"Did none of you see that?"
"We saw it. Your throw was pretty accurate."
Ye Xiaoqing quickly realized what had happened. Because of the angle, her three companions had not been able to see the young man's astonishing leap on top of the rock clearly.
After thinking it over again and again, she confirmed that she really had thrown her phone too high.
It was just that, with her eyesight, she could not be certain whether Shimizu had jumped two meters or three.
But that… how was it possible?
Was that something a person could do?
"By the way, Xiaoqing, do you think that guy deliberately lied about not knowing how to use a DSLR so you'd give him your phone, and then he could get your contact information?"
"No way. We only just met." Ye Xiaoqing immediately stopped her friend's wild imagination. "And besides, I locked it."
"You clever little thing."
"Not really. It was just instinct… a habit."
"I get it~"
As she spoke, her companion suddenly pounced over and wrapped both arms around Ye Xiaoqing's fair neck.
"Who told you to be so pretty? Even I want to eat you up."
"Stop messing around, Jingyan."
As they spoke, the massive chakra storm gradually dispersed like smoke and clouds. The sudden phenomenon of heaven and earth left everyone who had witnessed it clicking their tongues in amazement.
"By the way, what exactly was that blue tornado cloud?" one of the boys suddenly asked.
"You're asking us?" Lin Jingyan felt that her older brother, Lin Tianhua, really was as slow as a wooden fish. Wasn't this exactly the sort of moment when a boy was supposed to show off? "We were about to ask you!"
"Shuwen?"
Lin Tianhua looked toward the other boy in the group.
Unfortunately, Li Shuwen shook his head.
"It was too strange… I've never seen anything like it either."
By now, more than twenty people had arrived at this cliff one after another. Clearly, they had all been drawn here by the blue tornado cloud, and almost every single person was frantically taking pictures with their phone.
Among them were a few middle-aged men wearing plain cyan robes, and even one old man with a white beard.
So even these people who lived apart from the world were interested in strange sights and wonders like this?
"It's about to disappear."
Someone in the crowd suddenly shouted.
The storm that had once been a bright, vivid blue was growing fainter and fainter, almost transparent. Everyone's heart tightened at the sight. This miracle between heaven and earth was about to vanish from the world.
"It's done. Here."
Ye Xiaoqing, who had been staring fixedly at the distant spectacle, instinctively took her phone back.
"Oh…"
At that moment, the sky changed again. The chakra storm seemed to gather the last of its strength, then suddenly burst outward in every direction.
In an instant, endless blue starlight scattered across the entire sky, decorating the heavens like countless stars.
Everyone stared in a daze at the mysterious and dazzling supernatural sight.
Shimizu, however, merely glanced at the fading chakra storm before leaving the cliff without hesitation.
…
"Wow, that really was kind of amazing," Lin Jingyan murmured. "Even fantasy movies don't go that hard, right?"
"Mm." Ye Xiaoqing nodded. "If it had been at night, the visual effect might have been even more explosive."
"Hey, did you two record a video?" Lin Jingyan suddenly remembered and immediately asked the two boys.
She had been too absorbed watching just now and had forgotten to record anything.
"We did," Li Shuwen and Lin Tianhua replied in unison.
"Good. Nice work."
Then she leaned closer to her brother and whispered, "You'd better perform well this time."
Lin Tianhua immediately looked caught between laughter and tears.
"It's already 2020, and you're still using a routine like that? Who wouldn't see through it?"
"But I really did forget to record just now."
"…Fine!"
Barely accepting his younger sister's excuse, Lin Tianhua also became cautious.
"Then do you think I should hint at it first later? Maybe be a bit more subtle?"
Lin Jingyan sniffed, her face full of disdain.
"Afraid of being rejected? Oh, please. Who doesn't know what you're thinking?"
"…Got it!"
"Um, Ye…"
Lin Tianhua had only just opened his mouth when he was interrupted.
"That person from just now is already gone."
"Huh?"
The other three looked completely confused.
"I said…" Ye Xiaoqing raised the red phone in her left hand. "The person from just now already gave my phone back to me."
The two boys instinctively looked up at the nearly twenty-meter-tall boulder with its almost vertical face. At that moment, there was not even half a shadow on top of it.
"Hey, then hurry up and check the photos and videos he took!" Lin Jingyan was the only one still excited.
"Are you stupid?"
Ye Xiaoqing immediately knocked her on the head.
"That person… really has a problem."
Lin Jingyan pouted. "Dear, how could you be mean to me?"
"Honestly, I give up with you."
"What kind of problem? It's not like he was even handsome."
Then Lin Jingyan noticed where the two boys were looking. The huge rock that had held him earlier was now completely empty.
And yet Ye Xiaoqing was holding the phone she had thrown up to him.
"Was that guy human or some kind of monster?" Lin Jingyan blurted out.
Lin Tianhua argued back, "Why couldn't he be a god?"
"When gods appear, aren't they supposed to come with their own divine glow? He looked way too ordinary."
"What do you know? Keeping a low profile is popular now!"
"Actually, he might also have been a ghost…" Lin Jingyan said thoughtfully.
What was that phrase again?
Appearing and disappearing like a spirit.
"That's not unreasonable," her brother agreed.
Ye Xiaoqing suddenly felt a headache coming on. These two siblings had dragged the conversation completely off track again.
…
The strange phenomenon between heaven and earth finally dispersed.
The white-bearded old man suppressed the inexplicable emotion in his heart.
His heart had not been this restless in many years.
He said softly, "Let's go."
"Master, aren't we going to inspect it further?" a middle-aged man asked, somewhat unwilling to give up.
"There is no need. The source of that innate true qi was on that 'Flying Immortal from Beyond the Heavens.'"
The so-called "Flying Immortal from Beyond the Heavens" referred to the nearly twenty-meter-tall boulder. Because it stood so abruptly on this cliff, it had earned that name.
"Ah? Then we…"
The middle-aged man subconsciously wanted to suggest going up to investigate, but then he remembered the nearly twenty-meter vertical height of the "Flying Immortal from Beyond the Heavens."
That was a distance even martial artists would find despairing.
So he could only awkwardly change his words.
"…Then I'll have Third Brother buy some climbing equipment online."
"He's always fiddling with that internet stuff…"
There was nothing shameful about that. After all, what made humans human was knowing how to use tools.
And martial artists were humans too.
Were they really supposed to expect people who practiced martial arts to simply leap straight up into the clouds?
That was fiction. That was television. That was film.
This was reality.
"Mm."
The white-bearded old man nodded, then took the lead and headed down the mountain.
"Hey, Master, don't walk so fast!"
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