"Why don't we jump down ourselves before he gets here?"
Jumping down voluntarily was different from being beaten off a cliff.
If someone knocked them off the cliff, there was a high chance they would fall straight to the foot of the mountain.
If they chose the right moment to jump down themselves, at worst, they would only have to climb a little farther.
Xu Chunniang glanced downward. Beneath her feet was a bottomless cliff, and farther below were several figures struggling to climb.
"Do you see those people? There will only be more and more people below them. If I jump down, I'll only get farther and farther from the summit."
Sky-Gazing Hound followed her gaze and immediately fell silent.
Girl Xu was right. Jumping down voluntarily might avoid the immediate danger, but in the long run, it offered no benefit at all.
Just then, the Golden Ape Clan cultivator had already drawn steadily closer. He grabbed a protruding rock, swung his long arm hard, and pounced over with ease.
Xu Chunniang gripped the sword in her hand and slashed down at his head.
Yet the Golden Ape Clan cultivator seemed prepared. His body twisted nimbly through the air, evading the strike. He then clung to the cliff face and grinned at her, his eyes brimming with provocation.
"Unfair! This is too unfair!"
Even Sky-Gazing Hound could not help speaking up for Xu Chunniang. "The restrictions on Creation Mountain are flawed. They only suppress laws and spiritual energy—there's clearly something wrong with that! If they're going to ban things, they should ban everything!"
Yet Xu Chunniang showed not the slightest resentment. Instead, she looked thoughtfully at the sword in her hand.
Using a sword without drawing on any spiritual energy gave her a different sort of feeling.
She was