As spiritual energy revived, I, having acquired certain attributes, gradually ascended to immortalit

Chapter 146 The Great Grassland Has Disappeared?

"where do you come from?"

Shen Qing's eyes lit up instantly. She pointed at the boy, but he immediately started to kowtow again, forgetting all about the unfinished roast meat in his hand.

"Stop, stop, stop!"

Shen Qing quickly reached out and pressed down on the other person's shoulder. He couldn't stand the way the other person kept kowtowing.

Since we couldn't communicate verbally, we had to rely on gestures.

Fortunately, the boy seemed to be quite clever. Shen Qing pointed at him and then at the ground, and the boy understood what he meant.

The boy glanced at him hesitantly, then looked at the bone in his hand that he had gnawed clean.

He stood up and wiped the grease from the corner of his mouth.

Shen Qing followed him to the edge of the platform, where the boy pointed to the near-ninety-degree cliff.

Before Shen Qing could react, he had already started climbing down the cliff.

"Climb down?!"

Looking at the towering mountain peaks that reached into the clouds, Shen Qing stared wide-eyed, his face blank.

Even with his physique, he wouldn't dare say he could climb down from these peaks that are thousands or even tens of thousands of meters high; his physical strength simply wouldn't be enough.

Is this kid, an ordinary person, just asking for death?

But if this method doesn't work, where did the other party come from?

The boy was as agile as a mountain goat, leaping and bounding on the steep cliff face. His long, slender fingers were also well-suited for climbing.

The way he seemed to know what he was doing clearly meant it wasn't his first time.

As he climbed the rock face, his movements were fluid and confident, a stark contrast to his earlier state of kneeling on the ground, his eyes filled with fear.

The boy climbed a few meters, and when he saw that Shen Qing hadn't followed, he stopped and looked up at him with a hint of doubt and expectation in his eyes.

Did a meal, or rather a transaction, dispel all suspicion?

Shen Qing was taken aback for a moment, then decided to go down with the other person to take a look.

Even ordinary people with strong physiques can climb down, so there's no reason why he can't. Besides, he can't just wait here forever.

Putting aside the issue of food and drink, if he can't get out within two days, he might have to cross the grassland with it.

Shen Qing flipped over and jumped onto the cliff face.

Seeing him come down, the boy's eyes lit up and he began to lead the way. After descending about a hundred meters, Shen Qing finally understood how the boy had come up.

There was a cave beneath the platform.

The entrance to the cave wasn't very big, just big enough for an adult to crawl through. At an altitude of several thousand meters, there was not only no snow, but also some plants that covered the entrance.

In addition, the cave was already sunken, which is why Shen Qing didn't notice it.

The boy was the first to crawl into the cave entrance, followed closely by Shen Qing. As soon as they entered the cave, the scene inside stunned him.

"Red stalactites?"

The surrounding area was a dark red color. Upon closer inspection, it turned out to be stalactites hanging from the cave ceiling, all of which shimmered with a dark red luster.

Shen Qing instinctively reached out to touch it, but before he could, the boy stopped him, shaking his head frantically, almost hugging him.

"Waaaaah!"

Although Shen Qing couldn't understand what the other person meant, she still withdrew her hand.

There were obvious signs of artificial excavation inside the cave, with some narrow sections widened. Shen Qing followed the boy, turning left and right inside.

The opponent's speed was surprisingly fast, not slower than that of an ordinary ninth-grade supernatural being.

Even so, the two walked for four or five hours without seeing any sign of an exit.

If it weren't for the boy's practiced manner, Shen Qing would have suspected that they had taken the wrong route.

Midway through, the boy stopped to rest. Although he seemed to be in good physical condition, he was still just an ordinary person.

The boy took the gourd from his waist and handed it to Shen Qing first.

Shen Qing waved his hand to indicate that he didn't need it, and only then did the boy open the gourd's mouth, but instead of putting it to his mouth, he tilted his head back and raised the gourd high, from which a thin stream of liquid flowed out.

