Chapter 55: Dragonfish (1/2)
Chapter 55: Dragonfish
The Falling Eagle Mountain was not as vast or deep as the Scarlet Mountain Range, but it had its own unique dangers.
The mountain range was lined with extremely steep cliffs, one mountain after another. They stood upright like a thicket of blades, which was why this mountain range was also known as the Blade Thicket Range.
The mountain was forested in clumps. Large rock faces were often exposed to the air, looking like bald spots on a person’s head.
A long river snaked through the entire mountain range, giving the surrounding area a lot of vitality. It watered the nearby soil, allowing vegetation to flourish.
This river was called Wenchang River.
The Wenchang River was a tributary of the Golden Water River. Every year, many fish would swim upstream to lay their offspring.
They became one of the most abundant food sources within the Falling Eagle Mountain, making the area around the river highly populated with Vicious Beasts.
After cutting through most of the mountain range, the Wenchang River reached a valley surrounded by tall mountains. This was where the Thousand Ashes Gorge was located.
Within the Thousand Ashes Peak Gorge, the Wenchang River flowed into a lake – the Ancient Maila Lake.
The Ancient Maila Lake was Long Sang Country’s largest freshwater lake, and it was the final destination of many freshwater fish. They could lay eggs, hatch, and grow up here before they traveled back up the river. Throughout this process, thousands or even tens of thousands of small fry would become food for Vicious Beasts every year.
The Ancient Maila Lake was the most diverse area of the Falling Eagle Mountain. The most savage Vicious Beasts and the largest beast hordes were all here, attracting many Origin Qi Scholars……
After trekking through the mountain range for two days, Team Bright finally arrived at their long-anticipated destination.
“Look, the Thousand Ashes Gorge is just ahead of us!” Du Qing excitedly waved her arms as she yelled.
“We’ve finally arrived. Let’s move a bit faster so that we can enter the gorge by nightfall,” Zheng Xia yelled.
“Let’s go!” Everyone let out excited yells and charged towards the Thousand Ashes Gorge.
After entering the Thousand Ashes Gorge, they were surrounded by lush mountains and green grass. The sky was exceptionally blue; wisps of clouds were scattered in the sky. The golden setting sun reflected off of the clear lake.
“It really is pretty here.” Du Qing stood on a large rock and stared into the sky.
From her vantage point, she could see a flock of Flowerback Deer wandering on the large plain. Occasionally, they would lower their heads to graze as they let out low cries.
Even further, a few large-horned water buffalo were slowly walking along the lake, cautiously drinking the water. They would occasionally glance behind them.
A herd of black-spotted rabbits would poke their heads out from their holes from time to time, their large ears straight up in the air while glancing around in all directions.
The grassy plain was filled with life as far as the eye could see.
“You’re right, it is very pretty here.” Zheng Xia, Yan Fuxing, and the others all clustered around her.
“Look, what is that?” Du Qing suddenly pointed off into the distance.
She was pointing at a flower gently swaying back and forth as it floated on the lake. From time to time, it would emit motes of swaying light.
Sun Jizu’s eyes were very sharp. He immediately said in excitement, “It’s a Blueheart Lotus, and a ripe one at that!”
The Blueheart Lotus was an extremely rare material that was worth quite a bit.
“Look over there! Is that a Jade-Faced Hibiscus?” Zheng Xia also began to yell.
A pink flower was floating on the surface of the lake. It was precisely the Jade-Faced Hibiscus that Zheng Xia had mentioned, and it was also an extremely rare ingredient.
Inspired by these discoveries, everyone else also found quite a few rare spiritual herbs on the lake.
Those who were proficient in alchemy were able to name more than ten of those spiritual herbs, including a Three Jealousies, a rare-tier ingredient.
Rare-tier ingredients were already extremely hard to find, not to mention legendary-tier medicines like the Corpse Spirit Flower.
The Three Jealousies was a low-grade, rare-tier medicinal ingredient. It could be used to stimulate bloodlines, so it was often used to concoct Bloodline Awakening Medicines or Bloodline Stimulation Medicines, which were both crucial and highly sought-after.
Upon seeing so many herbs everywhere, they yelled excitedly and began to charge forwards, thinking to themselves that the Thousand Ashes Gorge was truly a prosperous place.
Cloud Leopard furrowed his eyebrows, but Su Chen spoke up before he could say anything. “Wait just a minute!”
Everyone turned to look at Su Chen.
Su Chen calmly continued, “I believe that the Thousand Ashes Gorge is filled with valuable spirit herbs, but don’t you feel that it is strange for them to grow in such large numbers in such an obvious location? Put another way, do you believe that all the students who came through the Thousand Ashes Gorge before us were blind and didn’t see them?”
Everyone froze in their tracks.
It really was strange for these herbs to grow in such a public area.
There could only be two reasons for these herbs to still flourish here – either everyone who had come here really was blind, or there was an underlying problem.
Since the students of the Hidden Dragon Institute were clearly not blind, then only the second reason was possible.