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As they proceeded, they all wanted to return and join the search effort, but their injuries were too severe. The only one who refused to give up on finding Yan Xiaobao was Li Qinghou. He went alone to the Nameless Mountain and searched there for two entire months. Apart from some places he couldn't even enter, he explored the length and breadth of the mountains. Strangely, despite Yan Xiaobao seemingly knowing these mountains well, he couldn't find a trace of him. It was almost as if Yan Xiaobao currently existed in another world.
During the search, he ended up fighting many powerful beasts, and some people were even injured. Two months later, he stood very painfully before a certain tree, upon which a blood-smeared piece of cloth was attached.
