Chapter 2054 - 1626: Underground Crystal Palace, Utter Silence

Zhou Mu turned back with a little "hehe," just in time to see Baby Jin Bao getting shut down by Shi Wujue and the topic coming to an abrupt end!

In the depths of Zhou Mu’s eyes, as dark and still as a Cold Pool, a trace of thoughtful contemplation flashed by. In the end he said nothing. Right now, what weighed on his heart most was Gu Changsheng’s safety. As for everything else, Zhou Mu no longer had the mind to think about it...

Maybe Shi Wujue’s weapon was just a bit unusually long or something, nothing all that strange about it...

But that was only Zhou Mu’s take, not Baby Jin Bao’s!

Baby Jin Bao had his words cut off by Shi Wujue, and looked more than a little resentful. But under Shi Wujue’s warning gaze, Baby Jin Bao ultimately didn’t dare say anything more...

"You make it sound like I’m coveting your weapon or something. I was just a teeny bit curious, okay... Humans really are inexplicable... Hmph..." Baby Jin Bao muttered a complaint under his breath, and also didn’t dare bring it up again!

Right now, everyone was anxious over Gu Changsheng’s safety; Baby Jin Bao was no exception. He really didn’t want anything to actually happen to Gu Changsheng—after all, Gu Changsheng was his one and only hope for Becoming a God!

Baby Jin Bao had placed great hopes on Gu Changsheng, and absolutely did not want Gu Changsheng to have an accident!

And just as Zhou Mu and the others continued shuttling through the Broken Cliff of Ten Thousand Fathoms, Gu Changsheng was still in her slow fall. Although her falling speed had lessened, she was still constantly dropping...

By Gu Changsheng’s own estimate, at the very least—at the very least—she had already fallen from a height of ten thousand zhang...

You might not get what a "zhang" is, but calculated by modern distance, she’d roughly already fallen the height of a skyscraper!

"Godfather and that Fourth Auntie Grandma, how long is this going to go on before I finally hit bottom? If I keep falling like this, is your old lady going to end up dropping all the way to the earth’s core?" Gu Changsheng listened to the sounds around her, the corner of her mouth twitching as she muttered in startled uncertainty.

Hurry up and let it end already!

Dead or alive, at least give a person a clean outcome, right?

Just letting her keep doing a free-fall like this—what the hell is this supposed to be?

This Immortal business is just making people’s hearts hang in their throats for nothing, how is anyone supposed to feel at ease?

This time, Gu Changsheng’s words got no response. Her body kept on falling, with not the slightest bit of further slowdown...

Either way, she couldn’t change anything herself. With Gu Changsheng’s go-with-the-flow personality, that mentality instantly took root and sprouted. The little wind whistled by her ears, and her feet weren’t touching anything at all—there really was a dreamlike feeling to it. That feeling made Gu Changsheng really want to just go ahead and dream...

Cradling the Seven Apertures Exquisite Lamp in her arms, Gu Changsheng’s long eyelashes couldn’t help but tremble slightly...

So, uh... how about I just sleep for a bit?

But what if she dozed off, and by the time she woke up she’d already hit the bottom and died from the impact?

If she stayed awake till landing, she could at least try some sort of buffering move to take the edge off the impact. But if she was asleep and just splattered into a pile of minced meat in one go, who was she supposed to complain to?

"Can’t sleep! Can’t sleep! This is a life-or-death moment, I absolutely cannot sleep!" Gu Changsheng kept hypnotizing herself, refusing to let herself drift off...

But the light in those big eyes grew dimmer and dimmer, and her whole head started feeling fuzzy and dazed...

In the very last instant before she lost consciousness mid-fall, Gu Changsheng was still reminding herself not to fall asleep—but it was all for nothing...

She went to sleep when it was time to sleep, anyway!

The whole thing seemed completely beyond her control...

And at the exact moment Gu Changsheng’s consciousness faded, the Seven Apertures Exquisite Lamp in her arms burst into brilliant light. The tiny flame at the wick suddenly seemed to have inexhaustible lamp oil, blazing bright, its radiance flaring out and wrapping Gu Changsheng up entirely...

At the center of Gu Changsheng’s brow, a point of the Color of Holy Gold slowly appeared, going from hazy to solid...

That vague little figure looked like a person, but much smaller than a person—at most around ten years old. And his entire body was Holy Golden. Dusky hair hung down his back, making him look frail and pitiful...

"You still came! Why do you have to be so stubborn?"

The soft murmur, tinged with desolate, spreading helplessness, sounded as if it came from the void itself, making it feel unreal...

Then that little figure simply gave the falling Gu Changsheng a long look, and headed straight down toward the bottom of the Broken Cliff of Ten Thousand Fathoms...

He really was walking—step by step—as if crossing the wasteland of time itself, each step carrying the weight of ages...

After that Holy Golden little figure vanished, Gu Changsheng, sunk in slumber, remained utterly unaware, like a drifting duckweed, continuing her downward fall, floating and swaying...

All around her, mist churned thick and white, completely obscuring everything. When Gu Changsheng woke again, her whole being practically exploded!

