What could be outside the valley?
Yu Sheng felt that this was only natural curiosity—the mountain range stood quietly within his field of vision. It didn't seem so high that it reached the clouds or couldn't be climbed, and the sky was no longer covered by any terrifying barrier. Anyone living here would naturally wonder what kind of scenery lay beyond those mountains.
"Have you ever tried crossing that mountain before?" Yu Sheng asked Huli curiously.
"I... tried a long time ago, when the immortals were still here." Huli immediately nodded. "Back then, I went with several adults. We tried to cross it together, but we couldn't climb to the summit. Once we reached halfway up, a terrifying sound would come from the sky. If we climbed any higher, we'd start losing our strength, and we'd see all kinds of horrifying miasmic shadows. The immortals once even tried turning stone into puppets and sending them up the mountain. But they lost contact with the stone puppets halfway up. The next day, fragments of the puppets rolled down the mountain. Blood was flowing from every piece of stone. The adults who went to investigate said that flesh and bones had already begun growing inside the stones."
"The sound from the sky... It sounds like the influence of that 'Dark Angel' that used to cover the sky," Eileen muttered. "But I don't know whether it was intentional or merely a 'passive effect.' After all, with something that sinister, sometimes merely 'existing' is enough to have a huge impact."
"Now that the Dark Angel is gone, we can try again." Yu Sheng looked at Eileen and Huli. "What do you think?"
Huli immediately nodded. "I'll listen to you, benefactor."
Eileen waved her hand. "I don't care. Besides, you always have ideas, and you