Ye Feng didn’t think he could walk out of this mountain range.
Yun Shuang’er said that the Tianyun Mountain Range spans nearly a thousand li, and his current location was almost at the center of the Tianyun Mountain Range.
To walk out, no matter which direction he went, he would have to travel four to five hundred li through the mountains.
This was still a straight line distance!
The Tianyun Mountain Range is a continuous stretch of mountains; it would probably take a month or so to walk out.
The time spent was secondary; the crucial point was that there were many wild beasts and Spirit Beasts in the Tianyun Mountain Range.
Xingluo Peak, being the main headquarters of Yunhai Sect, had no Spirit Beasts roaming, only some tigers, monkeys, and the like.
Outside the range of Xingluo Peak, many refined Spirit Beasts would appear.
Ye Feng hadn't even reached Royal Sky flight, so it was impossible for him to walk out.
The night before last, besides asking about the world's structure, Ye Feng also asked Yun Shuang’er many detailed questions.
Especially about his Master, Yu Long Shangren, and the Medicine Garden where he currently worked.
As for his Master… it's simply a long story.
As the direct Junior Brother of the current Yunhai Sect Sect Master, Superior Yunyi, he should have been a highly respected and important figure, but he stubbornly lived his life as an old pervert loathed by everyone.
He would go down the mountain to brothels for no reason, and ended up disappearing after soliciting prostitutes, with no news for over three years.
His hands-off Master was practically beyond hope.
As for the Medicine Garden where he worked…
To the south and east of Xingluo Peak, there were many Medicine Gardens and Beast Gardens belonging to Yunhai Sect, primarily cultivating valuable Immortal Plants and Spirit Medicines, and raising some livestock, poultry, and Spirit Beasts to supply the Elders and Inner Sect Disciples of Yunhai Sect.
His workplace was in a valley about seventy to eighty li south of Xingluo Peak. His daily work involved watering and fertilizing the exotic flowers and plants in the Medicine Garden, and weeding.
Ye Feng organized the information he obtained from Yun Shuang’er.
His workplace was seventy li south of Xingluo Peak.
The place where he crawled out was a Mass Burial Ground on the shady side of Luoxia Peak, west of Xingluo Peak.
These two places are nearly two hundred li apart.
If the murderer of the original owner was another Medicine Garden Disciple, it would be impossible to move the body so far. A normal person's practice would be to bury it nearby, or directly bury it in the Medicine Garden to serve as fertilizer for those exotic flowers and plants.
After all, this is the main headquarters of Yunhai Sect, which has forty thousand Disciples. If the murderer carried a body while flying, it might attract the attention of Yunhai Sect Disciples. The murderer would not need to take such a big risk to dispose of the body from a long distance.
Therefore, Ye Feng speculated that his death was most likely unrelated to the other Medicine Garden Disciples.
The current situation is that Yunhai Sect is a famous and powerful sect with extremely strict rules. Disciples who fight privately will be punished, let alone the great crime of murdering a fellow Disciple.
If he returned to Yunhai Sect, even if he had amnesia and didn't remember who killed him, the murderer would likely still take his life for safety's sake.
“I can’t walk out, and I don’t dare to go back. Alas, am I to be a wild man in the mountains for the rest of my life?
The most hateful thing is having no memory of the original owner, which prevents me from Cultivating Dao. Otherwise, I could hide in the back mountain of Xingluo Peak to Cultivate, and once I reached the Royal Sky flight Realm, I could leave this place.”
After another day of agonizing, Ye Feng still hadn't decided whether to leave or stay.
Of course, there was also good news.
He didn't know if it was from being full or if the True Essence in his body was circulating on its own, absorbing Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi.
The True Essence Spiritual Qi, which had been largely consumed last night, had unknowingly recovered by seventy to eighty percent.
Ye Feng could once again sit cross-legged, circulate his Qi to heal his injuries, and accelerate the healing of his broken bones.
He stayed near the waterfall for another day.
By now, his injuries had recovered by more than half.
He knew he couldn't stay there any longer; he had to leave.
He had made a decision.
First, return to the Medicine Garden.
Xingluo Peak is enormous; his current location was at the northwest corner of Xingluo Peak, and the Medicine Garden where he worked was seventy li south of Xingluo Peak.
To avoid encountering large wild beasts and Spirit Beasts, Ye Feng could only walk along the foot of Xingluo Peak.
He set off in the morning and by dusk, he had finally circled to the south side of Xingluo Peak.
There were already signs of human activity on the south side of Xingluo Peak; within the dense jungle, there were some small mountain paths that humans had long used.
