"We need to set off early today. Otherwise, we'll waste even more time here. When will we ever find the Dragon Pearl we've been longing for?"
Early that morning, Uchiha Hikaru urged them to get moving. In truth, he was quite worried about traveling with a young woman and a physician, since their martial skills were indeed limited.
But Uchiha Hikaru's conviction was that he had to obtain the Dragon Pearl in the end. Otherwise, all the effort he had put in would have been for nothing.
Uchiha Hikaru understood perfectly well that the other two must have harbored the same thoughts. Who would give up such a good opportunity and simply forgo the Dragon Pearl?
But opportunities like this also required a certain degree of skill and ability to seize. Uchiha Hikaru knew that the young woman and the physician were far inferior to him, so he had nothing much to worry about.
He was only conflicted because this little team had been together for so long, and he could not help feeling reluctant to part with them. So whenever they encountered trouble on the road, Uchiha Hikaru felt deeply troubled.
"Uchiha Hikaru, look! There's a sheer cliff ahead. How are we supposed to get across? I don't think the three of us can go together. We should probably cross one at a time."
What stood before them was no mere little mountain. It was practically like a barrier separating two worlds, enough to make anyone's heart tremble.
Every inch of the cliff face was draped with vines, as if they offered people a chance at survival. But if someone lacked the strength to hold on to them, those vines would instead become the place where they lost their life.
There was a saying among those who passed through