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Today, a gentle breeze swept across the river—nothing but the breeze.
After some time, a small boat appeared around a bend in the river, drifting effortlessly downstream.
The boat barely needed to be rowed. It moved along on its own, and the boatman, at ease, occasionally broke into song. His voice echoed between the mountains on either side of the river, filling the serene scene with a sense of peace.
“Ah…”
Halfway through his song, the boatman suddenly groaned in pain.
The damp air over the river had aggravated his chronic illness. Years of working the water had left him with rheumatism, and the sharp pain in his old legs came and went without warning, always capable of ruining his mood.
But suddenly, the sound of hooves echoed from the riverbank.
Faintly, the hooves were accompanied by the roars of a tiger and the howls of wolves.
“...”
The boatman’s groaning stopped immediately.
Though the mountains flanking the Yin River were many, the forests weren’t dense. Normally, one would hear nothing more than the calls of various birds. Even wolf howls were rare, let alone this deafening roar that reverberated through the woods. The boatman didn’t recognize the sounds, but an inexplicable sense of fear gripped him, as though they came from some monstrous spirit of the mountains.
Standing on his small boat in the middle of the river, he didn’t panic but instinctively craned his neck, raising his head to peer toward the source of the sound.
On the path along the river, through the straight cedar forest, a figure on horseback seemed to be galloping wildly. The figure wove through the dense trees, repeatedly obscured and then revealed again, moving so fast that only a blurry shadow could be seen.
In addition, there appeared to be several shorter shadows following, though their...
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