The road was hard, the road was hard—too much weight, and he could not walk on.
The bundle on his back and the leather bags in hand grew heavier and heavier. The Light Body Talisman, Cloud-Climbing Talisman, Sliding Cloud Talisman, Divine Speed Talisman, Jia Ma Talisman, and all the other talismans that could save him effort had been used up. Yet the distance between Zheng Qing and that bronze gate in the distance seemed not to have changed at all.
A journey whose end could never be seen.
Worse still, the road beneath his feet seemed to be growing harder and harder to travel.
With every step, either his ankle sank into a clump of grass, or his shoe stepped into a mud pit that had appeared from nowhere. Every step was exhausting.
"Looking at a mountain can run a horse to death."
When the young wizard once again panted as he yanked his foot from a mud pit, he glanced at the hazy yet distinct bronze gate in the distance and could not help letting out a wry smile.
Then he suddenly froze.
Because he thought of a similar saying he had once heard—desire was a bottomless sea; if one's desires were as boundless as the ocean, then one would face an abyss ten thousand fathoms deep.
Zheng Qing shuddered.
He stopped walking, fell silent for a moment, then tossed away the two leather bags in his hands.
With a clatter, colorful, crystal-clear gemstones spilled from the leather bags and scattered across the ground, gleaming beneath the gray-white sky and casting an enticing halo of light.
When he raised his foot and walked forward again, it was indeed much easier.
More than that, when Zheng Qing looked up at the enormous bronze gate, he abruptly realized that the distance