Snow Fairy stamped her foot. "How could you be this stupid? Fly this way." As she spoke, she pointed in another direction.
Yan Chihuo knew he had just touched a sore spot with Snow Fairy and did not dare say more. He could only fly in the direction she indicated. After flying for more than half a day, a canyon appeared before them.
Snow Fairy tapped Yan Chihuo's back with her jade foot. "Fly down." Yan Chihuo obeyed and descended, standing at the cliff's edge to look below. The peaks on either side of this canyon were more than ten li apart, which was nothing to a cultivator like Yan Chihuo. Yet the canyon was filled with dense white mist.
Yan Chihuo cast his gaze downward and was slightly startled. He could not see the bottom at a glance. Though he had not fully unleashed his Spiritual Eye, he could see far farther than ordinary cultivators. The dense fog was certainly one reason, but it also showed just how deep this canyon was.
"Go down!" Snow Fairy said.
Yan Chihuo rose into the air, flew into the dense mist, and slowly descended. Fearing that something strange might lurk within the fog, he fully activated both his Spiritual Eye and Spiritual Ear as he went down.
The farther down they went, the wider the canyon became. Yan Chihuo grew even more cautious, slowing rather than speeding his descent. Snow Fairy was in no hurry either, her eyes scanning all around. A full hour passed, yet they still had not reached the bottom. Yan Chihuo secretly thought, Snow Fairy really can keep her composure.
After a while longer, relying on his exceptional eyesight, Yan Chihuo finally made out several looming, oddly shaped boulders. Once his feet touched solid ground, he discovered that