Two hours later, Zhao Sheng braced his hands and feet against the edges, half-crouching inside a rock crevice as he rested briefly.
Having set foot on this "hot land," Zhao Sheng had to remain vigilant at all times. On one hand, he had to watch out for venomous insects and demonic beasts lurking among rock crevices, grass, and trees, ready to launch sneak attacks at any moment.
On the other hand, he had to keep far away from any Herb Gatherers who entered his sight.
But what he needed to watch out for most was...
Whoosh! A tabletop-sized blur swept past Zhao Sheng's eyes with a piercing shriek, then plummeted downward at a speed almost beyond the sound barrier. After several breaths, it had shrunk into a black dot and fallen deep into the sea of clouds.
Zhao Sheng broke out in a cold sweat. Fortunately, he had been resting in the rock crevice, or he would have been struck.
Falling objects from high above!
The number one killer of Heaven Pillar Mountain Herb Gatherers.
Every year, at least half of all Herb Gatherers were struck by falling objects and plunged into the abyss, leaving not even a whole corpse behind.
Imagine throwing a stone from ten thousand meters in the air and having it strike someone on the ground—what would the result be? Heaven Pillar Mountain was countless tens of thousands of zhang high, and the danger of its falling stones was many times greater still.
Yet Heaven never bars every road.
Fortunately, Heaven Pillar Mountain had the anomalous Cloud Sea Heavenly Barrier, which intercepted a considerable portion of the falling objects.
Legend had it that above the third layer of the Cloud Sea Heavenly Barrier, every layer of cloud sea had been laid with extremely formidable restrictions by