Holding Xiao Yi Xian as They Jumped off the Cliff!

"You don't need to be nervous. If I meant you harm, I wouldn't have revealed myself," Xiao Lei said with a faint smile.

Hearing Xiao Lei's words, Xiao Yi Xian relaxed slightly, though she did not lower her guard completely. "It's so late. Why aren't you asleep? What do you want with me?"

Xiao Lei said, "During the day, beneath the cliff, you must have discovered something, right?"

"I don't know what you're talking about." Her pretty face changed slightly as Xiao Yi Xian frowned.

"If there's nothing else, get out now, or I'll scream. If anyone sees you breaking into my tent in the middle of the night, don't even think about leaving the Demon Beast Mountain Range alive."

"If you don't mind letting more people know about the secret beneath the cliff, then go ahead." Xiao Lei shrugged indifferently.

Xiao Yi Xian took a deep breath and said with irritated anger, "What exactly do you want?"

"I came to seek your cooperation." Xiao Lei raised a brow and smiled. "Tell me, what exactly is down there? I've always been kind-hearted and don't like forcing people, but if you make me, I can only stop being polite."

Xiao Yi Xian lightly bit her red lip. After hesitating for a while, she said in a somewhat unwilling low voice, "I discovered it by accident not long ago while gathering herbs."

"Behind that strange tree is a cave that ordinary people would find difficult to notice."

"Oh? What's inside the cave?" Xiao Lei asked, feigning surprise.

Xiao Yi Xian gently shook her head. "I don't know either, because I've never gone inside."

"However, it should have been left behind by some predecessor. From certain traces, the person who left the cave behind must have been very powerful."

"Looks like it's the inheritance of some powerful senior," Xiao Lei said with interest as he stared at Xiao Yi Xian.

Xiao Yi Xian glanced at Xiao Lei and said flatly, "I can share this secret with you, but you'd better not entertain any thoughts of keeping it all for yourself."

"Otherwise, I won't let you obtain anything inside peacefully either. All I need to do is say one word after I get out, and I'm sure plenty of people will be willing to deal with you!"

Looking at Xiao Yi Xian's serious pretty face, Xiao Lei smiled faintly. "Naturally, I believe in Xiao Yi Xian's charm. But don't worry, I'm not such a greedy person."

"Let's go. While it's deep in the night and no one is watching, we'll explore that cave and see what treasures are inside. Hunting for treasure in a cave beneath a cliff is a first for me."

Xiao Yi Xian frowned at that. "We're going now?"

Xiao Yi Xian still harbored some wariness toward Xiao Lei.

Xiao Lei gave a teasing smile. "What? You don't dare? Now that I know the secret, if you won't go, I'll go treasure hunting by myself."

"Hmph, do you really think I'm afraid of you? If you dare play any tricks, I'll make you regret it," Xiao Yi Xian said with a delicate snort.

"If you're not afraid, then let's go." Xiao Lei smiled and left the tent first, silently darting into the pitch-black forest.

Xiao Yi Xian frowned, tightly gripping the powder in her hand as she followed behind him on tiptoe.

From time to time, distant wolf howls echoed through the dense forest, sending chills down one's spine.

As the two hurried along one after the other, they moved farther and farther away from the camp.

Before long, they arrived once more at the edge of the cliff they had visited during the day.

Upon the steep cliff, two figures flickered in and out of view beneath the faint moonlight.

"The treasure hunt begins..."

Xiao Lei looked down at the pitch-black depths below and smiled at Xiao Yi Xian beside him.

"Wait." Xiao Yi Xian gave a low cry, crouched down to gather some dry branches, and fashioned them into two torches. She sprinkled a little pale yellow powder over them, then took out a Fire Seed and lit them.

"You came well prepared," Xiao Lei said with a smile at the sight.

In truth, Xiao Yi Xian had originally intended to explore the cave alone, which was why she had prepared so many things in advance. She simply had not expected Xiao Lei to come looking for her.

"Take it." After handing a torch to Xiao Lei, Xiao Yi Xian pulled a long rope from her robes and waved it at him with a sweet smile. "You're a grown man. You wouldn't make a weak woman like me take the lead, would you?"

