Yellow Stem raised his claw, pointing at the cave's domed ceiling, and said, "Dragon Cypress Ant King, Ink Orchid, look up there—it's a map of the Cloud Trace Continent drawn by the ancestors of our Shield Grasshopper Tribe."
Yellow Stem fluttered his wings and took off, landing on the cave's ceiling. Pointing to a spot, he said, "Huagi Mountain is right here. Where is the Xianglan Mountain where you two live?"
Dragon Cypress and Ink Orchid's attention was immediately drawn over.
The map was etched using black, white, red, green, and yellow, the colors set deep into the stone. Even after more than four thousand years, they remained vivid, the markings embossed and sunken, with the range of mountains, rivers, plains, and forests clearly delineated.
Studying it closely and discerning north, south, east, and west, they saw that Huagi Mountain was situated along a vast, north-south mountain range.
