Yang Qing and the others had been winding their way through the mountains for several days.
All along the way, mountains were all they could see.
It seemed as though they had spent these past few days going in circles in the same place.
But Yang Qing knew perfectly well that they had been spiraling upward all along.
The mountain paths were simply astonishingly difficult to traverse.
"These rocks are rather strange. They're actually vermilion."
After Yang Qing and the others crossed another ridge, the sight before them startled them.
The rocks beneath their feet were no longer the ordinary earthy brown they had seen before, but a fiery expanse of red.
Not only was the place where they stood red, but everything within sight was red as well.
After looking at it a little longer, their eyes stung fiercely, as though they had caught fire.
"Does anyone know anything about the rocks here?"
Ouyang Lin had instinctively been about to ask Fen Liyou. With his vast knowledge and experience, Fen Liyou could always offer some explanation, wherever they were.
But the moment Ouyang Lin opened his mouth, he remembered that Fen Liyou now lay buried forever on that nameless slope outside Azure Cloud Fortress. He changed his words and turned to Pei Buji instead.
"Judging by these rocks, this must be Heaven's Divide Mountain," Yang Qing said.
Bu Er and Jiang Zhizhou asked in unison, "What is Heaven's Divide Mountain?"
Yang Qing raised a hand and pointed at the vermilion expanse ahead. "An ancient book says that Heaven's Divide Mountain holds countless vermilion stones. They must not be touched or gazed upon for long."
"Anyone who climbs the mountain alone may never find their way out."
"Crossing this mountain is as difficult as ascending to heaven itself. Hence its