ACultivator'sCampusLife

Chapter 34 Lin Jiayi Was Missing

Because Han Dong usually liked sports so his physical strength was much better than that of ordinary people. Coupled with the reason that he was also the organizer of this event, he helped some female students who had poor physical strength along the way.

Because of Lu Yao's cultivation, walking along the nine hundred and ninety-nine steps of the Tongtian Long Corridor was very easy for him. To Lu Yao, it was even easier than to practice Tuiyun Hand for one time.

But he had been walking at the back of the line, in addition to slowly enjoying the scenery along the way, he had been silently paying attention to Lin Jiayi.

According to his speculation, it would be difficult for Lin Jiayi to make it to the top of the mountain after just recovering from a serious illness. So he was ready to come forward to help her at any time.

But what he didn't expect was that Lin Jiayi, who seldom showed athletic talent and always lagged behind others, had been insisting on moving up step by step on her own.

Although it seemed that Lin Jiayi used a lot of effort, she still persisted.

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After walking for about half an hour, several girls with poor physical strength sat down on the steps and leaned against the staircase.

"Guys, it's dangerous to sit on the steps. Please don't sit there!" When Han Dong saw this, he hurriedly turned back and shouted to the crowd, "Come on! There is an especially built rest area not far ahead. There are benches there, and everyone can have a rest!"

"We really can't walk anymore. You can go first. We won't go now." One of the girls, whose clothes were almost drenched, said feebly.

"How can that work? If we come up together, we have to go together. The boys in front of us come immediately and help them!" Han Dong shouted to the boys walking in front.

They were in the same class. When it came to this time, they all came to help the girls to move forward slowly.

By the time Lu Yao and Lin Jiayi got to the rest area, everyone had been resting on it for almost ten minutes.

Although Lin Jiayi had been persisting, she was still physically exhausted and sat on the bench in the rest area, gasping for breath.

"Here, have a drink of water!" When Lu Yao saw it, he opened a bottle of unopened Farmer Spring Water that he carried with him and handed it to Lin Jiayi.

"Thank you!" Perhaps because she was too thirsty, Lin Jiayi did not turn him down this time. She took the water handed over by Lu Yao, drank a few mouthfuls slowly, and then put the water beside her.

"If you feel you can't walk anymore, I can help you a bit!" Lu Yao said calmly.

"No, I can do it myself!" After Lin Jiayi said a word, she got up and walked slowly along with everyone.

Lu Yao said nothing more, but he was full of admiration for Lin Jiayi in his heart.

"If I hadn't started cultivation, I'm afraid I wouldn't have been any better than Lin Jiayi!" Lu Yao thought.

They went on and off like this. When it was almost 11:30 at noon, they arrived at the end of the Tongtian Long Corridor. Many tourists had already begun to walk down the hill.

At the end of the corridor, some vendors set up small tents there. When they saw someone coming up, they immediately came to sell their goods.

Everyone was too tired to walk at this time, and Han Dong was like a parent, running around to buy water and food for everyone.

Lu Yao bought two pieces of bread and gave one to Lin Jiayi.

Maybe it was because she had drunk the water passed by Lu Yao before, this time Lin Jiayi also took over the Dali Garden Franch Bread handed over by Lu Yao and started to eat it.

Lin Jiayi, from before or now, no matter how thirsty or hungry she was, was always very ladylike and ate with small bites.

In the past, people seldom had the opportunity to go out for an outing like this, so Lu Yao always thought that Lin Jiayi was just a beautiful girl who studied well. But after today they passed nine hundred and ninety-nine Tongtian Long Corridor, Lu Yao had a new understanding of Lin Jiayi.

She was not only a beautiful girl with good academic performance but also an unbending girl deep down!

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After everyone had had enough water and food to nourish their spirits, they began to walk in small groups in the direction of the Confucian Temple.

Because the area near the Confucian Temple was relatively flat, and there would be no more uphill. Thus, Lu Yao did not wait for Lin Jiayi this time but left alone.

The Confucian Temple in Yunwu Mountain was only built in recent years, so it drew lessons from the construction patterns and methods of Confucian Temples in many other places. It had a total area of more than four thousand square meters and a construction area of more than two thousand and eight hundred square meters. It basically covered half of the hillside of the Immortal Peak.

County Sage Shrine, Sprite Star Gate, Dacheng Hall, and Chongsheng Temple were in the form of quadrangles, which surrounded an eight-meter-high clock tower in the center. The tower was quite magnificent.

There was a seven-hole hollowed-out wall in the Confucian Temple, which was respectively engraved with seven allusions, "Sea of Clouds and Waves", "Crab Shrimp and Fish Dragon", "Water Palace and Dragon Mansion", "Square Pagoda and Stone Tree", "Eagle Fly and Fish Jump", "The Luck of Dragon and Phoenix", and "Fish Leaping Over the Dragon Gate". Because of the recent visit to Latitude Book City, Lu Yao understood that these were talking about the ancient scholars who were like fish and shrimps in rivers. Only by working hard and making continuous progress and going through the education of Confucianism could they finally tide over difficulties and change from ordinary people to successful people. This was a story of climbing to the highest point of life.

By moving forward along the seven-hole hollowed-out wall, people could see the County Sage Shrine. Lu Yao was not a local. He only moved to Shuangta City in recent years, so he didn't know many of worship in the County Sage Shrine. Thus, Lu Yao roughly took a look at them.

The Sprite Star Gate and Dacheng Hall were dedicated to statues of the outstanding thinkers and educators in Shinese history. Lu Yao respectfully bowed, kowtowed, and then made a note of incense.

