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Chapter 688: Chapter 62: Walking Beside Him
If Xiao Xian truly decides to go to Changbai Mountain and wishes to do so before Yu Gang awakens, time suddenly becomes urgent for her birth.
First, she must sort out school affairs, and after Xiao Xian’s approval, she would have a month of annual leave. With the New Year visit home until the fifth day of the lunar month, about ten days have passed, leaving only twenty days. Within this time, she must find Mei Nian’s whereabouts and safely bring him back to Beijing. Time seems tight, but there is no other choice.
To search for Mei Nian, she must take the fragment of the Ice Blade with her. As for transportation, originally to conserve Spiritual Power, Xiao Xian decided to travel by airplane. However, after Tuoxuerou checked post-New Year flights to Changbai Mountain from Beijing, they realized that due to the holiday season and Changbai Mountain being a popular travel and skiing destination, flight tickets had long been sold out. Yu Gang’s ticket must have been booked at year’s end, and only after spending the New Year with Yu Shan Yang did he organize his journey to Changbai Mountain, thinking to go without concerns, but didn’t expect the sudden variable of Xiao Xian.
"It looks like I’ll have to rely on the Spiritual Rhinoceros Scissors and Little White Jiao to get there," she murmured. During the twelfth lunar month, Little White Jiao was also displaying a lazy demeanor, and the weather forecast showed continuous snow and fog in the northeast region recently, forcing Xiao Xian to consider her options carefully; falling from high altitudes wouldn’t be fun.
Next, she had to prepare warm clothes. Even though Xiao Xian wasn’t afraid of the cold, considering her limited Spiritual Power later on, she’d want to save every bit possible, so she added to her collection a set of equipment purportedly used by members of the national Antarctic scientific expedition team.
In addition, she needed light and simple equipment like a compass. With everything ready and after making an excuse to Feng Xing and his wife about returning to school early, Xiao Xian was ready to leave Si Yiyi Hospital.
As she walked out of the inpatient department, as if led by a ghost, she found herself standing at the bottom of the building where Zhou Ziang’s research office was located.
"To go up, or not to go up. If I go up and return the Purple Ginseng sapling to him, I’ll say I can’t help him transplant ginseng for a while. Stop making excuses, Zhu Xiaoxian. If you go up, isn’t it obvious that you’ll be away for some time? They will surely ask you where you’re going. Then it naturally follows that you can tell him you’re going to Changbai Mountain alone. Indirectly, it would be letting others know that you want someone to accompany you," Xiao Xian hesitantly lingered downstairs, wrestling with her inner cowardice, Zhu Xiaoxian.
"So I guess I won’t go up after all. I don’t want to go with him. Anyway, my trip there will only take twenty days; a Spirit Grass like Purple Ginseng won’t wither if left for a month. When the time comes, I’ll transplant it to Wanlin Hills; no one needs to know where you’ve been," the seemingly stronger Zhu Xiaoxian prevailed internally.
"Admit it, Zhu Xiaoxian, you’re afraid to go to Changbai Mountain. Master Mei is so much more formidable than you. She said it would be five or six days, and now it’s been over twenty days. You’re not familiar with the route, and Little White Jiao is directionally challenged too. With this trip, even twenty days is conservative. Admitting you’re scared isn’t shameful," Xiao Xian spoke weakly, actually feeling like the most useless Cultivator in history.
"Sigh, stop thinking, you fool, you forgot something. Today is only the sixth day of the lunar month; holidays are still ongoing. He must not be upstairs," Xiao Xian frowned, turned around disheartened.
"If you don’t go up to check, how will you know if he’s there or not?" A pair of spotless boots appeared ahead of her, so clean amidst the snowy weather that they reflected the face of their owner above.
"Zhou Ziang, when did you get here?" Xiao Xian’s ears burned, especially when she noticed the snow on Zhou Ziang’s shoulders, indicating he had stood there for quite some time.
"Since you started spinning around like a top. Is the owner of Plum Rice Ball not back yet? No need for explanations, I’ll go with you," Zhou Ziang had visited the pharmacy and, after hearing from Pharmacist Huang about the supply issues with ginseng, he had a good idea of the situation. He hadn’t arrived long ago but had heard what Xiao Xian had said.
Although the speaker was all over the place, at least they had self-awareness. The so-called Changbai Mountain region broadly refers to a mountain range spanning across the provinces of Liao Ning, Jilin, and Heilong River in China. From the Southwest to the northeast, a continuous chain of mountains stretches for thousands of kilometers.