19: Flying to the "Holy Mountain"

The carriage had no windows and was a bit stuffy. The young man opposite Qin Yue was silent and hadn't spoken, and Qin Yue had no interest in initiating a conversation.

After a short wait, the Zhao Family's disciples boarded the carriage one after another. Seeing Qin Yue and the other person sitting in the innermost seats, no one jumped out to say that these seats should be given to their young masters.

Qin Yue noticed that the interior of the carriage was extremely large; even with ten people boarding, there were still many empty seats.

Once everyone was on board, the carriage suddenly galloped off, shaking everyone. Fortunately, the young people here had all reached the Blood Qi Realm, and their ability to control their bodies was sufficient, so no one was thrown down.

The carriage ran for a short while, then stopped, and then seven or eight more people got on.

Seeing that there were already people in the carriage, the most luxuriously dressed among them said to Qin Yue and the others, "Zhao Yunhe, you've come too. Your Zhao Family has ten Blood Qi Realm Martial Artists this year."

Zhao Yunhe was the Zhao Family disciple sitting on the very edge. Qin Yue had noticed he was different as soon as he got on the carriage.

Zhao Yunhe wore all white, with a slender build, similar to Zhao Yunjiu, but he had a scholarly air about him, more like a scholar than a Martial Artist.

"Qi Lingyun, what are you yelling about? Haven't you been beaten enough these past few years? Our Zhao Family's generation is the 'Yun' generation. You insist on calling yourself Qi Lingyun. It's not easy to stretch out in the carriage, but I'll beat you up once we get off."

The one speaking was a black-clad young man sitting inside Zhao Yunhe. This young man's clothes were black, his face was even darker, and his expression naturally exuded a fearless, unruly temperament.

"Oh, Zhao Yunhong, you've also achieved a Breakthrough to the Blood Qi Realm. Let's have a good spar once we get off the carriage!"

After these young men sat down, the carriage started up again, then stopped twice more, picking up over a dozen more young men.

Once the carriage was full, the curtain was drawn open again, and a burly, muscular man stood outside the carriage. This man was extremely tall; Qin Yue estimated him to be over two meters. Standing outside, his head was even taller than the carriage compartment.

"This is a Body Protecting Pill. One for each person. Eat them all. When the carriage starts running later, your small bodies won't be able to handle it."

Saying this, the big man tossed over four porcelain bottles, throwing them into the hands of the young men from the four respective Families.

When it came to Qin Yue, the porcelain bottle contained exactly the last Medicinal Pill. This Medicinal Pill was entirely black, with a shiny surface, and felt very hard. Qin Yue didn't know what it was made of.

Seeing the other young men swallow the Body Protecting Pill, Qin Yue also put the Body Protecting Pill into his mouth.

Seeing that everyone had taken the Body Protecting Pill, the big man then lowered the carriage curtain and closed the door.

As soon as the carriage door was closed, it instantly became dark inside. Fortunately, there were two lamps hanging from the ceiling, which kept the carriage from being completely dark.

With a 'thump,' the carriage started moving again. This time, most people were prepared and weren't shaken by the carriage's movement.

Just then, Qin Yue suddenly felt a little sleepy and wanted to take a nap.

"No, it hasn't been long since I woke up this morning. How could I be sleepy? That Body Protecting Pill just now had a problem!!!"

"System, activate AFK mode."

Qin Yue silently thought 'AFK mode' in his mind, and his entire consciousness instantly detached from his body. Since Qin Yue only activated AFK mode and didn't choose any skills, to outsiders, Qin Yue appeared to have fainted.

Qin Yue's consciousness looked around and found that the accompanying young men had also fallen asleep, slumped over.

"Is this a kidnapping?" Qin Yue thought to himself. "It shouldn't be. If it were a kidnapping, it's impossible that all the Families in Heyang City would have been deceived!"

"Then why would they drug everyone unconscious?" Qin Yue wondered.

“Thump, thump, thump!”

Qin Yue felt the carriage continuously accelerating.

With a "boom!" Qin Yue felt his body sink. Having experience with flying, Qin Yue realized they had taken off.

This was too incredible. Even though this world had the Dao of Martial Arts compared to his previous life, in Qin Yue's opinion, the standard of living was still similar to his previous life. How could they suddenly take flight?

Just with that bald-winged horse pulling the carriage in front?

Suddenly, Qin Yue felt the light from the carriage ceiling was a bit dazzling. The light suddenly brightened, as if enveloping the entire carriage.

Even though Qin Yue's consciousness was detached, he felt the surroundings were bathed in white light, making it impossible to see anything clearly.

After a while, the carriage began to shake, like encountering turbulence while flying, bumping violently. The sleeping young men were shaken from their seats and rolled onto the floor, colliding with each other.

"So, there still need to be seatbelts!" Seeing this scene, Qin Yue only felt that the safety measures on airplanes in his previous life were much better than this.

Before the turbulence ended, an immense pressure transmitted through Qin Yue's body, causing him to immediately sever the connection between his consciousness and body due to the pain.

Qin Yue saw that the skin and flesh of all the young men's bodies were contracting inward, as if they were in a pressure vessel, being compressed.

At this moment, a faint black light subtly emanated from each young man's body. This black light was so weak that if Qin Yue hadn't been watching closely, he wouldn't have noticed it at all.

The appearance of this black light seemed to give the young men support; their expressions slowly became peaceful, unlike the pain they experienced when their flesh was being compressed just now.

After about half an hour, the carriage made a "puff" sound, as if it had broken through some boundary. The carriage no longer bounced, and the suffocating pressure in the surroundings disappeared.

A feeling of weightlessness came over him, and Qin Yue knew they were about to land. "It seems the Holy Mountain isn't too far from Heyang City after all!" Qin Yue thought to himself.

After about twenty more minutes, with a "clank," the carriage landed.

Once the carriage had completely stopped, the back door was opened, and the muscular big man came into the carriage, helped each young man from the floor to their seat, and fed each of them a white Medicinal Pill before getting off.

The carriage continued to move forward, and soon, some young men slowly opened their eyes. Qin Yue also ended his AFK mode and slowly woke up, mimicking their actions.

In a short while, everyone started to move, feeling sore all over, as if they had been beaten up.

Some people were whispering, but no one stood up to complain loudly, because although they were roughly the same age, they were not as naive as middle school students in his previous life.

Although they didn't witness the entire journey's changes like Qin Yue did, the fact that everyone fainted and woke up at the same time made them realize that this was all planned, and the Body Protecting Pill they had just taken must have been problematic.

The carriage traveled quickly for about an hour, then stopped. The back door was pulled open, and the big man outside called for everyone to get off.

Although the young men all had doubts in their hearts, no one stood up to say anything. One after another, they all followed and got off the carriage. Qin Yue, because he was sitting in the innermost part of the carriage, was the last to get off.

Before Qin Yue even got off, he saw the young men who had already disembarked craning their necks upwards, looking like a bunch of dazed geese.

When Qin Yue got off the carriage and looked forward with these young men, he, too, stood rooted to the spot in shock.