Chapter 880 ā Descending into the Abyss
Amidst the dreadful sounds of bodies being ruptured, the bodies of the ten Divine Palace disciples were cruelly smashed into pieces within a few breaths by the berserking Yun Che . Just as his blood-drenched fist was about to explode against the body of the last Divine Palace disciple, he suddenly stopped moving and just stood in place .
The Divine Palace disciple who had sunk limply to the ground had long ago been drained of all color . The Divine Palace disciple had originally given up all hope but when he saw that Yun Cheās movements had suddenly stopped, he saw his one chance for survival . His body trembled as he scrambled backwards, āDonāt kill meā¦ donāt kill meā¦ Ah!!ā
He gave a miserable shout as his entire body was sucked towards Yun Che . Yun Cheās hand grabbed his skull, his left arm flashed with light as his profound handle flew out and instantly buried itself into his soul .
The Divine Palace disciple immediately grew dazed as his memories over the past hour swiftly flooded into Yun Cheās brainā¦ Within his memories, Yun Che clearly saw the scene where Su Lingāer jumped down Cloudās End Cliff .
āUWAAā¦ AAAAAAHHHH!!!ā Yun Cheās face warped as he let out a furious roar, his teeth chattering as he fiercely flung the Divine Palace disciple in his hand away . Before the Divine Palace disciple had even hit the ground, he had already been shattered into many pieces .
Bright red blood splattered the mountain stones, the twelve members of Seven Stars Divine Palace had instantly been turned into broken bloody corpses littering the ground but it had not done anything to lessen the fury and pain in Yun Cheās heart . He closed his eyes and howled wildly like a berserking vicious beastā¦
He fell to his knees with a heavy thump, his blood-drenched fist fiercely exploding downwards .
A huge explosion blanketed most of the Mythical Abode Mountain Range as countless boulders rained down from the Cloudās End Peak .
Yun Cheās arm streamed with blood but he could no longer feel even the slightest hint of pain . He knelt to the ground, both his hands rigidly clawing the ground . Rough and heavy gasps escaped his throat as his whole body was shaking in an incomparably violent manner .
Why had it turned out like thisā¦
Yun Che felt as if his soul had been pierced by ten thousand arrowsā¦ Losing Lingāer had always been the greatest point of pain and regret in his life .
After he was allowed to be reunited with Lingāer once more, he had always believed that this was definitely the greatest boon that heaven had ever bestowed upon him . When he found out that he was destined to die, the last and greatest desire of his life was to see Lingāer once moreā¦ Even if he could only gaze at her from a distance .
He used the Primordial Profound Ark, taking his one and only chance to come to the Azure Cloud Continent . After he confirmed that everything that had happened here six years ago was not a dream, he was simply ecstatic . However, before he was even able to see Su Lingāer, he received such tragic news instead . This kind of ending wasā¦
In his past life, he had allowed revenge to consume his eyes and soul . Su Lingāer had given her everything to him, giving him enough tears to last a lifetime but he had not even made a single promise to herā¦
In this life, when he had met Su Lingāer again in that ādreamscape,ā he had made all those promises to her but before he could make those words a reality, those words had caused her to wait vainly for six yearsā¦ before he lost her once more .
āLingā¦ erā¦ Just what sin did she commitā¦ā The pain of his soul being torn apart caused Yun Che to be unable to feel the existence of his body or his five sense . Icy-cold tears dripped down to fall on the ground besides his hands, āWhy did heavenā¦ have to treat her this way!!ā
āNoā¦ Itās my faultā¦ Itās all my faultā¦ā Yun Che said as his entire body trembled . He had gritted his teeth so hard that he had nearly shattered them, āWhy did I waste so much timeā¦ to deal with Su Haoran and those other bastardsā¦ If I had come just a bit earlier, things wouldnāt have turned out this wayā¦ and Lingāer would have been fineā¦ā
āItās all my fault!!ā
āAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!ā
Yun Cheās pupils went red as he raised his left arm and heavily smashed it against his own chest .
His chest sank under the weight of this blow as a long arrow of blood was fiercely expelled from his body . But the pain his body felt was not even ten-thousandth of the agony his heart was under .
