Chapter 422: Exhausted (3)
Footsteps echoed through the dry earth.
Step.
Descending slowly to the ground, Jeong Yeon-shin lowered his eyelids for a moment.
Was it because of the summer forest? A sweltering humidity clung to his skin, and the sensation beneath his feet felt odd—damp and coarse.
This was the land of the Jeong family estate.
More precisely, the back mountain—where the tombs of the estate’s household members lay.
Rumors from Dengfeng County had been strange.
Earlier, he had arrived in the city at the foot of Songshan with the Ma Gwang-ik. Dengfeng County, just below Shaolin.
He had intended to head straight to the guest lodgings reserved for those with business at Shaolin, but then he heard that the Celestial Pinnacle Immortals of Mount Dianchang had gone to visit the Ma Gwang-ik Lord’s family home.
He couldn't ignore it. Last year, he hadn’t been able to visit his family’s burial grounds.
At this time last year, Jeong Yeon-shin had been in Sichuan—on the very day his maternal grandfather, Ma Yeon-jeok, attempted to perish together with the Bloodflame Cult’s leader.
And now...