Breaking Free

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After one night, Huo Hai's Star Gu finally scouted out the end of the valley. "Put some muscle into it. The edge of the valley is right ahead. I wonder if we can get out." Early that morning, Huo Hai announced the results.

Knowing they had reached the end gave everyone more strength for the journey. Near noon, they finally saw the end of Gloomwind Gorge in the distance. Here, the toxins in the air were already extremely thin. Even Pang Yan, weak as she was now, would need at least another week before the poison acted up here.

A little farther on, the poison would dissipate completely. Having reached this area, Huo Hai and the others finally no longer needed to stay so vigilantly on guard.

"How do we get up there? Climb straight up?" Li Yuan studied the terrain before him, unable to make up his mind. This was indeed the end of the valley, but it was not an exit. It was blocked by rock.

No wonder Gloomwind Gorge had always had only one entrance and exit, with no one ever hearing of another. The problem lay here: Gloomwind Gorge simply had no second exit. Yet this stretch of cliff wall was also highly unusual.

The mountain wall was hollow, riddled with countless tiny caves. The largest could fit a person inside. But after going only a short distance in, one would find there was no path for people to pass through at all. The entire cliff face resembled a gigantic honeycomb, as though the whole mountain had been hollowed out. Through the Star Gu, Huo Hai understood the complexity of these caves even better.

On the other side was an enormous