CHAPTER 311: CHAPTER 311: FINDING A SURPRISE ON THE MOUNTAIN

Chu Miao and her group arrived at the foot of the mountain without any surprises.

Coming this far, no one was near this place. People were busy scavenging in the shopping centers in the city.

When they neared the place with shallow water, they stopped the boats and prepared to walk forward.

Everyone who had come was a cultivator now and they didn’t need help in walking a short distance from the shallow water to dry land.

Thus, after Chu Hao put away the motor boats, they all covered their feet with spiritual energy and walked up the mountain to the place where the flood water stopped.

Even though the mountain was on higher ground, a small part of it was also under water.

After stepping on dry land, everyone felt as if they had been liberated. It had been a long time since they had walked on solid ground.

Apart from inside the apartments, they hadn’t stepped on hard ground for weeks, it was not a good feeling.

Now, they also knew how to appreciate the small things in life, such as stepping on hard ground and seeing green trees around them.

"Breathing air among trees feels so refreshing. I wonder how we didn’t suffocate from all that water and rain?" Chu Hao, ever being the clown, broke the silence.

"Breathing fresh air indeed feels good." Li Kun supported him.

"Let’s move, we only have a few hours before it gets dark. We don’t know what is in this forest after dark. So, work hard and finish scouting before the last light so we can leave." Ye Xuan advised the group and he grabbed his girlfriend’s hand and walked ahead.

As they walked, Chu Miao didn’t forget to use her divine sense to scan their surroundings.

The place was full of life despite the heavy rains over the last month. It looked like some animals had finally come out of hiding to get some sun that penetrated through the cover of the leaves of the numerous trees in the forest.

Upon hearing movement, animals that included rabbits and deer ran like their lives depended on it.

Plants and trees were also vibrant despite the lack of sun for a long time. Chu Miao assumed that if this was before and the plants in this mountain were submerged in water for so long, their leaves would have turned yellow by now.

However, because the world now had spiritual energy, the trees could absorb it and supplement what was missing.

She could imagine that in a decade or so, most of the plants, even if it was weeds, would contain spiritual energy.

At the thought of this, Chu Miao was happy because soon, spiritual herbs wouldn’t be a thing of the past. The world would usher in an era where small injuries that could have killed a person due to infection or something similar wouldn’t be the same anymore.

With spiritual herbs, infections would become child’s play. In this way, humanity would gain another layer of protection.

She believed that this was also the key to ending the zombie virus in the world and letting the remaining human population thrive again and restore civilization.

With this thought, Chu Miao scanned further in the western direction of where they were headed.

With this probe, she stopped in her tracks. Ye Xuan, feeling the resistance and turning his head to find his girlfriend standing still and looking in a certain direction also stopped walking and looked in the same direction.

He didn’t see anything, but he was sure that his girlfriend had definitely found something.

The others following behind also stopped when the leaders did so.

They all looked in the same direction Chu Miao and Ye Xuan were looking at but just like Ye Xuan, they saw nothing.

"Bunny, what did you find?" Chu Hao, being as impatient as ever, couldn’t take it anymore and asked his sister what was going on.

"Let’s go in this direction. There is something good there. But be careful, since there is something so attractive to us, there would be others interested as well." Chu Miao didn’t explicitly say what it was but she had already caught their attention.

"We are the only people on this mountain so far, I don’t think anyone else would know about what you just found so soon." Another clown, Li Kun said.

How someone as simple-minded as him survived so long was a miracle.

"She doesn’t mean humans, there might be animals near the thing attracting us." Ye Xuan had to explain clearly to his comrade so that he doesn’t rush and get hurt.

"Oh, I get it." Li Kun replied with a smile.

As the group walked closer, they realized that the atmosphere had changed. The plants and trees became more lush and the green of the leaves got darker.

Moreover, the quality of the air they breathed became better and the spiritual energy in the air became more abundant.

It was as if they were walking towards a paradise for cultivators.

"Wow! If we cultivate her for a month, we could get twice the results with half the effort." Even someone as quiet as Jing Xian exclaimed in marvel at the change and the abundance of spiritual energy.

He wasn’t wrong either. If they could cultivate there for a month, then their cultivation would soar in a short time.

The closer they got to the source of the spiritual energy, the denser it got. However, a feeling of forbearance also started to creep in the closer they were.

Chu Miao, having lived in the cultivation world for eighteen years and traveling to different places before going to the battlefield knew what that feeling was.

It was a sign of danger. There was a dangerous existence in that place.

"We have to be more careful going forward. Don’t rush. There is something dangerous ahead." She warned her friends.

"Alright, we will listen to you." Ye Xuan was the first to agree and the others nodded their heads.