Divine Beast Creator

Chapter 2393 - 2394: Pursuit

This is not nonsense from Feng Yuan; the entire silhouette looks like a bunch of stone pillars standing together to form a stone forest. Feng Yuan couldn’t think of anywhere similar.

"Stone Bamboo Forest? That shouldn’t be it. That spot is off-limits to tourists, and it couldn’t have suddenly opened up."

Dou Yanlan glanced at the staff. He seemed puzzled; he’d never heard of the Stone Bamboo Forest.

"Could it be some kind of plant? This thing surely wouldn’t be in an unknown place."

Qi Chen also didn’t believe it was the Stone Bamboo Forest. After pondering a moment, Feng Yuan stroked his chin and said,

"Maybe, but if that’s the case, we have many places to search. After all, this thing looks like stone pillars."

"Let’s check what stone pillar attractions exist."

Dou Yanlan pulled out her phone, speaking as she started searching for information about Hot Springs Town. Based on the secret garden of the Perching Tree Demon, Dou Yanlan was sure the hint card wouldn’t indicate places that are completely unknown and untraceable.

"Could it be referring to Deepwater Cave? I remember that in Hot Springs Town, there seems to be only a cave pool there."

Veronia glanced at Feng Yuan, voicing her guess, but shook her head. Feng Yuan wasn’t sure. He felt the possibility was low but couldn’t be certain.

"The only cave pool is Deepwater Cave, and indeed there are things that meet the criteria, but it doesn’t quite feel like it."

Stroking his chin, Feng Yuan kept looking through information. Various hot spring pool details flashed on the screen, yet he couldn’t find a target that fit the criteria completely.

"It’s too odd; none of the hot spring pools have similar iconic attractions. What could this thing be?"

After browsing for a while, Feng Yuan was perplexed. Maybe it was influenced by preconceived notions, but he constantly felt this thing pointed to the Stone Bamboo Forest deep within Deepwater Cave, even though there were only two rows of stones.

"Perhaps it’s like here, a non-hot-spring attraction, but... there doesn’t seem to be a cave scenic area."

Qi Chen continued to search data on his phone. They weren’t regulars at Hot Springs Town, so their understanding was limited.

"Wait, could it be this?"

Flipping to a photo, Qi Chen initially swiped it away subconsciously. Suddenly, recalling something, he retrieved it and stared at the photo for a while, unsure, he spoke to Feng Yuan.

Looking at Qi Chen’s phone with confusion, Feng Yuan stroked his chin and said,

"It’s not impossible. Why not go see it first?"

What Qi Chen showed Feng Yuan was a promotional photo of a waterfall. Called a waterfall, it was actually an artificial attraction created by Hot Springs Town. Named Hell Waterfall, it involved creating a spout above a cave resembling a demon’s head, letting water flow down over that demonic cave entrance.

In the photo, one could clearly see a row of stone pillars forming the demon’s fangs. If the silhouette pointed to this place, it seemed more reliable than Deepwater Cave. At least Hell Waterfall was a publicized attraction.

Although Hell Waterfall visually wasn’t particularly impressive with its rushing water, it was due to its size. Up close, the sound of rushing water was extraordinarily loud. Hidden within the water flow, the half-natural, half-artificial demon’s head was faintly visible.

Comparing the hint card, Feng Yuan found the silhouette and the demon’s tooth-like stone pillars were nearly identical.

Here, naturally, there was a punch-point. The staff took Feng Yuan’s hint card without a word, stamping it, thus affirming their guess.

The entire morning, Feng Yuan and his group wandered back and forth in Hot Springs Town. It couldn’t be helped; the hint cards were drawn randomly by staff, no duplicates, whatever was drawn was what you got.

This led them to roam around the town, consuming quite some time on the roads.

But after the wandering, Feng Yuan’s collection book was nearly full of stamps. Towards the end, the time spent analyzing hints was quite short, although some hint cards were still quite vague.

After all, one rule couldn’t be altered: each stamp’s hint card was distributed only once. Thus, later on, staff even specifically selected locations where Feng Yuan and his group hadn’t visited, from which they drew a hint card.

No choice but to keep drawing from the entire deck, it might take many tries to draw a location that Feng Yuan and his group hadn’t been to.

Due to this feature, initially Feng Yuan and his group could exclude most locations.

Eating, Feng Yuan looked at the collection book in his hand and said,

"I wonder what the final reward will be. Will it be as interesting as the Maze of Mirror’s souvenir?"

Recalling the Maze of Mirror challenge, Feng Yuan couldn’t help but feel expectant. Maomu City’s souvenirs were made so well, Hot Springs Town should be no less impressive, right?

"I don’t know, it should be quite good, right?"

Qi Chen was also unsure, but he was certain the thing wouldn’t be perfunctory. Mainly, activity participants were tourists who had already spent at Hot Springs Town.

After all, the hot spring pools weren’t freely accessible. Without staying, you could enter, but would need a separate ticket purchase. During activity participation, it was also advised that without staying, participation wasn’t recommended, as the activity required touring all the hot spring pools in Hot Springs Town.

Due to this activity, Feng Yuan and his group discovered that Hot Springs Town wasn’t just about hot springs, or rather, besides hot springs, there were many interesting things.

"Hey? Isn’t that the snow lunatic’s performer?"

Eating, Feng Yuan noticed a passing Beastmaster speaking with some surprise. The person seemed only a few years older than Qi Chen and the others, wore sunglasses with a lazy appearance. If not for Feng Yuan pointing it out, even Dou Yanlan might have overlooked him.

"Kind of looks like."

Dou Yanlan wasn’t sure; after all, the person’s temperament differed vastly, and normally, people wouldn’t have such a manic demeanor as the snow lunatic.

Seeing Feng Yuan look to him, Tamur lightly swayed and said,

"You guessed right."

Such a true or false judgment was easy for Tamur, of course, assuming it didn’t involve something overly powerful.

If asked to judge Feng Yuan’s correctness, Tamur wouldn’t have the capability, as Feng Yuan’s strength was evident, and Tamur couldn’t harness time’s power to find the answer.

"Really? Didn’t think his acting was so good, though he should be from Hot Springs Town, which explains his long-term performance."

Watching the person gradually disappear from sight, Feng Yuan said. The person’s strength likely wasn’t weak, visible from the released beasts. As for why Feng Yuan guessed he was a local.

It was simple. Despite the beast being a unique Northern Snow Plain species, his appearance and features resembled those of people in Southern Xia.

Not to mention special mannerisms during performances, they further affirmed Feng Yuan’s guess.

Nonetheless, it all seemed irrelevant to him.

"Where does this hint card point? Even though the range is very narrow, none of the spots exactly match."

Examining the hint card on the table, Qi Chen commented with frustration. Despite narrowing down the locations, this hint card still left them stumped.

This was a silhouette hint, yet the silhouette was not ordinary. It looked strangely like a Floating Island. Could Hot Springs Town have a Floating Island?

Even if not a Floating Island, it must be something like floating stones, but Hot Springs Town didn’t seem to have such attractions.

"Indeed, but it might be some subtle characteristic?"

Feng Yuan said while eating a small cake. Similar to Hell Waterfall, they encountered unique silhouette hints more than once. Thus, Feng Yuan speculated it was likely something similar.

Just what exactly, Feng Yuan wasn’t clear, as floating things like this were unheard of, especially within Hot Springs Town limits, where such things should be rare.

"A special characteristic?"

Staring at the silhouette on the hint card, Dou Yanlan couldn’t deduce an answer. It seemed to completely mismatch their known information.