Listening to Yui, Nai Hyuga felt that her words made no sense.
"All right, then. We'll do as Yui says." She lowered her two joined fingers and followed the figure alongside Yui, keeping a distance of over a hundred meters throughout.
The figure carried a torch that illuminated several meters around her and walked slowly forward. Her pace was very slow, but both Yui and Nai knew this had to be a shortcut.
At some point, the ground beneath their feet had grown steep. They were climbing upward, and their movements slowed.
Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh.
Suddenly, a glimmer of light appeared in their field of vision, accompanied by fierce gusts of wind. But there was no path ahead, only a stone wall hundreds of meters high, with the exit likewise hundreds of meters above them.
The woman named Xiaocui seemed prepared. She tossed aside the extinguished torch in her hand and used both hands to grip a ring at the side of the cave.
As the mechanism activated, she rose rapidly. Within a few breaths, she reached the opening above. She stepped forward, and her figure vanished completely from Yui and Nai's sight.
"This..." Seeing this, Yui led Nai Hyuga into the fierce wind and approached the spot beneath the opening.
Through the Byakugan, they observed that the ring that had carried Xiaocui upward showed no sign of coming back down.
Yui thought the ring was probably only meant to carry one person up or down.
Still, they were not without options. They exchanged a glance and formed the same hand seals. As two more gusts of wind took shape, both figures rose rapidly.
Yui did not know what caused such fierce winds here. When they used their Flying Ninjutsu, they actually consumed twice the usual amount of chakra.
"Phew,