The spring rain had just cleared.
A gentle breeze swept from the foothills of the Great Heaven Mountain's snowy peaks, across Jiangyun Prefecture in northern Qizhou, all the way to the official road of Wuling City.
There were quite a few travelers on the official road, mostly wanderers far from home and drifting merchants.
The cloth-clad young man lay on his back under a plum blossom tree, an old book covering his face, dozing off in the warm spring sun.
Suddenly, a gust of wind blew, and a plum blossom petal, still damp with dew, fell from the tree, landing right in his palm.
"Hiss—"
Song Yan shivered, removed the miscellaneous book from his face, and opened his eyes.
When he emerged from the forest that day and inquired at a village at the foot of the mountain, he learned that this was Qizhou territory.
It was thousands of miles away from Cave Abyss Sect.
