Transmigrated into a Grandpa, Embracing the Laid-Back Life

Chapter 492: Walking

“It’s been long enough for dew to settle on your head.”

“...Master.”

“All right, I didn’t count it precisely either.” Lin Yu drawled, “This place’s sense of time is unreliable. Just know that you didn’t lose out by sitting here.”

Su Ming lowered his head to look at the tree roots, then raised his eyes to the stone path ahead.

The path was still there.

Just as it had looked yesterday: narrow, unhurried, half-covered with fallen leaves, the stone surface weathered, its end still hidden in the mist and wavering out of sight. It gave the impression that walking another half hour or so would reach the end.

But Su Ming no longer trusted his own eyes.

The path remained, the end still existed, but that “very near” feeling only made him more wary.

At that moment, the formation lines on the tree bark rippled gently.

They did not speed up, nor did they glow, they simply eased back, as if a held breath had finally been released.Su Ming glanced at it, did not reach out to touch, but bowed slightly toward the ancient tree.

Whether the gesture had any effect or not, he did it anyway.

Lin Yu saw the scene inside the talisman but said nothing, only the faintest movement in his gaze.

Su Ming turned and stepped back onto the stone path.

This time, he walked more slowly.

Not because he was tired, nor because he was reluctant to leave the rare quiet beneath the tree, but because he had begun to pay attention to his feet.

First step down.

Hum.

A familiar, faint ripple of spiritual energy spread up from deep within the stone.

Second step.

The fluctuation remained, but it was different from the first.

Lighter.

Third step.

Different again, like the tip of a needle gently touching the sole, gone in an instant.

Su Ming's pace slowed completely.

He didn’t feel like he was walking; it felt more like treading across an enormous, complex, extremely quiet formation diagram. Each slab of stone responded; the spiritual mechanism beneath every slab was distinct. Some were settling, some were light; some gentle, some sharp; some supported like thick earth lifting beneath your feet, others brushed past like a thin stream.

Had this been another cultivator, they would have probably just felt the strange spiritual patterns and decided this place was suitable for cultivation.

But Su Ming was different.

He specialized in formations.

was the type who liked to grind through things step

he began to

pouring spiritual energy into the ground,

Step.

Stop.

Remember.

Step again.

Stop again.

the right; the slight variance between stepping on the left side or right side

grew impatient and fluttered a few slabs ahead. When it landed,

faint smile, rare on

“Suffered a loss?”

and opened its beak

a moment

lousy place didn’t play

the edge of a

side of the stone, rolled a little, then silently seeped into a crack

the right side, but instead of seeping down it slid along a whisper-thin dampness toward

for a while,

Yu this time didn’t

walked, “The stone’s

“Captain obvious.”

nor purely a difference of orientation. The left is deeper, the right is lighter, but that weight difference isn’t

Yu made

steps or so, he

left slabs and

Su Ming’s feet paused.

remark matched his thoughts but

lightly stepped on the left half, his right foot on the right half, and

moment, he opened his eyes

“They are indeed different.”

“Explain.”

something large pressing down.” Su Ming said, “Not heavy in the sense of weight so much as stability, like a whole

he frowned

why would it

“What do you think?”

did

and

in elevation, the slabs would be obviously tilted, but they

unevenly, it wouldn’t hold true for tens of

would alternate

spoke, his steps slowed

his feet the stone path stretched, mist flowed ahead, and the ancient tree had long been left behind. The surrounding trees were still tall and silent, yet Su Ming felt as if he were walking along the spine of a sleeping

left, its

the right,

thought popped up

Too fast.

much like an

softly in the

“Keep thinking.”

lips