Translator: Dj22031
Editor: Dj22031
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Wei Xi threw the weasel beaten into a daze under the tree. After he breathed his last breath, he felt much better.
Having entered a body with poor blessings for no reason, he really couldn’t say he was happy, but he couldn’t get out, so sitting like this wouldn’t help.
He stood up slowly, staring at the subtle changes in his leg muscles as he moved, with complicated and difficult to distinguish emotions. It was strange to say that this physical body had been dead for so long without any signs of death. After he woke up, the original wounds on his body had completely disappeared. He walked, sat and lay as usual, and was still as hungry and uncomfortable as before. Only the dizziness he had never felt before could truly confirm that he had a body.
When Wei Xi returned to the hut, the beasts had all left, and the sacrifices on the ground and the braised pork in the pot had not been touched.
The small courtyard was empty, and Wei Dedao was sleeping peacefully. He no longer called him “apprentice” repeatedly like before, and then shouted for food.
He won’t wake up again.
The huge emptiness was hard for Wei Xi to digest. What should he do next then?
His eyes suddenly stopped and fell on Wei Dedao’s chest, where lay the jade pendant he had put in with others in the morning. After not seeing it for a while, it seemed to have been severely damaged, and its white and fat surface had become dull.
Wei Xi looked at it for a while, then lowered his head to pick it up, and then pulled the soil piled beside the pit into it until it covered Wei Dedao’s disgusting face.
Then he said, “I’m leaving.”
….
A figure moved quickly through the forest.
He ran extremely vigorously and his body seemed to be very light. The knotted tree roots in the forest and the mud and dead branches accumulated for countless years were disturbed under his feet. He was carrying a huge bamboo basket on his back, and the sleeves of his Taoist robe were tied to his back. The hem of his clothes was flying fiercely in the wind.
As expected, that barrier had no effect on the physical body.
But the dense forest was full of formations, and Wei Xi’s journey was not too easy.
What’s more, he also carried a whole basket of luggage, such as the silver that Wei Dedao had accumulated for many years.
He caught a venomous snake that had the audacity to attack him, bit off its head and stuffed it into his mouth. While eating it happily, he stopped to look at the snake, then straightened his robes that were messed up by the mountain wind.
The original clothes of this body were really puzzling. The fabric was obviously of high quality and felt smooth and soft, but it was lacking in weight and was made to expose the chest and legs. Wei Xi didn’t object to dressing like that. After all, there were times when he wore nothing for convenience in the mountains. But when he met people when he went out, he would inevitably attract people’s attention, so he still changed back into his own clothes.
There was another strange thing. After leaving the barrier, the further he went up, the fewer prey there was in the mountains. Over the past few days, except for a few pheasants, hares, and the snake just now, he had not encountered any larger rations.
Not to mention jackals, tigers and leopards, how come there were no wild boars?
Wei Xi looked up and saw that the peak was even higher up. It was shrouded in clouds and mist and was higher than the mountain where he lived. After eating the poisonous snake in his hand, he decided to camp out there tonight and grab something to eat.
He jumped up on the tree trunk and climbed nearly halfway when he suddenly heard some vague movement, like the sound of heavy objects stepping on the ground.
Food!
Wei Xi immediately sped up, thinking that was enough. Wei Dedao said that this mountain was steep and desolate, making it difficult for ordinary people to climb, so it was difficult to find a village within a radius of dozens of miles. The old man was blind and slept in the open for nearly two months before he found his current home. How could there be no ferocious beasts in such a place?
Sure enough, the further up he went, the more real the sound became. The footsteps were regular and heavy, one after another. Wei Xi had never seen such a big beast walking, and he couldn’t help but guess the size of the opponent. It must be as heavy as a mountain, right?
Wei Xi, who was accustomed to tearing out the throat of his prey with his hands, finally became alert and pulled out the kitchen knife tied to his belt.
Right in front, right in front.
He grabbed the last rock, figured out the pattern of his steps, and then picked the right moment and jumped up——
As if an invisible barrier had been broken through, the huge hustle and bustle of the world poured in in an instant.
“Go over a little bit and take a picture of me on Eagle Beak Peak!”
“Why are you squeezing? Are you sick? Don’t you see that there is a cliff below? I’ll squeeze you to numbness!”
“F**k you! How can you talk like this!”
“Then where we are now is the famous Fengyang Mountain Eagle Beak Peak. Look here, does the shape of the cliff resemble an eagle’s beak? But although it is beautiful, the mountains under the cliff are all undeveloped areas, and are very dangerous. Many professionals even dare not enter easily. You must not leave the group to explore without authorization! So back to the subject, the most famous place on Eagle Beak Peak is of course the Fengyang Mountain Temple. We will burn incense there later. Moreover, you can come to me to buy amulets together…”
Wei Xi: “???”
He stepped on the solid ground with both feet, his expression blank, one hand still touching the handle of the kitchen knife, but he had lost the idea of drawing out the weapon, because he finally saw clearly the prey whose footsteps were thunderous——
A few steps away, outside the crowd, two naked young men each held a mallet and were pounding the stone hammer in front of them. The woman on the side who was also sparsely dressed noticed Wei Xi’s gaze and said with a smile: “Young man, do you want some cakes? Ten yuan a bowl.”
After she finished speaking, she noticed Wei Xi’s very different style of clothing, and her eyes twitched sharply.
Almost at the same time, other tourists traveling during the Golden Week[1] also discovered this alien who had appeared from nowhere, which immediately triggered a wave of onlookers.
“Look at that kid, isn’t it hot for him to wear so many clothes in Qiu Huhu?”
“What do you know about cosplay? Young people are in good health.”
“He’s pretending to be a Taoist priest in Fengyang Mountain? Is he trying to cause trouble? And aren’t his clothes a little too original? They’re dirty, old, and patched. Why, he’s still pretending to be a poor Taoist priest?”
“Oh, when you say that, your face turns gray!”
Chirping, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, Wei Xi instantly became the brightest star in the night sky, attracting everyone’s attention.
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[1] The Golden Week, in the People’s Republic of China, is the name given to three separate 7-day or 8-day national holidays which were implemented in 2000.