Chapter 157: The Vanished Empire

After crossing one valley, there came another, part of the continuous Green Dragon Mountain Range. Here, you couldn't see the steep cliffs like those near the High Tower of Summer Ash to the north of Colin, but the scenery was even more breathtaking.

Silver moonlight poured from the night sky, illuminating the dense vegetation in the valley. Rocks had solidified into bizarre arch shapes, resembling galloping wild horses, giving this place its picturesque name—Steeds Gate.

The rock faces under the moonlight exhibited a desolate reddish-grey hue, as if containing oxidized iron in the greywacke, with some uneven patterns seen as though they once adorned their surfaces, but time had smoothed them away. Fang Hong dismounted from Mr. Greyrock's back, stood alone by the rock face, and touched the cold surface of those ancient slates, the sensations returning felt like crossing a millennium, conveying stories from an era long past.