Chapter 34: Determination

Everyone who was still outside the cliff saw the little girl tied with the vine, and the moment she stepped off the cliff, her figure vanished. They couldn’t help but be startled.

Someone hurried forward and looked down into the abyss.

But amidst the swirling clouds and mist, they saw nothing.

The others, also shocked, rushed over to look.

“Where is she? How did she disappear?”

“Could she have fallen to the bottom of the cliff?”

“But wasn’t she tied with a vine? That vine…”

Mentioning the vine made everyone panic again.

They looked toward the tree where Shen Qingyi had originally tied the vine, only to find it completely empty.

“How… how is the vine gone?”

“Wasn’t it just there? How…”

“Did anyone see that vine tied to that tree just now?”

Everyone looked where the man pointed and shook their heads.

A little boy couldn’t help but ask.

“Could it be… could it be that the vine fell down with her?”

The boy’s voice was full of fear.

He was trembling all over, having just witnessed with his own eyes the little girl tying the vine, stepping forward, and then disappearing.

“N-no… that can’t be. Even if she fell, she couldn’t vanish so suddenly.”

And she vanished right under the eyes of so many people.

Some naturally refused to believe it.

Meanwhile, Shen Qingyi was quickly stepping onto the stones floating in mid-air.

Shen Qingyi tried hard to stop her body from trembling, ignoring the bottomless abyss beneath her feet.

The floating stones beneath her feet were getting smaller and vanishing faster and faster.

She had to be fast! Faster!

“Crack!”

Shen Qingyi’s swiftly moving body jolted to a sudden stop.

Feeling the tightening around her waist, Shen Qingyi looked down.

Only then did she realize that during her tense sprint, the vine wrapped around her waist had unknowingly reached its limit.

If she wanted to go further now, she had to untie the vine from her waist!

“Crack! Crack!”

The cracking sound reached her ears again; the stone beneath her feet was already starting to fracture.

There was no time!

Shen Qingyi took a deep breath and quickly untied the vine from her waist.

The moment the vine came loose, it fell into the endless abyss, vanishing from sight.

Shen Qingyi trembled all over but took another step forward with determination.

Time passed second by second, and she was fighting against both time and herself.

Everyone seated in the Main Hall was also drawn to the tiny figure in the Water Mirror.

Her face was pale, her whole body shook, but she kept moving forward with unwavering steps.

Even though they knew the Ask Dao Cliff was not the real Ask Dao Cliff, but an Illusory Realm, they couldn’t help but admire this little girl.

“At such a young age, her resolve is impressive.”

Shi Tongzhou stroked his beard.

Xian Ci glanced at his Junior Brother and saw the appreciation in his eyes too. He slightly lowered his gaze.

This destined connection came so suddenly, and at this moment, who knew if it would ultimately be for good or ill.

A thousand years ago, the founding master had prophesied that this continent would face a great change…

Such prophecies were not rare in the Cultivation World; almost every era of upheaval had had its prophecies from celestial masters.

Some were true, some false, with both good and bad outcomes, but without exception, every change that appeared in those eras was accompanied by a storm of blood.

“Crack! Crack!”

Shen Qingyi leaped forward swiftly.

“Boom!”

The stone behind her completely shattered into dust, tumbling down to the cliff base.

Shen Qingyi’s hands clung desperately to the cliff wall, blood seeping from between her fingers.

A piercing pain spread from her fingertips.