The Heaven-Connecting Tower was essential to passing from the Azure Realm to the Upper Realm, the hope of ascension for every cultivator in the Azure Realm.
Just as Dao Lord Qing Ci had said, when the time came, not only would the elders of the Azure Tide Sect choose to sacrifice Yun Huanling for the greater good, even the people of the Heavenly Secret Sect would abandon him.
After all, how could the hope of an entire sect compare to the path to ascension?
What was more, an unknown number of Tribulation Transcendence Stage cultivators lurked in the shadows, eyeing him like hungry tigers. With the path to ascension right before them, how could they possibly let Yun Huanling go?
"If that time truly comes, and you still insist on protecting Yun Huanling, then forgive my bluntness: you'll die an even more miserable death than he will.
"For the sake of our shared sect, I advise you to think three times before you act. After all, someone as kindhearted as I am would hate to end up killing a fellow disciple someday. Especially when you're our sect's hope for the future."
"Offending the entire Azure Realm for one person is hardly wise. You're so clever; surely you know how to weigh the gains and losses and decide what to keep and what to sacrifice."
To Su Jiu, all of this felt like a nightmare. Yet she knew with painful clarity that it was no dream, but a reality she had to face.
Su Jiu thought of that curse again, the final words Wenren Qingtang had left before his death.
The people by your side will eventually leave you, one by one...
At first, she had not believed those words. But as those around her met with disaster one after another,