Chapter 101: Sheer Cliff

Chapter 101.1: Sheer Cliff

But that was not the end of it.

The crack continued to extend down deep into the ground and split into two, to form a wide divisive chasm.

The chasm gradually widened and as the spot she had been standing was a distance away from the others, by the time Qing Yu was able to react, she was already separated from the other three people, them standing on one end, and she standing on the other side.

“Sis!” Qing Bei shouted anxiously, seemingly wanting to cross over to the other side. But the gulf was continuing to widen and the ground was still shaking violently. Rock and stone came dislodged and fell down into the deep chasm, and there was no sound of them hitting the bottom. In his panicked state, it was all he could do to steady his feet.

“All of you must protect yourselves well. I am fine.” Qing Yu raised her voice to say.

The tips of her ears then perked up, coming to hear the dull booming thump coming closer. Her long upslanted eyes narrowed as she tried to ascertain the source of the sound.

Finally, the thick and sharp horn was the first to be revealed before her eyes and four slender limbs next, its eyes big as bronze bells which emitted a blinding white light, its dragon like head majestic and grand. Its body was unbelievably massive, almost blocking out the entire sky, the oppressive aura it exuded was so powerful it could cause one’s chest to turn hot, and vomit out a whole mouthful of blood.

Qing Yu forcibly resisted against the oppression, pushing down the rank metallic taste at the back of her throat.

[What kind of a monster could this be that it possesses such immense power.]

[The oppression in its aura is a hundred times stronger than when the Demonic Centipede had gone berserk!]

The gargantuan sized beast came closer with each step, its head seemingly hidden above the clouds, and it could well be imagined just how enormous the beast truly was. It then snorted derisively through its nose and said: “Humans, you’ve disturbed my peace!”

The group of people were startled. [It spoke! That means it’s a spirit beast that’s surpassed the eighth level!]

[Not only have they been trapped in here with no way out, they have now come to encounter such a powerful spirit beast.]

“We….. We’re finished. We’re surely done for this time.” Yan Xi Rou’s face was horribly pale as she unconsciously gripped Yan Xi Wu’s arm tightly, her fingers trembling in fear.

Yan Xi Wu’s gaze was instead tightly fixed upon Qing Yu who was now a far distance away from them, her heart filled with a sense of blind irrational trust that Qing Yu would be able to deal with things, and that they would not die here just like that.

“We were already all prepared to leave, but we are unable to get out. We have no intentions of intruding and causing any affront.” Qing Yu had just come out from a battle and her body had not fully recovered. Under such circumstances, she did not really want a headon clash.

[For the spirit beast to be capable of human speech, it must possess outstanding intelligence. If she’s able to settle this peacefully, that would be best.

Hearing that, the gigantic beast lowered its head to look at her, the ends of its lips raised up in a gleeful smile. “Of course you are not be able to get out. No one in here will be able to get out. Because this entire place has already disappeared.”

“Disappeared?” Qing Yu was taken aback. “What do you mean?”

The gigantic beast seemed to be in a rather good mood as it went on to explain to her: “This place is basically an illusory realm that was born when I went into a deep sleep while I was advancing to the next level, and now that I have awoken, the place would naturally then cease to exist.”

“Illusory realm…..”

Qing Yu would never have thought that the Hades’ Canyon that had been around in these land for several tens of years would turn out to be an illusory realm that did not exist in reality…..

[But if the illusion has disappeared, then where were they physically now?]

[No, that cannot be right!]

Qing Yu’s eyes then darkened. “You want to trap us all in here?”

The gigantic beast looked at her, a little surprised, and then shook its head. A brightness shone in those intelligent eyes tinged with slight anticipation. “I will kill off the other people in a while and only you will remain behind, to forever accompany me.”

Chapter 101.2: Sheer Cliff

“How dare you! ?” Qing Yu’s face was tinged with slight anger. [Is there something wrong with this spirit beast’s brain? It couldn’t possibly have fallen for her has it?]

“There is nothing I don’t dare to do.” The gigantic beast burst out in laughter.

Its gazes then darkened and the sharp lone horn on its head began to crackle with an electrifying light. Another violent bolt of lightning shot towards a spot on the other side where Qing Bei and the sisters were standing and a chunk of the ground suddenly collapsed. If not for Qing Bei’s quick actions that pulled the two young girls away, they would have already fallen down into the bottomless chasm.

The frightened faces of the two of them were devoid of all human colour as they gripped on tightly to Qing Bei’s clothes.

On the other side, Qing Bei’s heart was beating madly from shock and she said through tightly clenched teeth: “Despicable. To think that such a high level spirit beast would use such cheap and lowly tricks against weak humans. Where the inspiring valour that should come from such a majestic spirit beast! ?”

However, the gigantic spirit beast did not feel the slightest tinge of shame from being berated. “Weak humans will not live for long and will in turn end up as food for spirit beasts, so why not just die earlier? Rest assured. Down below is where my life’s fire lie and I guarantee that they will turn into ash in an instant, and they will not even feel anything.”

This brutal spirit beast was really so viciously cruel!

At the moment when it unleashed another attack upon the people over on the other side, Qing Yu completely ignored the violent shaking in the ground and tapped the points of her feet on the ground to leap over to the other side, and moved at an astounding speed to grab the few people, bringing them to a comparatively safer location back on this side.

The gigantic beast did not know the reason why, but it liked Qing Yu very much and it wasn’t ready to hurt her.

When it saw that she had leapt over to the other side, it quickly tried to retract the lightning that was whizzing ferociously forward but was still a step too late.

Although Qing Yu had dodged very quickly, but she was still struck on the arm by that lightning and her arm instantly turned numb, unable to feel anything. The left arm that had been dislocated earlier but she had not attended to it much was now wounded in addition to the original injury. A portion of the snowy white robe was charred black and bright red blood flowed down past her fingertips to drip onto the ground.