It is water.

After drinking, the boy handed Menglu back to him. Shen Qing understood that this was to give him water, and that he had just been proving that it wasn't poisonous.

This time he didn't refuse, took it, took a sip, and casually said something.

"Thanks."

"Thank you?" The boy tilted his head and repeated it haltingly.

Shen Qing didn't pay any attention to it. The other person seemed to be learning his speech the whole way, but his attention was entirely on the water.

After drinking the water, he actually felt an effect similar to that of the Blood Essence Fruit.

However, he didn't drink much. After all, it didn't matter to him whether he drank water or not, but the other person was just an ordinary person, and he didn't know how far away they were.

Besides, the effect of this water is far inferior to that of the Blood Essence Fruit, so it's unnecessary.

They returned the gourd to the boy, rested for a while, and then set off again.

After a long while, Shen Qing's perception of time began to blur, and finally a real light appeared ahead.

It wasn't the daytime he perceived.

"We can go out now!"

Shen Qing's eyes lit up with joy, and he quickened his pace. He had thought he would be trapped in the air for a while, but he didn't expect to be free so quickly.

He subconsciously glanced at the boy walking ahead, feeling truly grateful to him.

Just as Shen Qing was considering how to thank the other party, the scene before her suddenly opened up, and a village came into view.

Dozens of simple stone houses stood in the village. Two guards stood at the entrance, holding spears and looking over warily.

All around were lush, ordinary trees.

Shen Qing was stunned.

"Isn't this the Absolute Spirit Grassland?"

Those giant grasses, taller than trees, were completely invisible at a glance. My grassland is so big!

Before Shen Qing could think it through, two spears were already aimed at him.

The two guards were talking to the boy beside him in a cryptic tone, which turned into suspicion.

But Shen Qing, whose mentality was already on the verge of collapse, became even more agitated upon seeing the attitude of the interrogator.

Before the two sides could finish their conversation, he stomped his foot hard on the ground.

With a deafening roar, tens of tons of force crashed down, causing the ground to collapse violently around his feet, and spiderweb-like cracks began to spread.

The ground shook, and the two guards closest to Shen Qing couldn't even hold their weapons steady for a moment.

The two men turned pale instantly, looked at Shen Qing in disbelief, and then prepared to kneel down.

"Kneel again, kneel again!"

Shen Qing was quick and nimble, grabbing the two men's shoulders from both sides, but he was even more annoyed. Couldn't they find someone who could communicate with them?

The commotion was quite significant, causing a stir in the village and quickly attracting the attention of other people.

"Greetings, Venerable One of Supernatural Powers!"

An old man rushed out of the village in a panic, his steps were quite nimble, but he knelt down on the ground before he even got close.

Their movements were also exceptionally skillful.

But his respectful demeanor didn't seem like he was facing a demon; it was more like he had encountered outsiders like Shen Qing many times before.

"Sir, you have come from afar, and we have failed to greet you properly."

"Ah Da and Ah Er are naive and have never seen the world. If they have offended you in any way, please be magnanimous and spare their lives."

"You can talk!"

A look of joy flashed in Shen Qing's eyes. She didn't listen to what the old man was saying at all and quickly helped him up. "Alright, stand up and talk."

Why do people here kneel down so easily?

"My lord, the second son comes from outside, so naturally he understands the language spoken outside."

Although the old man stood up, he was still bowing. "As for why I'm kneeling—my sir, you are a supernatural being, while we are just ordinary people."

This statement was made calmly and matter-of-factly.

Shen Qing frowned involuntarily, but he couldn't say anything more. Not to mention that they were powerless to resist the demon they had encountered earlier.

According to what the heroine said before, there are quite a few supernatural beings in this world who do terrible things.

This is especially true for those at the bottom of society, those closest to ordinary people; as the saying goes, "small devils are hard to deal with," which illustrates this point.

However, looking at the boy kneeling down again beside him, he felt somewhat irritated.