peak.
That paranormal occurrence made a bigger stir.
But since there was no video as evidence, retelling them regardless of truth sounded like anecdotes after passing through several mouths.
So there’s nothing to worry about.
Of course, it might attract the attention of some special departments.
Lin Wan learned this from Xiao Yuya and informed Lu Zheng as well. They were discovered through surveillance capturing him and Si Lingxi at Huang Mountain.
But since they had been discovered, Lu Zheng wasn’t overly cautious anymore.
Just like this situation here, a little revelation in front of people, teasing them, creating an urban legend is quite an entertaining thing.
Shen Ying rubbed her chin, "Then can I create some urban tales in Hai City, like the Red-clothed Fierce Ghost?"
Lin Wan quickly grabbed Shen Ying, pleading softly, "Sister!"
Si Lingxi couldn’t help but smile, and then Lu Zheng’s phone rang.
"The clothes are ready!"