Vol 2 Chapter 53.1 (1/2)
Chapter 53.1
Book 2 - Fame Spreads
Chapter 53.1 - Elder Brother's Distress
From the feeling coming from his hand, He Yiming could tell that this was not an ordinary sheepskin scroll.
It seemed to have gone through some special maneuver, enabling it to gain some resilient properties.
He Yiming gently opened the scroll and saw a series of clearly visible patterns. These patterns didn’t seem to be drawn on the surface, but seemed to be sewn using some tenacious needlework. Moreover, to his further surprise, the strings didn’t share the same color at all.
The whole design resembled a gigantic apple and appeared quite alive, even carrying a temptation to make one take a bite.
Suddenly, He Yiming felt somewhat excited. He raised the scroll above his head and examined it closely.
Under the bluish-green outer skin was the white-colored pulp. Inside the pulp, at the center of the fruit, was a red, peach-shaped heart. Under the illumination, this heart emanated a bizarre feeling of transparency.
As he stroked the scroll, he seemed to have experienced the centuries and millenniums of changes that it had gone through.
He could distinctly tell that this thing was not created by Lu Xinwen, but was something he’d found somewhere.
This scroll’s history was certainly not brief. However, even so, there wasn’t even a crease on its surface. The color of the patterns was also quite bright, as if knitted not too long ago.
If not for the extraordinary feeling that was telling him of its long history, he could never have made this a.s.sertion with such certainty.
He suddenly thought of a strange idea. Hesitating a bit, his hands gently gripped the corners of the map before he began to slightly exert some force, tearing it.
However, the outcome was vastly out of his expectations.
He couldn’t even budge it.
He decided to exert a little more strength, but the outcome was nevertheless the same.
Eventually, He Yiming didn’t dare exert any more strength. However, this experience was enough for him to understand this object’s tenacity was far from what he’d expected. If it fell into an ordinary person’s hands, it would never suffer any damage.
With this in mind, he was quite certain that this map’s origins were extraordinary.
He then recalled the dying words of Lu XInwen- in that cave there were many other mechanisms which even he couldn’t understand- and it gave him even more of a queer feeling.
Lu Xinwen was but a Xiantian cultivator. There were such mechanisms that could even trap or stop such a high level expert? This was indeed too strange.
This moment, he felt an intense desire to immediately go and look for that place and see for himself what was so dangerous about that cave.
Skimming over the map once again, his brows creased.
The terrain depicted in the map, he couldn’t recognize it at all.
He didn’t feel it was strange. After all, the mainland had vast territories and a wide variety of resources. Not to mention him, n.o.body would dare claim with certainty that they knew all the places.
On some of the important places, there were a few small characters knitted. Anybody could tell that these characters represented the names of these places.
However, the issue was that even if these characters recognized He Yiming, he couldn’t do the same for the characters at all.
He’d never come across such a strange form of writing.
Pondering for a few moments, He Yiming gently and cautiously collected the scroll back. This thing was not fit to be exhibited outside. As for the directions in the map, they could be slowly sought out.
Although these characters were quite hard to understand, the world was vast beyond measure. There would certai
nly be people who could recognize these characters. Otherwise, Lu Xinwen also wouldn’t have handed it over to Fan Vastsun with such certainty, being so confident that the latter would certainly find the cave.