Snake Venom

Although the mountain ravine was steep, it was not the kind of sheer cliff that dropped straight down. The two of them rolled all the way down rather than falling vertically. Song Qingshu pressed Wanyan Ping's head against his chest and shielded her tightly with his arms and legs, cursing inwardly. Those scenes on television were all lies. What surviving a fall from a cliff without dying? Rolling down a slope and coming away without a scratch...

Along the way, he had no idea how many sharp rocks and branches he had struck. At the speed they had rolled down, if not for the true qi protecting his body, every bone in his body would have been broken by now. With worse luck, the protruding rocks might even have slashed his belly open.

Even with true qi protecting him, Song Qingshu was still in a miserable state. His clothes had been shredded to rags, and after crashing into countless things along the way, it felt as though several supreme masters had struck him hard. He had already suffered considerable internal injuries.

"Well, at least I don't have to circulate my qi and pretend to look pale anymore." Song Qingshu gave a bitter inward laugh and looked down at Wanyan Ping in his arms.

To his surprise, he met her wide-open eyes. Song Qingshu said happily, "I was afraid you'd passed out."

"Brother-in-law, thank you~" Wanyan Ping's voice was incomparably gentle. Seeing Song Qingshu's miserable state, then comparing it to herself—with only a few scrapes and scarcely any damage to her clothes—she knew that he had protected her by holding her tightly against his chest.

"Don't take such risks in the future. It was only hunting. If you end up falling off a mountain again, your brother-in-law might not happen to