Luo Fan stumbled as his foot suddenly slipped.
In that instant, his heart skipped a beat.
But the reflexes honed through years of combat made him instinctively shift his weight and swing his arm, steadying himself.
"Whew..."
Luo Fan let out a long breath, cold sweat beading on his forehead.
That was close.
I almost lost everything at the last moment.
After steadying himself, he instinctively glanced back.
Below, countless gazes were fixed on him.
The Weirds, the Fierce Beasts, and the humans,
all had their heads tilted back, their eyes wide.
Luo Fan's slip had startled them too.
Several Weirds even trembled, as if about to rush up and lend him a hand.
Then, only after seeing Luo Fan regain his footing did those Weirds seem to come to their senses.
"Whew... that scared me!"
A Rule-Type Weird cursed under its breath, a hint of annoyance in its voice.
"That human nearly fell!"
"If he'd really fallen, I'd have held my breath for nothing."
"Damn it, he wasn't doing that on purpose, was he?"
"On purpose? Just to give us a fright?"
"It's possible!"
The Weirds talked over one another, but their tones no longer held their earlier mockery.
In its place was a complicated mix of feelings!
Shock, awe, and a trace of something hard to describe-anticipation?
They looked up at Luo Fan, watching him draw ever closer to the entrance of the Void Temple, and a thought rose in all their minds.
This human really did it.
He really climbed all the way up.
What exactly was inside that temple?
Luo Fan paid no attention to the discussions below.
Once he had steadied himself, he took a deep breath and continued upward.
The last few steps.
One step at a time.
Though he was utterly exhausted, though