The Journey of Immortal Cultivation-Chapter 883 - 486: Wu Chi’er Mountain
"That means! That means the Nanming Lihuo Sword probably isn’t here anymore. Otherwise, why would everything have been peaceful for the past thirty thousand years, but these past decades show signs of change?"
She closed her eyes and spoke with difficulty: "We might... have been late." She really didn’t want to share this speculation with Changtian, but the heavy fear was poorly concealed, and Changtian knew her too well.
Changtian remained silent, his chest not even heaving. His icy temperature made her feel as if she was holding a stone. He must be more terrified than her regarding this conclusion, right? Despite arriving here with great efforts, if even the last sliver of hope evaporates, how would he react? She herself would surely become deranged.
She’s really foolish, it’s just a hypothesis, why voice it now?
No one knows how much time passed before he finally raised a hand and pressed it against her head, saying: "Let’s head to Wu Chier Mountain first." His voice revealed no emotion.
Yes, having come this far, she must witness the final outcome personally.
She closed her eyes, activating the True One Technique, and slowly calmed her mental state.
After fifteen minutes, when she stepped out of the small room again, her face resumed its usual calmness. She left Dou Er here: "Qingluan’s team is about three hours away. We don’t need this many people for Wu Chier Mountain, you can await them here." Upon receiving Ning Xiaoxian’s orders, Qingluan and the others headed this way, but the search areas they were initially assigned to were too far, making it impossible to arrive quickly.
Suppressing her emotions, she inspected the springs in the tribe. These two spring mouths are located within a cave, providing a place for bathing. However, when she entered, there was nobody there for a simple reason—steam pervaded the cave, rendering the ground invisible. The diameters of these spring mouths were less than seven meters, but the water surface bubbled. She reached out to test the temperature and frowned: the spring water was probably boiling at one hundred degrees, hot enough to cook an egg in five or six minutes. How could such water be used for bathing?
She casually asked someone, only to learn that the temperature of the spring hadn’t changed for hundreds of years, but it started acting irregularly ten days ago, causing two people to scald to death then.
"...Ten days?"
At this moment, a Hidden Guard approached her respectfully: "Lord Ning, the time has come, we should depart."
"Let’s go." She stood up, leaving the matter behind.
The distance from Wu Chier Mountain to Pu Clan Tribe is merely over twenty miles, at their speed, they could directly descend after taking off.
As they flew, the forest below was indeed unbelievably dense, with numerous treetops spread out, obscuring the view of the ground from above. In snowy plains, trees typically had considerable distance between them, given the challenge of surviving in extremely low temperatures. Here they didn’t grow like in tropical rainforests, filling every available space. This anomaly explains why people from the Pu Clan Tribe felt blinded and lost, unable to find their way. The ancestors’ experiences couldn’t be applied without issue here.
Ahead lay Wu Chier Mountain. Seen from high above, this mountain was over six hundred meters tall (around two thousand meters in elevation), shaped just like Elder Pu described, resembling a large overturned sea bowl. The mountain was thick and solid, its peak quite flat, far from the typical steep, towering peaks. Although there was still white snow at the summit, more than half of Wu Chier Mountain was bare with black rocks visible. Anyone with eyes could see that the mountain was slowly "defrosting."
Before she could speak, Tu Jin ordered the group: "Scatter and search for weak spots, prepare to infiltrate."
The volcano was very unstable at this time. She dared not rashly drill, lest she accidentally trigger its eruption, then how would they find that damned sword?
Fortunately, with a clear aim, among the Hidden Guards brought from the Hidden Stream, there were several demons who were naturally skilled at Earth Control. Several people chose different directions and used the Earth Escape Technique to slowly "bury" themselves into the mountainside.
The Five Elements Escape Technique acquired by cultivators couldn’t be compared to the natural talents of demons, not to mention the difference in agility upon entering the earth, these demons sensitive to earth control could even analyze useful information from the composition, arrangement, and even temperature and humidity of the rocks and soil, a capability extremely insensitive humans lacked.