Ye Feng tried to avoid these paths. His injuries had not fully healed, and he dared not easily interact with people. If he encountered the murderer, it would be no laughing matter. This deep mountain forest, rarely visited by people, was a good place to kill and bury bodies.
At night, Ye Feng rested in the mountain forest for a night, ate some wild fruits, and then circulated his Qi to heal his injuries.
guihai year, third month, ninth day.
It was the sixth day since Ye Feng Transmigrated to this world.
The Medicine Garden, usually very quiet, was exceptionally lively today.
About half a month ago, during an inventory check of Medicine Garden A-7, which Ye Feng was responsible for, it was discovered that several hundred exotic flowers and plants, as well as four priceless Thousand-Year Immortal Zhi, were missing.
While Guo Wenfeng, the manager of the Medicine Garden, was investigating this theft, Ye Feng suddenly disappeared. Today marked the seventh day of his disappearance.
This incident caused quite a stir in the Medicine Garden.
On the third day of Ye Feng's disappearance, Guo Wenfeng reported the matter to Xingluo Peak.
Today, Lin Yi, a True Disciple of Sect Master Superior Yunyi, and Xu Kai, a Disciple of Grand Elder Yu Chenzi of the Discipline Hall, came to investigate Ye Feng's disappearance and the loss of the Immortal Plants.
Lin Yi was a prominent figure among the young Disciples of Yunhai Sect in this generation. In his early thirties, having Cultivated Dao for only twenty years, he had already Cultivated the “Yunhai Art” to the sixth layer, Guiyuan Realm.
He once earned the title “Dragon Subduing Swordsman” by slaying three Demonic Path Disciples during his mortal world training with his Dragon Subduing Sword.
The Elder Council dispatched Lin Yi primarily because of Ye Feng's special identity.
Although Ye Feng's Master, Yu Long Shangren, had a poor reputation within Yunhai Sect, he was, after all, Sect Master Superior Yunyi's Junior Brother.
More than two hundred years ago, during Yunhai Sect's internal struggle for succession, it was Yu Long Shangren who desperately protected Superior Yunyi at a crucial moment, allowing him to ascend to the position of Sect Master.
Therefore, over the years, as long as Yu Long Shangren didn't commit murder, arson, rape, abduction, or betray his Master and ancestors, Superior Yunyi would turn a blind eye.
Three years ago, Yu Long Shangren went down the mountain to solicit prostitutes and has been missing ever since. Although many people rumored that Yu Long Shangren overestimated himself, and with his nearly four-hundred-year-old waist, spent the night with seven women and eventually died on the belly of a young courtesan, no one had seen Yu Long Shangren's body.
Ye Feng was Yu Long Shangren's only Disciple.
If Yu Long Shangren wasn't dead and returned one day, an explanation would have to be given regarding Ye Feng's matter.
So Lin Yi came in person.
Medicine Garden A had a total of twelve areas, each managed by one to three Medicine Disciples.
There was also a general manager named Guo Wenfeng.
Guo Wenfeng was in his early forties, with a cultivation of the fifth layer, Royal God Realm. He was refined and gentle, looking like a scholar.
His experience was similar to Ye Feng's.
More than twenty years ago, his Master was killed by Demonic Cultivators, and his status plummeted, eventually becoming a Medicine Disciple in the Medicine Garden.
He spent over ten years in the Medicine Garden, rising from a small Medicine Disciple to the general manager of the twelve Medicine Gardens in Area A.
At this moment, Guo Wenfeng was reporting Ye Feng's disappearance to Lin Yi and Xu Kai.
Recently, many precious Immortal Plants and Spirit Zhi had been lost from Medicine Garden Seven, and he, as the general manager, was accountable.
To shirk responsibility, Guo Wenfeng naturally pushed all the blame onto Ye Feng.
Guo Wenfeng said, “Junior Brother Lin, after my investigation these past few days, I can almost confirm that Ye Feng committed theft and then fled in fear of punishment when the matter came to light.
In this matter, as the manager of Medicine Garden A-12, I bear an undeniable responsibility, and I will go to the Elder Council to receive my punishment.”
Lin Yi gently shook his head and said, “Senior Brother Guo has never made any mistakes since taking over the Medicine Garden over a decade ago; this is evident to all. This matter cannot be blamed on Senior Brother Guo.
Since it has been determined that Ye Feng committed theft, I will report it truthfully when I return. Ye Feng has not reached the Royal Sky Realm, so I doubt he can escape far. He will be caught sooner or later.”
As soon as he finished speaking, a Medicine Disciple suddenly shouted, “Ye… Ye Feng! Senior Brother Guo, Ye Feng is back!”