Though the avalanche was ferocious, burying half the gorge alive, its rumbling thunder echoed endlessly through the valley. Yet they were cultivators, and most of them were Foundation Establishment cultivators. They had escaped the gorge before the snow came crashing down upon them.
"Hehe..." He Fangyuan wore a bitter smile. This time, he lowered his voice. "Captain Cui, it was all because He was careless."
"Now is not the time for that!" Cui Hongshen seemed to have thought of something and hurriedly lowered his voice. "We need to leave at once! And... it would be best to take a detour!"
"Yes! Exactly!" He Fangyuan's expression turned stern as realization struck him. He spread out his divine sense and carefully inspected the area before asking, "Captain Cui, how do you think we should go around?"
"Captain He should decide," Cui Hongshen said modestly. "After all, Captain He is our senior brother!"
"Fine!" He Fangyuan knew this was no time for modesty. With a wave of his hand, he took the lead and flew along the foothills in another direction.
Just the time it took to eat a meal after the Thunder Control Sect and Taiqing Sect disciples had flown away, a tiny head suddenly poked out from the clean, bare rock wall where the avalanche had just passed. It had a small nose and small eyes, like a child's!
"Huh? An avalanche happened here?" the head muttered softly. Then it leaped out from within the stone wall. It was a dwarf less than two feet tall!
The dwarf's nose twitched rapidly several times, and delight suddenly flashed through its eyes. "Cultivators..."
After saying that, its tiny eyes blinked with joy several more times. It stomped a foot, and its body vanished into the stone wall again. Using an Art of Earth