Although he had mentally prepared himself seven days ago, Ren Suo still felt fear rise within him when he truly faced the rugged cliff.

He couldn't jump out; once the gravitational potential energy became too great, the "Gauze Clothing" wouldn't hold up. At best, a light fall would cause hormone disruption and endocrine failure; at worst, his brain would be smashed, and he'd faint, leaving him truly waiting for death.

He couldn't stop either, since the pursuers behind were already very close. If he were to stop at a cliff where dodging was impossible, he would inevitably have to endure the attackers' assault head-on.

He couldn't Teleport. To dodge a deadly blow from a Fourth Stage Expert, he had activated "Within Reach, Yet Worlds Apart", and the Skill was still cooling down.

These past days, Ren Suo had pondered whether he could avoid the cliff-jumping scene, yet when he reached this juncture, he realized it was the best choice, one earned through his hard-fought efforts.

He now found it impossible to turn back and fight—he was just an ordinary Third-turn Cultivator. To execute those large-scale spells and block a Fourth Stage Expert, he had not only exhausted his accumulated negative emotions to drive "Demon King Descent - Imperial Edict" but had also deeply depleted his Spiritual Energy.

Besides "Gauze Clothing", he couldn't use any other powerful spells now.

It appeared that Maid Xiao Suo in the game was also striving with all her might.

The narrative's ending in the game was also Maid Xiao Suo's utmost Effort, yet an unavoidable and inevitable future...

At that moment, Ren Suo sensed Qiao Muyi trembling in his arms. He paused slightly, then laughed, "Wait till we jump down before you pee. It's dangerous here, and it's too public..."

Qiao Muyi didn't speak, only tightening her grip on him until his spine ached—he'd almost forgotten that Qiao Muyi's physical condition was much stronger than his.

However, this distraction seemed to lessen her fear somewhat, and Ren Suo felt his own Fear abating as well.

He had jumped off cliffs two hundred and fifty-six times in the game.

Maid Xiao Suo died two hundred fifty-five times.

Ren Suo had watched all of Maid Xiao Suo's efforts.

And all Ren Suo needed to handle was the last, most Perfect, and safest jump. What could he possibly complain about?

Ren Suo held Qiao Muyi and turned around, his back to the cliff, facing the Transcendents who were about to catch up over the slope. The physique of a Third-turn Cultivator and "Insight into the Mortal World" also bestowed Ren Suo with excellent eyesight.

He could clearly see the anger plastered across Ursa's mud-streaked face, the fatal determination in Sakura Kyoko's eyes, and Dai Ze's greed.

He could see the hatred and curses in the eyes of the Transcendents, and the murderous intent to rip a piece of flesh from the Demon King even if it meant being shattered to pieces.

He could see the calm and indifference in You Jiu's eyes, the cold light in the eyes of the Huanghe Cultivator.

Is this what you've always been facing?

Is this what you were fighting against in the other endings?

Is this... the feeling of being an enemy of the whole world?

"Who are you!? Why are you helping the Demon King!" a Watcher running at the front yelled angrily. "You are making an enemy of humanity!"

By now, it was clear to them. The attacks from the Fourth Stage Experts had almost never been blocked by the Demon King himself. Instead, an inconspicuous person stood by the Demon King's side. Their figure was indistinct, gender and features hard to discern, and easily overlooked. Yet, this person had suddenly used various spells at just the right moments to fend off the fatal attacks!

Then they heard a voice, its gender indiscernible, echo through the night sky with a clear laugh, clarifying his stance:

"I am an accomplice of the Demon King! Regardless of whether the Demon King stands against you or not, I will always stand by his side as an accomplice!"

With his boisterous, joyful laugh, bathed in Moonlight, he, holding the Demon King, leapt backward and plunged off the cliff!

SNAP!

As his spine crackled against the smooth cliff face, Ren Suo tensed all over, striving to maintain "Gauze Clothing" while using his last bit of negative emotion to drive "Demon King Descent - Imperial Edict", enhancing "A Thousand Miles in a Day" and "Insight into the Mortal World"!

In "Xiao Suo's Secret Diary", a correct and safe cliff-crashing route was already marked for him; now, the issue was that he needed to adjust his trajectory continuously by crashing into branches and rock walls while ensuring Qiao Muyi's safety!

Ren Suo thought he would surely make mistakes during actual execution because of nervousness and pain—he had rolled from the top of a mountain to the bottom before, but mindlessly rolling and skillfully doing so were obviously two entirely different things.

But it wasn't so. When he tried to think about how he was going to roll, his body reacted ahead of him, adeptly taking him on a cliff bumper car ride. All he had to do was concentrate fully, endure the significantly reduced pain through "Gauze Clothing", and let his body hit the right spots!

Yes, that tree branch. Hit it, break it, and then turn a quarter turn counterclockwise...

The upcoming sharp rock wall is unavoidable. Hit it directly with the hardest part of the knee, then use the momentum to shift one body-width to the left...

The path splits here. The other side is rougher; move towards the steep area where constant impacts can be used for deceleration...

Soon, he'll crash into a place untouched by the moonlight...

And Qiao Muyi, in Ren Suo's arms, having embraced the resolution for a certain death from the fall, soon sensed something was amiss.

All collisions with the cliff were cushioned by Ren Suo, and by the time the force reached Qiao Muyi, it was already very weak; even without activating her Defensive Magic, her physical condition could withstand it.

Once or twice could have been a coincidence. But after about a dozen continuous impacts, despite falling nearly tens of meters, she had somehow remained completely unharmed.

