Chapter 414 - You Can Try
This regular cliff face was a stone door!
How could there be a stone door here?
There was only one answer. They were here.
Gongjia Heng’s hands were shaking as he pushed the door open. He was so emotional he barely could push it so he had to calm himself down first.
Shao Xuan did not help him. If it was a regular door, he would but this was most likely the stone door leading to Gongjia Mountain. This should be a task left for a true Xia person, it was their pride and honour too.
So Gongjia Mountain wasn’t beyond the valley, it was in the valley1
When the stone door was opened, a gust of cool breeze blew from inside.
Not sure if they had felt Shao Xuan’s resistance because the cloud patterns on the eighteen statues were even more obvious now. The looming threat was even more grave. It was as if they had stepped into a battlefield. They were just five meters but it felt like they were giants!
The atmosphere within the room changed immediately. The air was frozen.
Gongjia Heng was a true Xia, standing behind the eighteen statues. Yet he could still feel the pressure. He looked at Shao Xuan in surprise. This kid could trigger such a huge response from the statues?! The more powerful an outsider was, the stronger the response would be. Just from one small step, Shao Xuan had triggered a huge change in the space.
It was just one regular step. He did not jump or take a large step. And it was already like that?! Gongjia Heng felt like he had overstepped some boundary and almost slapped himself. He shouldn’t have let Shao Xuan try, this kid was too peculiar.
On the other side, as the eighteen statues changed their energetic stances, Shao Xuan did the same.
The flames around Shao Xuan roared and shot up tall- as tall as the statues. At the same time, a vague silhouette of a person formed from the flames. This giant held up a palm as if to stop the statues.
Two can play at this game!
Both sides went through another energetic battle.
The tension could kill.
Although the threat was not directed at Heng, he was still very uncomfortable. He clenched his teeth hard, feeling all his bones starting to shake. If this continued, his entire being would just explode before he had a chance to see what his ancestors had!
He looked at Shao Xuan. This was the person fighting against the eighteen statues. Although it looked like a tough position to be in, he seemed to fare a lot better than Heng. Heng felt like he was going to suffocate, it was getting more and more difficult to breathe.
But this was not the end. The energetic clash rose another level, a buzzing could be heard from the statues. They felt like warriors on a battlefield, about to start their massacre. The totemic patterns on Shao Xuan’s body turn brighter, the giant rising even taller.
The tension was too much.
Gongjia Heng was drenched in sweat. Veins bulged from his arms, he felt like his veins were about to explode. He wanted to speak but found that he couldn’t. Like the blood in his veins were also frozen in time.
Where was this kid from? This was a regular warrior from the Flaming Horn tribe? Bullshit! Even a genius would not cause this! He hoped Shao Xuan wasn’t some demon!
Just as Gongjia Heng felt like he wasn’t going to make it, he saw the bronze statues vibrate. It must have been a hallucination.
However, in the next moment, the tension was gone. Shao Xuan took his foot back.
The frozen air suddenly flowed naturally again.
Gongjia Heng looked at Shao Xuan at the door. He still looked normal. Although his breathing was quickened, he didn’t look pathetic at all.
“Alright, I tried,” said Shao Xuan.
Heng’s face twitched. Tried?! I almost died!
“Will you promise not to force yourself in?”
Now Gongjia Heng was truly worried about Shao Xuan using brute force. In the past, he could say confidently that no outsider could safely step into Gongjia Mountain. However, he had his doubts now. Even if Shao Xuan couldn’t make it inside, if he forced himself in, it could shake the entire mountain. He didn’t know what would happen then.
“Don’t worry, I won’t.” Shao Xuan turned to leave.
When he saw Shao Xuan leave, Heng wiped off the sweat on his face. The muscles in his thighs were stiff, he could barely walk.