Chapter 325 (2/2)

“You were still thinking of protecting them despite facing three patrolling mountain beasts? Truly admirable,” Chen Jiu teased. “In any case, excluding Dong Bo and I, only you, Jian Huang, and Lord You Lan are still within Crimson Rock Mountain.”

“Mn.” The Meishan Clan Master nodded. “Wu Ma Hai alone died in the first vine leaf world, while everyone else survived it. Still, the first and second vine leaf worlds exist to nurture all of our Transcendent potential, so they’re actually not that dangerous. It’s only once we reach the third vine leaf world that the danger level will actually reach a terrifying height.”

Xue Ying was sighing inwardly.

The number of people still within Crimson Rock Mountain was rapidly decreasing.

Only five of them remained; in addition, he and Chen Jiu were planning to get rid of You Lan! Once they succeeded, there would be four left.

The third vine leaf world was next, followed by the fourth and fifth… By the time someone reached the fifth vine leaf world, how many of them would still be around? How many could possibly get through the entire Sky-Reaching Vine to reach the higher-leveled space?

Or, rather, would even a single one of them manage to do so?

“Let’s go.” Xue Ying and Chen Jiu continued on.

…

Whenever either of them saw a cliff that could benefit them, both would stop for a while before moving on. It was only for the cliffs that both of them were interested in that they would stop for a longer period of time.

On the eleventh day at the Great Canyon.

“This, this is…”

Xue Ying and Chen Jiu were both startled by what they saw.

Above the cliff was a region of pure white and, below it, an area of pitch-black darkness.

In the center, there were traces left behind by the strikes of a blade!

“This is too…” Upon seeing the enormous horizontal blade scar left behind at the center of the cliff, Xue Ying could imagine a scene from long ago, one of an unfathomable existence casually unsheathing their blade and slashing out in a horizontal movement. With such a blade scar to have been left behind on the cliff…even the cliff itself had naturally transformed.

Extreme Piercing? This scar alone contains every single law I can imagine—a single blade encompassing all the power of the Myriad Existences focused into a single extreme point.

Star? With the rise of a blade, the birth of the heaven and earth may occur. Next to the heaven and earth, even the Star remains as small as ever.

Mirage? How could the Mirage even compare to this complete world of heaven and earth?

Xue Ying was completely astounded.

In his eyes, the feeling he got from looking at the traces left behind by this blade were comparable to the sensation of watching the record of Creation of Heaven and Earth. Naturally, because he had viewed the record in its entirety, that feeling had been more intense. This was, after all, merely a residual blade scar.

Chen Jiu had become engrossed by the sight at the same time. It was truly unfathomable. Such blade techniques were simply too hard to come by.

The two of them unhesitantly entered the region with the fastest time acceleration closest by. It was a total of 15 times faster than the normal time flow. Chen Jiu sat on the grass, and Xue Ying stood beside it. He could not help but take out his Stellar Fire Cloud Spear to occasionally test out hypotheses. The two of them were entirely intoxicated. From what they could tell, the traces left behind by the blade were superior to all of the other imprints on the cliffs by a huge margin.

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In the second vine leaf world, there was a continuous range of mountains.

At the highest point of the mountain range…

There was a white-haired elder who still had a rather young aura. His body was relatively thin, and his white hair was fluttering about. The skin on his face was more flushed than even a toddler’s. His eyes were bright, and as he kept watch on the land below, he caught a glimpse of Xue Ying and Chen Jiu in their intoxicated states. Chen Jiu was sitting cross-legged, mumbling out words unknowingly. Meanwhile, Xue Ying was applying his ideas through his spear techniques. He was essentially putting them on display.

“These two…” The white-haired old man with a childlike aura shook his head. “Just seeing that blade techniques was enough to make them this happy.”

“That scar was been left behind by Hui Ming, right? It’s such a pity that she was overly zealous in spreading her religion, which, in the end, brought about some restrictions on herself. Such a pity, such a pity.”

“Crimson Rock Mountain used to be so crowded.”

“And now, it’s empty…”

“Every single one of them has disappeared.”

The old man sat alone at the peak of the mountain. He drank a mouthful of wine out of the green flask in his hand, all while looking into distance as if daydreaming.