If disappearance represents annihilation, then what is the meaning of this dividing line?
The current situation of the players seems to be an unsolvable problem; as long as Zhao Qian and Cheng Shi exhaust all their mental energy, they will fall again and disappear below the dividing line.
But the Trial should have an answer, and it must have an answer.
The question is, where is the answer?
Actually, the answer to this question is not hard to think of, and even all six players present had thought of it.
That is, the answer is very likely below that dividing line!
Behind this dividing line, perhaps there is not annihilation, but a path to survival!
But the next question arose:
How to verify if this idea is correct?
Just as Cui Dingtian said: Practice is the sole criterion for testing truth.
There must be someone brave enough to practice and confirm what exactly is behind the dividing line.
This is the most difficult question.
Who goes!?
In the previous Trial, there was an incredibly reckless Assassin Miss who tested things for everyone. Although she also messed things up for everyone, she was the one who charged forward in the end.
But what about this time?
The old, weak, women, and children are all present, but there's a lack of someone with drive.
Actually, Zhao Qian, whether in Faith or personality, seems like the type of person who dares to fight and struggle.
But at such a critical moment, he never speaks.
As for Su Yida... even less likely.
The scene fell into Silence for a moment, and precisely because the early cooperation went smoothly, the Silence at this moment was even harder to break.
No one could find an excuse to ask a seemingly good teammate to use their life to test things for everyone.
Cui Dingtian silently retracted the leather rope and returned below the hot air balloon.
He looked at the ugly expressions of the crowd, his eyes hesitated repeatedly, and finally he sighed:
"Alas, this old man will do it. I am old, and I don't have many days left to live.
Just as Little Cheng said, even if we pass this hurdle, after going out, there will be at most three more days. You are still young, and you still have hope.
As for me, I have come quite far to reach here."
Seeing that he was about to let go of the leather rope and descend again, Zhao Qian suddenly hooked him with his foot and said with a conflicted expression:
"Old Cui, aren't you going to continue looking for Autumn Time?"
Autumn Time.
Such an intimate address.
This Zhao Qian, he really knows him!
Cui Dingtian seemed not to hear the hidden meaning in Zhao Qian's words. His face first darkened, and then he laughed heartily:
"No need to look. Autumn Time is a good child and can be independent. Perhaps he is living better than me now, hahahaha.
I taught him from a young age to be upright and stand tall, just as Autumn Time's grandfather taught me. The name he gave me means exactly that.
You are still young, and you have a long way to go in the future. This old man is old and can't see what's ahead...
Besides, according to the rules of this game, Warriors are meant to charge forward!
So..."
Before he could finish speaking, Cui Dingtian suddenly knocked away Zhao Qian's leg and leaped backward, jumping down, afraid that everyone would react.
"Old Cui!"
"Lao Tou!"
Cheng Shi's reaction was quick enough, but his outstretched hand still brushed past Cui Dingtian.
He frowned, wanting to cast a Calming Spell to prevent the old man from being so impulsive, but someone was faster than him.
Zhao Qian, who had just been slow and dragging his feet, suddenly put in effort somehow. A scorching flame erupted in the furnace, blasting out violent heat, forcefully pushing the hot air balloon upwards rapidly.
The rapidly descending Cui Dingtian also paused slightly, a hint of a smile appearing on his face.
However, this was of no avail, the old man was still falling.
There must be another way!
It's impossible to have no clues!
What could it be!
Cheng Shi frowned and quickly began to think.
annihilation, disappearance, reality, abyss, dividing line...
Countless flashes of inspiration burst forth and dissipated in his mind, the sparks of collision forming a continuous stream, comparable to the flames Zhao Qian was generating in his hands.
But Cheng Shi was able to stay calm, while Zhao Qian could not.
"Healer! Replenish my mental energy!"
Zhao Qian called out his name again, demanding healing. It was only then that all the thoughts in Cheng Shi's mind suddenly froze, countless points of light gathered, outlining a scene from his memory.
