Wait, How Did My Digital Girlfriend Become a Sword Immortal? Chapter 755: Main Quest 7.0

Chapter 755: Main Quest 7.0

"Master, I can take you to see the Dimensional Gate. When you see it, you'll understand why we don't want you to go to the Small Thousand World."

Seeing is believing, better than a thousand explanations.

Su Qinian and Zhang Mengchu both believed Li Qingran was a sensible person.

She wouldn't do something as reckless as knowingly marching into a tiger's den.

Li Qingran nodded. "Then I'll trouble you two Elders. Regardless, I still need to go see it before making a decision."

The Dimensional Gate was located in the extreme north of the Cangyun Realm, a desolate land eternally covered in ice and snow.

Su Qinian and Zhang Mengchu shielded Li Qingran as they trudged forward with great difficulty against a bone-chilling gale that could freeze one's Divine Soul.

This place was covered by a rule forbidding flight; even cultivators at the Great Ascension Stage could only travel on foot.

Li Qingran gritted her teeth, her slender frame trembling slightly in the fierce gale, every step feeling like walking on knife blades.

Her beautiful face had long lost its color, turning deathly pale, with her long eyelashes covered in frost.

Su Qinian and Zhang Mengchu watched with aching hearts, yet they were powerless to help.

The extreme northern gale was a trial set by heaven and earth; the resolve to reach an unknown world had to be measured by one's own flesh and will.

"Time passes, things change, yet after thousands of years, this extreme north hasn't changed much..."

Su Qinian gazed at the swirling snowflakes and couldn't help but sigh.

It was truly cold.

Back then, he had nearly shed a layer of skin trying to reach the Small Thousand World.

Now, even though he was at the peak of the Unity Realm, he still couldn't completely resist that bone-deep chill.

Only Zhang Mengchu beside him, this great cultivator who had already reached the Void Shattering stage, could maintain a normal complexion.

"This old man had to fight the demon beasts here back then to reach the Dimensional Gate." Zhang Mengchu stroked his beard and shook his head slightly. "But now I can't even sense those demon beasts' auras anymore. After thousands of years of change, there's almost no Spiritual Energy here. Demon beasts can't survive, let alone ordinary animals."

The journey to the Dimensional Gate was tedious.

The two could only deliberately tell bizarre and strange stories to amuse Li Qingran and distract her attention.

This level of cold was still excessively harsh for a cultivator at the Nascent Soul stage.

What they didn't know was this.

What sustained Li Qingran throughout this arduous trek wasn't those fantastical stories.

It was the horrific image that kept flashing in her mind: Chen Huaian grievously wounded, on the brink of death, with only half his body remaining.

That heart-piercing, agonizing pain actually overpowered the bone-deep cold, transforming into a stubborn force that drove her forward.

After walking for an unknown length of time, the wind and snow ahead seemed to thin somewhat.

A ruin as vast as a city, yet completely collapsed, lay silently prostrate on the ice plain like the carcass of a giant beast.

Shattered sky-piercing stone pillars were slanted and embedded in the deep snow, half-burying broken reliefs depicting long-vanished ancient star charts.

Soaring ancient swords and unidentifiable stone piles were frozen within the ice layer, emitting a cold, faint glow.

But the most eye-catching thing was the remaining half of a giant gate... hundreds of *zhang* tall.

The door frame was cast from some kind of dark, dull metal. Even after enduring endless years of weathering and erosion, one could still sense its former sturdiness and glory.

But now, only half of it remained.

The break was jagged and uneven, as if torn and shattered by some unimaginably immense force.

Inside the gate was not a passage to another world.

There was only a chaotic, distorted, constantly flickering void of dangerous electric light, and the roaring influx of a spacetime storm.

Majestic, yet dead silent.

Epic, yet final.

This was the Dimensional Gate?

The starting point to the Small Thousand World?

Li Qingran gazed at this icy ruin that buried hope and passageways, her heart sinking straight down.

The piercing cold seemed to instantly penetrate her entire body, making her delicate frame sway, almost unable to stand steady.

The Dimensional Gate she had imagined, no matter how dangerous, should at least be whole and functional...

The scene of desolate despair before her eyes was like a basin of ice water, nearly extinguishing the resolve and courage she had accumulated along the journey.

"This... is the Dimensional Gate?" Her voice carried a barely perceptible tremor, dissipating into the howling gale.

"This is the place." Su Qinian frowned deeply. "But it's not right either..."

He recalled, "When this old man came here before, the Dimensional Gate was damaged, but it wasn't reduced to just half... Back then, the gate could no longer target a specific Small Thousand World for teleportation. This old man was randomly teleported to one, then traveled to other Small Thousand Worlds from there... Now that the gate is damaged to this extent, could it be... unusable?"

Zhang Mengchu walked up to the Dimensional Gate with a grave expression and reached out to touch the stone pillar beside the gate.

His originally gloomy face darkened even further. "It's not just unusable. Even the spatial coordinates are chaotic. Stepping into it would only result in being torn apart and devoured by the endless void storm... Absolutely no chance of survival, Master—"

He turned his head to look at Li Qingran and sighed. "You see it too. This Dimensional Gate... cannot be entered."

Li Qingran pressed her lips together, her eyes dim. "Is there really no other method?"

"None." Zhang Mengchu shook his head. "We don't know how to construct a Dimensional Gate. That's probably something only Immortals can do... Actually, Master, you don't necessarily have to go to a Small Thousand World for training. You can train just fine in the Cangyun Realm, like... uh, like..."

Zhang Mengchu 'liked' for a long while before finally squeezing out a sentence: "Like going to the Hundred Thousand Mountains."

As if knowing his own suggestion was rather foolish, Zhang Mengchu gave an awkward laugh himself.

Now, with Chen Huaian's fame spreading throughout the entire Cangyun Realm.

Li Qingran was naturally also highly renowned—even the mortal realm knew that the Cangyun Realm's number one Sword Cultivator, Chen Sword Master, had a beloved disciple named Li Qingran, born with beauty that could sink fish and drop geese, eclipse the moon and shame flowers, and possessing formidable cultivation, the legends about her were truly miraculous.

Though not that exaggerated.

In short, Li Qingran belonged to the category of someone no one dared to provoke wherever she went.

Training in the Cangyun Realm naturally became a joke.

Unless, she went to the Hundred Thousand Mountains.

But the Hundred Thousand Mountains were too harsh. With Li Qingran's cultivation level and fame, going there—wasn't that just delivering a hostage to the Demon Race?

"The Hundred Thousand Mountains it is, then." A fierce glint flashed in Li Qingran's eyes.

Since the Dimensional Gate was broken and the Small Thousand World was unreachable, then she would slaughter her way through the Hundred Thousand Mountains.

Anyway, she never had any fondness for the Demon Race.

Having said that, she turned and began retracing her steps.

"Master, that won't do! I was just joking, please don't actually go!" Zhang Mengchu hurriedly followed.

Su Qinian looked at the departing Li Qingran, then at the collapsed Dimensional Gate, sighed, and quickly chased after them.

Meanwhile, in the cave dwelling.

Chen Huaian was originally meditating and circulating his energy, accelerating his body's recovery.

Suddenly, a system prompt appeared:

[Main Quest 7.0: Li Qingran wishes to train in a Small Thousand World. Please help the player assist Li Qingran in reaching a Small Thousand World.]

Chen Huaian: "???"