Under his blow, a small and delicate precious stone that he had kept inside the clothes around his chest was jolted high into the sky, striking the mountain stone in front of him . It let out a clear and crisp sound as it the stone before it rebounded back towards Yun Che while it quiet shone with a dull purple light .
The weak purple light that was flashing in his eyes caused Yun Che to freeze the arm that was just about to smash his chest again . In the next instant . He sprung forward as fast as lightning, picking it up in his hand .
The small rhombus-shaped precious stone was releasing a warm purple light . This precious stone was no ordinary profound jade, it was the soul crystal that Su Hengshan had given him!
Su Lingāerās soul crystal!!
A soul crystal was bonded with its ownerās soul; once the soul of the owner was extinguished, the soul crystal would instantly shatter . In those sects that were slightly bigger, important members of the sect would leave soul crystals within the sect . So if they died while abroad, their sect would be the first to know .
But the soul crystal of Su Lingāer which he held in his handā¦ had not shattered and it still glowed with the light of her soul!!
It was as if a cold spring had rushed into Yun Cheās body, causing his chaotic heart to become incomparably cold and sober . He tightly gripped the soul crystal as he hurried over to the side of Cloudās End Cliff .
The foggy cliff was so deep that Yun Che could not see the bottom . Cloudās End Cliff was also known to the world as the Death Godās Graveyard . Over the entire history of the Azure Cloud Continent, countless people had either been thrown off Cloudās End Cliff or had tried to climb down Cloudās End Cliff but not a single person had ever returned aliveāThis included the incomparably formidable existences that were akin to gods for most people, Monarchs!
Furthermore, this was not something that was hidden, it was something that was common knowledge in the Azure Cloud Continent!
The twelve people from Seven Stars Divine Palace could lie to him but those memories were not able to lie to him . Su Lingāer had indeed jumped down Cloudās End Cliff .
However, the warm and unbroken soul crystal that lay in his hand would also not lie to him .
Yun Che stepped onto the very edge of Cloudās End Cliff while he sucked in a deep breath of air, striving his best to calm his wildly beating heart . He could not stop himself from muttering in a flustered voice, āLingāer is still aliveā¦ Lingāer isnāt deadā¦ Lingāer isnāt deadā¦ā
He suddenly took the air and hovered right above Cloudās End Cliff . After that he used all of his strength to shout into the boundless abyss below him:
āLingāer!! Lingāer!! This is Yun Cheā¦ Lingāer, where are youā¦ Lingāer!!ā
His voice was enhanced by profound energy, so it could be heard from as far as fifty kilometers away . But it had been completely swallowed up by the jet-black abyss below him . He did not hear even the tiniest response, even after a long time had passedā¦ and more importantly, he did not hear Su Lingāerās response .
Above him was the boundless blue dome of heaven, below him was an endless abyss . At this moment, it seemed as if he was standing on the border between heaven and hell and the only sounds left in this world were the sound of his breathing and the sound of his beating heart .
He slowly raised his hand, the soul crystal that was bonded with Su Lingāerās soul glowing with a warm light . This warm light told him that Su Lingāer was still alive in this world, waiting to be reunited with him . He steadily stared at the soul crystal and Su Lingāerās figure slowly appeared before his eyesā¦
First was the Su Lingāer from his previous life, the girl who seemed like a melancholic fairy, the girl who had wept countless tears over himā¦
Next was the Su Lingāer from six years ago, the girl who had the smile of an angel, the girl who cried as she told him that he must definitely come backā¦
Yun Che softly gripped the soul crystal in his hand as he stopped shouting . The chaos had suddenly vanished from his eyes, becoming incredibly clear as his body slowly descended . After that he began to quickly pick up speed as he plunged downwards towards the boundless abyss below him like a falling meteor .
