Chapter 1 A Dead End

Feng Bujue and the two beauties continued to walk across the plain for a while. The scenery before them still looked exactly the same: a stretch of green grassland, flat terrain, and distant mountains that never seemed to get any closer, no matter how far they walked.

When Feng Bujue looked back, he found that he could still see the stone tablet inscribed with the words "Lingzhong Realm."

"We need to go back." After walking for a while longer, Feng Bujue suddenly stopped and said.

"Aren't we looking for the way back?" Lu Qingning replied, assuming that Feng Bujue's "go back" meant returning to Cang Ling Town. It was a completely pointless statement...

Lu Qingning had arrived here earlier than Feng Bujue and Si Yu. She had entered this place in the early hours of the previous night and had been here for more than three hours. Considering her biological clock, Lu Qingning was like someone who had just stayed up all night, been chased, and been traveling... so she was very tired and irritable.

"I mean... back to the stone tablet," Feng Bujue said.

Lu Qingning turned her head. "There's nothing there. What's the point?" She already knew that no matter how she walked, she couldn't get away from the stone tablet. She had already looked at the stone tablet carefully and thoroughly, but there was nothing there that could help her.

Before Feng Bujue and Si Yu arrived, Lu Qingning had also appeared near the same coordinates as the two players when she first entered the Lingzhong Realm. But after walking for a long time, she looked back and found that the distance to the stone tablet hadn't changed at all. After that, she walked and stopped, rested a few times, and even went back to study the stone tablet, but to no avail. She had no choice but to continue forward across the plain. Later, when she looked back for the nth time, she finally saw something different... two figures.

"It's the only tangible reference point we can reach," Feng Bujue said. "Since we're in a stalemate now..."

"Reference point?" Lu Qingning repeated, her delicate eyebrows slightly furrowed. Clearly, she didn't understand what the word meant.

"It's another object used to determine whether an object is moving," Feng Bujue said.

"Huh?" The Deer Heroine was even more confused.

"Ah... let's talk about it when we get there," Feng Bujue said, giving up on the explanation.

Although she didn't get a convincing explanation, Lu Qingning couldn't think of any other way. Moreover, in her opinion, since the other two were a couple, that Miss Li would naturally not object to Feng Bujue's idea, so she had no choice but to follow them.

The time it took to return to the stone tablet wasn't long, and it matched the estimated distance. Each step forward brought them closer to their goal.

When the three of them stood beneath the giant stone tablet, Feng Bujue said, "Deer Heroine, have you tried staring at this stone tablet and walking backwards?"

Lu Qingning's eyes lit up. "That's right... if we use this method..." She paused. "Wait, then what are we doing back here? We should have..."

"I tried it. It didn't work," Feng Bujue interrupted her, pouring cold water on her idea.

The Deer Heroine was slightly annoyed. She chided, "Liao Zhu Feng, are you making fun of me? You already tried it and you're still asking me. And you only said half a sentence."

"Miss Lu, don't be angry. He likes to tease people like this normally, but there's no malice," Si Yu said at this time, trying to smooth things over for Feng Bujue. It wasn't that she was deliberately trying to defend him; she was just afraid that the NPC would turn hostile.

"From an experimental point of view, the results I personally obtained through a single action are not 100% reliable," Feng Bujue said. "So I thought I'd ask you just in case."

"I don't understand most of what you say," Lu Qingning replied.

"It doesn't matter. Actually, what I said wasn't very important," Feng Bujue simply changed the subject. "In short, I think this 'inability to get away' phenomenon is a very obvious hint. It's hinting to us that we're going in the wrong direction."

"Wrong direction?" Lu Qingning asked doubtfully, and then instinctively shifted her gaze to the other side...

Which was the deep valley where the terrain dropped sharply and was obscured by a cloud of mist.

"This stone tablet is like a boundary marker, and this..." Feng Bujue turned around and stretched out his arm, making a forward thrusting motion, "is the dividing line." He also turned his face to the sea of clouds that seemed to be the end of the world. "The place where we are now is just the entrance to the Lingzhong Realm." He spread out his palm and pointed forward. "Which side do you think is the Lingzhong Realm? This side?" He turned his head and pointed to the plain behind him. "Or does that side look more like it?"

"Are you crazy? Even if it's not a bottomless abyss down there, it's far more than a hundred zhang. If we step down there, how could we survive?" Lu Qingning said, her eyes wide.

Feng Bujue, however, didn't seem to hear her words and continued, "When we first entered this place, we were standing on the boundary line, but we all took it for granted that the plain over there was more like the so-called 'road' compared to the sloping cliff and misty valley behind us."

"But in fact, that's a dead end that you can never finish walking. As long as you move away from the stone tablet to a certain distance, the stone tablet in your line of sight will no longer get further away. This means that at that distance, no matter how we walk, we'll just be treading water."

"Let's talk about the way down," Si Yu directly cut to the heart of the matter.

"What way do I have? Don't mention that I don't have ropes or anything like that, even if I did..." Feng Bujue leaned forward and looked at the white mist that was difficult to see through. "How long of a rope would it take to support us down from this place..."

That was right. For the players, the difference in terrain in front of them... to give an example, it was like an ant standing on the curved edge of a washing machine. Although the shape wasn't a completely vertical cliff, the grandeur of the scene was imaginable from the ant's perspective.

"Sigh... what exactly does Liao Zhu Feng want to do?" Lu Qingning sighed and simply sat down on the grass. Even though she was a master of qinggong, she had been awake for a day and a night, traveling back and forth like this, and hadn't eaten or drunk anything. She was almost unable to bear it anymore.

Feng Bujue... very decisively replied with four words: "Leap of Faith."

These four words left Lu Qingning at a loss. Her expression seemed to say, "Although I don't know what you're talking about, it sounds amazing."

But after hearing this, Si Yu first stared at Feng Bujue with her usual cold eyes for two seconds, and then her eyes gradually took on a contemptuous color. Finally, she lightly parted her red lips and mocked frankly, "Are you planning to use a high-end, fashionable, and gorgeous way to make me a widow?"

Feng Bujue's skin was as thick as a city wall, and he was completely unmoved. He replied calmly, "Hehe... Madam, don't worry. Just watch me try." As he spoke, he took a step forward. "Oh, right, if the system doesn't prompt me to die after five minutes, then you can consider following me down."