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"": "Was it still because of the purple flowers?
They looked somewhat black beneath the moonlight, and with so many gu worms around, perhaps that was what gave him such an eerie feeling.
Luo Bin could not say for sure.
As he continued forward, the slope grew steeper and more direct. He had to lean his entire body forward, keeping his center of gravity ahead of him, to keep climbing.
At last, he truly reached the summit.
Ghost lantern flowers were still abundant.
The summit was at least several hundred meters across, like an enormous stretch of level ground.
A river nearly a hundred meters wide ran through its center, flowing very slowly. Mist rose from several places up ahead, and rumbling filled his ears.
Those were the places where the river plunged down to form waterfalls.
To Luo Bin, this hardly looked like a mountaintop. It looked more as though a section of the mountain had been forcibly sliced away, exposing this cross section.
Looking farther ahead, he saw an enormous arched cave entrance. The river flowed out of it.
From this angle, there was nothing behind the cave but the deep darkness of night. Nothing else was visible, making the sight all the more astonishing.
Luo Bin had once thought the Sea-Eye Spring was merely a small spring, but that was clearly not the case.
After a moment's thought, Luo Bin continued forward.
Inside the cave entrance, there were still strips of open ground a dozen or so meters wide on either side, allowing him to proceed.
The ground was littered with stone flakes shaped like scallop shells, thick on one side and somewhat thinner on the other.
Was this scale stone?
He had not come up here because he was determined to find