Quick Transmigration: The Mad Beauty Refuses to Be the Scapegoat!-Chapter 258 - 39: Berserk Junior Sister Refuses to Be Cannon Fodder (Part 39)
Moreover, this Secret Realm is ever-changing, and every trial brings earth-shattering transformations. At this moment, the beasts are in disarray, and it’s more likely that high-level magical beasts never seen before will emerge.
With Mu Wu’s current strength, she certainly won’t survive until the gate reopens a year later.
So she anxiously clung to the ladder, climbing upward. Looking back at Ye Yunzhou, he was already breathless. Let alone climbing this thousand-meter rope ladder, he might faint after just a few more steps.
"Hold on a little longer, we’re almost back."
Apart from Mu Wu and Ye Yunzhou, only Jiang Lai and his group were left in the trial secret realm.
At their speed, besides Jiang Lai, the others wouldn’t be able to catch up, so she must climb up before Jiang Lai arrives, or she might die at his hands.
Ye Yunzhou leaned against the stone wall, gasping for air.
Earlier, while saving Mu Wu, he was injured and then poisoned by bees. Now, the poison hadn’t been neutralized, and he had also helped her withstand the ancestor’s golden light, which resulted in his spirit veins being entirely severed, rendering him a complete cripple.
Mu Wu, in her past life, was about to ascend. She well understood that for cultivators, severed spirit veins meant ruin.
Ye Yunzhou was essentially destroyed.
To leave here, someone needed to carry him up.
Mu Wu looked up at the sky. Darkness was gradually enveloping the Secret Realm, real danger creeping in with the shadow. In the forest behind, crimson eyes stared menacingly.
Mu Wu hesitated for a moment but eventually took off her belt and squatted down.
"I’ll carry you up."
"You should go. If you carry me, neither of us will get out of here."
Ye Yunzhou didn’t want Mu Wu to feel grateful, nor did he want her to stay here with him and wait for death.
So he shook his head.
"Go, no need to feel guilty."
"I’m sorry."
"People live for themselves, there’s no need to say sorry."
Mu Wu took a deep look at Ye Yunzhou.
She had to admit she liked him, perhaps not as much as he liked her, but the feeling could not be denied.
If there were even a sliver of hope, she wouldn’t abandon Ye Yunzhou.
But now, the reality was that either one lived or they both died.
With this in mind, Mu Wu tied Ye Yunzhou to the rope.
"When I get up, I’ll find someone to pull you up."
Saying so, she quickly clambered up the rope ladder. From time to time, she looked back; Ye Yunzhou still sat quietly there, his silhouette desolate.
Mu Wu gritted her teeth and climbed upward with all her strength.
No matter what, she had to survive, to avenge Ye Yunzhou, to avenge herself.
Mu Wu concluded that this situation was all caused by Jiang Lai. If it weren’t for him, the puzzle would have been solved by Ye Yunzhou. With his character, he would have shared the ancestor’s legacy with her.
By then, they might have ascended together, become an immortal couple in the Outer Heaven.
But now, she had nothing.
The ascension was gone, and perhaps even Ye Yunzhou... was gone too.
Mu Wu, with red-rimmed eyes, finally climbed to the top of the canyon. As she was about to pull the rope up, looking down through the spiritual power’s penetration of the clouds and darkness, she saw the group of Jiang Lai had already reached the rope ladder.
Counting them, all six of them were there, not one missing, all at the Trial Gate!
How could it be...
No matter how powerful Jiang Lai is, how could he ensure the other five arrived at the Trial Gate on time?!
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The Trial Gate was directly above the canyon, and the elders had already set down the Heavenly Ladder for everyone to climb up.
Just getting near the rope ladder, Jiang Lai saw Ye Yunzhou tied to the rope.
"Why is he here?"
The fourth senior brother squatted down to look at Ye Yunzhou, who had his head lowered, and whispered.
"He’s still alive, barely. Did Mu Wu abandon him?"
The eldest senior brother looked at Jiang Lai.
"What do we do?"
"What else? We carry him. If he dies, we’ll all be in trouble."
The heroine abandoned the hero, and it’s left to the side character to save him. Jiang Lai thought this plot was getting more and more interesting.
Seeing the light above dwindling to a narrow slit, the eldest senior brother urged Jiang Lai to hurry up the Heavenly Ladder.
As for Ye Yunzhou, he was tied to the back of the fourth senior brother.
Looking up, the Heavenly Ladder was several thousand meters long - a tough challenge for disciples who had just endured ten days of trial.
The second senior brother still moved like a zombie; having no better choice, the eldest senior brother carried him on his back, climbing up the Heavenly Ladder.
Halfway up, suddenly the Heavenly Ladder began to shake and tremble.
Jiang Lai, in the lead, heard Little Buding sigh.
"Stop climbing, Mu Wu’s up there pulling out nails. Be careful not to fall to your death."
They’d climbed several hundred meters. A fall from here could be fatal, even with high cultivation.
"Why didn’t you wait until after I fell to tell me?"
Indeed, the heroine, sparing not even the hero to deal with a thorn in her side.
"Telling you now isn’t too late; two hundred meters won’t kill you."
Jiang Lai shook the rope at those below.
The third senior brother, just behind her, looked up and saw Jiang Lai pointing up at the continuously shaking ladder rope, instantly understanding her implication.
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Above the canyon, Mu Wu looked sullenly at the wobbling nails.
She knew that even if she acted this way, it wouldn’t hurt Jiang Lai, but those few senior brothers following her might not be so lucky.
If they got crippled, would Jiang Lai still save them?
Seeing the nails shaking, Mu Wu understood they had arrived. She took a step back to look at Zhang Qingqing, who had climbed up the rope ladder before her.
"You pull out the other one, leave the rest to me."
Zhang Qingqing, pale, instinctively clenched her fists, unable to suppress the envy and hatred after hearing Mu Wu say Jiang Lai had obtained the ancestor’s legacy and was about to ascend.
Why, when everyone had similar cultivation, entered the Secret Realm together, experienced everything together, should all the benefits go to Jiang Lai!
The men around her were so despicably loyal to Jiang Lai too! Being used as cannon fodder and still relishing it was truly disgusting.
If so, let them all stay below.
After all, they were willing to do anything for Jiang Lai. Let’s see now, how far Jiang Lai is willing to go for them!
As the nails loosened, seeing the elders approaching, Mu Wu kicked the nail over, stepping aside as the nail, attached to the rope, plummeted swiftly. Her mood grew increasingly buoyant.
"How did the rope loosen? Quick, check if there are any injured disciples below?"
An elder anxiously looked down, but by now the Trial Gate was almost completely shut, and not a speck of light penetrated the canyon.
"Ah... In this trial, many disciples have been lost again."
