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The white crane delivered the encyclopedia back to Hidden Dragon Temple on Yin-Yang Mountain. Song You, meanwhile, rested for the night on the open ground, setting out again only the next day.
They were now within the borders of Yizhou.
The Daoist and Lady Calico traveled onward. It was already quite warm in late spring, and even in the mountains at night it was not cold. They often camped out under the open sky wherever they happened to be. If they were thirsty, they sought mountain springs or asked for water from roadside households. If their food ran short, they bought some in the towns along the way or from mountain villagers. It was convenient enough that they had little to worry about.
Yizhou, too, had fallen into disorder.
As the Daoist journeyed on, whether from invitations by villagers or chance encounters on the road, they ran into quite a few rampaging demons and monsters.
Naturally, it was Lady Calico and the swallow who did the fighting.
Sometimes they received silver as thanks, sometimes a good meal, sometimes a bounty of dried rations and fruit. They were all gains in their own way.
Because of this, their pace slowed considerably.
In some places, there were so many demons and malicious spirits in the mountains that Song You would linger to eat and drink while Lady Calico and the swallow went about demon-hunting. The grateful villagers would insist on putting them up for the night and serving them a banquet. At first, Song You thought this was simply rustic hospitality. But after one such evening feast and a night’s rest, he discovered that the neighboring village had already heard the news, and people arrived at dawn to line up and extend...
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