Chapter 41: Sun Yuan Visits South Mountain, Chen Li Takes Refuge from the Rain at the Mountain God Temple
As the saying goes, the wider your horizons, the broader your mind will be. Knowing how vast the outside world is, his ambitions are beyond the reach of these little monsters from the deep sea.
Sun Yuan pinched a tactic, a huge whirlpool formed around his body, which was the deep-sea whirlpool he learned from Shuiyuan. After the huge whirlpool took shape, it wrapped Sun Yuan's body and disappeared with a fierce spin on the spot, carrying Sun Yuan away from Shuiyuan Mansion at an extremely fast speed, rushing straight to the sea surface.
Sun Yuan rushed out of the seabed without any hesitation, and before leaving, he didn't even glance at the Water Ape's mansion. However, the two demons did not feel as thrilled as they had imagined. The White Dragon Girl and the Crab exchanged a look, both seeing the relief and disappointment in each other's eyes. It wasn't until then that they realized the thing they had been desperately pursuing was actually of no importance to Sun Yuan.
But this strange feeling was soon suppressed by the two demons, and Sun Yuan had already left, not to return for a long time. The Water Ape Palace returned to its state of rivalry between the two demons. The crab and the White Dragon Girl, who had been suppressing their inner turmoil, exchanged a fierce glance before suddenly turning around and leaving in two different directions. Sun Yuan was gone, but their battle had only just begun.
Stepping out of the water, gazing at the vast ocean, Sun Yuan couldn't help but feel a sense of melancholy. As it turned out, Sun Yuan wasn't an aquatic creature after all, and being trapped underwater for so long had left him feeling stifled. This was also one of the reasons he had surfaced so quickly. At this moment, looking up at the azure sky, gazing out at the endless sea, and feeling the salty ocean breeze, Sun Yuan once again found his sense of purpose, and his heart was filled with determination. After all, he was still a land-dwelling demon at heart.
Taking two deep breaths of fresh air, he calmed his mind and followed the direction of the ocean current. He headed straight for Nan Zhan Bu Zhou. It's funny to say that his way of traveling wasn't by flying, but rather by riding whirlpools in the water, relying on the power of the ocean currents to propel him towards Nan Zhan Bu Zhou.
The way of traveling by demonic wind is too abnormal for the body, even with Sun Yuan's current cultivation, it would be difficult to cross the ocean in this way. However, compared to being in the water and riding a whirlpool, it's much better, and its speed isn't slower than advancing through the air wrapped in demonic wind. Of course, this method can only be used for aquatic creatures, but at this moment, Sun Yuan is also able to enjoy this treatment due to his peculiar encounter.
In just a few days, a vast expanse of land appeared before Sun Yuan. It was the southern continent of Jambudvipa that had arrived. When Sun Yuan arrived, it happened to be at dusk, and coincidentally, the sea was rising with the tide, so there were no people in this place. Taking advantage of the high tide, Sun Yuan rode the dark wind, rose from the water, and flew straight to Jambudvipa.
The rain was falling quietly, the summer night was silent, occasionally there were one or two cicada chirps, but it seemed to have sensed the impending storm, and the cicadas suddenly stopped working and fell asleep. The air in the sky was more oppressive by the minute, despite the continuous light rain, but it did not alleviate the sweltering heat of summer at all. The raindrops falling on the dry land were steamed up by the hot air, rising into waves of water vapor, making this world look like a steamer, making people feel even more suffocated.
Chen Li climbed up the steep mountain road step by step, despite his severe injuries leaving him almost no strength to move, but Chen Li still struggled to climb upwards.
Since childhood, the old people in Chen's village had told them the secret of observing clouds and predicting weather. Now, with the current weather, even someone who knew nothing about it would know that a big storm was coming next, let alone Chen Li, who had received systematic education. He knew that if he couldn't find a place to take shelter before the big storm, his heavily injured body would be in grave danger, and being caught in the rain would mean certain death.
Chen Li's goal was the mountain temple on the peak in front of him. Several months ago, Chen Li had passed by here and stayed overnight at the mountain temple, but at that time he was dressed in fine clothes and riding a proud horse, looking magnificent. Now, however, he was down on his luck and desperate to survive, with a group of enemies hot on his heels. But this was just the way of the Jianghu world - victory and defeat, revenge and killing, these were the eternal themes of the Jianghu.
Chen Li's experience is simple, it's just that set, being betrayed by his own good friend, even his own wife betrayed him, the so-called reason was just that he got a set of Zi Qi Jue, this is Jianghu, in which there will always be a lack of betrayal and exchange of interests.
After great efforts, Chen Li finally climbed to the top of the mountain. In the howling night wind, the Mountain God Temple was shrouded in darkness. Perhaps due to years of neglect, as the wind grew stronger, creaking sounds could be heard from within the temple, making it seem eerie and mysterious on this quiet mountaintop.
But Chen Li couldn't care about that anymore, having barely escaped his friend's pursuit, he had no other choice now, even if it was a dragon's lair in front of him, he had to go in and take the risk, let alone a dark mountain temple, even if there were really some ghosts or monsters inside, Chen Li wasn't afraid.
Having endured countless betrayals, he is now physically and mentally exhausted. If any ghost or god took a liking to him, Chen Li was certain that he wouldn't even resist. At this moment, he deeply felt the truth of an ancient saying: in this world, only those of the same kind are truly terrifying; ghosts and gods were somewhat inconsequential by comparison. In fact, he had never heard of any ghost or god emerging without cause to harm people, whereas in human society, senseless slaughter occurred every day.
Chen Li kicked open the mountain temple, and without caring about anything, he lay down on the pile of straw in front of the mountain god statue, panting heavily. He didn't expect that this action would wake up a spirit in the mountain temple, who was meditating on the roof at the time. As it happened to be the moment when the thunderstorm arrived, the spirit had already been three-tenths awake, and by the time Chen Li rushed over, he was completely awake.
The elf on the roof is none other than Sun Yuan, who set out with Sun Wukong to seek immortality and visit the Tao. Since getting separated from Sun Wukong at sea, Sun Yuan luckily eliminated the Water Ape and returned to the Southern Jiaozhou Continent. After that, Sun Yuan found that he had thought things were a bit too simple. The vast Southern Jiaozhou Continent, although Sun Wukong was a very eye-catching monkey with his unique attire, but in this era where communication technology is extremely underdeveloped, Sun Yuan simply couldn't find him.
Since arriving in the Southern Continent, Sun Wukong initially went out with a big fanfare to search for the Monkey King's trail. However, after narrowly escaping being killed by human monks several times, Sun Wukong realized that this Southern Continent was also home to hidden dragons and sleeping tigers, and he no longer dared to act rashly. After experiencing several lessons, he tried his best to avoid daytime activities and only went out at night to search for the Monkey King. However, as a result, his efficiency decreased greatly, and in the past few months, Sun Wukong had made no gains whatsoever.
