The relic was actually an unusually vast world rather than a closed place, which they had initially speculated. Nangong Wuyue looked at the endless sea of clouds and lofty sky as her curiosity soared. "Have you explored the borders of this place? Does it even have a border?"
"We haven't but, there must be a border here," Hessiana shook her head and said. "The farther the sea of clouds, the thicker they get. There's a very strange, thick fog within the clouds and flying in this thick fog is very exhausting. I guess that's supposed be the barrier of this dimension. In addition, you'll encounter another thick fog going halfway down along the mountain peak. If you forcibly go through the thick fog, you'll see a cliff. I didn't dare to jump down…"
It seemed that there was a border in this dimension, but the environment near the border became so bizarre that even the powerful vampires could not get close to it. Hao Ren decided to go and explore the most eye-catching temple in the clouds. However, before he did so, he looked at Vivian worriedly and asked, "Are you okay?"
Vivian had been behaving a little strange since just now. The special energy that filled the place seemed to have an impact on her. It made the usually calm and cool Vivian look agitated and impatient from time to time. However, she did not know what was going on either. When Hao Ren asked her with much concern, she could only shake her head and said, "I'm fine. I just need to control my emotions."
Nangong Wuyue looked at Vivian inexplicably and asked, "What's wrong?"
"I don't know. I just instinctively hate the atmosphere here, must be something that I've long forgotten." Vivian smacked herself on the forehead and looked distressed as she continued to explain, "I can't remember where I've encountered a similar situation like this, but I'm sure something bad must have happened…" Then she smiled at Hao Ren and said, "Don't worry, I've been in similar situations before; I was inexplicably allergic to certain things and it took me quite a long time to remember some grudge from thousands of years ago. You know how I'm always forgetful. I'll go back and think about it. I'll tell you when I come up with something."
Looking at Vivian's stable expression, Hao Ren was relieved. Pointing to the temple high in the clouds, he asked, "Let's go over there first. Are we going to fly there?"
When Vivian heard this, she immediately spread her wings, ready to hold on to Hao Ren and fly with him. The moment Hao Ren he got ready to hold on to Vivian, a thought suddenly crossed his mind. He turned to see Hessiana and found her looking at him ferociously. She bared her long, sharp teeth and hissed to threaten him. Hao Ren broke out in cold sweat right away. He was convinced that if he hugged Vivian in front of this girl, she would cut him evenly into 700 pieces, sprinkle him with cumin and marinate him for two months with soy sauce as well as vinegar. Then, she would eat 100 grams of his meat every day, which she would accompany with by Type B blood… Honestly, it was not easy to imagine such details in a flash. Obviously, this came from his experience as a college student, when he spent all of his money and ended up eating pickles for half a month.
"You can walk on the clouds, just be careful not to fall down," Hessiana stood quietly between Vivian and Hao Ren. She pointed to the sea of clouds and said, "Do you see those glowing paths? They were probably made by the ancient Olympians. They blend with the clouds, but they're actually paths. Watch your step, no one knows what will happen if you fall down."
Hao Ren noticed that there were indeed some shiny paths in the sea of clouds. Those paths blended into the clouds around them, sending out a faint glow. They were connected to the temple in the distance and there were many crossroads leading to other directions, which most likely led to other temples. But now, there was only one way to go. Vivian then retracted her wings. Looked at the flashing paths, she pondered for a long time until finally, she clapped her hands and said, "Oh, yes, Zeus did build these trails in the clouds. Their houses were built in heaven and they were connected to each other by these paths in the clouds. Ah, so high-profile. Every day someone fell down and even Zeus himself fell down five or six times before. Every time he landed in a human village, he'd say, 'I've come down to inspect the world' after crawling out of the pit…"
"...Why the hell did they build this thing? And why didn't they add a railing?" Hao Ren asked.
"It looked good this way. Also, if they fell down, they could fly up again anyway, so who still care about this? Actually, most of them were able to respond fast when they fell down and fly back, except Zeus. He was old and was always absent-minded when walking," Vivian was revealing the unknown secret of the family of Olympus without fear, "Not just the family of Olympus, in Northern Europe and Egypt, those unusual creatures who lived with humans and pretending to be gods were also having the same problem. They liked to build their houses into all kind of weird shapes just to make them look nice and cool and let the humans thought that they were very powerful though they didn't quite understand it. But in fact, they're just showing off. After thousands of years of awe from human, their mentality was out of balance that they felt sorry for themselves if they didn't live in the sky. Too bad, they all died in the end. They're actually quite funny."
Hao Ren, "…"
They nervously set foot on the cloud path toward the far-away temple of the sky. Once Hao Ren stepped on those shimmering clouds, he was relieved: they could really stand on it. Although there was a layer of light on the path, they actually felt like they were standing on the ground. After he walked for a short distance, he could not stand it and turned to look at Lily and said, "Would you please stop dragging my clothes? It's hard for me to walk..."
Lily was behind Hao Ren, following his footsteps and dragging his clothes, and in order to keep her balance, she even showed the tail--anyway, everyone knew her werewolf identity, so she was not worried about Zeon or Hessiana would pounce on her to bite her. Hao Ren looked at the girl's tail was trembling vigorously, asked curiously, "Are you afraid of height? You shouldn't be, you used to have the guts to hold on to the plane to steal a ride..."
The hair on Lily's tail all stood up. "I'm not afraid of heights... but I don't feel safe to step on this thing. There was a place where a glass landscape bridge was built, and someone fell off the bridge--that was me! I didn't notice that a piece of glass was missing…"
Nangong Wuyue asked with surprised, "Where did such an accident happen? How come I never heard of it?"
Lily said with a mournful face, "… That bridge was not completed and I sneaked in but ended up stepping on the missing piece of glass and fell. Under the bridge, someone was paving the road, I fell directly into the cement mixer, and I was almost covered by cement and paved into the road. Thanks to my quick reaction, I jumped out of it quickly without being noticed, or you could see me in the news a few years ago. It left me a phobia from that day. It's really insecure to walk on such a transparent thing."
Hao Ren sighed and said, "Alright, you can continue to grasp my clothes."
The husky's life in the past was so rich and colorful.
Vivian was walking beside Hao Ren, looking carefully at the scenery in this place and searching for information about it from her unreliable memory. She found that the temple in the sky in the distance was vaguely familiar, but she could not remember it belonged to which old friend. The mountain behind her was reminiscent of the view of somewhere in the Mount Olympus—the mountain here was referring to 'another' Mount Olympus, which was not the same as the real Mount Olympus that existed on earth.
"There are many wonders created by magic in the mythical age, most of them were related to the unusual vision," Vivian was explaining some of the ancient knowledge to them, "some were made for security, to prevent from being broken through; some were made to have some peace and quiet; some gods made them as they're addicted to the games and felt that they should build some sort of divine world. Anyway, for whatever reason, they built a lot of homes that were drifting around the boundary of the real world which was a bit like The Shadowy Divide, but less guarded. The 'Mount Olympus' that Zeus lived in was such a place, where a part of which floated over the Mount Olympus in the real world and the other part was in another dimension. After the mythical age collapsed, most of these dwellings were cracked and ruined, but now it seemed that some have survived. Here looks like a somewhere near the peak of Mount Olympus… but the scenery is somewhat distorted and changed, probably some kind of distortion happened after the collapse. And, of course, it could be my memory problem."
In the continuous explanation of Vivian along the way, they finally arrived at the foot of the temple in the clouds.