Chapter 4710 — The Mountain of Heaven's Way
The Blossom Guardian · Page 2 of 2
"Exactly. The Mountain of Heaven's Way is the core of the entire ancient battlefield. Legend has it that the mightiest beings of antiquity arranged their duels here; as for the rest of the place, it was at most the spectators' stands of that ancient battlefield." Awe she could not hide showed on Huo Yudie's face. She paused, then said, "Do you know how the Ten-Thousand-Year Canyon came to be?"
"How did it?" Wei Zhao asked.
"This place was originally level with the outside—there was no canyon at all. But after one earth-shaking battle of the peaks, the entire foundation below was blasted apart and caved in, and so the Ten-Thousand-Year Canyon came into being. Only the Mountain of Heaven's Way, beneath the feet of those top-tier beings, was spared from being shattered outright, sheltered by the aura of their presence; instead it sank along with everything else and became what it is today. Of course, that is only a legend—whether it is true cannot be verified." Huo Yudie spoke.
"If it's true, then the ones who fought here were truly beings who could reach the heavens." Wei Zhao glanced around the Ten-Thousand-Year Canyon and sighed in wonder.
Feeling it carefully, he could sense the lingering aura of formations everywhere in this place—an aura so ancient it had fused with the surrounding heaven and earth. Ordinary people would never detect it at all, which made it highly likely to be a legacy handed down from antiquity. That a mere trace of residual aura could survive all this time showed plainly how powerful the formations had been.
And yet, for all the protection of such mighty formations, this place had still been blasted into the Ten-Thousand-Year Canyon—which showed plainly enough the strength of those who had done it!
But after hearing all that from Huo Yudie, Wei Zhao felt not the slightest urge to shrink back in fear. On the contrary, he wanted all the more to go and see the Mountain of Heaven's Way for himself. This was the primal heart of the trial, the place where it all began—to simply go around it would be too great a pity.
Seeing the eager, itching look on Wei Zhao's face, Huo Yudie's eyes grew all the more worried. Suddenly she asked, "Is it that something deep inside you desperately wants to go and look? As if something were drawing you?"
"How do you know that?" Wei Zhao started in surprise.
"You're not the only one. According to intelligence my master obtained from the higher-ups on West Island, in fact many people are like this when they reach this place—they find themselves drifting toward the Mountain of Heaven's Way without meaning to! Every time the trial opens, many go there. Only, after that, the vast majority never come back." Huo Yudie looked at the distant mountain; there was fear between her brows, and yet, faint and hidden, a certain yearning too.
Had her master not warned her again and again, telling her never, ever to go near the Mountain of Heaven's Way, she might well have joined the others and drifted over long ago.
"If I'm not mistaken, the Mountain of Heaven's Way is probably that legendary place where one can obtain an ancient inheritance?" Wei Zhao said, frowning slightly.
What the West Island trial was most famous for was not rare treasures, but ancient inheritances. Though it was impossible to know for certain how many people had actually obtained one, such things could not be pure baseless rumor. Looking over the whole of the trial ground, the one place most likely to hold an ancient inheritance was none other than the Mountain of Heaven's Way. (To be continued...)