I Have a Date with a Thousand-year-old Female Corpse
Chapter 787: Climbing Ladder_1

Chapter 787: Chapter 787: Climbing Ladder_1

As he spoke, eight yellow cinnabar charms flew out of your pocket, circling over the heads of Yang Runzhang and Ke Min.

"Ju Hua, go to their side."

"Smelly Muyun! My name is Ju Hua, not ’Chrysanthemum’!" With a look of resentment, Ju Hua glared at you.

Chrysanthemum, oh no, once Ju Hua reached the side of Yang Runzhang and Ke Min, you let out a low shout, and the eight yellow cinnabar charms suddenly burst into a golden light: "All Forms of Sen Luo, Seek Concealment!"

The yellow cinnabar charms spun rapidly, spiraling down from above. As the talisman paper spun, the three people vanished before your very eyes, layer by layer.

"Wow, wow, wow!" Wang Chongyang captured the entire process on camera, exclaiming in amazement while filming, "That’s so freaking cool, Brother Li, you’re freaking amazing!"

"Could you use a different word?" you said to Wang Chongyang with a smile.

Thinking for a moment, he gave you a thumbs up: "Awesome!"

Seeing the three people disappear right before your eyes, Sun Lin, their professor, displayed a look of concern and asked you, "Muyun, are they alright?"

"Professor, we’re all still here."

Hearing Ju Hua’s voice, Sun Lin finally breathed a sigh of relief.

You then explained, "Actually, to put it in scientific terms, this is a kind of blinding illusion that uses optical refraction to redirect the gaze projected onto them, preventing their bodies from forming images in your eyes."

What Cao Shan was concerned about was how to ascend to the Palace in the Sky: "Little Li, the Palace in the Sky is at least as high as a twenty-story building, how are we going to get up there?"

With a grin, "Climb up."

"What?"

As everyone looked on in astonishment, a mass of yellow cinnabar charms suddenly flew out of your pocket. At first, they seemed haphazardly arranged, but they quickly formed a ladder to the sky, appearing from a distance like a delicate connected kite.

"You’re not seriously expecting us to climb up these talismans, are you?" Cao Shan looked uneasy. If it was an actual ladder, it would be manageable, but the prospect of climbing on just a talisman made it daunting for anyone.

You chuckled and lightly uttered three words: "Heavenly Ascension Spell."

In an instant, each talisman emitted a golden light. These rays of light spread out, forming rectangular steps of a stairway.

Without paying any further attention to the others, as far as you were concerned, your cooperation with them had come to an end from that moment forward, since you had even more important things to do on your own.

"Zhao’er, you help Xi Yu, I’ll support Little Yun."

"Alright."

After Zhao’er’s response, you took Wu Qiyi’s hand, and the two of you simultaneously stepped forward with your left feet and began ascending the golden lit climbing ladder.

Xi Yu deliberately slowed down, allowing the two of you to lead the way. From a distance, you looked like a couple in love for a hundred years, now about to ascend to heaven together.

Zi Qian was braver. Following behind Xi Yu and Zhao’er, he carefully stepped onto the ladder. After about ten steps, he didn’t find it as terrifying as he had anticipated, and he gradually quickened his pace.

However, he soon realized his mistake.

As he reached halfway, a sudden strong gust of wind almost caused him to fall off the ladder!

Fortunately, at the crucial moment, Tu Zhiqing reached out and pulled Zi Qian back.

Tu Zhiqing wasn’t one for many words, but he was very steady in his actions, ascending at a moderate pace.

"Don’t look down. Just keep your head up as you climb and watch out for the side wind," he advised.

As you and Wu Qiyi reached the final step of the climbing ladder, she suddenly turned to you and said, "Go help Zhao’er. I can make it on my own from here."

Glancing back at Zhao’er, who was moving up step by step with Xi Yu, you smiled lightly, gazing steadily at Wu Qiyi: "But I need to see this last step through with you... consider it... a kind of compensation."

Looking at you, she smiled, her smile like gardenias in the breeze, elegant, subdued, and fragrant.

The Palace in the Sky before us had no walls, or rather, it did not need any, for its walls were the Abyss itself!

Cao Shan and Sun Lin had less strength; after all, they were of a certain age. They were the last to climb up, but compared to Wang Chongyang and Zhang Dadong, who lay on the floor tiles gasping for air, the condition of these two professors was somewhat better.

Seeing this, Cao Shan couldn’t help but walk over and shake his head at the two, "You guys, being in your twenties, in the prime of your youth, how come your strength can’t even match up to us old folks?"

"Aiyo, aiyo, my dear Professor Cao, you make it sound so nice. It’s not that we’re tired, it’s that we’re scared! Both of us brothers are afraid of heights. Just earlier when we were halfway up, we almost clung to the ladder, too frightened to move."

Zhang Dadong rolled his eyes and then slowly stood up. He stomped hard on the solid ground, curiously saying, "Huh? Weird, it doesn’t wobble."

"Wobble?" Hearing this, Zi Qian couldn’t help but laugh, "What do you think this is, a balloon? Every brick and tile here is solid. What kind of gas or material in the world could support such a massive weight?"

The two pursed their lips, obviously not interested in debating anything with Zi Qian, the academic whizz.

Zhang Dadong walked over, aimed the camera at you, and said with a smile, "Brother Li, you mentioned earlier that there are many dangers up here, but we’ve been up here for a while now, so why haven’t we felt anything?"

Before he had finished speaking, your pupils suddenly dilated, and you urgently lunged forward, grabbed Zhang Dadong’s collar, and flung him behind you!

"Clang!"

In an instant, an arrow shot quickly from a distance, its head penetrating the hard stone bricks, burying itself deep!

"Danger, everyone find cover and hide!"

Sun Lin hastily shouted.

"There’s no time!"

You were in the plaza directly facing the palace city; where could there be any cover?

"Earth Curse, Shield Wall!"

Two brown talisman papers flew into the palm of your hand, and as your hands clapped together, more than a dozen arrows had already shot towards you!

"Boom!"

A stone wall suddenly rose from the ground in front of you, blocking the incoming arrows.

"Quick, hide under the wall."

Considering the possibility of incoming lobbed arrows, everyone hurried to take cover under the stone wall.

Sun Lin turned his head to look at you, and urgently asked, "Muyun, what are those things?"

You spoke solemnly, "Terracotta soldiers."

"Why are they attacking us?" Cao Shan asked a rather silly question.

Too lazy to answer, at this moment all you could hear were sounds of hard objects colliding. The arrows from the quivers of the terracotta soldiers seemed inexhaustible, flying out as if they cost nothing.

Detaching your gaze from your body and looking through the stone wall, you saw that there were actually four rows of archers in mysterious armor sequentially shooting, as if they would not stop until each of you was turned into a porcupine.

"This place is so dangerous; I suddenly regret coming up here. Actually, living as a rich second-generation who just eats and waits for death isn’t too bad," said Zhang Dadong, who had escaped death, with a sigh on his face.

Tu Zhiqing uttered coldly, "It’s too late to want to go down now. Do you think their speed of shooting arrows down here is slower than our speed of climbing down? Don’t end up not getting killed by these two-thousand-year-old arrows, but dying from a deadly fall instead."

Zhang Dadong’s legs wouldn’t stop trembling. He had been just a step away from the Ghost; had the arrow pierced his body, he would have been on his way to report to the Underworld.

"So, what do we do now?"

Everyone turned their gaze toward you.