Alone and Infinite.

Chapter 321 Tianbi Mountain

Li Xia stared at the Stone Heart in his hand. The stone was oval-shaped and about the size of an egg.

It exudes a gentle power, and its crystal-clear appearance reveals its extraordinary qualities.

His gaze swept over the stone human race's sacred object in his hand, which appeared dignified and peaceful, like a precious jewel.

He then glanced at the Greghan relic, a wrinkled, green-eyed dead man's head hanging at his waist.

Even though they are both sacred objects, the difference is immediately apparent.

"What are you looking at?"

Mimi, whose bell had been removed, inexplicably felt a sense of 'discrimination'.

Aowu is straightforward and outspoken; she'll never hold back if she can be blunt.

"Don't you have any self-awareness at your age? Look at other people's sacred objects, and then look at yourself, you look like a ghost."

"What do you know!"

Mimi's bright green eyes darted around in their sockets; if he had a physical body, he would have already rushed forward to attack.

But at this moment, all he could do was talk, spouting nonsense like how you can't judge a sacred object by its appearance, but by its function.

They were quickly drowned out by howling laughter.

Li Xia ignored Xiaolong and Mimi's argument and glanced at the 'Heart of Stone' in his hand again.

The Hall of Light still provided a panel, but the panel was quite simple.

Heart of Stone

[Stone Golem Sacred Relic]

[Unknown Curiosity]

In fact, from the perspective of the Temple of Light, the apostles rarely produce truly unknown artifacts. The reason they are labeled this way is simply because the temple doesn't want to tell you what these things are.

The reason for not wanting to disclose it is quite simple: either the thing is very powerful but unusable, and they are afraid that the apostles might have some inappropriate thoughts.

Or perhaps its function is rather peculiar, and whether you know about it or not doesn't matter.

Li Xia glanced at the bedrock that had turned into a stone statue and died, then suddenly slammed his palm down on the stone table in front of him.

"Oh!"

The heavy stone tabletop stood upright due to the force applied to one end. Li Xia grabbed the stone slab, which weighed hundreds of kilograms, with both arms and slammed it heavily onto the ground.

The entire stone slab was actually driven into the ground and stood there without moving an inch.

This sudden turn of events stopped Aowu and Mimi from their bickering.

Somewhat surprised, he watched as Li Xia drew the Murakumo sword hanging from his waist with a backhand.

The sword flashed, moving like a dragon or snake.

"Zheng!"

Sheathing his sword, Li Xia stood still, glanced at the stone slab, walked around the bedrock, and headed toward the small door behind him.

Mimi strained her eyes, trying desperately to see what Li Xia had written.

Unfortunately, Li Xia used Chinese characters, which he couldn't understand.

Mimi's eyes darted around, then she looked at Aowu:

"You can actually understand this scribbled mess?"

Aowu looked at him, his eyes filled with a sense of intellectual superiority:
"You can't understand it? This is a monument."

A monument? Who the hell asked you that? They asked about the contents of the monument!
Unfortunately, Xiaolong turned away from the dead man's head and instead looked at the monument, letting out a soft sigh.

"His Highness erected a monument for you, so at least this void has remembered you. Rest in peace."

Behind the small door was still a long tunnel. After Li Xia pushed aside a stone slab and crawled out from the ground...

Tianbi City was already behind us; this once fortified city had been transformed into a sea of ​​fire.

The Griggan air cavalry circled in the sky like carrion vultures.

The stone men's unwilling roars echoed throughout Tianbi City.

These echoing roars combined to harmonize with the mournful bird calls in the sky.

It turned into a lament.

Li Xia's body suddenly floated into the air and shot straight up the steep rock face.

The wind whistled in my ears, and my clothes fluttered in the wind.

The Griggans, who were searching the city for the location of the sacred relic, immediately noticed the unusual activity.

A mournful bugle call was sounded, followed by the sounding of other bugles.

The sky knights seemed to be attracted by something, and they all flew towards Li Xia's location.

The towering Tianbi Mountain acts like the best shield, directly restricting the sky, which could normally be attacked from all angles, by half.

Li Xia kept changing his direction while clinging to the rock wall, while Hei Tan held onto Li Xia's belt, his scarlet Mangekyou Sharingan eyes moving back and forth in their sockets.

With his exceptional dynamic vision, all attacks that could pose a threat to Li Xia were detected by these eyes.

"Meow!"

Awoo then positioned its egg in front of its prey, based on the direction the kitten had predicted the attack would take.

"Dang Dang Dang Dang"

The continuous sound of striking came, but the sharp arrows had no chance to hit the dragon egg.

