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SR – Chapter 29
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Chapter 29: Encounter
Deep in the night.
Qin Lie walked at the front as he led the Ling Family members towards the depths of the Arctic Mountain Range. He periodically paused from time to time to retrieve a map from his chest pocket. Using the moonlight, he would look at the map and then reorient their direction.
Most of the time, he didn’t lead the Ling Family members in a straight path. Whenever he thought there might be a pack of spirit beasts in front of them, he would make a detour to avoid any unnecessary spirit beast encounters.
Because they frequently traveled in a winding manner instead of in a straight line, their travel speed towards the Arctic Mountain Range wasn’t very fast.
However, during their travels, they managed to avoid encountering any fierce spirit beasts. They would occasionally meet one or two, but they would only be low level ones that couldn’t harm them at all.
After Qin Lie had discovered Gao Yuan’s body, he had already planned and prepared for this in secret. He had already thoroughly studied their escape route long ago, and even personally examined it himself. Due to his grandfather’s map, he had a clear picture of all the common spots spirit beasts would gather at nearby and was thus able to safely guide the Ling Family members.
Only, a portion of the Ling Family members didn’t quite trust him…
“We’re making another detour?” Ling Xin was currently standing still upon a steep slope, his face full of annoyance as he complained, “How many detours have we taken so far? If we hadn’t detoured so many times, we would have already exited the dense forest and have entered this Frost Mist Mountain you were talking about long ago! Spirit beast this, spirit beast that, we haven’t even seen any traces of powerful spirit beasts so far! If we keep detouring like this, sooner or later they’ll catch up to us!”
“Anyone who doesn’t want to take these detours can go straight ahead. After all, whether you live or die doesn’t matter to me.” Qin Lie didn’t even bat an eye, continuing upon the path that he himself had determined was correct.
“Brat! You really think you’re something, don’t you?” angrily snorted Ling Xin as he glared at Qin Lie.
“Shut your mouth!” exclaimed Ling Yushi. “If not for Qin Lie’s intelligence, we probably would have already died long ago at the hands of Shattered Ice Manor’s people. What are you still complaining about?”
“First Miss, I only believe that there are no spirit beasts nearby, so we don’t need to be this cautious. After all, the Feng Family and Shattered Ice Manor’s people should already be on our tail. If we keep detouring like this, they will catch up to us in no time,” complained Ling Xin.
“That’s enough. Everyone, follow Qin Lie and let’s quickly move out of this dense forest,” said Ling Feng.
Only a few people were agitated like Ling Xin. The rest of them were rather trusting towards Ling Yushi and Ling Feng and thus were rather well behaved.
Once Ling Yushi, Ling Feng, and Ling Ying all began to rush after Qin Lie, Ling Xin and the rest had no other choice but to also follow behind them.
The night quickly passed, and even after the crack of dawn, they didn’t stop and continued rushing through the forest.
During this time, Qin Lie led everyone through more detours, avoiding other potential hotspots that could be infested with packs of spirit beasts, and once again delayed their progress. Although Ling Xin and a few others were still discontented, after being scolded by Ling Yushi and Ling Feng, they had no choice but to silently follow.
Noon.
Qin Lie and all the Ling Family members gathered beside a stream within the dense forest, and their frantic breathing gradually calmed down.
From the middle of last night until noon today, everyone had been frantically rushing along, consuming a great amount of spirit energy. Their bodies were tired, and adding on the fact that they hadn’t eaten anything, they were pretty much ready to collapse at any moment. Thus, they had to stop to rest so they could eat and recover.
Everyone gathered beside the stream, gulped down mouthful after mouthful of the slightly sweet spring water and ate the dry meat that they had brought with them. They sat down and attuned their breathing and recovered their spirit energy.
They were all extremely tired. Knowing just how precious this moment of rest was, they didn’t bother speaking to each other and simply recovered in silence.
Qin Lie drank some water and ate some of the meat that Ling Yushi gave him. Narrowing his eyes slightly, he took out a Spirit Recovering Pill to recover.
“What level is your cultivation at? After traveling all this time, everyone is almost tired to the point of collapsing, even First Miss has sweat all over her. But you seem like you’re still prett