And besides Ren Suo, she didn't collide with any other hard objects. Even if love clouded her judgment, Qiao Muyi realized something now.

At that moment, Ren Suo seemingly crashed into a particularly hard rock. His right shoulder blade struck it, scattering the overlying snow, and a CRACK resounded. He grunted lowly, spinning with Qiao Muyi, but as a result, his right hand could hardly exert any force and was loosely placed on Qiao Muyi's shoulder.

You've broken our agreement again.

Didn't we agree that I wouldn't get hurt, and you wouldn't get hurt? You've made this kind of mistake; how am I supposed to explain this to Cheng Ling? Why are you so disobedient...

Why are you so foolish.

I wouldn't die from a minor injury, so why did you take all the hits? Do you think that just because I didn't hit the rock wall, I wouldn't feel pain?

Qiao Muyi really wanted to say 'let me go' or 'let me do it myself', but she quickly suppressed such a foolish impulse: not only would it betray the Trust she had placed in him, but it would also let down Ren Suo's efforts.

Enjoy it.

Enjoy this peace of being protected by him, enjoy the adoration of being so cherished by him, enjoy this promise inscribed with life itself.

Qiao Muyi clenched her lips, trying hard to keep her voice from quivering, forcing out her usual venomous tongue, "Being saved by you, I really am not used to it..."

"Me neither," Ren Suo's voice was pain-free, light as a feather tickling the ear.

Suddenly, sparks burst from the rocks beside them, and gunshots rang out from the cliff!

Even though they jumped off the cliff, the Transcendents were still not willing to let them go!

Like divine punishment thundering down from the heavens, countless attacks poured down relentlessly upon these sinners from the cliff!

At that moment, Ren Suo rolled with Qiao Muyi to the other side of the cliff—the side not illuminated by the moon!

Qiao Muyi watched as they seemed to plunge into the Abyss of Darkness while the Transcendents stood on the Summit of Light, looking down on them.

The entire world seemed divided into two parts: the dark us, and the bright them.

—But some were unsatisfied with this division.

Then, Qiao Muyi saw the third Dawn Morning Star of the night.

It shone brighter than the moon, vaporizing the crystal snowflakes and leveling the ferocious cliffs, sweeping downward like a huge wave, threatening to drown their precarious little boat!

However, in the moment the Radiance shone, the protector of the dark had already reacted, clutching the Demon King and elegantly dodging the Sword Light!

WHOOSH!

Qiao Muyi felt a sharp impact on her back, hearing a barely detectable sound of a bone cracking.

Ren Suo's left forearm was hit by a bullet!

A marksman took advantage of the moment the Sword Light flashed to shoot precisely at them both—there is a spell among the Watchers that briefly and significantly increases shooting accuracy!

Endless rage ignited in Qiao Muyi's heart—both at the Transcendents' cruelty and her own helplessness.

If you can't even protect the one you love, what kind of woman, what kind of protagonist, what kind of Demon King are you?

As his right scapula shattered and the bullet struck his left forearm, Ren Suo's hands were almost too weak to hold Qiao Muyi any longer.

Qiao Muyi no longer cared about her anger, clutching Ren Suo tightly as if trying to merge him into her own body, biting her lip and saying, "You are holding me so tightly."

Ren Suo chuckled at that but didn't respond, continuing to hit the rocks to decelerate and steadily rolling closer to the bottom of the cliff.

The people on the mountaintop kept attacking, but Ren Suo and Qiao Muyi were now well below them, shrouded in darkness. Not only was the range too far for their attacks, but they couldn't even be seen, rendering the hit probability virtually zero.

At that moment, Qiao Muyi also noticed something strange: If just now Ren Suo was constantly changing positions by hitting the cliff to slow down, now they were in an area untouched by moonlight, almost pitch black. How was Ren Suo recognizing directions?

Why, in more than two hundred collisions, had Ren Suo not let Qiao Muyi hit the cliff wall even once, taking all the buffer impacts himself?

Those two guesses about Ren Suo's abilities resurfaced in Qiao Muyi's mind.

If you can foresee the future, then how many futures did you search through to find this one, where you protect me and treat me as a treasure?

If you were reborn from the future, then just how many times did you have to be reborn to develop such practiced reflexes?

Your skillfulness makes my heart ache.

Suddenly, just as they were about to slide to the bottom of the cliff, Ren Suo hit something unknown. After a muffled groan, he stopped turning around. The bones in his torso made a sound that was painful just to hear. Then, dazed, he held Qiao Muyi, letting his back suffer intense friction against the rugged cliff as they shot straight down towards the river below!

"Xiao Suo..."

Almost lying in Ren Suo's arms, Qiao Muyi softly said, "You've been hurt two hundred fifty-five times, making two hundred fifty-five mistakes, and I've counted each one…

"Why are you always like this, not listening, not keeping promises? If seven days ago you had just stayed at home, wouldn't you have avoided getting hurt? I wouldn't have to feel this heartache either…

"And your intuition is so annoying too; why do you insist on comforting me when a girl doesn't want to tell you…

"So, so…"

Suddenly, Qiao Muyi recalled the life creed she set for herself: A heart cannot be upright, intentions cannot be clear, actions cannot be revealed, good intentions must be hidden behind malice, sincerity wrapped in ruthlessness, never coveting trivial vulgar things, always proud, free, and dismissive of the world…

CHUCKLE.

In the darkness, she smiled radiantly, her cheeks glowing, eyes enchanting, and voice gentle:

"I really love you."

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