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"If you had just said you were going to Old Kunshan, that's only a ten-kilometer trip, isn't it? Don't bother hailing a car here. I'll take you there. It's just ten kilometers, how about I charge you twenty yuan?"

The man panicked slightly.

He hadn't expected to run into someone who knew the route.

Lin Yi shook his head. "Forget it."

He waved his hand again, and before long, a taxi pulled over to the side of the road.

Lin Yi opened the car door and got in.

He gave the driver an address, and they drove off immediately.

Watching the taxi leave, the man's face darkened.

"You knew the way, yet you pretended to be an outsider? Pfft!"

After cursing a few times, he turned around and immediately changed his expression, walking towards some passengers who had just gotten off the train.

"Are you all here to offer incense in our Gumiao City? Where are you headed? I know Gumiao City well; I can take you wherever you want to go. Come on, come on, the taxis outside are all expensive, really..."

Under his coaxing, someone actually followed him toward a van parked on the side of the road.

Chapter 366: Blood Handprint

At the foot of Kunshan.

The taxi stopped outside an inn.

After paying the fare, Lin Yi picked up his backpack and got out of the car.

He arrived in front of the inn and surveyed the surroundings.

The inn's decor was antique and elegant, truly resembling the style of ancient times.

However, the inside of the inn was desolate and quiet, unlike the hotels and hostels in the city that were bustling with endless streams of people.

Lin Yi stepped into the inn.

On the left was a front desk, where a man in his early thirties was sitting in a chair playing on a computer.

"Hello!"

Lin Yi walked up to the counter and said with a light smile.

Hearing this, the man stopped using his mouse and turned to glance at Lin Yi.

"Staying the night?"

Lin Yi nodded with a smile. "I've already booked a room. My surname is Lin."

"Wait a moment!"

The man operated the computer, searching through the reservation list.

Soon, he said, "You're Lin Yi, right?"

"That's right!"

"Heaven-class, Room 315. Here is your room card!"

While speaking, the man handed Lin Yi a room card.

He took it, nodded, and walked straight toward the stairs.

This inn had no elevator and only three floors in total.

Each floor had twenty rooms. Lin Yi went upstairs with his room card and quickly found Room 315.

With a soft 'beep,' the door opened.

Lin Yi entered the room and surveyed the environment.

The room's decor did not strictly follow the retro style and differed significantly from the inn's overall design.

The interior decoration and furnishings appeared very simple, with the addition of some modern household appliances.

However, the room was quite clean.

Especially when standing in front of the window, one could see Kunshan behind the inn.

It was just that Kunshan was quite tall, and the inn was located at its foot, so at most, one could only see halfway up the mountain.

Anything higher than that was invisible.

There was a temple on Kunshan called Jinzhong Temple.

Every day, an endless stream of pilgrims came here to offer incense.

Kunshan Inn mainly provided a place to stay for those pilgrims.

Many pilgrims, upon arriving that day, would choose to rest in the inn for a day, either going up the mountain in the middle of the night or the next morning.

Therefore, business at Kunshan Inn never ceased, as long as Jinzhong Temple remained...

Lin Yi sat on the bed, took out his phone, and composed a message: "Arrived at Kunshan."

After sending the message, Lin Yi sat cross-legged.

He glanced out the window and saw a large, colorful bird flapping its wings as it flew past.

Lin Yi smiled as he watched it, then closed his eyes, entered the state of the Galaxy Qi Transformation Technique, and continued to Cultivate.

Outside the window, Xiao Qi landed on the windowsill.

Seeing that Lin Yi was already Cultivating inside, it flapped its wings, let out a clear cry, and flew toward Kunshan.

Soon, one could see large birds following behind Xiao Qi, as if they were a group of little brothers following their big brother, Xiao Qi, as they flew toward the mountain...

Time passed minute by minute.

As the setting sun hid behind the western mountains, it cast a golden glow, dyeing the entire Kunshan a golden yellow.

Trees, grass, stones, and mountain paths all seemed to be plated with a layer of gold.

Pilgrims on the mountain were all walking down one after another.

Just then, Lin Yi left his room and had just reached the ground floor.

Behind the counter on the first floor was the same man.

He walked over and asked, "Boss, may I ask, is Jinzhong Temple still receiving visitors now?"

Hearing this, the man nodded.

"Yes, they are. In our Gumiao City, every temple and Daoist temple receives visitors twenty-four hours a day!"

"You can go up the mountain at any time you want. Oh, if you go up now, in a little while, you'll be able to have a vegetarian meal. You should try it. I'm not bragging, but the vegetarian food at Jinzhong Temple is quite good!"

The man seemed very enthusiastic, especially when introducing Jinzhong Temple; he was quite talkative.

Lin Yi smiled, thanked him, and walked out of the inn, heading up the mountain path.

Most of the people were pilgrims coming down from the mountain; those like Lin Yi who were heading up were few and far between.

The Kunshan mountain range was vast, and the terrain was very steep.

Although the path up the mountain had been paved with steps, some sections were still quite steep, which showed how treacherous the terrain must have been before the steps were laid.

Lin Yi's pace was light, and his speed up the mountain was not slow.

Before long, he had already reached the halfway point.

However, his breathing was even, showing no signs of disorder at all.

After pausing for a moment, he continued to walk up the mountain.

The mountain path that would take an ordinary person two or three hours, requiring several breaks in between, was completed by Lin Yi in just over ten minutes.

And this was without him even using any movement techniques.