A few Months previously Travelling as a cultivator never got old. Gou Ren loped through the forest with an easy grace, covering the Li with a stride that he would have envied as a mortal. He could travel as fast in a couple minutes as he used to be able to in a day, and if he wanted to, he could do it without a whisper of sound. As a hunter, it practically felt unfair. But right now, nobody was being silent. Gou Ren was travelling with Xiulan, Xianghua, Tigu, Yin, Loud Boy, Rags, Delun, the Torrent Rider, Shaggy Two… as well as an entire troupe of monkeys. “We dig down! We dig deep!” Master Gen boomed from his place on Gou Ren’s back. “We work hard, never sleep!” came the response from the monkeys around their group. They leapt through the air, swung off branches, or simply shouted from where the slower ones had climbed onto people so they could keep up the pace. Everyone was practically covered in monkeys; they rode on shoulders, clung onto backs, and two of them were even sitting atop Tigu’s feet like fluffy boots, laughing at each footfall. “Pick and hammer, strike the stone!” Gou Ren called the next line. ‘Carve the mountain to the bone!’ His eyes found Xianghua. His… well, his wife now had a massive smile on her face, and she was belting it out as much as the monkeys around her. (...)