Tang Yuan still remembered the circumstances under which he had obtained the Heart Protecting Armor. If he had not been ambushed and injured while passing through the Purple Maple Forest back then, he might not have discovered the hidden compartment within the armor.
And this was merely the first of the three map fragments.
When they had first discovered it, it had been far too incomplete to make out anything at all, so they had not paid it much mind.
It was only later, at Floating Creek Stronghold, after they had killed Fu Maotian and obtained a second, nearly identical Heart Protecting Armor from his storage device, that the two pieces fit together and seemed like a map concealing some secret. Only then did they begin to take it seriously.
Finally, in the treasure vault of Tian Yuan City's prison official, Xia Xuhua, they found the last Heart Protecting Armor. Only then was the map in their hands barely pieced together in full.
Tang Yuan could not help but chuckle at the thought, feeling somewhat moved by fate's tricks. Back when they had completed the map, they had eagerly studied it, consulting countless maps of mountain ranges, ancient texts on geography and landscapes, and the like. In the end, they discovered that the words "Arm Cloud Mountain" marked on the Heart Protecting Armor map referred to a place at the farthest edge of the Profound Extremity Mountain Range, deep within the present-day Boundless Underworld Sea. Seeing it was such a vicious place, they had once cursed their bad luck and tossed the matter as far away as possible.
Who would have thought that one day, they would end up relying on it?
Whether it was the place indicated by the character "moon" in the merchant caravan mural or the one