Jiang Mountain

Shallow beach after Qing Mao

At a shallow beach, Fang Yuan lends Gu worms to Bai Ning Bing for the time being and tells her to get familiar with them. He is only rank one initial stage and cannot display true rank three power, while she has rank three cultivation but no Gu of her own after the Qing Mao self-detonation left her empty-handed. Between Gu Masters, lending is possible when the owner wills it, but it is rarely done. ^{ch. 201}

They fled Qing Mao Mountain on a bamboo raft along Yellow Dragon river, the third river of Southern Border. That river runs through over half of Southern Border and passes mountains including Qing Mao and Bai Gu. ^{ch. 200} For the past five days of that flight, Fang Yuan had been floating around Jiang mountain. Injured Gu worms from the Qing Mao loot lacked food during those days and died consecutively. ^{ch. 201} The same stretch leaves them still short of Bai Gu Mountain when they are forced to shore. ^{ch. 200}