Bai Yu took the scroll and slowly unfurled it. A strange topographical map appeared before his eyes, with several lines of inscription in the lower-right corner.
"An inverted star-sea chills the scales it brushes; an age-old cloud vortex hides the vastness.
Green manes tread flames, patrolling shattered steles; stone marrow and drifting fireflies adorn the fragrance of bones.
Twelve jade gates birth and kill anew; three thousand crane shadows, green amid yellow.
Tribulation ash patters down, whips snapping loud—mortals must not know the vastness."
Besides the map, there was also a bronze key, already covered in rust. No one knew from what age it had been passed down.
"This is a map of Heavenly Goat Mountain?"
"Senior Sister, hasn't this divine mountain yet to emerge into the world?"
"Then why has someone already drawn a map of it?"
Bai Yu asked in surprise.
"Drawn? Who could possibly possess such skill? This scroll itself was something spat out from space."
"No one knows where it came from. They only know that it records the time when the divine mountain will emerge, as well as its internal terrain."
"Junior Brother, when you travel out for experience in the future, you may even pick up such things while walking down the road. It could be called a heaven-sent opportunity."
"Mountain-rushing has always been an important means for cultivators to obtain resources and raise their cultivation."
Qin Yuxi explained.
"So that means there isn't only one key to enter Heavenly Goat Mountain?"
"Of course. Before a divine mountain emerges, no one knows how many keys there will be, nor does anyone know how many people will be competing with you for opportunities when the time comes."
"Being able to determine the cultivation-level restriction for entering the divine mountain, as well as the divine mountain's