Appearance Cliff Mountain was a vast, towering snow-covered mountain, lofty and sprawling, with far more than a hundred paths leading up it.
The four guides led the contestants from their respective teams up widely separated routes. Once they entered the mountain, they became opponents who could attack one another.
And unlike their previous contests in the various secret realms and arenas, the struggle for the Celestial Phenomenon Fruit would be a real fight, with the possibility of injury and death.
The five from the East Sea Dragon Hall rode up the mountain on the white elephant's back, listening as their guide Xiao Peng explained, "A lot of these black pines grow on Appearance Cliff Mountain. Their scientific name is actually 'Phenomenon Pine Tree.' Phenomenon Pine Trees aren't pine trees, but treasure trees that bear Celestial Phenomenon Fruit. However, each tree may have to grow for over a hundred years before producing a single fruit. The rest of the time, they're no different from ordinary pine trees."
The white elephant added in a muffled voice, "That's right."
Xiao Peng said, "That works out to about three or four pines bearing Celestial Phenomenon Fruit each year. In a really lucky year, we get a Five Pines. With even better luck, we might get a Wangfujing."
The white elephant rumbled, "Well, isn't that something!"
"..." Yue Wen held his forehead and chuckled. "You even know all those place names in Longdu City?"
"Of course," Xiao Peng said. "You humans may not know much about our Celestial Phenomenon Realm, but we residents of the Celestial Phenomenon Realm know your Human Realm very well. Ever since we were little, the textbooks we studied during the day and the books we read at night all came from the Human Realm. My dream is to go there