Black Mountain lowered his head to look at the battered stretch of land beneath his feet, then looked up at the thick layer of clouds overhead, his entire bear face blank with confusion.
"Wh... what's going on?"
He craned his neck to peer beneath the clouds. "Weren't we just in the valley? How'd we end up in the sky in the blink of an eye?"
Red Wind had come to his senses by now, too.
He was, after all, one of the few cultured tigers on the Mountain of Ten Thousand Silences, with a couple more ounces of brains than Black Mountain. He immediately feigned composure. "What are you panicking for? It should be a teleportation formation."
He put on an air of worldly knowledge. "Don't some forbidden grounds and secret realms have teleportation formations? They send intruders to random places and such. When we passed through that mist just now, we probably triggered one."
Black Mountain only grew more puzzled. "Random? Then why weren't we split up?"
"Uh..."
The question left Red Wind momentarily speechless. He stammered, "Maybe... maybe we got lucky. We were close together, so we got sent to the same place."
Black Mountain shot him a sidelong look as though he were an idiot. Would you listen to the crap coming out of your mouth?
Si Chen shook his head. "It wasn't a teleportation formation."
Both demons turned to look at him.
Si Chen offered no further explanation, merely looking up at the seemingly ordinary layer of clouds overhead. "Let's see if we can get back first."
As he spoke, he shot upward. Black Mountain and Red Wind exchanged a glance, then hurried after him.
The three soon plunged back into the clouds.
But this time, things were completely different.
When they had first entered, the