Chapter 88 Where is the Sun? Scattered, tiny bones. ...
Scattered, broken bones.
Rather than the pure white of snow, it is closer to the dim gray of an old man in his twilight years.
It was cast into shape bit by bit, then picked up by the shop owner's fingers, placed on the previous bone, and stacked up one piece on top of another.
The human body has 206 bones, but the bones that Li An has squeezed out are far more than this number.
So there are inevitable repetitions, but she doesn't force it.
Mainly because she found that she had set the picture frame a little too large.
...This resulted in her having to pinch out more bones than she had expected in order to reach the top of the picture.
Tsk, Li An thought, I'm really getting myself into trouble.
If it hadn't been more troublesome to remove the picture frame and install a new one, she wouldn't have been pinching her bones for so long.
After kneading for a long time and feeling annoyed, Li An decided to take a break.
Anyway, it's just the last bone that's missing, so there's no need to rush.
She leaned back and felt the small pillow tied to the back of the chair softly supporting the back of her neck.
My mind gradually emptied, but my eyes unconsciously fell to the window.
It's four o'clock in the morning, not far from sunrise.
The sky stretched out outside the window, and the dark, almost inky color seemed to be able to climb in through the window frame and crawl onto the bones at any time.
Countless stars twinkled in the sky, silently looking at the leaves and bones scattered on the ground in the frame.
Alas... although she was annoyed, she still liked this clay painting very much.
Oh, right, the sky.
Li An thought that the painting was still missing the sky and the sun.
She lowered her head and looked at the picture frame on the table.
It’s so troublesome to get the whole sky out...such a large area.
Li An, who refused to repeatedly knead the clay, thought that leaving blank space was a really good thing.
She only needs a sun to make the upper half of the picture become the sky. Although it is a sky without any decoration except the sun, it is just a minor flaw.
The only question was, what kind of sun would she make?
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Sister Zhong seems a little nervous...?
Zhong Liu wasn't sure if she was wrong. No matter how she thought about it, she didn't think Zhong was the kind of person who would get nervous.
Although everyone has this kind of emotion...but Zhong is so powerful. In Zhong Liu's heart, the other party is even close to being omniscient and omnipotent. Even if she is asleep most of the time for unknown reasons, even if the other party needs her to do something, it does not affect this characteristic.
It was really hard for her to imagine why such a person would be nervous.
"Is there something wrong with the last area?" Zhong Liu asked in his heart.
"No." Unexpectedly, Zhong immediately rejected this.
She seemed to take a breath—there was no air in her sea of consciousness, which only meant that she was subconsciously repeating her actions when she was still a human. Then she said, "It happened after I cleared that piece of debris."
Zhong Liu didn't quite understand.
What else can be done after clearing it?
wrong.
Zhong Liu subconsciously looked up at the sky. When Zhong was awake, the half of her vision that could see the ladder would only appear, so most of the time, she couldn't actually see the ladder.
A sense of nervousness gripped my heart, and I didn't know where it came from. "Is it related to the ladder?"
"Um."
Zhong Liu thought, this seems to be the case. Even if the fog brought by the fragments of the climbing ladder is cleared, how can the ladder be repaired?
Has anything like this ever happened in this world before?
Zhong answered her question quietly, "There have been some records before, but none as severe as this collapse."
She seemed to be searching for a metaphor Zhong could understand: "Just like a river cleans itself, occasional pollution will slowly settle and disappear. But if there is a massive pollution that covers the entire river... it is difficult for nature to restore it to its original state."
Zhong Liu kept walking and followed the person in front of him all the way to the final area.
"In other words, the Cloud Ladder can no longer be restored?"
“It’s basically impossible.”
Even though Zhong Liu was not very keen on ascension, it did not prevent her from deeply realizing the significance of the Cloud Ladder to the world of cultivation during this period of time.
That is part of the way of heaven and an essential step in ascending to the immortal realm.
"Doesn't that mean—"
Zhong took over her words: "No one can ascend again unless the Heavenly Dao repairs itself once again."
She felt quite calm when she said this, Zhong Liu thought.
Zhong Liu was able to control her conversations with Zhong, and Zhong wasn't one to pry into other people's privacy, so it didn't matter if she had random thoughts. This strange connection between the two of them allowed Zhong Liu to often sense Zhong's emotions.
Most of the time it is calm, with occasional ripples that remind people of a seagull flying over the gently undulating sea. In short, it is very peaceful.
The calmness just now was different from usual.
...There was no reason at all. Zhong Liu suddenly felt that Zhong didn't seem to want the ladder to be repaired.
"We're here, come back to your senses." Jin Aqing's voice brought her thoughts, which were like a ball of wool, back to her senses in time.
I don’t know where the black cat has gone again. It is quiet and seems like it will pop out and cause trouble at any time.
Zhong Liu stopped, felt the surrounding environment from the wind, flicked his sleeves and jumped onto the branch of the giant tree.
This doesn't make sense... If Zhong didn't want the Cloud Ladder to recover, then why did he bring her down to the chasm? She could have just not come! After all, the key to clearing the fog lies with Junior Sister Jin, not Zhong Liu himself.
You can even do nothing and just wait. After all, it sounds like there is no way for Heaven to repair the ladder normally.
