Chapter 412 - Leaving The Forest
“Have you known it all along?” asked Gongjia Heng. How would Shao Xuan be able to tell so quickly? He didn’t believe that Shao Xuan was ‘guessing’.
“Yeah, I knew,” said Shao Xuan.
Gongjia Heng relaxed. Did someone tell him? As Heng was thinking, Shao Xuan said, “This was a conclusion I made this morning, I just had to confirm just now.”
“…You meant you figured it out this morning?”
“Yeah.”
“How?”
“Just by looking at them, I can tell which is the illusion.” Shao Xuan did not tell him about his extraordinary vision. In his other sense of vision, there was no sun present. That was how he could tell. He was just very surprised there was such a phenomenon here.
There was no cave nearby so they found a spot to rest.
This was not Gongjia Mountain but Gongjia Heng had a strong feeling.
“We’re near. I can feel the mountain calling to me.” Gongjia Heng looked in a direction, his face solemn.
The closer they got, the more cautious they would have to be. They couldn’t die a few steps from their goal. A simple valley might be more dangerous than the forest they just left.
Shao Xuan rested, leaning against the slope of a mountain. He had used up a lot of energy today, he didn’t rest after the divination reading. When he walked out of the forest, he felt like every neuron in his brain was highly tense, it was only now that he began to relax. In his mind, the totemic flames had threads of energy extending from them. The threads flowed with his blood, around his bones, then circulated around his body. He felt his energy increase with every cycle, quickly recovering to his original state.
Shao Xuan’s ashen complexion slowly gained colour. It was night time so it was not obvious and Gongjia Heng didn’t see it. If he saw this, Heng would have been once again astonished by Shao Xuan’s rejuvenation abilities.
Shao Xuan thought silence would never happen in the forest. However, it was silent here.
It was a quiet night. Other than the occasional sound of rolling pebbles when there was a breeze, there was no other sound. When the wind stopped, he heard nothing. As if the strong, roaring wind earlier that day was just his imagination.
The next day, when Shao Xuan woke, all signs of fatigue were gone. The sun had just risen and it was not bright.
The valley was shaped like a ‘u’. The two faces of the mountain around it were about one to two hundred meters tall. If you were standing on one of them, you would realise that the mountains became increasingly taller further ahead. That was why Shao Xuan had no idea what it would be like behind these mountains, nor could he see where this valley would lead them.