Chapter 44: The Mysterious Mountain

  Li Meng nodded slightly at Yang Fan after testing the Destiny Sky Disk, his face still looking unpleasant, with a hint of gloom and unease.

  Yang Fan looked at him strangely, but didn't ask Li Meng what was going on in front of everyone. He carefully put away the Fate Heavenly Plate and then turned to Chen Hui: "Since you are all from border areas, our security capabilities are relatively poor. I suggest that you move to Yanjing to settle down. In terms of wealth and industry, we will send official personnel to assist you with the transfer. What do you think?"

  "Yanjing?" Chen Hui couldn't make the decision himself, so he turned his gaze to his wife and daughter behind him. With this unexpected turn of events, plus the loss of the Heavenly Disk, the Chen family had already been feeling uneasy, and now they were reluctant to stay in this sorrowful place any longer. After some discussion, they all agreed to leave.

  However, Chen Hui had one last request and begged in a cold voice: "Can you all help me get rid of the Wu family?"

  The Wu family suspected of deceiving and robbing the fate of Tianpan, which made the Chen family resentful. Therefore, Chen Hui asked Yang Fan to severely punish the Wu family.

  "Alright!" Yang Fan thought for a moment and agreed. The Wu family inherited the ancient martial arts, and the Yan Huang rules stipulated that they could not excessively interfere with worldly affairs, but the Wu family relied on their abilities to gain power and profit, which already violated the Yan Huang requirements, let alone the other party also found trouble with Li Mang. Now that the Chen family has come forward to apply, Yang Fan readily agreed and immediately started investigating the Wu family.

  The result confirmed Li Mang's guess, and the masked man at that time was indeed the old ancestor of the Wu family, Wu Long's grandfather. He was originally recuperating in the underground cave, but unexpectedly Yang Fan suddenly killed him, and he didn't even have a chance to escape before being put to death.

  As soon as the sky lit up, news of Wu Hong's downfall due to corruption spread like wildfire. The whole nation was abuzz with excitement and joyful voices filled the internet. The once powerful Wu family, who had dominated Shengdu, became history overnight...

  "Yang Guanshi, I want to take a two-day break." Meanwhile, when Yang Fan was about to return to the Yan Huang courtyard, Li Mang took the initiative to apply for leave.

  For half a day, Li Meng's face had not been good since testing the Destiny Sky Disk. Yang Fan, supporting his glasses, asked anxiously: "What did you see? If I can help, just speak up, maybe I can help you solve it!"

  "It's nothing, just some emotional stuff, thanks for Yang Guanshi's concern." Li Mang forced a smile and scratched his head, feeling somewhat embarrassed.

  "Ah!" Yang Fan suddenly realized, and after a moment's thought, he roughly guessed what it was, probably something like his future girlfriend betraying him. He patted Li Mang's shoulder and said, "From the Chen family's behavior, fate can also be reversed and changed. Since you've already seen it in advance, you can naturally avoid it from happening, no need to worry."

  Li Meng only smiled stiffly and didn't offer any explanation, but Yang Fan's misunderstanding was more than welcome to him.

  "Are you all right?" Yang Fan asked again.

  "There's no major problem." Li Mang replied truthfully. His recovery power was now very strong, although there was still some pain, but he had already recovered.

  "Why don't we do it this way, you escort the Chen family to move to Yanjing, and then take a good two-day break." This trip was due to intelligence errors, Li Mang almost lost his life, Yang Fan may be out of guilt, so he gave Li Mang the greatest convenience, not only approved his leave for two days, but also gave him a task equivalent to taking a holiday.

  "Thanks, Yang." Li Mang's face had an additional hint of a smile. Although two days wasn't much time, at least he could focus solely on his own affairs, absolute freedom.

  Yang Fan and Snake Granny settled the matter with Cheng Du, and they left on the same day. The Chen family had a lot of things to take care of regarding the transfer of their industry, and despite official assistance, it would take at least until tomorrow afternoon to set off. Li Meng naturally couldn't follow him for 24 hours a day, so he went alone to the market to buy rain boots and brought back a large package of Huang into the Shanhaijing space.

  Yuanji Mountain, the third mountain in the Nanshan mountain range, is located after Tangting Mountain. The terrain is relatively low and the ground is humid, which also makes the ecological environment here quite special. There are more snakes and insects, and the trees are not ordinary either.

  There are many half-meter-long caterpillars hanging on the tree, some of which are smooth and slippery, while others are hairy, like mutated caterpillars. They look terrifying, even more uncomfortable than seeing a venomous snake, and humans have an innate aversion to such creatures.

  Underground, all sorts of snakes are everywhere, poisonous and non-poisonous, even many two-headed snakes and three-headed snakes. They look very strange, but no matter what they look like, they won't bring people joy, only gloom.

  Snakes, insects and ants are afraid of realgar, which is also the purpose of Li Mang buying a large package of realgar. He hopes to use realgar to open up a path that can be walked freely.

  Of course, apart from the realgar, he also brought a long snake clip and a cloth bag for carrying snakes. Since getting the Classic of Mountains and Seas, Li Mang has become a qualified foodie, this is no longer just a kind of taste enjoyment, but also a kind of cultivation, in Li Mang's view, eating has become the highest state of cultivation.

  The environment of the mountain was quite harsh, with wet and soggy ground covered in a thick layer of rotten leaves. Li Mang couldn't be certain if there were any snakes hiding under the leaves, so he was extra cautious even wearing his waterproof boots. First, he used his snake-catching tongs to tap on the ground, "startling the snakes", while also sprinkling yellow powder on both sides, creating a "yellow path".

  The taste of the realgar was pungent, and Li Mang didn't like it, but he had to do so. At the same time, he also had to pay attention to whether there were any disgusting abdominal worms on the trees on both sides and above his head. Since this was the intersection of Qiongqi Mountain and Tangting Mountain, there were relatively few animals on Qiongqi Mountain.

  "Hiss!"

  A black snake, about the thickness of a thumb and ten inches long, was disturbed by Li Mang. Its small body rose high, its small eyes were full of gloom, and its blood-red tongue was hissing. If it were the white ape of Tangting Mountain, it would have attacked already. It didn't have much intelligence, but it was ferocious by nature, attacking any animal that entered its territory.

  But today it didn't, because its sharp snake sense had sniffed out a smell in the air that it found repulsive, and so it hesitated and did not dare to come forward.

  "Too small, not meaty, hard to kill. Let's test the ability of realgar to drive it away!" The foodie quickly identified the snake and had no desire to eat it, so he grabbed a handful of realgar from his bag and sprinkled it over.

  "Hiss!"

  The little snake was startled and rolled back, especially the smell of realgar on its body made it even more unbearable. With a few rustling sounds, it slipped away quickly, its speed making Li Mang's eyes narrow. If there were one or two snakes like this that he could still deal with at the same time, but if three to five snakes attacked him simultaneously, Li Mang would have to turn around and run far away in order to survive, otherwise, once bitten, the consequences would be unthinkable.

  This is a venomous snake, and it's not just an ordinary venomous snake. Its disgusting appearance makes it easy to distinguish its terrifying toxicity, which cannot be compared to the toxicity of degenerated snakes in reality.

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  P.S: Looking for recommendations.