Chapter 30 On the South Mountain
Sister South Mountain, located in the south of the sister state royal capital, surrounds the sister capital of the sister capital.
Bypassing the capital of Sister Ling, Sister Nan Mountain winds all the way to the south, all the way to the plain of Yima Pingchuan in the north of Jizhou.
The mountain is not high, continuous, beautiful, the golden green mixed with the forest leaves spread all over the sides of the ridge, the round and smooth hills rise and fall, and there is no end in sight.
It took a few more hours for the group of students from the academy to climb to the top of the mountain under the leadership of three lecturers.
After that, after a short break, the three lecturers chose a ridge to the east and plunged straight down.
The road down the mountain is much smoother than the road when going up the mountain, and it is also very labor-saving, which makes the tired students suddenly feel refreshed.
The ridge seemed to be endless, and the three lecturers had no intention of stopping at all, and kept running along the ridge.
Along the way, while taking care of Shangguan Qingwan, Mu Yi found that the further he went, the more sparse the trees on both sides of the ridge became, and later, there was hardly a trace of a tree. Instead, there are bare hillsides, covered with green grass and shrubs, and the times are full of chaos.
Standing on the side of the ridge, you can see the same bare cliff on the opposite side, with reddish-brown stones layer upon layer, showing the ancient history of this mountain beam.
As the sun was about to set, the three lecturers finally stopped their pace.
The students behind sat on the ground regardless of their image, took out the poor food they carried, and began to gobble it up, completely losing their usual elegant image.
Mu Yi had no one to inform him in advance that he was going to participate in this trial, so Mu Yi didn't have any food prepared on his body at all, so he could only watch others eat on the side.
There were a lot of edible things on the mountain, but the three lecturers didn't speak, and Mu Yi couldn't leave the team to go hunting. Although there is no food to fill his stomach, Mu Yi is not unbearable, when he is in the wind capital, sometimes he can't eat for several days, Mu Yi still survives.
Shangguan Qingwan beside her gave the food she brought to Mu Yi, but Mu Yi didn't accept it, and that little bit of stuff was probably not enough for Shangguan Qingwan to eat herself.
Picking up Shangguan Qingwan's water bladder casually, Mu Yi didn't notice that Shangguan Qingwan beside him turned sideways to turn his flushed cheeks, took a sip of it, and felt that his mouth was full of fragrance.
After the students had finished swallowing their food, the three instructors gave the students only a moment to rest before getting up and moving forward.
Dragging their tired bodies, these students had to follow the pace of the lecturer.
The sun had set in the west, and it was hanging on the treetops in the direction they had come.
The lecturer didn't say exactly where the test was going, but kept moving in the right direction, with a long line hanging behind him.
Just before sunset, Mu Yi and the others finally walked through this ridge and came to the end of this ridge.
Looking down, there is an incomparably open flat land below the mountain, and a large river rushes forward in the middle.
At this moment, Mu Yi retracted his gaze, turned to look in the direction he came, then shook his head, and turned to keep up with the pace of the lecturer in front of him.
Before the sun set, the three instructors led the team down the valley floor and continued along the river under the slightly outcropping moonlight.
Mu Yi didn't know where the three lecturers wanted to take the students, so he had to follow the pace of the lecturer.
The valley grew narrower and deeper, and the rushing water became more and more intense, and the dark and dreary valley was filled with a faint night, and the desolate cries of desolation continued to sound in the woods on the mountains on both sides, which made people chill.
Finally, at nearly midnight, the three lecturers finally announced that they would stay at the place, and let the students light a bonfire and prepare for the night.
The surroundings were pitch black, the moonlight had long been blocked by the mountain peaks above, Mu Yi didn't have the slightest understanding of the surrounding environment, only heard the sound of rushing water.
When the bright bonfire was lit, by the light of the fire, Mu Yi finally vaguely saw the surrounding environment.
It is an incomparably open river valley, with a rushing river in the middle, and wide flat banks on both sides, and above the river bank, a lush dense forest, with high peaks on both sides, and only misty water vapor floating above the river.
The night was quiet, and the tired students gathered around the bonfire, either meditating and cultivating, or drowsy.
After settling Shangguan Qingwan to sleep, Mu Yi sat aside and began his practice.
After a night of nothing, the dawn of dawn pierced through the thick fog and shone on the exhausted trainees at the bottom of the valley, awakening the flock of birds that had just come out of the cage.
"Now, whether you go hunting in the forest or go down to the river to fish, you will have to take care of your food for the next few days. Don't expect food to get into your stomach on its own, and don't expect others to share excess food with you. As soon as the indifferent lecturer finished speaking, a group of students dispersed impatiently.
In fact, there are a lot of fish in the water or animals in the forest, and it is not difficult to fill the stomach at all, but the difficulty is that these students have no experience, and it is still a little difficult to catch these fish and beasts.
