I Have a Golden Crow

”Uh.” Du Yu and Lin Shiwei struggled slightly, but were forcibly pushed to the edge of the deep pit.

Below was an abyss as far as the eye could see, causing waves of panic just by looking at it. There was also a swirling gray mist in the pit, evidently consisting of cold qi.

”Mmm~ mm...” The last black-robed person was escorted to the edge of the pit, making strange sounds from his mouth.

Although Du Yu could not understand, he could tell that he was crying and begging for mercy.

The red-robed person didn’t care at all and kicked the black-robed person down.

As the black-robed person fell into the abyss, the pervasive gray mist quickly dispersed, leaving a path for him to descend.

Evidently, as a Spirit Master, when the black-robed person fell into the deep pit, the surrounding cold qi would automatically avoid him.

And along the ”clean” path where the black-robed person fell, the red-robed person actually leaped down as well.

Du Yu and Lin Shiwei exchanged a glance, and in the next moment, felt a tremendous force from behind!

”Ah!” Lin Shiwei exclaimed in surprise, and the two were both pushed into the abyss.

The swirling cold mist scattered as Du Yu passed by. Lin Shiwei, however, did not have the same treatment, and her figure rushed through layers of cold mist, rapidly descending.

”Du Yu... Du...” At this moment, even Lin Shiwei couldn’t help but cry out in panic.

Du Yu’s heart was in his throat!

The massive sense of weightlessness almost knocked him unconscious...

He had never experienced falling off a cliff before, not to mention he hadn’t even tried bungee jumping. Especially since the Bottomless Pit’s depth was unknown, it could truly be called a bottomless abyss!

”Du Yu.” Lin Shiwei was amidst the cold mist, surrounded by darkness, the howling wind disrupting her short hair.

The extreme panic brought about by the rapid descent is something ordinary people can never understand.

Is this how one dies?

Just fall into the abyss, shattered to pieces...

”Oh.” Lin Shiwei suddenly felt her wrist being grabbed.

Like a drowning person struggling, her body instinctively responded by grasping the hand that reached out.

The next moment, she felt herself being tilted and pulled into someone’s embrace.

As she came beside Du Yu, the surrounding cold mist finally dispersed, but the momentum of rapid descent continued.

No Demon Pet, no Fire Vine, no means of self-rescue whatsoever.

In the midst of the darkness, the two had lost their sense of direction and did not know which way led closest to the pit wall.

At this moment, Lin Shiwei’s heart was filled with endless despair...

”I’ll give you a kick, fly you out.” Du Yu lay falling, enduring his extreme panic, speaking with a stutter, ”Try to grab the rock wall.”

However, the opening of the Bottomless Pit was too wide, with a diameter of several kilometers, and they had been pushed out, too far from the walls.

Once the direction was wrong, there was no chance to save it.

Of course, if nothing was done, death was the only outcome in the end.

As long as one could calm down and think, anyone could understand this logic. But you can’t expect someone falling off a cliff to maintain daily calmness.

”Crack.”

A faint crack emerged on Du Yu’s Demon Breath Battle Robe.

Lin Shiwei held onto Du Yu tightly, her face buried into his chest, eyes tightly shut.

In the process of waiting for death to arrive, Lin Shiwei finally realized she was not as strong as she imagined, nor was she a qualified warrior.

She was very panicked and very afraid.

If she could choose, she would rather be stabbed to death, at least it would be neat and quick. Why show cowardice in despair...

”Whoosh~”

A torch fell from the sky, rushing towards them!

Du Yu’s eyes widened at once, pressing Lin Shiwei’s back head with one hand, and raising the other high.

In the Eye of Burning Sun, the rapidly flying Little You Ying, its torch head getting brighter!

You Ying, my Little You Ying...

”You Ying!” Du Yu shouted loudly, his hand wrapped in Demon Breath, gripping the torch handle tightly.

Little You Ying’s big eyes were tightly shut, trying its best to fly upwards.

However, as young as it was, it didn’t have much strength.

Moreover, this species was not designed to carry people flying.

The speed of their descent scarcely slowed, but it was of no help.

”Whoosh~”

The ghostly green fireball on Little You Ying’s torch head suddenly brightened, it struggled to fly upwards.

Please, don’t let the master die, try a bit harder...

Whoosh!

The next moment, Du Yu’s vision blurred, and the scene suddenly changed!

Shadow Gu Tower·Sixth Floor!

When he came back to his senses, the intense weightlessness from falling had disappeared, and he was lying on the ground.

He returned to the gray mist-covered Path to the Underworld?

It’s known that every transition, Du Yu and Lin Shiwei were left disoriented.

Yet at this transition during the cliff fall, they had shed all momentum, quietly laying on the ground without any inclination to fall.

While the Ghost Firefly Torch in Du Yu’s hand was still trying its best to fly upwards, slightly lifting the two who held each other tightly from the ground.

”Heh... it’s okay now, You Ying, heh...” Du Yu gasped for air, looking as if he still hadn’t recovered from the fright.

Little You Ying immediately opened her big eyes, looking around curiously.

”I knew it, the Shadow Gu Tower wouldn’t let us die like this,” Du Yu said with a trembling voice, relying entirely on a thread of belief, yet feeling waves of lingering fear.

He reached out and patted the girl lying on him: ”Shiwei?”

Lin Shiwei also sensed the disappearance of the falling sensation, such an experience was particularly eerie.

