"Let me go down with you, okay?"
She spoke in a soft and gentle tone, her face adorned with a warm smile imbued with profound admiration.
My legs trembled slightly as I moved slowly, preparing to get out of bed.
However, the warmth on the back of her hand gave me a different sensation.
I couldn't quite put it into words.
Si Yan should have been a cool and aloof person like an ice mountain, someone whose mere gaze could make one lose their senses.
Now, as if right in front of me, and as if she had actually said those words, it feels like she's a very good person, incredibly real.
It was precisely this authenticity that made me feel uneasy.
Should Si Yan be that honest with me?
A cold and aloof female Taoist, even if it were Han Qiu who had such a character, she had never shown him any kindness, let alone if he were dead, she just felt sorry for him without revealing any emotion.
At this very moment...
She's not only genuine, but there's also a hint of seduction?
This temptation shouldn't have appeared, but it has happened all the same.
"Can you imagine what your parents would look like when you become the Grandmaster of the Siwan Mountain?"
"What kind of gaze would your parents' family cast upon you?"
The brightness in her eyes increased, and her tone carried a sense of encouragement.
My legs stiffened, and I remained motionless, unable to move or get out of bed.
I know what that other feeling is!
It's just not right!
It's bone-chilling!
Si Yan knows something, can deduce some things, but she could never know that many details.
Especially about my parents' family!
This matter is known only to me and Yan Ying!
Even if we take it a step further, Liang Yu might know a bit, but that's only because I went to gather information.
"You, you're not Si Yan! Who are you really!?" I stared at Si Yan intently, speaking in a hoarse voice.
"I'm not Si Yan. Who else could I be?" Si Yan's beautiful eyes trembled slightly.
Her hand, gripping mine tightly!
A powerful force pulled me downwards suddenly!
The wind became fierce and swift.
The coldness grew even more intense!
I felt a sudden sense of loss of weight, as if I should have fallen to the bed below. However, instead of landing on the bed, I felt a void and plunged into darkness!
Suddenly realizing what had happened, I kicked my legs against the back and hung upside down on the cliff wall.
Yes, the place where I now am is a cliff wall!
The person holding my hand is Si Yan!
No, it's not Si Yan!
In the breeze of the mountain, her face was shattered, replaced by my own.
My face was extremely cold, and my eyes were filled with a sense of severity and cruelty.
The bone-chilling sensation grew even stronger, even surpassing the feeling of hanging upside down on the cliff wall!
How could it be me!?
I feel like it should be some unknown ghostly thing...
Chicken skin kept rising up, yes, how could there be any ghosts on the Lei Shen Cliff.
This "me" is most certainly not the real me!
Could it be a heart demon related to me, produced by the Lei Shen Cliff?
Only he can know so much.
No... it's not just that. Because he not only knows about me, but also about Si Yan, about the Siwan Mountains, about Han Qiu...
He is some kind of existence on the Lei Shen Cliff.
He has both eroded me, peered into my heart, and exploited the information related to people associated with me, making me believe him!
"Step back, and there's the vastness of the sea and sky. Take a step forward, and it's the abyss beneath Lei Shen Cliff!"
"I'm not Si Yan, I'm you!"
"You are a spy, you are a con artist! You, must accept your punishment!"
The sharp and ear-piercing scream came from his mouth.
The strength, grew larger!
I was holding onto a piece of vine on the cliff wall with my legs, almost digging into my flesh and bones, the pain causing me to sweat profusely.
The hand, was about to be pulled off the socket!
"I'm not you! What kind of ghost are you, really?" I growled out loud, my legs desperately curling upwards, trying to climb up the Lei Shen Cliff.
"I'm not you..."
"I'm definitely not you!"
"Ghost thing... am I a ghost?!"
The "me" had a sharp expression, and a strange smile twisted the corner of his mouth.
A sudden change occurred.
"me" disappeared, and in its place was an arm, emaciated as dry wood, yet bearing a section of Daoist robe.
The arm was desperately pulling me downwards!
At a slightly lower position, there was a dried and emaciated Taoist hanging on a vine, constantly swaying with the wind.
He suddenly looked up, revealing a face of skin and bones, with eyes bulging out in roundness.
The purple Daoist robe was covered in strange patterns, like talismans but not quite like them.
Before, I dared not look too closely at the Lei Shen Cliff below.
There was a Taoist hanging here?
"I am not a ghost!"
"I see into your heart!"
The Taoist's face suddenly changed into a transparent mirror.
Too far away to see clearly the reflection in the mirror.
However, the force of that arm grew again, causing me to feel a torn pain.
Just like before, when the plague ghost wanted to separate my soul and body.
In the mirror, there appeared blurred shadows, which were my face...
Will the Lei Shen Cliff collapse, leaving no remains of the body, and the soul will still be sealed!?
A sense of loss of control came from my body, and my legs seemed to be sliding off the vine...
A strong sense of reluctance surged up, and I widened my eyes, breathing heavily.
A scream suddenly echoed from above, "Bamboo! Bamboo!"
I couldn't lift my head, but I could hear it was Old Gong's shout!
The backpack was still on my back, and I jolted to a realization that I could use the copper pestle!
My right arm was being tightly held, but my left arm was fine.
I quickly opened the backpack with my free hand.
I grabbed the copper pestle and pulled it out with one swift motion!
The sound of clanging and clanging echoed, with numerous magical items falling into the abyss below the cliff!
Those were all the things I got from Duo Nu Daoist Temple!
The moment I held the copper pestle, the sensation of being pulled apart, both physically and spiritually, vanished.
Instead, there was a surge of heat!
The Taoist's head, which had turned into a mirror, suddenly recovered and returned to its wrinkled form.
However, right in the center of his brow, there was a small copper mirror.
The copper mirror was emitting a ripping sound, as if it was being burned!
The sensation of falling continued, and my body was barely regaining control, but the slide had been too great to stop.
"Lost! Lost!" Old Gong screamed again.
My face instantly paled, and I stared fiercely at the copper pestle.
The next second, I threw the copper pestle downwards without hesitation!
However, I wasn't throwing it directly away, but instead tossing it towards the Taoist's corpse!
Bang! The copper pestle hit him right in the middle of his forehead!
A crackling sound as the vines below snapped, and the Taoist's body fell with the copper pestle into the abyss...
A cold feeling immediately spread over my body, and I bent upwards in one motion, grabbing onto the edge of the cliff with my arms, and jumping forwards, landing on the Lei Shen Cliff.
"Ouch, my gosh... I was so scared..."
"My god, why are you walking to the edge of the cliff, and even jumping off? If it weren't for the vines that caught your legs, you would have been dead."
"What's going on with the Taoists of Siwan Mountain? There's a live corpse hanging below the cliff."
Old Gong's head rested on my shoulder, panting heavily with a gasping sound.