And I don’t know what kind of agreement the black cat has with the clock. I always feel that the thing is not a good thing, and it gurgles out black water every day.
Zhong Liu always felt that she had overlooked something, or perhaps it was the most important thing that Zhong had never told her.
But at this moment, thunder roared!
The clouds on the horizon rolled like the raging waves before a tornado, and the clouds with inky shadows in the depths bowed their heads in submission.
Divine beasts always cause strange phenomena in heaven and earth. Just by standing there, these creatures can make people feel from the bottom of their hearts that the title of the most intelligent creatures on earth should not belong to humans.
Humans who need to practice hard, constantly overcome their instincts to face thunder tribulations head-on, and diligently do good deeds every day are nothing compared to this divine beast that is born with divine power.
But this was not the first time they had killed such a divine beast.
Especially since everyone realized that this was the last time, although the problem of climbing the ladder remained unsolved, it finally gave people a glimmer of hope.
After this battle, it will be dawn.
Then, the sun will rise as usual, penetrating the edge of the chasm where there are no more clouds and fog.
This is a consensus that exists in everyone's heart.
Zhong Liu was a little absent-minded. The combat power of a Foundation Establishment Stage warrior did not play a decisive role. It was enough for him to have enough strength to fight while protecting himself.
She could feel the sound of wind being cut from afar. At that moment, it was like glass being cut by a water jet, or like cloth being torn cleanly by fingers.
In fact, the sword just lightly passed through the air-filled path before attacking the divine beast.
The sword energy had no intention of stopping the wind and clouds, but it still aroused the momentum of heaven and earth.
In the lightning that seemed like a thunderstorm, the arrogance of the world's number one swordsman was fully revealed.
It was like a divine punishment from the hands of the God of Thunder and the Goddess of Lightning, but the sword master and the sword did not dodge or evade.
It has to be accompanied by tremendous thunder and strike down heavily!
Under the glow created by the fluctuations of magic in the sky, and in the dark clouds, this flash of lightning was still so conspicuous that it seemed to tear the sky and the earth apart.
The lightning that came towards Jin Aqing actually became a part of her magnificent sword power.
...It would be nice if I could take a photo or record a video.
Zhong Liu thought inappropriately that she didn't dare to imagine how long this scene would dominate the hot search list on the forum. If those sword cultivators spent money to buy it, they should be able to pay off the sword loan in minutes.
The process of killing the beast and the fog went unimaginably smoothly. The dawn of complete victory made everyone bring out their best skills and perform at their best in high excitement.
With the dull sound of falling to the ground that seemed to resound through heaven and earth, the mythical beast that came from the legend closed its eyes completely.
Everyone around me was making noises, screaming, crying, shouting...
Only Zhong Liu suddenly felt a sense of emptiness in his heart, and a human heart was sinking.
There was no end to the sinking, as if this was not a clear body, as if it contained not distinct organs, but a black hole with no end.
It took Zhong Liu a long time to realize that this was not her emotion at all.
It was Zhong's heart that sank.
She could even feel the other person's subtle thoughts almost spilling out.
——Where’s that black cat? Why hasn’t it come yet?
The battle didn't take much effort, but fighting against the body's instincts that were influenced by the original owner took a lot of effort.
Zhong Liu slowly sat down, leaning against the tree trunk, his eyes looking into the distance.
In fact, not a lot of time had passed. It was just that in the illusion of Zhong Liu falling endlessly, she thought a lot of time had passed.
Jin Aqing was walking towards the huge corpse that was as tall as a mountain range.
A little starlight leaped out from the corpse.
It's strange to say, every monster that came out of the fog had a clear goal, as if they naturally knew that Jin Aqing could destroy the source of their resurrection, and they were particularly obsessed with Jin Aqing.
In order to block the attack for Jin Aqing, the others also spent a lot of effort, but they were unable to divert the attention of the monsters.
The starlight that was more suitable to be hanging in the sky than on land rushed towards the swordsman's heart.
Jin Aqing closed her eyes subconsciously.
Zhong Liu felt as if he had closed his eyes as well.
——No, it was Zhong who “closed his eyes”.
It’s like a movie you have watched countless times, with every plot and every frame imprinted in your mind.
So when the movie is about to end, you know what will happen next. You know the ending, and you also know the Easter eggs and end credits after the ending.
Even without using eyes to see.
Now, Zhong closed her eyes and waited for the ending she had witnessed countless times.
When the end of this thing that had tormented her day and night was finally about to come, she actually didn't think about anything.
It was horribly peaceful.
Zhong Lian didn't even think about the black cat that had run away to who knows where, let alone the group of monks who were so close to him.
Zhong Liu was a little afraid of her, or to be more precise, afraid of her current state.
There is a difference between calmness and tranquility. The calm sea and the bottomless abyss are obviously different kinds of calmness.
Like a small animal that finally sensed the signal before a natural disaster, she instinctively lay down on the ground and grabbed the rough bark of the giant tree to stabilize herself.
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A piece of heart bone was carefully polished into shape.
Finally, the final touch of the bone ladder was completed.
Li An blinked slowly.
...So, where is her sun?
Li An stretched out her hand, her fingertips brushing across the window frame.
The wind blew, bringing the sound of silent waves in the forest.
The stars surround the moon.
【——The moon curls up at your fingertips. 】
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