"I'll draw it away. You run—meet up at the Azure Cloud Sect afterward."
Li Luo, who was fleeing, let out a roar. A trace of madness flashed across his face. He grabbed a large stone at his feet, his face reddening as he strained to lift it, then hurled it at the python.
The stone smashed fiercely into the python's thick body. It did no real damage, but it successfully drew the python's attention.
The python let out a hiss, twisted its enormous body around, and chased after Li Luo.
"Take care. Don't die—we'll wait for you."
Gu Qing shouted, a trace of reluctance flashing through his eyes. But he knew this was no time to be sentimental. This was the sliver of hope his brother had fought to win for them.
The three of them ran straight toward the distance, while Li Luo, after only a few minutes of desperate running, was swallowed whole by the python when his strength gave out.
The other three, however, knew nothing of it.
At the edge of a cliff, the three stared down into the bottomless abyss, then looked toward the dense forest in the distance, and fell into silence.
"What do we do? We can't get across."
Gu Qing said with an ugly expression. Beneath his feet was a ten-thousand-zhang abyss, while the forest on the other side was a full hundred meters away. How were they supposed to cross?
"There's no other way. We can only gamble on it."
Qin Feng's expression was calm. He then turned and walked back, picked up a stone from the ground, and began stripping bark from the trees. Ye Lin and Gu Qing were both baffled, but in the end, they could only step forward to help.
The three of them kept stripping bark.