Qi Manya gritted her teeth against the searing pain throughout her body and struggled to stand. Around her, three youths with mocking smiles watched her with amusement.
"Run, where do you think you're going? Tell us brothers where you want to go, we'll take you there."
"That's right, are you going to collect Wan Lei's corpse? Just say the word, you won't make it there. Rather than waste your energy, why not come with us."
Seeing Qi Manya injured and surrounded, the three felt no rush. This girl was trapped with no escape.
Qi Manya held her sword, warily observing her surroundings. Suddenly, she leaped up and charged at the enemy blocking her path.
The cultivator merely sneered. He was a cultivator in the middle stage of the Nascent Soul realm, hardly afraid of Qi Manya's attack.
He immediately raised his hand, sweeping his sword forward to block Qi Manya's assault.
As Qi Manya attacked, her defensive posture was completely exposed. Her entire back was open, and the two enemies behind her immediately thrust their swords at her.
Qi Manya was slashed back by the enemy in front, her body flying backward. She collided directly with the two swords behind her, and her chest and abdomen were instantly pierced.
Qi Manya endured the agonizing pain, lunged forward, and pulled her body out of the two swords. Then, she began to fight all three.
Injured and already no match for the three opponents, she could only defend and could not attack.
Qi Manya fought with increasing urgency. Her injuries worsened with every passing moment. If this continued, Wan Lei might not die, but she certainly would.
But she couldn't die. She had to save Wan Lei.
Qi Manya turned her head to glance at the ferocious ghost not far away, a flicker of ferocity and decisiveness in her eyes.
She summoned lightning all around her, and immense lightning coalesced in front of her, forming the shape of a one-horned ferocious beast.
This was a divine ability Wan Lei had taught her, called "Lightning Fury."
The lightning beast charged at one of the enemies, then exploded with a thunderous roar.
All four were sent flying by the violent explosion.
The power of the explosion spared no one, and Qi Manya's injuries worsened.
She had prepared for it and was the first to get up. She used this method to disrupt the enemy's formation and seize the opportunity to escape.
Without hesitation, Qi Manya darted into the head of the ferocious ghost.
"Brother, she's running, what do we do?"
"Chase her! She injured us like this and still thinks she can leave without paying with her life?!"
The three brothers, enraged, immediately flew into the head of the ferocious ghost.
Qi Manya arrived in an unfamiliar environment. Everything here was new to her.
It was an amusement park, filled with the laughter of children and melodious music all around, yet not a single person was visible.
"Big sister, are you buying a balloon?"
The little boy selling balloons looked at Qi Manya with wide, innocent eyes.
Seeing that it was a child, Qi Manya let down her guard and smiled slightly.
"Little brother, do you know where the Bridge of Helplessness is?"
"The Bridge of Helplessness? I know, but only the dead can enter there. You're alive, right? If you want to go in, there's a way."
"Yes, yes, there is a way. I have a friend who entered as a living person. Do you know how?"
"I know, buy a balloon from me, and I'll tell you."
"Okay, how many spirit stones is your balloon?"
Qi Manya was overjoyed and immediately prepared to offer her spirit stones to buy it.
But the little boy shook his head.
"No spirit stones. One life, for one balloon."
Qi Manya was stunned. In that instant, she recalled the terrifying rumors about the Ghost Immortal Secret Realm.
The more harmless something appeared, the more sinister it truly was.
Suddenly, three figures appeared behind her.
They were the three brothers of the Huo family.
Seeing them pursuing her, Qi Manya no longer had time to bother with the little boy. She immediately fled forward.
The three quickly caught up.
"If you just run around wildly like this, you'll never get out of this amusement park."
The little boy sighed.
There were only two ways to leave this amusement park, and unfortunately, they knew neither.
The amusement park was filled with many facilities, making it impossible to fly fast. Qi Manya was soon caught up by them.
This time, the enemies were prepared. They didn't give her a chance to get close again, instead choosing to bombard her with divine abilities.
How could Qi Manya withstand such an onslaught? Before long, her injuries worsened significantly.
The pale cultivator, seeing Qi Manya at her last breath, sneered, leaped up, and raised his sword to strike her down.
Suddenly, the cultivator's figure vanished into mid-air. When he reappeared, he was on a carousel nearby.
He sat astride a wooden horse, his silly grin frozen on his face like a sculpture, eerily unsettling.
Even more unsettling was the fact that the wooden horse beneath him seemed to have been transformed from another cultivator.
This bizarre scene made the others cautious, but the remaining two cultivators did not retreat. Instead, they blamed their elder brother's death on Qi Manya.
"You slut, if it weren't for you, how could my brother have ended up like this? Die for me!"
The youngest of the cultivators roared and charged at Qi Manya with his sword. Seeing this, Qi Manya immediately fled.
Qi Manya took flight, and the two cultivators pursued her relentlessly, constantly attacking her. She was already swaying precariously.
She flew past an area of roller coasters, and the two cultivators behind her caught up, one in front of the other.
Toot...
After the sound of a whistle, the cultivator falling behind was suddenly hit head-on by a speeding roller coaster. His body transformed into a car carriage.
Seeing this, Qi Manya immediately dared not fly. She plummeted downwards to evade the danger.
However, she forgot about the danger behind her.
The last remaining enemy, having witnessed his brothers die in such bizarre ways, had lost all reason in his rage.
He roared, slashing his sword downwards, pinning the already severely wounded Qi Manya to the ground with a heavy blow.
The long sword pierced Qi Manya's dantian, pinning her firmly to the ground. Qi Manya, already grievously wounded, could no longer struggle.
She could only feel her life rapidly ebbing away, her consciousness growing increasingly blurred.
Was this what death felt like?
She tried to mobilize the lightning power from her innate lightning essence to slow the rapid loss of her life, but the effect was minimal.
Her consciousness became increasingly hazy, and vaguely, she seemed to hear a sentence from ten years ago.
At that time, her master had asked her,
"If one day, it is necessary to use your life to exchange for his life, would you be willing?"
She hesitated for a long time, her eyes gradually becoming firm.
"I am willing."
I am willing to use my life to exchange for your life, but I fear that my death may not be enough to bring you back to life!