Alone and Infinite

Mountains within mountains!

"high?"

Li Xia suddenly spoke up and asked.

Aowu fiddled with the rangefinder in his hand and reported a number that even made Li Xia a little alarmed.

"Our altitude is about nine thousand meters, and that volcano is over eight thousand meters high!"

A volcano over 8,000 meters high!

It appears to be a highly active volcano, quietly perched in the middle of Tianbi Mountain.

Li Xia suddenly took out the Heart of Stone, and saw that this long-dormant sacred object of the Stone Clan had become active again.

It was even a little too active, trembling incessantly in the palm of my hand, and a thin beam of light suddenly burst forth from the stone.

In this dark red environment, it points very conspicuously to the summit of the volcano.

It seems that the ultimate goal is the summit of that volcano.

"Boss, can it fly?"

Li Xia shook her head:

"No, that strange power is still there, or rather, it's getting stronger."

My gaze swept around this small platform:

"There are stairs over there, it looks like we still have to keep going."

The winding staircase, just like the mountain path of Tianbi Mountain, descends slowly along the mountain wall.

Li Xia even suspected that the inspiration for these stone figures to build such a mountain path on Tianbi Mountain came from this place.

The view here was excellent, offering a panoramic vista, and Li Xia, no longer as cautious as before, quickened his pace.

His figure covered a considerable distance with just a few leaps on the mountain path.

The previous 10,000-meter stretch took an hour, but this nearly 10,000-meter mountain path only took a quarter of an hour.

My feet touched the soil, and what I saw was exactly the same as what I had seen outside.

The ground is covered with lush green grass, and dense forests can be seen everywhere.

Needless to say, the vegetation was still made of stone. Just as Li Xia was observing this spectacular mountain world, a ray of sunlight suddenly shone down from the sky and illuminated the ground.

Then, as dawn broke, the world inside the mountain became clearly visible.

Sunshine? Where did the sunshine come from?

Startled, I looked up and saw a round, extremely dazzling light shining brightly in the sky, more than ten thousand meters high.

No, where did the sun come from inside this mountain?

"It's not the sun!"

Just as Li Xia, Yi Long, and Yi Mao were puzzled, Mimi, who was hanging at his waist, suddenly said decisively:

"This isn't right, but it's definitely not sunlight!"

"How did you-"

Aowu had barely begun to voice his doubts when he suddenly realized what he had done. Only the kitten stared blankly at Aowu, completely taken aback.

"Have you forgotten what this dead man's head was originally?" Teacher Ao answered the question with just one sentence in the team channel.

The kitten suddenly realized that Mimi was originally the most powerful high priest in the Griggan clan.

The Griggans are a peculiar life form that is half human and half plant; they can even use plant bodies to perform a special kind of 'photosynthesis'.

Together with sunlight, it synthesizes 'light energy'.

Even though this dead head is in a strange state, it is still sensitive to sunlight.

His statement was absolutely convincing.

"Indeed, it's not sunlight; it only has brightness, but no heat."

After quietly closing her eyes and sensing for a while, Li Xia nodded affirmatively.

When the sun shines on you, you will definitely feel warm, but while the light is bright and has a temperature, it lacks a certain feeling of sunshine.

It looks more like an oversized incandescent light bulb?

The world before my eyes is becoming increasingly eerily strange.

Li Xia took a deep breath, sensing the strong sulfur smell in the air, and walked towards the volcano.

Thanks to this inexplicable light, if it weren't for the dark mountain walls in the distance, Li Xia would have felt as if he were walking in the outside world.

And as they moved further away, everything they had seen in Tianbi Valley reappeared before their eyes.

Emerald green grass, verdant forests, and even flowers of various colors.

Not only Li Xia, but also Aowu and Heitan were on tenterhooks. They felt like they were living in a tomb raiding novel.

After overcoming countless difficulties, we finally found the legendary lost city containing treasures and entered the city's underground according to the guidance.

But they discovered that there was another world underground, containing an identical ancient city, like a mirror image.

How could anyone not feel tense about such absurdity?

When the stone house, which was extremely simple yet completely identical to the stone figure, appeared before them...

They even had a sense that the dust had settled and the boots had finally fallen.

To ease the creepy atmosphere, Awoo couldn't help but say:

"Boss, if we look into it, the true ancestral home of the Stone Men should be here."

"Yes, they were born from here, and then gradually began to explore outwards—"

Li Xia suddenly stopped halfway through his sentence, but Ao Wu understood why his boss had stopped.

"Hiss! They dug tens of thousands of meters outwards before finally making contact with the outside world?"

