"Teacher Lei has already fought his way through the hardest step for us. As long as we follow his trail, we can definitely break through this damned fissure!"
This thought erupted violently from the depths of Meng Chao's brain, accompanied by blazing flames. It drove away all his doubt and fear, and even restored his muscle fibers and neural tissue, which had been on the verge of snapping, to their original state—tougher than ever.
Meng Chao let out a low roar. No longer did he think about what the fissure had crushed him into. He forced himself onward, faster and faster. Rather than barely wriggling through the crack, he resembled a blazing tunnel-boring machine made of flesh and blood, drilling at high speed through the hardest, darkest strata, trailing sparks and lightning as it charged ahead, smashing through everything and forcibly carving a brand-new path where no path had existed.
He did not know how long this state lasted.
Then Meng Chao suddenly felt his entire body grow light.
No, "his entire body growing light" was far too inadequate to describe the wonder of what he felt at this moment.
It was not merely like "facing the wall for ten years, then breaking through it in a single day."
It was more like a fish that had lived its entire life in the deep sea suddenly rising to the surface one day, witnessing an incomparably vast world—and a universe, studded with brilliant stars, even vaster than that world.
Or like an embryo that had remained in the womb for far, far too long, filled with longing and fear for the world outside. Though it was deeply afraid that it had not yet fully developed and was not ready to face the real world, the day had finally come when the