Chapter 413 - Xia Valley
During the day, there was still a strong breeze. When the winds blew across the valley, they whistled.
“There used to be a river here,” said Gongjia Heng. The river was called Xia River but after that, it dried up and became a valley. So this was now Xia Valley.
“It will be difficult to cross Xia Valley. It was easier when there was a river. Now that the river has dried up into a valley, there have been many changes. I heard that people who entered the Xia Valley never returned.”
These were stories the older people had told Heng. Now that he had seen the place for himself, it felt different.
“So this is Xia Valley. Shao Xuan, do you smell a very special smell?” he asked.
“Rocks?”
“It’s the smell of death.”
Could he determine its location using his mind’s totemic flames? No. This was the Xia people’s territory and unrelated to the Flaming Horn people. Their totemic flames were useless here.
Shao Xuan was about to calm the totemic power within him when he realised there were threads of power concentrating in his chest. He opened his eyes to see a bit of light there.
He fished the Elder’s Bone out to realise all four bone ornaments were on fire. There was no wind right now but the flames were all flickering in one direction!
Gongjia Heng had his eyes closed, deep in thought. When he noticed some movement, he opened his eyes to see flames in Shao Xuan’s hands. And the flames were flickering in one direction.
“That’s…”
“We’ll head in that direction tomorrow.” Shao Xuan put the bone ornaments behind his clothes again. As he calmed the totemic power in him, the flames died.
Gongjia Heng’s eyes brightened. He knew the kid would have a solution!
Initially, he was thinking of returning but now he had hope again.
On the next day, they waited till noon to leave. They continued heading in the direction of the ornaments’ flames. At the same time, after some time, Gongjia Heng also quickly calculated on his own to check if it was right.
When they passed by a place, Gongjia Heng suddenly yelled and stopped. “Wait!”
“What’s the matter?”
Previously, the flames had been pointing in this direction. Shao Xuan was about to take his ornaments out to check again but Heng had fished out a bronze nail and stabbed it into the ground. He looked at the sky. “This sun in the sky is the real one, right?”
Shao Xuan nodded.
After his confirmation, Gongjia HEng looked at the shadow of the nail on the ground, made some measurements, then looked at one of the cliff faces. Based on his guesses, he walked over.
The cliff face wasn’t far away but Gongjia Heng felt like every step was too heavy. That ten meters took him one minute to walk over. His throat was dry, his eyes filled with shock.
When he finally arrived at the face, Gongjia Heng looked at the seemingly regular wall. He placed both palms on it and roared, using all his energy to push.
Grrrrr—–
The sound of a stone door sliding open echoed.