Chapter 115: The Ice River Riot

  Looking at the mural, Hu Gao felt a chill run down his neck. It was because of seeing that bloody mural in the Hualong Forbidden Land, like the end of the world, that he discovered an extra jade pendant between his collarbones, as if it had been with him all along.

  I never thought that in the depths of Huo Yue Peak, there would be such a mural in a certain corridor. Could it be that this place has some connection to the Hu tribe? What was someone like Boss Huang's level thinking when he came here back then?

  As he delved deeper, Hu Gao felt that in the midst of it all, he seemed to have caught a glimpse of some earth-shattering secret, yet was unable to piece them together into a complete chain of clues.

  "Look quickly! What does this scene look like?" Han Chong's sudden exclamation brought Hu Gao back to reality.

  Hugao looked intently and saw that the mural in front of him was exactly like a scene from a movie he had seen in his previous life, "The Day After Tomorrow". The sun hid behind the clouds, the sky's clouds were all fragmented, and the snowstorm filled the sky! Everything that could be seen in the field of vision was completely frozen.

  The subsequent murals all depicted such a miserable state, the entire continent was plunged into despair, and both humans and beasts were buried in ice and snow. No matter how powerful the strong were, even if they had the ability to move mountains and fill seas, they could not contend with nature.

  "Is this really the Ice River Riot?" This scene reminded Hu Gao of the Ice River Riot described in the Condensing Shadow Technique, it was simply too similar.

  "Look at this painting!" Yun Feng shouted loudly, pointing to the direction above the corridor, where a blurry mural was also carved, if it wasn't for this guy's carefulness, they would have almost missed it.

  On the wall painting, the entire space is a terrifying red, the ground is shaking, and there are shattered scenes everywhere. There are massive deep trenches, as if the continent has been cut into pieces by something.

  "What's this?" Han Chong pointed at a large blurry area on the mural and asked.

  "Isn't it like what we saw earlier at the transmission array, where a brilliant light shot up into the sky?" Yun Feng said thoughtfully.

  Hu Gao nodded, earlier in the transmission array, because it was he who dominated the opening, so that screen had a very deep impression on him, indeed similar to this blurry image on the mural.

  "So, the Ice River Riot wasn't a natural disaster after all, but could it be man-made?" Hu Gao thought back to the murals he saw earlier, where many beast tribes descended, and also thought about how he, as the so-called successor, was summoning the so-called Guardian God.

  This suggests that there are other parallel spatial surfaces!

  What the heck!

  "Hu Gao exclaimed, 'Will the Ice River Riot be a great disaster brought about by the chaos of time and space?'"

  "What's this 'time-space disorder'?" Han Chong and Yun Feng looked at each other in confusion, completely bewildered by Hu Gao's strange words.

  "Alright, to put it simply, the Glacial Chaos might have been caused by some super powerful beings who broke through the spatial rules and came to our continent, triggering a kind of disaster brought about by the heavenly rejection force." Hu Gao tried his best to explain in terms they could understand.

  "I'm poking your nose, brother you're a genius! Let those so-called historians of the future eat shit!" Han Chong said with a smile.

  Hu Gao didn't respond to him, but instead looked at the mural on the wall with a questioning expression.

  The result is a big change. A woman picks up an infant in the bushes.

  Next is a young man, watching others play with fierce beasts, holding fire to burn trees, while he has nothing around him, and his hands are empty too. However, on the young man's arm, there was a delicate flame mark drawn.

  Then there is the grown-up boy, with a flame emblem still on his arm, fighting bare-handed against a monster, and around the young man, a dragon is drawn in dotted lines, wrapping around him.

  The young man became stronger, still wrestling with the beast, but his hands had turned into a pair of claws. Still wrapped in a dragon, but the dragon's claws overlapped with his own clawed hands.

  A gigantic one-legged cow fell to the ground, with a creature that could vaguely be seen as human standing on its body. The creature's hands and feet had turned into claws, and it had a dragon tail behind it. On its head, which was raised towards the sky, grew a pair of dragon horns. However, there were no dragons painted around it.

  "Yun Feng, Han Chong, what is this? Is it a fusion of martial artists and totems?" Hu Gao asked.

  "I don't know." Yunfeng shook his head, he had never been in contact with such a thing.

  "Perhaps a high-level warrior might be able to, but we can't even touch that level." Han Chong also shook his head.

  "Is that so?" Hu Gao pondered for a moment, he thought it was also possible for the martial artist to merge with the Totem, but for them who had just entered the Unity Realm, it was still too far away.

  Putting aside their doubts, the three of them once again focused their attention on the mural.

  The mural below should return to the mainland pattern, and behind the human-shaped dragon, many humans appeared, as if they were following him to learn. Soon, humans who could use various elemental skills and summon totems reappeared among humans.

  These humans, along with the humanoid dragon-headed guy, launched an attack on another force, but in the end it was a incomplete painting. It seemed that they had established a walled city, and behind it, a series of murals were all scraped off, making it completely unclear what was depicted. Only in the last mural could be vaguely seen three different humans fighting with the half-dragon human, while the faces of those humans were all scraped off.

