These days were impossible to live through...
Getting shown up by a little girl while traveling was one thing; it was harmless enough.
But getting shown up by a stick after arriving... that display had truly struck him to the depths of his lungs and guts.
Most importantly, it was just showing off—there was no practical use at all... Even if this rift valley had been carved out by Liusu, what it had become over the tens of thousands of years since, what things had taken up residence below—it naturally knew none of that. This was also a completely new map to it. What use was there in it being the one that had made it like this?
Tears streamed down Qin Yi's face.
"Back then..." Liusu's voice grew somewhat distant. "Many were killed by that strike of mine. Their Immortal Qi, corpses, treasures... all could have formed spaces of their own. The cultivation methods scattered among them were even too numerous to count... This place truly could have become an exceedingly powerful secret realm. Some areas may indeed have become Death Zones, where anyone who entered would die; other places may have been occupied by later arrivals and turned into their Cave Dwellings."
Qin Yi sniffled. "What's the point of making it sound so badass? You can't get into any of those places now either, can you?"
"At the very least, I can decipher many things. Things that Minghe and the others would find utterly incomprehensible are, to me, merely the arts of defeated foes." Liusu said coolly, "This place is very good... Qin Yi, it's time you saw the things a cultivator ought to see."
"Qin Yi..." Ye Ling watched him cautiously from the side. "Why are you spacing out while staring at a stick?"
"Huh? Oh, it's