Extraordinary Medical Saint in the City-Chapter 1018 - 1016: Trapped in Tiger Roar Mountain!
Lin Fan had not expected that this journey would take so much time.
Calculating it, today is already the eighth day.
The difficulty of searching for the Heart-eating Vine far exceeded his expectations. He initially thought it would take three or four days, but never imagined that he wouldn't even see a shadow of it by now.
He had been walking along the southeast direction, stopping intermittently for eight days long, still without any clues.
"Lin Fan, I can't do it anymore, I can't walk," Diwu Yun'er sat down on the roadside, waving her hand weakly.
She was already soaked in sweat. Although she was the daughter of the Fifth Sword Emperor and had a Realm at the Ninth Layer of the Unity Realm Stage, which was significantly higher than Lin Fan's Third Rank Saint Emperor, she ultimately was still a woman, and there was a physical strength gap.
Moreover, Lin Fan was in a hurry to travel, his pace rushed. Diwu Yun'er had to expend a lot of energy to keep up with him.
Furthermore, eight days of continuous rushing, searching, rushing again, and searching endlessly... has been an extreme test of energy and patience.
Lin Fan had his own obsession—to save Su Qiong.
However, Diwu Yun'er didn't; she just wanted to follow Lin Fan, but this simple thought could not support her.
Lin Fan stopped, frowning, and looked back at Diwu Yun'er.
The time ticked by, making him anxious.
At such a critical moment, Diwu Yun'er's exhaustion and faltering only increased his impatience and unease, causing a nameless anger to burn within him, his clenched fist trembling slightly.
In two days, it would be the wedding day.
If he couldn't return in time, the Clan Leader's wife wouldn't be saved, and Su Qiong would become someone else's wife.
"I told you not to come! But you wouldn't listen!" Lin Fan's tone carried anger, venting the agitation in his heart.
Diwu Yun'er raised her head dazedly, her eyes wavering, looking at Lin Fan in confusion.
"You..."
"Stop with the childish temper! Searching for the Heart-eating Vine is serious! You can't do it! You should go back! I'll look for it myself!"
Lin Fan tossed out a sentence and left in a huff.
Heartless!
Cold-hearted!
He didn't even turn his head back!
Before Diwu Yun'er could say a word, Lin Fan's figure was already far away. Her heart trembled suddenly, feeling extremely wronged, her nose souring, eyes reddening, almost bursting into tears.
How could he seem like a different person? Is this still the Lin Fan she knew...
But Lin Fan couldn't see this scene.
By the time the mist in Diwu Yun'er's eyes cleared, and her mood settled.
Lin Fan was already nowhere to be seen!
Only then did Diwu Yun'er panic, standing up from the ground with a jolt.
"Lin Fan!"
She yelled loudly, yet there was no response.
"Lin Fan! Where are you?!"
Still dead silent.
Diwu Yun'er's body trembled slightly, feeling a sudden chill, unconsciously hugging herself tightly.
Lin Fan had really left her, without a care...
In his heart, was she really so light... so insignificant...
Perhaps she really shouldn't have come... blaming herself for holding Lin Fan back... delaying time...
Suddenly, she remembered that in two days, it would be Mo Yunsheng and Su Qiong's wedding.
If Lin Fan couldn't get back in time... wouldn't she be the main culprit... Would Lin Fan forgive her?!
No!
She had to go back and stop the wedding!
She couldn't let Lin Fan hate her.
After struggling with herself internally, Diwu Yun'er finally came around.
Looking around, she was stunned.
Where is this place?
Following Lin Fan's pace on the road, in fatigue and exhaustion, she had unknowingly arrived at this place.
In front of her, a dirt road wound forward, blocked by lush trees, the end unseen.
Surrounding her, tall, towering trees reached the sky, looking up, she couldn't even see the tops, likely a hundred meters tall. Each trunk was as thick as the pillars of a great hall, densely packed, blocking out the sky and sun.
Apart from this ascending path before her, nowhere else was clear. 𝕗𝕣𝐞𝐞𝘄𝐞𝚋𝚗𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗹.𝚌𝕠𝚖
The leaves were dense, the trunks robust, blocking the sunlight outside, only filtering through the small gaps amidst the leaves, resembling a starry night sky.
Diwu Yun'er felt a bit dizzy, momentarily unable to distinguish whether it was day or night.
She could only move forward, or retreat backward.
Clearly, this was a mountain.
She vaguely remembered on the journey, Lin Fan had mentioned that Heart-eating Vines liked to grow on cliffs, in dense forests of deep mountains, the more dangerous places showed higher probability of existence.
Rumor had it there was a mountain in the southeast direction, named Tiger Roar.
Towering trees, grotesque rocks.
Wild beasts roam, bones scattered everywhere.
Dark and gloomy, sunless.
No one had ever come out alive from here.
Heart-eating Vine might very well be growing here.
The more unpopulated the area, the more rampant the growth.
This sounded a bit ironic.
Diwu Yun'er felt a sudden thud in her heart, filled with unease.
She had two choices, continue forward to catch up with Lin Fan, though unlikely to earn his forgiveness and might continue to hold him back. Or return to Xuan Clan's Main City to stop the wedding.
Sweat slightly surfaced on her palms, filled with an intense internal struggle.
The eerie surroundings indeed scared her, making each step difficult.
Her typically carefree, devil-may-care attitude didn't expect to meet its end on this Tiger Roar Mountain.
Forget it!
Rather than making Lin Fan unhappy, she might as well do something to make him happy.
Diwu Yun'er decided to go down the mountain and return to stop the wedding.
"Lin Fan! After you find the Heart-eating Vine, hurry back! I'm going ahead!"
She shouted towards the way forward, uncertain if Lin Fan could hear.
A gust of wind blew by.
The leaves rustled, as if responding to Diwu Yun'er's shouts, or perhaps they were drowning out, consuming the sound.
The echo faintly resonated, making it even more eerie and terrifying.
In the surrounding pitch-black forest, it seemed like something was moving.
The sound of stepping on branches, faintly penetrated Diwu Yun'er's ears.
Crack...
Crack...
Diwu Yun'er abruptly stopped her steps, beads of sweat appeared on her fair forehead, her bright eyes sinking, her body stiff.
A sudden question popped into her mind: why was this mountain called Tiger Roar Mountain?
At that moment!
She heard a long roar!
Whoosh!
Woo, woo, woo!
Diwu Yun'er involuntarily retreated two steps, a look of panic on her face.
No, it can't be...
Her heart leaped into her throat.
Is it the roar of a beast... or the rapid sound of the wind? She couldn't tell.
The sound rang out swiftly and vanished in an instant.
Only half a breath long.
She had to quickly leave the mountain!
With this thought in her mind, she quickly turned around and hurriedly ran down.
At this point, in the dark forest, a pair of red eyes gleamed, staring intensely at Diwu Yun'er's hurriedly escaping figure.
In the blink of an eye, it silently disappeared.
Diwu Yun'er ran frantically all the way!
Feeling she had fled far, she finally stopped.
However, upon looking up, she found that the surrounding scenery had not changed at all!
It was the same scene as before, the dark forest, the rustling leaves, the dappled sunlight...
As if the effort she made running earlier was just running in place!
Still in the same place...
Diwu Yun'er's mind went blank with a humming sound, her heart pounding violently.