However, the Chongsheng Temple was particularly attractive to Lu Yao. Especially on the door frame that was made of hemlock, a line of words was written on it, "With thousands of years of respect for the saints, all people look up to the master of the older generation." These characters made Lu Yao stand in awe.

The central part of the main hall was dedicated to the sitting statue of the Literature Saint and his memorial tablet, on which several characters were written. These characters were Memorial Tablet of the Greatest Literature Saint. The characters were about 79 centimeters high, 13 centimeters wide, and 2 centimeters thick. The base was about 13 centimeters high, 23 centimeters long, and 11 centimetersthick. Nine dragons were engraved on it. The background was golden while the characters were black.

Lu Yao felt unable to extricate himself after a glance and was deeply attracted by it.

Suddenly, he saw a man holding bamboo slips in his hand and sitting on a sandalwood chair. Many people were kneeling below him. When the man holding bamboo slips constantly spat out all kinds of strange words, the kneeling people continued to soar one after another and finally disappeared into a wisp of smoke between heaven and earth.

Lu Yao wanted to see the whole picture clearly. But no matter how hard he tried, he could not see it clearly, and his eyes were still so vague.

Lu Yao didn't wake up from his thoughts until he felt that someone was slapping him heavily.

"Lu Yao, Lu Yao! Did you see Lin Jiayi? Lin Jiayi is missing!"

When Lu Yao came to his senses, he heard Han Dong and a group of people shouting around him.

"What's the matter, Han Dong? Tell me more clearly! Is Lin Jiayi missing?" Lu Yao asked after he slowly regained his senses.

"Just now, everyone came in to burn incense and worship, and Lin Jiayi was sitting at the door to have a rest. But when we all finished and went out, we found that Lin Jiayi was missing!" Han Dong said anxiously.

"So you didn't look for her in the other halls?" Lu Yao felt very strange and asked.

"How could we not look for her in other halls? We've looked for her in all the other halls, but we still didn't find her!" Other students agreed.

Lu Yao began to realize that the situation might be a little serious. After thinking for a long time, Lu Yao immediately whispered a few words in Han Dong's ear. Then Han Dong quickly left.

Then he turned to everyone and said, "Don't panic! How about we split up and look around? Maybe we can find some clues."

"I think Lu Yao has a point. Let's all calm down and look around to see if we can find something we overlooked before!" A boy who was more popular in the class said.

Ma Xiaolin was also in the crowd. Originally, he felt very unhappy about Lu Yao giving orders. But now the matter was urgent, and there was really no good way to do it. So he didn't say anything and went out of Chongsheng Temple with everyone.

Lu Yao watched everyone split up and walked towards the place where Han Dong said Lin Jiayi was resting.

Because it was almost noon, many tourists had returned to the bottom of the mountain for lunch. So on the top of the mountain, in addition to Lu Yao and his classmates, only some vendors were still sitting in front of their stalls leisurely and sorting out their goods.

Lu Yao carefully searched the place where Lin Jiayi had a rest for a long time but found nothing. He looked back and saw a middle-aged stall owner on the nearest stall looking at him all the time.

"Sir, did you see a female student sitting there and resting a while before?" Lu Yao walked up to the middle-aged stall owner and asked politely, pointing to the place where Lin Jiayi had a rest.

"I've been so busy packing up so that I didn't notice. What's the matter? Did you quarrel with your girlfriend?" The middle-aged stall owner smiled and asked, "Little children like you don't study hard but only date every day. In addition to this, you always do things without restraint. When you quarrel, you will always hide and disappear..."

Lu Yao was speechless because of the words of this middle-aged man. Knowing that there would be no clues if he asked more, he just turned around and left.

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After searching for a long time but found no clue, everyone gathered at the Chongsheng Temple again, and they all became more and more anxious.

"What about Lu Yao? Where did Lu Yao go? Wasn't he Lin Jiayi's deskmate? Why did he disappear when he was most needed?" Ma Xiaolin looked for a long time and found that Lu Yao was not there. He shouted at the top of his voice.

"That's true! Where is Lu Yao?"

"I don't know either!"

"I saw him talking to a vendor in front of a stall just now!" Suddenly, a girl said.

"What? Everyone is so busy but he still has time to chat? He is such a b*st*rd!" Ma Xiaolin scolded angrily when he heard this.

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Lu Yao carefully looked around the Confucian Temple and found that in addition to the sightseeing route of Tongtian Long Corridor, this Immortal Peak also had a simple cableway, which was usually used to transport goods to an unknown mountain opposite.

"Has Lin Jiayi already left here?"

This idea was denied by Lu Yao right away. Not to mention whether a girl like Lin Jiayi could go down here alone, even if she could, with Lin Jiayi's character, she would never do such a thing.

While Lu Yao was thinking about it carefully, he suddenly found that an unscrewed mineral water bottle was on a large protruding stone, which was four or five meters down from where he was standing.

Because Lu Yao had handed the Farmer Spring Water to Lin Jiayi to drink, Lin Jiayi tore off the plastic label on the water bottle and affixed it reversely to the water bottle. Lu Yao thought that this was just one of Lin Jiayi's habits, so he didn't take it to heart.

At the moment, the label of the mineral water bottle on the boulder was exactly affixed in the opposite direction. Thus, Lu Yao suddenly came to reason.

Wasn't that the mineral water Lu Yao handed to Lin Jiayi?

Seeing that the mouth of the bottle was unscrewed and the water inside was almost dry, Lu Yao felt thumped in his heart. He felt that things were developing in a bad direction.

Without thinking about it more, Lu Yao grabbed the ropeway and jumped forward. He sat in a simple basket made of bamboo and galloped towards the other side.