The higher she climbed, the heavier gravity became.
That amount of pressure was nothing to a Great Cultivator, but for her, who possessed only Transcendent-level cultivation, every step upward seemed to multiply the strain on her stamina.
What was worse, she was still carrying the unconscious girl who had been reciting the Mud Slab Document... Yet the girl seemed unaffected by gravity?
Chu Rui climbed onto another rotating gear disk—but it felt more like a millstone.
With her level of knowledge, there was no way she could know where the power driving this intricate gear structure came from... She looked around blankly, but this was no time to admire the scenery, and her prompt still had not appeared.
"Keep going forward."
The voice echoed from the depths of her heart once again—was there really a path ahead?
Chu Rui subconsciously looked toward the bearing supporting the enormous gear disk, only to see that a Light Gate had appeared in front of it at some unknown point—a glowing card roughly the size of a door.
"You want me to go in?" Chu Rui nervously looked upward. She had no idea where she was hiding, but she felt as though she were being watched from above. "What's inside?"
"Enter."
The voice came quickly and was extremely brief... It sounded urgent and unclear, as if it were being interfered with.
Chu Rui hesitated for a moment. Following its instructions, she approached the Light Gate and tentatively tore off a piece of cloth from her clothes and threw it inside... Then she waited.
After a moment, the little maid gritted her teeth. Extremely nervous, she slowly extended her hand into the Light Gate—when nothing happened, she gathered her courage, closed her eyes, and strode inside.
She felt nothing... But the instant she opened her