As Xu Taiping continued climbing, he answered Lotus Eye without looking back:
"Don't try to persuade me. On this journey into the Wilderness, neither Qingxuan nor I have any path of retreat."
After a moment of silence, Lotus Eye suddenly spoke in an especially solemn tone:
"I'll do my best."
Xu Taiping said nothing more. He continued scaling the rock face barehanded, climbing toward the next tier of Buddha grottoes.
As he climbed higher and higher, Xu Taiping could distinctly sense the clouds formed from Heavenly Might around him gathering toward him little by little.
Clearly, if he kept climbing like this instead of taking the stone steps up the mountain, the Heavenly Might surrounding Vulture Peak would inevitably attack him.
But Xu Taiping did not dwell on it and continued climbing.
In his view, his current Jufu body could withstand one or two attacks from the surrounding Heavenly Might, so this was a good opportunity to test how high he could climb.
Rumble...
Just as Xu Taiping climbed several more zhang and approached the highest tier of Buddha grottoes on this cliff face, the Heavenly Might surrounding Vulture Peak suddenly let out a series of "roars."
Xu Taiping stopped climbing, preparing to adjust himself and meet this surge of Heavenly Might.
But just then, the Wolf-Headed Yin God, who had been standing quietly on the stone steps below, suddenly frowned and shouted up at Xu Taiping:
"F-Father, just keep climbing. Your ch-child will block the Heavenly Might around you!"
At those words, an inexplicable trace of gratification actually rose in Xu Taiping's heart.
He gave a faint smile and said:
"Then I'll leave my back to you."
Despite saying that, Xu Taiping remained highly wary of the Heavenly Might constantly "roaring" around him.
The Wolf-Headed Yin God, however, nodded