Revelation of the Way of Heaven

Chapter 119 Stone Pot

Feifei was restless beside them, glancing at them repeatedly and then meowing at the cave. Its voice was somewhat like a cat's, a mournful cry, and also somewhat like a child's wail.

"Is it letting us in? But the roads inside are blocked," Guo Shiyi said, frowning.

"Perhaps it means something else," Han Kexin said, turning her gaze to the sacred lake below the mountain.

Guo Shiyi thought for a moment and said, "You mean we should divert the water from the sacred lake into the cave?"

Qin Xiaochuan agreed with her statement. Based on their previous speculation, the method to enter the Land of Witches was related to the water level of the Sacred Lake. They had never been able to figure out what the relationship was. Now that they had discovered this stone cave, he immediately had a bold conjecture: when the water level of the Sacred Lake rose to the level of the stone cave, the lake water would flow into the stone cave, and the gate to the Land of Witches would open.

Moreover, the shape of this cave is also intriguing, as its opening extends upwards for a distance, probably to prevent rainwater from flowing in.

To verify their hypothesis, all they needed to do was pour water into the cave. However, the surface of the sacred lake was far below the foot of the mountain, with a drop of at least five or six meters from their location, making it impossible to bring the water up. In the end, they could only rely on water-based skills to slowly pour water into the cave.

Of the five, only Han Kexin and Zhou Bin possessed water-based skills. The two of them took turns unleashing five or six B-level water-based skills to fill the cave with water, but to their disappointment, nothing happened.

Han Kexin stood somewhat dejectedly beside the stone cave, frowning as she pondered what else she needed to do.

"There might be more than just this one cave," Qin Xiaochuan said. This possibility was very high, so they searched around the cave again. After about an hour, they found three more cave entrances, so Han Kexin and Zhou Bin used their skills to continue filling the cave with water.

As they were filling the fourth cave, a loud "boom" and the sound of a large amount of sand and gravel sliding down a nearby mountain wall came from nearby. Han Kexin and Zhou Bin immediately stopped their skills, while Qin Xiaochuan and Guo Shiyi followed the sound to investigate. Finally, they found an almost vertical cliff more than ten meters away from the first cave.

The steep cliff faces south and consists of only a few huge rocks, with some wild grass and shrubs growing sparsely on it. In the very middle of the cliff, one of the rocks has risen up a little, revealing a gap of five or six centimeters high underneath. Because of the rise of the rock, the steep cliff looks as if it has been torn apart, and several clumps of withered shrubs on it have fallen down to the bottom of the cliff along with the surrounding sand and stones.

"What's wrong?" Han Kexin's voice came from the other side of the cave.

"I think we've found the entrance," Qin Xiaochuan excitedly replied. "But we still need to keep pouring water into the cave."

Just a dozen seconds after they finished speaking, the rock began to rise again. By the time the two of them had completely filled the fourth cave with water, the rock had risen about one meter.

Han Kexin walked to the steep cliff and placed the rhinoceros beetle into the cave behind the rocks again. The cave was nearly three meters high, but to her disappointment, it was only a little over two meters deep and empty except for dust.

"Could it be because the rocks haven't risen high enough?" Guo Shiyi asked.

"But we've already filled the caves," Zhou Bin said.

"Filling the cave with water isn't enough," Qin Xiaochuan told him. "If lake water were poured into the cave, according to the principle of communicating vessels, the cave would have to increase its pressure by the same amount of water as the lake surface. The Holy Lake is so wide that even if the water level only rises by one millimeter, it would be enough to completely lift this rock."

Guo Shiyi then asked, "What do we do now? We can't raise the water level of the sacred lake."

"Let's lift the rocks with our own strength," Han Kexin said decisively.

"Such heavy rocks?" Qin Xiaochuan looked at her incredulously.

"I'll leave it to Feifei," Han Kexin said confidently. She then gave Xiaoying a few instructions, which Xiaoying relayed to Feifei. Feifei, being an ancient mythical beast, was perfectly able to understand what Xiaoying was saying. Moreover, when Han Kexin gave her instructions, it turned its head and stared at Han Kexin for a while, probably realizing that it would likely have more than one master in the future.

After Xiaoying finished explaining, Feifei walked to the rock. It stomped one of its front hooves on the ground, and four thick bones emerged from under the rock. They continued to grow taller and taller, pushing against the rock as they touched it, until they reached their top. The four bones then became four pillars standing on either side, leaving an entrance more than a meter wide in the middle.

Seeing this, Qin Xiaochuan had to admit defeat to this ancient beast. Putting everything else aside, just look at the hardness of its bones. Under such heavy pressure from the rocks, there wasn't a single sign of damage. It was even harder than steel.

He and Zhou Bin walked from the entrance of the skeleton into the cave, only to discover that there was a stone pit inside, but it was covered by dust, so it could not be seen in the rhinoceros beetle's miniature camera.

Han Kexin cast a wind-based spell, blowing away all the dust in the cave. Only then did they realize that the so-called stone pit was actually an arc-shaped stone that looked like white jade. The stone was round, a little larger than an umbrella, and concave in the middle, like a large stone pot.

This stone pot is placed at an angle, with its surface facing another mountain wall outside the cave. Moreover, the surface of the stone pot is exceptionally smooth, like a concave mirror, with almost no scratches.

Apart from the stone pot, they found nothing else.

"Does this represent any clues?" Guo Shiyi pouted and said, feeling somewhat discouraged by her repeated disappointments.

No one could answer her question; it was difficult to discover anything from the stone pot alone, and their thoughts were stuck in an awkward predicament.

"Actually, in this situation, we need to change our way of thinking," Han Kexin suddenly said calmly.

"What do you mean?" Qin Xiaochuan looked at her, puzzled.

"If you can't figure it out from the front, try thinking about it from the opposite perspective. If you were the designers of the entrance mechanism, how would you use this stone?"

"We should only be able to use light, right? This concave mirror can focus light together. But it's located inside a cave, so light can't get in at all. How can we use it?" He explained his idea in detail, and at this point, everyone needed to brainstorm.

"That's not necessarily true. Just because the light can't get in now doesn't mean it will never get in," Han Kexin said dismissively.

"What does that mean?" After only a moment, Guo Shiyi's curiosity was piqued again by their conversation.

"Don't forget, Yang Yun came out of the Land of Witches on the summer solstice," Han Kexin said confidently.

As soon as she said that, Qin Xiaochuan immediately understood what she meant. That's right, on the summer solstice, the sun will be at its northernmost point on Earth, and this mountain wall happens to face south. In winter, the sunlight may not be able to shine in, but in summer it's hard to say.