Summit

"Yeah yeah, just keep it down and watch your step. If knows we're closeby it will never show itself and just run away to another village," Hao Xuan explained with a straight face while observing the surroundings.

With his eyesight Hao Xuan could see almost everything. The first thing he noticed were the stark differences between the village and the other places he had visited so far.

No matter how desolate, no matter how far out of the way the settlement, the basic standard of living was maintained in every place he had been to, unless of course they were gripped by war and in dire straits. There were light stones in every house, some sort of rudimentary formations to either warn or protect the settlement and at least some sort of a cultivator to deal with wandering beasts. Because even the weakest beast was much stronger than an ordinary human.