Chapter 138: The Chasm

The pursuit behind did not appear, and though Happy was disappointed, he paid little attention and continued without pause. He rushed out of the forest for a hundred meters, leaping between the jagged rocks, ignoring the gradually thickening white mist ahead. With practiced ease, he headed swiftly toward a cliff at the mountain’s peak.

Soon!

Happy, dressed in blue, appeared before the high cliff at the summit. Five chains, each over a hundred meters long, stretched from the cliff below to the opposite side, swaying slowly in the howling wind.

“Dang, dang dang, dang…”

Although each chain was as thick as an adult’s fist and appeared sturdy and indestructible, the loud, heavy thuds in the wind still gave one the sense of terror that stepping on them might cause one to fall into an abyss and be crushed to pieces.

On the other side!

Through the faint, thin mist, a not-too-large mountain peak could be seen, rising straight into the clouds like a pillar from the sky. Its sides were smooth as walls, offering no footholds for climbing.

These five fist-thick chains were the only path to the Peak of Punishment!

Taking a deep breath, Happy carefully took out a set of giant wolf pelts from his Qi Bag and fully equipped himself before glancing up at the slightly higher Peak of Punishment. Gathering his strength, he stepped heavily onto the chains.

The swaying of the chains wasn’t too intense, but the mountain wind made him unsteady, and the strong dizziness coming from beneath the bridge left him uneasy.

Weight anchors!

With a steady descent, Happy landed firmly on the unstable chains!

At this moment…

No matter how skilled one’s light-footedness, it was useless if one didn’t adapt techniques to the situation. Blindly using such skills to cross would only result in being blown off into the abyss by the strong mountain wind.

In his past life, countless people failed to overcome the symptoms of being at great heights, lost their composure, and were blown off, dying in pieces.

Happy also took several deep breaths at the cliff’s edge before calming down the sense of distance caused by the abyss. He slightly raised his head and took the first step along the chains.

“Huh…”

The mountain wind hit him, causing his body to tremble. The chains beneath his feet also swayed slightly in the wind, twisting between the two peaks.

His expression changed. At the moment he was about to lose balance, he stepped quickly, jumping from the leftmost chain to the rightmost, where the swaying was greatest.

The chains suddenly bore weight, but there was no obvious change.

“Whoa!”

With a dull sound, Kai Xin used momentum to bounce upward, moving against the strong wind and quickly returning to the original chain. Yet in this rapid back-and-forth movement, he managed to advance more than a meter forward.
By the time he stabilized himself, the chain was still shaking violently. Kai Xin didn’t have time to fully steady himself and had to take a small leap, landing on the chain on the right side… With a gentle touch, he pulled himself back from the edge of danger, preventing himself from being blown off the chain by the mountain wind.
Leap, touch—repeatedly!
Like a fragile leaf, he swung back and forth between the five chains. Each time, he managed to advance one or two meters. Though the distance wasn’t great, the danger involved was beyond description for outsiders…
The sense of an abyss a thousand meters deep, the fierce mountain winds, and the unstable footing meant that the slightest mistake could result in destruction. Even though Kai Xin was confident, he had to be extremely cautious to move forward slowly without losing his life.
As time passed, Kai Xin’s figure gradually disappeared into the thick white mist. As the mist grew denser, the seriousness on his face deepened even more!
At such times, with the mist blowing and vision blurred, the chains became hard to distinguish, causing the already highly focused and tense Kai Xin to break into cold sweat.
By then, he had barely reached the middle of the chain bridge—no village in sight ahead or behind, surrounded by nothing but white mist. Anyone else would likely be terrified to death.
Not daring to slack off, with a “shah!” sound, his battle sword appeared in his hand. As internal energy flowed into it, the blade instantly emitted an astonishing blue glow.
“Clang!”
A brilliant arc of sword light appeared swiftly in the mist; followed by sparks from the collision of metals. The loud noise spread rapidly between the two peaks—“Clang! Clang! Clang! Clang…” The sounds continued endlessly, echoing back and forth. As the metal sparks moved, the sounds grew more frequent and intense. If anyone else had witnessed this scene, they would be amazed, thinking a miracle had occurred on Mount Song.
But in reality!
The person creating this “miracle” was, at that moment, like a duck on the water’s surface—seeming relaxed on the surface, but actually… flapping his feet underwater!
Cold sweat soaked his back. While using the Flower Hero’s chant to determine the exact positions of the five chains, Kai Xin barely managed to stabilize himself between them by relying on the intense rebound forces from the chains.

Then, through the faint glow emitted by the Flower Hero’s chant, he landed hastily each time before continuing to swing his sword through the white mist—truly like trying to cross a river by feeling the stones beneath his feet.
Only…
this river was quite high!
The Heavenly River!
Thanks to his past experiences, Happy didn’t make any mistakes.
Amidst the constant loud “clangs,” Happy finally broke through the white mist and saw the Peak of Punishment right before him. The sudden clarity and sense of relief gave him a strong feeling of escaping a desperate situation.
But…
the figure standing on the opposite cliffside made Happy’s smile freeze instantly. His face turned pale, and his heart plummeted.
Though he only caught a brief glimpse—a middle-aged monk in a light gray robe, holding a staff and smiling—Happy wasn’t a novice from the Shaolin Temple.
On the Peak of Punishment, the only ones who could move freely were the Rebellious Monks.
These monks, having been locked away on the peak for years, isolated from the world and unable to descend, mostly cultivated an image of kind old monks to deceive others. But in reality, their hearts were as black as coal, and anyone who relaxed their guard would be taken advantage of.
Yet Happy never expected that at the end of the Iron Chain Bridge leading to the Peak of Punishment, there would be a Rebellious Monk waiting!
“Damn it!”
Seeing that figure, Happy was terrified!
In an instant, he wished he could turn around and go back the way he came.
In such a perilous situation, he had the misfortune of running into a Rebellious Monk from the Mysterious Realm guarding the Iron Chain Bridge—after all, dealing with that bridge alone in his Current of Fate realm had already been extremely difficult, and he had spent most of his internal energy along the way, with little time to replenish it.
And now, a Rebellious Monk appeared at such a critical moment…