A thousand enlightenments in one night, starting from being a menial apprentice.

Chapter 210 Mandrill
Duan Rong decided to practice on this cliff the martial arts method he had accidentally realized when he was carrying large boxes on Wild Boar Mountain.

Duan Rong chose Gushan because it was the closest cliff to Xiangu County. It was a distance of thirteen miles and could be reached in half an hour by horseback riding.

The entire Yuanyang Prefecture has a basin-like topography, with mountains all around and plains in the middle.

Xiangu County is located in the southeast of Yuanyang Prefecture, so it has many mountains and little land, and transportation is blocked.

This solitary mountain is made of granite with sparse vegetation, but it does have many low jujube trees.

Even though the south slope is slightly easier to climb, there are usually very few tourists, making it an excellent place to practice martial arts.

Duan Rong took off a gourd tied around his waist, opened the lid, and poured the gurgling soup into his mouth.

After Duan Rong swallowed it in big gulps, he let out a breath and tied the gourd around his waist again.

Duan Rong's eyes focused, and he concentrated his internal energy. Suddenly, he bent down, held the bottom with one hand and the edge with the other, and then he held his breath and exerted force, lifting the large rock coffin onto his shoulders.

Granite is hard and much heavier than ordinary rocks. This large rock coffin is three or four times the size of Duan Rong's body.

The large rock coffin pressed down on his shoulders, and Duan Rong's waist and shoulders suddenly sank. Duan Rong's eyes were cold, and he circulated his internal energy. He held the large rock coffin on his shoulders with both hands, performed the Cloud Snake Step, and with a light leap, he stood on a bulge on the steep cliff with his body slightly tilted.

Duan Rong had to maintain his body balance while keeping the large rock coffin on his shoulders straight. He couldn't see the road with his eyes at all, but when his spiritual sense was released, he could see much more clearly than with his eyes.

Although he used his spiritual sense to explore the way, it was still not easy for Duan Rong to carry such a large rock coffin and climb the steep cliffs, even though his Cloud Snake Step had already broken through the minor success stage.

Duan Rong's posture at this time was quite strange. He stood on one foot on the bulge of the rock wall, with a single leg, carrying a large coffin on his shoulder, and his body slightly tilted...

He had mastered the sense of balance in Qinggong to the extreme, so he could maintain this movement for several breaths...

Duan Rong took several breaths before he finally determined the location of his second leap.

Cliffs are natural dangers, and there are not many suitable places to stay.

Even though Duan Rong was already considered a martial artist with some accomplishments in the secular world, it was not an easy task for him to climb over the dangerous terrain carrying a large rock coffin.

Duan Rong's shoulders trembled slightly, controlling the rock coffin on his shoulders to tilt slowly. When the rock coffin tilted to a certain angle, Duan Rong's body was already shaking a little. At this moment, Duan Rong suddenly jumped up, one man and one stone, dressed in black, and stood on a protrusion of the rock wall somewhere diagonally above.

As soon as Duan Rongfang stood on it, he adjusted his body balance in an instant. Carrying the large rock coffin, he stood there steadily. Duan Rong let out a long breath. This leap had already exhausted him greatly.

This solitary mountain is nearly a thousand meters high. It would take him a long time to reach the top of the cliff.

Fortunately, he drank the green medicinal soup he had brewed before climbing up, otherwise, with such a huge consumption of internal energy without replenishment, he probably would not be able to climb to the top of the cliff and his internal energy would be exhausted.

The southern slope of Gushan Mountain, from the mountainside to the top of the mountain, is covered with low jujube trees!
The sour jujube tree is a wild jujube with a large core and thin flesh. It can grow even in very barren rock crevices.

It is midsummer now, which is also the season when jujubes mature. However, the jujube trees are not only short, but also have sparse fruits, with only a few on a tree.

It was already dusk, and the fading red sunset reflected the red sunset glow in the west, like a wound in the sky...

Three short figures ran to the top of the mountain.