"Hey, this is pretty stress-relieving!"

Li Xia ascended at an extremely fast speed, and when he reached a certain critical point, a strange repulsive force suddenly came.

With a sudden change in expression, he immediately slowed down his flight, his five fingers like knives plunging directly into the rock wall, firmly fixing himself to the cliff face.

The arrows fired by the air knights slowed down before they even got close, and eventually fell to the ground.

Is this what Jiyan meant by the wonder of Tianbi Mountain?

They can only get up by climbing; once they reach a certain height, they cannot get close by flying.

How tall?

Xiao Long took out the altimeter and glanced at it:
"Boss, the altitude is about 3781 meters above the ground, but the elevation is unknown."

Less than 4,000 meters. Tianbi Mountain is at least 20,000 meters high.
Li Xia took a deep breath, regulated her breathing, looked up and tightened her fingers. As if she had lost her weight, she floated up a little.

His fingers gripped the protrusions on the rock face, and he climbed upwards step by step.

Li Xia was no stranger to climbing; back in the second stage, he had climbed the Korin Tower, which was over 10,000 meters high, in the Dragon Ball world.

Furthermore, he did not use any true qi; he relied entirely on his physical body to climb.

They gained quite a bit after climbing the tower.

However, climbing Tianbi Mountain is completely different from climbing Kalin Tower, whose surface has many protrusions and reliefs.

It was designed from the outset to make it easy for challengers to climb, and the gravity in the Dragon Ball world is low.

Even though Li Xia is now much stronger than he was at the early stage of the second tier, the difficulty of climbing Tianbi Mountain is no longer on the same level as that of Kalin Tower.

The rock walls of Tianbi Mountain are so smooth that they don't seem to be naturally formed, and there are very few points of leverage. Often, Li Xia can only insert his fingers into the rock with all his might.

After a while, Aowu suddenly cried out in surprise:

"Boss, the Griggans below are catching up!" Li Xia looked down and saw that at the critical point, Griggan air knights were circling and approaching, and figures were being flung off their claws and landing on the rock wall.

Thick vines stretched out from behind them, mimicking Li Xia's actions and deeply embedding themselves into the rock wall.

Like spiders, they climbed upwards in alternating motions, while the Griggan below inserted vines into the holes left by the pathfinders and climbed up with ease.

These figures were so numerous that they really looked like a swarm of spiders chasing him from his feet.

The vines were much longer than an arm, so they moved extremely fast. In just a short while, the distance that had been widened suddenly shrank.

The atmosphere immediately became tense, and Li Xia turned back to continue his climb.

Aowu's eyes darted around, and suddenly he said to Mimi, who was probably plotting something:

"Hey, you deadbeat, Gregg, you've climbed Tianbi Mountain before, haven't you? You guys look like you know it like the back of your hand."

Why didn't you climb up?

Mimi glanced at him, then looked away, not wanting to pay him any attention. Her green pupils flickered with worry.

"We're going to run into each other soon anyway, so it's only a little bit too early for you to say it now."

Awoo's eyes darted around, and he tempted:
"If you tell me, I won't let the kitten gag you, okay?"

Sure enough, as soon as she heard that she wouldn't have to put that strange bell that could block out sound on her head, Mimi immediately perked up.

He figured it out: whenever the three of them were about to reveal important information at a crucial moment, the bell would be put on them.

If we could get rid of the bell, we might be able to gather a lot of useful information.

"How can you guarantee that?"

"Do you think Grandpa Long is a bunch of treacherous, ungrateful green-skinned people? If you disagree, fine, I'm just curious anyway."

Awoo exhaled two streams of air from its nostrils, directly expressing its contempt for Mimi from a moral high ground.

The shrewd and experienced Mimi didn't care about the painless attack like "Awoo." After thinking for a while, he realized that hiding it was indeed useless.

And even if this strange creature goes back on its word, it can still provide a powerful point of rebuttal during arguments.

You won't lose out either way!

So he cleared his throat and said in a low voice:
"This Tianbi Mountain is indeed a mysterious place that our clan has always wanted to explore. We have sent people to explore and climb it many times."

The first half of Tianbi Mountain is nothing special; you can reach it simply by riding a bird of prey.

Once a certain altitude is reached, birds can no longer fly and must climb.

In the latter half, a strange force will appear on Tianbi Mountain, making it feel like you are carrying a heavy load as you climb, with the load becoming stronger the higher you go.

Until it could no longer bear it, it fell below.

When my people finally fell into eternal sleep, the highest point of my tribe was no more than a hundred trees (1000 meters) away from the summit, and the peak's grandeur was even faintly visible.

