Obviously, Xuanzang shook off Duan Xiaoxiao.
An Yang saw a dilapidated pavilion on the mountain peak and sat down inside it.
There was a stone-cast water trough in the pavilion, with half a basin of water accumulated inside. The characters "Water Moon Cave Heaven" were carved backward on the stone wall of the trough, just reflecting into the water below. And it happened to be in the water that these four characters appeared upright, though the meaning behind this was unknown.
An Yang took out a pot and began to make a fire to cook.
As soon as the fire rose, he saw someone starting to climb the Five Elements Mountain again. That was a woman dressed in white. Separated by such a distance, she only looked like a small dot, but he still recognized her.
Duan Xiaoxiao.
An Yang smiled and said nothing.
Suddenly, Duan Xiaoxiao, who was at the foot of the opposite mountain, spotted cooking smoke rising from this side and immediately looked over at him.
"Hey... Xuanzang!"
"..." An Yang was speechless. Separated by such a distance, shouting like that, how could anyone hear clearly?
Yet he actually heard it clearly.
So he said faintly toward that direction, "Miss Duan, it's me. Master Xuanzang is not here."
This voice remained gentle after traveling across a distance of a thousand meters, as if the speaker was standing right two or three meters in front of her. Hence, Duan Xiaoxiao was stunned for a moment, and only then did she shout loudly toward that side, "Then where did he go, this bastard? Last time he ran away while I was taking a bath, and this time he ran away again while I was scouting out the pig demon. When I find him, I'll definitely break his legs!"
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