Dragon Mountain rose thirty-six thousand meters above sea level. It had sheer cliffs, strange peaks and deep ravines, seas of fire and shadowy gorges—a gathering of the harshest, most treacherous terrain imaginable.
The mountainside was steep, rising at a seventy-degree angle from the ground. The gray-black rock was made of some unknown material, its surface rather smooth. Without enough traction underfoot, one careless step could easily send someone slipping to the ground.
The group struggled up the mountain path.
Leading them was Yu Yuanzhen, head of the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan, followed by Huo Lang, deputy sect master of the Fire Leopard Sect, then Feng Xiaoaо, grand elder of the Wind Sword Sect. Behind them came a dozen or so members of the Fire Leopard Sect, the Wind Sword Sect, and other factions.
A hemp rope as thick as an adult's wrist was tied around everyone's waist, linking the entire group together to cope with the increasingly complicated terrain.
Huo Lang's eyes were wide, blazing firelight shining in his pupils. This was the Fire Leopard Sect's unique Soul Skill, Flame Insight.
Through Huo Lang's eyes, the landscape looked completely different from what everyone else saw.
Ordinary people saw a world of many colors, but under Huo Lang's Flame Insight, there was only red. It was not a uniform red, however; its shades varied according to the activity of the fire elements. From highest activity to lowest, the colors fell into several categories: vermilion, light red, orange-red, apricot red, pink, peach red, rose red, grayish rose, oily red, and silvery red.
The first ten thousand meters of Dragon Mountain were naturally easy for someone as powerful as Yang Ming to traverse. For Yu Yuanzhen's group, however, it was like climbing a mountain of blades and plunging into a sea of