“Sis…..”

“Qing Yu…..”

The eyes of the few of them who saw that happen right before them immediately grew red rimmed, brimming over with emotions.

No matter how much she disliked Qing Yu all this time, the always foul mouthed Yan Xi Rou immediately broke into tears when she saw the wretched state of Qing Yu’s arm, thinking it must be horrendously painful.

If it wasn’t because she wanted to save them, she wouldn’t have been hurt.

And at that moment, the power of the lightning blast that had already gotten two thirds of the ground blown off suddenly caused the edge below Qing Yu to crumble into rubble.

Qing Yu’s body was stiff and numb and in a moment of inattentiveness, her slender body went falling down together, her white robe billowing out with the rush of the wind as she fell, looking like a plummeting butterfly.

Qing Bei’s elegant eyes immediately flared wide, a surge of power seeming to gush up inside his body that was going to burn up his entire person. But the unnatural feeling in his body did not hold his attention as all his focus was only pinpointed upon the young lady falling down into the deep chasm.

[Qing Yu…..]

He wanted to go save her without caring about anything else but it was as if his body was rooted to the ground, unable to move at all, despite him struggling with everything he had till green veins were bulging up prominently at his temples.

[No….. Let me go…..]

The gigantic beast had not expected that such a thing would happen and it was stunned in shock, with panic coming to appear in its eyes.

A shadow fleeted past its eyes, straight down towards the deep chasm. The gigantic beast stared with its eyes wide, not having been able to clearly see what that was. Thereafter, a mirth filled voice then rang out darkly behind it.

“Little one, you’ve gotten yourself in big trouble this time. You better pray hard this time!”

Chapter 101.3: Sheer Cliff

The gigantic beast immediately turned its head around with a snap and saw an enchantingly handsome looking man in red robes. It was taken aback for a moment before it asked: “My Lord, what made you come here today?”

“With such a great commotion you caused advancing a level, shouldn’t I at least come have a look?” Bai Zhi Yan said with a click of his tongue. “Hurry up and keep this form of yours away. It’s an eyesore. Aren’t you already able to change your form?”

Hearing that, the gigantic beast’s body then shrank, and in a puff of green smoke, a tall black robed figure appeared before his eyes, his face refined and good looking, like a smooth and suave playboy. His eyes were rather unique, where the whites of his eyes were almost non existent, its dark irises taking up a huge portion of them, a little unusual looking.

“You don’t look like you’re any good at all.” Bai Zhi Yan said, snorting a couple of times in contempt.

[This man….. was the one who had previously appeared so suddenly, the man who had wanted to snatch away their rabbits!]

“So it’s you!” Yan Xi Rou glared at him with wide eyes, becoming so angry she forgot to be afraid and admonished him fiercely: “Aren’t you being too ungrateful here? To think that Qing Yu was so kind to offer you food seeing that you were so hungry, you have now caused her to fall off the edge of such a sheer cliff!”

The man knew that he was in the wrong here and he just rubbed his nose without saying a word.

Hearing those words, Bai Zhi Yan raised an eyebrow and asked: “Do you know who that young lady that fell off is?”

The man’s eyes lit up with joy when he heard her being mentioned but then turned a little sad as he said: “Her roasted rabbit….. was delicious. I loved it….. I wanted to keep her here to keep me company. It was not intentional…..”

“Keep her as company?” Bai Zhi Yan looked as if he had just heard a joke, his plum blossom like eyes shining dazzlingly, unable to hide his mirth. “You dare to even like her? You’re really just the greatest! The greatest spirit beast I have ever seen in my life. Hahaha…..”

The man sawt Bai Zhi Yan doubled over in laughter and he just continued to just look at him in confusion.

It was a quite a while before Bai Zhi Yan was able to stop laughing and he then raised his eyes up to look at the man. “I told you on the very day that I saved you that you will come to serve a person in future, and that person’s position is above me, the Lord that I serve.”

The man nodded. [But does that have anything to do with this?]

“The young lady that just fell off, is my Lord’s benefactor who saved his life. Moreover, she is a high grade Elixir Cultivator, the type whose single pill of Level Advancement Elixir will allow you to become a Super Divine Beast within a short period of time.”

Bai Zhi Yan looked at the man whose face was turning white bit by bit, his expression turning into one of horror. Bai Zhi Yan paused for a moment before he said: “Before we got here, he has already stated that if you turn out to be too blind to see and come to harm a single hair on her, he will have you skinned.”

The man’s seemingly tall and brawny figure then suddenly shivered involuntarily.

On the other end, because of her draining strength and the fact that she was wounded, Qing Yu was not able to breath for an instant as she fell. Her weapon spirit in her body was frantically calling out to her: “Mistress! Wake up and let me out!”

A weapon spirit would not be able to come out from the dimensional space when their Master had lost consciousness. Seeing the frail state that Qing Yu was in, Zang Mai was frantic with panic but in the next instant, the link with the outside world was cut off.

Qing Yu had fainted.

The people up on the cliff’s surface were all sitting on pins with the probable exception of Bai Zhi Yan.

It was till the sound of light footsteps sounded that everyone looked up, and saw a tall and muscular man in a purple robe carrying a slim figure in his arms, slowly walking towards them.

When he came closer they were all astounded at the man’s countenance, which was exquisitely flawless in its beauty, the mesmerizing and soul binding violet eyes under his brows exceptionally striking, his moist thin lips under that high pointed nose pressed lightly together like he was withholding his emotion, and the terrifyingly sinister aura emanating from his body driving chills through their bodies.

Qing Bei was rather stunned as he looked at that man, and something flashed through his mind. [This man…..]