Chapter 2067: Surviving the Ordeal, Suddenly Out of Favor?

As such, she repeats the cycle: using strength, leaping, then using strength again, leaping…

Gu Changsheng can’t remember how many times she’s leveraged her strength; she only knows that her hands have become fiery, stinging, and numb from the friction with the rocky cliff…

She only remembers that she must focus her entire energy, continuously leveraging and leaping, constantly gripping onto the stones, carefully preventing herself from falling into eternal damnation…

Yet, even so, several times Gu Changsheng finds herself grabbing stones that, under rain and sun, have loosened, causing her to fall down due to the instability…

Every fall results in wasted effort from climbing, but Gu Changsheng doesn’t give up; she doesn’t dare to be careless. She must climb up!

Only by climbing up can she survive; falling means only death!

Gu Changsheng remembers well that below the Broken Cliff of Ten Thousand Fathoms, there’s neither water nor food, nor signs of life…

If she falls again, even if not killed by the fall, she would eventually starve to death!

It’s not the outcome Gu Changsheng desires!

So, she can only continue, no matter how many times she falls, no matter how painful her body is, she must climb up…

“Evildoer, Shi Wujue… you wait for me, I will climb up, I will definitely climb up…”

At this moment, Gu Changsheng dearly misses the feeling of climbing stairs; climbing stairs is good…

When tired of stair-climbing, you can rest, but suspended on this towering cliff, Gu Changsheng doesn’t have a moment to catch her breath!

Because once she relaxed, releasing the power she holds, she would face yet another fall!

Gu Changsheng definitely doesn’t want to truly die beneath this Broken Cliff of Ten Thousand Fathoms!

She wants to live!

Even though her hands have become numb from continuous climbing and stinging pain, even though her clothes are tattered from countless falls, Gu Changsheng does not give up and cannot give up…

All she can do is climb up…

She must climb up…

Regardless of the injuries all over her body, regardless of being scantily clad, she must climb up!

Her lover, her friends, her family are still waiting for her up there, she absolutely cannot die here!

“Damn, who said life’s path is full of thorns? Where is the thorn-covered path? My life’s path is filled with deep pits! I miss the thorns…”

Have to say, Gu Changsheng is a person skilled in self-entertainment; even at a hair’s breadth from life and death, under such incredibly tough conditions, Gu Changsheng still manages to amuse herself!

While mockingly joking with herself, Gu Changsheng keeps climbing up the towering cliff; she can sense that the aura around her becomes more grounded…

The light becomes increasingly brighter…

Gu Changsheng is unsure if it’s because she’s been climbing for such a long time or if she’s nearing the end of Broken Cliff of Ten Thousand Fathoms; she dares not think about anything else, only mechanically repeating the action of leveraging to climb, although she occasionally falls due to loosened stones, Gu Changsheng knows she’s gradually ascending…

So, from sunrise to noon, Gu Changsheng doesn’t stop moving because this cliff doesn’t allow her a chance to pause, and she can’t find any place that can support her entire body for a quick rest, she can only keep climbing…

While Gu Changsheng earnestly climbs the towering cliff, countless laborers in this world continue their daily toil at sunrise, completely oblivious to how many officials and dignitaries are immersed in extravagant pleasures. Yet, all of this has no bearing on Gu Changsheng, all that’s relevant to her is the towering cliff extending above her head, and her goal is the end of this cliff…

Atop the towering cliff, as time passes, Zhou Mu and Shi Wujue’s group haven’t left…

They are blocked by an invisible barrier outside the Broken Cliff, unable to approach or penetrate it…

With time passing, it’s a heart-wrenching torment for them, yet they’re helpless…

“Master, will my wife come back? Right?” Yuan Bao lies outside the barrier, his gaze continually searching beneath the Broken Cliff for signs. He’s lost track of how long he’s been anxiously waiting here, he only knows that beneath the Broken Cliff is his wife…

“She will come back! She definitely will come back!” Zhou Mu responds immediately, his voice already hoarse…

Five days!

It’s been five days!

When Gu Changsheng was around, they enjoyed good food and drink because Gu Changsheng was very particular about her lifestyle, but now, with her fate uncertain, how could they have the heart for eat and drink?

Five days!

For a full five days, Zhou Mu and his group have stood outside the Broken Cliff, barely touching a drop of water!

