“Yun Zhou, have you gone mad?!”
Lin Langyue desperately tried to grab Yun Zhou.
But with her cultivation abilities restricted, how could she possibly pull him away?
“Shut up! If you want to survive, follow me. If you don’t trust me, then be it!”
After saying that, Yun Zhou suddenly let go of her hand.
Although they were considered friends, Yun Zhou didn’t have the habit of forcing anyone.
After all, she wasn’t his own woman.
If they wanted to seek their own doom, then let them!
……
The ground kept shaking; the bricks below crumbled like a spider web, falling into the abyss, and the area of darkness grew ever larger.
The two women looked at Yun Zhou, feeling somewhat stunned.
To follow him in order to survive?
That was clearly a quest for death, wasn’t it?!
Their eyes were filled with confusion.
But for some reason, after a brief pause, they both followed Yun Zhou’s figure without hesitation.
It was as if they had lost their own judgment.
It was utterly absurd!
“Never mind. Let’s take a chance with him. If he kills me, I’ll settle accounts with him in hell!”
Bai Qian gritted her teeth and immediately chased after Yun Zhou.
Although Bai Qian belonged to the fox clan, her beastly bloodline gave her a physique far superior to that of ordinary cultivators.
So even though her cultivation abilities were restricted, her physical strength was beyond that of ordinary people.
Lin Langyue bit down on her red lips, her expression showing a hint of distress.
But after a short mental struggle, she also followed closely behind.
Yun Zhou seemed to notice her footsteps and immediately slowed down, then took her hand.
“Since you trust me, then just hold onto me. You’re running too slowly; don’t lose me!”
He didn’t care why Lin Langyue trusted him.
With a large hand, he wrapped her small hand within his.
“Ah… okay.”
Lin Langyue looked at Yun Zhou’s profile, a hint of daze flashing across her cheeks.
Then, perhaps thinking of something, a faint blush spread across her face.
Bai Qian, who was running ahead, glanced over and was suddenly stunned upon noticing their state.
“Indeed, Yun Zhou’s relationship with that Taoist nun is not simple…”
“One is a carefree young man, and the other is a graceful Taoist nun… Ah, isn’t that too taboo?”
“With this development, could it unlock a scene that I can watch without spending any ‘immortal stones’?”
Bai Qian’s delicate face was filled with a meaningful smile.
Suddenly:
“Yun Zhou!?”
“Ah?!”
“May I observe you two while you’re doing what you’re doing?” Bai Qian’s beautiful eyes sparkled.
Yun Zhou: ??? (face of confusion).
……
On the shattered ground, the three of them quickly fled.
Most of the area had already been swallowed by the abyss, and they were also approaching the edge of it.
“Yun Zhou, are you sure you want to go down there?”
While running, Lin Langyue bit down on her lower lip and looked at Yun Zhou.
Yun Zhou didn’t respond; he simply acted instead.
“!!!”
Bai Qian didn’t hesitate either. Her white dress fluttered in the wind as she leaped into the abyss.
Glancing sideways, when she saw Yun Zhou tightly holding Lin Langyue with an expressionless face, for some reason, she felt a bit uncomfortable.
“If I’d known, I would have run slower too… Maybe then I could have ended up in his arms as well?”
“Pah, pah, pah… What kind of nonsense am I thinking about? It’s not even certain that I’ll be able to survive, yet I’m pondering all these irrelevant things…”
“But then again, it’s really strange that this cold and aloof Taoist nun can actually blush…”
Yun Zhou led the two of them as they leaped down into the abyss.
Below was utter darkness, as if it were a bottomless hole.
It was unclear how much time had passed.
However, the surrounding aura of death gradually began to dissipate.
Below that pitch-black hole, suddenly appeared a white dot.
The white dot grew larger and larger, and when it finally came into view, it turned out to be a light gate!
“I guessed right?!”
Bai Qian’s eyes lit up with excitement.
At that moment, their descent speed suddenly stabilized.
The two women hovered in mid-air, stunned by the gate below.
Lin Langyue looked at Yun Zhou in surprise, not understanding, “How did you guess that the point of inheritance was down there?”
Yun Zhou shrugged, “Does that really need guessing?”
“Don’t you think the collapse of the first floor of the immortal palace is trying to force us to ascend to the higher levels?”
Lin Langyue frowned, “So what?”
“So what?”
Yun Zhou looked at her as if she were a fool: “If we lose our cultivation, and are forced to ascend, will we even be able to come back down once we’re up there?”
“But if we fall into the abyss, we won’t be able to ascend anyway,” Lin Langyue said with confusion.
Yun Zhou grinned, “Not necessarily…”
He glanced to the side, and Lin Langyue followed his gaze, only to suddenly be stunned.
Beside the dark hole, there was a celestial rope ladder emitting a faint glow, leading straight upwards!
“Ah… When did you notice that?” Lin Langyue asked in surprise.
Yun Zhou replied with a meaningful smile, “When I began to doubt the immortal palace.”
One floor had collapsed, yet the second floor remained intact.
That alone was enough for Yun Zhou to suspect something.
You see, even an immortal palace requires a foundation!
And the foundation of that immortal palace was located on the first floor.
If the first floor collapsed, how could the second floor remain suspended in mid-air without any magical formations?
Moreover, that deep, ominous sound also served as a clue to him.
One thought leads to heaven; one thought leads to hell.
This place of inheritance was left by his former self, the immortal emperor.
For an immortal emperor who hated the way of heaven… Would heaven be located above an immortal palace that “led straight to the heavens”?
Certainly not.
Therefore, from the immortal emperor’s perspective, the closer to heaven a place is, the more it resembles hell!
And this abyss, filled with death and beyond the reach of the way of heaven… That is what the immortal emperor considered heaven!
…
An immortal palace that was supposed to be there in plain sight… Yet they created such a large abyss inside as a point of inheritance.
Yun Zhou found this rather intriguing.
That’s also why he said the immortal emperor had a “clever plan”.
“Tsk… Not even giving me a single hint? They don’t seem to fear that I’ll get trapped above the immortal palace…”
“It seems that my former self, the immortal emperor, did indeed take some risks with this plan…”
“The place that this light gate leads to must be where the inheritance is located.”
“Let’s go, let’s take a look.”
Lin Langyue pondered for a moment before speaking, and then stepped through the light gate first.
Yun Zhou was about to follow when suddenly a cry of surprise came from beside her: “Ah!!”
Anh ta liếc nhìn sang một bên, và ngay lập tức lông mày anh ta nhíu lại:
“Cậu đang làm gì thế này?!”.