ćYun Che, I want you to promise meā¦ When you go to the Azure Cloud Continent, regardless of whether that happens sooner or later, youāre not allowed to approach Cloudās End Cliff ever again! Even if your strength becomes a hundred times stronger than it currently is and you grow strong enough to sweep across the entire continent and easily defeat someone like Xuanyuan Wentian, you must never attempt to investigate the bottom of Cloudās End Cliffā¦ I canāt tell you what is hiding at the bottom of Cloudās End Cliff . Its dreadfulness is far beyond what you can imagine!ć
ćI understand! I wonāt ever go near Cloudās End Cliff from now on . Even if I do end up at Cloudās End Cliff due to special circumstances, I will definitely not attempt to investigate what is hidden at the bottomā¦ This is something that Iāve promised you Jasmine, so I definitely wonāt ever break this promise . ć
The warning that Jasmine had issued to him in the sternest of tones echoed in his ear . The vow that he made in front of Jasmine also clearly rang in his mind as well .
Jasmine, I am sorry, I am going to break the vow I made to you back thenā¦
During my life in the Azure Cloud Continent, I had thought that the most important thing in my life was vengeance .
But the moment that Lingāer died in my arms, I suddenly felt as if my entire world had become hollow and empty and that pain and remorse doggedly followed me for the rest of my lifeā¦ I was tortured by pain and remorse every single moment I was awake . In my dreams, I dreamt countless times that all of it was a lie and that Lingāer was still by my side . I dreamt that I was willing to set aside everything else for her sake, to give her all of meā¦
Moreover, those dreams and hopes have miraculously become a realityā¦ So how can I lose her again!?!
āLingāerā¦ā Yun Che softly whispered as he descended into the abyss, āEven if I am buried forever with you in the Death Godās Graveyard, I will definitely not let go of you again!ā
Yun Che descended without any hesitation or fear . Instead, he grew faster and faster as he tightly grasped Su Lingāerās soul crystal in his hand . He fervently prayed in his heart for it definitely not to shatterā¦ for it to never ever shatter .
In the blank of an eye, he had already descended a full three thousand meters and his surroundings had become a sea of pitch-black darkness . He raised his head and discovered that he could no longer see even a hint of light in the space above him .
Lingāer, where are youā¦ Where exactly are you!
I know that you are definitely safe and soundā¦ I am going to find you soon!!
Darkness instinctively causes fear in human beings, let alone the absolute darkness found in a deep abyss . But the speed of Yun Cheās descent did not slow in the slightest, instead, it was growing even more rapid with every passing moment .
The soul crystal in his hand told him that Su Lingāer was definitely waiting for him in the world beneath the abyss .
Previously, his tardiness had resulted in and led to a terrible result where Su Lingāer had chosen to jump down Cloudās End Cliff . So how could he tolerate the slightest bit of hesitation and sluggishness at this moment?
The scarlet phoenix flames ignited in Yun Cheās hands, illuminating the pitch-black world of the abyss . But under the light that was radiating from the Phoenix flames, he still only saw a swathe of darkness and he saw no end to the abyss that stretched below him .
Yun Che simply extinguished the ignited Phoenix flames and continued his descent at full speedā¦ In the history of the Azure Cloud Continent, the countless profound practitioners who had attempted to descend Cloudās End Cliff had done so in an exceedingly slow and cautious manner . Even Jasmine had remained vigilant and careful when she descended the Cloud Endās Cliff several months ago .
So Yun Che was definitely the first person to ever crazily rush down this cliff that was the most dreadful abyss in the entire Azure Cloud Continentā¦ or even the rest of the world .
The wind whistled in his ears as the air slowly grew dark and colder . Yun Cheās wildly beating heart had not regulated itself from the start to the end . He imagined that the world below the abyss was a vasty body of waterā¦ or perhaps it was a pitch-black forestā¦ But just what would allow a person who fell down here to survive while making it hard for them to escapeā¦
So, Lingāer was definitely safe! As long as he fell into the world below him, he would definitely be able to find her!
Jasmine had clearly told him that the world beneath Cloudās End Cliff was incomparably dreadful, that it possessed a dreadfulness he would not even be to imagineā¦ But right now, he exerted all his effort to cling onto those thoughts, used all his might to continue believing .
Amidst the dark and howling wind, he continuously descended several thousand feet . At this time, he had finally begun to sense the weird aura that Jasmine had sensed at that time .