In that impossibly long span of time, there had been enough time for the seas to become mulberry fields, then for those mulberry fields to become seas again, thousands of times over.
The writing carved into the mountain would have been eroded by time long ago. It was impossible for it to have stood there for so long.
Luo Zheng was filled with doubt and quickly overturned his own conclusion...
Hua Tianming shook his head as well. "No. The writing on that mountain wall isn't actually very old. A kind of vine called green stone seeds grows around the mountain wall. Although those words look extremely ancient, the green stone seeds vines haven't covered them. In other words, the writing was carved less than half a year ago!"
Half a year...
That meant someone had carved those words into the mountain as clues six months in advance.
Those clues had definitely been left for someone, yet there was no civilization on the Barbaric Continent. According to the Heaven Sword Diagram's index, the only person led there had been Hua Tianming.
In other words, someone had carved those words into the mountain wall six months ago, then waited for Hua Tianming to discover them.
Seeing that Luo Zheng had noticed something was wrong, Hua Tianming wore a helpless smile. "They've always been beside us... You included."
Always beside us...
Luo Zheng suddenly felt a chill.
"From the moment you stepped out of the Luo Family's gates—even from the moment you were born—they were already beside you," Hua Tianming added, emphasizing it once more to Luo Zheng.
When such a conspiracy theory came from Hua Tianming's mouth, it gave people a bone-chilling feeling.
Luo Zheng found it difficult to believe as well. There had always been someone beside him? That defied common