Chapter 2236 — Right Beneath Our Feet
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"Quiet." Wei Zhao was busy studying the terrain; even if the Heavenly Thunder Pig was excited, he paid it no mind. "Go play by yourself somewhere else..."
"Oink, oink..." The Heavenly Thunder Pig sounded rather aggrieved.
Wei Zhao and Sun Jingyan each took one side, comparing the landmarks on the map and beginning their search. The Ulonghot Mountains were vast, and the upper vein in particular stretched boundlessly. Presumably, this upper vein had once been the most flourishing region of the Ulonghot Mountains—these rolling green hills were where the disciples of this ancient sect had cultivated. Only, overnight, it had been reduced to ruins.
To be able to establish a sect here was indeed a great and enviable undertaking.
Although Wei Zhao's eyesight was rather keen, and Sun Jingyan had browsed the terrain of the Ulonghot Mountains online as well, pinpointing the exact location within this upper vein was still no easy task.
The map was drawn very crudely, with no specific coordinates or landmark structures—nothing but a terrain map. This made the search considerably more difficult for Wei Zhao.
In the blink of an eye, the sun had nearly set. Sun Jingyan sighed. It seemed that no matter how anxious she was, it was of no use. "Let's rest a while. Have something to eat?"
"You eat. I'll keep looking—I think I'm getting somewhere!" Wei Zhao said. "The sun will set if we wait any longer. I need to make good use of this time."
"All right then. I'll keep searching with you!" Seeing that Wei Zhao would not eat, Sun Jingyan felt embarrassed to eat alone, so she picked up her map and continued the search.
"I'm not eating because I can cultivate, but if you don't eat, won't you starve?" Wei Zhao looked at Sun Jingyan with a bitter smile. "You don't need to worry about me!"
"How could I do that? You're doing this to help me—how could I have the nerve to eat?" Sun Jingyan insisted.
Wei Zhao had no choice but to press on with surveying the terrain as quickly as he could...
Half an hour later, as Wei Zhao's gaze traveled from the farthest mountains to the nearest, he was suddenly overcome with the urge to weep...
For Wei Zhao abruptly realized that the rough terrain marked on the map matched exactly the terrain of the summit beneath their feet... It gave him the feeling of having searched everywhere in vain only to stumble upon it without any effort at all!
Where, then, was the road? The road was right beneath their feet!
Still, Wei Zhao could hardly be blamed. When an ordinary person stands atop a mountain searching for terrain features, they invariably begin from the farthest point their eyes can reach and work their way inward, narrowing the scope until at last they look to what lies before them—from far to near, so as not to overlook anything.
Yet precisely because of this order of things, Wei Zhao had wasted half a day for nothing. And the result... the terrain marked on the map was right beneath his feet. Wei Zhao did not know what to say.
Seeing Wei Zhao's strange expression, as though he wanted to speak but held back, Sun Jingyan found it rather odd. "Wei Zhao, what's wrong?"
"The place marked on this map is right beneath our feet..." Wei Zhao pointed at the terrain drawn on the map and said.
"Right beneath our feet?" Sun Jingyan was taken aback.
"That's right—this very stretch at the summit!" Wei Zhao said. "Earlier, this great hall before us bewitched our eyes. In truth, if you set aside the hall's columns and its collapsed roof and crumbling walls, and look only at the bluestone floor tiles beneath our feet—don't they match this shape exactly?" (To be continued) RQ