Chapter 140 Cliff

Between vagrants, if they are close enough, there's a special, hidden way of communicating!

So these two were secretly communicating right in front of me!

This...this is just too much!

Liao Moran felt strange. Seeing Fang Yue and Wei Ba were about to leave, he quickly said, "Wait, where are you going? Take me with you!"

The captain isn't that hard to meet.

But for a temporary captain like Fang Yue, once this period is over and Fang Yue leaves Mo Village, it might be years before an ordinary person gets to see him again.

So, after Liao Moran felt interested in Fang Yue, he immediately became proactive.

However...

"Take you? Why? It's dangerous. You should go back to the village with Grandmaster Liao. Remember to tell Grandmaster Liao that we're just seeing them off."

Fang Yue shook his head slightly and walked away with Wei Ba.

Liao Moran was stunned. Seeing Fang Yue and the others walking away, he hesitated for a moment and quietly followed them.

First, Fang Yue and the two left the temporary camp, and then Liao Moran secretly followed behind. This scene was seen by Hai Ming, who was sulking alone outside.

He was stunned for a moment, thought for a while, and quietly followed.

After Wei Ba met Ni Dongmei, she was told that she had excellent talent and could enter the Jibing Sect, but she had to complete a trial mission.

If Ni Dongmei hadn't indeed taught Wei Ba a few moves and increased her attributes during those few days, Wei Ba might have thought of Ni Dongmei as some kind of swindler.

And when her strength had improved enough, the trial mission she had mentioned before was arranged for Wei Ba.

The so-called trial mission was similar to running errands, one small task after another.

Wei Ba started from Yuan Yuanqiu and worked her way to Ruoyun Shidi, and finally, the task pointed to Maple Leaf Forest.

It was here that she finally found the final clue, which was to find the Barren and Bizarre Ruins and enter it to find something.

"Something?"

"Yes, it's said to be a jade pendant, but it's not necessarily in the shape of a jade pendant, so they just said something."

Jade pendant?

The first thing Fang Yue thought of was the soul-hosting jade pendant.

If she really had to find the soul-hosting jade pendant, things might get complicated.

The soul-hosting jade pendant was no simple thing. The Wu Yu Clan had auctioned off the soul-hosting jade pendant and seemed to have come to Mo Village for this purpose.

And although the soul-hosting jade pendant itself was special, the soul inside was the most special thing.

Depending on the soul, the value of the soul-hosting jade pendant would vary greatly.

"Did her clues say anything special about the jade pendant?"

Wei Ba shook her head. The information she had received was also very limited, and she vaguely felt that this trial was arranged in advance by Ni Dongmei herself, just waiting for someone to come and complete it. Except...the final ruins should be truly unopened ruins.

In other words, she had done such a long task chain, but the real task was just to enter the ruins and find the jade pendant. The rest was just a subject set by Ni Dongmei.

Enter the ruins, get the jade pendant, and the trial is complete, otherwise, it is a failure. It's that simple.

And the problem that plagued Wei Ba was...she couldn't get into the ruins.

"It's here."

Wei Ba pointed to the cliff in front of her and said, distressed, "According to my investigation these days, and the hints from the previous information, the entrance to the ruins is below this cliff!"

As she spoke, Wei Ba also gloomily took out the long, thick rope she had woven from her backpack, which was more than a hundred meters long. It had basically exhausted all the materials from Grandmaster Liao, and even connected some coarse cloth and other strange things to increase the length.

But for the cliff, this length of rope was not enough.

"I can go back to the village to collect more materials and make a longer rope, but Lord Ni Dongmei meant that if I can't complete the trial task in one go, once I return to the village, the trial will be a failure, and there will be no next chance."

"At first, according to my own understanding, I thought Lord Ni Dongmei wanted me to hunt the strange, the eerie, in Maple Leaf Forest, and use their materials to make a longer rope so that I could descend to the bottom of the cliff, find, and enter the Barren and Bizarre Ruins."

"But with the collection of materials these days, and the summary of the information I have been thinking about...I increasingly feel that...Lord Ni Dongmei seems to want me to jump directly off the cliff."

Jump off?

Fang Yue was stunned when he heard Wei Ba say that.

"Why would she want you to jump off the cliff? Is jumping down the right way to enter the ruins?"

Fang Yue thought about the scene for a moment. Although it was a bit magical, it was acceptable if there was an array running at the bottom of the cliff.

The problem was... Maple Leaf Cliff in Maple Leaf Forest had stood for so many years, and there was no shortage of people who had fallen down by accident, but no one had ever survived.

And... Maple Leaf Cliff had stood for so many years, even if there was an array below, it would have run out of energy long ago if no one maintained it.

This was different from the ancient array in Mo Village. Although the ancient array in Mo Village had been around for quite some time, the captains of Mo Village were doing their best to maintain the operation of the array. The annual cost of maintaining the ancient array in Mo Village was not a small amount.

In comparison, a wild array would have broken down long ago. How could it have been preserved?

Unless Ni Dongmei had temporarily set it up, but Wei Ba had said that only this last ruin was the real trial that Ni Dongmei had not touched at all, preserving its original flavor.

So Fang Yue couldn't figure out what Ni Dongmei was trying to do by asking people to jump off the cliff? Could it be...to test people's luck? See if there was anyone blessed with heavenly luck who could jump off the cliff, not die, and successfully enter the ruins?

No, no, no! This was too absurd no matter how he thought about it. How could there be such a pitfall? Unless one's luck was heaven-defying, jumping off the cliff would surely lead to death.

"I feel...maybe you're thinking in the wrong direction. Maybe Ni Dongmei doesn't want you to go down with a rope, but to kick out footholds on the cliff edge, one step at a time, like climbing a mountain, and descend step by step."

Descend?

Hearing Fang Yue's words, Wei Ba imagined the scene and felt that the danger was not much safer than jumping off the cliff.

Moreover... Unlike Fang Yue, Wei Ba herself had come all the way along Ni Dongmei's task chain, so she could feel that Ni Dongmei really wanted her to jump off the cliff!

This made Wei Ba very depressed and felt very conflicted.

On the one hand, she could feel that Ni Dongmei really wanted to take her into the Jibing Sect, but on the other hand, asking her to jump off the cliff, what was the difference between that and asking her to die?

In short, Wei Ba couldn't figure out what Ni Dongmei was thinking, and couldn't find a suitable way to get to the bottom of the cliff, and at the same time, she didn't want to give up and return to Mo Village to admit the trial failure and miss the opportunity, so she was just dawdling in Maple Leaf Forest.