Compared to the smooth ice walls on both sides, it was less likely to climb out of there; furthermore it was more dangerous.
Ding Hao and Evil Moon felt a bit dumbfounded.
“Meow. It’s bad. It’s too bad. This is a dead end… There’s no way to get out from here.” Evil Moon felt a bit depressed.
Ding Hao sighed, with a glimmer of hope in his heart. Close to the ice wall in front of him, he wanted to find some other clues for going out from there.
“Clatter!”
Suddenly a faint sound of water spread to Ding Hao’s ears.
Ding Hao was dumbfounded.
The temperature was extremely low there. Even the bodies of the fallen demons and the superiors of the human tribe had been frozen. Even if there was water, it should have already been frozen into a solid state. How could there be water sounds?
‘Was it my own illusion?’
When he came under the cliff at the end, the water sounds became clearer.
“Clatter!”
That was the sound of water falling and stirring.
The sound was extremely weak, intermittent and faint, as if it were from another s.p.a.ce and difficult to capture.
Ding Hao, with his palms gently rubbing the mysterious thousands-of-years ice surface, carefully scanned the ice wall inch by inch with his eyes, trying to find the water sound source.
“Look …” Evil Moon suddenly found something, and he pointed at the ground with his claw.
Ding Hao looked down along Evil Moon’s claw. His eyes suddenly focused. He saw that at the place below the ice wall, about three inches high from the ice surface, two silver brilliances as thick as a finger, about one inch long, kept flowing. With a rough look, they seemed to be two streams of water, gus.h.i.+ng from the ice wall and kept flowing.
“This is…”
Ding Hao squatted down slowly and observed carefully.
“Meow. Suddenly I feel that there is something that seems to be very familiar…” Evil Moon jumped from Ding Hao’s shoulder and constantly turned around the two water-like silver lights.
“Yes…” Ding Hao frowned and thought hard. He seemed to have witnessed such a scene before him somewhere, but momentarily, he could not tell.
“Meow. There are three ice cones here!” Evil Moon stretched out his claws and fished in the two streams. He said with a surprise, “Wow, it’s so cold. Meow. It’s not water… Are they snow granules? No? Why, is it white sand…?”
It could be seen that the silver lights glued to Evil Moon’s claws were falling down like liquid, but they were by no means liquid; they were extremely fine white granules. Ding Hao and Evil Moon could not tell what they were. The granules were so cold that Evil Moon’s claws almost froze.
Suddenly Ding Hao fixed his eyes on something.
A lightning flashed in his mind and it solved his confusion.
“I know what it is…” Ding Hao jumped up.
His heart was violently beating because of his excitement. He couldn’t wait to take out a yellowish scroll from his storage ring, which was the so-called treasure map presented to him by Gao Lin, the elder of the Valley Village.
Ding Hao compared the pattern drawn on the scroll with the appearance of the ice wall less than half a meter before him.
“Exactly the same!”
Ding Hao quickly reached a conclusion.
What was shown on the scroll were three towering peaks. Two wonderful silver waterfalls were hanging upside down; they flowed from the mountain streams and almost covered the masks of the three peaks. Ding Hao was behaving very strangely at the time. And the sizes of the peaks and waterfalls seemed to violate some of the laws of physics. But at the moment, he solved the mystery perfectly.
What the scroll showed were not three towering peaks but just three ice columns, which were just about one inch long. Actually, the so-called waterfalls were two silver lights before him, as thick as a finger.
The things in the scroll were too large so that viewers saw an illusion. They would think that those things were mountains and waterfalls, but in fact they were not.
It was about twenty centimeters apart from the ice wall end. If it were magnified countless times, the place before him was exactly the same as what was shown in the scroll.
“I see… it wasn’t strange that I had not found out the place shown in the scroll, even if I had almost travelled seventy-two peaks all over the Snow Dragon Mountains. Actually, from the beginning, I had made a wrong judgement… Is this the legendary fated chance? If we had not fallen into the cracks in the ice faults by accident, we might have never found out the secret hidden in the scroll, in all our lives.”
“No wonder the Gao family have struggled in the Snow Dragon Mountains for hundreds of years, and they haven’t discovered the secret in the scroll. It’s harder than looking for a needle in a haystack if the Gao family wanted to find such a small place in the vast Snow Dragon Mountains!”
“The person who left this scroll was really smart. On the one hand, he did indicate the correct position. On the other hand, he misled the later generations by the scroll’s proportions. Only those who were extremely lucky could crack the true secret of the scroll and find this place by chance!”
“Martial arts really call for fate!”
Ding Hao thought about it like lightning in his mind and quickly figured out some key points.
“Meow. Meow. Hahaha. This place was unexpectedly discovered by us. Hey. Don’t be in such a daze. Come on. The treasures must be around. We will make a fortune when when find the treasures…” Evil Moon, the devil cat, came to understand it thoroughly at that time, so he rubbed his claws with excitement and almost drooled.
Ding Hao nodded.
All secrets should be in the red circle between the two waterfalls marked in the scroll.
If the scroll was scaled down, the position indicated by the red circle should be…
Ding Hao fixed his eyes on the middle of the two silver lights. After a moment of observation, for the sake of caution, he took out his rusted sword and slowly extended it to the fixed position. The sword tip pa.s.sed through the silver light like the small waterfall…
“Ding!”
A series of subtle metal impacts came.
Ding Hao and Evil Moon, the devil cat, showed happy expressions. It was true that there was a mechanism there.
In the next moment, Ding Hao’s face changed. He only felt that a strong and unmatched suction force was spreading from his rusted sword, and his palm was firmly glued to the hilt. The sword had already begun to tremble violently before he responded. Ding Hao struggled, but he still could not get rid of it. He seemed to be led by a mad horse, and crashed directly against the hard ice wall.
“Meow?” Evil Moon widened his eyes.
With his own eyes, Ding Hao, like a virtual shadow, entered the hard ice wall with his rusted sword and disappeared without a trace.
“What happened? He just disappeared? Did the ice wall turn out to be fake and is just an illusion?” Evil Moon felt that everything that was happening was too strange. So he stretched out his claws and touched the ice wall; he had a feeling of hardness and a chill went deep into his bone marrow.
“Is the ice wall not fake?”