They were thin and wore patched linen clothes. As they ran, they gathered the hems of their shirts with their hands and held them against their chests.

The pockets of their clothes were bulging with sour dates that they had picked along the way.

"It's right over there, there is a big tree on the top of the cliff. I picked a lot of them there last year!" said one of the children as he ran.

When the other two children heard what the child said, their eyes sparkled with anticipation, and they ran to the top of the cliff with all their might. Somewhere on the top of the cliff, the three children saw a jujube tree that was much taller than an ordinary jujube tree, with more densely hanging fruits. The red and white fruits shone attractively in the sunset.

The three children's eyes suddenly lit up and they ran over to pick the fruits.

"I'll tell you what I'm saying. I didn't lie to you two, did I?"

"Look, this fruit is bigger than the ones we just picked!"

“Pick it quickly!”

Just as the three children were scrambling to pick the fruits, suddenly a huge black shadow jumped up from the bottom of the cliff.

That seems to be a huge sarcophagus!

The three children were startled suddenly, but the next moment they didn't know why, their eyes went dark, and they suddenly fell to the ground!

When one of the children was about to fall to the ground, Duan Rong suddenly jumped out from behind the sarcophagus, rushed over, and hugged the child. There was a rugged rock behind the child. If Duan Rong didn't hug the boy, he would fall down and probably hit the back of his head.

Duan Rong was sweating all over and his eyes were dull.

He was on the cliff, and when he scanned with his spiritual sense, he saw several children on the top of the cliff. He did not want to scare them, but after climbing a thousand meters, his internal energy was almost dry, and the large rock coffin was pressing on his shoulders. He could hardly hold on, so he had to jump onto the cliff in front of the three children.

Duan Rong put the children in his arms on the ground. He looked intently and saw three thin children lying on the ground, as if they were asleep, under the afterglow of the setting sun. The sour jujubes they had picked were scattered all over the ground.

Duan Rong picked up a few sour dates and put them in his mouth to eat. His lips were already chapped and his throat was dry. As he chewed, he felt that the sour and fleshy dates were very thirst-quenching, so he couldn't help but eat a few more.

Duan Rong ate the dates and rested for a while. He sat on the top of the mountain and watched the sunset slowly setting. Duan Rong suddenly stood up, untied the gourd from his waist, tilted his head back and gulped down the liquid for a long time before tying the gourd back around his waist.

After Duan Rong finished drinking the soup and circulated his energy for a while, he felt his surging internal energy gradually returning...

At this moment, Duan Rong suddenly waved his sleeves, and a cloud of light mist spread around the three unconscious children.

Duan Rong's figure flashed and he appeared next to the large rock coffin. He suddenly raised his hand and carried the large rock coffin on his shoulder. After letting go of his spiritual consciousness, Duan Rong suddenly jumped down from the top of the cliff carrying the large rock coffin.

Not long after Duan Rong jumped off the cliff, the three unconscious children woke up slowly. They stood up in a daze...

"What happened... Why are we sleeping on the top of a mountain?"

"Do you still remember... I seemed to see a large sarcophagus flying up from the bottom of the cliff..."

"Yes! I saw it too. It fell right there!"

"What big sarcophagus? What are you talking about..." One of the children asked with a puzzled look. He was standing with his back to the cliff while picking fruits, and did not see the sarcophagus flying up!

"What is this? Who of you ate the dates?" A child suddenly pointed at the date pits on the ground and asked fearfully.

"No..." The child's teeth were already chattering as he spoke.

"We started picking fruits right away, so we don't have time to steal any!
"Hurry up! It's a mandrill! The mandrill wants to eat the child!"

The three children immediately picked up the scattered fruits on the ground, put them into their clothes, and ran down the mountain in a panic...

The mountaintop behind them was already covered in dusk. In front of a sturdy jujube tree that was much taller than the average jujube tree, many wild fruits were scattered on the open space...

(End of this chapter)