"Our memories will be erased by the Mysterious Wasteland Tower, and everything we obtained here will be taken back. Then we'll be sent back to one of the tower's first six layers. Even the memories of people outside the tower will be erased. They'll simply think you're trapped inside."
"Just like I was before."
Gu Qingcheng answered through voice transmission, her tone heavy.
"But Miss Qingcheng, why do you remember so much?"
Surprised and puzzled, Xu Taiping asked Gu Qingcheng.
"Because I'm among the very few who have seen that stone stele."
Gu Qingcheng answered.
"Over all these years, it isn't that no one has reached the Ninth Layer or the Tenth Layer. Rather, after reaching them, they were dragged back down by the Nine Abysses' shameless methods."
"In the end, even they themselves no longer remembered whether they had ever reached those layers."
She added, her voice filled with anger.
"Is that why you said before that if Xuanyuan Xueluo died, we would never reach the Ninth Layer?"
Xu Taiping suddenly recalled what Gu Qingcheng had said on the Sixth Layer.
Gu Qingcheng nodded emphatically.
"However, judging by the history recorded on that stone stele, saving Xuanyuan Xueluo is the key to whether we can reach the Ninth Layer."
"And whether we can survive after reaching the Ninth Layer is another matter entirely. The stele was very vague about that part. It only said that we outsiders from beyond the heavens who sided with the Ningyuan Kingdom endured a calamity with nine chances of death and one of survival on the Mysterious Wasteland Tower's Ninth Layer, and only then managed to reach the battlefield in time to aid the Northern Garrison Army."
Gu Qingcheng added.
"A calamity with nine chances of death and one of survival... Why does that