"Of course not." Xiao Lei accepted the torch and smiled at Xiao Yi Xian's gentle face. "That's why I've decided to go down with you. I'd be rather worried if I left you behind by yourself."

"You... You have no manliness at all!" Hearing the double meaning in Xiao Lei's words, Xiao Yi Xian said indignantly.

"This is a cliff. What if you decide to silence me, cut the rope from behind, and send me plummeting to my death? Compared to my own life, what does manliness matter?"

Xiao Lei shrugged and replied calmly.

"Hmph! You're judging a gentleman by your own petty standards!" Xiao Yi Xian rolled her eyes at him and said irritably.

"Better a petty man first, a gentleman later." Xiao Lei did not mind and simply smiled. "Are you going down or not? If we delay too long, someone else might come to claim a share of the spoils."

"We're going!"

Xiao Lei's smile seemed particularly infuriating to Xiao Yi Xian. She stomped her little foot fiercely and gritted her teeth.

Xiao Lei chuckled and shook his head. He tied the rope around a thick tree, then opened his arms toward Xiao Yi Xian. "Come here."

"I have my own rope. I don't need your help." Seeing Xiao Lei's gesture, Xiao Yi Xian's pretty face flushed as she said angrily and shyly.

"Suit yourself." Xiao Lei shrugged with an unconcerned look. "But there might be venomous snakes, scorpions, and the like beneath the cliff at night. If one of them bites you, tsk tsk..."

"Bastard, I hope you die a miserable death!"

Xiao Yi Xian shuddered at Xiao Lei's words and cursed him resentfully, then abruptly hurled a dark bundle at him.

Xiao Lei reached out and caught it, discovering that it was the coil of rope from Xiao Yi Xian's hand.

"If your hands dare wander, I'll poison you to death!"

As Xiao Yi Xian's threat fell, a fragrant breeze rushed toward Xiao Lei. Immediately afterward, a soft and fragrant body crashed into his embrace.

Xiao Lei took a deep breath and suppressed the stirrings in his heart, extending an arm to wrap around Xiao Yi Xian's slender willow-like waist.

Holding that soft, slender waist in his arms, Xiao Lei's heart could not help but sway slightly.

Ding! You touched Xiao Yi Xian and obtained one Qi Enhancing Pill! Note: After consumption, it can increase your Dou Qi cultivation to a certain extent!

At that moment, the system's mechanical voice rang out in Xiao Lei's mind once more, making him compose himself somewhat.

"Are we leaving or not?"

Seeing Xiao Lei seemingly savoring something, Xiao Yi Xian immediately shouted in embarrassed indignation.

"Cough, cough. Let's go." Xiao Lei gave a dry cough, tightened his embrace around the beauty in his arms, and lightly tapped the cliff with his toe. The two of them shot straight down into the dark depths below.

The fierce wind whistling past their ears pressed their clothes tightly against their skin. Xiao Lei held Xiao Yi Xian with his left arm while controlling the rope's descent with his right hand.

Sensing that they had descended to roughly the right height, Xiao Lei wound the rope several times around his arm and gave it a fierce tug, suspending the two of them in midair against the cliff.

Xiao Lei released his soul power and carefully sensed the movements around them. Before long, he located the entrance to the cave.

"Hold on tight." Xiao Lei took a deep breath and reminded Xiao Yi Xian, then kicked off the cliff face, sending them swinging wildly once more.

Xiao Yi Xian had still been somewhat hesitant, but upon feeling the violent swaying, she was so frightened that she hurriedly wrapped her arms around Xiao Lei's waist and buried her face in his chest, not daring to move.

Xiao Lei kept tapping the cliff face with his toes. Using the pulling force of the rope, he soon brought Xiao Yi Xian to the cave's location.

"Throw the torch over there." Xiao Lei tilted his chin toward a dark spot not far away.

"Okay." Xiao Yi Xian's pretty face was slightly pale as she nodded. She vigorously threw the torch in her hand toward the direction Xiao Lei indicated, and it landed at the cave entrance.

Holding Xiao Yi Xian, Xiao Lei tapped off the cliff face once more and shot fiercely toward the cave entrance.

Swoosh!

Suddenly, a faint sound of something slicing through the air rang out in the darkness.