Resting at the Broken Wings Cliff

Late at night, stars flashed in the sky of Northern Plains, everything was submerged in the quiet night sky, some wild beasts had gone home to sleep, but there were still some wild beasts that were active freely.

'Gu is the essence of heaven and earth, man is the spirit of all livings beings', this was correct, humans might be weak when compared to wild beasts, but they had greater intelligence, this was because they could think, using reason to suppress their instincts, they could restrain their instincts and had a unique nature.

In this tranquil night, there were still several tents filled with few stars shining with weak light.

In one of these tents, a middle-aged man was sitting cross-legged. There were tens of sheepskin papers in front of him and on them were filled with densely packed words of what was written in northern plains' language. However, this middle-aged man's eyes were closed and his face was soaked with cold sweat as if he was having a nightmare.

The whole camp only had one flickering light Gu, announcing the time had passed and everything in the camp was lit up.

Suddenly, his brows were tightly locked as he opened his eyes, at this moment, countless dazzling lights seemed to shine in his eyes, like the starry sky.

But that was only for an instant, when his eyes were fully open, there was a murky look left in his eyes, like an old man who had fainted.

'No, the current situation doesn't allow us to interfere, we can only retreat! Damn it, this is the final chance, if we don't succeed, we will only be left with the fate of being annexed.' The middle-aged man sighed silently in his heart.

Right now, he could only feel his consciousness turning dazed, but he knew his soul was already exhausted and had to rest right now. However, the current situation was extremely critical, even a slight mistake could cause his tribe to fall into the abyss of doom.

"I cannot rest now!" He gritted his teeth as he activated a Gu worm that looked like a dagger in his aperture, and this Gu instantly glowed with light, piercing his soul.

Immediately, an intense pain attacked his entire body, from inside to outside, and his cloudy eyes burst out with a trace of sharp light, his mental state seemed to have been restored back to full.

But after the intense pain, fatigue assaulted him, this was the burden on his soul, he could not recover from simply.

He could only helplessly activate another Gu again, but to his body, he was like a deflating sack, slowly shrinking.

Right now, his cheekbone was high, his eye sockets were deep, and his whole body was covered with layers of wrinkles, just like a human skin skeleton, but his eyes swept away the dazed state and became full of life again.

'It is not like I don't have a way to outwit a strong enemy, to make a deduction and see what plan I have. In contrast, controlling tigers to swallow wolves, night assault and ambushes are not appropriate here, I should do this, if I infiltrate this place…' He closed his eyes once again, countless inspirations appeared in his mind, all of these possibilities were under his control.

But an intense pain assaulted him, this was no longer a pain he was creating, his mind was also starting to hurt, this was his body's self-protection instinct, he fainted.

At the same time the lantern Gu on the table had no more primeval essence to support them, and the faint light was also extinguished; everything in this tent was engulfed by the darkness of the night.

"What?"

Ding Hao!

Daytime broke, the sunlight of white heaven pierced through the night sky, signifying the end of the night. At the same time, a loud and resonant sound was accompanied by sunlight, as it traveled across the sky.

An enormous eagle also rose from the sunrise, finally resting at a cliff. From his back, three people jumped from its back, they were none other than spectral spirit, Ye Qing Lian, and Chu Du.

"Brother Chu, we have already flown for two days and three nights without any rest, we are only half a day away from our destination, it is time to adjust our mindsets." spectral spirit spoke calmly, casually throwing a few beast corpses for the eagle to eat, afterwards, he said to Chu Du with some tiredness.

"Mm, you have to ensure that you are in your best condition before entering the battlefield." Chu Du was still showing no signs of fatigue, but he agreed with the suggestion, this was the most basic common sense in a place like Northern Plains where battles occurred endlessly.

As they spoke, spectral Spirit had already placed the lizard house Gu at the edge of the cliff, while Ye Qing Lian was already in a daze, her steps were unsteady and she could fall at any time. After Spectral Spirit spoke to Ye Qing Lian, she walked into the lizard house Gu to rest while swaying around.

"Brother Chu, do you know why I stopped here?" Spectral Spirit had no sleepiness at all, this was the strictness of northern plainsmen towards battles, and also their demeanor of a commoner, they had to make ample preparations before the battle, they could not slack for even a moment.

Right now, the spectral spirit was standing at the edge of the cliff, looking at the plains that were changing day and night, he asked Chu Du calmly, affection was in his eyes.

"This is brokenwing cliff, does brother You have any special memories here?" Chu Du was not stupid, he knew that this place held extraordinary significance to him when he saw the eerie and pure demeanour.

"This cliff is a rare mountain in Northern Plains, because this is the outermost entrance of the barren valley of one of Northern Plains' ten great fierce areas, this is a blessed land of wild bird species, it is named because there are countless bird corpses at the bottom of this cliff." Spectral Spirit did not reply directly, he started to explain the origins of this cliff, but Chu Du did not interrupt it, he only silently waited for the next words of Spectral Spirit.

"Back then, I was a broken lone cultivator, to evade my pursuers, I came to this cliff, and because I obtained an eagle enslavement Gu by chance, I continued to cultivate the art of enslavement here, eventually, I made some achievements, and finally, I decided to participate in the Imperial Court contest, obtaining the title 'Eagle Lord', in the end, even though the tribe I joined lost, I went into Imperial Court blessed land and obtained the soul path inheritance, becoming the 'eerie ghost' of today." Spectral Spirit slowly recalled the tough years, but had a smile on his face.

"So it was not easy for Brother You Ling to explain this in the past!" Chu Du sighed, these were all from Chu Du's perspective, he only explained it in a simple manner, but the difficulties involved were something that outsiders could not understand, he had suffered a lot these years for his current achievements.

"Hehe, in northern plains, which rank five Gu Master has not walked on the stairs made of corpses to ascend? We lone cultivators are even more like this, didn't we step past mountains of blades, cross seas of corpses, and seas of corpses to reach this stage?" The eerie smile turned cold, these years, he had suffered many of the so-called righteous path's hidden arrows, if he was not vigilant at all, his corpse would not have been carried away by that wolf.

"Each lone cultivator has faced a lot of difficulties, it is their greatest blessing to have an alliance mate. Instead, we can take a rest and drink another vat of wine, brother, this' sea 'feeling is truly wondrous!" Chu Du exclaimed at Spectral Spirit's side before changing the topic, the killing nature of spectral spirits is rarely seen in Chu Du's life, so it is better if he does not show killing intent, otherwise he would really die a terrible death.

"Alright! But we can only drink one vat, we can leave some for that guy!" Eerie spirit could tell that Chu Du was changing the topic, but he was sincere about drinking, he laughed as he scolded.

Next, he took out tables and chairs, setting up a fire, drinking ice suppression wine and eating burning food, enjoying the scenery along the cliff.