Chapter 30: Crossing the Void and Arriving in Spring

  Liu Yi found that the horn held by Kexi was similar to the one made by the old lady in Kexi Village, but this horn was several times larger and golden in color. He didn't know what kind of strange Tibetan antelope could have such a large horn.

  Kokkosi said, "In the land of sacrifice, there is a legend about the 'Guardian Qilin Army'. It's said to be a group of monsters with sheep heads and human bodies. As long as we hold the horns of our tribe's qilin, they will definitely take us to the last layer of the land of sacrifice! This is the messenger's token, but I don't know why it appeared here. This thing was temporarily managed by my father!"

  Liu Yi finally understood that the sheep-headed human monster written on Ma Bufang's wall actually had a nice name: Shou Ling Jun!

  Everyone came out of the Snow Ape's storage room and returned to the stone room. The little Qilin, Cangyang Xiao Ke, was still sleeping soundly in the corner of the wall as usual.

  They sat around in the stone room, enjoying fine wine and game, while discussing why the 'Chamois Horn' would appear in the Snow Ape's storage room.

  Liu Wei said, "Based on my guess, Mother Snow Ape was injured by that group of poachers who were ahead of us. Father Snow Ape must have fought them and obtained the Qilin's horn during the battle. Am I right?"

  The gibbon standing beside them suddenly grinned and clapped its hands, as if praising Liu Yi's cleverness.

  Professor Zhou nodded and said, "Well, things are indeed like this. Now we have obtained the 'stone key' to open the last layer of the gate of the sacrificial land and the messenger's token 'Chong Yang Horn'. Everything is ready, all that's left is to hurry to the sacrificial land as soon as possible!"

  Lu Zonghan turned his head and looked at Xiaoke, saying: "Our guide sheep is still sleeping, I'm afraid we won't be able to rush today!"

  This is indeed a big headache, at this time only see Gong Xueyuan shook his head, then turned around and walked out of the stone room, after a while holding a small bowl in his hand and walking in, walking towards Xiaoke, prying open its mouth and pouring it directly.

  Malacca looked at the small bowl being poured into Xiao Ke's mouth with a dazed expression, and exclaimed in surprise: "It can't be a hangover soup, can it?"

  As expected, soon Xiao Ke woke up with a dazed expression, shaking her big head.

  Then everyone drank a bowl of Xueyuan's self-made hangover soup and immediately felt the effects of the alcohol disappear, their mood refreshed.

  The blizzard had also subsided a bit, and the sun was faintly showing its smiling face. They stood at the entrance of the cave and bid farewell to the two snow apes, reluctant to part with them. But the male snow ape seemed to know where they were going. It made a "carrying on shoulder" gesture and pointed to the distance.

  "No way!" Malacca was screamed and carried on the shoulder by Gong Xueyin without saying a word, and started its ant moving technique again.

  Everyone saw its enthusiasm, the rest of the people had to stand at the entrance and wait. After several rounds of coming and going, more than an hour had passed, and Liu Yi was still the last one being carried on Xueyuan's back as usual.

  In the process of Xueyuan's sprint, Liu Yi only felt a strong wind in his ears. The speed of this snowman was actually comparable to that of a small motorcycle, which was frightening. In this process, Liu Yi found that around him, except for the white snow, there were also white bones everywhere. It is unknown how this place was formed, and it will be left to future scientists to study.

  At this moment, Xueyuan seemed to be intentionally teasing him, suddenly stopping and throwing him towards a thick snow pile. This time Liu Yi was prepared, in mid-air he did a flip and landed steadily on the snow pile, doing a front handspring like a child, as if saying to Xueyuan: "Can't knock me down, can't knock me down, haha!"

  The snow monkey saw him like that, bowed his head, clapped the ground with both hands in rhythm, making a strange cry, which was probably a loud laugh.

  Liu Yi not only smiled but also burst out laughing. After finishing his laughter, he looked ahead.

  Only then did Professor Zhou and others stand in front of a cliff, staring blankly at the white bones floating in the air.

  "My goodness! A skeleton is floating in mid-air!" Liu Yi shouted as he ran forward.

  Before Liu Yi's eyes was a massive mountain valley fault zone, bottomless and astonishingly, the sky above this heavenly moat floated with countless white bones. These white bones were not patterns formed by soul-eating insects, but genuine, dense white bones. They seemed to be unaffected by gravity, leisurely floating in the air above the heavenly moat, drifting back and forth, what a spectacular sight!

  In fact, the length of this natural moat is not very long, about a hundred meters or so. However, the position where Liu Yi and his companions stood was vastly different from the scenery on the other side of the moat. On their side, there were gentle breezes blowing small snowflakes, with white bones scattered all around, giving off an aura of icy coldness and death. On the other side of the moat, however, it was a scene of spring warmth and blossoming flowers, with green grass stretching as far as the eye could see, radiating an air of vitality under the newly risen sun's rays.

  At this time, Liu Yi suddenly understood the meaning of the words on the stone wall. It said that the Red Pupil Snow Ape could help people escape from the sea of suffering and reach a bright paradise! Isn't it now? On one side of the Tianxia is a desolate land of death with white bones everywhere, while on the other side is a green paradise. Moreover, considering the distance of this floating void, using the word "cross" was not excessive either.

