Chapter 243: Meeting Fei Luoya
Li Tongya rode the winds westward, crossing the Big Fish Creek that marked the boundary between Eastern Mount Yue and the Li Family's territory. He flew over Shamoli's palaces, venturing deeper into Mount Yue territory.
As he journeyed west, the jungle thickened. The villages appeared more desolate and dilapidated now, their dirt roads strewn with abandoned skeletons.
The living—emaciated to the point where their skin was tightly stretched over bones—crawled on the ground, boiling the white bones in broken pots to make a grayish soup. They were surrounded by howling and hungry jackals, waiting for the people to fall.
Li Tongya observed silently as he flew over the vibrant Lijing Town, the nicely renovated homes of thousands of households in Eastern Mount Yue, then to the lands of Mount Yue where bones littered the ground and where beasts devoured humans.
He glanced briefly at the skeletal, emaciated people who looked up as he passed, then continued westward on the wind.
Several dozen li westward, where human settlements became slightly more frequent but equally dilapidated, he finally caught sight of a dark mountain with what seemed like a temple built atop it.
Li Tongya landed before the mountain, noticing many blackened heads impaled on stakes. As soon as his feet touched the ground, the eyes of the mounted heads snapped open, and those that still had their mouths intact began wailing.
"Living people! Living people!"
Li Tongya waited quietly until a man in simple robes, his hair disheveled and eyes pale, approached. The man, a Qi Cultivator at the sixth heavenly layer, squinted at Li Tongya. Then, with relative politeness, he cupped his fist and greeted him before saying, "Please follow me up the mountain."