Life has become unbearable...
It was one thing to be shown off by a little girl while on the road, but then to be shown off by a stick... that was truly infuriating. The worst part was that it was all just for show, without any real purpose. Even if this rift was created by Liu Su, it had been thousands of years since then. Who knows what had settled down there? It was all a complete mystery to it. What good was it to have made such a mess?
Qin Yi was in tears.
"Back then..." Liu Su's voice was distant. "That strike of mine caused many to die here. Their immortal energy, bones, and treasures... could all have formed a separate space. The scattered techniques are countless... This place could indeed become a very powerful secret area. Some spots might even become dead zones where anyone who enters will die; others might be occupied by later arrivals, turning into their caves."
Qin Yi sniffled. "What's the use of saying all this? You can't go anywhere now, can you?"
"At least I can decipher many things. Some things that Ming He and the others can't even begin to understand are just simple tricks to me," Liu Su said calmly. "This place is good... Qin Yi, you should see what a cultivator should see."
"Qin Yi..." Ye Ling cautiously looked at him from the side. "Why are you staring at that stick?"
"Huh? Oh, nothing, nothing. I was just lost in thought."
Ye Ling shrank back a bit. "I feel like you... have a strange connection with that stick..."
Before she could finish, Qin Yi shot her a fierce look and raised the stick as if to hit her.
Ye Ling crouched down, covering her head.
Liu Su was getting increasingly frustrated. "There are indeed the bones of a Teng Snake down there, which would be very beneficial for her. Even her thin bloodline might have been influenced by its aura! Now, I... I won't tell her anymore. Let her figure it out herself!"
"Let's go." Qin Yi pulled Ye Ling up, annoyed, and headed toward the marked location on the map.
They walked along the cliff for several days until they reached a relatively safe area marked on the map, which was already considered the wild lands of the West Wilderness Kingdom.
Without a doubt, Dong Huazi came from the West Wilderness Kingdom, a small sorcerer who accidentally stumbled into this place and picked up some ancient sorcery and Dao techniques, but without guidance, he couldn’t grasp them well, resulting in his current state.
The "grain-sized" mark on the map was not small in reality; it was several miles wide. However, all they could see were sheer cliffs, with no paths to descend.
"I wonder how Dong Huazi got here. It doesn't seem like a place one could just stumble into..." Qin Yi wandered around the area several times, puzzled. "And it doesn't seem like a place one could climb back up from!"
"The kind of energy tremors back then caused spatial disturbances, which is very normal," Liu Su said confidently. "So, somewhere at the bottom of the cliff, it could have suddenly dropped down. Dong Huazi must have slipped and fallen, and by chance found a way back up. He was just lucky."
"But I can't jump off the cliff to see where I can land! Even if I go down, how do I get back up? What if I get stuck down there?"
"Use a floating talisman and descend slowly. When we reach the bottom, I can naturally tell where we can go back up," Liu Su said confidently. "If Dong Huazi could get back up, it means there’s definitely a way. Just trust me and go down."
"What if you’re wrong?"
"Then you can just stay down there and cultivate for ten or eight years. What's the big deal?"
"..." Qin Yi didn't know how to respond. From Liu Su's perspective, it really didn’t seem like a big deal.
Speaking of using the floating talisman, would his magical power hold up for the whole way down? He felt a bit uneasy...
Ye Ling quietly took a step back.
But then Qin Yi turned around, showing a bright smile.
Ye Ling stammered, "W-what are you doing...?"
"Little snake, can you carry someone to fly?"
Ye Ling's face turned pale. "F-fly down? Didn't you say there are powerful monsters down there? What if they eat us in the air?"
"Can’t you have a bit of confidence? Aren't you a powerful monster yourself?"
"I don't think so... Monsters are usually really big."
Qin Yi pulled out a talisman.
"What is this?"
"A giant talisman, it’ll make you look huge."
Liu Su remembered how excited Qin Yi was when he made this talisman, but she didn’t know what he originally intended to use it for...
The mountain wind howled, and a gigantic python appeared, its body like a river. It spread its wings, which looked like mountains. Qin Yi sat cross-legged on top, using the wind talisman to clear the thick fog, riding the Teng Snake down through the mist.
Even though they were in a relatively safe area according to the map, the thick fog still felt strongly corrosive. Qin Yi felt that if he stayed in the mist too long, his life force would drain away... just like the curse that Li Qinglin had suffered.
In a daze, he recalled a line of poetry: "The soaring snake rides the mist, only to become dust." It seemed to foreshadow something ominous about this journey.
Ugh, poems from different worlds shouldn’t be mixed together like that. Qin Yi shook off his wandering thoughts and raised the wolf-tooth club.
"Bang!" A rapidly approaching vulture was smashed into mush.
A carrion vulture, and it was demonized.
Just getting close, he could feel the deathly aura and the stench of rotting flesh coming from it.
This was the real source of the ominous feeling.
Countless vultures emerged from the thick fog around them, and there were countless green lights in the mist. The cries of the eagles echoed in his ears, like the roars of demons.
Black flames flickered around the Teng Snake.
"Boom!" Countless vultures caught fire simultaneously, screeching in agony as their black feathers scattered like arrows, piercing into the cliff as if it were tofu.
Ye Ling's snake eyes glinted with ferocity, and her mouth opened wide, letting out a roar. It was as if sound waves spiraled from her mouth, causing all the nearby feathers to be sucked back, piercing into the approaching vulture swarm.
Thousands of vulture corpses fell, many of them burned, filling the air with a charred smell.
"Impressive." Qin Yi couldn’t help but admire. This silly snake was just timid, probably because she had been bullied since she became aware... but her actual demon power was really impressive.
After all, she was a transformed great demon...
Qin Yi formed a hand seal and pointed urgently. "Fast!"
Fine threads of lightning intertwined, forming a net that turned the passing vultures to ash.
The Lightning Summoning Technique, a basic application of wind and thunder, was taught to him by Liu Su on the spot. Just this one move nearly drained all of Qin Yi's magical power.
Suddenly, a white light appeared before him, and Ye Ling hit the brakes, not daring to go down.
"Go down!" Liu Su urged quickly. "That’s the spatial rift at the bottom!"
Ye Ling didn’t know where this mysterious voice came from, but instinctively dove down, disappearing in an instant.
Today, I was pulled by the editor to do a live stream, which delayed my time. Sorry, sorry.
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