He suddenly remembered an interesting anecdote in the professional channel.
At that time, a Priest of annihilation complained that his Lord was not like the God of the Submersion Fate at all, but rather like the God of the nothingness Fate.
He was enthusiastic about studying the Void and attempted to integrate into nothingness, so much so that the divine decrees given in the Trials were never about killing people of opposing Faith, but about exploring all secrets related to nothingness.
Coupled with the Void Maw Swallowing Whale that appeared yesterday, it is not difficult to see that He seems to have this intention.
Given this, is it possible that below this dividing line is directly the Void?
Approaching the Void, is that the answer He gave?
One should know that the Void is not inaccessible; on the contrary, it embraces all Existence more inclusively than reality.
The reason people fear the Void is because they have transferred their fear of the Void Rift onto the Void itself.
At the boundary between reality and Void, the power of the Void Rift, which erases Existence, can devour almost everything.
Any life that approaches it will turn into nothingness.
This is the root of people's fear!
But as long as one can block this corrosive power from passing through the rift, traversing the Void becomes a very simple matter.
However, the requirements for crossing the Void Rift are too strict; besides relying on special demigod artifacts, it is only possible if one's own divine power reaches a certain level.
Simply put, those who can step into the Void are Da Laos.
Looking back at the dividing line under the players' feet, doesn't it resemble the boundary between reality and the Void?
It's just that this boundary has no buffer transition, crudely cutting reality and Void in two.
Furthermore, among the six people present, there is not a single Da Lao who can cross the Void Rift.
However...
There are no Da Laos, but I have seen something big!
Thinking of this, a bold idea gradually formed in Cheng Shi's mind...
And this, again, will be a huge gamble!
A wild, imaginative gamble!
He first responded to Zhao Qian's request for healing, giving the struggling war believer a powerful mental recovery, and then with a grim face, he pulled on Su Yida's leg above his head.
Su Yida looked down in confusion and saw Cheng Shi grabbing his leg with a speechless expression and shouting:
"Hey, Da Jiang, you didn't pee yourself from fright, did you? There's water dripping on me!"
This complaint came so suddenly that all the players who were tense and focused on Cui Dingtian's position were stunned for a moment.
Hearing this, they quickly glanced at Su Yida in surprise.
Su Yida's face froze, and then he became furious.
"Go to hell! You're the one who peed himself from fright!"
He violently shook his leg, seemingly wanting to Throw Cheng Shi off.
Tao Yi saw this and quickly tried to mediate, saying:
"Su Yida, don't be like this!"
Su Yida looked up at Tao Yi in shame and anger, and argued loudly:
"Tao Yi, don't listen to him! I didn't..."
Before he finished speaking, his angry expression turned into one of extreme fear, his eyes widened, as if he had seen something unbelievable.
"Water! It's water! The water that disappeared is falling again!!! Be careful!!!!"
Seeing this, Tao Yi suddenly looked up at the sky.
The moment her gaze passed through the cicada-wing-thin wooden umbrella surface, she saw a torrential downpour, just like yesterday, pouring down towards them from the endless sky!
Even if Tao Yi reacted quickly, she was still stunned at that moment.
Now there's no need to debate who goes down; with this volume of water pouring down, everyone will be pushed onto that dividing line!
At this moment, Su Yida was the most agile.
He suddenly tugged on the stressed leather rope and shouted loudly:
"Tao Yi, let go quickly! The umbrella surface has a large surface area and will be washed down!
Lao Tou! Come up! It's meaningless for you to die now, do you see it? There's something in the water!
Hook onto them, and we can climb up!
The water that just disappeared is back!! Take us up!! Hurry!!!"
Cui Dingtian lived up to his name of Dingtian; at this critical moment, he immediately tightened his muscles and rose rapidly.
As he ascended, another leather rope had already been thrown towards the top of the crowd, pulling away the falling sea debris one by one.
