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"Zong, I can take you to the gate of the world. Then you will understand why we don't want you to go to the small world."

No matter how many explanations you give, seeing is believing.

Su Qinian and Zhang Mengchu both believed that Li Qingran was a sensible person.

I will not do anything like going to a mountain where there is a tiger even though I know there is one.

Li Qingran nodded: "Then I'll trouble the two elders. No matter what, I still need to go and take a look before making a decision."

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The boundary gate is located in the extreme north of the Cangyun Realm, a desolate place covered by eternal ice and snow.

Su Qinian and Zhang Mengchu protected Li Qingran and struggled forward in the biting cold wind that froze their souls.

This place is covered by the no-fly zone rule, even Mahayana monks can only walk.

The cold here wasn't just any ordinary chill; it was a force of law that disregarded the protective essence of the body, penetrating the bone marrow and even freezing the very essence of thought. The whistling wind was like millions of icy needles, piercing through the robes and into the skin.

Li Qingran clenched his teeth, his slender body trembling slightly in the strong wind, and every step he took felt like he was stepping on spikes.

Her pretty face had long lost its color and turned pale, and her long eyelashes were covered with frost.

Su Qinian and Zhang Mengchu watched from the sidelines with great distress, but were powerless to do anything.

This cold wind from the far north is a test set by nature. The determination to enter the unknown world must be tested personally with body and will.

"Time has passed, thousands of years have passed, and this far north hasn't changed much..."

Su Qinian looked at the falling snow and couldn't help but sigh.

It’s really cold.

When I went to the Small Thousand World for 깊, I almost got skinned alive.

Now he has reached the peak of the fusion realm, but he is still unable to completely resist the chill.

Only Zhang Mengchu, the great cultivator who had already attained the Void Realm, who was standing next to him, looked normal.

"When I first arrived at the boundary gate, I fought a lot with the monsters here." Zhang Mengchu stroked his beard and shook his head slightly. "Now, I can't even sense the aura of those monsters. After thousands of years of changes, there is almost no spiritual energy here. Even monsters can't survive, let alone ordinary animals."

The journey to the Realm Gate is boring.

The two of them just deliberately told some bizarre stories to entertain Li Qingran and distract his attention.

The cold here is still too harsh for cultivators in the Spiritual Transformation Stage.

The two of them didn't know.

Li Qingran has persisted all the way, and what has supported her is not the bizarre stories.

Instead, the tragic scene of Chen Huaian being seriously injured and dying, with only half of his body left, kept flashing through his mind.

The piercing pain actually overwhelmed the bone-chilling cold and turned into a stubborn force that kept her going.

After walking for an unknown amount of time, the wind and snow ahead seemed to be getting lighter.

A city-like, yet completely dilapidated ruin, like the carcass of a giant beast, lay silently on the ice.

The broken pillars were inserted diagonally into the deep snow, half covering the broken reliefs that depicted an ancient star map that had long been lost.

The ancient sword and the unrecognizable pile of objects were frozen in the ice, gleaming with a cold light.

The most eye-catching thing is the remaining half of the giant gate that is hundreds of meters high.

The door frame is made of some kind of dark metal. Even after countless years of wind and frost erosion, you can still feel its former solidity and glory.

But now only half of it remains.

The fractures were jagged, as if they had been broken and shredded by some unimaginable force.

The door does not lead to another world.

There was only a chaotic, distorted void that constantly flashed with dangerous lightning, and a space-time storm that roared in.

Magnificent, yet dead silent.

An epic, but an end.

Is this the boundary gate?

The starting point to the small world?

Li Qingran looked at the cold ruins that buried hope and passage, and his heart sank.

The biting cold seemed to penetrate her every limb and bone in an instant, causing her body to sway and she almost lost her balance.

The boundary gate she imagined, even if it was extremely dangerous, should at least be complete and functioning...

The dilapidated and hopeless scene before her was like a basin of ice water, almost extinguishing the determination and courage she had accumulated along the way.

"This... is the boundary gate?" Her voice trembled slightly and dissipated in the howling cold wind.

"It's here." Su Qinian frowned. "But it's not right..."

He recalled, "When I came here before, the boundary gate was broken, but not half left... At that time, the boundary gate could no longer be directed to a specific small world. I would randomly teleport to one, and then travel through the small worlds to other small worlds... Now that this boundary gate is so damaged, it can't be unusable, right?"

Zhang Mengchu walked to the boundary gate with a serious expression and stretched out his hand to touch the pillar beside the door.

His originally gloomy face darkened even further. "Not only is it useless, even the spatial coordinates are chaotic. If you step into it, you will only be torn apart and devoured by the endless void storm... There is absolutely no way to survive, Zong--"

He turned his head to look at Li Qingran and sighed, "You can see it too, 깊, this gate is inaccessible."

Li Qingran pursed her lips, her eyes dimming: "Is there no other way?"

"No." Zhang Mengchu shook his head: "We don't have the method to build a boundary gate. I guess that's something that only immortals can do... In fact, the sect doesn't necessarily have to go to the Small Thousand Worlds to gain experience. It can also be gained in the Cangyun Realm, for example... uh, for example..."

Zhang Mengchu thought for a while, and finally said, "For example, go to Wan Dashan."

Zhang Mengchu seemed to know that his suggestion was stupid, and he even smiled awkwardly.

Now, Chen Huaian is famous throughout the Cangyun Realm.

Li Qingran was naturally also very famous - even the mortals knew that Chen Jianzun, the number one swordsman in the Cangyun Realm, had a beloved disciple named Li Qingran, who was so beautiful that he could make fish sink to the bottom of the water and geese fall to the ground, and he also had a powerful cultivation base, and his reputation was so legendary that it was almost miraculous.

Although it’s not an exaggeration.

In short, Li Qingran is someone that no one dares to mess with wherever he goes.

Training in the Cangyun Realm would naturally become a joke.

Unless, go to Wandashan.

But Wan Dashan is too harsh. With Li Qingran's cultivation and fame, is he sure he is not sending hostages to the demon clan?

"There are so many mountains." A gleam of light flashed in Li Qingran's eyes.

Since the boundary gate is damaged and she cannot go to the Small Thousand Worlds, then she will kill her way through the Ten Thousand Mountains.

On the contrary, she has no good feelings towards the demon race.

After saying this, she turned around and went back the way she came.

"Zong, that's not possible. I was just joking. Please don't really go!" Zhang Mengchu quickly followed.

Su Qinian looked at Li Qingran who was about to leave, then looked at the collapsed gate, sighed, and hurried after him.

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At the same time, in the cave.

Chen Huaian originally closed his eyes and practiced Qigong to speed up his body's recovery.

Suddenly a system prompt appears:

[Offline Quest 8.0: Li Qingran wants to go to the Small Thousand Worlds for training. Please help Li Qingran go to the Small Thousand Worlds.]

Chen Huaian: “???”

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