abnabooks Chapter 22 The Official Stance!
Chapter 22 The Official Stance!
Jiang Yu looked down at the distant city beneath his feet, feeling the surging power of the Divine Bridge Realm within his body.
A free fall of 350 meters would be an unbearable ordeal for an ordinary person, but for her, who had already begun to communicate with heaven and earth and whose body was protected by spiritual power, it was not unbearable.
"Gazi," Jiang Yu suddenly spoke, a hint of mockery in his voice, "Didn't you want to verify it with your own eyes? Why don't you... experience it up close?"
As soon as she finished speaking, she suddenly let go of the hand that was resting on the railing! After falling half a meter, she touched the wall with her toes and used the momentum to float sideways, instantly arriving in front of Ga Zi and grabbing his wrist.
"Come on, let me show you what it feels like to fly."
Amidst Ga Zi's piercing scream of "No—", Jiang Yu grabbed him and leaped backward! The two plummeted straight down from a height of 350 meters!
The night wind howled wildly in his ears, and a feeling of weightlessness gripped his entire body. Ga Zi felt as if his heart was about to jump out of his throat, his vision went black, and he couldn't even scream.
Jiang Yu, however, remained unusually calm.
She circulated her cultivation technique with all her might, golden spiritual energy emanating from her body and forming a faint energy shield around the two of them, reducing air friction. She adjusted her posture, like a large bird spreading its wings.
The descent was extremely rapid. One hundred meters, two hundred meters, two hundred and fifty meters... the city lights and shadows magnified rapidly beneath her feet. Just as she was about fifty or sixty meters from the ground, her eyes narrowed, and the spiritual energy within her body began to circulate wildly along some mysterious trajectory.
"drink!"
With a sharp shout, her downward momentum abruptly halted! She took two steps, each one producing a muffled sonic boom and generating an upward recoil.
The body rotates slightly, converting the downward momentum into a lateral buffering force.
"Bang! Bang! Bang!" Several loud explosions rang out in succession. The speed of the fall decreased sharply at a rate visible to the naked eye, rapidly reducing from the terrifying high speed of free fall.
Finally, when it was less than three meters from the ground, the downward momentum was almost completely averted.
Jiang Yusong opened Ga Zi.
He had already fainted—he landed gracefully and steadily on the open ground in the center of the square below the Pearl Tower, as lightly as a feather.
It landed silently.
The night breeze ruffled the hair on her forehead.
She straightened up, patted off non-existent dust from her body, and apart from slightly rapid breathing and a pale complexion, she was completely unharmed.
Gazi fell from a height of more than three meters, and was completely disoriented. When he woke up and saw the towering top of the tower, and then saw countless horrified eyes all around him, he vomited with a loud "waah," tears streaming down his face.
Silence. A deathly silence enveloped the square, and also the screens in front of everyone watching the live broadcast.
One hundred thousand people witnessed two people falling from a height of 350 meters. Then, one of them, like a god descending to earth, stepped into the air to dissipate the force and landed lightly without any injury.
Someone let out a suppressed gasp, and then the square erupted in a deafening roar!
"A deity! A deity has descended to earth!"
"My God! What did I just see?"
"Cultivating immortality! It really is cultivating immortality! I believe it now!"
In the live stream, gift effects and barrage comments completely overwhelmed the screen, and the server nearly crashed several times. The number of online viewers broke the platform's all-time record.
"I'm fucking kneeling! Sister Yu, please accept my bow!"
"This is no longer human! This is a terrestrial deity!"
"Gazi:"
"All doubts have vanished into thin air!"
Jiang Yu stood still, calming his blood and qi, which had been agitated by his extreme maneuver just now.
She glanced at Gazi, who was vomiting violently and clearly had completely collapsed, and then looked up at the towering Pearl Tower, feeling a sense of unreality and disorientation.
This leap, though seemingly effortless, was actually dangerous, nearly exhausting most of her spiritual power at the Divine Bridge Realm. But the effect was worth it.
She gave the camera a slightly tired but still bright smile: "Now, does anyone still have doubts?"
No one answered.
"That concludes today's verification." Jiang Yu's smile faded. "Tomorrow, I will go live on time and take you to my brother's world—the Big Dipper, the true world of cultivation. Remember to follow if you want to see more incredible sights. Now I need to rest."
After saying that, she turned off the live stream and quickly left the bustling square.
But tonight, no one can sleep.
Meanwhile, in a heavily guarded conference room somewhere in the city, the atmosphere was solemn and serious.
On the huge screen, a complete high-definition video was playing repeatedly showing Jiang Yu pulling Ga Zi as they jumped from the top of the tower, lost their footing, and landed safely.
Around the round table sat a dozen or so composed individuals, including heads of special departments, top experts and scholars, and higher-level decision-makers.
The video finished playing and the lights came on.
An elderly man with gray hair slowly spoke: "Freefalling from a height of 350 meters, with a final velocity exceeding 80 meters per second. She begins to decelerate noticeably at about 50 meters above the ground, generating recoil by stepping on the air… The entire process cannot be explained by physical models. Unless she truly possesses some kind of 'extraordinary power' that can interfere with reality and manipulate energy."
A middle-aged man said in a deep voice:
"The technical department analyzed all the videos and found no trace of editing, special effects, wire work, or other auxiliary equipment. It can be confirmed that the video content is authentic. Combined with the investigation and review of all previous incidents involving Jiang Yu... we must face a reality: the 'modification' shown by Jiang Yu is very likely a real, existing individual evolutionary system that exceeds our current scientific understanding."
The meeting room fell silent. Although everyone was mentally prepared, they were still greatly shocked when the conclusion was explicitly stated.
"She said she'll be live-streaming her journey to the Big Dipper tomorrow," the old man in the main seat said slowly. "This is an opportunity, but also a huge unknown risk. We know nothing about that cultivation world."
"So, what about now?"
The old man's gaze swept over everyone present: "Since we can't stop it, nor can we completely control it, we might as well go with the flow. Pass down the word: regarding Jiang Yu's live stream tomorrow, adopt the principle of observation, recording, and non-interference. If she wants to showcase the world of cultivation, let her showcase it. We need to see clearly what that Big Dipper really looks like."
He paused, then added, "Furthermore, we must strengthen our research into the text of the *Heavenly Emperor Scripture* and expand the scope of our secret selection trials, but we must control the scale and impact. This world is probably really about to change."
The meeting ended, and everyone left with their own thoughts. Everyone knew that tonight's leap from the Pearl Tower was not merely a demonstration of one person's strength, but more like opening a door to a completely new world.
Countless people, regardless of their status, are waiting for tomorrow's "cross-border live broadcast" that is destined to go down in history.