Lu Chen did not hesitate.
He stepped onto the cliff's edge and let his body drop.
The mountain wind rushed into his face, sending his robes snapping.
After falling several yards, Lu Chen lightly tapped an old pine branch with his right foot, shifting sideways toward another jutting rock.
The instant his toes touched the stone, his Flying Dragon Art shifted again.
His body seemed weightless as he descended the sheer cliff, moving even faster than the Mighty Demon Ape.
The Mighty Demon Ape looked up at the sight, the unease in its eyes deepening.
With an angry roar, it leaped toward a massive platform below.
The platform lay beneath the cliff, hidden by an overhanging section of the mountainside.
Had he not followed the Mighty Demon Ape here, it would have been difficult to spot even from the clifftop.
At the back of the platform lay the Deep Cave.
Its entrance stood twenty feet tall, with countless mutant beast skeletons scattered around it.
The Mighty Demon Ape landed on the platform and glanced back at Lu Chen, who was still using the cliff face to control his descent. A vicious gleam flickered in its eyes.
It did not continue fleeing deeper into the cave.
Instead, it hurried to the entrance, thrust its right hand into a crack in the rock wall, and clamped all five fingers around a boulder.
The boulder was half the size of a room and weighed at least ten thousand jin.
The muscles throughout the Mighty Demon Ape's body suddenly bulged.
Veins rose along its thick right arm, and fresh blood spilled from its wounds. With a suppressed growl, it slowly pried the boulder loose from the rock wall.
Chips of stone pattered down.
Rumble!
The boulder finally broke free, and the Mighty Demon Ape