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“Should we keep going forward?” The cat raised its head, its pair of amber-clear eyes fixed on the Daoist.
“Let's not go any further.”
“Then are we going back?”
“More or less.” Song You paused for a moment, then looked down at her. “We should take a different route back.”
“A different route?”
“Yes...”
The Western Regions were simply too vast.
Spanning several, even over a dozen prefectures, with dozens of tributary states, taking just one route wouldn’t be enough to connect them all. Even after traveling across a few prefectures, Song You had to take two different paths for the journey.
The Western Regions were even more so.
Even taking two different routes wouldn’t fully connect everything. Even with some detours, at most, one could only visit all the tributary states, inevitably missing out on many sights. But the world was boundless, while human time was finite. Twenty years might seem long, but it was also short. Choices must be made.
So, they had to take a roundabout way and return from the other side.
“Have you rested enough, Lady Calico?”
“I’ve rested enough.”
“Then let's go.”
Leaning on his bamboo staff, Song You stepped down the mountain.
The mountains here were truly green and gentle. The slopes showed no sharp or abrupt features. Their curves were smooth, with no protruding rock formations...
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