He inhaled sharply and clicked his tongue:

"No! This isn't the sky; it's all mountain walls outside. In this situation, just trying to see the outside world would require immense courage."

and"

Li Xia glanced back at the path they had come from. During their descent, they had encountered countless cave entrances.

Out of caution, they did not go in to explore.

Looking back now, those holes were probably created by the stone people out of curiosity about the outside world, as they dug and tried to find them little by little.

Each opening is proof that the stone people challenged the outside world!

"These big guys are truly resilient and indomitable."

Aowu sighed. Being surrounded by stone walls and being surrounded by the sky were completely different concepts. With stone walls all around, they didn't even know which direction to strive for, and could only try again and again in vain, as if relying on luck.

What's even more despairing is that after these stone figures broke through this world, they found that the outside was still a cage.

They were firmly locked inside; this time, what blocked their way was not a rock wall over ten thousand meters thick.

Instead, it's a cliff higher than 20,000 meters!

Without that one leap that leads to certain death, one will never see a new world!

Once Mimi understood this crucial point, even she couldn't help but change her expression.

"But who locked them up here? And why were they locked up?"

The dragon's whiskers fluttered wildly as it frowned and muttered to itself.

"Meow?"

“Naturally conceived? Doesn’t seem like it. Although I have no evidence, I always feel that the stone man was not naturally conceived on this planet.”

Awoo shook his head.

Li Xia naturally overheard these discussions as well.

He stopped in his tracks. They had now reached the foot of the volcano. Compared to Tianbi Mountain, this volcano finally looked like a mountain.

It presents a cone shape, rather than the extremely counterintuitive cylindrical shape of Tianbi Mountain.

"The answer should be right here."

Li Xia paused, gazing intently at the summit.

"let's go!"

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Chapter 325 Star God!

How massive is a mountain that is over 8,000 meters high?

The tallest mountain in the world is about this size. When you stand at the foot of the mountain and look up, you feel as if you are standing in front of such a huge mountain.

Like a tiny speck of dust, the most crucial thing is that this giant mountain range is actually a volcano!

This simply defies all normal reason.

What kind of magma could erupt from such a high mountain?

But even if there were many doubts in my heart, I could only keep them to myself and seek the answers when I reached the top of the mountain.

As expected, Li Xia easily found the path up the mountain at the foot of the mountain.

The road was clearly carved out by humans, and it looks like the stone figures often climbed this mountain.

Otherwise, they wouldn't have bothered to build such a road.

Li Xia followed the mountain path upwards. The mountain was over 8,000 meters high, but the actual climb was much longer.

Putting aside the fact that the path is not a vertical line, the stone people seem to regard this volcano as a very important symbol.

Along the mountain path, one can occasionally see a stone figure, an 'abstract postmodern sculpture'.

This mountain path, too, was built around the mountain, in a spiral shape, to make it as smooth and not too steep as possible.

The downside is that the distance is greatly increased, and every short stretch of road, people have built a platform.

Looking at the stone chairs and tables on the platform, they were mostly used as places for rest or gatherings.

After lingering on a platform for a while, Li Xia found nothing of value, not even information.

He then stopped paying attention to these smaller platforms and focused solely on mountain climbing.

Even though the mountain road is winding and twisting, it is an extremely smooth road. Apart from the extremely abstract stone statues on both sides, there are no hidden traps or anything like that, just like honest stone figures.

As for common mountain climbing problems that are insurmountable for ordinary people, they did not pose any obstacle to Li Xia.

The only inconvenience is that the distance to the summit increases as you get closer.

The surrounding temperature also continued to rise, and it even became quite hot.

Aowu even activated its 'water cooling cycle'.

The kitten was panting from the heat, and finally couldn't stand it anymore, so it simply hugged the icy-cold dragon egg to its chest, and occasionally let Awoo pour some water on it.

In just a short while, wisps of white steam rose from the kitten's body.

On the contrary, the [Molten Mountain Armor] on Li Xia's body, which had been damaged in the battle, had not been fully repaired, but it still reappeared on the surface of his body due to this heat.

The fine, emerald-like dragon scales reflected an almost bewitchingly beautiful color under the dark red light.

The scales trembled slightly, producing an extremely subtle and dense rustling sound.

Even the broken, cleaved marks on the dragon scales did not detract from its beauty; on the contrary, they added to its ferocious aura.

This unbearable heat felt like a warm and comfortable bath in front of the Lava Armor.

Therefore, Li Xia became more and more energetic as he walked, and even the slow self-repair speed of the Lava Armor increased slightly.

Mimi, with her waist cinched, strained her eyes to look at the dragon scales not far away.

Just as the Stone Men can manipulate stones, the Griggans are half-human, half-plant.