Yani smiled faintly and brushed her left hand over the hourglass icon on the page. In that instant, the two of them shifted once more from solid bodies into intangible spirits. Yu Lian felt as though invisible threads were pulling him away from the space he occupied. His senses began to mingle with his spiritual awareness, while his existence and the dimensions around him slipped out of alignment.
The garden blurred, dissolving into a dazzling swirl of multicolored light.
This was, of course, no shallow trick like spatial jumping. It was a passage formed from "possibility" and "causality."
He was gliding briefly along the threads of time, toward the far side of causality.
Yu Lian wanted to look at Yani beside him, but all he could see was a disorienting, brilliant blur. Apart from the shifting, kaleidoscopic colors, he could feel nothing.
The next moment, he finally felt solid ground beneath his feet. He heard the fierce, bitter wind and sensed the thin air. The loneliness of the heights settled over him.
It was a loneliness and desolation of utter arrogance.
As for Princess Rainbow Rose, she was long gone.
Heh. Yeah, I knew it.
Yu Lian rolled his eyes and exhaled.
Yu Lian found himself standing on a vast grassland. Before him stood a towering mountain that pierced the sea of clouds, its ranges stretching away on either side to the horizon, as if they formed the natural boundary of the entire world.
The snow-covered slopes, caught between the thin atmosphere and the dazzling sunlight, presented a breathtaking spectacle.
The mountain directly ahead, however, looked far too familiar.
Yu Lian stood in silence for half a minute before finally digging the answer out of some crevice in his brain. Isn't that Everest?
But unlike in his memories, at the