Yesterday's fourth update: Chapter 2522! 4/4!
Xu Kun lay on the ground, able to hear his heart pounding in his ears. He had never imagined that one day, he would nearly lose his footing, fall off a cliff, and die.
"Why did you save me? Weren't you hoping I'd die?" Xu Kun glanced at Wu Meier beside him. Her little face was equally pale with fright, but she had pulled him back in time.
Hearing Xu Kun's heartless words, Wu Meier haughtily turned her head away, unwilling to offer any explanation.
Xu Kun smiled at that and, no longer wasting time, got up and rubbed the head of the puffed-up Wu Meier. "Let's go."
"Where?"
Xu Kun walked ahead on his own, his voice drifting back. "Sometimes, standing too high not only makes it easier to fall, but also makes it harder to see what's really going on below. If you really want to know whether things are as they appear, you have to go down and take a look."
Xu Kun had turned even such a simple matter into a lecture, making Wu Meier grumble inwardly as she stuck her tongue out at him.
But once Xu Kun had gone farther away and there was no trace of anyone beside her, Wu Meier panicked again. Scrambling after him, she called out, "Wait for me..."
Damn Xu Kun, he didn't have a shred of gentlemanly manners!
Even mountains like Upside-Down Mountain, the Angel Race's Nine Heavens, and the Phoenix Race's Nine Heavens Parasol Tree had been effortless for Xu Kun to climb. Yet now, on this mountain that was high but not outrageously so, only around a thousand meters tall, the two of them wandered crookedly through the mountain, took countless wrong turns, and only then reached the foot