I, the transmigrated villain, please wait, gentle master.

Chapter 37 It's just jumping off a cliff, I'm not afraid anymore.

Hell and the human world are so similar. If Li Tingyun hadn't clearly remembered that he had stepped into the gates of hell, he would have thought that he and his group had simply mistakenly entered some city in the human world.

Li Tingyun looked back and saw that the path he had taken had disappeared, replaced by a majestic, endless mountain range, like a series of giant screens that divided yin and yang, and separated dawn and dusk.

This place seems no different from the human world; perhaps there's another village or town behind the mountains.

Except for... time.

At midnight, when it is pitch black in the human world, the ghost realm is shrouded in twilight. The distant scenery can be barely seen, but not clearly. It seems as if one can see the light of day, yet not quite. There are neither stars nor sun or moon.

Time seemed to freeze at that moment, when the sun had already set and the moon had not yet risen.

No wonder every household below the cliff was brightly lit.

Li Tingyun stood on the high place and looked down, but after a short while, he felt dizzy... He was genuinely afraid of heights.

"What are we doing standing here? Let's go down quickly."

Wang Wu stepped forward.

Li Tingyun: "How do you plan to get down?"

Wang Wu: "Of course we'll jump!"

Li Tingyun: "You have no magic power, do you dare to jump?"

Wang Wu said, "Although I have temporarily lost my magic power, I am still a Golden Core cultivator. I have worked my way up from Qi Refining and Foundation Establishment, and I have long since transcended the mortal body. A mere cliff of a dozen feet is nothing to me. I won't die from such a low fall."

Li Tingyun said, "As expected of a Golden Core cultivator, he is terrifyingly powerful."

Wang Wu waved his hand: "You flatter me, you flatter me."

As soon as he finished speaking, he took a few steps back, then dashed off the cliff and actually jumped down.

Li Tingyun took a deep breath and took a few steps back.

She retreated to Mei Shiyu's side and said, "Master, can you take me down with you on your sword?"

Mei Shiyu said to him, "Yuanbao, at this height, diving down on a sword is the most dangerous thing. Jumping down is the shortcut."

Li Tingyun wasn't unaware of this principle, but...

"No, I'd better find a mountain road; that's more reliable."

"Yuanbao, are you really not going to jump?"

No! Absolutely not!

Mei Shiyu met his gaze, looked into his eyes, and gave him a cryptic smile.

Li Tingyun had seen him smile many times. To be fair, his master's smile was truly beautiful. He didn't need to rack his brains to instantly come up with countless words of praise to describe it. But upon closer examination, he felt that none of the words were worthy of the description. Verbal descriptions were far less vivid and lively than seeing it with one's own eyes.

However, at this moment, Li Tingyun felt a little uneasy when she saw him smile.

"When I was young, the sect leader once taught me a wild way of practicing sword control, which was to jump off the sect's Hundred-Zhang Peak. After falling and getting hurt many times, one would naturally learn how to avoid harm and seek advantage."

Mei Shiyu said, "This method also works to overcome the fear of heights. Do you want to give it a try? Don't worry, with the Immortal Binding Lock, you won't fall too badly."

"..."

Without a moment's hesitation, Li Tingyun took off running!

Clearly, he forgot one thing—

Mei Shiyu used the Immortal Binding Lock to tie him up and brought him back, then carried him to the edge of the cliff, pretending to throw him off.

"Master! Wait, Master!"

"Anything else to say?"

"Master...can you really bear to take coercive measures against your mortal, weak, pitiful, and helpless disciple?!"

"Yes."

Mei Shiyu chose to let go directly.

But at the critical moment, Li Tingyun grabbed his sleeve and pulled him down with her.

Totally a knee-jerk reaction.

The reaction was so fast that Li Tingyun himself didn't even have time to process it, and Mei Shiyu had no time to prepare. In the end, the two of them tumbled down the cliff in a very disheveled state.

Wang Wu watched from below, dumbfounded.

If he knew what a "cell phone" was, he would definitely take a couple of photos of the two of them and then post them widely on social media, leaving them with a high-definition embarrassing history in the cultivation world.

"What...what's going on here? What happened up there?! Could it be that the cliff collapsed, or are ghost soldiers chasing after us...?"

After a dizzying moment, Li Tingyun climbed off Mei Shiyu, still clutching his sleeve tightly, and asked anxiously, "Master, are you alright?"

He was protected in Mei Shiyu's arms the whole time, and every part of his body was perfectly fine.

My guilt only intensified.

"No...it's okay."

Mei Shiyu shook his head to indicate that it wasn't a big problem. He rubbed his lower back as he stood up, and when he saw his apprentice staring at him, he withdrew his hand, shook the dust off his clothes, and sighed twice, "Never mind."

He suddenly understood why the patriarch had always stood at a distance and observed when he was teaching the thirteen of them, rarely giving them close guidance.

Who knows, if you're not careful, someone might take a risk and throw a punch at his head! Although the damage isn't great, it's still exhausting to have to be on guard against his disciples "beating the old master to death with random punches" every day.

Honestly, teaching apprentices is really too much of a burden for the master.

"Yuanbao, it seems I can't teach you for the time being."

Mei Shiyu was thinking that, after all, they were currently in a different region, which was not a favorable time or place, and the purpose of this trip was to obtain the Fenjing Sword, not to take on disciples or teach them. He should appropriately suppress his sense of responsibility for imparting knowledge and skills...

However, whenever Yuanbao called him "Master," it stirred within him a determination that he could never again betray his disciples as he had in his previous life. Therefore, whenever Yuanbao hesitated or retreated, Yuanbao would do everything he could to give him a push.

Unfortunately, the timing wasn't right, and any attempt to teach would be forced, so it was better to give up.

There's still plenty of time ahead, so there's no need to rush.

Therefore, he said he couldn't teach it "for the time being".

But when these words reached Li Tingyun's ears, after a quick processing through his excellent thought process, he finally heard: Master is going back on his word! He doesn't want to care about me anymore! He doesn't want me anymore!

"no!"

Li Tingyun flung Mei Shiyu's sleeve away and blurted out a shout.

Wang Wu was nearly startled. Upon closer inspection, he saw that the boy had turned and run away.

"Ingots!"

Mei Shiyu called out to him, but he seemed not to hear her at all and ran away along a winding mountain path.

"Yuanbao, where are you going? Come back quickly!"

Mei Shiyu had no idea what he meant, and in desperation, she activated the Immortal Binding Lock.

But then came the boy's anxious voice: "Master, I'll do anything you ask. It's just jumping off a cliff. I'm not afraid. Just wait for me."

Mei Shiyu said in a deep voice, "...Come back."

Could it be that he misspoke? Or did his apprentice misunderstand?

What could have provoked such a strong reaction from him?

"I do not!"

Li Tingyun's voice was surprisingly calm.