It was like an athlete sprinting at full speed suddenly appearing on the home sofa, lying calmly without a trace of inertia...

Lin Shiwei finally released her embrace, her trembling arms propping the ground as she slowly sat up.

Outside the Shadow Gu Tower, inside the military camp tent, there was dead silence, and only when the soldiers realized the two landed safely did they begin to breathe again.

The soldiers finally remembered that they should breathe.

Such a thrilling fall off the cliff seemed to make everyone empathize, despairingly awaiting death’s arrival.

Yang Qingqing pressed a communication button, her voice steady and cold, giving the two great reassurance: ”Steady your emotions; this place is the misty Path to the Underworld that you two have visited.”

Lin Shiwei shakily stood up, eyes lowered, silently pulling Du Yu up.

What Path to the Underworld? This was clearly the Bottomless Pit!

The Shadow Gu Tower skipped our falling process, bringing us directly to the very bottom!

Du Yu, calming his surging emotions, said: ”This should be the deepest part of the Bottomless Pit, the surrounding mist should be Cold Qi...Shiwei?”

”Ah!” Lin Shiwei finally came to her senses, and her eyes looking at Du Yu were full of guilt.

Du Yu patted Lin Shiwei’s arm: ”Sort out your emotions, matters unrelated to the mission can be addressed once we leave the tower.”

Lin Shiwei nodded stiffly: ”Hmm.”

Du Yu: ”Which means, we’ve been to the deepest part of the Bottomless Pit before. Back then, we went left, and the left passage connects to the Twin Trees!”

The soldiers in the tent were secretly amazed upon hearing this.

The Bottomless Pit and Twin Trees are actually connected!

These two interdependent Otherworlds have an underground passage connecting them!

Du Yu: ”Master Qing, are all Twin Trees connected to the Bottomless Pit, or is this an isolated case?”

Yang Qingqing began to respond, but before she could, Battalion Commander Liu pressed the communication button: ”Discuss all that once you’re out; focus on the task now!”

”Woo~ woo...” At the same time, a faint sound of crying came from afar.

This familiar crying sound was clearly emitted by the Black-robed People.

Evidently, the Red-robed and Black-robed People also reached the bottom safely by some means. At this moment, the Black-robed People were still being escorted, destination unknown.

Lin Shiwei suppressed her guilty feelings; she couldn’t forgive her earlier cowardice, even though it was merely a dying person’s instinct.

Battalion Commander Liu: ”Follow the clues and keep faith! You’re just one layer away!”

Lin Shiwei looked to the right, tracing the source of the crying: ”Du Yu!”

”Hmm?”

Lin Shiwei’s expression became resolute, determined not to retreat this time!

The girl grabbed the Ghost Firefly Torch, illuminating the right area, placing herself before Du Yu: ”We go this way!”

As soon as she finished speaking, Lin Shiwei was stunned.

Not just her, Du Yu also felt this conversation oddly familiar...

At the Shadow Gu Tower’s second layer, similarly at this Bottomless Pit’s deepest part, Du Yu once heard Lin Shiwei’s voice from far on the right!

Lin Shiwei turned to Du Yu in disbelief: ”Can the Shadow Gu Tower predict my actions and speech?”

Back when I was on the second level,

the Shadow Gu Tower had already depicted the sixth layer me?

Du Yu pursed his lips: ”The Shadow Gu Tower has absorbed too many souls, witnessing a vast array of people and their natures.

Perhaps the moment a Demon Tamer enters the tower, the Shadow Gu Tower already sees through them entirely.

Lin Shiwei furrowed her eyebrows: ”So at this point in time, there are two pairs of us at the bottom. If we were to meet, what would happen?”

Du Yu’s curiosity peaked as he glanced back to the left: ”Yes! There’s another you and me over there. Your Rose Double Spirit, my Xiaoyan, my Demon Soldier Linked Beads are over there.”

Yang Qingqing pressed the button: ”Du Yu, all of this is an illusion. Your Xiaoyan is in my Leaf Cocoon, your Demon Soldier Linked Beads are also in the camp tent.

There has never been another you; don’t be misled by the Shadow Gu Tower’s unique attributes!

You now follow the clue to the right; the bottom is vast and enveloped in Cold Qi, and without the crying sound as a clue, you’d lose your way.”

”In fact, I’ve already found it.” Du Yu suddenly said.

Yang Qingqing: ”Hmm?”

Du Yu: ”The clue is Spiritual Qi.

The Shadow Gu Tower itself does not possess Cold Qi; it can only simulate a mist-covered environment. But it’s all a façade, which is why Shiwei and I can stand safely at the bottom.

Yet the Shadow Gu Tower holds Spiritual Qi, which has already pointed me in the direction.”

Yang Qingqing: ”Still left?”

Du Yu: ”It originates from the left, but it’s flowing to the right. Which means the Twin Trees are channeling Spiritual Qi through the underground passage towards the Bottomless Pit.”

For a moment, Du Yu’s thoughts became lively!

Why don’t the Twin Trees emit Spiritual Qi into the outside world?

Instead, they choose to channel it downwards, releasing it into the Bottomless Pit?

Because of the Divine Tree’s manipulation, has the world’s Spiritual Qi become increasingly scarce, leading to Spirit Masters disappearing and eventually extinct?

”Let’s go, Shiwei!” Du Yu pointed forward to the right, ”Let’s see where the Spiritual Qi injected by the Twin Trees into the ground is going!”

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