Chapter 131

He suddenly saw that the streamer was actually holding a black steel knife in his hand!

What's going on?

Why did he suddenly pull out a knife?

No wonder he dared to enter a cave like this — turns out he went in with a knife…

Still, one has to admit, his guts are still enormous.

The livestream's view shifted forward.

On screen.

A stretch of forest.

The streamer began to weave through the forest.

The forest wasn't large; he walked out of it quickly.

When the livestream's image revealed the scene beyond the forest.

Everyone.

Including the million viewers in Brother Shiguang's livestream room.

Including Professor Liu De and the members of his expedition team, who were watching the livestream at that moment.

All of them froze.

Before their eyes.

Was a.

Stone city, spread across the body of a mountain!

A green mountain.

On one side of the green mountain was a great river.

From the foot of the mountain, stone houses rose layer by layer, in dense, orderly rows.

Circling the mountain, ring upon ring, spiraling upward.

At the mountainside stood a small stone hall.

Above that, more stone houses.

And then, atop the mountain peak.

Lo, a stone castle!

That stone castle, beneath the blue sky and white clouds, had at its summit what looked like a pair of wings carved from stone.

Although the distance was great, that outline was unmistakable!

Seeing this scene.

Professor Liu De, and those around him.

Each and every one sat with mouth agape, not making a sound for a long while.

Suddenly!

Professor Liu De thought of something!

He abruptly turned and yanked out his luggage bag.

He began frantically rummaging through it.

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Then, in a flurry, he picked up one scroll from among them.

This was not a cultural relic, but a copy — the original came from an ancient text at Kumbum Monastery in Tibet.

It was, astonishingly, a Sanskrit manuscript.

But because it was a copy, it naturally contained various annotations.

For instance, the Sanskrit content had been copied, but synchronously, a Chinese translation had been added.

So this was a bilingual Sanskrit-Chinese book.

Only because he often flipped through it, it had long since fallen into tatters.

Professor Liu De flipped through that scroll.

The students beside him were all very surprised.

They had never seen the highly virtuous and respected Professor Liu De so panicked and at a loss.

His hands were trembling violently!

His movements suddenly came to an abrupt halt.

He had found the page he was looking for.

His trembling finger pointed at the text on the page.

It was a line of Sanskrit.

"Professor, what's wrong?"

Professor Liu De stared at those characters, his eyes full of disbelief, then looked up at the livestream image, then down at the text on the page.

Professor Liu De stared at these words, his eyes full of disbelief, then looked up at the live broadcast screen, then looked down at the text on the paper.

"T-the text here references the annotations of the late Mr. Ji Xianlin…"

"The original script is Tocharian. During his lifetime, Mr. Ji was one of the few people in the world who understood this script, and he had translated it…"

Professor Liu De's eyes were wide open.

His finger pointed to one line of tadpole-like characters.

"'…Build the city of stone, upon the mountain's flank, take the river as its moat, above stands a stone fortress, its totem a pair of wings…'"

"... Build the city with stone, construct it against the mountain, use the river as a moat, atop it stands Shibao, the totem bears double wings..."

Hearing Professor Liu De slowly speak these words.

Everyone present suddenly felt goosebumps rise all over their bodies.

"Professor, what, what place is this?"

Professor Liu De suddenly raised his head, his eyes fixed dead on the livestream screen.

"This! This is a description of a sacred land from the legends passed down through the ages of the Snow Region… this sacred land."

"Is called, Shangri-La!"

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Shangri-La?

The people around were all dumbfounded.

The term "Shangri-La" did not sound unfamiliar.

The most well-known one was that five-star hotel chain found all over the country.

Besides that.

Among the real estate developments scattered across the country, those bearing this name were not few either.

In addition, it was also a place name.

There was a county town under Yun Province, also called Shangri-La.

But it was obvious.

The "Shangri-La" in Professor Liu De's mouth did not refer to any of these.

In 1933, the English author James Hilton, in "Lost Horizon," mentioned a mysterious place in the far East.

It was said this place was surrounded by mountains, guarded for generations by Tibetan Buddhist monks.

Later generations believed that the mysterious place James described in his work was very likely related to the legend of Shangri-La.

Because his work did indeed state that this place was located in the Ximalaya region.

However, the place spoken of in his work was situated on the western foothills of the Ximalaya mountain range.

Yet now, Professor Liu De was holding the book scroll in his hand, pointing at the screen in Brother Shiguang's livestream room, and saying:

Shangri-La!

This streamer named Brother Shiguang, at this moment, was still located on the eastern foothills of Mount Ximalaya.

"Professor, could it be, a mistake?"

The students beside him found it incredible.

They could not imagine.

A streamer could actually find this legendary sacred land.