But once you reach that height, every step forward is as difficult as climbing to the heavens.

The stone figures couldn't explain what Tianbi Mountain was. They only knew that they came from Tianbi Mountain and that their ancestral land was inside.

These big guys with heads full of rocks know nothing but singing "We Are Children of the Stars!"

Mimi harbored great resentment. At that time, the relationship between the two tribes had not yet broken down. When he chatted with the elder of the Stone Clan, he had inquired about the mysteries of Tianbi Mountain with a hidden purpose.

But who knew that the Grand Elder just chuckled and kept spouting his usual "children from the stars" rhetoric, only knowing that Tianbi Mountain was their ancestral home.

What exactly is mysterious about it is completely unknown.

If you ask for more details, it's said that it's been passed down from our ancestors that Tianbi Mountain is very safe, warm, and humid.

With his keen eyesight, Mi Mi could see that the Stone Clan's Elder was not hiding anything; he truly only knew that it was 'safe, warm, and moist'!
"Fool! Shouldn't such an important matter be written on a stone tablet, hidden in a safe place, and treasured like a precious gem?"

They completely disregard this, allowing such a mysterious place to slowly fade into oblivion—what a waste! What a waste!

Whether Mimi used the correct idiom or not, Aowu didn't know, but that was the meaning he heard.

"What if the stone man doesn't think this is anything valuable or worth treasuring?"

Unexpectedly, Li Xia, who rarely spoke to Mimi, suddenly started talking.

His gaze remained fixed upwards as he strode up rapidly, his hands and feet moving in tandem, showing no signs of fatigue.

"impossible!"

Mimi paused for a moment, then sneered:
"Such a sacred mountain, capable of nurturing such wondrous creatures as stone men, how could it not be a treasure?"

Li Xia suddenly exerted force with both arms, shooting them straight upwards, his fingers gripping a protrusion tightly.

With a breath catching in her throat, she lowered her head and whispered:
"That's just you, just you all. For the Stone Man, the most precious thing has never been any sacred mountain."

Rather, it was the stone figures around them, all the stone figures.

Mimi's smile froze on his face. He opened his mouth, but with his hundreds of years of experience, he couldn't come up with any sophistry.

Suddenly, images that had long been buried in his memory surfaced in his mind.

Those deliberately forgotten scenes
"You mean the mud we turn into after we die will be useful to your children?"
After that, when some of us return to the stars, we will give our bodies to you. Just bring back the small crystals that have condensed inside your bodies and leave them as a keepsake for your loved ones.

"Since I'll turn to stone after I die anyway, I might as well give it to you."

Mimi couldn't believe that such a race existed in the world, one that was completely unsuspecting of other races and didn't even make any connection to the news.

When did they start getting angry?

Mimi closed her eyes, which meant that the tribe had already discussed and planned to enslave the Stone People. Under the pretense of the king's wedding, they invited all the high-ranking members of the Stone People tribe to a banquet.

They slaughtered them all at the wedding banquet, destroying the stone man's central hub.
"Words are useless. This world is inherently cruel; it's a jungle where the strong prey on the weak—"

"Hey, you deadbeat, why are you trying to pull this nonsense?"

"Don't worry, you've probably guessed it by now. The boss went back this time to send a signal: this area is sparsely populated, and the Griggs are weak. Come quickly!"

Mimi was filled with shock and anger: "So it really is the vanguard! But my tribe has no grudge against you, why are you invading us?"

Aowu and Heitan exchanged a glance and suddenly chuckled softly together.

This is the famous duality of society and democracy: society is only achieved when one is strong, and when one is weak, one calls for love and peace.

Mimi then realized that she had said something stupid.

He closed his eyes and his mouth, remaining silent.

Li Xia also focused his attention on climbing. Although Mimi didn't say anything, he had already guessed what the pursuers below were thinking.

Instead of rushing to catch up, we maintain a certain level of pressure and wait until we reach the insurmountable limit that Mimi described, then we trap them like turtles in a jar.

Their goal was never to kill themselves, but to capture them alive.

6000 meter

7000 meter

8000 meter

The air grew thinner and thinner, and Li Xia's breath condensed into crystalline mist the moment it left her mouth and nose.

The wind high in the sky was particularly biting, and the air carried a pure, chilling cold.

Li Xia's movements did not stop at all. Compared to when he was in Dragon Ball, he was more than twice as strong.
Wait until a certain critical point is passed.

He stopped abruptly, a glint of light flashing in his eyes.

The kind of burden that Mimi described has arrived!
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