Seeing this, Zhao Qian no longer dared to hold back. He directly spread his arms, creating a huge flame bow out of thin air. The bowstring of flowing fire hummed incessantly, making people's ears numb.
"How to survive, only by Blood and Fire!"
When this war prayer was spoken, fine beads of blood seeped from Zhao Qian's arms.
Then everyone only heard a roar from the depths of the flames, and saw a ray of scorching white flame pierce directly through the umbrella surface, shooting towards the overwhelming water.
"Zzz—Boom!"
The arrow tore through the air with a roar, and the white flame at the tip of the arrow exploded in the water, instantly igniting in the air, burning a large empty space.
"Now!" Su Yida screamed hoarsely, "That broken wood over there! Our only chance!"
Seeing that there was another wood-attribute item, Tao Yi circulated all her prosperity power without reservation. After casting the spell, she actually made new sprouts grow from the falling broken wood, which instantly became lush with branches and leaves.
The dense leaves acted as buffer wings, slowing down the wood's falling speed by a beat.
Cui Dingtian was in peak condition. He immediately wrapped Cheng Shi and the others like zongzi, then threw out the leather rope, resisting the sparse falling water, and climbed onto this falling piece of wood.
Su Yida almost became everyone's eyes. He looked again at a foothold high up and roared:
"Upper right at 4 o'clock, Zhao Qian, keep going!"
However, desperate measures cannot be used repeatedly. Zhao Qian's breath was weak, and it was clear he couldn't be relied upon.
But just then, Cheng Shi spoke.
"This is useless. Our speed can't match the falling speed of the water!"
"You!!!" Su Yida looked at Cheng Shi in shock and anger, seemingly unable to believe that he was still pouring cold water at this moment!
"Void Maw Swallowing Whale!"
Cheng Shi said with certainty: "To cross that line, we need to find the corpse of a Void Maw Swallowing Whale!"
Void Maw Swallowing Whale?
What does this have to do with the darling of nothingness?
Just as everyone was still trying to figure it out, Su Yida suddenly woke up. A look of joy appeared on his face, and he pointed to the upper side and shouted loudly:
"There! Lao Tou! Zhao Qian! Over there, over there is the corpse of a Void Maw Swallowing Whale!!"
Zhao Qian immediately turned to look and found that there was indeed a huge creature falling through the water at that place!
Such a big commotion, how did I not notice it just now?
Cui Dingtian actually hadn't figured out what crossing the dividing line had to do with the Void Maw Swallowing Whale, but it didn't matter, his execution ability was very strong.
At that moment, he first threw his teammates, who were wrapped like zongzi, over, and then, just as he was being pressed down by the water, he contracted his skin and flew over with them.
Everyone safely touched the skin of the Void Maw Swallowing Whale. Cheng Shi quickly extended his right hand out of the Mummy's "shroud" and then punched the belly of the Void Maw Swallowing Whale.
Perhaps because of nervousness, or perhaps because he was restrained, this punch actually went wide.
But in the end, Thunder Judgement was too fierce. Even if it went wide, it was enough to achieve what Cheng Shi intended.
"Boom—"
Yesterday seemed to reappear, only the scene changed from the inner cavity of the giant beast to its outer skin.
A huge peal of Thunder roared out, directly piercing the massive creature, blasting a charred hole in its belly.
"Get in! Get in quickly!"
Cheng Shi didn't take the lead this time but directly hugged the nearest Tao Yi.
Tao Yi didn't have time to think too much, only assuming that Cheng Shi had overdrawn his physical strength, she tightly hugged him and jumped into the abdominal cavity.
The others followed closely behind.
And just as the last person, Cui Dingtian, jumped into the belly of the Void Maw Swallowing Whale, this massive corpse happened to fall to the height of the dividing line.
The corpse instantly disappeared.
And the people inside the corpse's abdominal cavity also disappeared.