Instead of following those students into the forest, Mu Yi walked towards the three lecturers who were standing by the water and were grilling fish.
Walking up to the lecturer, Mu Yi bowed down and asked, "Does the teacher feel anything unusual along the way?"
Hearing Mu Yi's words, the lecturer surnamed He raised his head and said, "Your name is Mu Yi, right? What can be abnormal on the road? With the three of us here, what is there to worry about?"
Afterwards, the other two lecturers also looked at Mu Yi and shook their heads one after another.
"Why do you say that?" the indifferent lecturer in one of them asked again, staring at Mu Yi again.
"Nothing, probably a student's delusion. Avoiding the gaze of the three lecturers looking at him, Mu Yi said casually, and then turned to leave.
Mu Yi didn't notice that the indifferent lecturer glanced at his back deeply.
Returning to Shangguan Qingwan's side, he casually took a fat fish that Shangguan Qingwan had just tied up from the river, Mu Yi took out the dagger, disemboweled, cleaned it up, and put it on the fire.
While turning the grilled fish in his hand, Mu Yi stared at the slender figure by the water, and he didn't know what he was thinking.
It was a rare and quiet morning, and the three instructors did not make too many demands on the students, but the following morning was not necessarily so leisurely.
Mu Yi and Shangguan Qingwan, who had just had a full meal, walked side by side by the river, looking at the quiet scenery at the bottom of the valley, and at the same time looking at groups of students, some of them were busy processing the burnt barbecue on the fire, and some were still squatting quietly in the forest, waiting for their prey.
Gradually, the hustle and bustle behind him was gone, and only the sound of rushing water in the river wafted past my ears.
Suddenly, a strong pungent smell came into Mu Yi's nose.
With the smell, Mu Yi walked forward, and what appeared in front of him was a yellow-green sulfuric acid pool bubbling and bubbling, thick hot bubbles floating on the pool water, and piles of hot bubbles cracking open to emit a smell.
Raising his eyes slightly, Mu Yi found that there were several similar hot pools in front of him, all of which were constantly emitting heat outward.
Mu Yi was surprised in his heart, he didn't expect to see such a sulfuric acid pool at the bottom of this valley, and natural creation was really everywhere.
As he continued to walk forward, a deafening rumble came into his ears again.
In front of me is another ingenious natural masterpiece that gathers the wonders of heaven and earth.
A huge sinkhole had caved ahead, and the river flowing from the bottom of the valley came here, rushing and pouring down into the bottomless pit below.
Snow-white spray splashes from the stones in the river, turning into thousands of pearls and eventually falling into the rushing water below.
The silver waterfall seems to fall from the sky, bringing thousands of thunders rolling down into the pit.
When the river came here, it seemed to be cut off by the waist, and the turbulent river had nowhere to flow, and finally had to go down, forming such a rare spectacle.
Walking to the edge of the pit, Mu Yi looked down, and all that appeared in his eyes was the giant waterfall that went down with the stream, and there was a deafening rumble in his ears, but where so much river water was pouring to, Mu Yi didn't know, because the pit was bottomless.
Shangguan Qingwan on the side was obviously afraid of this huge sinkhole, and was standing far away from the pit and looking at Mu Yi worriedly.
Back at the station, Mu Yi found that there were still many students who had not returned, and it seemed that this first survival experience had made some students struggling.
In the next few days, the three instructors did not lead the students forward, and still let the group of students continue to practice under this open valley.
The content of the experience is not limited to letting the students hunt, because after a few days of experience, these students have basically learned how to hunt, although it is still not a good rope, but there is no problem at all to fill their stomachs.
Therefore, the three lecturers have added a lot of experience content for the students, after all, it is not easy to come out once, and the purpose of the college is to let the students go through the tribulation, not to go out to enjoy the mountains and rivers.
Therefore, in the past few days, this group of students has been directly brought into a situation where life is worse than death by the three lecturers, and they are exhausted by training every day.
Mu Yi and the others were relatively relaxed, and the academy only asked them to come out and take care of these students who were going through the survival trial, and there were no more requirements for the others.
Therefore, Mu Yi and the others only need to help the three lecturers take care of these students on the side, so as to avoid uncontrollable accidents. Fortunately, after a few days, there were no major accidents.
In the evening of this day, the sky was overcast, and the rolling black clouds continued to gather from afar, pressing down on the valley, almost making people breathless.
Seeing that the rainstorm was coming, the three lecturers led the students to hurry to the cliff on the side of the valley, under the cliff, there were several cliff caves, which were relatively far away from each other, which should have been dug by the previous college lecturers.
The dark clouds in the sky were getting lower and lower, almost sticking to the top of the mountain.
A storm is coming.