Xiao Yi Xian stared at the cliff wall some distance away, then turned to look at Qin Yu.
"How are you planning to get over there? Take a detour?"
Qin Yu did not answer. Instead, he crouched down and slapped his right hand against the ground.
The instant his palm touched the earth, an invisible ripple extended downward through the mountain.
Before Xiao Yi Xian could react, a dull rumble rose from below the cliff. She instinctively leaned over to look down.
A thick stone ridge was slowly thrusting out from the middle of the cliff face, as though it had been forcibly pushed out from within the mountain.
And from where the stone ridge had originally lain, a Rock Snake nearly identical in color to the cliff face was flipped out into the open.
The Rock Snake's slender body twisted several times in midair before plunging into the bottomless valley.
Xiao Yi Xian's pupils widened slightly.
A Rock Snake, a second-tier magical beast, was especially skilled at disguising itself as stone and ambushing its prey.
If Qin Yu had not acted beforehand, that Rock Snake would definitely have lunged out to attack them once they approached the cliff wall!
After finishing, Qin Yu stood up, dusted the dirt from his hands, then turned his back to her and bent over slightly.
"Get on."
Looking at his matter-of-fact expression, Xiao Yi Xian's lips moved as if she wanted to say something. In the end, however, she merely sighed in resignation and obediently climbed onto his back.
But this time, she added in a deliberately fierce tone by Qin Yu's ear:
"If you suddenly rush off again like before without caring how I feel, I'll..."
She trailed off halfway through. What could she do, anyway?
She could not beat him, could