She scrambled up from the ground in a panic, not even noticing that the Seven Apertures Exquisite Lamp had fallen off to the side. In a fluster, she patted herself all over, then widened her Phoenix Eyes in sheer disbelief and muttered, "Godfather, I already hit the bottom? How come I’m not even a little bit busted up? What’s going on?"

Could it be that this time, Heavenly Father was treating her especially well, unwilling to let her suffer, so he made the fall extra gentle?

But that shouldn’t be right. Going by Heavenly Father’s usual piss-poor temperament, even if he didn’t smash her into half-death, he should at least have taken one full life from her!

"Don’t tell me I’m dead? Where even is this?" She cast a bewildered glance around her, and then Gu Changsheng just kind of turned to stone...

The petrified Gu Changsheng’s pupils kept shrinking, and shrinking again...

Then, her eyes suddenly turned into sparkly starry eyes...

Godfather!

What was she seeing?

Was this the legendary palace in the clouds?

"This... this..." Gu Changsheng stared blankly at the pavilions and towers around her, blinked, swallowed, her pair of starry eyes gleaming...

It wasn’t that Gu Changsheng was easily shocked; it’s just that even as someone who transmigrated from modern times, she’d never seen anything like this...

All around Gu Changsheng, pavilions and towers were nestled together, every one of them oozing restrained luxury, and the beauty was bizarre yet not gaudy, because here, whether it was pavilions and towers or trees and flowers and grass, everything... all of it...

Was made of crystal!

That’s right!

Made of crystal!

The gentle radiance refracted by that crystal practically made it impossible for Gu Changsheng to keep her eyes open...

"Looks like I really did die this time, otherwise how could I see such a beautiful place? But something’s off..." Gu Changsheng tilted her head, muttering, "This isn’t right. Logically, a scourge like me should be going to Hell after death. Don’t tell me Hell looks this gorgeous nowadays?"

As soon as she said that, Gu Changsheng shook her head on her own!

Impossible!

If Hell looked this stunningly beautiful, who the hell would still want to be alive?

Living would be worse than dying, wouldn’t it?

Woodenly, she picked up the Seven Apertures Exquisite Lamp from the ground and hugged it to her chest. Gu Changsheng lowered her head to glance at it. Fortunately, the Seven Apertures Exquisite Lamp wasn’t broken, and she herself still had a heartbeat and was breathing. Theoretically, she probably hadn’t died...

It’s just that she’d fallen off the Broken Cliff of Ten Thousand Fathoms, yet not only was she fine and the Seven Apertures Exquisite Lamp fine, she’d even ended up in such a breathtakingly gorgeous place. That made Gu Changsheng feel something was seriously off...

Could it be that Heaven had finally taken pity on her for once, turning calamity into blessing, and she’d actually stumbled into something good?

But with Gu Changsheng’s chronically crappy luck, she wasn’t at all sure she could run into something this good. In her opinion, this definitely had to be an Illusionary Realm, because it was so beautiful it didn’t feel real at all!

Wandering alone through something like a Crystal Palace was actually terrifying. You could see your reflection beneath your feet, and you could see your reflection on all the crystal surfaces around you, as if you were seeing countless versions of yourself, indescribably eerie...

In the midst of this creepy scene, Gu Changsheng felt even her breathing was infinitely amplified, echoing nonstop in her ears. Her footsteps sounded like they were coming from all directions at once, each one razor?clear on the needle?drop?silent crystal road...

"Anyone there? Any living people? Besides this living person that is?"

Hugging the Seven Apertures Exquisite Lamp tightly to her chest and holding the Chonghua Dagger in one hand, Gu Changsheng craned her neck forward, inching ahead cautiously as she asked out loud, probing...

No answer!

All around, only the echo of Gu Changsheng’s own voice came back to her, without any other sound...

Clearly, there was no one here!

Still, while staying cautious, Gu Changsheng refused to give up and asked again, "No people is fine too. Any kind of god, Ghost, monster, whatever—just send me one, I’ll take it..."

At a time like this, Gu Changsheng wasn’t about to be picky!

If there were no people, at least give her something living. Being all alone with everything dead?silent was actually even scarier!

Especially when all around her were her own reflections printed on the crystal. That feeling of seeing countless versions of herself was even more freak?you?out creepy...

What answered Gu Changsheng was still the same silence...

Pavilions and towers, crystal Flower Trees—here, aside from crystal, there was only more crystal. Everywhere she looked there was crystal, and in that crystal was the reflection of herself...

Walking carefully through such an eerie setting, Gu Changsheng felt her heart had practically leapt up into her throat. What the hell was this place? She couldn’t figure it out at all. After falling off the Broken Cliff of Ten Thousand Fathoms, Gu Changsheng had imagined all sorts of scenarios she might encounter, but she had never imagined that after a near miss, she would inexplicably arrive in a place this stunningly beautiful and yet disturbingly strange...

A place made entirely of crystal—beautiful, yes, but beautiful to the point of suffocation, to the point of oppression...

Because it was too quiet!

Way too quiet!

This kind of quiet was practically a form of torture!

"Gu Changsheng..."