Ye Qing certainly couldn't outmatch Du Canglang, but he didn't bother to carry the bundle Du Canglang gave him and swaggeringly followed him into the mountain.
After entering the mountain, Ye Qing realized how difficult the path was.
No one seemed to have visited this mountain for a long time. The nearest inhabited area was Guimen Town, which was still over ten kilometers away from Mount Duwang. Moreover, the people of Guimen Town never set foot on Mount Duwang and rarely approached it. Therefore, the vicinity of Mount Duwang was virtually untended, with no semblance of a path, covered in dense high trees, shrubs, and dead grass throughout the mountain. The forest was layered with fallen leaves and decayed vegetation, which had formed toxic miasma over unknown years. If not for Du Canglang's immense strength and Ye Qing's possession of Mu Ling, they might have been poisoned by the miasma long ago.
