Past in the Left Eye, Future in the Right Eye

The mysterious mountain peak vanished. She continued upward.

When she stepped into the seventh layer's golden Auspicious Clouds space, Bai Yujun pricked up her ears. Her entire body trembled with sensory warnings. Mist filled the sky, and within it she could faintly sense the metallic tremor of something. It was exceedingly strange, feeling like... flying swords!

"Disaster...!"

Bai Yujun instinctively turned to flee, yet she could not fly out of this mist-filled space no matter what.

Whether she flew upward, crawled in every direction, or drilled into the mist below, she was still inside after passing through. She could neither escape nor hide. If she had guessed correctly, this layer's trial was metal!

She raised her great head and saw a flying sword shoot out from the mist with a whoosh!

She wanted to dodge—she truly wanted to dodge—but no matter how she moved, she could not evade the sword's lock. In the end, Bai Yujun gritted her teeth and decided to see whether her scaled keratin armor was harder, or the flying sword was harder. It was only one flying sword. If she did not even have the will to fight it, how would she fight humans in the future?

Looking down her snout at her dragon eyes, her two huge pupils drew inward until she became cross-eyed...

Clang~!

The flying sword struck squarely between her brows!

After a metallic ring, the flying sword hummed as it spun away. A white mark remained on her forehead. Her keratin layer was unharmed, but the sharp metal aura had pierced through her scales and injured her flesh. The lingering metal aura swiftly merged into her constitution, healing her injuries and adding a faint metallic hardness to her body.

The flying sword curved around and attacked again. Bai Yujun held her chest