  Everyone has been through the thrilling experience of falling down a well in Coco Village, and by now they can be considered to have seen it all. But when they saw this floating white skeleton, they were still shocked beyond words. According to Newton's law of universal gravitation, which was discovered after he got hit on the head with an apple, any object with mass cannot escape the gravitational pull of the earth. This is also why humans can't fly in mid-air. However, this floating ravine defies natural principles and is simply against the laws of heaven.

  Professor Zhou said, "It can only be explained by the mysterious power of magnetism. All objects have a magnetic field inside them, and under certain specific conditions, they interact with the cosmic magnetic field, which can indeed make them float. The working principle of magnetic levitation trains is to use the repulsive force of the magnetic field. There are many performers of floating techniques abroad, and yoga also has the concept of 'quietly floating in the air', which is very mysterious."

  "Shall we go over?" Malacca asked eagerly.

  Professor Zhou smiled and said: "You can try it!"

  Malacca had the heart to try, but after looking at the extremely deep cliff, he was still a little afraid. So, he found a large stone of over 100 kilograms nearby and threw it down the cliff.

  All that was seen was the stone, which was thrown into the "Floating White Bone" range, and after falling down for two meters, it seemed to be blocked by a force and stopped coming down. Then, like the rising sun, it slowly rose up again.

  This situation shocked everyone again, and the buoyancy of this place was so great.

  Although it is so, many people are still worried, this is not a joke, if you fall off the cliff, you will die and have no place to bury your body.

  Liu Yi took out the inflatable raft they had prepared from his backpack and said to everyone, "It was originally prepared for drifting in the underground dark river, but unexpectedly it was used in such a strange place for the first time!"

  At this time, the red-iris snow ape let out a mouthful of air from its nose, seemingly extremely disdainful of Liu Yi's behavior. It glared at Xiaoke and let out a loud roar before leaping towards the cliff. Xiaoke also ran after it with joy.

  Everyone only saw two animals, four hooves treading on air, trampling white bones left and right, jumping over a distance of more than 100 meters in less than a minute. It seems that these two guys are not the first time to pass through this place.

  "Whoa! I'm coming!" Malacca saw the two animals safe and sound, stirring up his competitive spirit, he took off first, wanting to learn from Red Pupil Snow Ape's elegant style to run across the sky, but he didn't know that as soon as he stepped into the air, his whole body fell forward, and then he was floating horizontally in mid-air.

  Although Malacca's butt-up posture was a bit ugly, he immediately grasped the technique and learned to swim with his left paw holding a white cow bone and his right paw holding an unknown animal's fragmented bone, and surprisingly floated over the forest of white bones in the sky.

  In front of the two beasts and behind the horse, Liu Yi and others also put down their worries and jumped into the Tiankong River like children. They floated in mid-air, carefree and joyful, just like a bird flying freely in the sky or a fish swimming freely in water. The feeling of being detached from gravity was too wonderful, so Liu Yi didn't want to reach the other shore and played for a long time inside the Tiankong River before reluctantly getting ashore.

  Even Lu Zonghan exclaimed, "In over twenty years, I've never encountered such a strange and wonderful place! We haven't even reached the sacred site yet, and we've already seen so many incredible creatures and geographical wonders. This trip is worth it, even if we die!"

  Everyone shook hands with the Red-Eyed Snow Ape to bid farewell, but when it was Liu Yi's turn, the ape seemed to like him extremely, grabbed him and tossed him into the air several times. Liu Yi could only silently endure its enthusiasm.

  Finally, the red-eyed snow ape took out a milky white bead from its body and handed it to Liu Yi, patted its own chest, meaning: "My guest, take my gift!"

  Liu Yi smiled and put the pearl into his pocket, then took out a sharp curved knife from his backpack and gave it to Hong Tong Xue Yuan, teaching him how to use it on the spot before bidding farewell with tears.

  Liu Yi gazed at the distant figure of Hong Tong Xue Yuan, and couldn't help but sigh: "All things have a spirit, beasts also have emotions. How do we treat them?"

  Malacca shouted from the side: "It's time to go, everyone come and see, the scenery here is so beautiful!"

  Here is a vast grassland, with deep grass stretching endlessly and shallow grass showing signs of trails. Not far away are many Tibetan wild donkeys, Tibetan yaks, and Tibetan antelopes, living in harmony together, lowering their heads to graze. When they see Liu Yi and others arrive, they do not show fear, but only raise their heads to glance at them a few times before continuing to lower their heads to graze.

  The little Tibetan antelope came to this place again, left the crowd, played and ran far away, probably going to call some animal friends again.

  It's okay, there is only this endless green road in front of us, even if the little ones don't know the way, they can still walk to the end. Moreover, the visibility here is very wide, and the little ones won't run out of sight, so I won't bother with it. Let it graze freely, and have a small fun on the grassland.

  Everyone is walking and chatting, strolling along while breathing in the refreshing fresh air.

  Take a sip, full of light grassy fragrance, as if it can replace all the turbid air in the body.