Unfulfilled Desire

After passing through the ripples in space, Bai Qiuran arrived in another world where the Inverted Hanging Mountain was located. Here, gravity suddenly reversed, Bai Qiuran, who could not fly in the Void where there was no foothold, fell straight down. However, he was prepared and had already adjusted his body in mid-air.

With a thud, he landed on the flat summit of the mountain. Looking up, he saw Azure sky above, and could no longer see any trace of the Ten Lands of Jiuzhou.

"This is the Wisdom Immortal Cave Abode?"

Bai Qiuran looked around.

"No, perhaps it should be called the entrance to the Wisdom Immortal Cave Abode."

He was currently at the summit of the inverted mountain peak that he could see from the Ten Lands of Jiuzhou. The summit of the mountain was a platform covered with some common plants, but no other creatures were visible.

Bai Qiuran walked to the edge of the platform and looked down. Beyond the platform was a cliff formed by a steep slope of nearly 70 degrees. On the cliff, some trees could be seen growing from the cracks in the rocks, hanging tenaciously on the cliff. Further down, the area was shrouded in Cloudmist. Occasionally, a fleeting glimpse of the hazy glow could be seen through the gaps in the Cloudmist, but its specific appearance could not be seen.

There were no other disciples around, so it seemed that those who had arrived before Bai Qiuran had already continued exploring. Bai Qiuran also walked down from the edge of the platform.

Walking on this near-vertical cliff face, Bai Qiuran felt as if he were walking on flat ground. Although he couldn't fly, as long as there was a foothold, he was definitely much more stable than other Cultivators who could fly on swords.

He walked down about twenty-five feet before he was plunged into the Cloudmist. A strange sense of spatial dislocation came over him. Bai Qiuran walked for several minutes in the fog, which was shrouded in mist on all sides. As the mist gradually dissipated, Bai Qiuran was surprised to find that he had arrived in a strange cave.

"I was definitely walking on a cliff just now..."

Bai Qiuran exclaimed, "The spatial manipulation techniques of Earth Immortal are truly dazzling!"

He looked around. There was no way he had come from this cave. Behind him was a cold, hard rock wall. Half of the cave was open to the ground, and the other half was a bottomless abyss. There was only a narrow path leading to the rock wall on the other side, where there was a dark entrance.

Beside this passage, Bai Qiuran saw a Stone Stele.

As he approached, the Stone Stele suddenly glowed with a blue light, forming several lines of text.

Life is filled with Eight Great Sufferings: birth, Birth, Aging, Sickness, and Death, Separation from Loved Ones, death, Meeting with Those You Hate, Unfulfilled Desire Unable to Attain Liberation, and the Five Blazing Aggregates (skandhas). Only those who escape this sea of suffering can ascend to the path of immortality.

"Tsk, something from the Heavenly Saint Buddhist Sect."

Bai Qiuran her tongue in disapproval.

"The Earth Immortal have quite a wide range of interests."

Before he finished speaking, the inscription on the stele changed again.

[The first suffering: the Suffering of Birth.]

The moment the words appeared, the cave trembled violently, as if it were inside the belly of a Behemoths stomach was now contracting and digesting violently.

The rock wall behind Bai Qiuran rumbled and Mobile, pressing down on him. The floor beneath his feet, which occupied half of the cave, also began to collapse. Only the passage connecting to the deep entrance on the other side of the cave remained standing.

All signs clearly indicate that Bai Qiuran being forced onto this path.

This kind of coercion wouldn't be so fatal for other Cultivators, but for Bai Qiuran, it hit his sore spot. After all, without a foothold, he couldn't fly. Falling all the way down wouldn't kill him, but who knew what was below the abyss or how deep it was?

If you were to fall into the Void beyond the boundary, that would be extremely unlucky.

"Okay."

Seeing that his foothold was about to disappear, Bai Qiuran had no choice but to reluctantly walk onto the passage.

"I'll take a look at this Cave Abode and see what tricks you're playing..."

On the other side, Tang Ruowei, who had entered the entrance of the Wisdom Immortal Cave Abode a step earlier than Bai Qiuran, was also looking at the situation around her.

Originally, when they arrived at the summit, the disciples of all the sects were still gathered together. However, after the disciples of each sect flew along the cliff on their swords and entered the Cloudmist below the mountain, they were separated. This move completely disrupted the previous arrangements of the Elder of each sect.

The disciples of various sects are currently nowhere to be found. Tang Ruowei guesses that they were probably randomly scattered and thrown into different spaces. Now, she can only rely on herself to continue.

After calming herself down, Tang Ruowei observed for a while and found herself standing inside an Octagonal Pavilion. The Octagonal Pavilion was floating in the dark night sky, with only a Stone Stele inside.

She arrived at the Stone Stele, where several lines of text flashed by, exactly the same as those Bai Qiuran had seen. But then, the text that appeared on Tang Ruowei's Stone Stele changed to "[First Suffering: Unfulfilled Desire]".

As the inscription on the Stone Stele appeared, a bridge suddenly appeared out of thin air in the depths of the night sky, connecting to the gap in the railings surrounding the Octagonal Pavilion. At the same time, the Octagonal Pavilion began to tremble and become unstable, urging Tang Ruowei to embark on the next step of her journey.

Helpless, the girl had no choice but to walk onto the bridge and head into the depths of the dark night sky. Halfway across, she looked back and saw that the Octagonal Pavilion had disappeared into the night sky. She didn't know if it had floated away into the distance or simply collapsed and vanished into nothingness.

There was no turning back. Tang Ruowei continued forward, walking along the bridge to the foot of a high platform.

The platform was dozens of feet high, and Tang Ruowei, standing at her feet, could not see the situation above. She could only climb up the white stone steps.

Upon finally reaching the top of the platform, she discovered that it was a square platform with an area of approximately two hundred square meters. At each of the four corners of the platform was a brazier, which suddenly ignited after sensing Tang Ruowei's arrival.

The firelight dispelled the surrounding darkness, and then, a familiar girl's figure appeared in front of Tang Ruowei, with her back to her.

The girl was wearing a gorgeous pale yellow palace dress, the style and decorations of which looked strangely familiar to Tang Ruowei.

"That..."

She cautiously formed a Magic Incantation and moved about five meters behind the girl, a distance from which her Moves would unleash its maximum power, before asking, "May I ask who you are?"

"Giggle."

The girl who was asked the question let out a soft, bell-like laugh, then she turned gracefully to face Tang Ruowei.

Are you asking me?

The girl's black hair cascaded down like a waterfall, her beauty was like that of a peach blossom, her eyebrows and eyes were exquisite, and her eyelashes fluttered slightly; it was clearly her own reflection.

The only difference between this girl and her was that her breasts were almost world-class. With Tang Ruowei's professional eye of more than 20 years, she could tell at a glance that they were not padded, but the real deal.

Moreover, as her gaze swept over, the girl crossed her arms over her chest, seemingly intentionally or unintentionally supporting her breasts.

After a dazzling tremor, her breath caught in her throat.

As a dark flame ignited in her heart, Tang Ruowei felt that she might understand what the so-called "Eight Great Sufferings, the Unfulfilled Desire" really meant.