I'm Really Going to Become an Immortal
Chapter 59 - 55 Already a Gradually Different Mentality

Chapter 59: Chapter 55 Already a Gradually Different Mentality

The travel plan was set for March fifteenth.

On the morning of March sixteenth, Chen Yun had already taken a ride to Pingshan County, Yibin City, in Sichuan.

The highlight was a sort of Special Forces-style tourism.

The exhilarating training in the wilderness inspired him to take a spontaneous trip.

After all, he was carefree now.

There was nothing that could limit his freedom at this point in his life.

If it weren’t for agreeing to bail Bai Shi out of jail on March fifteenth, Chen Yun would have completed his planning that afternoon and set off right away.

On the early morning of March sixteenth, after confirming that Bai Shi had returned, Chen Yun entrusted Bai jin to Bai Shi’s care and then departed by car.

He took train C5663 from Shucheng East Station and arrived at Pingshan Station after just over an hour.

Then he began searching for a driver familiar with Laojun Mountain outside the train station.

His destination was Laojun Mountain.

The tallest mountain in Pingshan County is Laojun Mountain, originally named Qinggu Mountain, which got its name from local folktales that Lord Lao Zi of the Great Monad had cultivated and achieved immortality there.

Laojun Mountain is part of the Five-finger Mountain, a branch extending east from the Greater and Lesser Xing’an Mountains of the Hengduan Mountains on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. With its main peak reaching 2008.7 meters above sea level, it is the tallest summit in Southern Sichuan.

However, Chen Yun planned not to visit the Laojun Mountain Scenic Spot but to venture deeper into the mountain range, into parts not guaranteed to be safe.

He chose not to use a taxi platform to avoid getting ripped off, as the place he wanted to go was indeed a bit tricky to pinpoint on the navigation.

After all, the destination was beyond the usual tourist area of the Laojun Mountain Scenic Spot.

The taxi app would at most take him to the entrance of Laojun Mountain Scenic Spot.

After a long conversation with a driver outside the train station, he successfully used his Transparent World 2.0 Emotion Perception Ability to drive the price down significantly, along with the display of his muscular physique.

He didn’t have much need for money now.

But that didn’t mean he was willing to be taken for a fool.

Bargaining was still very necessary.

Afterward came a long car ride.

It was nearly ten in the morning when the car finally stopped.

"The mountain road ahead is difficult for cars. The road that was built a few years ago only goes up to here."

"Just follow this road up to Huangjia Village ahead, then head up beyond the mountain to the north from the village, and you’ll be able to enter the undeveloped depths of Laojun Mountain."

"Some years ago, there were black bears that came down to Huangjia Village from the mountain, it even made the news then," the driver said, pointing towards the north as Chen Yun got out of the car.

He didn’t care whether Chen Yun was camping or what he was doing.

In fact, modern interpersonal interactions don’t involve that much concern for one another.

He was only interested in the few hundred yuan he had earned from this trip.

So, he didn’t ask much about Chen Yun’s purpose for coming here.

Modern people being bored and wandering around aimlessly when they have nothing better to do wasn’t anything strange.

"Okay, thank you," Chen Yun nodded.

After ensuring with his Emotion Perception that the driver wasn’t lying,

he immediately shouldered his barely packed backpack and headed towards Huangjia Village.

Listening to the sound of the driver accelerating away,

Chen Yun squinted slightly,

and took a leisurely walk on this mountain road far from the city.

The rough path drawing near to the foot of the mountain wasn’t easy to traverse.

But for Chen Yun, it was like walking with his eyes closed.

And indeed, his eyes were closed.

He was using Transparent World 2.0 to sense everything around him.

Each step was extraordinarily steady.

It was certain that Chen Yun felt excited about this return to nature.

He liked it here.

This emotion, while not overtly displayed, was genuinely there.

From the faint stirring at the Flower Bird Market to the slight excitement atop King Ming Mausoleum Mountain.

And now.

This excitement was definitely real.

Chen Yun didn’t know why.

The feeling of exhaustion and weariness of the soul amid the hustle and bustle did not exist for him.

He shouldn’t yearn so much for nature.

Yet, the longing for nature in Chen Yun’s heart was undeniably present, like a traveler in the desert yearning for a spring or a bird in the dark night longing for the dawn.

At this moment.

Chen Yun vaguely understood.

Perhaps it was precisely because he no longer needed to worry about anything that he began to yearn for a life he had never considered before.

He felt that his long-term plans for the future had to include such intentions:

He yearned to wander the vast grasslands, letting his spirit soar freely in the boundless sea of green; he looked forward to climbing steep peaks, allowing his soul to converse with the heavens and earth atop the noble summit; he longed to stand still in the deep forests, allowing his thoughts to settle in a world of ancient trees reaching for the sky and vines entwining.

Without complex social relationships, without the trivial pressures of work, just coexisting with all things, blending with the universe.

He could plant a vegetable garden with his own hands, watching seeds break through the soil, life blossoming at his fingertips; he could sit by the lake and fish, enjoying the detachment and transcendence of "a lone boat, an elderly man in a straw raincoat, fishing in the snowy river alone"; he could look up at the dazzling starry sky, letting his spirit be purified and sublimated by the grandeur of the universe.

He could do everything he wanted.

All because he himself had now embarked on a path completely different from that of ordinary people.

He had the capital, and he had the ability.

However, before that.

He had to possess a certain level of strength.

Otherwise, Chen Yun was really somewhat reluctant to rush out on a long journey.

Now he had.

Only a beggarly Steel Body, Superfast Physical Recovery, Transparent World Perception, extreme Coordination Control, about a ton of normal power, and Killing Intent.

Such assets didn’t qualify him as having sufficient self-protection.

If a missile were to come crashing down.

He would still be done for on the spot.

Chen Yun felt.

If he were to travel far in the future, he would need to undergo slumber evolution once or twice more, or perhaps seven or eight times wouldn’t be too many.

Otherwise, it wouldn’t be considered safe in any way.

In short, the world was so vast, he wanted to go see it.

But before that, he wanted to become just a little stronger first.

Thinking this way.

Chen Yun’s footsteps paused at the entrance to Huangjia Village.

He looked around.

The population of Huangjia Village seemed surprisingly small; only a few elderly people were seen sitting outside on benches, basking in the sun.

From the perspective of a mountain village, the outflow of young and middle-aged labor was not strange.

However, Huangjia Village wasn’t exactly an isolated mountain village; as early as the 2000s, electricity and water had been brought in.

In the years of poverty alleviation and wealth creation, roads and networks were connected to this village at the foot of the mountain.

Huangjia Village was no longer as impoverished as before and could not be considered a remote mountain village anymore.

But still...

It seemed to be an inevitable trend of the times.

Young people always longed for the glamorous and neon lights of the big cities.

The idea of leaving the mountain villages to earn more money had long been ingrained in the minds of most people.

Compared to these normal people, Chen Yun felt he was especially different.

Urban life was like a siege.

Those inside wanted to get out, and those outside wanted to get in.

Pondering.

With a trace of emotion, Chen Yun did not enter Huangjia Village but directly headed up the mountain following the footpath to the north.

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