"Did you ever feel as though you were looking down on the mortal world from above?"
Watching Shi Lan's calm expression, Li Canglan asked without thinking.
Shi Lan gave him a strange feeling. Her strength was terrifyingly powerful, yet she lacked the haughty air that made other experts so unpleasant. Instead, she carried a faint sense of distance, as though she would never grow too close to anyone.
Shi Lan shook her head.
"Why?"
"I never look down."
Shi Lan lifted her chin slightly. Rarely, a spark of fire danced in her eyes. She only wanted to pursue the true summit of the path of cultivation. Sometimes, what she saw when she lowered her head could blind her.
"Look up, don't look down..."
Li Canglan gazed at the surging mortal world beneath his feet. His eyes gradually sharpened, and the confusion left him.
Shi Lan did not linger long in the small world. After bringing Li Canglan and the others to a secret realm where spiritual energy still remained, she handed him most of the immortal scripture. Then she opened a space-time passage and returned to the Lingyang Realm.
The laws of that world were incomplete. Staying there for too long would do her cultivation no good.
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And for some reason, after seeing the tombs of Qin Yinhua and Ning Kangping, she suddenly yearned to go home. Her heart flew toward home, and she wanted to return and see her parents.
But now clearly wasn't the time. She could only leave after the Tianyan Sect had been fully established.
With nothing else to do, Shi Lan rummaged through her Qiankun Bracelet. After a moment, she took out several thick fragments.
They were pieces of the giant cocoon she had transformed into after absorbing the divine phoenix blood. Quite