Rebirth: Slice-of-life Cultivation-Chapter 730 - 441 Unique

Night, a full moon hung high in the sky, its bright moonlight spilling across the earth, on the stone steps, among the crowds scattered over the mountains, illuminating the path ahead.

Noise erupted from the crowd, "Eighteen Pans, Eighteen Pans are almost here!"

Xue Yuantong stepped on the steps, her footsteps "clunk clunk", full of vigor.

She walked on the right side, with Jiang Ning protecting her on the inside, but many people sitting on the edges of the stone steps to rest during the climb made it difficult for her to proceed smoothly.

"What is the Eighteen Pans?" She led by two steps, a slight height advantage making her slightly superior to Jiang Ning.

Jiang Ning’s clear voice carried, "Eighteen Pans is the steepest part of Taishan, the majesty of Taishan is all in the Eighteen Pans, it’s the most worthy part to climb."

"Eighteen Pans are divided into ’slow Eighteen Pans,’ ’moderate Eighteen Pans,’ and ’fast Eighteen Pans,’ totaling one thousand six hundred steps."

Surrounding climbers, too exhausted to breathe properly, looked at him upon hearing this, then saw the unhurried expression on his face.

Ten more minutes of walking, and they finally reached the Eighteen Pans.

The wind grew stronger.

Many tourists, chilled to the bone, encountered vendors along the way shouting to rent military coats, with a deposit of one hundred and a rental fee of fifteen. Some tourists, unable to withstand the cold wind, went to rent military coats.

Jiang Yanan wrapped up in her coat, her body drenched in sweat, feeling like a spoiled sticky rice dumpling.

Yu Wen was still cold and suggested, "Class leader, I want to rent a military coat."

Huang Zhongfei said, "Renting a military coat now means you’ll have to come back tomorrow to return it, too troublesome. I suggest taking the cable car from the mountain tomorrow."

Upon hearing this, Yu Wen abandoned the idea since the deposit for the military coat was a significant one hundred.

Jiang Yanan also remarked, "Military coats are particularly heavy. If we rent now, can we still climb later?"

Yu Wen fell silent, thinking she couldn’t climb anymore herself!

She felt every second like an eternity, occasionally asking how much longer until they reached the top.

As a few people descended the mountain, Yu Wen asked Huang Zhongfei, "Why are they coming down?"

Tang Fu guessed, "Perhaps they’re too tired and are returning."

She took a step forward and, to Yu Wen’s amazement, climbed two steps at once.

Tang Fu’s physical fitness wasn’t bad, and climbing Taishan wasn’t too much of a burden for her.

Huang Zhongfei said, "I had an elder climb the mountain before, reached the Eighteen Pans, got too tired, and came down. Later, not satisfied, he climbed it again."

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The steps of the Eighteen Pans were particularly narrow and couldn’t fit a whole foot, just the toes, which was very damaging to the shoes.

Luckily Xue Yuantong had no trouble, her feet small and steady as she moved up.

"Where’s Guo Kunnan? Where’s Guo Kunnan?" Dong Qingfeng shouted.

At this moment, Dan Kaiquan didn’t care about appearances, climbing hand over foot. He didn’t buy a climbing stick just to show off, and now he was regretting it.

The Eighteen Pans were far too steep; he dared not look back.

"Can’t see Brother Nan!" Dan Kaiquan puzzled, messaging with no reply, calling with no answer, as if he had vanished.

Yu Wen speculated uneasily, "He hasn’t had an accident, has he?"

Dan Kaiquan replied, "What are you thinking? There are so many people here, what could possibly happen? Relax, Brother Nan is a straightforward guy."

He had been Guo Kunnan’s roommate for a year and knew Brother Nan wasn’t impulsive or particularly daring.

Meanwhile,

One hundred meters above, Guo Kunnan struggled to climb.

He was like someone injected with adrenaline, casting aside all fatigue!

In fact, more than an hour ago, he wasn’t like this; he had been climbing with Dan Kaiquan, exhausted to death.

Until he saw a woman, dressed like the ones in yoga outfits on TV, passing by him.

Suddenly, Guo Kunnan’s energy surged, filling him with endless strength.

Forget just Taishan, even if it were Mount Everest, he could have fought!

With a target in sight, Guo Kunnan left his climbing friends behind, chasing after her all the way up.

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The higher they went, the more people there were, and the final distance was simply impassable.

Often moving a little, then resting a lot,

Dong Qingfeng complained, "There are even more people than at a train station."

As they neared South Heavenly Gate, the mountain climbers arriving here were almost all trembling, completely drained.

Finally, they reached South Heavenly Gate.

At that moment, everyone couldn’t help but exhale in relief.

Yu Wen didn’t enter South Heavenly Gate but went to the terrace on the left. She waved her flashlight and found many people wrapped in coats sleeping on the ground.

A fierce mountain wind blew, chilling her to the bone.

Jiang Yanan hugged her arms.

Yang Sheng and Tang Fu, among others, pulled out clothes from their bags to put on.

Yu Wen endured the cold wind, her temples throbbing in pain, her body nearly numb, a thought emerging in her mind never to climb mountains again in this lifetime.

Xue Yuantong stood on the terrace, overlooking Tai City from an elevation of one thousand five hundred meters.

This was a perspective she had never experienced from childhood to adulthood.

The entire Tai City glinted gold, woven together, igniting an unexplainable sense of pride within her.

"Take a photo, take a photo, Jiang Ning help me take a photo!"

She clamored, this being her first mountain climb and her first trip with Jiang Ning, she needed to commemorate it.

Jiang Ning was about to take out his phone to capture the scene.

But Huang Zhongfei opened his bag and handed him a camera, all smiles, "Use this instead."

Jiang Ning took it.

It was 2014 now, and the latest model phone was still the iPhone 5S, far from the future phone manufacturers who rolled out high pixel quality and enhanced algorithms, so the current phone pictures were rather poor.

Jiang Ning scanned the class leader’s camera, a Sony A7R, launched last year, full-frame.

He first took a few night shots of the city, then took two photos of Xue Yuantong.

After that, Xue Yuantong insisted on a joint photo, so they stood together, and the class leader helped to take a few shots.