However, they don’t feel hungry, or more accurately, their worry and anxiety have dulled their sense of hunger!

Everyone was covered in dirt, their faces full of exhaustion. Even Youngster Linchuan was at a loss for what to do; he had never encountered such a situation before and didn’t know how to comfort them…

Among all present, he alone did not have strong feelings for Gu Changsheng, but he understood that if Gu Changsheng did not come out, they would not leave for a single day. And without their protection, he had almost no hope of surviving in the depths of Divine Mount Qilian…

Therefore, Youngster Linchuan shouldered the responsibility of taking care of everyone, but when he offered water to Zhou Mu and the others, it was simply ignored…

Youngster Linchuan dared not speak much, nor did he dare to persuade them!

Because he feared that he might appear indifferent to them, afraid that they would sense he didn’t care about Gu Changsheng’s life…

Youngster Linchuan actually cared too. It’s the Southern Emperor after all. How could the life and death of Southern Emperor Changsheng not be a grave matter? If something happened to Gu Changsheng, would he be able to safely leave Divine Mount Qilian with her and return to the Jin Family? Could he still seek revenge?

Youngster Linchuan didn’t know; everything seemed to have been out of his expectations ever since encountering Gu Changsheng!

“Gu Changsheng, you must come back alive, you must…”

Youngster Linchuan prayed softly…

If you don’t come out, these pairs of masters and servants before me are truly going to lose it!

Jin Linchuan could sense Zhou Mu and Shi Wujue’s deep emotions for Gu Changsheng, but he couldn’t understand how these two outstanding men fell for the same woman and yet managed to get along harmoniously?

To Youngster Linchuan, this was an utterly inexplicable matter…

“Darling, darling, you must come out alive. Yuan Bao is here waiting for you, Yuan Bao is waiting for you right here… boo hoo…” Yuan Bao, lying on the edge of Broken Cliff of Ten Thousand Fathoms, whimpered in supplication, “Darling, if you die, Yuan Bao won’t be able to live either. Yuan Bao will follow you down so you won’t be lonely on Yellow Springs Road… It’s been five days… five days have passed, darling, are you alive or dead… where exactly are you…”

“Five days? If I were truly dead, Yellow Springs Road might have been walked through already, what need would I have for your company?”

Yuan Bao’s voice fell, and immediately another voice emerged…

That voice carried a hint of hoarseness, a touch thirst due to long lack of water…

Yet it clearly and unmistakably reached everyone’s ears present…

Almost at the same time as the voice arrived, Zhou Mu, Shi Wujue and others, incredulous, looked towards the edge of Broken Cliff of Ten Thousand Fathoms…

What did they hear?

Whose voice was it?

Was it her?

No!

This must be their illusory hearing!

In these five days, they couldn’t recollect how many times such illusory hearing had rung in their ears!

But, every time, it turned from surprise to disappointment, until now, they were almost desperate…

But just when they thought it was their own illusory hearing and didn’t dare take a step forward, a hand, a slender, fair-skinned hand, reached out from the edge of Broken Cliff of Ten Thousand Fathoms…

Clinging to a protruding rock at the edge of the cliff…

And then, another hand also emerged from below the cliff, grabbing a nearby rock…

Gu Changsheng didn’t expect, after painstakingly climbing up, risking her life to ascend, that she would hear her Yuan Bao Waiter say these words…

Damn it, saying he wanted to accompany her, speaking as if to live and die together, but she’s been down there for so long, yet no one went down to accompany her?

This is truly all talk and no action!

Still saying on Yellow Springs Road they’ll accompany her, waiting for them to compensate, isn’t that a contradiction in terms?

She probably wouldn’t see a shadow of them even after walking Yellow Springs Road…

“Damn it, a group of inconsiderates, don’t they know to give granny a hand?” Thinking of this, Gu Changsheng fumed, using her hands for leverage, straining her body to lift herself up from beneath the Broken Cliff of Ten Thousand Fathoms, but lying at the edge, she found herself utterly spent…

Especially when she saw her evildoers, Shi Wujue, Yuan Bao, and Duo Shu, suddenly it felt like all her strength had been used…

Yet, seeing her climb up, this group didn’t even know to lend a hand?

What kind of nonsense is this?

Was she so out of favor with them having fallen once?

Seeing her come up, shouldn’t they be ecstatically thrilled?