Rumble rumble!
After Qingming, the weather in the mountains became even more changeable.
The sky was gloomy, dark clouds like ink, seeming to press down on the mountains about to fall. Thunder roared, fierce winds howled, branches thrashing through the woods with loud noises.
Midway up the mountain, an ancient Mountain God Temple stood.
The mountain path outside the temple was originally an ancient military road from the Three Kingdoms Period, but it had long been abandoned, overgrown with wild grass, and occasionally one could find decayed arrows.
The Mountain God Temple itself was very old, eroded by the years, its temple walls mottled, and the plaster peeling off to reveal the bricks and stones beneath.
In the fierce wind, a merchant team proceeded with difficulty along the winding mountain path.
