Light Cultivation
Eps. 179 — Mountain Climbing
"I leave my horse to you while I'm gone..."
The next day Jian Chen and the five twin girls prepared to climb the Sky Mountain, they put their horses in the association inn.
"Just calm down, young master, we'll feed you here. If you may know where the young master is going?" Ask the innkeeper.
Jian Chen smiled faintly, he did not tell them because it could make them worried considering the Sky Mountain was always considered a cursed place for the local residents.
Jian Chen just said he wanted to go somewhere with his five girls.
That way he then separated and left the city towards the foot of the sky mountain.
Although it is called climbing in fact there is a ladder to climb the sky mountain made of arranged rocks.
The stairs were very long and straight, mentioning that the number of steps in the sky mountain had about a thousand more steps.
Every 5 steps there is a kind of gate Tori red with on it there is an inscription that is not understood.
Someone who saw the Tori gate will feel the horror and warning for those who want to pass through let alone see the dullness of the tori wood.
The atmosphere looked silent when Jian Chen's entourage arrived because it was the location of the Sky Mountain in the middle of the forest, no one either local citizens or newcomers intended to come to this cursed place.
Jian Chen turned his head to the top of the stairs and narrowed his eyes, he could not see the end of the stairs even using the eyes of the sky. A white mist or cloud covers the stairs at a certain height.
"From here we will walk slowly and docked..."
The five Lan brothers nodded, their entourage finally started to climb the steps one by one. Neither Jian Chen nor the others looked around him warily.
A few steps later Jian Chen's entourage entered the fog area, Jian Chen took a deep breath before continuing his footsteps.
A silent atmosphere filled around Jian Chen's entourage, no sound could be heard inside there, either, the small animals or insects that normally lived in the forest did not appear or sound as if all the sounds would vanish in that white mist.
Jian Chen glanced at his five twin girls, they looked watchfully watching around even though all around was a white mist blocking visibility.
"Jian Chen, listen to my orders!" Lily suddenly spoke on Jian Chen's head, the girl looked solemn from her tone. "Whatever your ears hear, whoever calls you, whether you know him or not. Don't look back!"
Jian Chen raised his eyebrows. "But I didn't hear anything?"
"It's not time to ask, warn the five girls before it's too late!"
Jian Chen gulped before nodding softly, he then told the five girls beside him to obey what Lily just said.
"Eh, but I didn't hear anything Brother Jian?" Lan Qiaoqiao did not understand.
"But you don't look back if you want to survive, that's the only condition if you want to climb this mountain!"
Lan Qiaoqiao nodded, seeing Jian Chen uttering it seriously signified his warning on the situation now.
Their footsteps continued on until the voice of someone called out Lan Qiaoqiao's name.
"Qiou'er, son, that's you baby..."
Not only Lan Qiaoqiao, her four sisters also heard the same voice from their respective mothers, Jian Chen could not escape from the voice call.
Jian Chen quite recognized the voice of someone calling his name behind his back.
"Sister Jian, why don't you turn your head towards me, is my sacrifice meaningless until you don't want to see my face..."
Jian Chen clenched his hands hard when he heard it all, never did he imagine that the voice resembled someone he loved, he was Jian Chen's lover.
"Sister Jian, we've lived a very long time, don't you want to see my face for even a second..." The voice was heard again and his tone seemed to want to cry.
Jian Chen sighed, that soft and warm voice had indeed come from his lover because Jian Chen had never forgotten that voice in his entire life.
"Dian Chen!"
The sound of Lily's cry immediately resuscitated Jian Chen from his daydream, the girl was afraid that Jian Chen would be tempted to look back. Not only did the voice of the call resemble those they knew, the same voice also contained hypnosis.
Jian Chen immediately realized the five girls who were with him, they were experiencing the same temptation.
"That's an illusory sound, they're never really behind you..."
Jian Chen told them to hold hands and continue the steps while Jian Chen would walk behind them.
A few hours passed they continued to climb the mountain, not visible from the outside whether it was noon or afternoon because the sunlight did not penetrate into the fog.
The other voices were increasingly heard as they continued to climb the stairs, Jian Chen had already heard a variety of voices in his ears starting from the call of his master to the voice of even Jian Chen's teacher.
Jian Chen finally found a glimmer of light at the end of the stairs, when he arrived there he immediately saw something that left his eyes wide open at once stunned.
Jian Chen's entourage had indeed made it to the top of the Sky Mountain, when it was above there like it was above the real sky.
Seen around the mountain it only found a land of clouds lying along the eye of the beholder, for a lifetime he had only seen such a stunning scene.
Jian Chen smiled then his attention was fixed to where a small pond formed from natural rocks and in the middle of it was a perched and golden-leaved tree.
On the tree there was something hanging like a fruit that was in the shape of a golden apple.
"This is not wrong anymore... That fruit is a legendary golden apple!" Lan Qiaoqiao took her breaths restrained, unable to believe what they saw.
Twelve golden apples hung on the tree.
Jian Chen smiled faintly, he naturally knew that golden apple and had eaten it in his first life after being given it by his teacher.
Golden apples have high properties for warriors who eat them, the fruit can heal the most serious internal wounds even though it has benefits for the formation of energy in up to a hundred circles.
Even though the color of the fruit is shiny like real gold, if eaten directly, the fruit is not much different from ordinary apples.
The golden apple is a rare fruit, so rare, the fruit is called a myth because no one has ever seen it except for a few people from millions of people.
Jian Chen had not expected to find that legendary fruit here, it seemed that there was indeed a treasure hidden from the Sky Mountain.