Yu Sui held her breath and dived underwater. The river's countercurrent and pressure barely affected her. As she drew closer, the clear water before her eyes was lit by the golden radiance of the Number Mountains. When she swam into the glow and passed through the barrier, the water vanished, leaving dry air, and she landed steadily on the ground.
Once she had landed, Yu Sui looked up at the Number Mountains. Only then did she grasp their size: they rose like towering peaks. Beside her ears came the faint, hollow yet rhythmic sounds of the mountains turning, like leaves rustling in the wind.
Above her, the water flowed overhead. The Number Mountains' light tinted it gold, and she could see rings of golden ripples unfurling above.
Yu Sui raised a hand to wipe the water from her face and snapped her fingers, testing whether she could use the Bagua Life Technique. Skyfire flared at her side, then she quickly extinguished it.
She could use it. The river water did not restrict her.
She studied the Number Mountains before her as she walked deeper inside.
Every Number Mountain underwater was larger than those she had seen in the Qingyang Imperial Capital. They were about as big as the ones she had seen at Taiyi's Communication Institute, but the turning bars of the Golden Number Mountains bore more strange symbols.
Those symbols represented Nine Schools Techniques currently in operation.
Yu Sui had once wondered why there were countless Nine Schools Techniques attached to the Number Mountains and recorded in them. Even when she had been a Normal Practitioner, she could decipher their meaning. Only later had she learned that it was because of her Divine Mechanism · Heavenly Eye.
The Small Number Mountains formed a circle around the Three Great Number