Valley Beneath the Cliff, Unnamed Sword Art!

The wind came at them like knives and swords, scraping every inch of skin until it faintly ached.

Li Yun found it utterly outrageous.

Zhang Ruohan dragged him along in a flying sprint, her feet barely touching the ground. Yet they moved as fast as a sports car tearing along at full speed, at least three hundred kilometers per hour.

His heart was so tense it nearly leaped out of his throat.

If something went wrong—if they failed to make a turn in time and slammed into a cliff wall or a tree—could he still be saved?

Fortunately, nothing of the sort happened.

After a mad dash.

About an hour later, the two stopped above a valley.

Li Yun was still somewhat dizzy. Seeing that one more step ahead would take him over a cliff, he immediately recoiled several steps in fright.

Zhang Ruohan looked at him with a rather mischievous glint. "How was it? Exciting, wasn't it?"

Li Yun was speechless.

He complained, "Senior Sister Zhang, were you taking me running or taking me flying? Could you give me a warning next time? You nearly made me throw up."

Then he raised his eyes and looked around.

All around them lay barren mountains and untamed wilderness. There was no longer any trace of the Celestial Martial Sect's pavilions and towers.

Still, he was certain this place was within the Celestial Eastern Mountains.

"Senior Sister Zhang, where are we?"

"Why did you bring me here?"

Zhang Ruohan blinked. "Take a guess?"

Perhaps because there was no one else around, Zhang Ruohan was more relaxed. She had never put on airs to begin with, yet now she was actually joking with Li Yun.

Seeing this, Li Yun could not be bothered to keep up appearances either.

"Guess my ass!"

"You brought me here. How would I know what we came for? But surely it wasn't because Senior Sister Zhang saw that I'm young, handsome, and immensely talented, fell in love with me at first sight, and specifically brought me to this wilderness for a date?"

Smack!

Zhang Ruohan immediately gave Li Yun a hard knock on the head.

The pain made him bare his teeth and grimace.

Only then did he understand how miserable Zhang Chu must have been, getting knocked on the head by Zhang Ruohan at every turn. Having such a violent older sister was absolutely no blessing.

"In your dreams!"

"Look at the valley below. I discovered it by accident..."

Zhang Ruohan pointed toward the cliff. Li Yun instinctively turned to look, but before he could make out anything unusual, he suddenly felt someone kick him.

That one kick sent his entire body flying out beyond the cliff.

"Ah..."

Li Yun was so frightened that his heart nearly stopped, and he immediately let out a miserable scream.

But it was useless.

After a momentary pause, his body began plummeting rapidly.

"Hehe, you still dared to tease me? Let this teach you a lesson!"

Zhang Ruohan, meanwhile, acted as though nothing had happened. She smiled with wicked amusement, then leisurely leaped out as well, rapidly falling after him.

Her descent was clearly much faster than Li Yun's.

Before long, she caught up to him.

"Senior Sister Zhang... my dearest Senior Sister Zhang, don't torment me like this! I'm still underage, I'm just a child..."

Seeing Zhang Ruohan again, Li Yun was so excited he nearly cried. It was no exaggeration to say that the instant he fell, he had nearly wet himself.

It was not that he feared death—he really did fear death!

The valley beneath this cliff was conservatively estimated to be at least three hundred meters down. In his previous life, that was roughly the height of a hundred-story building. Falling from the hundredth floor—what decent person would not be terrified?

Without caring about anything else, he hurriedly reached out and hugged Zhang Ruohan.

He held on tightly.

Caught in Li Yun's embrace, Zhang Ruohan's pretty face could not help flushing faintly.

In all her life, she had never been hugged like this by anyone—not even Zhao Chuanfeng, her fiancé in name.

The scent coming from Li Yun, a smell no woman possessed, made her heart race a little.

Still, she did her best to act normal.

"Hmph, let's see if you dare tease me again!"

"I won't, I won't... Never again."

"That's more like it!"

Zhang Ruohan smiled in satisfaction. With a twist of her hand, she pried Li Yun's arms away, grabbed hold of his body again, and released a surging force. Li Yun immediately discovered that their rapid descent had miraculously slowed.

Then, after a short while.

The two landed steadily on the ground.

Only then did Li Yun feel his soul return to his head. With a face full of resentment, he said, "Senior Sister Zhang, can we not do this next time? People can be scared to death by other people!"

"Tch... What is there to be afraid of?"

"Once you reverse the Innate and learn a true lightness art, you'll find that this height is nothing at all!"

"But the problem is, I'm still only in the Body Tempering Realm..."

"..."

Zhang Ruohan was rendered somewhat speechless. She had nearly forgotten that this fellow truly was only in the Body Tempering Realm. It was indeed a little early to tell him such things.

At once.

Her expression became serious.

"Enough. No more jokes."

"Look at this valley. Can you discover anything?"

Hearing this, Li Yun instinctively raised his head and swept his gaze around.

Beneath the cliff was a circular valley surrounded by sheer precipices. There was only one entrance, and gusts of wind periodically blew in from that direction, making sounds like mournful sobbing.

The sound was strange.

It carried a faint sense of sorrow.

If one was not careful, merely hearing it could create the illusion that some grief-stricken person was sobbing and weeping bitterly. It sounded exceptionally distressing.

And when he focused his eyes on the valley entrance, the system unexpectedly reacted.

Observing the Rhythm of the Wind, Cognition Points +10

Observing the Rhythm of the Wind, Cognition Points +10

...

"This wind... something's wrong with it!"

Li Yun muttered to himself, then hurriedly opened the system and glanced at the panel.

Host: Li Yun

Age: 16

Aptitude: Fifth Grade Middle

Identity: Celestial Martial Sect, Outer Sect Disciple of Rank 95 Academy

Realm: Houtian Realm, Body Tempering Fourth Layer

Martial Arts: Unnamed Sword Art (loading 1%...), Basic Stance Cultivation (Perfection Realm), Entangling Silk Force (Perfection Realm), Reverse Fate Art (Initial Accomplishment Realm), Thunderclap Fist (Fist Intent), Soaring Star Steps (Perfection Realm)... Expandable.

Martial Dao Cognition Points:

Originally, he had used up some Cognition Points to raise four martial arts to the Perfection Realm. Later, after elevating the second stance, third stance, and Thunderclap Fist, another two hundred thousand points had been spent, leaving him with what should have been a certain amount.

But later, during his life-and-death battles with He Tingfeng and Xu Youwu, his Cognition Points had unexpectedly increased, bringing them back up to six hundred thousand.

Yet that was not the key point.

The key point was that Li Yun had discovered an Unnamed Sword Art in the martial arts section, and it was currently loading. The loading speed was simply a little slow.

He was somewhat puzzled.

Only after focusing his attention on the Unnamed Sword Art entry did realization dawn on him.

The wind at the valley entrance contained a naturally formed swordsmanship martial art. But because his aptitude was too low, only Fifth Grade Middle, he could not generate the martial art the very first time he observed it.

He had to observe it for a while longer and wait until it had fully loaded before he could spend Cognition Points to improve it.