  In the final scene, the half-dragon person came alone to a mountain peak that looked like ivory and fell down, looking extremely desolate!

  "Who are those three people? How can even the Dragon and Tiger Formation not be their match? Have you guys heard of the legend of the Half-Dragon People?" Hu Gao asked.

  "Not at all." Yunfeng and Han Chong exchanged a glance, shook their heads together, and looked somewhat uncomfortable.

  "What's wrong?" Hu Gao asked, sensing something was amiss.

  "Not just anyone, but thinking of one person." Han Chong said, "To be exact, it's thinking of one of the Four Great Gods!"

  "Yao?" Hu Gaodao asked.

  "It is said that the totem of Yao was the Red Dragon, and after the Ice River Rebellion, four great gods established four powerful unified nations." Han Chong pointed at the three people who had been erased, "I just can't understand, how did the other three people, who were so far away from Yao's era, get involved together?"

  "I think this idea is unreliable." Yunfeng shook his head, pointing to the last painting and said: "You see that mountain, doesn't it give you a familiar feeling?"

  "Huǒ Suì Fēng!" Hu Gao spat out a name. When he entered the Fire Beast Forest, he had looked at Huo Sui Peak for a long time. This ivory-like mountain peak stood alone in the empty plain, looking very strange.

  "If we guess like this, where will it be?" Yun Feng said.

  "This is the final destination of Emperor Yao! It could be his tomb!" Hu Gao and Han Chong exclaimed in unison, uttering a conclusion that neither of them believed.

  "So, the dragon aura I sensed," Hu Gao looked at the two of them and inferred an even more unbelievable conclusion, "may be related to Yao's Totem, the Red Dragon. This might be Yao's resting place!"

  "Impossible!" Yunfeng and Han Chong shook their heads together.

  Han Chong said, "So many people have come to the Flame Valley, and not a few have climbed the Fire Ignition Peak. That Feng Fan also entered the Dragon's Roar Cave. Although we haven't heard of anyone passing through that Golden Melt, with Huo Yun Chan's second-stage peak strength, it's definitely possible for strong practitioners to enter this place. If our guess is correct, wouldn't the entire Totem Continent go crazy?"

  "Yes, to this day there are still many speculations about the location of Emperor Yao's tomb, but no one knows where it is or if it even exists. I think that half-dragon person came here for a reason, don't forget, this place is called Dragon Armor Mountain Range!" Yun Feng analyzed.

  "Never mind. We're just making wild guesses here, it's useless. There are more murals ahead, maybe we'll find the answer." Hu Gao ended this absurd topic and continued to look at the murals.

  However, the three were disappointed as the storytelling mural came to an end.

  The next picture is a lion spitting fire, with lines drawn inside the lion's body. On the opposite side of the lion, there is a person imitating the lion's squatting posture, also with the same lines inside their body and also spitting fire.

  The three of them looked at the dozen or so paintings behind, all of which were ferocious beasts spewing out various powers, with lines inside their bodies. Next to each beast was a person-like figure squatting down, with lines drawn inside its body that corresponded to those of the beast, emitting the same power.

  Next is a large painting of people mastering different attribute energies, making more than a dozen postures such as tiger leaps, lion roars, and eagle dives. In his body, different lines are drawn from different parts such as hands, mouths, and feet to emit different powers.

  The next painting shows a man holding a sword, above him is an elephant with its buttocks raised, two tusks pointing at a stone tablet with two holes. The man holds the sword in the same posture as the elephant, and on the stone tablet in front of him there is also a hole.

  The following paintings all depict this image of a single person attacking a beast.

  There is an eagle, on the stone tablet a claw of an eagle is carved, and that person makes a claw with his bare hands and swings out an eagle's claw. There is a snake, the stone tablet is shattered by the sweep of a snake's tail in mid-air, and that person holds a gun to shatter the stone tablet in mid-air. There is an ox, the stone tablet is split into two halves by the ox using its horns, and that person also uses a pair of swords to lift up the stone tablet...

  The last one is a painting of a dragon, which looks like the dragon's horn, claws and tail are all attacking at the same time, but there is no stone tablet in front of it, and the people below have been swept away.

  These paintings of one person and one beast each have texts attached below them, yet none of the three people recognize the texts above.

  Especially the last picture of the blank space, wrote a lot of words, but it seems that the writing is very dissatisfied, written and scraped, even some were carved out of a big pit, the whole stone was carved away.

  This kind of sentence by sentence, continued to extend backwards, revised and became more serious, even the last few sentences crossed over, with some overlapping characters.

  Hu Gao and his friends looked all the way to the end, but there were only such texts, no pictures, and they couldn't find the answer they wanted on it.

  At this time, Hu Gao found that Yun Feng and Han Chong did not follow up, worried that something would happen, and hurried back to take a look.

  Two people were attracted by two paintings on the wall and stared at them intently.

  "Yun Feng, Han Chong, what's wrong?"

  "Hu Gao, these pictures are cultivation diagrams. Look at those lines, don't they seem like the circulation of yuan energy?"