Solving Middle Age Crisis by Intelligence System-Chapter 593 - 397: Legend and Reality (Two-in-One)

The group continued eastward, occasionally hearing unfamiliar animal calls from the forest, the surrounding scene very much resembling the primeval forest of Shennongjia.

Butterflies and dragonflies, rarely seen outside, were everywhere here.

After walking for a long time, they could no longer see the peak they had come from.

Ignacio looked up at the interwoven branches above and couldn’t help but sigh, "The ecological environment here is completely untouched, without a trace of man-made destruction. Such a complete ecological chain is rare in modern society."

Qi Yun also nodded silently, who would have thought that such a pure land would be hidden deep within the Kunlun Mountains.

"Professor, are you familiar with Huaxia mythology?"

Ignacio hesitated for a moment, adjusted his glasses: "Not deeply, but I know some legends, like how the Kunlun Mountain is regarded as the ancestor of all mountains in mythology, and the legend that the Queen Mother of the West resides there."

"The Queen Mother of the West?" An Zai, curious, came closer, "Then is this place the legendary Yaochi Fairyland? It seems quite similar."

Ignacio shook his head upon hearing this and slowly explained, "From a scientific perspective, these mythological descriptions are not necessarily all fabricated. They may be the ancients’ interpretation of special natural phenomena."

"For example, the forest we are in now, because it is deep in Kunlun, is less affected by the external climate, with very suitable temperature and humidity, and an intact ecological chain, allowing plants to remain lush for a long time."

"In ancient times, people who had never seen such stable primitive environments easily attributed them to the characteristics of fairylands, including Mount Olympus in European mythology and Mount Sumeru in Indian mythology, all have their own legends."

"Actually, these descriptions in mythology have similarities with the Kunlun forest in front of us. It’s just that the ancients used mythology to explain these incomprehensible natural wonders, which is essentially a form of cognitive logic."

Qi Yun smiled and turned to ask, "So you don’t actually believe these legends are real?"

"Then why are you determined to come and find that Land of Eternal Life?"

"This..." Ignacio was momentarily speechless.

As a historian, he intrinsically had a desire to explore the truth behind those legends.

Otherwise, he wouldn’t have agreed to help Qi Yun decode it without hesitation upon seeing the map, even going so far as to return to Spain just to get his teacher involved.

As ancient items were discovered and the thousand-year-old clues were linked together, he gradually stopped considering it purely a legend.

He was eager to understand the truth behind that map, so he was determined to come and find out no matter what.

As they spoke, the group walked a considerable distance.

Suddenly, Xiao Wu, who was walking beside Qi Yun, stopped, his ears perked up, and pointed ahead to the right saying, "There’s the sound of water over there!"

The group followed the direction he pointed, their view completely obstructed by the dense trees, unable to see anything.

"Let’s go check it out!" De Gaulle was the first to change direction, leading his men to jog towards where Xiao Wu pointed.

Qi Yun sensed a certain urgency in him but had no time to contemplate it further and quickly signaled everyone to follow.

In less than ten minutes, the trees thinned out in front, and they could clearly hear the sound of flowing water. Then, after passing through a patch of forest, the sight before them suddenly opened up.

It was a stream about three or four meters wide, flowing along the riverbed downward. Looking along the stream, everyone widened their eyes.

A few hundred meters ahead in the valley, a blue lake appeared!

If one word were to describe the lake before them, it would be pure... unimaginably pure.

The lake water was blue beyond description, clear to the bottom, without a trace of impurity, exactly matching the color of the sky.

From afar, it looked like a great blue sapphire embedded in the valley.

Sunlight fell on the lake, refracting a layer of soft halo, even dyeing the stones by the lake a light blue.

Perhaps... the word fairyland was meant to describe the lake before them.

"Found... found it!" De Gaulle’s voice trembled, his eyes fixated on the lake as if he was seeing something he dreamed of.

Hearing him, Qi Yun quickly approached and asked, "Is this the Land of Eternal Life!?"

"Yes... this is the Land of Eternal Life!" At this point, De Gaulle no longer concealed, revealing the key information, "Back then Louis I not only had a map drawn but also wrote in his diary about key information on the Land of Eternal Life..."

"It mentioned a lake kissed by the sky, that is the Land of Eternal Life..."

"I found it...."

Qi Yun stared at the lake for a long time, several kilometers wide and almost beyond sight. Although the scenery looked tremendously spectacular, it was still hard to associate it with the four words "Land of Eternal Life."

At the same time, a question arose in his heart: with today’s aerospace technology, why had the satellites not discovered such a conspicuous lake?

He shared this doubt with Ignacio, and the latter could not provide a reasonable explanation, speculating only that it was due to the special energy field of the place.

"This lake... doesn’t it resemble the legendary Yaochi?" An Zai suddenly asked.

Qi Yun nodded, actually, it did seem quite fitting.

Although many places in the country have lakes called Yaochi, none could compare to the lake before them.