The Pinnacle of Life

Alex thought for a moment and shook his head. “No. There is just one road.”

Claudia said, “Look ahead. Xerxes’ flying ark is a supreme treasure. It was once a Daoist ancestral temple’s treasure. It is speedy, and it might have gone ahead of us.”

Alex was hearing the official name of the golden bamboo boat for the first time.

As they moved forward in the dark surroundings, only the sound of two people’s footsteps could be heard. It seemed very quiet. After a while, both of them realized that they were off course. According to the mileage calculation, they could have gone from Michigan to California at such ridiculously high speed.

“Something’s wrong!” Claudia took the lead and stopped.

“I don’t feel right either.”

“It‘s like we’re going around in circles. We’ve taken pretty much the same path. Are we lost?”

Alex shook his head. “The so-called phenomenon is just one of the ordinary formations inside, nothing worth mentioning.”

Claudia looked skeptical. “You talk as if you know the formation.”

Alex said, “Didn’t Moony tell you? I am a formation Grandmaster.”

“Ouch!”

“What’s wrong with you?”

“I bit my tongue!”

at her expression with suspicion on his face, “Aunt

her eyes. “It is none of your business. You said you are a formation master, so hurry up and break the formation here for

would have found it long ago, but

because you don’t know how to break the

stopped talking. Instead, he unfolded his primordial eye and looked around, then lay down on the ground again and listened. After a few moments, he felt odder

anything?”

It’s a living thing,” Alex said with an odd face. “So, it’s not that we are lost, but this passage is most likely

“Living things?”

had never thought of such a situation, but now that she remembered that the hole they had entered from was bleeding, she became a bit suspicious. She flipped her right hand and grabbed a

little taller than her height. It

Poof!

No blood spurted out.

entire passageway turned upside down and shook